A system for recovering resources from sludge in which sludge containing water in the amount of 90 to 70 percent is first supplied to a sludge concentrator through a forced supply equipment where the sludge is concentrated to contain a water content of a maximum of about 60 percent; then is sent to a drying furnace having a fluidized sand bed. The product obtained in the drying furnace is separated to gas and solid. After the separated gas is pressurized by a fan and is heated by a heat exchange...

Water-soluble polymers comprising an N-vinyl lactam are found to be useful in processes wherein the polymer is introduced into a subterranean wellbore. Polymers useful in the recovery of natural resources are prepared by polymerizing an N-vinyl lactam by free radical initiation with polymerization conducted in an aqueous solution polymerization medium preferably containing a mixture of dissolved electrolytes, or in a polymerization medium consisting essentially of a tertiary alkanol. Copolymers ...

A system is provided to automatically reconfigure resource modules (302) to perform selected functions. Incoming telephone calls are allocated by a resource manager (304) to appropriate resource modules (302). Based upon logic programmed into a computer (309) coupled to the resource manager (304), the system can predict how many resource modules (302) providing each function are required to handle the incoming calls. The computer (309) directs the resource manager (304) to reconfigure certain of...

A strategy is described for assisting a supplier in updating code without negatively impacting preexisting applications that may interact with the original or updated code. In this strategy, a resource is transferred from a first code module to a second code module. So that the applications that utilize the resource can continue to access this resource, the strategy adds forwarding information to a new version of the first code module. The forwarding information provides a note which shows the C...

Network resources for a call between a calling party and a called party are allocated. The network resources for the call are reserved based on a reservation request. In particular, the network resources for the call are reserved based on a reservation request. Prior to the reservation request being made, one or more operational parameters for the call are established by a gate controller and sent to a network edge device or other routing entity associated with one of the parties. An identifier,...

Methods, systems, and products for displaying a help resource associated with a device on a remote display apparatus are provided. Some embodiments of methods, systems, and products for displaying a help resource associated with a device on a display apparatus include receiving, in a device, a help event created by a user engaging a help button installed on the device. In response to receiving the help event, typical embodiments include retrieving a help resource associated with the device, and ...

When a process running in an isolated execution environment is started by a user, the credentials of the user are associated with a naming environment for the isolated execution environment. The isolated execution environment may be implemented via creation of a namespace representing resources available to one or more processes running within the isolated execution environment. The resources available to the isolated processes may represent some subset of global resources. When a request to acc...

Notifications from shared resources can be directed to appropriate clients. Listener registrations for clients can be matched to sender registrations for shared resources to forward notifications from the shared resources to the appropriate clients. In a terminal server or fast-user switch environment, listener registrations can specify that the listener is interested in notifications associated with the session. Notifications for processing associated with local or remote sessions can be routed...

A system and method for dynamically provisioning digital data services. Connection setup for the digital data services is accomplished through messages transported on a common channel signaling network. These messages permit an originating user to automatically provision a data communications connection that has a dynamically adjustable bandwidth.

Two methods for resolving locking contention for pseudo-deadlocked transactions without rolling back or aborting any of the deadlocked transactions are provided. In one method, one or more shared lock requests from deadlocked transactions are granted ahead of at least one exclusive lock request from a deadlocked transaction. In another method, all shared lock requests from deadlocked transactions are granted ahead of all exclusive lock requests from deadlocked transactions.