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International Business Machines Corporation

James P Janniello

Jeffrey Haskell Derby

Boon-Lock Yeo

Marc Adam Kaplan

Israel Cidon

Kenneth Harvey Potter, Jr

Inder Sarat Gopal

Shay Kutten

John G Dudley

William Edward Pence, Iv

Jeane S Chen

David William Davenport

Francis R Koperda

A device for converting a container into an insect trap. A device opening is configured to allow an insect to enter an interior cavity of the container and configured to prevent the insect from exiting the interior cavity of the container using a unidirectional barrier.

Insect trap

Methods, systems, and apparatus for configuring a bed frame are described. Biometric information corresponding to a user is obtained. A bed frame configuration is determined based on the biometric information and the bed frame is configured based on the determined bed frame configuration and the biometric information.

Methods, systems, and apparatus for an adjustable bed frame based on biometric information

Methods, systems, and apparatus for a speed regulator. A casing comprises a plurality of flat shutters, the casing configured to protrude in an extended configuration and to lay flat in a retracted configuration. A plurality of plates are configured to rotate between the extended configuration and the retracted configuration, and configured to configure the plurality of shutters in the extended configuration and the retracted configuration.

Intelligent speed regulator

A candlewick includes a flotation device, a wick, and a bracket configured to position a first portion of the wick above a waterline of the flotation device and to position a second portion of the wick below a waterline of the flotation device.

Floating wick

Methods, systems, and apparatus for controlling a speed regulator are described. A monitor detects a speed of a vehicle. A speed regulator controller retracts the speed regulator from an extended configuration to a retracted configuration based on the detected speed in response to the vehicle traveling at a speed less than a defined speed, the speed regulator being configurable to extend and retract.

Methods, systems, and apparatus for an intelligent protective drone are described. The aeronautical drone comprises an environmental protective shield that provides protection from environmental elements. An image of an environment near the aeronautical drone is captured and processed to identify a target entity. A geographic location of an effective protective area provided by the environmental protective shield is identified and a location for the aeronautical drone is determined that places the target entity within the effective protective area.

Intelligent protective drone

Methods, systems, and apparatus for an intelligent protective drone are described. The intelligent protective drone comprises an environmental protective shield that provides protection from environmental elements. An image of an environment near the aeronautical drone is captured and processed to identify a target entity. A geographical location of an effective protective area provided by the environmental protective shield is identified and a location for the aeronautical drone is determined that places the target entity within the effective protective area.

A monitor detects a speed of a vehicle for controlling a speed regulator. A speed regulator controller configures a speed regulator based on the detected speed, the speed regulator being configurable to inflate to an extended configuration and deflate to a retracted configuration, the speed regulator controller configured to inflate the speed regulator to the extended configuration in a first mode and to deflate the speed regulator to the retracted configuration in the first mode based on the detected speed.

An apparatus and method of controlling instruction execution in the apparatus with a precise temporal execution arrangement. The apparatus may be a processor or microprocessor capable of executing a function specific wait state that is dependant upon a type specified by an instruction field. The processor includes a reference clock counter that maintains the wait count, an instruction parser that strips the wait type and count from instructions and passes the stripped information to a comparator. The comparator compares the stripped information against the wait count. The wait types include: a relative timestamp type indicating execution at some time subsequent to the present cycle; a direct timestamp type indicating an absolute time for execution; and a timestamp range indicating a time period when execution is valid.

System and method for temporally controlling instruction execution

An apparatus and method of synchronizing instruction execution in the apparatus with external events. The apparatus may be a processor or microprocessor capable of executing a function specific wait state that is dependant upon a type specified by an instruction field. The processor includes an event counter that maintains an event occurrence count, an instruction parser that strips the instruction type and event count from instructions and passes the stripped information to a comparator. The comparator compares the stripped information against an event count. The instruction types include: a relative type indicating execution at some event occurrence subsequent to the present cycle; a direct type indicating an absolute event occurrence count for execution; and a event range indicating a range of event occurrences wherein execution is valid.

System and method for synchronizing instruction execution with external events

A packet communications system provides for point-to-point packet routing and multicast packet routing to limited subsets of nodes in the network, using a routing field in the packet header which is processed according to two different protocols. A third protocol is provided in which a packet can be multicast to the limited subset even when launched from a node which is not a member of the subset. The routing field includes a first portion which contains the route labels necessary to deliver the packet to the multicast subset. A second portion of the routing field contains the multicast subset identifier which can then be used to deliver the packet to all of the members of the multicast subset. Provision is made to backtrack deliver the packet to the last node identified before the multicast subset if that last node is itself a member of the subset.

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Sarasota, FL, United States of America

James P Janniello