Author: claimsbot

1. A method of authorizing a request for a resource based on a context of the request, the method comprising:
receiving at an authorization system the request from a requestor;
requesting by the authorization system context information describing the context of the request;
receiving at the authorization system the context information in response to the request, the context information including information identifying an intended use of the resource by the requestor if the request is authorized and wherein the intended use of the resource is not indicated by the request;
identifying by the authorization system the context of the request based on the received context information including the information identifying the intended use of the resource; and
determining by the authorization system whether to authorize the request based on the context of the request.
2. The method of claim 1, wherein requesting the context information comprises requesting the context information from the requestor.
3. The method of claim 1, wherein requesting the context information comprises requesting the context information from an entity other than the requestor.
4. The method of claim 1, wherein determining whether to authorize the request comprises applying one or more policies to the request and the context of the request.
5. The method of claim 4, wherein determining whether to authorize the request further comprises delegating at least a part of the determination.
6. The method of claim 1, further comprising, in response to determining to authorize the request, passing the request to the resource.
7. The method of claim 1, further comprising, in response to determining to authorize the request, returning a response to the requestor indicating authorization.
8. The method of claim 7, wherein authorization is conditioned on the context of the request.
9. The method of claim 7, wherein the response includes information indicating authorization.
10. The method of claim 9, wherein the information indicating authorization comprises a token for accessing the resource.
11. The method of claim 1, further comprising, in response to determining to authorize the request, performing an action indicated by the request on behalf of the requestor.
12. An authorization system comprising:
a processor; and
a memory communicatively coupled with and readable by the processor and having stored therein a sequence of instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to receive a request from a requestor, request context information describing the context of the request, receive the context information in response to the request, the context information including information identifying an intended use of the resource by the requestor if the request is authorized and wherein the intended use of the resource is not indicated by the request, identify a context of the request based on the received context information including the information identifying the intended use of the resource, and determine whether to authorize the request based on the context of the request.
13. The system of claim 12, wherein requesting the context information comprises requesting the context information from the requestor.
14. The system of claim 12, wherein requesting the context information comprises requesting the context information from an entity other than the requestor.
15. The system of claim 12, wherein the authorization system determines whether to authorize the request by applying one or more policies to the request and the context of the request.
16. The system of claim 15, wherein the authorization system determines whether to authorize the request further by delegating at least a part of the determination.
17. The system of claim 12, wherein the authorization system, in response to determining to authorize the request, passes the request to the resource.
18. The system of claim 12, wherein the authorization system, in response to determining to authorize the request, returns a response to the requestor indicating authorization.
19. The system of claim 18, wherein authorization is conditioned on the context of the request.
20. The system of claim 18, wherein the response includes information indicating authorization.
21. The system of claim 20, wherein the information indicating authorization comprises a token for accessing the resource.
22. The system of claim 12, wherein the authorization system is further adapted to performing an action indicated by the request on behalf of the requestor in response to determining to authorize the request.
23. A machine-readable memory having stored thereon a series of instructions which, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to authorize a request for a resource based on a context of the request by:
receiving the request from a requestor;
requesting context information describing the context of the request;
receiving the context information in response to the request, the context information including information identifying an intended use of the resource by the requestor if the request is authorized and wherein the intended use of the resource is not indicated by the request;
identifying the context of the request based on the received context information including the information identifying the intended use of the resource; and
determining whether to authorize the request based on the context of the request.
24. The machine-readable memory of claim 23, further comprising, in response to determining to authorize the request, passing the request to the resource.
25. The machine-readable memory of claim 23, further comprising, in response to determining to authorize the request, returning a response to the requestor indicating authorization.
26. The machine-readable memory of claim 25, wherein the response includes information indicating authorization.
27. The machine-readable memory of claim 23, further comprising, in response to determining to authorize the request, performing an action indicated by the request on behalf of the requestor.

The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.

