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AnnaLynne McCord was seen leaving the Cheesecake Factory in Los Angeles wearing a ripped pair of Black Orchid "Black Jewel" skinny jeans. AnnaLynne is a big fan of the line and has worn Black Orchid denim on numerous occasions. I really want a pair of Black Orchids, but they are always sold out in my size.
So what is your take on AnnaLynne dating Kellan Lutz? Do you think they are dating or not? Isn't it funny how there are so many rumors about so many Twilight Actors on who is dating who and nothing is ever confirmed? Maybe they are just all really good at secrecy! Buy Black Orchid denim at Boutique To You and you can also buy Black Orchid at Singer22.
Kristin Cavallari in Black Orchid
Kristin Cavallari played carnival games and tested out the sweet treats at the Absolut Brooklyn BBQ in New York wearing her Black Orchid "Black Star Mini" shorts in Snow White wash. Kristin always looks really chic and cute! She also knows how to dress to match what she is doing for the day.
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Jennifer Love Hewitt in Black Orchid
Jennifer Love Hewitt dined out in Black Orchid's Jeggings in Thunder wash. She was caught by the paps carrying a bunch of roses as she arrived at Lucky Cheng's Drag Cabaret restaurant in New York. I love those nude CL's she is wearing!
Jennifer is starring in the upcoming TV movie The Client List, in which she plays a physical therapist turned prostitute. The movie just started on the Lifetime Channel, has anyone watched it? I'm so sad that I missed the premiere, but I'm sure I'll be able to catch it again soon though! Buy these jeans at Boutique to You for $105 and at Singer22 for $105.
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Denim Review: Black Orchid Black Devil Zipper Jeans In Thunder
This weeks review is on the Black Orchid Black Devil Zipper skinny jeans in Thunder. I have had these quite a long time and a few of you have been asking for a review on them.
When I first saw these jeans on celebs like Kristin Cavallari and I saw the wash in their regular jeggings as well, I fell in love. The wash is definitely a very pretty blue, it's gorgeous! The wash is my favourite part of these jeans actually. These are a little loose on me as I didn't originally know that Black Orchid jeans tend to run a little big. The fabric content of these is a bit of a problem for me because I have this intolerance to polyester in jeans as it's really itchy, it makes me feel funny and it's not very comfortable. Since these have polyester in I don't find them all that comfy to wear but that is only my personal preference. Many others don't have any irritation to polyester at all, I just have very sensitive skin, so they will probably be fine for you readers.
My other concern with these jeans is the back pockets. I am really all about having the most flattering back pockets on my jeans, I like them to be in the perfect position and the perfect shape. With Black Orchid jeans I find they don't fit my butt that well, my butt tends to stick out a bit and the pockets don't seem to flatter it very much. The pockets look amazing on Kristin Cavallari, Ellen Pompeo and others though, they can really rock the narrower pockets that they have. Just for me I find them to not work as well but I am very fussy when it comes to my jeans. I like my pockets to be a little more wider.
Other than those 2 points, I really like the jeans. I definitely don't want to put them down as they are a design that I really love. The zipper detail on the back pockets is incredibly cute and adds a nice edge to the jeans, the ankle zips really make them different to a lot of jeans because it adds a uniqueness to them. I also really like the button and the tags they come with. Also, like I said above, the wash is very beautiful, it's such a deep rich blue and it's very pretty! Maybe if I had them one size smaller and they had no poly in I would love them so much! But again, like I mentioned, I am very fussy when it comes to my jeans and that's just my personal preference in fabric, haha. Many others adore them! Buy these jeans at Singer22 for only $136 and buy these jeans at Boutique To You for $135.
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There's another new poll that appears to show that Washington, D.C., is really, radically different from the rest of the country.
In a survey of all 50 states plus D.C., the nation's capital is the only place with a positive rating on the 2013 Gallup Economic Confidence Index. That index is a composite measure of how Americans view the economy today, and what they think the prospects are for the future, based on a -100 to +100 scale. D.C. comes away with a +19 on the index, followed by Massachusetts at a -1. At the other end is West Virginia, which has a -44 (!) on the index. The national average for 2013 was -16.
That's an obviously huge gap. So what could explain it? It's not that D.C.'s economy is booming compared with the rest of the country. Washington still had a relatively high, 8.1 percent, unemployment rate in December, compared with West Virginia's 5.9 percent rate or with that month's national rate of 6.7 percent.
Other ideas? Gallup points to partisanship, which definitely makes some sense. Obama's approval rating in Washington dwarfs the level in any other state, with 80.8 percent approving of the president in 2013. West Virginia, on the other hand, thought worse of the president than nearly any other state in 2013, with only a quarter of its residents approving of his performance.
