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Date of Stay: May, 2015
What a shame this little campground doesn't have some TLC plus some hard work. It has a good location even if it is on a truck route. When I came in to register, office staff didn't bother to look up or acknowledge me. When she got off the phone, she left the desk to do some paperwork, Then waited on me. There was plenty of time to notice the unpleasant smell in the office while she tried to decide how to get me to my site. My back-in site was not mowed, the picnic table was rusted, and no sign of any maintenance/upkeep going on. Long term sites were junky and several sites looked uninhabitable due to open, broken electrical posts and mud puddles. When we had no water one morning, there was no notice from the office and they had no information on when we would have water again.
Date of Stay: May, 2015
We were charged $42 one night and $39 another night. The two different rates reflect one night that we were charged an extra 3 dollars for 50 amp and another 3 dollars for air conditioning. After questioning why the extra 6 dollars, the next night we were only charged an extra 3 dollars. Sites are level and long but the interior roads and sites are in bad need of more gravel. It rained and there were many muddy puddles.
Date of Stay: April, 2015
GPS led us to the camping store on a super busy highway instead of to the rv park behind the store so check out the directions before you are committed to the small store parking lot. RV park was a little tight for big rig. Very little space between sites. Picnic table is situated at the back of your rig. Not a destination park, but good while exploring the Granbury area.
Date of Stay: April, 2015
Excellent roads to and in park. Could use better directions to rv section of park. Easy, easy maneuvering for 40 foot rig towing. Spa and pool closed at this time of year.
Date of Stay: September, 2014
Second time to stay here, but a little disappointed this time. I paid what everyone else paid but my site did not have cable. And when we tried to go to the hot tub, it was out of order. WiFi was very limited, especially at night until about 11 o'clock. Staff still has a lot of trouble with reservations and which RV sites are available. But, the deer are plentiful and the sites are lovely.
Date of Stay: June, 2014
This is truly a "10" campground. Great checkin, escort to site, good wifi, clean swimming pool, level and long sites, plus shade. What more could you want? Beautiful lighting at night? You got it.
Date of Stay: June, 2014
Went here because we thought it had a pool after reading reviews. There is no pool. The map shows swimming in the pond...if you dare. There is no Wi-Fi except in the office. However, feeding the fish was fun for all. Watching the bees in the tree beside our hookups was a little anxiety boosting. Sites were tight for 40 footers and slightly unlevel. Walked to Waffle House for breakfast. Been there, won't be back.
Date of Stay: May, 2014
This campground is 2 years old. The sites are huge, long, and all pull-throughs. Utilities were fine, Wi-Fi worked good, and the pool was clean and covered with a screen. Owners are ready to help with anything and invited us to a hot dog and marshmallow roast. Cedar Key is 30 minutes away and a fun place to visit. The only drawback is the dusty road base inside the park but there was little traffic while we were here.
Date of Stay: May, 2014
Owners lean over backward to accommodate campers. Our site was long and spacious. There were many trees to provide shade and the honeysuckle smelled delightful. Although the pool was not yet open, it looked clean and inviting. Laundry was adequate. Owners are working hard to upgrade and maintain a quality camp. Nearby Prattville is unique and has lots to explore. We stayed an extra night to eat at Uncle Mick's and explore town.
Date of Stay: October, 2013
The park is easy in and out, fairly level gravel sites with some grass. Has excellent BBQ and steak restaurant next door. Good place for overnight stop.
Date of Stay: September, 2010
Off-season and no kids made this campground a little sad. Not being able to get back in the campground after leaving for sightseeing was even sadder. No pool, very limited office service at this time of year. But the price was right for a one-night visit.
Date of Stay: September, 2010
Very well maintained campground, nice grass and landscaping. I felt $44 was a little steep for off season particularly when heated pools are advertised and both pools were closed. However, the Wi-Fi was free.
Date of Stay: August, 2010
We were pleasantly surprised to visit this campground. The office staff was very friendly and helpful. The park was quiet and lovely. We had to add blocks to get level, but the setting made up for the inconvenience. We decided to stay another night and enjoy the West Bend activities.
Date of Stay: August, 2010
We loved this campground. It was next to the casino, close to the pool, clean and mowed and had a walking trail. Be sure to get the security code for the back casino door. We'll be back!
Date of Stay: June, 2010
We planned a great week on the Frio with 18 other friends. Some camped in cabins and some at other RV parks. Unfortunately, when we wanted to get together at this campground or have others just pick us up for activities, Parkview insisted we pay $5.00 per car coming in and $3 per person. One friend paid $11 (overcharged) to come visit us for 30 minutes, others paid the $11 per couple to visit a couple of hours at the motorhome. We paid $18 for 6 people to come eat with us, but others were so disgusted by this time they didn't come. The staff were abrupt, rude, and very uncaring about our dilemma. Add in that the cable only gave us 5 channels, the internet was down for 2 days plus the $41 per day and this was a very expensive place to stay. We won't stay again.


