| United States Patent Application | 20090231276 |
| Kind Code | A1 |
| Ullrich; Christopher J. ; et al. | September 17, 2009 |
In an embodiment, a system and method for automatically converting a plurality of events in a plurality of channels in a structured representation sequence into haptic events. The method comprises calculating an event score for each event of the sequence in one or more channels. The method also comprises calculating a cumulative score based on the event scores in the one or more channels. The method includes selectively designating haptic events to the events based on the event scores in one or more selected channels, wherein the haptic events are output by a haptic actuator. This may be done by the system by calculating properties of the sound or by taking already existing values associated with those properties to efficiently produce haptic events.
We have been expanding our network significantly over the past several months, extending to New York (NYIIX and PAIX New York), London (LINX), and Amsterdam (AMS-IX) and we are now also live out of Equinix Ashburn. This additional peering is an attempt to remove our reliance from any specific transit carriers and to improve overall network performance. At this point, we have direct peering relationships with over 100 networks, and that number is growing every day. We currently have direct peering relationships with major end-user networks such as Comcast, Cablevision, Rogers, Shaw, Speakeasy, and RCN as well as major network service provuders like InterNAP, Hurricane Electric, Peer1, and Limelight. Roughly 25% of all of our network traffic is handed to direct peers and as our geographic scope and network traffic expand, that number should keep increasing.
Over the coming weeks we are planning to open a POP in Palo Alto and peering through PAIX Palo Alto. The plan is to add peering through Any2 San Jose/Los Angeles shortly after that. Both of those moves should greatly improve our peering relationships with Asian Pacific networks.
KVH’s Low Latency Connectivity Service Available in Equinix Tokyo Facilities
TOKYO, Japan — September 16, 2009 — Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), a provider of global data center services, today announced KVH’s extension of low latency network services to Equinix Tokyo. Under the arrangement, KVH will establish a point-of-presence at Equinix Tokyo-2 (TY2) International Business Exchange™ (IBX®) data center. At Equinix’s world class data center in Tokyo, customers will be able to access to KVH’s ultra-low latency network connecting to key Japanese exchanges and trading venues.
KVH operates high performance network services to support the diverse requirements of the Japanese electronic trading community. Equinix data centers are designed with unrivaled physical security, robust power architecture and scalable infrastructure, offering reliable colocation services for the global trading community. Colocating within Equinix’s Tokyo data centers will enable the financial trading companies and networks to house their trading platforms in a resilient facility from which they can connect to KVH’s ultra-low latency network to insure optimal market data and order execution access.
“Around the globe, the world’s leading exchanges and financial networks entrust Equinix with their complex interconnection and customer access requirements,” said David Wilkinson, Representative Director of Equinix in Japan. “The extension of KVH’s network to our data centers demonstrates Equinix’s leadership in providing comprehensive global solutions for financial market participants in Japan.”
Equinix currently operates two IBX centers in Japan, TY1 and TY2, located in Heiwajima and Shinagawa respectively, which are interconnected directly by Equinix’s IBXLink service. Both centers enable financial firms to meet the strict regulatory requirements for secure and redundant physical infrastructure. Power operations at each center include a high-performance back-up system that ensures uninterrupted power even in the event of utility power disruption. Security features include interlocking “mantrap” doors, multiple layers of biometric hand readers and PIN code controlling access, as well as 24-hour security officers and surveillance cameras.
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Oct 5 to 7, Cleveland Clinic Innovations Summit — The lineup of events for the 7th Annual Medical Innovation Summit in Cleveland is once again impressive.
Margaret Hamburg, FDA Commissioner
Sam Palmisano, CEO, IBM
Katie Szyman, Senior VP, Medtronic
Euan Thomson, CEO, Accuray
Maria Bartiromo, CNBC Anchor and Correspondent
www.clevelandclinic.org/innovations/summit/
Oct 5 to 7, Cleveland Clinic Innovations Summit — The lineup of events for the 7th Annual Medical Innovation Summit in Cleveland is once again impressive.
Margaret Hamburg, FDA Commissioner
Sam Palmisano, CEO, IBM
Katie Szyman, Senior VP, Medtronic
Euan Thomson, CEO, Accuray
Maria Bartiromo, CNBC Anchor and Correspondent
www.clevelandclinic.org/innovations/summit/
Last night, executives form four competing traditional and electronic exchanges — BATS, DirectEdge, Nasdaq and NYSE — sat together for a mostly friendly and good-natured debate on high-frequency trading issues such as colocation and flash orders, hosted by Aite Group.
