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Bo Lu

Vishal Vikram Ghotge

Sushil Kumar

Christian Bøgh Jensen

Joseph A Porkka

Bartosz Henryk Paliswiat

Raghavendra Malpani

Karl Petter Karlsson

Shuhua Liu

Jun Du

A lightning protective and heating porcelain tile includes a porcelain tile layer, a shell, a metal plate protective layer, and an electric heating film heating layer. The metal plate protective layer is attached to the inner wall of the porcelain tile layer, and the electric heating film heating layer is attached to the metal plate protective layer. The electric heating film heating layer includes an electric heating film, a first lightning protective module and a second lightning protective module. The hot wire and neutral wire connected to the electric heating film are electrically connected to the first lightning protective module and the second lightning protective module, respectively. The first lightning protective module and the second lightning protective module are electrically connected to the metal plate protective layer individually. The first lightning protective module and the second lightning protective module are made of varistors.

Lightning protective and electric heating porcelain tile and preparation method thereof

Retrieving content items based on a social distance between a user and content providers. The social distance is determined based on, for example, user interaction with the content providers. The content providers are ranked, for the user, based on the determined social distance. Prior to a request from the user, the content items are pre-fetched based on the ranked content providers and constraints such as storage space, bandwidth, and battery power level of a computing device of the user. In some embodiments, additional content items are retrieved, or retrieved content items are deleted, as a variable-size cache on the computing device fills or changes size.

Pre-fetching content items based on social distance

Targeted advertisements to social contacts is described. In embodiment(s), social contacts can be correlated based on messaging interactions between mobile communication devices that are associated with the social contacts. Feedback about an advertisement can be received from mobile communication devices that are associated with the social contacts, and the advertisement can then be targeted to one or more of the social contacts based on the feedback about the advertisement.

Targeted advertisements to social contacts

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