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H.R.2964 - To provide clarification regarding the market name for the fish Pangasius bocourti and compliance with section 403 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, and for other purposes.107th Congress (2001-2002)
|Rep. Pickering, Charles W. "Chip" [R-MS-3] (Introduced 09/25/2001)
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Embedded Systems Software Training Center Featured by OTSL/DSR What we'll be teaching 2012 ESTC HISTORY Founded in 2011 Initiative of OTSL, Inc. and DSR Corporation Supported by VSU CS department Over 60 students signed up for the course in 2011 2 specialized lectures provided by leading specialists of Japan IPA and Nagoya University OTSL, INC. (JAPAN, NAGOYA) Founded in 2003, Nagoya Japan Headquarter in Nagoya Offices in Tokyo, Okayama, Miyazaki 40 employees Growing company Specialized in wireless communication DSR CORPORATION Founded in 1998 in USA, Denver, CO Have the development branch in Voronezh, Russia from 2004 50+ engineers Getting bigger continuously Team spirit High-qualified personnel Directions of software development: Embedded systems, Wireless networks Enterprise systems (Java, .NET) Mobile applications Web applications DSR TEAM COPYRIGHT © 2012 DSR CORPORATION 5 SOME OF OUR CLIENTS References are available upon request COPYRIGHT © 2012 DSR CORPORATION 6 AGENDA Challenges for Graduating Students What are the embedded systems? What are wireless technologies? Embedded System Development Specifics What is Software Engineering? Embedded System Training Center (ESTC) curriculum CHALLENGES FOR GRADUATING STUDENTS Graduating students have the good knowledge in computer science Mathematics Programming languages Basics computing techniques etc. But! They don't have sufficient skills and experience in Specific software development domains Software development process SOLUTION FOR STUDENTS Embedded System Training Center Specific software development domain Embedded software Wireless technologies Specific software development process Software engineering in Japan and USA WHAT ARE THE EMBEDDED SYSTEMS? Embedded systems: Computer system designed to do one or a few dedicated and/or specific functions often with real-time constraints. Embedded as part of a complete device often including hardware and mechanical parts Embedded software: Software for embedded systems Equipment (hardware) and software part of the product shall be considered together with equipment APPLICATION OF EMBEDDED SYSTEM DEVICES There are some embedded systems in every electric and mechanical systems. Automobiles, Train(Shinkansen), Aircraft, Digital Camera, Digital TV, Air-conditioner, Robot, Mobile phone, etc. CASE EXAMPLE: EMBEDDED SYSTEM USED IN CAR High-end car: More than 100 ECUs embedded in a network About 7,000,000 lines of source code http://www.lexus.jp 12 WHAT ARE WIRELESS TECHNOLOGIES? Range Proprietary Low Power Radio 1000m Gaming Computer Peripherals Audio Meter Reading Building Mgt. 100m ZigBee PRO / RF4CE Automotive Building Automation Smart Energy / Metering RC / Consumer Electronics Headsets Medical PAN 10m Telecom Computer peripherals Wi-Fi/802.11 PDA/Mobile phone PC Networking low energy Home Networking Mobile phone accessories Video Distribution UWB Gaming / HID / Remote Controls 1m Sports, medical, consumer health Data Rate 10cm RFid NFC (bps) 1k 10k 100k 1M 10M Информация от Texas Instruments COPYRIGHT © 2012 DSR CORPORATION BLUETOOTH PROTOCOL Bluetooth protocol Characteristics Range up 100 m, Piconet up to 8 devices Data Rate up to 24 mbit/sb (BT 4.0) Multi-tier, 28 profiles Applications Mobile phones (headset, dial-up, transfer of contact details, calendar appointments, etc.) Wireless devices like the mouse, keyboard, printer, camera Multimedia devices Serial port-like communication with bar code scanners, and traffic control devices. ZIGBEE PROTOCOL Characteristics: Low-cost, Low-power Range up 200 m Multi-tier, 5 profiles Applications: Home Entertainment and Control Wireless Sensor Networks Industrial control Medical data collection … EMBEDDED SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT SPECIFICS Resource constraints Cost limitations especially for the mass products Low RAM, CPU usage Time constrains (real time response). Low power consumption, operating environment (e.g. temperature), weight → Real Time OS are used Quality and Reliability Malfunction of the equipment directly related to system malfunction Higher cost of recovery system Customer expectations for equipment reliability FUN OF EMBEDDED SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT Purely algorithmic programming Direct work with hardware and OS entities, allows to understand deeply how your device works – phone, gadget, computer Our target is not tiny assembler written code, it can be even RDBMS for small devices Kind of hacking and sometimes Allows to work on variety of platforms (hardware, OS) WHAT IS SOFTWARE ENGINEERING? 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System approach Analysis Identify activities and objects Define the system boundary Consider nested systems, systems interrelationship Synthesis of solution Creation of solution for system from subcomponents solutions SOFTWARE ENGINEERING PROCESS ESSTC CURRICULUM Embedded Systems development Selected Topic of C language programming 4 lectures, 4 workshops, 1 test Real-time OS software development 4 lectures, 7 workshops, 1 test Bluetooth/ZigBee software development 2 lectures, 10 workshops, 1 test SE/PM/QA basics 6 lectures, 5 workshops, 1 test Circumstances of Japanese embedded systems industry ESSTC SCHEDULE Schedule y 2012 2013 m 9 10 11 12 1 2 3 4 5 C language selected topics real-time OS Bluetooth/ZigBee SE SE/PM/QA T est1 T est2 T est3 T est4 phase 1 phase 2 phase 3 phase 4 ESTC GROUPS Phase 1 (lectures) All who wants Phase 2 - 4 (lectures & workshops) Group of 12-15 people ESTC RESOURCES Stakeholders OTSL, Inc. 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Zack Greinke pitched 5 1-3 strong innings in his first start since April 11 and the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Washington Nationals 3-1 on Wednesday night. Greinke came off the disabled list earlier in the day, returning three weeks sooner than expected from a broken left clavicle after a confrontation with San Diego's Carlos Quentin last month. The right-hander was expected to be out eight weeks. He underwent surgery on April 13 to fix the injury with a metal plate used to stabilize the break. Greinke (2-0) made one rehab appearance last Friday for Class A Rancho Cucamonga, and the Dodgers decided he was ready to rejoin them.
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A system for and method of enhancing web page delivery and visitor tracking. The invention provides the ability to control redirection of Web traffic of humans. It can identify visitors to a Web page, track their movements, log critical information, and analyze the Web traffic in order to judge the success in driving quality traffic to some known goal on a Web site, such as a sale. The system tracks visitors via use of redirection with an image tag. The invention can also use unique image marker references to prevent browsers from accessing cached images.