1. A method for detecting an image of an object using at least one x-ray beam, the method comprising:
transmitting the at least one x-ray beam through a first view of the object and emitting from the object at least one transmitted beam;
directing the at least one transmitted beam at an analyzer;
positioning the analyzer at more than two angular positions and measuring an intensity of each said transmitted beam at each of the angular positions;
obtaining from the intensity measurements at the more than two angular positions at least one parameter of a measured angular intensity spectrum selected from a group consisting of a total intensity of the measured angular intensity spectrum, an angular divergence of the measured angular intensity spectrum, and a midpoint of the measured angular intensity spectrum;
obtaining at least one parameter of the object from at least one of the at least one parameter of the measured angular intensity spectrum; and
using the at least one parameter of the object to display the image of the object.
2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the at least one parameter of the object includes at least one of an attenuation property, a refraction property and a scatter property of the object.
3. The method according to claim 1, further comprising preparing the at least one x-ray beam by diffraction from a monochromator.
4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the object is moved with respect to the analyzer and the image of the object is displayed at a plurality of second views of the object.
5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the analyzer includes a cyrstal.
6. The method according to claim 1, wherein each said parameter is displayed as one of a monochrome image and a pseudocolor image.
7. The method according to claim 1, wherein the image is displayed in one of two dimensions or three dimensions.
8. The method according to claim 1, wherein the image is displayed as a computed tomographic image.
9. The method according to claim 1, wherein the angular divergence of the measured angular intensity spectrum comprises a second central moment of the measured angular intensity spectrum.
10. The method according to claim 1, wherein the midpoint of the measured angular intensity spectrum comprises a centroid of the measured angular intensity spectrum.
11. A method for detecting an image of an object using at least one x-ray beam, the method comprising:
transmitting the at least one x-ray beam through a first view of the object and emitting from the object at least one transmitted beam;
directing the at least one transmitted beam at an analyzer;
positioning the analyzer at more than two angular positions and measuring an intensity of each said transmitted beam at each of the angular positions;
obtaining at least one parameter of a measured angular intensity spectrum from the intensity measurements at the more than two angular positions;
obtaining at least one parameter of a rocking curve of an analyzer system;
subtracting the parameter of the rocking curve from the parameter of the measured intensity spectrum to obtain a parameter of the object; and
using the parameter of the object to display the image of the object.
12. A method for detecting an image of an object using at least one x-ray beam, the method comprising:
transmitting the at least one x-ray beam through a first view of the object and emitting from the object at least one transmitted beam;
directing the at least one transmitted beam at an analyzer;
positioning the analyzer at more than two angular positions and measuring an intensity of each said transmitted beam at each of the angular positions;
determining an estimated angular intensity spectrum from the intensity measurements at the more than two angular positions as a function of a sensitivity of an analyzer system;
obtaining at least one parameter of the object from the estimated angular intensity spectrum; and
using the at least one parameter to display the image of the object.
13. The method according to claim 12, wherein the sensitivity of the analyzer is a rocking curve of the analyzer system.
14. The method according to claim 13, wherein a convolution integral is derived between the true angular intensity spectrum and the rocking curve.
15. The method according to claim 14, wherein a deconvolution operation inverts an effect of the convolution integral.
16. The method according to claim 15, wherein the estimated angular intensity spectrum is determined by numerically computing the deconvolution operation.
17. The method according to claim 16, wherein the at least one parameter includes at least one of an attenuation property, a refraction property and a scatter property of the object.
18. The method according to claim 15, wherein an estimated angular intensity spectrum is determined indirectly by postulating a model of the measured angular intensity spectrum a priori and by estimating the at least one parameter of the model.
19. A method for detecting an image of an object using at least one x-ray beam, the method comprising:
transmitting the at least one x-ray beam through a first view of the object and emitting from the object at least one transmitted beam;
directing the at least one transmitted beam at an analyzer;
positioning the analyzer at more than two angular positions and measuring an intensity of each said transmitted beam at each of the angular positions, wherein one of the angular positions is at a peak of the rocking curve of an analyzer system;
determining an attenuation parameter from at least two of the other more than two intensity measurements; and
subtracting the attenuation parameter from the intensity measurement measured at the rocking curve peak to obtain a scatter parameter of the object; and
using the scatter parameter to display the image of the object.
