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Psoriatic arthritis can hurt inside and out. Your doctor has many treatments to help you feel better, though.
The main goal is to control the inflammation that causes your joints to swell and hurt. That will ease your pain and help prevent further damage.
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Your doctor may prescribe drugs. What he gives you will depend on how severe your arthritis is. To figure that out, he might take X-rays or do lab tests to see if your case is mild, moderate, or severe.
NSAIDs to Manage Mild Cases
If your arthritis is mild, your doctor may give you a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID). It stops your body from making the chemicals that cause inflammation.
There are many over-the-counter and prescription NSAIDs, but your doctor will help you find the drug that works best for you. Some of the most common are ibuprofen (Advil, Motrin), naproxen sodium (Aleve), and aspirin.
What's good for your joints may be hard on other parts of your body, though. NSAID side effects can include stomachaches, ulcers, or bleeding -- especially if you take large doses over a long time. To help, your doctor may prescribe a drug that will protect your stomach lining or something that will lower acid and prevent ulcers. Also, a different NSAID, Celebrex, could help you if you have stomach problems.
DMARDs to Control the Disease Process
If your disease is more severe or doesn't respond well to NSAIDs, your doctor may prescribe a disease-modifying antirheumatic drug (DMARD). These can slow or stop pain, swelling, and joint and tissue damage.
The most often-used DMARDs aremethotrexate, leflunomide, or sulfasalazine. Your doctor may prescribe a short-term dose of the steroid prednisone, although this drug may make skin rashes worse.
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If the first round of DMARDs doesn't work, your doctor may prescribe a biologic. These drugs, a newer type of DMARD, stop your body from making a protein that causes inflammation.
You'll probably take methotrexate along with the biologic. Most biologics are given as a shot under your skin, but some are given as an infusion into your vein in the doctor's office, and one can be taken as a pill. Biologics work well for many people, but they have downsides.


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In an earlier age, the medical establishment would have branded Kim Goodsell the patient from hell. The Carlsbad resident, who has no medical or scientific credentials, is assertive, studies research voraciously and doesn't hesitate to tell doctors that they're wrong.
But in the early 21st century, Goodsell may represent an increasingly important part of the future of medicine. While doctors are overwhelmed with the flood of information from the human genome, Goodsell diagnosed her extremely rare genetic disease with her own research. And while there's no cure, she's applied that knowledge to improve her health.
The Carlsbad resident told her story Thursday at the Future of Genomic Medicine conference at Scripps Seaside Forum in La Jolla. She was interviewed by Eric Topol, the prominent Scripps Health cardiologist-geneticist. Topol presented Goodsell as an example of the "empowered patient," informed and persistent, even when it makes her doctors uncomfortable.
Now in its seventh year, the conference brings together top doctors and researchers from the nation's most prestigious scientific institutes to bring knowledge of the genome from laboratories to the clinic. It's sponsored by the Scripps Translational Science Institute and Science Translational Medicine, a journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Goodsell's struggle to control her health has resulted in a business. Facing progressive disability, she teamed with Carlsbad's DD Studio to design the Rova, a prototype mobility device that provides the support of a traditional walker, but on wheels, with baskets so it can be used for shopping, along with a smartphone holder and other features.
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Smartphones can literally store your life – your photos, videos, contact information, location data, messages, email and even financial information. The problem is they aren't smart enough when it comes to protecting the data entrusted to them.
Smart devices can reveal a lot to prying eyes; But — for the first time — hackers can access every last byte of backup data byusing a single password. And cloud storage, by enabling them to download the data off the internet, is their accomplice.
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Note: BlackBerry itself can do this regardless of the backup security settings one might have.
Windows Phone 8: Not all the data from the device is stored in Microsoft OneDrive, the Windows cloud storage service. What you can get is a list of apps installed, call history, accounts set up, IE favourites, media files (photos and videos), and all settings. Again, by design, one can only restore the backup to the smartphone. However, there is a way to pull all of this information by fooling the Microsoft servers using the same trickery hackers would perform on the iCloud service.


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As the saying goes, two is better than one. When it comes to LAQA & Co.'s fat lip pencils, we couldn't agree more. After all, these gloss-delivering pencils require no sharpener and give lips a vibrant sheen. Luckily, the company recently released the pencils in the form of a travel-friendly duo. The smooth shea-butter complex moisturizes and coats lips with saturated, glossy color, in two high-energy shades.
I loved the sample product in my box. However these were horrible. The design/product was not made in good quality. This brand interested me since it is for the "girl on the go". When I received it both colors were pushed up and smushed in the cap. Anytime I had them in my purse they did the same thing until one of them completely detached, stuck to the cap and fell on the floor. The packaging is super loose. Horrible. Would never buy again. Wish I could get my money back. The colors looked really tacky and cartoon like on.1
This is NOT as good as their sheer lip. The two formulas are HEAVY lipstick- which is obviously fine for lipstick, but combining that with the crayon like tip means its difficult to apply and look good. Plus, its sticky and smells a bit medicinal.
