All The Claims

1. A measuring device for measuring a spatial distribution of at least one parameter of a sheet-like object, comprising:
a parameter measuring unit for measuring a parameter at least at a point A and a point B on an object surface,
a coordinate measuring unit for measuring a coordinate at least at the point B relative to the point A on the object surface, the coordinate measuring unit being connected to a digital signal processing unit, the coordinate measuring, unit performing the coordinate measuring by determining a correlation between a first image of a spot around the point A at a time T1 and a second image of a spot around the point B at a time T2, the first and the second images being taken by a digital camera,
a synchronization unit connected to the parameter measurement unit and to the coordinate measuring unit, the synchronization unit adapted to turn on the coordinate measuring unit simultaneously with the parameter measuring unit;
moving platform to perform a displacement of at least the parameter measuring unit and the coordinate measuring unit together in any direction within the object surface, wherein the displacement consists of steps, a length of each step being smaller than a length of the spot around the point A in a direction of the displacement.
2. The measuring device according to claim 1, further comprising magnetic holders to attach the sheet-like object to the parameter measuring unit and the coordinate measuring unit.
3. The measuring device according to claim 1, wherein the parameter is a thickness of the sheet-like object.
4. The measuring device according to claim 3, wherein the parameter measuring unit is an inductive transducer for measuring the thickness of the sheet-like object.
5. The measuring device according to claim 3, wherein the thickness of the object is from 0.1 mm to 10 mm.
6. The measuring device according to claim 1, wherein the parameter measuring unit is a permeability transducer for measuring a permeability of the sheet-like object.
7. The measuring device according to claim 1, wherein the moving platform comprises at least one spherical rotating element.
8. The measuring device according to claim 1, wherein the moving platform further comprises a motor adapted for driving at least the parameter measuring unit and the coordinate measuring unit together along a preprogrammed trajectory in any direction within the object surface.
9. The measuring device according to claim 8, wherein the programmed trajectory is chosen to provide complete information bout the object parameter distribution cover the object surface in a shortest time.
10. The measuring device according to claim 1, wherein the object is a fabric, a paper, a plastic sheet, a foil, a metal sheet or a felt.
11. The measuring device according to claim 1, wherein the object surface is at least 10 meters long in the direction of the measuring.
12. The measuring device according to claim 1, wherein the coordinate measuring unit further comprises
a light source for illuminating the spot around the measuring point A and the spot around the measuring point B,
a storage buffer to store at least the first image of the spot around the point A taken at the time T1 and the second image of the spot around the point B taken at the time T2.
13. The measuring device according to claim 1, wherein the parameter measuring unit the coordinate measuring unit, the synchronization unit and the moving platform form a first and a second block, the first block being positioned on a first side of the sheet-like object surface and the second block positioned on a second side of the sheet-like object surface the second block being positioned symmetrical to the first block relative to the sheet-like object.
14. The measuring device according to claim 1, wherein the digital signal processing unit is located on distance R from the sheet-like object, where R is from 10 cm to 100 meters.
15. A method of measuring a distribution of at least one parameter of a sheet-like object, comprising:
positioning at least a parameter measuring unit and a coordinate measuring unit on a sheet-like object surface at a point A,
sending a first signal from a synchronization unit to initiate simultaneous operation of the parameter measuring unit and the coordinate measuring unit,
recording a first measured parameter in a digital signal processing unit and a first image of a spot around the point A taken by a digital camera in a buffer of the coordinate measuring unit,
moving at least the parameter measuring, unit and the coordinate measuring unit in any direction within the object surface on a step distance being less than a size of the spot in a direction of a displacement,
sending a second signal from a synchronization unit to initiate simultaneous operation of the parameter measuring unit and the coordinate measuring unit,
recording a second measured parameter in the digital signal processing unit and a second image of a spot around the point B in the buffer,
sending the first and the second images from the buffer to a digital signal processing unit,
determining a first coordinate, a second coordinates and a magnitude of the displacement and the direction of the displacement by comparing a microstructure in the first and the second images,
displaying in graphics at least the first and the second parameters in association with the first and the second coordinates.