20. A method for detecting an image of an object using at least one x-ray beam, the method comprising:
transmitting the at least one x-ray beam through a first view of the object and emitting from the object at least one transmitted beam;
directing the at least one transmitted beam at an analyzer;
positioning the analyzer at more than two angular positions and measuring an intensity of each said transmitted beam at each of the angular positions;
obtaining more than one parameter from the intensity measurements at the more than two angular positions; and
classifying all or part of the object into different categories of tissues or materials based on the obtained parameters.
21. The method of claim 20, further comprising classifying the tissue or material of the object by statistical pattern recognition of the obtained parameters.
22. The method according to claim 20, further comprising calculating a ratio value of at least two of the parameters and classifying the tissue or material of the object by the ratio value.

1. An apparatus comprising:
a first circuit to receive indications of first data associated with a first data set and second data associated with a second data set; and
a second circuit coupled to the first circuit to cause the first circuit to:
in a first mode, communicate indications of the first data to an output terminal in synchronization with a first phase of a clock signal and communicate indications of the second data to the output terminal in synchronization with a second phase of the clock signal, and
in a second mode, communicate the indications of the first data to the output terminal in synchronization with the first phase and prevent communication of the second data during the second phase.
2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the first circuit comprises:
a first latch to store at least one bit at a time of the first data; and
a second latch to, at least in the first mode, store at least one bit at a time of the second data.
3. The apparatus of claim 2, wherein the first latch transfers said at least one bit of the first data in response to a predefined edge of the clock signal.
4. The apparatus of claim 2, wherein, in the first mode, the second latch transfers said at least one bit of the second data in response to a predefined edge of the clock signal.
5. The apparatus of claim 4, further comprising:
logic to selectively provide the CLK signal to the second latch based on whether the apparatus is in the first or second mode.
6. The apparatus of claim 5, wherein the logic does not provide the clock signal to the second latch in the second mode.
7. The apparatus of claim 5, wherein the logic comprises:
an AND gate including a first input terminal to receive a mode select signal, a second input terminal to receive the clock signal and an output terminal coupled to a clock input terminal of the second latch.
8. The apparatus of claim 2, further comprising:
a multiplexer including an output terminal that is coupled to the output terminal of the apparatus, the multiplexer alternatively selecting the first and second latch in response to the first and second phases of the clock signal.
9. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the apparatus comprises a double pumped bus circuit.
10. A computer system comprising:
a system memory; and
a processor coupled to system memory, the processor including:
a wire;
a first circuit to receive indications of first data associated with a first data set and second data associated with a second data set; and
a second circuit coupled to the first circuit to cause the first circuit to:
in a first mode, communicate indications of the first data to the wire in synchronization with a first phase of a clock signal and communicate indications of the second data to the wire in synchronization with a second phase of the clock signal, and
in a second mode, communicate the indications of the first data to the wire in synchronization with the first phase and prevent communication of the second data during the second phase.
11. The computer system of claim 10, wherein the first circuit comprises:
a first latch to store at least one bit at a time of the first data; and
a second latch to, at least in the first mode, store at least one bit at a time of the second data.
12. The computer system of claim 11, wherein the first latch transfers said at least one bit of the first data in response to a predefined edge of the clock signal.
13. The computer system of claim 11, wherein, in the first mode, the second latch transfers said at least one bit of the second data in response to a predefined edge of the clock signal.
14. The computer system of claim 13, further comprising:
logic to selectively provide the clock signal to the second latch based on whether the apparatus is in the first or second mode.
15. The system comprising: double pumped bus circuits serially coupled together to form a chain to communicate data from at least two different sets of data, at least one of the bus circuits being capable of being disabled to prevent bits from at least one of the sets of data from being communicated through said at least one of the bus circuits, wherein alternate double pumped circuits are disabled to prevent the bits from at least one of the sets of data from being communicated through said at least one of the bus circuits.
16. A method comprising:
receiving first indications of first data associated with a first data set;
receiving second indications of second data associated with a second data set;
in a first mode, communicating the first indications to a double pumped bus in synchronization with a first phase of a clock signal and communicating the second indications to the double pumped bus in synchronization with a second phase of the clock signal; and
in a second mode, communicating the first indications to the double pumped bus in synchronization with the first phase and preventing communication of the second indications to the double pumped bus during the second phase.
17. The method of claim 16, wherein the receiving the first indications comprises:
latching the first indications one bit at a time.