The colors are nice, I guess.The pink is PINK like barbie-nikki minaj-bubblegum pink but the fuschia is a lovely purply pink.
I love the small size of these little chubby lip pencils. Perfect size to toss in my small clutch. Although only one of the two shades looks good on me, I am very pleased with this duo. Long-lasting and highly pigmented. Color stayed on through cocktail hour. Thumbs up on this one!4
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We still have a few days to find out who will be heading to the NCAA's Final Four in Detroit. But it won't be long before we have the four teams who will be playing at Madison Square Garden in the NIT semifinals.
There are two games on Tuesday night to punch the first two tickets to New York City. One of the matches pits two of VegasInsider.com's own against one another.
Baylor Bears at Auburn Tigers
--Las Vegas Sports Consultants opened the Tigers as 5 ½-point home favorites with a total of 146.
--Baylor (22-14 straight up, 11-17 against the spread) has continued its solid play from the Big XII postseason into this tournament. The Bears have advanced to the quarterfinals thanks to crushing Virginia Tech as four-point road 'dogs on March 21, 84-66. Baylor's win was truly a team effort as six of its players scored at least 10 points against the Hokies. Kevin Rogers (no relation to the Insider Edge's host) led all scorers with 16 point and eight rebounds.
--The Bears have won five of their last six matches. More importantly to bettors, they're covering at a nice 4-2 ATS clip.
--Auburn (24-11 SU, 21-7 ATS) is doing its level best to look like they should have been in the big dance. Jeff Lebo's crew has made it one match closer to the Big Apple by dropping Tulsa last Friday night, 74-55. The Tigers easily covered as six-point home faves in that matchup.
--The Tigers continue to be a great team to get behind as they've gone 11-2 ATS in their past 13 tilts.
--If there is one thing you can say about Auburn right off the bat is they lack size with just one player at 6-foot-10, junior Brendon Knox. So how do you open up some space in the paint when you don't have the big bodies? Why you stretch the defense with a long range attack.
--The Tigers have been damn near automatic from three-point land, completing 22 of their 50 shots. Keep a close eye on guys like DeWayne Reed as he's hitting 32.8 percent of his shots from beyond the arch.
--Beard-Eaves Memorial Coliseum has been a den of despair for non-conference clubs as Auburn is 12-1 SU and 5-1 ATS this season against them. The 'over' is 4-2 in those matchups.
--Baylor has been awful in true road games this season with a 3-8 SU and ATS mark for the year.
--The Bears have seen the 'under' go 11-3-1 in their previous 15 matches.
--Tip-off is scheduled for 7:00 p.m. EDT on ESPN.
Penn State Nittany Lions at Florida Gators
--LVSC has opened the line up for this game with the Gators as 9 ½-point home favorites with a total of 140.
--The frustration of not making the NCAA Tournament has been turned into the motivation for Penn State (24-11 SU, 15-12-1 ATS) to keep its season alive. The Nittany Lions are just two wins shy of having the best record in the program's history after dropping Rhode Island as one-point home favorites on March 19, 83-72.
--The Nittany Lions were able to pull out the win despite being without Jamelle Cornley, who sat out with a bad shoulder. Stanley Pringle helped take care of business with 19 points and four rebounds. Talor Battle was solid as well with 16 points, five assists and four boards. It wasn't all happy times for PSU since Battle left the game with a little over three minutes remaining with a hip injury.
--Regardless of Cornley and Battle playing on Tuesday, the Lions will be trying to proof themselves and the Big Ten Conference. VegasInsider.com's own, and Penn State alum, Chris David believes the league's stigma is unwarranted.
--"People often mistake the Big Ten for being overrated, but the conference is tougher than expected. The brand of basketball may be boring to some, but it's arguably the most competitive group in the land."
--David continues, "The only doormats were IU and Iowa, leaving nine teams with an opportunity to dance. Two teams are left in the Sweet 16 and Michigan played respectively against OU."
--Florida (25-10 SU, 12-15-1 ATS) is on the verge of making its fourth NIT Final Four after beating the Hurricanes as a 5 ½-point home "chalk" on March 20, 74-60. Nick Calathes helped keep the Gators' season going by scoring 21 points with six boards and seven assists…12 of his 21 points came from the perimeter.
--The Gators shot 52 percent from the field against Miami, FL last Friday night as a team. Playing at home has definitely helped them out during the postseason as they're hitting 54.2 percent of their field goals in the NIT. Compare that to the 39.3 percent UF connected on while at the SEC Tournament.