16. The method of claim 15, wherein the microstructure comparing includes correlation analysis.
17. The method of claim 15, wherein the first and the second parameter are the sheet-like object thickness in the points A and B respectively.
18. The method of claim 15, wherein the first and the second parameters are the sheet-like object permeability, in the points A and B respectively.
19. The method of claim 15, wherein the coordinate measuring unit further comprises
a light source for illuminating at least the spot around a point A at a time T1, and the spot around a point B at a time T2,
a digital camera for capturing the images of the spot around the point A and around the point B,
a buffer to store at least the first image of the spot around the point A taken at the time T1 and the second image of the spot around the point B taken at the time T2.
20. The method of claim 15, further comprising
moving at least the parameter measuring unit and the coordinate measuring unit in any direction within the object surface on an entire measurement distance, wherein the entire measurement distance is divided into a number of the step distances,
measuring a parameter and a coordinate at each point at the step distances along the moving trajectory,
displaying the spatial distribution of the parameter in graphics.

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 composition comprising
(A) Isotianil;
(B) a first insecticidal active compound selected from the group consisting of spirotetramat, spirodiclofen and spiromesifen; and
(C) imidacloprid.
2. The composition according to claim 1 wherein the weight ratio between (A) Isotianil and (B) the first insecticidal active compound is 1:125 to 125:1.
3. The composition according to claim 1, wherein the weight ratio between (A) Isotianil and (B) the first insecticidal active compound is 1:25 to 25:1.
4. The composition according to claim 1, wherein the weight ratio between (A) Isotianil and (B) the first insecticidal active compound is 1:10 to 10:1.
5. The composition according to claim 1 wherein the weight ratio between any two components (A), (B), or (C), independently of each other, is 1:125 to 125:1.
6. The composition according to claim 1 further comprising adjuvants, solvents, carriers, surfactants or extenders.
7. A method for controlling phytopathogenic fungi andor microorganisms andor pests of plants or crops comprising applying the composition according to claim 1 to a seed, to plant propagation material, to a plant, to fruit of the plant, to soil in which the plant is growing, or to soil from which the seed, the plant propagation material, or the plant grows.
8. The method according to claim 7 wherein the composition according to claim 1 is applied at a rate of from 0.1 gha to 10 kgha for foliar treatment; at a rate of from 0.1 gha to 10 kgha for soil treatment; or at a rate of from 2 to 200 g100 kg of seed for seed treatment.
9. The method according to claim 7 wherein the composition according to claim 1 is applied to seed.
10. The method according to claim 9 wherein the seed is transgenic seed.
11. A method for protecting a seed andor shoots and foliage of a plant grown from the seed from damage by a pest or a fungus, comprising treating an unsown seed with the composition according to claim 1.
12. The composition according to claim 1 further comprising seed.
13. A method for controlling phytopathogenic fungi andor microorganisms andor pests of plants or crops, comprising applying
(A) Isotianil;
(B) a first insecticidal active compound selected from the group consisting of spirotetramat, spirodiclofen and spiromesifen; and
(C) imidacloprid,

to a seed, to plant propagation material, to a plant, to fruit of the plant, or to soil in which the plant is growing, or to soil from which the seed, the plant propagation material, or the plant grows, wherein (A), (B), and (C) are applied simultaneously or sequentially.
14. A method for protecting a seed andor shoots and foliage of a plant grown from the seed from damage by a pest or a fungus, comprising treating an unsown seed with
(A) Isotianil;
(B) a first insecticidal active compound selected from the group consisting of spirotetramat, spirodiclofen and spiromesifen; and
(C) imidacloprid,

wherein the unsown seed is treated simultaneously with (A), (B), and (C).
