Author: claimsbot

1. A non-transitory computer readable medium encoded with computer executable instructions for measuring traffic demand in a packet-switched network, the computer executable instructions defining a method comprising:
receiving data representing network traffic in an Internet Service Provider (ISP) backbone destined for a plurality of destination network addresses;
associating each of the destination network addresses with a set of egress links from the ISP backbone; and
computing network traffic demand by aggregating network traffic traveling between an ingress link to the ISP backbone and a set of egress links from the ISP back bone.
2. The computer readable medium of claim 1 wherein the data is derived from packet flow measurements in an operational network.
3. The computer readable medium of claim 2 wherein the packet flow measurements are obtained at all ingress links in the packet-switched network.
4. The computer readable medium of claim 2 wherein the packet flow measurements are obtained at peering links in the packet-switched network.
5. The computer readable medium of claim 1 wherein a destination prefix address is associated with each set of egress links.
6. A method of measuring traffic demand in a packet-switched network comprising:
receiving data representing network traffic in an Internet Service Provider (ISP) backbone destined for a plurality of destination network addresses;
associating each of the destination network addresses with a set of egress links from the ISP backbone; and
computing network traffic demand by aggregating network traffic traveling between an ingress link to the ISP backbone and a set of egress links from the ISP backbone.
7. The method of claim 6 wherein the data is derived from packet flow measurements in an operational network.
8. The method of claim 7 wherein the packet flow measurements are obtained at all ingress links in the packet-switched network.
9. The method of claim 7 wherein the packet flow measurements are obtained at peering links in the packet switched network.
10. The method of claim 6 wherein a destination prefix address is associated with each set of egress links.

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 check valve comprising a plurality of layered sheets to have a valve flow channel formed as a space for fluid passage between the plurality of layered sheets, said check valve allowing a fluid to pass in a forward direction from an inlet to an outlet and blocking a flow of a fluid in a reverse direction from the outlet to the inlet by opening and closing the valve flow channel, wherein
the plurality of layered sheets include a plurality of base sheets including a first side base sheet and a second side base sheet; and at least one valve sheet disposed between the plurality of base sheets,
the valve sheet includes a fixation portion bonded to at least the first side base sheet,
the fixation portion is bonded across the valve flow channel,
a portion on a downstream side of the fixation portion of the valve sheet is separable from the first side base sheet, and
a portion between the valve sheet and the second side base sheet or another valve sheet layered on the valve sheet is formed as the valve flow channel, whereby the check valve blocks the flow of the fluid between an inside and an outside of a storage body through an opening provided on the storage body, and wherein
an entire periphery of the check valve is bonded to the storage body by a storage body fixing seal, and an area from the inlet to the outlet through the valve flow channel is positioned within a region surrounded by the storage body fixing seal,
the valve flow channel along an entire length of the valve sheet is defined by the second side base sheet or said another valve sheet layered on the valve sheet and the valve sheet without breathable sheets positioned therebetween,
a fluid introduction recess recessed in a thickness direction is formed on at least one of the second side base sheet or said another valve sheet layered on the valve sheet constituting the valve flow channel and the valve sheet, and
the fluid introduction recess is provided on the fixation portion of the valve sheet or at a position on the upstream side of the fixation portion, and extends in an up-down direction of the valve flow channel for guiding the fluid along the forward direction.
2. The check valve according to claim 1, wherein
the inlet is positioned on a front surface or a back surface of the check valve,
the outlet is positioned on the back surface or the front surface opposite the inlet, and
the front surface or the back surface of the check valve is along a surface or an inner surface of a storage body.
3. The check valve according to claim 1, wherein
a part of the first side base sheet is formed as a fluid passage portion breathable to allow an air flow in the forward direction to pass through in a front-back direction,
the fluid passage portion is an inlet through which an air flow in the forward direction flows to the inside of the check valve,
the fluid passage portion is disposed on the upstream side of the fixation portion of the first side base sheet, and
the fluid introduction recess is formed from the fluid passage portion to the fixation portion.
4. The check valve according to claim 1, wherein the fixation portion includes a first valve fixing seal and a second valve fixing seal formed on the downstream side of the first valve fixing seal, and the fluid introduction recess is not formed on the second valve fixing seal but is formed at a position including the first valve fixing seal.
5. A storage body to which the check valve according to any one of claims 1 to 4 is attached, wherein
the storage body includes bag sheets made of resin, and
the entire periphery of the check valve is bonded to the inside or the outside of the bag sheet.
6. The check valve according to claim 1, wherein the plurality of base sheets further includes a breathable base sheet, and the valve sheet is positioned between the breathable base sheet and the second side base sheet.
7. The check valve according to claim 1, wherein the fluid introduction recess is a stepwise recess.

