All The Claims

1. A method for sending an e-mail message comprises:
sending a request by a user for a transmission instruction page to the facsimile sever;
receiving the transmission instruction page via a telecommunications network from the facsimile server in response to the request, wherein a destination e-mail field is blank, and wherein a destination facsimile number field is provided with a destination facsimile number, wherein the facsimile number is determined for a user;
printing-out the transmission instruction page; thereafter
entering a plurality of text entries from the user comprising hand-printing the plurality of text entries on the transmission instruction page to form a filled-in transmission instruction page, wherein the plurality of text entries includes destination e-mail address, and wherein the destination e-mail address is entered in the destination e-mail field;
sending a facsimile to the facsimile server by the user in response to the facsimile number, wherein the facsimile includes the filled-in transmission instruction page;
wherein the facsimile server converts the facsimile into an e-mail attachment;
wherein the facsimile sever determines advertisement data appropriate for the user to append to the e-mail message in response to the facsimile from the user;
wherein the facsimile sever sends the e-mail message including the advertisement data and the e-mail attachment to the destination e-mail address;
wherein the facsimile server optically derives the destination e-mail address from the transmission instruction page of the facsimile; and
wherein the facsimile server maintains statistics regarding number of times the advertisement data is sent to provide to advertisers for payment purposes.
2. The method of claim 1 wherein the plurality of text entries are in a machine readable format.
3. The method of claim 2 wherein the e-mail attachment is viewable on more than one computing platform.
4. The method of claim 2 wherein the advertisement data is selected from a group consisting of: advertiser sponsorship indicator, third-party indicator.
5. The method of claim 2 wherein the more than one instance of the e-mail address comprises a bar code.
6. The method of claim 1 wherein sending the facsimile comprises:
placing the filled-in transmission instruction page into a facsimile machine; and
entering a telephone number associated with the facsimile server.
7. The method of claim 6 wherein the telephone number is also associated with the user.
8. The method of claim 6 wherein the telephone number is not associated with the user.
9. A method for sending an electronic communication to an electronic destination comprises:
sending a request by a user for a transmission instruction page to the facsimile server;
receiving the transmission instruction page via a telecommunications network from the transmission server, wherein the transmission instruction comprises a plurality of blank data fields including a blank electronic address data field, and a transmission sever address;
printing-out the transmission instruction page; thereafter
manually entering a plurality of text entries from the user comprising hand-printing the plurality of text entries to the plurality of blank data fields on the transmission instruction page to form a filled-in transmission instruction page, wherein the user enters an electronic address associated with the electronic destination in the blank electronic address data field;
manually sending a digitized representation of the filled-in transmission instruction page encoded in a first transmission format by the user to the transmission server in response to the transmission server address;
wherein the transmission sever converts the digitized representation of the filled-in transmission instruction page to a second transmission format;
wherein the transmission sever determines advertisement data appropriate for the user to append to the e-mail message in response to the digitized representation;
wherein the transmission server sends the electronic communication including the advertisement data and the filled-in transmission instruction page in the second transmission format to the electronic destination;
wherein the transmission server optically derives the electronic address from the filled-in transmission instruction page; and
wherein the facsimile server maintains statistics regarding number of times the advertisement data is sent to provide to advertisers for payment purposes.
10. The method of claim 9 wherein the plurality of text entries are in a machine readable format.
11. The method of claim 9 wherein the second transmission format comprises an e-mail attachment format that is viewable on more than one computing platform.
12. The method of claim 11 wherein the advertisement data is selected from a group consisting of: advertiser sponsorship indicator, third-party indicator.
13. The method of claim 9 wherein manually sending the digitized representation of the filled-in transmission instruction page comprises:
placing the filled-in transmission instruction page into a facsimile machine; and
entering a telephone number associated with the transmission server.
14. The method of claim 13 wherein the telephone number is also associated with the user.
15. The method of claim 13 wherein the telephone number is not associated with the user.
16. The method of claim 9 wherein the electronic address comprises an e-mail address.
17. The method of claim 9 wherein the first transmission format comprises a facsimile transmission format.