15. A method for protecting a seed andor shoots and foliage of a plant grown from the seed from damage by a pest or a fungus, comprising treating an unsown seed with
(A) Isotianil;
(B) a first insecticidal active compound selected from the group consisting of spirotetramat, spirodiclofen and spiromesifen; and
(C) imidacloprid,

wherein the unsown seed is treated sequentially with (A), (B), and (C).

1. A voice relaying method comprising:
receiving a cell;
de-multiplexing components of the received cell into a signaling cell and a voice cell;

disassembling the voice cell into a voice signal and disassembling the signaling cell into a first signaling signal;
detecting whether a relay switch operation is being carried out;
assembling the voice signal into a voice cell, and producing a signaling cell based on the first signaling signal; and
transmitting, to a network, a cell produced by multiplexing the signaling cell and the voice cell which are assembled during the assembling;
wherein the disassembling includes adding an identification signal to the voice signal to produce a first voice signal and sending the first voice signal to a switch; and
wherein the detecting includes detecting that the relay switch operation is being carried out when the first voice signal is received from the switch.
2. A voice relaying method according to claim 1,
wherein the identification signal is composed of a synchronous signal.
3. A network device, comprising:
a receiver section to operate on an incoming cell to produce a first signaling cell and a first voice cell;
a cell assemblydisassembly unit to operate on the first voice cell to produce a second voice cell and to operate on the first signaling cell to produce a second signaling cell, comprising:
a cell disassembler section to extract a voice signal from the first voice cell to produce a first voice signal and to extract a signaling signal from the first signaling cell; and
a cell assembler section to associate the first voice signal with the second voice cell and to associate the signaling signal with the second signaling cell; and
a transmitter section to make an outgoing cell available to a network, where the outgoing cell comprises the second voice cell and the second signaling cell.
4. The network device of claim 3, wherein the cell assemblydisassembly unit further comprises:
an identification signal section to add an identification signal to the first voice signal to produce a second voice signal for inclusion in the second voice cell.
5. The network device of claim 4, wherein the cell assemblydisassembly unit further comprises:
a detection section to determine that a relay switch operation is being carried out if the second voice signal is received from a destination.
6. The network device of claim 3, wherein the outgoing cell is made available to a switch.
7. A method, comprising:
demultiplexing components of a received cell into a first voice cell and a first signaling cell;
disassembling the first voice cell into a first voice signal;
adding an identification signal to the first voice signal to produce a second voice signal;
making the second voice signal available to a network;
detecting that a relay switch operation is being performed if the second voice signal is received from a destination;
producing a new cell that includes a second signaling cell having the first signaling cell associated therewith and a second voice cell having the second voice signal associated therewith; and
sending the new cell to a destination.
8. The method of claim 7, further comprising:
sending the second voice signal to a switch.
9. The method of claim 7, wherein the adding further comprises:
adding a synchronous signal to the first voice signal as the identification signal.
10. The method of claim 7, wherein the disassembling the first voice cell further comprises:
decoding the first voice signal; and
producing a pulse code modulated (PCM) voice signal from the decoded first voice signal.
11. The method of claim 7, further comprising:
receiving a second cell from a destination;
demultiplexing the second cell to produce a received voice cell; and
determining if the received voice cell includes the identification signal.
12. The method of claim 11, further comprising:
determining that a relay switch operation is performed if the received voice cell includes the identification signal.
13. The method of claim 7, further comprising:
generating a low-bit-rate coding voice signal from the first voice cell;
receiving a PCM voice signal via a network;
encoding the PCM voice signal into the low-bit-rate coding voice signal to produce a generated voice signal; and
associating the generated voice signal with a new voice cell for transmission to a destination via the network.
