The method of collecting submarine resources is practised by a collecting vessel provided with a pair of buckets which are adapted to be raised or lowered alternately. The vessel is steered so that a meandering wake is formed, and for every passage of the vessel around the turning point of the meandering wake, one of the buckets is lowered from the vessel toward the bottom of a river or sea and concurrently the other bucket is raised from the bottom to the vessel. While one of the buckets is on ...

A method for the recovery of mineral resources, such as metallic minerals, petroleum, etc., from solid materials, such as subsurface earth formations, including; partially burning a hydrogen-containing fuel in the presence of an oxidizing agent under conditions to produce partial oxidation products, such as alcohols, hydrogen peroxide, aldehydes, ketones, etc., terminating the burning to prevent decomposition of the partial oxidation products and contacting the solid materials with the partial o...

A network includes digital computers, resources such as disk drives, printers and modems or disk files, file records or tasks, and a communications channel permitting data transfer between each digital computer and the resources. The function of mediating conflicting demands for network resources is distributed among the digital computers. A file server or other storage device connected to the communications channel contains an access log. Each digital computer accesses a required resource by fi...

The present invention comprises a method of mining a solid substance, such as coal, minerals, or the like, from an underground deposit in one of a plurality of earth strata. Void areas are created in the deposit so as to generally define an area within the deposit which is to be enclosed. Plugging material is injected into the void areas to form a relatively impervious barrier enclosing the aforementioned area of the deposit and isolating it from the remainder of the earth strata in which it is ...

A LOCATE search dynamically locates resources (e.g., logical units (LUs) and transaction program and files associated with LUs) in a computer network so that a session can be established between the origin and the destination of the search. In a network which includes end nodes associated with server nodes, a resource contained in any node is located by a requesting node. The requesting node initiates a search of the resources residing within itself. If the resource does not reside in the reques...

This invention is a system for recovering resources from sludge in which sludge including water of 90 to 70 percent is first supplied to a sludge concentrator invented by the inventor through a forced supply equipment where the sludge is concentrated to have water content up to about 60 percent; then is sent to a drying furnace having a fluidized sand bed. A product yielded in the said drying furnace is separated to gas and solid. After the separated gas is pressurized by a fan and is heated by ...

A computer system provides registration of resource for synchronization point processing. Resources include file systems, data bases, and protected conversations. A resource becomes protected by the system when it is registered in the application's execution environment. The execution environment includes but is not exclusive to the interactive environment. Accordingly the invention provides an efficient and uniform method for identification of protected resources. The registration facility is s...

A system for allocating resources having a first mechanism for receiving a collection of input parameters and a second mechanism for processing data in accordance with the input parameters. The second mechanism includes a third mechanism for generating a collection of asset schedules, a fourth mechanism for providing a random set of combinations of asset schedules and a fifth mechanism for providing a set of asset allocation schedules. Finally, a sixth mechanism is provided for allocating resour...

A control network for allocating resources (i.e. making routing decisions) in an associated telecommunications network is disclosed. Illustratively, the control network comprises a group of processors arranged in a ring. A database containing information about the exact state of the telecommunications network circulates in a ring-like control network. When an originating switching office in the telecommuncations network wishes to set-up a connection, it seizes one of the processors in the contro...

Device for processing telephonic signals for putting in communication a plurality of subscribers by means of a telephone exchange employing circuits on cards of subscribers, comprising digital signal processing devices adapted to create filtering functions for the purpose of connecting the subscribers to one another, characterized in that it comprises, associated with said telephone exchange, at least two digital signal processing devices (15, 16) common to a plurality of lines of subscribers (1...