--The 'under' has cashed a lot of tickets in Florida's matches as it has hit in five straight tilts.
--Penn State is on the other side of the spectrum with the 'over' going 5-1 in its last six contests.
--Billy Donovan's club loves playing at the O'Connell Center as evidenced by its 17-1 SU mark. Yet they're only 5-6 ATS.
--Break down that home record down to when UF was a single-digit "chalk" and you find out that they are 4-1 SU and 3-2 ATS.
--The Gators are just 4-3 SU against teams from the Big Ten, but 2-5 ATS. The 'over' is 5-2 in those matches as well.
--The Nittany Lions aren't that great when playing in true road tests with a 5-6 SU and 6-5 ATS record this season.
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BAYLOR vs. AUBURN
Baylor is 4-2 ATS in its last 6 games
Baylor is 5-12-1 ATS in its last 18 games
Auburn is 7-1 ATS in its last 8 games at home
Auburn is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games at home
PENN STATE vs. FLORIDA
Penn State is 5-2 SU in its last 7 games
The total has gone OVER in 5 of Penn State's last 6 games
Florida is 5-1 ATS in its last 6 games at home
Florida is 20-1 SU in its last 21 games at home
Re: NCAAB News and Notes Tuesday 3/24
BAYLOR (22 - 14) at AUBURN (24 - 11)
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AUBURN is 21-7 ATS (+13.3 Units) in all games this season.
AUBURN is 21-7 ATS (+13.3 Units) in all lined games this season.
AUBURN is 11-4 ATS (+6.6 Units) as a favorite this season.
AUBURN is 11-3 ATS (+7.7 Units) in all home games this season.
AUBURN is 11-3 ATS (+7.7 Units) in home lined games this season.
AUBURN is 8-2 ATS (+5.8 Units) in non-conference games this season.
AUBURN is 17-7 ATS (+9.3 Units) when playing against a team with a winning record this season.
AUBURN is 13-5 ATS (+7.5 Units) when playing against a team with a winning record after 15 or more games this season.
BAYLOR is 8-1 ATS (+6.9 Units) in road games after a non-conference game over the last 2 seasons.
BAYLOR is 13-4 ATS (+8.6 Units) in road games in all tournament games over the last 3 seasons.
Head-to-Head Series History
There were no past matchups in this series during this time period.
PENN ST (24 - 11) at FLORIDA (25 - 10)
Top Trends for this game.
FLORIDA is 186-148 ATS (+23.2 Units) in all games since 1997.
FLORIDA is 186-148 ATS (+23.2 Units) in all lined games since 1997.
FLORIDA is 151-118 ATS (+21.2 Units) as a favorite since 1997.
FLORIDA is 82-58 ATS (+18.2 Units) in all home games since 1997.
FLORIDA is 82-58 ATS (+18.2 Units) in home lined games since 1997.
FLORIDA is 73-47 ATS (+21.3 Units) after a non-conference game since 1997.
FLORIDA is 12-3 ATS (+8.7 Units) in home games in non-conference games over the last 3 seasons.
FLORIDA is 47-26 ATS (+18.4 Units) in all tournament games since 1997.
Head-to-Head Series History
There were no past matchups in this series during this time period.
Re: NCAAB News and Notes Tuesday 3/24
NCAAB Today
Tuesday, March 24
Penn State's Battle been hampered by hip injury, is ?? for this game vs a Florida team that won four of last five games; Gators won 14 of their 16 non-SEC games- they're 5-2 vs spread in last seven games as a favorite. Penn State won six of last nine games, is 13-2 outside the Big 11; they're 2-5 vs spread in their last seven games as an underdog.
Baylor won four of last five games since 2-10 skid to end regular season; they were up 28 at Virginia Tech in last game, but lost 85-84 to South Carolina at home in only game vs SEC opponent this season. Auburn is 12-2 in last 14 games, winning last seven at home; they've won last four non-SEC games, covered six of last seven as a favorite.
Re: NCAAB News and Notes Tuesday 3/24
NIT/CBI/CIT Research
By Indiancowboy
Baylor vs. Auburn
A game that's going to get overlooked given the hype of the NCAA Tourney is Baylor vs. Auburn. But, if you want to watch one helluva game, tune in as the Bears visit the Tigers. Baylor has had a renewed sense of urgency all of a sudden since the Big 12 Tournament as they have played lights out. You have to be impressed with a Baylor team that has shown these results in the last series of games:
@ Virginia Tech: 84-66 (W) (winning outright as 4.5 dogs)
Georgetown: 74-72 (W)
(N) Missouri: 60-73 (L)
(N) Texas: 76-70 (W) (winning outright as 4.5 dog)
(N) Kansas: 71-64 (W) (winning outright as 8 point dog)
(N) Nebraska: 65-49 (W) (winning outright as 1 point dog)
If you would have seen the Virginia Tech game, you would have thought that the Bears were a top ten team in the nation with the way they were lighting up the scoreboard. This team led from start to finish as they shot 61.7% from the field (29-47), 47.6% from 3 point land (10-21) and 16 for 20 (80%) from the charity stripe as they had 6 individuals in double-figures. Remarkable.