All agreed that colocation is simply a matter of evolution, the need to overcome the latency caused by geographical distance. "Every 100 miles is a millisecond of delay and colocating servers equalizes that time, providing fair access to our data center," said Joe Mecane, executive vice president and CAO, U.S. Markets, NYSE.| United States Patent | 7,589,717 |
| Gregorio , et al. | September 15, 2009 |
Systems and methods for providing visual navigation cues in user interfaces for use with rotary input devices are described. One described method comprises causing a plurality of graphical objects to be displayed in an arc. The curvature of the arc is configured to convey the ordinal relationship for navigating between each of the plurality of graphical objects with a rotary input device. The curvature of the arc is independent of the spatial relationship between the rotary input device and a display.
| Inventors: | Gregorio; Pedro (Verdum, CA), DaCosta; Henry (Montreal, CA), Timone; Herve Thu (La Prairie, CA) |
| Assignee: | Immersion Corporation (San Jose, CA) |
| Appl. No.: | 12/165,397 |
| Filed: | June 30, 2008 |
Powerful new approach for the treatment of tumors without cutting or anesthesia using Cyberknife Radiosurgery
HUNTINGTON, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cyberknife of Long Island has become the first cancer center in New York to treat tumors with the most advanced radiosurgery technology available to date. The newest generation of the Cyberknife Radiosurgery System by Accuray offers unprecedented capabilities and renewed hope to cancer patients. "Cyberknife of Long Island is proud to continue delivering on its promise to provide the highest quality, most advanced cancer treatment in the region with the addition of the CyberKnife Radiosurgery System," said Jeffrey Musmacher, Chief Operating Officer at North Shore Radiation Therapy, the parent company of Cyberknife of Long Island. "With this new image-guided robotic technology, we are able to treat those whose tumors were previously thought to be inoperable and untreatable."
North Shore Radiation Therapy has installed the most-advanced version of the system in their New York office located in Smithtown.
"This technology will offer a new treatment option that revolutionizes cancer treatment in the region," said Richard Byrnes, MD, the center’s Medical Director. "The advanced technology behind CyberKnife uses real time image guidance technology and computer controlled robotics to deliver an extremely precise dose of radiation to the tumor, avoiding the surrounding healthy tissue and adjusting for patient and tumor movement during treatment."
"The procedure requires no anesthesia, as the treatment is painless and non-invasive." said Maged Ghaly, MD, a Radiation Oncologist at Cyberknife of Long Island. “The machine's robotic arm works continually with image guided technology and has the ability to move in three dimensions according to the treatment plan.”
The radiation therapy treatment has a higher rate of success with small tumors, and generally lasts between 30 to 90 minutes involving administration of 100-200 radiation beams delivered from different directions each lasting 10 to 15 seconds.
"Other stereotactic systems, such as the Gamma Knife, treat only the brain and require that the patient be fitted with a rigid frame screwed into the skull. The Cyberknife Radiosurgery System uses a frameless system, and can treat tumors throughout the body with a accuracy of less than 0.5 millimeters” said Heather Zinkin, MD, Radiation Oncologist.
This treatment can also successfully treat lung cancers and other cancers that are in areas that move involuntarily - like in the respiratory or digestive system. "These radiation therapy treatments are out-patient procedures, ranging from five to as little as one visit, allowing patients to continue their normal activities," Ghaly said.
There are about 150 CyberKnife systems around the world, the one at Cyberknife of Long Island being the most advanced.
Since 1988, North Shore Radiation Therapy has provided premier radiation therapy services in New York. The center offers Cyberknife Radiosurgery, 3-D Conformal Radiation Therapy, IMRT (Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy), IGRT (Image Guided Radiation Therapy), Rapid Arc, Partial Breast, Skin and Gynecological Brachytherapy. North Shore Radiation Therapy is the most experienced in all modalities of prostate cancer radiation therapy including radiosurgery and IGRT in Suffolk County. The centers are staffed by board certified physicians and highly trained clinicians with expertise in utilizing the most advanced radiation therapy technology. Located in Huntington, and Smithtown, New York, the centers are open Monday through Friday, and accept all insurance plans. Appointments can be made by calling (631) 427-2273. You can visit the website at www.cancer-radiation.com or www.CyberknifeofLI.com
We're beginning to see more stylish hybrids and electric cars, diminishing memories of golf cart-style EVs from years past. (The Tesla Roadster probably marked the official death of that perception.) Today, Lexus has unveiled photos of its LF-Ch compact hybrid concept ahead of the car's official debut September 15th at the Frankfurt Auto Show.
It looks like a coupe at first glance, but that's an illusion due to the missing rear door handles and blackened B-pillar. It's actually a five-door hatch that takes some cues from the 2010 revamp of the five-door Mazda 3.
