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What is claimed is:

1. A process for preparing blends of syndiotactic 1,2-polybutadiene and rubbery elastomers comprising the steps of:
(1) providing a mixture of high cis-1,4-polybutadiene rubber cement and 1,3-butadiene monomer; and
(2) combining (a) an iron-containing compound, (b) a hydrogen phosphite, and (c) an organoaluminum compound to form a catalyst composition outside the presence of the mixture of rubber cement and monomer; and
(3) adding the catalyst composition to the mixture and thereby polymerizing the 1,3-butadiene monomer into syndiotactic 1,2-polybutadiene within the rubber cement.
2. The process of claim 1, where said step of providing the mixture of high cis-1,4-polybutadiene, rubber cement, and 1,3-butadiene monomer comprises the step of preparing a rubber cement by polymerizing 1,3-butadiene monomer in an organic solvent to high cis-1,4-polybutadiene, and then the step of adding additional 1,3-butadiene monomer to the rubber cement.
3. The process of claim 2, where said step of preparing a rubber cement by polymerizing 1,3-butadiene monomer occurs in the presence of a lanthanide-based catalyst system.
4. The process of claim 1, where said step of providing the mixture of a rubber cement and 1,3-butadiene monomer comprises the step of dissolving preformed high cis-1,4-polybutadiene in an organic solvent, and then the step of adding 1,3-butadiene monomer.
5. The process of claim 2, where the organic solvent is n-pentane, n-hexane, n-heptane, n-octane, n-nonane, n-decane, isopentane, isohexanes, isoheptanes, isooctanes, 2,2-dimethylbutane, petroleum ether, kerosene, petroleum spirits, cyclopentane, cyclohexane, methylcyclopentane, methylcyclohexane, benzene, toluene, xylenes, ethylbenzene, diethylbenzene, mesitylene, or a mixture thereof.
6. The process of claim 4, where the organic solvent is n-pentane, n-hexane, n-heptane, n-octane, n-nonane, n-decane, isopentane, isohexanes, isoheptanes, isooctanes, 2,2-dimethylbutane, petroleum ether, kerosene, petroleum spirits, cyclopentane, cyclohexane, methylcyclopentane, methylcyclohexane, benzene, toluene, xylenes, ethylbenzene, diethylbenzene, mesitylene, or a mixture thereof.
7. The process of claim 1, where said step of combining combining (a) an iron-containing compound, (b) a hydrogen phosphite, and (c) an organoaluminum compound occurs in the presence of 1,3-butadiene monomer.
8. The process of claim 1, where said step of adding the catalyst composition includes adding from about 0.01 to about 2 mmol of the iron-containing compound per 100 g of 1,3-butadiene.
9. The process of claim 1, where said step of combining (a) an iron-containing compound, (b) a hydrogen phosphite, and (c) an organoaluminum compound includes first pre-combining the iron-containing compound and the hydrogen phosphite compound to form an iron-ligand complex, and then combining the organoaluminum compound.
10. The process of claim 1, where the iron-containing compound is an iron carboxylate, iron carbamate, iron dithiocarbamate, iron xanthate, iron -diketonate, iron alkoxide, iron aryloxide, organoiron compound, or a mixture thereof.
11. The process of claim 1, where the hydrogen phosphite is an acyclic hydrogen phosphite defined by the following keto-enol tautomeric structures:

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or a cyclic hydrogen phosphite defined by the following keto-enol tautomeric structures:

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or a mixture thereof, where R1 and R2, which may be the same or different, are mono-valent organic groups, and where R3 is a divalent organic group.
12. The process of claim 11, where R1 and R2 are alkyl, cycloalkyl, substituted cycloalkyl, alkenyl, cycloalkenyl, substituted cycloalkenyl, aryl, allyl, substituted aryl, aralkyl, alkaryl, or alkynyl groups, with each group containing up to about 20 carbon atoms, and where R3 is an alkylene, cycloalkylene, substituted alkylene, substituted cycloalkylene, alkenylene, cycloalkenylene, substituted alkenylene, substituted cycloalkenylene, arylene, or substituted arylene group, with each group containing up to about 20 carbon atoms.