14. A method, comprising:
demultiplexing components of a received cell into a first voice cell and a first signaling cell;
disassembling the first voice cell into a first voice signal;
adding an identification signal to the first voice signal to produce a second voice signal;
making the second voice signal available to a network;
detecting that a relay switch operation is being performed if the second voice signal is received from a destination;
generating a low-bit-rate coding voice signal from the first voice cell;
receiving a PCM voice signal via a network;
encoding the PCM voice signal into the low-bit-rate coding voice signal to produce a generated voice signal; and
associating the generated voice signal with a new voice cell for transmission to a destination via 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. A computer-implemented system for managing information, the system comprising:
a service provider interface for receiving client content requests from a client device, wherein the service provider interface is coupled to:
an item catalog for storing item information, wherein content-scalable dynamic content modules are constructed based on information associated with items from the item catalog;
a user profile data store for storing user profile information and for associating at least one consumer category to a user profile;
an advertisement campaign data store for storing information corresponding to advertisement campaigns, wherein the advertisement campaigns include information associating advertisements to the at least one consumer category associated with the user profile; and
a dynamic content data store, coupled with the advertisement campaign data store, for storing the content-scalable dynamic content modules, the content-scalable dynamic content modules each including a plurality of layers presenting content related to a client-requested item, wherein the content related to the client-requested item is selected based on the information associating advertisements to the at least one consumer category associated with the user profile and

a client device interface for transmitting content-scalable dynamic content modules corresponding to the client-requested item, wherein the content-scalable dynamic content modules each are associated with one or more display rules, wherein the one or more display rules are obtained externally to the client device and evaluated on the client device at a time the content is rendered on the client device to determine
a relative position of two or more overlapping layers of the plurality layers included in individual transmitted content-scalable dynamic content modules to display and modify on the client device based at least in part on:
a current size of a display area of the client device allocated to display the content related to the client-requested item,
other layers of the transmitted content-scalable dynamic content modules, and
other display areas of the client device corresponding to other content.
2. The system of claim 1, wherein the content-scalable dynamic content modules are created based on templates.
3. The system of claim 1, wherein the content-scalable dynamic content modules include executable code.
4. The system of claim 1, wherein the consumer category corresponds to consumer behavior.
5. The system of claim 1, wherein the consumer category associated with the user profile identifies one or more applicable consumer categories.
6. The system of claim 1, further comprising an advertisement campaign manager component for selecting content-scalable dynamic content modules based on the user profile information and advertisement campaigns associated with the at least one consumer category associated with the user profile in response to the client content requests.
7. The system of claim 6, wherein the advertisement campaigns include applicable item category information and wherein the advertisement campaign manager component selects a subset of advertisement campaigns based on item category information obtained from the user profile data store.
8. The system of claim 5, wherein the item category information from the user profile data store is inferred from user purchase histories.
9. A computer-implemented method of displaying content, the method comprising:
in response to receiving a client content request from a client device, retrieving a user profile from a user profile data store;
associating at least one consumer type to the user profile retrieved;
retrieving information corresponding to advertisement campaigns, wherein the advertisement campaigns include information associating advertisements to consumer types;
identifying advertisement campaigns corresponding to the at least one consumer type associated with the user profile; and
providing, to the client device, at least one identified advertisement campaign in response to the client content request,
wherein the advertisement campaign comprises a plurality of content-scalable dynamic content modules,
wherein a content-scalable dynamic module of the plurality of content-scalable dynamic modules includes a plurality of layers presenting content corresponding to the advertisement campaign, and
wherein a determination of a relative position of two or more overlapping layers of the plurality of layers of the content-scalable dynamic module to display and modify is based at least in part on a size of a display area of the client device allocated to display the content, other layers of the content-scalable dynamic module, and a determined amount of the content corresponding to the advertisement campaign.
10. The computer-implemented method of claim 9, wherein the consumer type corresponds to user purchase behaviors.
11. The computer-implemented method of claim 9, wherein the advertisement campaigns include applicable item category information, the method further comprising selecting a subset of advertisement campaigns based on item category information obtained from the user profile data store.
12. The computer-implemented method of claim 9, further comprising prioritizing the identified advertisement campaigns based on additional information obtained from the user profile.
13. The computer-implemented method of claim 9, wherein retrieving information corresponding to advertisement campaigns includes:
obtaining advertisement detail information corresponding to an advertisement; and
associating at least one consumer type based on the advertisement detail information.