1.-13. (canceled)
14. A method comprising:
illuminating a light receiving surface of substrate comprising a three dimensional array of light receptors, where light receptors disposed in an x-y plane that is closer to the light receiving surface are responsive to light having shorter wavelengths than light receptors disposed in an x-y plane that is further from the light receiving surface, and where each light receptor is configured to output a binary value and to change state between an off-state and an on-state by the absorption of at least one photon; and
at the end of an exposure period, reading out binary values from light receptors disposed in at least two different x-y planes of the three dimensional array.
15. The method of claim 14, where illuminating includes a preliminary step of resetting the light receptors to the off-state.
16. The method as in claim 14, further comprising grouping together the binary outputs of some number of adjacent light receptors.
17. The method as in claim 16, where grouping together groups together the binary outputs of some number of light receptors that are adjacent in the same x-y plane of the three dimensional array, or that groups together the binary outputs of some number of light receptors that are adjacent along a z-axis of the three dimensional array, or that groups together the binary outputs of some number of light receptors that are adjacent in the same x-y plane and along the z-axis of the three dimensional array.
18. The method as in claim 16, further comprising changing the grouping of light receptors from one exposure to the next.
19. The method as in claim 1, further comprising compressing the binary values that are read out from the sensor array.
20. The method as in claim 14, executed during operation of an image sensor within a wireless communication device.

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

What is claimed is:

1. An apparatus for scarifying an interior surface of a pipe or other similar elongated passageway, comprising:
(a) a vehicle having a height and width sufficiently small to enable said vehicle to move along an interior of said passageway, supported from a bottom half of said passageway, substantially parallel to a longitudinally extending axis of said passageway; and
(b) a scarifying assembly secured to said vehicle and having a fluid nozzle assembly, said fluid nozzle assembly having an exchanger coupled to an external source of fluid, a plurality of branches coupled to and radially spaced around said exchanger, and fluid nozzles coupled to distal ends of respective branches, said fluid nozzle assembly being operative to rotate, or oscillate, and to emit a jet of fluid from each of said fluid nozzles against the interior surface of said passageway and to scarify the interior surface of said passageway as said vehicle moves along the interior of said pipe, whereby the interior surface of said passageway is scarified to remove a layer of corroded material, contaminates and a portion of an interior surface of said passageway along either a selected region or an entire region of the interior surface of said pipe.
2. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein each of said branches is axially extendible to position respective fluid nozzles proximate the interior surface of said passageway.
3. The apparatus according to claim 2, wherein said branches are telescopically extendible.
4. The apparatus according to claim 2, wherein said branches are each axially extendible by replacement with a branch of a different length.
5. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said vehicle moves continuously as said scarifying assembly operates.
6. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said vehicle moves so as to index or advance in steps as said scarifying assembly operates.
7. An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said scarifying assembly scarifies a swath parallel to a direction of travel of said vehicle of a width determined by the rotation or oscillation of said fluid nozzle assembly.
8. An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said scarifying assembly scarifies a circumferential swath of the interior surface of said passageway.
9. An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said exchanger is mounted to a front of said vehicle and said branches extend radially outwardly in a plane transverse to a direction of travel of said vehicle.
10. An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said scarifying assembly is readily detachable from said vehicle and a width of said vehicle may be narrowed to allow said vehicle to pass through access openings to said sewer pipe.
11. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said vehicle is supported and propelled by a pair of spaced apart tracks.
12. The apparatus according to claim 11, wherein said tracks are laterally adjustable.
13. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said elongated passageway is a sewer pipe and including a telescopically extendible guide bar extending out from each side of said vehicle and having a wall engaging attachment at a distal end thereof, each of said guide bars operative to move along an interior surface of pipe and maintain orientation of said vehicle along a longitudinal axis of said passageway.
14. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said external source of fluid is a pressurized fluid source remote from said passageway.
15. The apparatus according to claim 1, including a power source located remote from said passageway and coupled to said vehicle.