13. The process of claim 1, where the organoaluminum compound is defined by the formula AlRnX3-n, where each R, which may be the same or different, is a mono-valent organic group, where each X, which may be the same or different, is a hydrogen atom, a carboxylate group, an alkoxide group, or an aryloxide group, and where n is an integer including 1, 2 or 3.
14. The process of claim 13, where each R is an alkyl, cycloalkyl, substituted cycloalkyl, alkenyl, cycloalkenyl, substituted cycloalkenyl, aryl, allyl, substituted aryl, aralkyl, alkaryl, or alkynyl group, with each group containing up to about 20 carbon atoms, and where each X is a carboxylate group, an alkoxide group, or an aryloxide group, with each group containing up to about 20 carbon atoms.
15. The process of claim 1, where the organoaluminum compound is trihydrocarbylaluminum, dihydrocarbylaluminum hydride, hydrocarbylaluminum dihydride, dihydrocarbylaluminum carboxylate, hydrocarbylaluminum bis(carboxylate), dihydrocarbylaluminum alkoxide, hydrocarbylaluminum dialkoxide, dihydrocarbylaluminum aryloxide, hydrocarbylaluminum diaryloxide, or a mixture thereof.
16. The process of claim 1, where the organoaluminum compound is an aluminoxane defined by one of the following formulas:

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where x is an integer of 1 to about 100, y is an integer of 2 to about 100, and each R4, which may be the same or different, is a mono-valent organic group.
17. The process of claim 16, where each R4 is an alkyl, cycloalkyl, substituted cycloalkyl, alkenyl, cycloalkenyl, substituted cycloalkenyl, aryl, allyl, substituted aryl, aralkyl, alkaryl, or alkynyl group, with each group containing up to about 20 carbon atoms.
18. The process of claim 1, where the molar ratio of the hydrogen phosphite to the iron-containing compound is from about 0.5:1 to about 50:1, and the molar ratio of the organoaluminum compound to the iron-containing compound is from about 1:1 to about 100:1.
19. A process for producing blends of syndiotactic 1,2-polybutadiene and rubbery elastomers comprising the steps of:
(1) providing a mixture of a rubber cement and 1,3-butadiene monomer; and
(2) polymerizing the 1,3-butadiene monomer into syndiotactic 1,2-polybutadiene within the rubber cement by using a catalyst composition that is formed by combining:
(a) an iron-containing compound;
(b) a hydrogen phosphite; and
(c) an organoaluminum compound, where the catalyst composition is pre-mixed outside the polymerization system.
20. The process of claim 19, where the catalyst composition is pre-mixed in the presence of 1,3-butadiene monomer.

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

1-25. (canceled)
26. An electronic wallet for a vehicle, comprising:
a processor component; and
a vehicle electronic wallet component, the vehicle electronic wallet component comprising:
a contactless communication interface component to receive a request for payment for a transaction over a contactless communication link when in proximity to a payment processing entity;
an electronic wallet authentication component communicatively coupled to the contactless communication interface, the electronic wallet authentication component for execution by the processor component to receive authentication information to approve the request for payment; and
an electronic wallet payment component communicatively coupled to the electronic wallet authentication component and the contactless communication interface, the electronic wallet payment component for execution by the processor component to send payment information corresponding to the payment account over the contactless communication link to the payment processing entity to enable payment for the transaction.
27. The electronic wallet for a vehicle of claim 26, the vehicle electronic wallet component comprising an electronic wallet cloud activation component for execution by the processor component to activate a payment account for the vehicle electronic wallet component and to associate the payment account with vehicle information.
28. The electronic wallet for a vehicle of claim 26, the authentication information comprising a personal identification number or a voice passphrase, and the electronic wallet payment component to send payment information based on a comparison of the authentication information and a stored authentication information.