1. A method of enhancing web page delivery comprising:
receiving a request for a web page content from a human visitor;
redirecting the human visitor to a web page in an existing web site;
identifying a source link from which the human visitor requests the web page content; and
tracking the human visitor across a plurality of web pages, wherein tracking is via use of redirection with an image tag.
2. The method of
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8. A method of enhancing web page delivery comprising:
receiving an incoming request from a human visitor;
maintaining unique tags for each human visitor;
determining whether the incoming request indicates a previously tagged human visitor;
creating a new tag for each new visitor, and including the new tag in return headers of a new visitor;
placing image tags on web pages identified to be tracked, wherein said image tags redirect to an invisible image; and
marking with unique image references, pages visited by the human visitor;
9. The method of
10. The method of
11. A method of tracking web site visitors comprising:
placing an image marker on a web page using an HTML image reference, wherein a URL within the HTML image reference requires a redirection to a real image file that is invisible, and wherein the URL requires a cookie to be associated with an image request;
receiving a request for web page content from the visitor;
associating a cookie and redirect image pair with a visitor to identify a visitor and log a path of the visitor through multiple web pages;
tracking the visitor using redirection and image markers.
12. The method of
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17. A method of enhancing web page delivery, comprising the steps of:
distributing URL links across the Internet, the URL links including banners, e-mails and affiliate links, wherein the URL links are created through a control engine operating on a web server;
receiving a request for a web page content, from a requestor, via one of the URL links;
identifying the requestor as a human visitor;
redirecting identified human visitors, to a web page in an existing web site, via a redirect URL;
logging redirections of the human visitors for reporting to an online marketer;
tracking movements of said human visitors across the existing web site using a return header and an invisible image tag placed on the existing website;
supplementing with additional dynamic code around the image tag to ensure that every request for the image is unique and to avoid caching image data, thereby forcing each request to be processed uniquely.
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This application is a divisional of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/845,575, filed Apr. 30, 2001, which claims priority to U.S. provisional patent application Ser. No. 60/200,205, filed Apr. 28, 2000, each of which is incorporated herein by reference.
A portion of the disclosure of this patent document contains material that is subject to copyright protection. The copyright owner has no objection to the facsimile reproduction by anyone of the patent document or the patent disclosure, as it appears in the Patent and Trademark Office patent file or records, but otherwise reserves all copyright rights whatsoever. Copyright 2006, Inceptor, Inc.
The present invention relates generally to the enhancement of Web page delivery. More specifically, the invention relates to techniques to increase visibility of Web sites, control visitor redirections, and analyze traffic. Thus, the invention has application in the field of electronic commerce.
The ability to manage and control the typical Web site has become an increasingly demanding task. This is due to the complex nature of Web sites and their use of various technologies that provide dynamic content with the aid of complex content management systems utilizing database systems. These Web sites are designed to provide the optimal experience for the human user. This is often done by using sophisticated graphics and multimedia to provide a highly visual and personalized experience for visitors. For the online marketer, all these factors provide a difficult environment for them to do their job of ensuring high visibility of their Web site, analyzing customer behavior and then acting on that behavior in a timely and responsive fashion.
From the situation described above, three primary factors for which help is required may be identified: visibility, control and analysis.
"Visibility" involves all the points of presence that a Web site provider has on the Internet that allow visitors to find links to the provider's Web site. This could include:
In each case a Universal Resource Locator (URL) or Web address is provided that allows visitors to click on and find a page within the provider's Web site.
Search engine visibility is extremely difficult as search engines typically use programs called "spiders" to visit Web sites, parse the text and then determine what terms, known as a keyphrase, best describes a provider's Web site. Such a process precludes search engines from seeing the bulk of most Web sites as they are only able to see the text on static Web pages and not the dynamic content held in databases nor the content held in graphics and multimedia. This situation leads search engines to often misrepresent or under-represent Web sites and the content they hold. To compound the problem, each search engine uses different criteria for ranking making it even more difficult to find a single page structure that appeals to them all. This also has an impact on the available number of pages that visitors doing searches could be directed to in order to find the content they are after. The visibility problem has been dealt with in the past by creating "doorway" pages for both people and search engines to enter through, but while this is a refinement of the problem it does not solve the problem as a balance between what the search engines see and what people see must still be struck.
"Control" relates to the ability, when directing visitors to a provider's Web site, to send them to the appropriate "landing point". That is, send them to the most appropriate page rather than just to the Home page of the Web site. This is often a difficult task, especially when it is desired to change the page to which to direct visitors. In some cases, this is just not possible. For example, with search engines, if a page is indexed, the URL to which visitors will be directed cannot be "changed" at all. Similar cases with varying degrees of difficulty can be made for banner advertisements, affiliate links and promotional emails.
"Analysis" is most important to judge the success of the Visibility and Control aspects of the process with respect to driving quality traffic to some known goal in a provider's Web site such as a sale for example. Thus, analysis in this case should provide the maximum amount of information between source and sale. While analysis of Web traffic is quite common, it is limited in its ability to easily identify the source of the traffic and also in how well integrated it is with the Visibility and Control aspects. Having determined successes and deficiencies, it is necessary to be able to easily and in real time make changes to the Visibility and Control aspects. If possible, some situations should be handled automatically. Existing solutions track traffic once it comes to a provider's site but only determine its source with a great deal of work and often requiring changes to the Web site to do so. These solutions have no integration with the Visibility and Control aspects.
In one aspect, the present invention is a method of enhancing web page delivery, comprising the steps of: receiving a request for a web page content from a requester; identifying the requestor as either a human visitor or a search engine spider; and redirecting identified human visitors to a web page in an existing web site. The system may, for identified search engine spiders, dynamically generate one or more web pages optimized for the particular search engine spiders, and return generated web pages to the identified search engine spider.
Different web pages may be dynamically generated depending upon the particular search engine spider identified as the requestor. Updateable templates are merged with user entered data or information stored in a catalog database to dynamically generate the one or more web sites. In another aspect, the present invention is an apparatus for practicing the methods described above.
