General Electric Company

At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p.

At+t Corp.

Diamond Innovations. Inc.

Bin Wei

Yih-Farn Robin Chen

Rittwik Jana

Bernard S Renger

Serban Jora

Michael Scott Lamphere

Hsin-Pang Wang

David Crawford Gibbon

Andrew Lee Trimmer

Ching-Pang Lee

Ronald Scott Bunker

Yuanfeng Luo

Huale Huang

Giuseppe Di Fabbrizio

Robert Alan Johnson

Renwei Yuan

Ping-Fai Yang

Hailong Sun

John Peter Fura

Lawrence Bernard Kool

Jeffrey Francis Wessels

Daniel Leon Stern

Sam John

Behzad Shahraray

Zhu Liu

Nicholas Joseph Kray

Bernard Patrick Bewlay

Benjamin Paul Lacy

William Thomas Carter

Bruce Alan Knudsen

Don Mark Lipkin

Yong Yang

Steven Robert Hayashi

Dennis Michael Gray

John Broddus Deaton, Jr

Stephen Joseph Ferrigno

Ralph James Carl, Jr

Yennun Huang

Joshua L Miller

Martin Kin-Fei Lee

Wei Li

Chen-Yu Jack Chou

Xiaobin Chen

Jonathan Sebastian Janssen

Zirong Zhai

Leo Spitz MacDonald

Yingna Wu

Dalong Zhong

Lee Begeja

Andrea Basso

Mark Gilbert Benz

Gary Michael Itzel

Jon Conrad Schaeffer

Michael Rabinovich

James Anthony Ruud

Marshall Gordon Jones

Amy Ruth Reibman

Wayne Charles Hasz

Kevin Matthew Durocher

Thomas Bert Gorczyca

Weiping Wang

Robert John Filkins

Peng Li

Thomas James Batzinger

Yong Wu

Lin Zhong

Ann Melinda Ritter

Renato Guida

Thomas Robert Raber

Gary Charles Liotta

Colin Richard Wilson

John Francis Nolan

Ernest Wayne Balch

Prabhjot Singh

Kevin Leon Bruce

Zhen Xiao

Warren Davis Grossklaus, Jr

Yanzhe Yang

Mark Alan Rosenzweig

Wilbur Douglas Scheidt

Lyle Timothy Rasch

Todd Joseph Fischer

Kathleen Blanche Morey

Pinghai Yang

Raymond J Jones

Wenwu Zhang

Youdong Zhou

John Robert LaGraff

Yimin Zhan

Ming Jia

Raul Basilio Rebak

Carl Stephen Lester

Mark Joseph Gleason

Francis Lawrence Kirkpatrick

David John Grubish

Martin Kinfei Lee

Kelvin Wang

Hongtao Li

Jane Marie Lipkin

The present invention relates to an additive manufacturing system and its methods. The system includes a material conveyor, an energy source, and a micro-forging device. The material conveyor is configured to convey material. The energy source is configured to direct an energy beam toward the material, the energy beam fuses at least a portion of the material to form a solidified portion. The micro-forging device is movable along with the material conveyor for forging the solidified portion, wherein the micro-forging device comprises a first forging hammer and a second forging hammer, the first forging hammer is configured to impact the solidified portion to generate a first deformation, and the second forging hammer is configured to impact the solidified portion to generate a second deformation greater than the first deformation.

Composite forming system combining additive manufacturing and forging and methods for same

An additive manufacturing system, comprises an energy source device for providing a first energy beam and a second energy beam; and a forging device comprising a forging head. The first energy beam and a substrate are configured to move relative to each other to fuse at least a portion of a material added to the surface of the substrate for forming a cladding layer on the substrate. The forging head is configured to forge the cladding layer during formation of the cladding layer. The second energy beam is configured to heat a forging area of the cladding layer.

Additive manufacturing system and method

A system is configured for machining a workpiece (), the workpiece includes an interior surface () that defines an internal passage (). The system includes an electrode () located within the internal passage and electrically isolated from the workpiece, an electrolyte supply, a power supply, and a remover. The electrolyte supply is configured for circulating an electrolyte in a gap between the electrode and the workpiece. The power supply is configured for applying a voltage between the electrode and the workpiece to facilitate smoothing the interior surface. The remover is configured for completely removing the electrode from within the internal passage after smoothing the interior surface.