29. The electronic wallet for a vehicle of claim 26, the vehicle electronic wallet component comprising an electronic wallet mobile interface component communicatively coupled to the electronic wallet authentication component and the electronic wallet payment component, the electronic wallet authentication component to receive authentication information to approve the request for payment from a mobile device over a mobile communication link, and the electronic wallet payment component to send the request for payment to the mobile device over the mobile communication link.
30. The electronic wallet for a vehicle of claim 26, comprising:
an inputoutput (IO) component communicatively coupled to the electronic wallet authentication component, the IO component to receive the authentication information, the IO component including one or more of a biometric sensor, a microphone, and a touch interface; and
a display component communicatively coupled to the electronic wallet payment component, the display component to display a receipt for the transaction.
31. The electronic wallet for a vehicle of claim 27, the electronic wallet cloud activation component to send user details and a vehicle identification number to activate the payment account and associate the payment account with vehicle information.
32. The electronic wallet for a vehicle of claim 27, the electronic wallet cloud activation component to activate a plurality of payment accounts for the vehicle electronic wallet component, the electronic wallet payment component to send payment information of one of the plurality of payment accounts to enable payment for the transaction.
33. The electronic wallet for a vehicle of claim 27, comprising a location determination device communicatively coupled to the electronic wallet authentication component, the electronic wallet authentication component to receive information from the location determination device indicating the vehicle is in motion, and the electronic wallet authentication component to indicate to a user that the payment processing entity is approaching and receive authentication information to approve the request for payment.
34. The electronic wallet for a vehicle of claim 26, the vehicle electronic wallet component comprising an electronic wallet management component communicatively coupled to the electronic wallet payment component, the electronic wallet management component to receive the payment information and payment settings corresponding to the payment account and to store the payment information and payment settings in a secure location, the secure location comprising a local storage location or a remote storage location.
35. The electronic wallet for a vehicle of claim 34, the payment settings comprising a maximum transaction amount, a transaction location policy, and a stored authentication information.
36. The electronic wallet for a vehicle of claim 34, the payment information comprising, a user name, a credit card number, an expiration date, and a credit card security code.
37. The electronic wallet for a vehicle of claim 34, the electronic wallet management component to store payment information and payment settings corresponding to each one of a plurality of payment accounts in the secure location, the secure location comprising a local storage location or a remote storage location.
38. The electronic wallet for a vehicle of claim 34, the electronic wallet management component to add, delete or modify the payment account, the payment account information or the payment account settings based on information received over a mobile communication link or via an IO component.
39. The electronic wallet for a vehicle of claim 26, the electronic wallet payment component to send loyalty account information corresponding to the payment processing entity to the payment processing entity via the contactless communication component for the transaction.
40. The electronic wallet for a vehicle of claim 26, at least a portion of the vehicle electronic wallet component integrated with a vehicle part.
41. An article comprising a computer-readable storage medium comprising instructions that when executed enable a computing device to:
receive a request for payment for a transaction over a contactless communication link when in proximity to a payment processing entity;
receive authentication information to approve the request for payment; and
send payment information corresponding to the payment account over the contactless communication link to the payment processing entity to enable payment for the transaction.
42. The article of claim 41, comprising instructions that when executed enable the computing device to activate a payment account for the vehicle electronic wallet component and to associate the payment account with vehicle information.
43. The article of claim 41, the authentication information comprising a personal identification number or a voice passphrase, and the computing device to send payment information based on a comparison of the authentication information and stored authentication information.
44. The article of claim 41 comprising instructions that when executed enable the computing device to send user details and a vehicle identification number to activate the payment account and associate the payment account with vehicle information.
45. The article of claim 41, comprising instructions that when executed enable the computing device to activate a plurality of payment accounts for the vehicle electronic wallet component, the electronic wallet payment component to send payment information of one of the plurality of payment accounts to enable payment for the transaction.
46. The article of claim 41, comprising instructions that when executed enable the computing device to:
receive the payment information and payment settings corresponding to the payment account; and
store the payment information and payment settings in a secure location, the secure location comprising a local storage location or a remote storage location.