In one aspect, the invention is a system (e.g., a method, an apparatus, and computer-executable process steps) for dynamically generating web pages for search engine spiders while redirecting human visitors to a web page in an existing web site.
Preferred embodiments of the system of the invention will now be described with reference to the accompanying drawings. The system is described below in terms of both overall methodology and a physical implementation in an actual working software application, termed the "Information Exposition and Control Engine", or more briefly "the IXC Engine". The system is intended to be integrated with technology that delivers Web pages and is invoked during the initial stages of the Web page delivery process.
A. High Level Description
The IXC Engine leverages the hypertext transfer protocols to control where a requested web page is held. Accessing a Web page typically is accomplished by the following steps:
During this interaction, the Web server may perform other actions. This may include communicating to the Web browser that the desired page no longer exists at that Web site and indicating the new location for the page. This may be a permanent or a temporary relocation. In either case, the Web browser will accept this new location and send another request for the desired page and the new location. In this scenario, the steps of accessing the desired page could comprise:
The IXC Engine uses this ability to handle requests and issue relocation responses to not only control where requests are sent, but also to generate Web page contents when needed. The remainder of this section discusses how this technique furthers the enhanced Web page delivery objective of the invention.
Note that search engine search results 18 are obtained by presenting to search engines 14 (via their spider programs) optimized virtual Web pages 16 especially tailored for each of the search engines 14. The optimized virtual Web pages 16 result in URLs that point back to IXC Engine 10 via a network such as the Internet.
IXC Engine 10 interacts (via a browser not depicted) with a customer or prospect 22 when the customer or prospect clicks on a link 24 that has been created through the IXC Engine 10 and then distributed across the Internet via Banners 26, Affiliate Links 28, search engine results 18 or E-mails 30. Whenever a customer or prospect 22 clicks on one of these links 24, they are redirected to the appropriate page on an actual web site 20.
All actions taken, whether the actions are visits by search engine spiders or redirections, are logged and reported to an Online Marketer 32 who configures the IXC Engine via graphical user interface 12. Customer or prospect 22 navigation through Online Marketer's Web site 20 can also be tracked and reported through image tags placed on each web page.
B. Lower Level Description
Below are described the primary processes of an embodiment of the invention: a main process shown in
Several definitions will aid in the description:
Main Process
Main process 201 is depicted in
Perform Action Process
The individual steps which comprise the Perform Action Process 240 are illustrated in detail
Redirect & Track Process
In this process, the appropriate redirection and tracking actions are determined and performed.
Step 470—If redirection is required, then perform "Select Redirect" process (shown in
It should be noted that using a redirect for an image allows Web site providers to place image markers on their Web site that will redirect to an invisible image but produce traceable logs indicating which pages each visitor visits. A cookie/redirect image pair can be used to identify a visitor and log the visitor's path through a Web site. The visitor is identified only by the information held in the cookie that is nothing other than a unique number.
Select Redirect Process
In this process, a detailed redirection is selected.
Optimized Dynamically Generated Page
In this process, optimized web pages for search engines are generated.
Configuring and Reporting
To assist in operating IXC Engine 10, it is necessary to have a user-friendly graphical user interface (GUI) 12 to configure the settings. For example, GUI 12 is employed in changing the redirect URL for simple redirects and the specifications for more complex redirections.
A reporting module operated through GUI 12 may report all information captured throughout the previously described processes, and access the real time state information mentioned for Active Routing. From the captured information it is possible to:
All of the information described above can be generated in simple report formats in real time to show the most up-to-date state information. Aggregation of all the data, or select portions such as groupings of traffic channels data, may be performed to provide this information on a daily, weekly or monthly basis. Consequently, a detailed "media-mix" analysis can be performed to provide accurate cost benefit analysis across all traffic channels based on cost of acquisition (e.g. cost of banner advertisements) and their value (e.g. value of each sale where a sale is marked as a conversion).
A real time tracking interface is also provided to allow selective tracking and monitoring of URLs. Monitoring allows a person, such as an online marketer 32, to see the number of visits to a particular page and if appropriate the value of the conversion.
C. Description of a Preferred Embodiment
This section includes a description of a preferred physical embodiment of the inventive system. Each of the process steps described in the previous section are not all described again, but instead some specific examples are provided in order to demonstrate in specific terms how the invention might operate.
The Plug-In
A plug-in is required when IXC Engine 10 is operating on the same Web server as the web site 20 to which it is redirecting traffic. This plug-in is needed to differentiate which requests are coming to IXC Engine 10 and which should be passed onto the Web site 20. This is determined by the URL requested. If the URL requested is one used by IXC Engine 10, then it is handled by IXC Engine 10, otherwise it is handled by the Web server as it would have normally.
A preferred deployment is to operate IXC Engine 10 on a separate dedicated Web server using a subdomain of the actual web site's domain name. That is, if the domain name used by the web site was www.inceptor.com, then the domain is inceptor.com and a subdomain could be www2.inceptor.com. Different Web servers may use subdomains of the same domain and still share cookies associated with the same domain. This is important when using cookies between web servers for the purpose of identification and ongoing tracking across those web servers.
Identifying Agents and Spiders
The ability to differentiate agents and spiders and thus identify human visitors (customers or prospects 22) is accomplished by examining the User-agent tag and the IP address of the HTTP request. Signature database 34 stores both pieces of information and accepts frequent updates to keep this data fresh. An example of an extract from signature database 34 is shown below:
Here, an AltaVista spider is recognized by its user-agent tag holding the phrases "TV36_Mercator_n2s7_A-1.0" or "TV36_Mercator_n2s7_B-1.0", or alternatively be recognizing it has an IP address between 184.108.40.206 and 188.8.131.52 or between 128.177.244 and 184.108.40.206. User-agent tags and IP addresses may also be identified explicitly to identify visitors as human and respond accordingly.
