Author: claimsbot

1. A method executing on a processor of a device operating in a communications network, the method comprising:
collecting roaming data for a the communications network, the roaming data comprising a number of times a mobile unit roams between a plurality of access points in the communications network;
creating a scan list based on the roaming data, the scan list including a prioritization of the plurality of access points for roaming;
collecting location data based on a location of the mobile unit relative to at least one access point in the plurality of access points; and
incorporating the location data into the scan list to generate a refined scan list having a modified prioritization of the plurality of access points for roaming; and
transmitting the refined scan list to the mobile unit;
wherein the roaming data is a handoff history, the handoff history recording occurrences of associations, further
the handoff history is based on one of the mobile unit, a plurality of mobile units of the network, and a specified group of mobile units of the network.
2. The method of claim 1, wherein the roaming data includes a priori data.
3. The method of claim 2, wherein the creating step includes the subset of generating the scan list using an a priori algorithm as a function the roaming data.
4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:
collecting supplemental data; and
recreating the scan list based on at least one of the roaming data and the supplemental data.
5. The method of claim 4, wherein the supplemental data is one of network topology data, location data, signal strength, overall coverage area data, sectored coverage area data, and network traffic data.
6. The method of claim 1, wherein the handoff history is recorded according to one of an overall duration, a time of year duration, and a time of day duration.
7. The method of claim 1, wherein the handoff history is based on one of the plurality of access points.
8. The method of claim 1, further comprising:
storing the roaming data at one of a database, a server, and a network management arrangement.
9. The method of claim 1, further comprising:
authenticating the mobile unit using authentication data with a first access point of the plurality of access points.
10. The method of claim 9, wherein the authentication data is transmitted by the first access point to other access points of the plurality of access points.
11. The method of claim 10, wherein the transmission of the authentication data is based on the roaming data.
12. The method of claim 1, further comprising:
updating the roaming data upon the mobile unit roaming.
13. A system having a plurality of devices operating in a communications network, the system comprising:
a collection module collecting roaming data for a network, the roaming data comprising a number of times a mobile unit roams between a plurality of access points in the network and location data of a mobile unit based on a location of the mobile unit relative to at least one access point in the plurality of access points of the network;
a creation module creating a scan list based on the roaming data, the scan list including a prioritization of the plurality of access points for roaming and incorporating the location data into the scan list, to generate a refined scan list having a modified prioritization of the plurality of access points for roaming; and
a transmitter transmitting the refined scan list to the mobile unitl;
wherein the roaming data is a handoff history, the handoff history recording occurrences of associations, further
the handoff history is based on one of the mobile unit, a plurality of mobile units of the network, and a specified group of mobile units of the network.
14. The system of claim 13, a wherein the roaming data includes a priori data and wherein the creation module generates the scan list using an a priori algorithm as a function the roaming data
15. The system of claim 13, further comprising:
the collection module collecting supplemental roaming data; and
the creation module recreating the scan list based on at least one of the roaming data and the supplemental roaming data.
16. The system of claim 15, wherein the supplemental data is one of network topology data, location data, signal strength, overall coverage area data, sectored coverage area data, and network traffic data.
17. The system of claim 13, further comprising:
a memory storing the roaming data.
18. The system of claim 13, further comprising:
an authentication module authenticating the mobile unit using authentication data with a first access point of the plurality of access points.
19. The system of claim 18, further comprising:
an access point transmitter transmitting the authentication data other access points of the plurality of access points.
20. The system of claim 19, wherein transmission of the authentication data is based on the roaming data.
21. The system of claim 13, further comprising:
an updating module updating the roaming data upon the mobile unit roaming.
22. A system having a plurality of devices operating in a communications network, the system comprising:
a collection means for collecting roaming data for a network, the roaming data comprising a number of times a mobile unit roams between a plurality of access points in the communications network;
a creation means for creating a scan list based on the roaming data, the scan list including a prioritization of a the plurality of access points for roaming;
a collection means for collecting location data based on a location of a the mobile unit relative to at least one access point in the plurality of access points; and
a means for incorporating the location data into the scan list to generate a refined scan list having a modified prioritization of the plurality of access points for roaming; and
a transmittal means transmitting the refined scan list to the mobile unit;
wherein the roaming data is a handoff history, the handoff history recording occurrences of associations, further
the handoff history is based on one of the mobile unit, a plurality of mobile units of the network, and a specified group of mobile units of the network.