But that doesn't really explain why the economic confidence gap between the District of Columbia and the rest of the country would be so large — especially when states such as Hawaii, which had the second-highest Obama approval rating in 2013, still ran outside the top 10 on the confidence index, at -12.
The real thing that makes D.C. different from every state in the country, and makes it a constant U.S. outlier, is that it is a city. It's not a state. And constantly comparing the city to states can be misleading.
It's the same reason Gallup recently found that D.C. is the nation's most liberal "state," beating out the likes of Vermont, which elected a self-described socialist to the Senate. Or why The New York Times last year called D.C. the gayest place in the America, a claim that The Washington Post's Mark Berman (no relation) dissected a few months back. That dissection fits the new superlatives, too:
The problem: D.C. is a city, not a state. So comparing D.C. ( population: more than 632,000; land area: 61 square miles, according to the Census Bureau) with, say, Oklahoma ( 3.8 million people; 68,000 square miles) or Montana ( 1 million people; 145,000 square miles) doesn't really work.
This sort of thing happens all the time. Surveys regularly lump D.C. in with the 50 states, despite the inherent dissonance in comparing an urban jurisdiction with states that can house a mix of urban, suburban, and rural areas. And reporters, myself included, will write about these reports, adding in caveats about how it is like comparing apples and oranges (if the oranges were 10 or 20 times as large as the apples).
As a city, D.C. is a pretty skewed sample for a poll of states — especially much larger, realer states such as Texas and California. D.C. may be a supremely liberal city, a very gay (if not the gayest) city, or an abnormally economically confident city. But to compare it to states kind of misses the point, and makes the city seem more removed from the rest of America than it really is.
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Published: Sunday, October 11, 2009 at 4:30 a.m.
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Shirley Sue Shipman, 40, died Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2009, at her home.
Born in Hendersonville, she was a daughter of Ruth Collins Shipman and the late Carl Jessie Shipman.
Survivors include her mother of Hendersonville; two sons, Bryan Shipman and Terrell Shipman both of Hendersonville; a granddaughter, Alexis Shipman; a sister, Linda Stiwinter of Hendersonville; and her companion, Harry Mahoney of Sumter.
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Forgive my lack of hard data on this, but a team losing a key player to injury usually doesn't do that much harm in the short run. This does make sense: If we assume that adding a superstar free agent can add only five to eight wins over the course of a season, losing an integral player for a month should cost just one or two wins, tops, and often nothing at all.
Anecdotal evidence for this can be found all over the current major league standings. The Cubs have been fine without Mark Prior; the Red Sox are in first place without Nomar Garciaparra and Trot Nixon. Even if their replacements play poorly -- and in Boston's case, they clearly have -- four weeks can be pretty inconsequential. Rather, it can actually have the unexpected benefit of allowing young players -- such as Minnesota's Lew Ford and Colorado's Matt Holliday -- to get playing time and prove surprising worth.
With that in mind, here is a look at the 2004 season's most notable 15 injuries: five that took place during spring training, and 10 that came during the season. For each player we look at how long he's been out, his team's record without him, his replacements, expected return, and effect on the club. You'll be surprised at how often the injury, however alarming at the time, really hasn't appeared to have mattered much at all.
Injuries during spring training
1. MARK PRIOR, rhp, Cubs
Injury: Inflammation in Achilles tendon and elbow.
Team record without him: 15-10.
Replacement(s): Sergio Mitre.
Expected return: Early June.
The Cubs have been oddly clandestine about Prior's status all year, but the absence of arguably their best pitcher hasn't been devastating in the short term. It made room at No. 5 for Sergio Mitre, who has pitched pretty much as could be expected -- 1-1, 4.43, helping the Cubs beat the Pirates and Reds. The Cubs have played well without Prior every five days (also without lefty reliever Mike Remlinger, expected back within two weeks), but his being out another full month would probably start to undercut their main strength of rotation depth.
2. JOSE REYES, 2b, Mets
Injury: Pulled hamstring.
Team record without him: 10-15.
Replacement(s): Ricky Gutierrez, Joe McEwing.
Expected return: Unknown.
Reyes initially hurt his leg running the bases March 14, but has tweaked it several times since, including Thursday in a Class A rehab game. No one knows when he'll return. His absence from the Mets' lineup is more harmful than just inserting disastrously poor offense from Gutierrez (.464 OPS) and McEwing (.436); Reyes put a charge into this team as a rookie last summer, and his not playing casts a pall. His continued problems have become even more infuriating than confounding.