Associated Username and Password
It is also possible to take some traffic and assign it a username and password to allow it to access secure parts of a Web site. This occurs as part of the redirection process by providing the required user-id and password as used in a HTTP authentication process.
Generating Dynamic Pages
A key feature in the process of generating optimized dynamic pages, usually for search engine spiders, is the use of templates. Templates dictate how information is presented and thus what information is needed either from a database or from the provider of Web site 20 through GUI 12. Each template has placeholders for dynamic content placed in careful locations within an HTML (Hyperlink Text Markup Language) page. Some of the typical pieces of information required include:
When using templates to publish data from a database (the "hidden web"), it is also important that the database fields are mapped to the template's placeholders with any additional manipulation functions being made available. To enhance this capability, IXC Engine 10 may leverage the versatility of the Perl programming language. Perl scripts can be used in the templates to allow the greatest flexibility in adding features and manipulating data to generate the most appropriate HTML pages for each search engine.
It should also be noted that the flexible nature of the templates and their application allows for non-HTML pages to also be generated from the data provided. This may include pages of the following format:
All pages created may also be presented to non-spider traffic. For example, a Web provider could generate a WAP version and make this available to human users browsing through their mobile phones. These can be identified by the user-agent string used by WAP-browsers.
The following is an excerpt from a template:
A key feature of the IXC Engine 10 is that the templates may be updated (along with the spider signatures) automatically and remotely and that the templates drive the data requirements from both the GUI and the database perspective.
As has been outlined in the preceding part of this application, there are multiple ways that a redirection can be determined. Before covering these in detail, the redirection process itself is covered as the same mechanism is used throughout the system.
The Redirection Process
IXC Engine 10 leverages the HTML standards for Server Response Codes. To explain this process, assume that the IXC Engine 10 controls (it may or may not generate a Web page depending on its use) the URL: http://www2.example.com/offer.htm and redirects human users who request this page to: http://www.example.com/bargain.htm. To perform a redirection, IXC Engine 10 performs the following actions (it is assumed that IXC Engine 10 is operating on a Web server that handles the subdomain www2.example.com):
The definition of this particular response code, in the working model, falling within the category of "Client Request Redirected, further action necessary", is as follows: Moved Temporarily—The requested URL has moved, but only temporarily. The Location header points to the new location. Immediately after receiving this status code, the client should use the new URL to resolve the request, but the old URL should be used for all future requests.
The temporary nature of the redirection ensures that multiple accesses from the same source of traffic will always request the original URL and not cache the redirect URL. This is important, as the IXC Engine allows for the redirect URL to be changed at any time with real time effect. As soon as this URL is changed the next person to request the original URL will be redirected to the newly entered redirect URL.
This same principle is used for all redirections. What will change is how this redirect URL is determined.
Additional information can be added to the redirection URLs which can identify the source of the redirected traffic (e.g. which search engine or which email campaign). This information then enriches the weblogs stored in the web server 20 rather than only having this information stored in the IXC Engine's logs. This enhances the information stored in the standard web logs used in all web servers.
Determining Redirect URLs
Given the basic principle of redirection described above, a number of mechanisms are available for determining the redirect URL. There are essentially two classes of redirect determination tasks—static and active. Within each of these classes several approaches are available. Static approaches available include:
For Active Routing URLs, a list of static URLs are made available (entered by the administrator of the software). The available methods for determining which URL to use to redirect a visitor include:
To reinforce these descriptions, several examples are now provided for the scenarios described above.
Simple Example
For each URL provided by IXC Engine 10, a static URL is assigned. This may easily be looked up as described in Step 520.
In both examples, a URL is mapped to a redirect URL. The redirect URL exists on the actual website (these could be static or dynamic pages). The IXC URLs can have any structure so long as the correct subdomain is used.
Smart Example
In smart redirects there is a database available (this could be a text file) with multiple fields for each record. One of the fields is a primary key (unique identifying field) for the database. The same database may be used multiple times and in different ways. Each use is called a campaign. The following extract of a database is used in the example (only a portion of the Description fields are shown). Note that the field ISBN is the primary key—it is a unique identifier for each record.
For each campaign, a mechanism for generating the IXC URL (from the data available) is set. This is constructed by choosing which fields from the database to use in the URL structure. For example, if we select the fields: Title and Surname, the IXC URLs would look as follows:
Next, each of the records using a simple redirect must have a redirect URL generated dynamically for them. This is accomplished by specifying three components that will make up the redirect URL: Stem, Primary Key, Tail. The following is an example of such a specification.
This would generate the following URLs for the above examples:
Using the Simple Redirect approach has wide use for systems that utilize the primary key to generate a dynamic page.
Advanced Redirect
The advanced redirect mechanism uses the same process for generating the IXC URL, but uses a much more sophisticated process to generate the redirect URL. It has two parts: the Match Path and the Redirect Specification. The Match Path matches the incoming URL that is, the IXC URL. This allows extensive use of the IXC URL as it can have additional information added to it and then incorporated into the redirect URL. Both use the Perl protocol for specifying a regular expression for the Match Path and the redirect specification.
Multiple Matching Paths may be specified. The first one that matches will then have its redirect specification enacted to generate the redirect URL. Should no Matching Path match the IXC URL, a default URL will be used.
The following example shows how the Advanced Redirect can be used.
In the first example, a match will occur whenever a URL has "Wright" in the midst of the IXC URL. This will then cause a Redirect URL to be generated using Author's surname that comes from the database entry for that record (the correct record is chosen based on the primary key information held in the IXC URL).
In the second example, the match is made with any IXC URL and the Redirect URL is generated by using the information held in the IXC URL. In this case, the second matching component (the part preceding the ".htm") is used to build up this URL.
These two examples show some simple uses of the database and matching components in building up a Redirect URL.