Not to be out done, the Auburn Tigers are rolling right along themselves. This team just crushed Tulsa at home as -5.5 favorites winning 74-55. In fact, the Tigers have covered 8 of their last 10 as they have certainly had the eye of the Tiger. It is a shame this team didn't make it into the tourney as if they did, I believe they could have done some damage. Nevertheless, take a look at what the Tigers have done of late.
Tulsa (74-55) (W) (W – 5.5)
Tennessee-Martin (87-82) (W) (L -11)
(N) Tennessee (85-94) (L) (L +4.5)
(N) Florida (61-58) (W) (W +3.5)
@ Alabama (77-73) (W) (W +1)
@ Miss State (76-58) (W) (W +5)
Ole Miss (77-64) (W) (W –5.5)
@ Georgia (71-59) (W -4)
One thing is for certain when this contest rolls around Tuesday @ 7pm. You have two of the hottest teams in the country that didn't make it to the dance facing off and it should be a heckuva game.
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International Paralympic Committee May 04, 2015
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U.S. National Sled Hockey Team shuts out Canada 3-0 for world title
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a memory coupled to the processor, the memory storing a plurality of hierarchically arranged data structures in a schema the hierarchical data structures configured to provide one or more extensible abstract base classes configured to retrieve and provide location data of a logical location, the abstract base classes responsive to a plurality of applications to provide and store location data in the schema, including unrecognized types of location data, the schema configured to enable servicing a received request for a logical location of an electronic endpoint, the schema configured as an abstract location object with the location elements configured to act as peers relative to the logical location, each location element configured to act as a proxy relative to other location elements within the abstract location object.
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This application relates to co-pending U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10/402,609, filed on Mar. 28, 2003, entitled "Architecture and System for Location Awareness" and naming Mohammad Shabbir Alam, Warren Vincent Barkley, Timothy M. Moore, Geoffrey E. Pease, Steven A. N. Shafer, Florin Teodorescu, Yinghua Yao, Madhurima Pawar and John C. Krumm as inventors, the application being incorporated herein by reference in its entirety.
This invention relates generally to computer systems and, more particularly, relates to a schema for location awareness of computer systems and computer devices.
With the advent of the Internet and the growth of inter-active applications available to computer users comes an increasing need for ubiquitous computing. In this context, ubiquitous computing means the ability of computers to affect most of a user's daily tasks. Computers are called "computers" because of their ability to "compute" or perform mathematical tasks. Computers are no longer seen as only computing machines, but are personal companions that are blending into the fabric of society in the form of personal digital assistants (PDAs) and personal information managers (PIMs), high functioning cellular phones and the like.
Computers no longer take up the space of an office to be able to compute pi to the 20th decimal place and, instead, fit into the palm of a hand with the same computing power. Software developers cognizant of the personal companion persona of newer computing tools create user-friendly applications making the computing aspect of computers nearly invisible to users. Such technology results in user interfaces closely resembling human-type interfaces in sharp contrast to prior art computer-readable punch cards required in the past. Another growing technology affecting the ubiquitous nature of computing is wireless technology. Increasing growth of wireless and wired communication networks and the newer types of wireless networks create a need for computers to take advantage of the communication abilities of computers. Wireless no longer means a cellular phone that must be hard-wired within a vehicle, as was known in the past. Modern lithium-ion type batteries and other small but powerful batteries enable cellular phones, PIMS, PDAs and notebook computers to operate for hours at a time without requiring recharging. The long-term operation of computing devices enables a user to move from place to place without concerns of recharging looming while using a device. However, the long-term operation by a user creates opportunities for development of new computing products heretofore not fathomed as being necessary or even possible. One type of new computing product can be referred to as a location awareness product type.
Current location awareness devices are fragmented, do not work together and are not extensible or unified. For example, global positioning systems, home networking systems, local area networks (LANs) and wireless phones connected to a computing system all are capable of providing data relevant from the location perspective to a computer system. There is no common denominator between these systems allowing synergistic utilization of the location data. Each device outputs location data in different formats. What is needed, therefore, is a location awareness system that allows for synergy among location awareness products to enhance a user's experience with a computer system and appropriate data structures and schemas to enable such a system to interact with different computer components. Regarding such a schema, what is needed is a schema that operates as an organizational element, enables the functioning for location awareness, and provides a semantic common denominator to promote interoperability.