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. An inflatable packer comprising: a slat for use in the inflatable packer, the slat comprising:
a body member having a length, a width and a thickness, wherein the body member comprises at least one of an elastomer, a thermoplastic elastomer, an elastoplastic, or a polymer; and
a plurality of reinforcement members disposed throughout the body member of the slat, the reinforcement members formed in a braided structure in the body member of the slat, wherein the reinforcement members comprise at least one of a fiber, a nanofiber, or a nanotube, and wherein at least a portion of the reinforcement members are exposed at an outer surface of the slat for anchoring the slat and the packer during use thereof.
2. The inflatable packer of claim 1, wherein the body member further comprises at least one notch formed therein and at least one protrusion extending therefrom for interaction with notches formed in and protrusions extending from body members of adjoining slats in the inflatable packer.
3. The inflatable packer slat of claim 1, wherein the width of the body member varies along at least a portion of the length of the body member.
4. The inflatable packer of claim 1, wherein the thickness of the body member varies along at least a portion of its length and forms one of a triangular cross section or a curved cross section.
5. The inflatable packer slat of claim 1, wherein the body member has a frictional gradient along its width.
6. The inflatable packer of claim 1, wherein the stiffness of the body member varies across its width and across its length.
7. The inflatable packer of claim 1, wherein the material of the slat comprises anisotropic properties to control its expansion behavior or process.
8. The inflatable packer slat of claim 1, wherein the fibers reinforcement members comprise non-metallic fibers.
9. An inflatable packer comprising: a slat for use in the inflatable packer, the slat comprising:
a body member having a length, a width and a thickness, wherein the body member comprises at least one of an elastomer, a thermoplastic elastomer, an elastoplastic, or a polymer; and
a plurality of reinforcement members disposed in the body member of the slat, the reinforcement members formed in a woven structure in the body member, wherein the reinforcement members comprises at least one of a fiber, a nanofiber, or a nanotube, and wherein at least a portion of the reinforcement members are exposed at an outer surface of the slat for anchoring the slat and the packer during use thereof.
10. The inflatable packer of claim 9, wherein the body member further comprises at least one notch formed therein and at least one protrusion extending therefrom for interaction with notches formed in and protrusions extending from body members of adjoining slats in the inflatable packer.
11. The inflatable packer of claim 9, wherein the width of the body member varies along at least a portion of the length of the body member.
12. The inflatable packer of claim 9, wherein the thickness of the body member varies along at least a portion of its length and forms one of a triangular cross section or a curved cross section.
13. The inflatable packer of claim 9, wherein the body member has a frictional gradient along its width.
14. The inflatable packer of claim 9, wherein the stiffness of the body member varies across its width and across its length.
15. The inflatable packer of claim 9, wherein the material of the slat comprises anisotropic properties to control its expansion behavior or process.
16. The inflatable packer of claim 9, wherein the fibers reinforcement members comprise non-metallic fibers.
17. An inflatable packer comprising:
a bladder;
a cover, the bladder and the cover comprising at least one of an elastomer material, a thermoplastic elastomer material, an elastoplastic material, or a polymer material;
a plurality of interacting slats disposed between and along the length of the bladder and the cover, each of the slats comprising an elastomer modified by reinforcement members disposed throughout a body of each of the slats, wherein the reinforcement members are disposed in an axial direction across the slats to carry a mechanical loading on the slats, and wherein the reinforcement members comprise at least one of a fiber, a nanofiber, a nanotube, or a nanoparticle and wherein at least a portion of the reinforcement members are exposed at an outer surface of the slat for anchoring the slat and the packer during use thereof.
18. The inflatable packer of claim 17, wherein the slats comprise a first sheet and a second sheet, the first sheet having reinforcement members disposed in said axial direction across the slats, and the second sheet having reinforcement members placed in a traverse direction substantially perpendicular to said axial direction.
19. The inflatable packer of claim 17, wherein the slats comprise a first sheet and a second sheet, the first sheet having reinforcement members disposed in said axial direction across the slats, and the second sheet comprising reinforcement members disposed in a fibrous mat pattern.