Random Redirect Selection Example
In selecting an Active Routing URL through Random selection, a list of static URLs is specified as follows. The following static URLs are assigned for the defined active URL www2.example.com/active/offers.htm:
Whenever any visitor clicks on the URL http://www2.example.com/active/offers.htm, (This URL may be embedded in a banner advertisement, affiliate link, email or a search engine result) they will be taken to one of the three "offer" URLs within the www.example.com website—chosen at random.
Round Robin Example
Using the example shown in the Random Example, if Round Robin were used, each visitor using the URL would be sent to the next URL in the list. The following table shows an example of redirections that would occur for the first 5 visitors to the URL http://www2.example.com/active/offers.htm:
Successful Conversion (Threshold Bound) Example
In this example, a list of static URLs (use the previous example's list) is appended with a threshold value and a page marker (described in a later section) that indicates a successful conversion. A successful conversion therefore, is a visitor clicking through this URL (http://www2.example.com/active/offers.htm) and (during the same online session) arriving at the indicated page.
In this example, a threshold of "3" is set, and a selected page is marked. Since either Random or Round Robin may be used to select the next Redirect URL initially, it is assumed that Round Robin has been selected. If the selected page is reached by any visitors, a counter is updated for that redirect URL. The following table shows an example of some interactions. For ease of depiction, the Redirect URLs are abbreviated as follows: "http://www.example.com/testoffers/offer1.htm" is depicted by "offer1.htm". Also, "counter1" will signify the counter associated with offer1.htm, "counter2" will signify the counter associated with offer2.htm, and so on.
Visitor 7 converting takes the counter for offer1.htm over the threshold "3" and hence all subsequent visitors are taken to offer1.htm.
Successful Conversion (Time Bound) Example
In this example, conversion works identically to conversion as in the previous example, except that instead of tracking a threshold, at a certain time the offer with the highest counter is selected for all subsequent redirects. Using the same example as above, we set the artificial time for the decision to be 12 noon.
The only difference in this case is that the highest counter is chosen at a given time rather than a threshold value.
Target Limited Example
In this example, each redirect URL has an associated threshold associated with it. As in the previous examples, a counter is updated for each successful conversion. Once the threshold has been reached for a particular URL, no further redirects are sent to it.
The following test data is used (based on previous examples):
Using this test data and assuming Round Robin is used to select from available redirect URLs and similar schemes for counter maintenance, these results follow:
As demonstrated in this example, after visitor 7, offer1.htm is no longer used as it has reached its threshold value and is no longer valid.
Date Restrictions
This example demonstrates how date or time restrictions can influence which Redirect URLs are selected. For each redirect URL, a valid date range must be used. This shown in the following table:
Using this test data (assuming Round Robin for multiple valid choice selection) these results follow:
This example demonstrates that only offers valid for the visitor's visit date are selected. For dates outside of all the valid date ranges, a default Redirect URL ("offers.htm") is used for all Redirect URLs.
Tracking uses Redirection and cookies to track visitors through a Web site. This is accomplished by placing an image on a page that needs to be tracked. The image is placed using a standard HTML image reference, and could look as follows:
The URL used is an IXC URL that will require a Simple Redirection to a real GIF file that is in fact invisible. The IXC URL is classified internally as a tracking URL and thus requires a cookie to be associated with the IMG request. If no cookie is supplied then one is allocated. Note the following with respect to cookies:
The cookies are also allocated whenever any visitor uses any of the IXC URLs. This allows the identification of the initial source of a visitor assuming that an IXC URL is used for each of the sources of visitor traffic: Search Results, Banner Advertisements, Affiliate Links, Email campaigns. Visitor traffic that arrives directly at the actual website will have a source identification of the first tracking IXC URL that it comes across—this identifies where the visitor was first noticed.
With the trackers in place, visitor traffic can be reported on with the following information:
Reporting on the above statistics and metrics using these facts are created. Additional information can be gathered and reported on and is covered in a later section.
Cache Busting
To speed up downloads many Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and businesses use caching. Caching stores pages accessed by persons connected via their Internet services so that persons accessing the same page may use a local copy rather than getting a new copy of the page directly from the issuing Web site. This can cause problems with the image markers used in tracking as cached image references will not access the IXC Engine to access the marker and hence will not update the IXC logs.
To circumvent this problem, advanced markers are employed which use Java-script to generate what appears to be a unique marker reference for each access of the markers. This is done by appending a timestamp, which is ignored by the IXC Engine, but seen by the caching software as a unique URL. An example of the Java-script code is shown below:
Tracking with Additional Information
As was shown in the previous section, additional information may be passed with the image references. In the previous case, it was either a timestamp or simply a note to indicate that Java-script was not available—"?js=no". This information is logged and if needed reported.
Information that is useful to gather includes the value of conversions mentioned in previous sections. This is done by including a reference to the value variable (stored in the IXC Engine for reference) and then the value of the conversion.
A simpler image reference example (the more complex Java-script code is amended in a similar way) could appear:
In this example, the variable stored within the IXC Engine "value" and the variable found on the tagged web page is "% ordervalue". This "% ordervalue" variable is part of the web page that has been marked and will be replaced by the value it holds when the marked web page is generated.
Reporting on Additional Information
As well as the content provided via the markers, other information is also sent along in the logging process. Most importantly, the referring URL is logged. This is the URL used to generate the web page that the marker has been placed on. The following is an example of such a URL:
This information can be processed in reports to enhance the data being shown in the clickpath. If merged with external data (e.g. product descriptions) it could add much more meaning to reports and allow different reporting views.
Tracking Retention E-Mail Traffic
For web traffic generated through retention email, it is possible to track with more detail. An email campaign is the result of creating an email template that has several URLs embedded in the message. The objective is to get existing customers, who have supplied their email address and given their consent to be sent email offers, to click on these URLs and perform some action (e.g. purchase, signup etc).