Accordingly, a method and schema for a location service includes an abstract location type that contains a variety of location elements. The location elements can include a position, an address, an spatial entity, and an electronic endpoint. The location elements can act as peers that represent a single logical location. The location elements also function as proxies for each other. According to an embodiment, applications which understand one type, but not another, function normally because a resolver populates the specific kind of location information a given application needs based on information determined from one or more other proxies that make up that location object. For example, an application that needs a position can ask a street address geocoder to resolve the address element of the schema, return a position, and store the returned position in the position component of the schema thereby enabling the application that can only understand position. The schema logically wraps disparate location elements that represent a given location.
Thus, the schema supports a location service is extensible and agnostic to the provider of the information and the technology used by the provider. The location service can be either a locally executed module or method or a distributed function that can be aggregated in the cloud.
A location object can be a collection of elements that defines a location and represents all the information known about any given location. For example, a location object can contain different types of data such as the street address, latitude/longitude, and building/floor/room.
The schema is configured to be extensible by providing a generic definition of the location element and location object, and by providing the ability to inherit from generic definitions. The schema is also configured to be flexible and can contain zero or more location elements, and each location element can be a location element or anything that extends from it. Applications, services and storage engines can choose to use any subset of the location elements. Location elements can be defined with attributes, such as the city name in a street address. Other location elements can be defined with attributes that include complex data types, referred to herein as nested types. For example, the uncertainty of a position can be described in a nested type. The uncertainty provides information enabling an application/service/storage engine to determine whether position data is accurate and to what extent.
Additional features and advantages of the invention will be made apparent from the following detailed description of illustrative embodiments, which proceeds with reference to the accompanying figures.
While the appended claims set forth the features of the present invention with particularity, the invention, together with its objects and advantages, can be best understood from the following detailed description taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings of which:
Turning to the drawings, wherein like reference numerals refer to like elements, the invention is illustrated as being implemented in a suitable computing environment. Although not required, the invention will be described in the general context of computer-executable instructions, such as program modules, being executed by a personal computer. Generally, program modules include routines, programs, objects, components, data structures, etc. that perform particular tasks or implement particular abstract data types. Moreover, those skilled in the art will appreciate that the invention may be practiced with other computer system configurations, including hand-held devices, multi-processor systems, microprocessor based or programmable consumer electronics, network PCs, minicomputers, mainframe computers, and the like. The invention may also be practiced in distributed computing environments where tasks are performed by remote processing devices that are linked through a communications network. In a distributed computing environment, program modules may be located in both local and remote memory storage devices.
The invention is operational with numerous other general purpose or special purpose computing system environments or configurations. Examples of well known computing systems, environments, and/or configurations that may be suitable for use with the invention include, but are not limited to: personal computers, server computers, hand-held or laptop devices, tablet devices, multiprocessor systems, microprocessor-based systems, set top boxes, programmable consumer electronics, network PCs, minicomputers, mainframe computers, distributed computing environments that include any of the above systems or devices, and the like.
The invention may be described in the general context of computer-executable instructions, such as program modules, being executed by a computer. Generally, program modules include routines, programs, objects, components, data structures, etc. that perform particular tasks or implement particular abstract data types. The invention may also be practiced in distributed computing environments where tasks are performed by remote processing devices that are linked through a communications network. In a distributed computing environment, program modules may be located in local and/or remote computer storage media including memory storage devices.
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The computer 110 typically includes a variety of computer readable media. Computer readable media can be any available media that can be accessed by the computer 110 and includes both volatile and nonvolatile media, and removable and non-removable media. By way of example, and not limitation, computer readable media may comprise computer storage media and communication media. Computer storage media includes volatile and nonvolatile, removable and non-removable media implemented in any method or technology for storage of information such as computer readable instructions, data structures, program modules or other data. Computer storage media includes, but is not limited to, RAM, ROM, EEPROM, flash memory or other memory technology, CD-ROM, digital versatile disks (DVD) or other optical disk storage, magnetic cassettes, magnetic tape, magnetic disk storage or other magnetic storage devices, or any other medium which can be used to store the desired information and which can be accessed by the computer 110. Communication media typically embodies computer readable instructions, data structures, program modules or other data in a modulated data signal such as a carrier wave or other transport mechanism and includes any information delivery media. The term "modulated data signal" means a signal that has one or more of its characteristics set or changed in such a manner as to encode information in the signal. By way of example, and not limitation, communication media includes wired media such as a wired network or direct-wired connection, and wireless media such as acoustic, RF, infrared and other wireless media. Combinations of the any of the above should also be included within the scope of computer readable media.