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 antenna module comprising:
an antenna;
an identification circuit physically paired with the wireless antenna, the identification circuit storing machine-readable identification data and arranged to provide the machine-readable identification data responsive to a request for the machine-readable identification data.
2. The antenna module of claim 1, wherein the machine-readable identification data is a serial number and is used by a physically coupled wireless module to verify that the antenna is a compliant antenna.
3. The antenna module of claim 1, wherein the request is sent over a coaxial connection between the antenna module and the wireless module along with an RF signal and wherein the wireless module includes a BIAS-T which is arranged to separate the request from the RF signal.
4. The antenna module of claim 3, wherein the request is routed to the identification circuit and the RF signal is routed to the antenna.
5. A wireless module coupled via a physical connection to an antenna module including machine-readable identification information, the wireless module comprising:
a hardware processor to:
receive the machine-readable identification data via the physical connection from the antenna module;
modify one or more parameters of the wireless module based on the received machine-readable identification data.
6. The wireless module of claim 5, wherein the one or more parameters includes at least one of: an amplitude, a frequency, a firmware configuration, or a tuning profile.
7. The wireless module of claim 5, comprising a radio frequency processor and a baseband processor arranged to output a radio frequency signal to the antenna module, and wherein to modify one or more parameters of the wireless module, the hardware processor is arranged to inhibit the output of the radio frequency signal to the antenna module.
8. The wireless module of claim 5, wherein the hardware processor is arranged to modify one or more parameters of the wireless module based on the received machine-readable identification information by comparing the received machine-readable identification information to one or more expected values, and responsive to determining that the received machine-readable identification information equals one of the expected values, selecting a parameter profile which indicates modifications to the one or more parameters of the wireless module.
9. The wireless module of claim 5, wherein the hardware processor is to: send a request from the wireless module to the antenna module for requesting the machine-readable identification data.
10. The wireless module of claim 5, wherein the physical connection is established with a coaxial cable and wherein the hardware processor is arranged to receive the machine-readable identification information over a center conductor of the coaxial cable, and wherein the wireless module comprises a BIAS-T, which is arranged to separate a signal containing the machine-readable identification data from a radio frequency signal.
11. A method of modifying parameters of a wireless module, the method comprising:
receiving at the wireless module, a machine-readable identification data from an antenna module coupled to the wireless module via a physical connection; and
modifying one or more parameters of the wireless module based on the received machine-readable identification data.
12. The method of claim 11, wherein the one or more parameters includes at least one of: an amplitude, a frequency, a firmware configuration, or a tuning profile.
13. The method of claim 11, wherein modifying one or more parameters of the wireless module includes inhibiting the output of a radio frequency signal generated by a radio frequency processor and a baseband processor to the antenna module.
14. The method of claim 11, wherein modifying one or more parameters of the wireless module based on the received machine-readable identification information comprises comparing the received machine-readable identification information to one or more expected values, and responsive to determining that the received machine-readable identification information equals one of the expected values, selecting a parameter profile which indicates modifications to the one or more parameters of the wireless module.
15. The method of claim 11, comprising: sending a request from the wireless module to the antenna module for requesting the machine-readable identification data.
16. The method of claim 11, wherein the physical connection is established from a coaxial cable and wherein the machine-readable identification information is received over a center conductor of the coaxial cable, and wherein a signal containing the machine-readable identification data is separated from a radio frequency signal sent over the coaxial cable by a BIAS-T.
17. A wireless communication device for sending and receiving data, the wireless communication device comprising:
a wireless module coupled via a physical connection to an antenna module including machine-readable identification information, the wireless module comprising a hardware processor arranged to:
receive the machine-readable identification data via the physical connection from the antenna module;
modify one or more parameters of the wireless module based on the received machine-readable identification data;
generate one or more outgoing wireless signals for transmission via the antenna module, a characteristic of the one or more outgoing wireless signals based upon the one or more parameters of the wireless module; and
receive one or more incoming wireless signals from the antenna module; and process the one or more incoming wireless signals from the antenna module.
18. The wireless communication device of claim 17, wherein the hardware processor is adapted to communicate within a network operating according to an IEEE 802.11n standard by generating the one or more outgoing signals, and receiving the one or more incoming wireless signals by utilizing orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM).
19. The wireless communication device of claim 17, wherein a characteristic of the one or more incoming wireless signals is based upon the one or more parameters of the wireless module.