To allow more detailed tracking, each email that is sent can have an identifier built into its URLs that identifies the recipient of the email. With this information, the source of the traffic can be identified to the recipient of the email allowing reporting to not only show whether the email campaign was successful for each recipient, but also allowing more detailed tracking of what each recipient does on the web site.
This information can then be used to refine subsequent email campaigns by taking into account recipients actions to previous email campaigns.
Other embodiments of the invention will be apparent to those skilled in the art from a consideration of the specification or practice of the invention disclosed herein. It is intended that the specification and examples be considered as exemplary only, with the true scope and spirit of the invention being indicated by the following claims.
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Pfizer's Malaria Platform: Closing the Malaria Treatment Gap September 2007 Background Building on its decades of philanthropic contributions in Africa, a strong R&D portfolio and the commitment of its talented staff in key African markets, the company is committed to help close the malaria treatment gap in Sub-Saharan Africa. Malaria is the leading cause of under-five mortality and constitutes 10% of the continent's overall disease burden. During the last five years, new money, medicines and energy have been directed toward this killer disease. But even with such momentum, critical gaps in treating specific population groups and delivering medicines remain. Pfizer's is committed to addressing these gaps through science, medicines, funds, partnerships and the involvement of its people around the globe. The collaboration of Pfizer's Africa and Middle Medicines Provision of new and existing therapies for East region (AfME), the Global R&D treatment and prevention • Camoquin® organization, and Philanthropy, has resulted in a • Camoquin-Plus® • Metakelfin® platform that features three core elements: the • Metakelfin-Plus® • Dualkin® launch of new anti-malarial medicines, Pfizer • Pfizer-owned, Africa operated Malaria manufacturing facilities in Dakar investment in R&D to develop needed drugs for Platform • Significant distribution capability pregnant women and infants and a new access initiative that attempts to increase patient Innovation Partnership • Collaboration with TDR: Piloting complementary malaria awareness of and access to effective use of compound screening • Development of current malaria treatment programs in Kenya, Ghana and Senegal antimalarials in Senegal, Ghana and Kenya. pipeline - Zithromax® / Chloroquine • Patient education and messaging Phase III trial • Shopkeeper training - Malaria R&D Program The company's malaria platform continues the company's commitment to corporate social responsibility in Africa but also recognizes that the most powerful engagement exists when business and social imperatives overlap and the critical elements of existing medicines, R&D and partnership strategy are combined. This platform capitalizes on learnings and relationships from its long-running philanthropic programs on the continent such as the Diflucan Partnership Program and the International Trachoma Initiative and the partnerships the company has formed with Ministries of Health, US and foreign governments, NGOs, multilateral organizations and the private sector. The Three Elements of the Pfizer Malaria Platform 1. Medicines: Launch of new anti-malarial drugs. Pfizer's existing and new products (Metakelfin®, Camoquin® and Dualkin®) are essential to the successful fight against malaria in Africa and central to Pfizer's business strategy in the region. These two drugs are important products to Pfizer's business as they are often the largest contributor to Pfizer sales in many countries in Sub-Saharan Africa (with the exception of South Africa) and are expected to grow significantly in the future with the addition of artesunate. In addition, Pfizer has launched a new combination medicine to help fill an immediate critical need. In response to an appeal by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Global Fund for AIDS, TB and Malaria (GFATM) for Artemisinin Combination Therapy (ACT), it is timely that Pfizer has in-licensed an artesunate compound to create a branded ACT, Camoquin®-Plus (Artesunate-Amodiaquin). Page 1 of 3 To deliver these medicines, Pfizer is uniquely positioned on the continent given its established presence in Dakar, Senegal. With its 25-year history in malaria, Pfizer Senegal's Dakar plant has not only manufacturing capability for malaria products but unparalleled distribution capacity on the continent. 2. Innovation: Investment in R&D to develop drug that meet unmet needs. The combination of Zithromax®/Chloroquine has advanced into Phase III trials for treatment of uncomplicated malaria. In consultation with global stakeholders, Pfizer has identified that the greatest need for this combination is for Intermittent Preventive Therapy (IPT) in pregnant women, infants and children under five.1, This need arises due to increased resistance and safety concerns with existing drugs and an absence of drugs for IPT in the global malaria R&D pipeline. Future clinical studies will focus on developing the azithromycin/chloroquine combination in these target populations. Pfizer is also collaborating with the World Health Organization and the Special Programme for Research in Tropical Diseases (WHO/TDR) to target malaria and other neglected diseases by giving TDR access to Pfizer's library of medicinal compounds and also bringing scientists from developing countries into Pfizer's labs for training in drug discovery techniques. 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As a result, Pfizer's Mobilize Against Malaria initiative will seek to achieve the following objectives: Promote early malaria symptom recognition by providers and patients Increase the number of patients receiving prompt and appropriate malaria treatment Strengthen effective malaria treatment and referral Enhance the effectiveness of the private and public sectors in the delivery of appropriate treatment for malaria In partnership with Pfizer's global evaluation team from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, each pilot intervention has been designed to reduce the rate of malaria morbidity and mortality by improving malaria symptom recognition, treatment and referral through: 1) targeted training activities to improve the quality of treatment and 2) complementary community mobilization campaigns to better support patients and strengthen the demand for quality care. 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Katelyn Trevino took home the Big 12 floor title.
March 24, 2012
Norman, Okla.--No. 19 Mizzou Gymnastics finished in a tie for second place in the Big 12 Championships on Saturday (March 24). Oklahoma took the Championship title with a 197.475 score, while the Tigers and the Cyclones scored 196.025 scores. This is the first second place finish at the Big 12 Championships for the Tigers in Big 12 Conference history. The last time Mizzou earned a second place finish at a conference tournament was in 1990, when Missouri was a part of the Big Eight. Also adding to the record books, Katelyn Trevino earned her first floor title this season to become the Big 12 Floor Champion.