3. NOMAR GARCIAPARRA, ss, Red Sox
Injury: Achilles tendinitis.
Team record without him: 15-10.
Replacement(s): Pokey Reese, Cesar Crespo.
Expected return: Late May or early June.
This injury, incurred when Garciaparra was hit in the heel with a ball in the Sox's first spring-training game, initially was supposed to sideline him only a few days. But now it looks like a minimum of two more weeks, probably three or four. Reese and Crespo's combined sub-.500 OPS (Reese normally would share time with Mark Bellhorn at second) has helped drag the Boston offense to the middle of the pack in the AL after it led the loop in runs last year.
4. TROT NIXON, rf, Red Sox
Injury: Mild herniated disk.
Team record without him: 15-10.
Replacement(s): Gabe Kapler.
Expected return: Within a week.
Kevin Millar has shared right-field duties, but it's primarily Kapler who has gained playing time with Nixon's season-long absence. He has not produced: just a .496 OPS in 21 games, with a double his sole extra-base hit. Back problems are of course dangerous, so it's unlikely that Nixon will produce quite his .975 OPS of a year ago, but his return, along with Garciaparra's, would make Boston's lineup lethal again.
5. JON LIEBER, rhp, Yankees
Injury: Pulled groin.
Team record without him: 14-11.
Replacement(s): Jorge DePaula, Alex Graman.
Lieber returned to beat Kansas City on May 1. No one is shedding any tears for the Yankees' losing their No. 5 for a month, but his absence exposed their thin rotation. Lieber's three starts went to Jorge DePaula (who lost and wound up needing a ligament transplant), Alex Graman (who pitched poorly in a Yankee win) and Javier Vazquez on three days' rest, and he pitched well but lost 2-0 to Boston. It's clear in New York that if any other starters go down, no help at all is around to fill in.
Injuries since Opening Day
1. CHIPPER JONES, lf, Braves
Injury (dates missed): Strained hamstring (April 20-present).
Team record without him: 7-7.
Replacement(s): Dewayne Wise.
Expected return: Later this week.
Jones originally hurt his leg on April 11, missed two games, and then exacerbated it April 18 and had to be carted off the field. (It was his first trip to the DL in eight years.) Wise has not been very effective in his place, batting .250 with five runs scored in the 12 games since. After losing much of their offense last winter, the Braves need Jones to return fast and bolster a middle of the order that's suspect without him.
2. PRESTON WILSON, cf, Rockies
Injury (dates missed): Torn knee cartilage (April 13-present).
Team record without him: 9-9.
Replacement(s): Matt Holliday.
Expected return: June.
The Rockies' outfield already had a major hole with right fielder Larry Walker out since spring training with (yet another) injury, this time to his groin. But when Wilson's sore knee finally evidenced torn cartilage after one week, right fielder Jeromy Burnitz took over in center, left fielder Kit Pellow moved to right, and Holliday slipped into left. Holliday has hit well (.365-3-9 in 15 games) and will probably create problems for Pellow when Wilson comes back, which could be as early as June after initial fears had him missing the remainder of the season.
3. JOE MAUER, c, Twins
Injury (dates missed): Torn knee cartilage (April 7-present).
Team record without him: 13-9.
Replacement(s): Henry Blanco.
Expected return: Mid-May.
Mauer's knee injury, which came early in the second game of the season, popped a balloon that had him winning a Rookie of the Year award before he even made his major league debut. His absence looked even worse when replacement Matt LeCroy pulled a rib-cage muscle the next day and went on the DL himself. Blanco has hit competently in their stead -- a .766 OPS -- which could be just about what Mauer would have done. (The kid's only 20, folks.) In fact, Mauer's sitting out five weeks or more could wind up a blessing: He might retain more stamina for the stretch drive, when the rookie would have had every right to wither.
4. ANDY PETTITTE, lhp, Astros
Injury (dates missed): Strained pitching elbow (April 7-28).
Team record without him: 11-7.
Replacement(s): Jared Fernandez, Brandon Duckworth.
The Astros lost Pettitte after one start, but didn't necessarily feel much effect: They won all three games he would have probably pitched. Not that Fernandez and Duckworth threw well -- they didn't, particularly the knuckleballing Fernandez -- but Houston was clearly not hurt in the standings by his absence. Pettitte returned to beat the Pirates on Thursday.
5. CLIFF FLOYD, lf, Mets
Injury (dates missed): Strained right quadriceps (April 12-present).
Team record without him: 7-12.
Replacement(s): Shane Spencer, Eric Valent.