The system memory 130 includes computer storage media in the form of volatile and/or nonvolatile memory such as read only memory (ROM) 131 and random access memory (RAM) 132. A basic input/output system 133 (BIOS), containing the basic routines that help to transfer information between elements within computer 110, such as during start-up, is typically stored in ROM 131. RAM 132 typically contains data and/or program modules that are immediately accessible to and/or presently being operated on by processing unit 120. By way of example, and not limitation,
The computer 110 may also include other removable/non-removable, volatile/nonvolatile computer storage media. By way of example only,
The drives and their associated computer storage media, discussed above and illustrated in
The computer 110 may operate in a networked environment using logical connections to one or more remote computers, such as a remote computer 180. The remote computer 180 may be a personal computer, a server, a router, a network PC, a peer device or other common network node, and typically includes many or all of the elements described above relative to the computer 110, although only a memory storage device 181 has been illustrated in
When used in a LAN networking environment, the computer 110 is connected to the LAN 171 through a network interface or adapter 170. When used in a WAN networking environment, the computer 110 typically includes a modem 172 or other means for establishing communications over the WAN 173, such as the Internet. The modem 172, which may be internal or external, may be connected to the system bus 121 via the user input interface 160 or other appropriate mechanism. In a networked environment, program modules depicted relative to the computer 110, or portions thereof, may be stored in the remote memory storage device. By way of example, and not limitation,
In the description that follows, the invention will be described with reference to acts and symbolic representations of operations that are performed by one or more computers, unless indicated otherwise. As such, it will be understood that such acts and operations, which are at times referred to as being computer-executed, include the manipulation by the processing unit of the computer of electrical signals representing data in a structured form. This manipulation transforms the data or maintains it at locations in the memory system of the computer, which reconfigures or otherwise alters the operation of the computer in a manner well understood by those skilled in the art. The data structures where data is maintained are physical locations of the memory that have particular properties defined by the format of the data. However, while the invention is being described in the foregoing context, it is not meant to be limiting as those of skill in the art will appreciate that various of the acts and operation described hereinafter may also be implemented in hardware.
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Location management component 330 can be configured within location service 210. Provider plugins 310″ operate on the data, however, the plugin manager 338 which is part of the location management system will normalize the data before accepting it and passing it to master resolver 336. Each of the components: master resolver 336, fuser engine 340, and plugin manager 338 indicate readiness to accept information. Thereafter, applications and components that retrieve data do so only when components 336, 338 and 340 have data ready to be retrieved.
Resolvers 320 receive the sensed and translated data or, in some cases, raw location data, such as device specific location information, and interpret the data. Resolvers 320 can be implemented as plugins to location service 210 and can include device specific location information translators and data sources. Resolvers 320 function to translate device specific location information to rich location information by using data sources available to infer new data from existing data. In one embodiment, a resolver 320 can translate at least a portion of the data received from one or more devices. Each resolver 320 could be capable of interpreting at least one type of raw or partially-decoded data from a provider 310 and/or be configured to interpret data from another resolver. For example, a resolver 320 could be dedicated to interpreting only 802.11-type data. The resolver would then register with location management component 330 as interpreting only 802.11-type data and would receive only that type of data. Additionally, each resolver 320 can be configured to translate information of another resolver, in which case the resolver might not be capable of translating raw data or partially decoded data, but could also be capable of resolving both raw data, data produced by a provider and data produced by another resover.
Fuser engine 340 generates a current location object. Location service 210 checks current location data via a plug-in or several plugins, including provider plugins 310″ and resolver plugins 320. In this context, a plug-in can be implemented as one or more dynamically loadable libraries or dynamic link libraries (DLLs) or other dynamically loadable module capable of expanding the capabilities of software, firmware, or system components. In one embodiment, a notifications application is created on top of a notifications platform for WinFS or other appropriate system that checks to see if there is a match between what an application cares about and the current location. In an embodiment, an assembly contains one or more DLLs; a lower granularity level of dynamically loadable modules is represented by .NETMODULE files.
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Referring now to
Location user API 418 allows an application to query for the current location of the computer running location service 210. Location resolver API 414 specifies what functions need to be implemented by a plugin in order to register with the service. As shown, location user API 418 receives data from WinFS server 360 and passes the data to one or more applications 220(1-n). Location management API 420 receives data from a plurality of components such as fuser engine 340, user agent 332, cache 334, plugin manager 338 and master resolver 336 and passes data back and forth to one or more applications 220. Location management API 420 allows the parameters of the service and components to be configured. Location management API 420 also allows providers and resolvers to be added and removed. Location notification API 416 receives data from notification service 460 and passes data to applications 220. Location notification API 416 allows an application to register to be notified when the location of the computer running the service has changed. In one embodiment, a separate API, an application registration API allows applications to register for notifications and determining a current location. Applications must first register to obtain location data. Once registered, an application can choose to be notified for predetermined reasons. Location resolver API 414 sends and receives data from plugin manager 412 and master resolver 336 and transmits the data to location resolver user/Windows� database 408(1), location resolver Active Directory 408(2), and location resolver MapPoint� 408(3), as well as other location resolvers that could benefit from the location data. Master resolver 336 is responsible for managing the resolution of location information. When plugin manager 412 passes to master resolver 336 device-specific location information, master resolver 336 routes the data to the resolvers that are both free and able to resolve the information.