20. The inflatable packer of claim 17, wherein the slats comprise a length, a width and a thickness.
21. The inflatable packer of claim 17, wherein the reinforcement members comprise non-metallic fibers.
22. An inflatable packer comprising:
a bladder comprising at least one of an elastomer material, a thermoplastic elastomer material, an elastoplastic material, or a polymer material;
a plurality of interacting slats disposed along the length of the bladder, each of the plurality of slats having slat reinforcement members disposed throughout a body of each of the slats, wherein the reinforcement members comprise at least one of a fiber, a nanofiber, a nanotube, or a nanoparticle and wherein at least a portion of the reinforcement members are exposed at an outer surface of the slat for anchoring the slat and the packer during use thereof; and
a cover comprising at least one of an elastomer material, a thermoplastic elastomer material, an elastoplastic material, or a polymer material and covering the plurality of slats, the cover defining at least one opening such that at least a portion of the exposed reinforcement members in the plurality of slats are exposed to facilitate anchoring of the inflatable packer against a surrounding wellbore wall during expansion of the inflatable packer.
23. The inflatable packer of claim 22, wherein each of the plurality of slats also comprises an elastomeric material.
24. The inflatable packer of claim 22, wherein the slats comprise a length, a width and a thickness.
25. The inflatable packer of claim 22, wherein the reinforcement members comprise non-metallic fibers.

what is claimed:

1. An information management device comprising:
a voice interface;
a database configured to store data for a user of the information management device, the data including at least voicemail data and email data; and
a dialog manager component configured to provide access to the voicemail data and the email data when the user connects to the information management device through the voice interface.
2. The information management device of claim 1, wherein the dialog manager component further comprises:
a speech recognition component configured to analyze verbal commands given by the user;
wherein the information management device accesses the database based on the analyzed verbal commands.
3. The information management device of claim 1, wherein the dialog manager component further comprises:
a text-to-speech component that transmits the email data to the user as audio information synthesized from text of the email data.
4. The information management device of claim 1, further comprising:
a network interface configured to provide access to the database through a visual user interface.
5. The information management device of claim 4, wherein the network interface and the voice interface provide equivalent access to the database.
6. The information management device of claim 1, wherein the data in the database includes additional data related to at least one of personal to-do lists, contact information, and calendar information.
7. The information management device of claim 6, further comprising:
a network interface configured to provide access to the database through a visual user interface;
wherein the additional data is accessible through the voice interface and the network interface.
8. The information management device of claim 1, wherein the information management device is a personal-computer-like device located at a residence of the user.
9. The information management device of claim 1, wherein the access provided by the dialog manager component includes reviewing and deleting the voicemail data and the email data.
10. A device comprising:
means for receiving and transmitting audio data;
means for storing personal data of a user, the personal data including at least voicemail data and email data;
means for providing access to the voicemail data and the email data to the user via an audio interface implemented via the means for receiving and transmitting; and
means for creating email data based on speech received through the means for receiving and transmitting.
11. The device of claim 10, further comprising:
means for recognizing commands spoken by the user; and
means for accessing the voicemail data and the email data based on the commands spoken by the user.
12. A method of managing personal information, comprising:
storing the personal information in a database associated with a personal information management device;
establishing a connection to the personal information management device via a voice interface; and
receiving spoken commands over the voice interface, the spoken commands initiating retrieval of voicemail, email, and personal organization information.
13. The method of claim 12, wherein the personal organization information includes at least one of personal to-do lists, contact information, and calendar information.
14. The method of claim 12, wherein the spoken commands additionally include commands to create an email message.
15. The method of claim 12, wherein establishing the connection includes authorizing a user based on an identification of acoustic properties of voice information of the user.
16. The method of claim 12, wherein the personal information includes passwords of a user.
17. A device for managing personal information, comprising:
means for storing the personal information;
means for accepting a connection initiated over a voice interface; and
means for receiving spoken commands over the voice interface, the spoken commands initiating retrieval of voicemail, email, and personal organization information.
18. The device of claim 17, wherein the personal organization information includes at least one of personal to-do lists, contact information, and calendar information.
19. The device of claim 17, further comprising:
means for authorizing the connection based on an identification of acoustic properties of voice information of a user.