At the conclusion of the meet, two Tigers were recognized for their efforts this season. Senior Mary Burke was named Big 12 Gymnast of the year, becoming the second gymnast in Mizzou history to receive the honor. Former Tiger Sarah Shire was named Big 12 Gymnast of the Year in 2009 and 2010. Freshman Rachel Updike was also recognized as she was named Big 12 Newcomer of the Year. Updike earned nine Big 12 Newcomer of the Week awards throughout the season, and she becomes the fourth Tiger to receive the award.
Updike finished the meet with a 39.400 all-around score to take second at the meet, while Burke scored 39.235 to finish in fourth.
The Tigers started the meet on bars, putting up a team total of 49.000. The Sooners took an early lead in the meet, earning a 49.225 on vault in the first rotation. Mackenzie McGill was the lead-off competitor for the Tigers, and she started the rotation strong with a 9.725 score. Katelyn Trevino also put up a 9.725 on her bar routine, followed by Taylor Medrea who scored 9.775. Updike competed bars for the second time this season, posting a 9.800 score, and Burke recorded a 9.875 for her routine. Heizelman was the final competitor in the lineup and she scored a 9.825 to contribute to the team score.
Iowa State pulled ahead of the Tigers in the second rotation with a season-high 49.200 on the bars, as the Tigers posted a 48.900 on the balance beam. Burke and Updike led the Tigers through beam, recording 9.850 scores on their routines. Howard performed a solid routine to score a 9.800, while both Medrea and Laura Kappler put up 9.700 scores.
The Tigers put up a 49.125 on floor to edge closer to second place. Trevino matched her career-high score on floor with a 9.900 to lead the Tigers through the rotation and become the Big 12 Floor Champion. Updike also put on a good routine, earning a 9.875, while Howard's energetic performance received a 9.825 score. Updike's score earned her a tie for second on the event. Medrea was in the lead-off spot and scored a 9.775 while Burke posted a 9.750 score. After the third rotation, Oklahoma led the meet with a 148.175 followed by Iowa State who scored 147.175. The Tigers were in third with a team score of 147.025.
Mizzou closed out the Big 12 Championship on vault, earning a 49.000 team total. Updike stood out for Mizzou, posting a 9.875 score which tied her for second on the event. Burke posted a 9.850 on vault, and Kelsy Landreth contributed to the team total with a 9.825. Trevino recorded a 9.750 on the event, and Howard put up a 9.700 score as well.
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This stylish women's pre-owned Rolex Datejust watch features a high-grade stainless steel case with a matching 18-karat gold two-tone oyster bracelet. The champagne dial is home to factory hands, diamond hour markers and a date window at 3 o'clock.
ITEM#: 14946279This stylish women's pre-owned Rolex Datejust watch features a high-grade stainless steel case with a matching 18-karat gold two-tone oyster bracelet. The champagne dial is home to factory hands, diamond hour markers and a date window at 3 o'clock.
- Case: High-grade stainless steel
- Caseback: High-grade stainless steel, screw-down
- Bezel: 18-karat yellow gold fluted bezel
- Dial: OS champagne
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- Calendar: Date display at 3 o'clock
- Bracelet: 18-karat yellow gold and stainless steel oyster
- Clasp: Stainless steel folding clasp
- Crystal: Plastic
- Crown: 18-karat yellow gold screw-down
- Movement: 29 jewel automatic quickset movement
- Water resistance: 10 ATM/100 meters/330 feet
- Case measurements: 26 mm D x 11 mm T
- Bracelet measurements: 13 mm W x 6.5 inches L
- Box measurements: 13 inches wide x 18 inches long x 3 inches high
- Model: 69173
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Police used tear gas and nightsticks to clear away protesters Tuesday as thousands of Libyans rallied outside the U.N. building and the British Embassy demanding freedom for the man convicted in the Lockerbie trial.
A crowd of protesters outside the U.N. building scene of demonstrations ever since the Jan. 31 verdict carried a coffin emblazoned "American civilization means killing children," symbolizing the victims of a 1986 U.S. raid on Libya.
Some fought security guards in an attempt to get into the U.N. building. At least seven people who managed to jump over the fence were arrested.
A squad of 120 police reinforcements tried to disperse the crowd with tear gas. The protesters hurled stones at the police, who used nightsticks to clear the street in front of the building.
Thousands of other protesters also converged on the British Embassy, which was reopened after Libya surrendered the Lockerbie suspects. Police formed a ring around the building to keep protesters away.
In both demonstrations, protesters burned American flags and chanted slogans such as "To hell again with America and Britain!" and "We will not forget our martyrs!"
Libyan intelligence agent Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi was convicted by a Scottish court and sentenced him to life in prison for planting the bomb that destroyed Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988.
His co-defendant, Lameen Khalifa Fhimah, was acquitted last week in the bombing that killed 270 people.
Libyan officials have accused the West of disregarding the 37 people killed in U.S. airstrikes on Libya in 1986, including the adopted daughter of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi.
The United States and Britain pressed for the Libyans' trial, and the United Nations played a central role in the negotiations that led to the suspects' handover in 1999. They were tried by a special Scottish court on Dutch soil.
A banner outside the building read: "Abdel-Basset is a kidnapped hostage. Where are human rights?"
State-run television interrupted its regular programming to broadcast the protests with a subtitle saying: "Demonstrations of anger throughout the towns and villages of the great republic, demanding the release of the hostage, Libyan citizen Abdel-Basset."Copyright © 2015, Los Angeles Times


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from sets import Set
names = Set(["Alice","Bob","Charles"])
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The removeNames in the Test class takes java.util.Set as parameter. And after running the script, I got a TypeError:
TypeError: removeNames(): 1st arg can't be coerced to java.util.Set
I tried to use java.util.Set in my jython script and it worked. However, I just wonder is there a way for the java method to recognize jython object??