System and method for machining workpiece and article machined therefrom

An electrode applied in electro-machining processes, where the electrode includes a main body portion and at least one built-in internal flushing passage for introducing a flushing liquid to a volume between the electrode and a workpiece to be machined. The electrode is made by an additive fabrication process that enables specialized flushing for enhancing waste material evacuation and incorporate special material properties like zones of high electrical conductivity and thermal resistance. The fabrication process produces materials and geometries that could not otherwise be made using conventional processing.

Electrode and method for manufacturing the same

A video-on-demand (VOD) server in an Internet protocol television (IPTV) network with a network of set-top boxes includes IPTV operational data and an analysis module that selects a content item. The VOD server divides the content item into sequential chunks, divides the chunks into stripes, pre-populates set-top boxes in a peering network with at least one stripe from each chunk, receives a request for the content item, and directs each set-top box to sequentially stream its stripes. A method includes selecting a content item based upon IPTV operational data, dividing the content item into sequential chunks, dividing the chunks into stripes, pre-populating set-top boxes in a peering network with at least one stripe from each chunk, receiving a request for the content item, and directing each set-top box to sequentially stream its stripes.

Analyzing internet protocol television data to support peer-assisted video-on-demand content delivery

A mobile multimedia content aggregation and dissemination platform is provided that aims to automate the creation, collection, aggregation, and dissemination of RSS and non-RSS information for and to interested parties. This platform may be used for the construction of a personalized blogging agent as well as for a personalized news aggregator.

System and method of providing a context-aware personalized blogging agent

A method and apparatus for processing at least one information feed are disclosed. For example, the method receives at least one content via at least one automated feed. The method associates the at least one content to one or more geographical locations on a map, wherein the one or more geographical locations are determined from the at least one content. The method then presents an access to the at least one content to a user via the map.

Method and apparatus for providing geospatial and temporal navigation

A layered syndicated feed or content is provided having layers defined according to a media type (e.g., text, graphic, audio, or video) wherein each layer has a plurality of levels such that each level provides either inclusive or exclusive content of the layer's media type in varying degrees of detail or depth. Furthermore, a system is provided for requesting and storing user and mobile device profiles indicative of the syndicated content layers and levels that the user is interested in receiving and that the user's mobile device is capable of receiving.

Method for creating and providing layered syndicated data for multimedia content to users

A plurality of portions of a video content item is distributed to a plurality of peers, respectively, of a peer-to-peer network. Each of the plurality of portions encodes less than an entire portion of the video content item. A peer of the network retrieves at least a subset of the plurality of portions of the video content item from at least a subset of the peers. The at least the subset of the plurality of portions of the video content item enables recovery of the video content item by the peer.

Peer-to-peer distributed storage for internet protocol television

An electro discharge machining apparatus comprises an electrode configured to machine a desired feature in a workpiece, a pulse generator configured to energize the electrode and the workpiece to opposite electrical polarities, a machining solution source configured to pass a machining solution between the electrode and the workpiece, and a servomotor configured to drive the electrode to move relative to the workpiece. The electro discharge machining apparatus further comprises at least one detection element configured to detect machining signals, and a controller. The controller controls the pulse generator and the servomotor to machine the workpiece according to a plurality of first process parameters predetermined therein and analyzes the detected machining signals to generate a first response signal to activate a plurality of second process parameters predetermined therein and different from the first process parameters to machine the workpiece. An electro discharge machining method is also presented.

Electro discharge machining apparatus and method

Titanium-containing articles having improved surface finishes and methods for changing the surface of titanium containing articles, for example by removing overstock, are provided. One example method includes passing a fluid at high pressure across a surface of an titanium aluminide alloy-containing article, for example, a turbine blade, at high linear speed and deforming the surface of the titanium aluminide alloy-containing article, and removing material from the surface of the titanium aluminide alloy-containing article. Though aspects of the invention can be used in fabricating high performance turbine blades, the methods disclosed can be applied to the treatment of any titanium-containing article for which it is difficult to obtain an improved surface finish.

Titanium aluminide article with improved surface finish

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