47. The article of claim 41, comprising instructions that when executed enable the computing device to send loyalty account information corresponding to the payment processing entity to the payment processing entity for the transaction.
48. A computer-implemented method, comprising:
receiving a request for payment for a transaction over a contactless communication link when in proximity to a payment processing entity;
receiving authentication information to approve the request for payment; and
sending payment information corresponding to the payment account over the contactless communication link to the payment processing entity to enable payment for the transaction.
49. The computer-implemented method of claim 48, comprising:
sending the request for payment to a mobile device over a mobile communication link; and
receiving the authentication information from the mobile device over the mobile communication link.
50. The computer-implemented method of claim 48, comprising:
sending user details and a vehicle identification number to activate the payment account and associate the payment account with vehicle information.

1. A method to monitor information, comprising:
receiving information at a first network node for a second network node;
comparing said information with a pattern; and
replicating said information to a monitoring node if said information matches said pattern.
2. The method of claim 1, wherein said pattern is an Extensible Markup Language pattern.
3. The method of claim 1, further comprising decrypting said information prior to said comparing.
4. The method of claim 1, wherein said information comprises layer seven information.
5. The method of claim 1, wherein said information comprises an Extensible Markup Language document.
6. The method of claim 1, further comprising sending said information to said second network node.
7. The method of claim 1, further comprising:
receiving said information at said third network node;
analyzing said information in accordance with a set of predetermined criteria; and
updating said information in accordance with said analysis.
8. A system to monitor information, comprising:
a server to send information to a client;
a monitoring node to monitor information; and
an intermediate node having an IDR module to intercept said information and determine whether to replicate said information to said monitoring node.
9. The system of claim 8, wherein said intermediate node also performs load balancing.
10. The system of claim 8, further comprising a decrypting node to decrypt said information prior to interception by said intermediate node.
11. An apparatus to monitor information, comprising:
a document object generator to receive information and generate a document object;
a pattern object generator to receive a pattern and generate a pattern object; and
switching logic to compare said document object to said pattern object, and to switch said information to a monitoring node if said document object matches said pattern object.
12. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein said information comprises an Extensible Markup Language document.
13. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein said pattern comprises an Extensible Markup Language pattern.
14. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein said switching logic uses a pattern matching algorithm to compare said document object and said pattern object.
15. An article comprising:
a storage medium;
said storage medium including stored instructions that, when executed by a processor, result in monitoring information by receiving information at a first network node for a second network node, comparing said information with a pattern, and replicating said information to a monitoring node if said information matches said pattern.
16. The article of claim 15, wherein the stored instructions, when executed by a processor, further result in decrypting said information prior to said comparing.
17. The article of claim 15, wherein the stored instructions, when executed by a processor, further result in sending said information to said second network node.
18. The article of claim 15, wherein the stored instructions, when executed by a processor, further result in receiving said information at said third network node, analyzing said information in accordance with a set of predetermined criteria, and updating said information in accordance with said analysis.

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 comprising:
determining a first read access request to access first data stored in a memory and a second read access request to access second data stored in the memory;
determining a first physical block address containing the first data;
determining a second physical block address containing the second data;
wherein the first physical block address and the second physical block address are not located contiguously; and
storing the first data and the second data in contiguous physical block addresses.
2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:
predicting an expected order of the first read access request and the second read access request.
3. The method of claim 2, wherein the expected order is predicted based on previous read access requests.
4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:
assigning a first sequence number to the first read access request and a second sequence number to the second read access request; and
wherein the first data and the second data are stored in contiguous physical block addresses according to the first sequence number and the second sequence number.
5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:
determining a first logical block address associated with the first read access, the first logical block address corresponding to the first physical block address containing the first data; and
determining a second logical block address associated with the second read access, the second logical block address corresponding to the second physical block address containing the second data.
6. The method of claim 5, further comprising:
associating the first and second logical block addresses with the contiguous physical block addresses.