Under the hood, the LF-Ch employs the same hybrid powertrain as the production HS250h sedan. Inside, the car features Lexus' Remote Touch controller with user-adjustable haptic feedback, letting the driver and front passenger control the navigation, audio, and climate systems. Also, the seats light up, and rear passengers can dock an iPhone in the headrests.
The American Society for Radiation Oncology said last year that SBRT is promising but not yet well proven. Supporters of SBRT say it is cheaper and faster than the more common IMRT (intensity modulated radiation therapy) and that early results are comparable. Men typically get about 40 treatments over eight weeks with IMRT and five higher doses over a week or two with SBRT.
In its decision, effective Oct. 28, Highmark acknowledged that data about treatment with SBRT "is of short term duration relative to the natural history of prostate cancer." It requires doctors to document why they've chosen SBRT and that patients were told about other options.
ATLANTA, Sept 15, 2009 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ --
Global Net Access, LLC (GNAX), today announced a new partnership with Internap. After successful testing, GNAX will utilize Internap for a 10GB IP connection to increase performance and redundancy within its Gold Network. The company is a leading provider of co-location in the Southeast U.S. and one of the leading providers of outsourced managed and unmanaged servers in the world.
GNAX will use an existing dark fiber route purchased from AGL Networks of Atlanta and will work with the engineering team to engineer a solution that traverses a different path than GNAX's current fiber to its providers . "This path completely avoids Telx at 56 Marietta Street, which is the current termination point of the GNAX metro Ethernet networks," Hinkle said. "The new fiber terminates at Internap's 250 Williams Street facility and provides both increased redundancy and capacity. This is unique to most of the data centers in the region- especially in the city of Atlanta. Many have a ring or multiple paths - but like we were constructed in the past - they all come back to one single-point-of-failure facility."
The new connection will enhance the performance of the GNAX Gold network. Internap utilizes performance-based routing which selects the best routes from their backbone providers, which differ from the current providers on the GNAX Gold network. GNAX will use its own route optimization to select the best path of its current as well as the best paths of the Internap optimized routes. Hinkle adds: "when assessing the network performance during our testing, it really became apparent that this was a decision we needed to make. The performance was vastly superior to anything we had tested in the past in a single provider and it made it very simple for us to move forward." Hinkle believes The GNAX gold network will be unsurpassed for performance on the Atlanta market.
The completion of the project is estimated to be 10/1/09.
About GNAX/AtlantaNAP/NetDepot:
AtlantaNAP is a premier Atlanta co-location facility implemented by Global Net Access, LLC (www.gnax.net) and located in the historic West end of Atlanta. AtlantaNAP completed the expansion of their new Enterprise Data Center in May 2008, which added 12,500 additional square feet of cage and cabinet co-location space. Recently, the company completed a second expansion of the space by an additional 13,500 feet.
AtlantaNAP provides cage co-location and cabinet co-location to a variety of Enterprise and Corporate clients. For more information please visit www.AtlantaNAP.com or call 404-230-9150.
NetDepot provides leading-edge managed and unmanaged servers to a wide variety of corporate and enterprise clients. NetDepot utilizes the GNAX Gold network, giving the best performance and redundancy to its valued clients. For more information, please visit www.netdepot.com.
Sponsored by Equinix, TDC and Interxion amongst others, EPF4 will bring together more than 200 individuals from the respective IXP member organisations to discuss all aspects of peering from negotiation and strategy to operation.
Peering is a cost neutral arrangement between two Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to exchange Internet traffic and is undertaken to reduce costs and provide more direct routing of that traffic.
Nurani Nimpuno of Netnod said: "We are delighted to have joined the European Peering Forum as a host IXP. This is a very important event for the peering industry in Scandinavia and the rest of Europe too. Meeting in this way allows delegates to establish and extend peering relationships as well as share information beneficial to the whole peering community."
The two day agenda includes a wide variety of content including presentations on the Scandinavian peering landscape, QoS in IP interconnection and a discussion on the impact of privacy legislation and data retention. Also featured is a debate on Peering vs. Transit in Europe, DDoS mitigation and an IPv6 peering panel moderated by Martin Levy. In addition, gold sponsor Equinix will host a session on the topic of capacity management.
You can find out more about EPF4, including the full agenda, by visiting the dedicated European Peering Forum website: www.peering-forum.eu
 | By: Bob Tarzey, Service Director, Quocirca Published: 14th September 2009 Copyright Quocirca © 2009 |
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Just one of Equinix's four uninterrupted power supply units in its LD4 facility contains banks and banks of batteries to power the data centre for just a few minutes. Then eight large oil-powered generators cut in.
But if the power used by mankind's ever growing hunger for computing power is a problem, it is one that co-location providers help mitigate, rather than make worse. If the computer equipment from within a single co-location facility was disaggregated back into many small inefficient data centres, the total power use would be far greater.
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