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Next, master resolver 336 retrieves the location report from plugin manager 338. Next, master resolver 336 passes the location report to user agent 332.
User agent 332 checks cache 334 for this location report. Cache 334 possibly returns a miss. If so, cache 334 caches the data and checks a backend. By checking the backend of cache, a user's location could be determined based on the location report. If cache does not determine the user's location, user agent 332 generates a miss.
After user agent 332 generates a miss, master resolver 336 passes the location report to a resolver 408, such as active directory (AD) resolver 408(2). AD resolver 408(2) locates the MAC address information in the location report, connects to Active Directory and finds the location of the access point. Next, AD resolver 408(2) returns the location of the access point to master resolver 336 as a location report. Next, master resolver 336 passes the location report to user agent 332. User agent 332 checks cache 334 for a match with the location report returned by AD resolver 408(2). If cache 332 generates a miss, user agent 332 caches the AD report. Next, user agent 332 then checks WinFS 360 to find any saved locations that relate to the location report generated by AD resolver 408(2). If nothing is found, user agent 332 informs master resolver 336 that there is no additional data. Next, master resolver 336 signals to fuser engine 340 that there is data to be retrieved. Fuser engine 340 retrieves two location reports, including an 802.11 location report and an AD location report. Fuser engine 340 fuses these reports and writes a location object representing the fused reports, and both the location reports into WinFS 360 as the current location. Notifications service 460, which can be configured to run on top of WinFS or an equivalent system generates a notification. The generated notification passes through a location notification API and onto the applications registered for the notification.
Location resolver API 414 is an interface between location service 210 and resolvers. Further, location resolver API 414 allows each resolver to notify the location service 210 that a resolver has new location information. Location resolver API 414 enables the resolver to transfer this information to location service 210. Location provider API 404 sends and receives data from location providers such as providers 402(1-n) which can include an 802.11 provider, a Bluetooth provider, a global positioning system provider and other types of providers of location data. Location provider API 404 is an interface between location service 210 and providers. Location provider API 404 allows each provider to notify the service that it has new location information and transfers this information to the service.
Location provider API 404 and location resolver API 414 are both part of a plugin manager API. Plugin manager API further includes a plugin manager plugin, which is an interface between plugin manager 338 and a provider plugin 402. The plugin manager plugin interface provides data to both provider and resolver interfaces. Fuser engine 340 functions to fuse data obtained from master resolver 336. Fuser engine 340 generally resolves conflicts and unifies "reports" received from different resolutions of location awareness received from location providers. The data regarding location arrives via master resolver 336 that can filter the data and transmit the data to cache 334 and then to fuser engine 340.
User agent 332 functions to check cache 334 to determine whether the current location reports may be resolved further using cached data. User agent 332 further checks WinFS 360 to see if the current location reports indicate a location that a user has saved. Cache 334 functions to store resolution trees.
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As shown, the conceptual diagram illustrated in
As described above, with reference to
The location profile allows applications, services and data stores to associate a location with some context. For example an application could use this associate the printer used at a home where the printer would be the context, the location would be home and the application would be referenced by some identifier. This is represented as a location profile object.
One important aspect of this schema design is that we include device information that can act as a proxy for a location as well as what is traditionally considered to be location data. For example the 802.11 location object includes the MAC address and the signal strength of the access point as perceived by the wireless NIC. This can be used by to infer the user's location because a user must be within a certain proximity to be connected to an access point and see a certain signal strength. Other examples of device information that can act as proxies are IP addresses and phone numbers. Anyone skilled in the art can extend this design to include other devices that have information that can be used to infer the user's location.
A named location is used to give a name to a location such as "Home", "Work" or "ABC enterprises".
An entity reference is used to refer to entities that can describe locations hierarchically. Each entity reference is a node in this hierarchy that has zero or one parent, zero or more children. The entity reference also has a pointer to the data store and a schema that defines where the entire entity tree may be defined and how it can be accessed. Entities can be used for describing indoors location. For example one entity could be the building, it's child could be the floor, and it's child could be the room. Similarly an entity reference could refer to a reference to an entity that represents a building, that has a child which refers to an entity that represents a floor that has a child which refers to an entity that represents a room.
An address refers to the street address of a location. The street address as defined here includes things such as the address line, city and administrative division.
A position refers to a point in a one, two or three dimensional coordinate space. It can be used to represent the latitude, longitude and altitude of a place on earth. A position has one, two or three scalar values representing the vectors in the coordinate space, a reference to a coordinate system, an uncertainty representing how accurate the position is, and it may have an angle in one, two or three space.