7. A method, comprising:
receiving a first write request to write first data to a data storage device;
receiving a second write request to write second data to the data storage device;
storing the first data at a first physical block address (PBA) of a first data storage medium;
storing the second data at a second PBA of the first data storage medium;
wherein at least one of the first PBA and the second PBA are determined based on an order of a first sequence number associated with the first write request and a second sequence number associated with the second write request.
8. The method of claim 7, further comprising:
receiving a first read access request to access the first data;
reading the second data when the first data is read from the first PBA; and
storing the second data at a second data storage medium of the data storage device.
9. The method of claim 8, wherein the data storage device is configured to perform read ahead pre-fetching of at least one physically proximate sector at the first data storage medium, and wherein the second PBA is selected to be within a sector that is pre-fetched when the first data is read.
10. The method of claim 8, further comprising:
receiving a second read access request to access the second data, the second read access request received after the first read access request; and
providing the second data from the second data storage medium.
11. The method of claim 7, wherein the first PBA and the second PBA are contiguous.
12. The method of claim 11, wherein the first write request is associated with a first logical block address (LBA) and the second write request is associated with a second LBA, and further comprising:
mapping at least one of the first LBA and the second LBA to the at least one of the first PBA and the second PBA that is determined based on the order of the first sequence number and the second sequence number.
13. The method of claim 7, wherein the first sequence number and the second sequence number are received from an external host system that is coupled to the data storage device.
14. The method of claim 13, wherein the first sequence number and the second sequence number are determined by an internal controller of the data storage device.
15. The method of claim 14, wherein the first sequence number and the second sequence number are determined based on an order of previous read access requests.
16. The method of claim 15, wherein the first sequence number and the second sequence number are further based on an order of the first write request and the second write request.
17. A device comprising:
a first data storage medium;
a controller adapted to store data in the first data storage medium; and
a memory accessible by the controller, the memory including instructions to cause the controller to execute a method comprising:
writing first data to a first physical block address (PBA) of the first data storage medium and second data to a second PBA proximate to the first PBA based on an expected sequence of read access requests for the first data and the second data.
18. The device of claim 17, wherein the method further comprises:
determining the expected sequence of read access requests includes a first read access request for the first data before a second read access request for the second data; and
selecting the second PBA to reduce an access time to the second data after the first data is read from the first PBA.
19. The device of claim 18, further comprising a second data storage medium having a faster access time than the first data storage medium, wherein the first data storage medium is a disc drive, and wherein the method further comprises:
receiving the first read access request;
reading the first data and the second data in a continuous data read operation when the first read access request is received; and
storing the second data at the second data storage medium.
20. The device of claim 18, wherein the method further comprises:
storing historical data corresponding to a plurality of previous data access requests; and
computing the expected sequence using the historical data.
21. The device of claim 17, wherein the first data storage medium is selected from the group consisting of a solid-state data storage medium, a magnetic data storage medium, an optical data storage medium, and a magneto-optical data storage medium.
22. A computer readable medium having instructions to cause a processor to perform a method comprising:
determining a first read access request to access first data stored in a memory and a second read access request to access second data stored in the memory;
determining a first physical block address containing the first data;
determining a second physical block address containing the second data;
wherein the first physical block address and the second physical block address are not located contiguously; and
storing the first data and the second data in contiguous physical block addresses based on an expected sequence of read access requests.
23. The computer readable medium of claim 22, wherein the method further comprises:
maintaining historical data of previous data operations at the memory; and
using at least a portion of the historical data to predict the expected sequence of read access requests.
24. The computer readable medium of claim 23, wherein the method further comprises:
updating a table that maps logical block addresses to physical block addresses based on storing the first data and the second data in the contiguous physical block addresses.
25. The computer-readable medium of claim 22, wherein the memory is selected from the group consisting of a solid-state data storage device, a magnetic data storage device, an optical data storage device, a magneto-optical data storage device, and a hybrid data storage device having more than one type of data storage medium.