1. A parallel computer system comprising:
an in-memory database in the memory of a plurality of fully functional compute nodes;
a database loader for pre-loading the in-memory database to optimize database efficiency by clustering database attributes into the in-memory database, wherein clustering database attributes comprises placing data corresponding to a first attribute for a plurality of records together on a first compute node of the computer system and placing data corresponding to a second attribute for the plurality of records together on a second compute node of the computer system; and
wherein the database loader clusters the database attributes based on a flag in an SQL statement that initiates placing the record in the in-memory database.
2. The parallel computer system of claim 1, wherein the parallel computer system is a massively parallel computer system.
3. The parallel computer system of claim 1 wherein the database loader determines to cluster the database attributes based on historical information for accessing the database.
4. The parallel computer system of claim 3, wherein the historical information includes information chosen from the following: node information, network information and query historical information.
5. The parallel computer system of claim 4, wherein the node information includes node identification, timestamp, current utilization, future utilization and availability.
6. The parallel computer system of claim 4, wherein the network information includes network identification, timestamp, current utilization future utilization and availability.
7. The parallel computer system of claim 4, wherein the query information includes query identification, network used, elapsed time, node list and priority.
8. A computer implemented method for pre-loading an in-memory database into memory of a plurality of compute nodes of a parallel computer system, the method comprising the steps of:
receiving a database structure to load into the in-memory database in the plurality of compute nodes;
determining an optimized data node mapping to cluster database attributes across multiple compute nodes, wherein clustering database attributes across multiple compute nodes comprises placing data corresponding to a first attribute for a plurality of records together on a first compute node of the computer system and placing data corresponding to a second attribute for the plurality of records together on a second compute node of the computer system, wherein the database loader clusters the database attributes based on a flag in an SQL statement that initiates placing the record in the in-memory database; and
loading the database structure into the in-memory database with the determined optimized data node mapping.
9. The computer implemented method of claim 8, further comprises the step of determining the data is accessed often.
10. The computer implemented method of claim 8, further comprising the step of determining if there is a force location for the database structure in the in-memory database as indicated by a system administrator input.
11. The computer implemented method of claim 8, wherein the database attributes are clustered based on a historical information for accessing the database.
12. A computer-readable article of manufacture comprising:
a database loader for pre-loading an in-memory database in memory of a plurality of compute nodes of a parallel computer system to optimize database efficiency by clustering database attributes, wherein clustering database attributes comprises placing data corresponding to a first attribute for a plurality of records together on a first compute node of the computer system and placing data corresponding to a second attribute for the plurality of records together on a second compute node of the computer system, wherein the database loader clusters the database attributes based on a flag in an SQL statement that initiates placing the record in the in-memory database; and
non-transitory computer recordable media bearing the database loader.
13. The article of manufacture of claim 12, wherein the database loader determines to cluster the database attributes based on a historical information for accessing the database.
14. The article of manufacture of claim 12, wherein the historical information includes information chosen from the following: node information, network information and query historical information.
15. The article of manufacture of claim 14, wherein the node information includes node identification, timestamp, current utilization future utilization and availability.
16. The article of manufacture of claim 14, wherein the network information includes network identification, timestamp, current utilization future utilization and availability.
17. The article of manufacture of claim 14, wherein the query information includes query identification, network used, elapsed time, node list and priority.

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 process for separating metaxylene with a purity of at least 99% by weight from a feedstock F of aromatic hydrocarbons having essentially 8 carbon atoms by direct separation into a single stage of adsorption in a simulated moving bed in a simulated moving bed (SMB) absorption device with at least one column that comprises a number of adsorbent beds that are separated by distributionextraction plates Pi, in which at least one feedstock F and one desorbent D are fed into this device, and at least one extract E that is high in paraxylene and at least one raffinate R are drawn off, whereby the supply and draw-off points are changed over time with a switching time T providing a number of operating zones of the SMB, the following primary operating zones of the SMB:
a zone 1 for desorption of the metaxylene that is located between the supply of the desorbent D and the draw-off of the extract E;
a zone 2 for desorption of the compounds of the raffinate, located between the draw-off of the extract E and the supply of the feedstock F;
a zone 3 for the adsorption of at least metaxylene, located between the supply of the feedstock and the draw-off of the raffinate R;
a zone 4 that is located between the draw-off of the raffinate R and the supply of the desorbent D,
and conducting the process according to a predetermined configuration of zones (a, b, c, d) with:
a=number of adsorbent beds operating in zone 1;
b=number of adsorbent beds operating in zone 2;
c=number of adsorbent beds operating in zone 3;
d=number of adsorbent beds operating in zone 4;

said predetermined configuration being one of the following:
An SMB of 12 adsorbent beds operating according to configuration (2, 5, 3, 2),
or an SMB of 13 adsorbent beds operating according to configuration (2, 5, 4, 2),
or an SMB of 15 adsorbent beds operating according to configuration (2, 6, 4, 3).
2. A process according to claim 1, conducted with an SMB of 12 adsorbent beds operating according to configuration (2, 5, 3, 2).
3. A process according to claim 1, conducted with an SMB of 13 adsorbent beds operating according to configuration (2, 5, 4, 2).
4. A process according to claim 1, conducted with an SMB of 15 adsorbent beds operating according to configuration (2, 6, 4, 3).
5. A process according to claim 1, in which the desorbent comprises toluene or tetralin.
6. A process according to claim 5, in which the desorbent is toluene.
7. A process according to claim 1, in which the operation is conducted with a sufficient feedstock flow rate coupled with a sufficient solvent flow rate to result in a metaxylene purity of 99.5% by weight.
8. A process according to claim 7, wherein the adsorbent is a NaY zeolite, the desorbent is toluene and process is conducted at between 20 and 250\xb0 C., a pressure between the bubble pressure of xylenes at the operating temperature and 2 MPa are a volumetric ratio of desorbent to feedstock of between 0.5 and 6.