Referring now to
The data flow diagram illustrates that a location schema according to embodiments disclosed herein can be composed of three types of reports, including device reports, logical reports, and position reports. More specifically, a user's location can be described in embodiments herein in at least three ways, including through devices nearby, an actual position and a logical association to an actual user position. The report including each type of location information is shown as a hierarchical report culminating in AReport 610 at the top of the diagram. AReport 610 is a base class for all location elements. All location objects extend from AReport 610 either directly or indirectly.
One of the three types of reports, the device report, is exemplified in
Logical location type reports are exemplified by AddressReport 624, BldgFloorRoomReport 622, and NamedLocationReport 626. Each of the AddressReport 624, the BldgFloorRoomReport 622, and NamedLocationReport 626 are provided to base class ACompositeReport 612 as the base class for logical reports. ACompositeReport 612 contains location information that represents a spatial hierarchy. For example, AddressReport 624 contains the country, administrative division, secondary city and primary city, and addressline. Each of the elements can represent a spatial hierarchy. Additional elements can be added as one of ordinary skill the art with the benefit of this disclosure will appreciate. For example, specific street address information can be included. BuildingFloorRoomReport 622 is also a logical location type of report and can contain building, floor and room information. Additional information can be added by adding elements to NamedLocationReport 626, which allows the user to name a location e.g. "Home" or "Work".
Each of the hierarchies in the logical report is a HierarchyLevel 614 object. HierarchyLevel object 614 contains the actual content that describes that hierarchy level. For example, content can include elements such as floor number and a spatial certainty parameter that provides a statistical certainty regarding the likelihood that the location service is correct regarding the location of a user relative to a given hierarchy.
Position type reports are shown as PoseReport 630, VelocitySensorReport 632 and CoodSystem 634. PoseReport 630 describes the position, angle, and coordinate system (via CoodSystem 634) of the user's location. VelocitySensorReport 632 extends from PoseReport 630 to describe the speed at which a user is traveling. Thus, the speed parameter and SpeedUnit provide a context for a position. A direction can be provided by CoordSystem 634, shown as holding elements Code, CodeSpace, Edition, Descriptor, xyUnit, zUnit, and angleUnit. As one of skill in the art with the benefit of this disclosure witll appreciate, the actual elements in each object are exemplary in nature and similar, expanded or reduced elements within each object are included within the general description of each object.
In contrast, Location.SimpleUncertainty 732 represents a sharp cutoff of possible locations or angles at the edge of a sphere, using elements AnglePrecision:float[1:1] and PointPrecision:float[1:1]. For three dimensional locations, a covariance matrix is provided in Location.StatisticalUncertainy 734, which provide the 3�3 covariance matrices of PointCovarianceMatrix or AngleCovarianceMatrix. For two dimensional or one dimensional locations, the matrix can be used by zeroing the entries in the row(s) and column(s) of the matrix that correspond to the unused dimensions.
Location.Position 3D 724 denotes the vector representing the position in one, two or three space. Location.PositionUncertainty 726 is the abstract base class of a position. Any type for describing position uncertainty can derive from base class 726. Two types of uncertainty are illustrated as deriving from base class 726, including Location.Simple Uncertainty 732 and Location.Statistical.Uncertainty 734. A benefit of separating the types of uncertainty is that it allows developers to have both a simple solution if a coarse description of uncertainty is good enough, and a rich solution if a detailed description of an uncertainty is required.
A simple type of uncertainty contains nothing more than a scalar value for angle uncertainty and one for the position uncertainty. A scalar and angle can be used, for example, to denote a radius around the position in which the true position may lie. A statistical uncertainty contains a covariance matrix for angle uncertainty and one for position uncertainty. A matrix can be used to denote an uncertainty distribution that shows the probability of the true position being in a region around a given position. A location report captures the information the location service may tag to a location object such as the creation time. Such as, for example, when the user was at that location and the confidence of the user being in that location. In one embodiment, every location element contains zero or one location reports, shown as, for example, Core.LocationReport 736 to allow any location element generated by the location service to contain the extra information such as confidence and creation time. Core.LocationReport 736 feeds into Core.CategorizedNestedElement 730 as representing a type of nested element. Location.NonScalarString1024 728 is configured to hold nonscalar string values as needed.
In view of the many possible embodiments to which the principles of this invention can be applied, it will be recognized that the embodiment described herein with respect to the drawing figures is meant to be illustrative only and are not be taken as limiting the scope of invention. For example, those of skill in the art will recognize that the elements of the illustrated embodiment shown in software can be implemented in hardware and vice versa or that the illustrated embodiment can be modified in arrangement and detail without departing from the spirit of the invention. Therefore, the invention as described herein contemplates all such embodiments as can come within the scope of the following claims and equivalents thereof.
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