14. The computer-implemented method of claim 9, wherein the advertisement campaigns include information associating advertisements to multiple consumer types, the method further comprising selecting a most applicable consumer type.
15. A computer-implemented method of displaying dynamic content, the method comprising:
obtaining user profile information from a user profile data store;
associating to the user profile information obtained at least one user category from a plurality of predetermined user categories;
based on the user profile information, selecting advertisement campaign information from an advertisement campaign data store;
sorting the advertisement campaign information based on predetermined user categories;
prioritizing the sorted advertisement campaign information based on the at least one user category associated with the user profile information;
selecting a subset of the prioritized sorted advertisement campaign information based on the at least one user category associated with the user profile information; and
displaying the selected subset of advertisement campaign information on a client device, wherein the subset of advertisement campaign information comprises content-scalable dynamic content modules,
wherein the content-scalable dynamic content modules each comprise a plurality of layers presenting at least part of the subset of advertisement campaign information, wherein the plurality of layers include a text layer, a transparency layer, and an image layer, wherein the text layer includes a description of an image, the image layer includes the image presenting at least part of the subset of advertisement campaign information, and the transparency layer includes multiple sections, each section having a different degree of opacity to change the visibility of at least one of the text and image layers,
wherein an amount of the selected subset of advertisement campaign information to display on the client device is dynamically determined on the client device at the time the content is rendered on the client device by determining a relative position of two or more overlapping layers of the plurality of layers for display and modification on the client device based on other layers of the content-scalable dynamic content modules and responsive to a size of a display area of the client device allocated to display the content.
16. The computer-implemented method of claim 15, wherein the user category corresponds to user interest behaviors.
17. The computer-implemented method of claim 15, wherein the advertisement campaign information includes applicable item category information, the method further comprising selecting a subset of advertisement campaign information based on item category information obtained from the user profile data store.
18. The computer-implemented method of claim 15, wherein sorting the advertisement campaign information based on the predetermined user categories includes:
obtaining advertisement detail information corresponding to an advertisement; and
associating at least one user category based on the advertisement detail information.
19. A computer-implemented system for managing information, the system comprising:
an advertisement campaign data store for storing information corresponding to advertisement campaigns, wherein the advertisement campaigns include information associating advertisements to consumer types;
a component for providing advertisements based on user profile information and advertisement campaign consumer type information associated with the user profile information in response to client content requests; and
a service provider interface for receiving the client content requests from a client device and for transmitting the advertisements to the client device, wherein the advertisements comprise content-scalable dynamic content modules, wherein the content-scalable dynamic content modules each are associated with one or more display rules, wherein the one or more display rules are obtained externally to the client device and evaluated on the client device at a time when content of the content-scalable dynamic content modules is rendered on the client device, and wherein the content of the content-scalable dynamic modules corresponds to the advertisements and is presented by a plurality of layers,
wherein the one or more display rules are used to determine a relative position of two or more overlapping layers of the plurality of layers to display and modify on the client device based at least in part on a size of a display area of the client device allocated to display the content, and other layers of the content-scalable dynamic modules.
20. The computer-implemented system of claim 19, further comprising:
a user profile data store coupled to the service provider interface for storing the user profile information.
21. The computer-implemented system of claim 20, further comprising an advertisement campaign manager component for selecting advertisement campaigns based on the user profile information and advertisement campaign consumer type information associated with the user profile information in response to the client content requests.
22. The computer-implemented system of claim 21, wherein the advertisement campaigns include applicable item category information and wherein the advertisement campaign manager component selects a subset of advertisement campaigns based on item category information obtained from the user profile data store.
23. The computer-implemented system of claim 21, wherein the advertisement campaign manager component filters selected advertisement campaigns based on user preference information from the user profile data store.
24. The computer-implemented system of claim 21, wherein the advertisement campaign manager component identifies consumer type information for advertisements based on attributes of the advertisements.
25. The computer-implemented system of claim 21, wherein the advertisement campaign manager component selects from a plurality of consumer type information for advertisements.