18. The method of claim 16, wherein the receiving the second indications comprises:
latching the second indications one bit at a time in response to the first mode.
19. The method of claim 16, wherein the communicating during the first mode comprises:
communicating bits of the first data in response to first predefined edges of the clock signal; and
communicating a bits of the second data in response to other predefined edges of the clock signal, said other predefined edges being different from the first predefined clock edges.

The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.

1-33. (canceled)
34. A method comprising:
extracting data from web pages via a network;
assigning attributes to the data;
determining if data from a particular web page is newsworthy based on calculation of a measure of significance of attributes associated with the data from the particular web page with respect to a standard;
receiving a first inquiry from a user; and
generating a response to the first inquiry comprising newsworthy data.
35. The method of claim 34 wherein the generating a response is further based on a second inquiry from the user prior to the first inquiry and an answer to the second inquiry.
36. The method of claim 35 further comprising:
automatically generating headlines for display to the user based on newsworthy data,
wherein the second inquiry is related to one of the headlines and the first inquiry is related to the answer to the second inquiry.
37. The method of claim 36 wherein the headlines are further based on data from web pages that has changed from a first point in time to a second point in time and the newsworthy data.
38. The method of claim 36 wherein headlines displayed to the user vary according to the first inquiry, the second inquiry, and the answer to the second inquiry.
39. The method of claim 34 further comprising:
identifying a telephone number of an agent knowledgeable in subject matter of the first inquiry; and
initiating a telephone call to the telephone number in response to a request.
40. The method of claim 34 further comprising:
conversing with the user to perform tasks and exchange information with the user.
41. An apparatus comprising:
a processor; and
a memory to store computer program instructions, the computer program instructions when executed on the processor cause the processor to perform operations comprising:
extracting data from web pages via a network;
assigning attributes to the data;
determining if data from a particular web page is newsworthy based on calculation of a measure of significance of attributes associated with the data from the particular web page with respect to a standard;
receiving a first inquiry from a user; and
generating a response to the first inquiry comprising newsworthy data.
42. The apparatus of claim 41 wherein the generating a response is further based on a second inquiry from the user prior to the first inquiry and an answer to the second inquiry.
43. The apparatus of claim 42, the operations further comprising:
automatically generating headlines for display to the user based on newsworthy data,
wherein the second inquiry is related to one of the headlines and the first inquiry is related to the answer to the second inquiry.
44. The apparatus of claim 43 wherein the headlines are further based on data from web pages that has changed from a first point in time to a second point in time and the newsworthy data.
45. The apparatus of claim 43 wherein headlines displayed to the user vary according to the first inquiry, the second inquiry, and the answer to the second inquiry.
46. The apparatus of claim 41, the operations further comprising:
identifying a telephone number of an agent knowledgeable in subject matter of the first inquiry; and
initiating a telephone call to the telephone number in response to a request.
47. The apparatus of claim 41, the operations further comprising:
conversing with the user to perform tasks and exchange information with the user.
48. A computer readable medium storing computer program instructions for formatting recipient identifiers in an electronic communication, which, when executed on a processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising:
extracting data from web pages via a network;
assigning attributes to the data;
determining if data from a particular web page is newsworthy based on calculation of a measure of significance of attributes associated with the data from the particular web page with respect to a standard;
receiving a first inquiry from a user; and
generating a response to the first inquiry comprising newsworthy data.
49. The computer readable medium of claim 48 wherein the generating a response is further based on a second inquiry from the user prior to the first inquiry and an answer to the second inquiry.
50. The computer readable medium of claim 49, the operations further comprising:
automatically generating headlines for display to the user based on newsworthy data,
wherein the second inquiry is related to one of the headlines and the first inquiry is related to the answer to the second inquiry.
51. The computer readable medium of claim 50 wherein the headlines are further based on data from web pages that has changed from a first point in time to a second point in time and the newsworthy data.
52. The computer readable medium of claim 50 wherein headlines displayed to the user vary according to the first inquiry, the second inquiry, and the answer to the second inquiry.
53. The computer readable medium of claim 48, the operations further comprising:
identifying a telephone number of an agent knowledgeable in subject matter of the first inquiry; and
initiating a telephone call to the telephone number in response to a request.