20. A system comprising:
a database configured to store personal data of a user;
a voice interface configured to provide access to the personal data via a voice connection;
a network interface configured to provide access to the personal data via a data connection that provides visual information to the user; and
a control processing component configured to receive spoken commands from the voice interface and respond to the spoken commands by providing the personal data to the user as audio data, the control processing component being further configured to receive logical commands from the network interface and to respond to the logical commands by providing the personal data to the user as visual data.
21. The system of claim 20, further comprising:
a dialog manager component configured to analyze the spoken commands and generate logical commands based on the spoken commands.
22. The system of claim 21, wherein the dialog manager component further comprises:
a speech recognition component configured to perform speech recognition functions on the spoken commands; and
a text-to-speech component configured to convert textual information from the database to the audio data.
23. The system of claim 22, wherein the speech recognition component further includes:
speaker identification logic configured to identify the user as a speaker of the spoken commands by comparing acoustic features of the voice of the user to a set of pre-stored acoustic features.
24. The system of claim 23, wherein the speech recognition component further comprises:
name spotting logic configured to locate the names of at least one of people, places, and organizations in speech spoken by the user; and
topic classification logic configured to assign topics to the speech spoken by the user.
25. The system of claim 20, wherein the personal data in the database includes data related to at least one of personal to-do lists, contact information, and calendar information.
26. The system of claim 20, wherein the personal data in the database includes data related to voicemail and email.

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. A large superconductor intermediate of REBa2Cu3Ox system (where RE is one kind or a combination of rare earth elements including Y), characterized by
a structure that oxide superconductors having non-superconductive phases finely dispersed in REBa2Cu3Ox phases (123 phases) of different peritectic temperatures (Tp) are laminated three-dimensionally in the order of Tp’s,
seed crystals mounted on the oxide superconductor layer having a highest Tp, and
excluded phases included in at least the oxide superconductor having the high Tp.
2. The large superconductor intermediate according to claim 1, wherein a deviation of a crystal orientation between the nearest seed crystals is within 30 degrees in the mounting of seed crystals.
3. The large superconductor intermediate according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the laminated structure includes at least one oxide superconductor that includes at least one of Rh of 0.001 to 2.0 mass %, Pt of 0.05 to 5.0 mass %, and Ce of 0.05 to 10.0 mass %.
4. A large superconductor of REBa2Cu3Ox system (where RE is one kind or a combination of rare earth elements including Y), characterized by carrying out
a removal of an oxide superconductor that includes seed crystals or excluded phases, andor
an oxygen enrichment heat treatment on a large superconductor intermediate in any one of claims 1 to 3.
5. A method for manufacturing a large superconductor intermediate, comprising the steps of
heating raw material molds including RE, Ba and Cu that constitute a superconductor of the REBa2Cu3Ox system (one kind or a combination of rare earth elements including Y),
heating the molds to a level equal to or above a peritectic temperature (Tp) of REBa2Cu3Ox phases (123 phases) of the molds as a maximum temperature, and
cooling the molds to manufacture an oxide superconductor intermediate having non-superconductive phases finely dispersed in the 123 phases, characterized by
laminating three-dimensionally the raw material molds of 123 phases having different Tp’s in the order of Tp’s to form a raw material mold laminate,
mounting seed crystals on the raw material mold having a highest Tp, and
generating a crystal growth of the raw material mold laminate.
6. The method for manufacturing a large superconductor intermediate according to claim 5, wherein a deviation of a crystal orientation between the nearest seed crystals is within 30 degrees in the mounting of seed crystals.
7. The method for manufacturing a large superconductor intermediate according to claim 5 or 6, wherein the raw material mold laminate includes at least one raw material mold that includes at least one of Rh of 0.001 to 2.0 mass %, Pt of 0.05 to 5.0 mass %, and Ce of 0.05 to 10.0 mass %.
8. A method for manufacturing a large superconductor of the REBa2Cu3Ox system (where RE is one kind or a combination of rare earth elements including Y) system, comprising the steps of
carrying out a removal of an oxide superconductor that includes seed crystals or excluded phases from the large superconductor intermediate manufactured by the method in any of claims 5 to 7, andor
carrying out an oxygen enrichment heat treatment on this intermediate.