Expected return: Later this week.
Losing Reyes was bad enough for the Mets; Floyd's going down left them without one of their few credible middle-of-the-order hitters. It forced New York to play platoon right fielder Shane Spencer in left and more often than just against lefties, but has that hurt? Spencer has posted an .872 OPS as a left fielder and a .978 OPS against right-handers, a performance the Mets would have taken from Floyd. If Spencer continues that kind of production when Floyd returns soon, the lineup could look stronger than before he got hurt in the first place.
6. TORII HUNTER, cf, Twins
Injury (dates missed): Strained hamstring (April 7-24).
Team record without him: 9-6.
Replacement(s): Lew Ford.
You're always going to miss a Gold Glove center fielder when he's out for 15 games. But you miss him a lot less when his replacement, in this case Ford, bats .391-3-17 in his stead. Minnesota's last position player to be cut in spring training, Ford not only lit up the club during his time in center, he forced Ron Gardenhire to start him at DH and left when Hunter returned.
7. RAY DURHAM, 2b, Giants
Injury (dates missed): Strained left knee (April 28-present).
Team record without him: 4-1.
Replacement(s): Edgardo Alfonzo.
Expected return: Early June.
It's still early, but this one could hurt the Giants. Alfonzo now moves to second base full-time and puts Pedro Feliz at third; the deteriorating Alfonzo is batting a mystifying .221-0-6 this year, and Feliz hasn't been very productive, either (.722 OPS). Moreover, while Durham's .338 on-base percentage out of the leadoff spot this season was no great shakes, he has been a credible table-setter for Barry Bonds. Getting no one on base for Bonds is like giving Eric Clapton a kazoo.
8. DMITRI YOUNG, dh, Tigers
Injury (dates missed): Broken right leg (April 7-present).
Team record without him: 11-13.
Replacement(s): Greg Norton, Craig Monroe.
Expected return: Late May.
Figure this out: The Tigers, no great lineup to begin with, lose perhaps their top offensive force in the season's second game with a nasty broken leg. This leaves Rondell White and Bobby Higginson shifting to DH more often and creates more at-bats for Norton and Monroe than the Tigers had planned. Norton and Monroe post OPSes of .403 and .616, respectively. So what happens? Detroit leads the AL with 152 runs through Monday. Bizarre.
9. CARL EVERETT, Expos
Injury (dates missed): Shoulder (April 15-present).
Team record without him: 4-14.
Replacement(s): Juan Rivera, Ron Calloway.
Expected return: Late May.
The Expos would be more entertaining with Chita Rivera and Cab Calloway in right, for sure, and certainly haven't scored many runs with Juan and Ron (combined OPS: .480). The Expos' offense was already shaky with Nick Johnson starting the season on the DL with a sore back, and Everett's going down after a hard slide took away what little hope they had left. Add to that pair the loss of promising pickup John Patterson from the rotation, and the wobbly Expos have been simply knocked out.
10. GARRET ANDERSON, cf, Angels
Injury (dates missed): Upper back stiffness (April 22-present).
Team record without him: 9-2.
Replacement(s): Chone Figgins.
Expected return: Mid-May.
You'd think that the serious back concerns around Anaheim would have involved Vladimir Guerrero, but Anderson's neck and back issues caused great concern. The good news is that recent tests suggest they're nothing serious. In the meantime, Figgins has played quite well, temporarily turning the Angels into more of a running team. Figgins, batting .354 overall, has eight stolen bases and four triples in his 16 games.
Alan Schwarz is the senior writer of Baseball America and a regular contributor to ESPN.com. His first book, "The Numbers Game: Baseball's Lifelong Fascination With Statistics," will be published by St. Martin's Press in July.


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Cryogenic Capacitors for Low-Temperature Power Systems
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AbstractTRS Technologies proposes to develop low-temperature multilayer ceramic capacitors (MLCCs) capable of operating at cyrogenic temperatures (<77K). These capacitors will be based upon quantum paraelectrics and relaxor ferroelectrics. The MLCCs will have high volumetric efficiencies, low dielectric losses, and a reduced temperature coefficient of capacitance. In the Phase I program TRS will fabricate MLCCs that operate at or below 77K and will demonstrate their feasibility for cryogenic capacitors by characterizing the dielectric properties (capacitance, loss, insulation resistance, breakdown strength, etc.) at temperature from 12K to 300K.
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gloom when it came to doing business in Dunedin and the city
had advantages over its larger counterparts.
''It's easy to get despondent about what's wrong, but the
fact is we do a lot of things very well here in Dunedin.
There is some great innovation coming out of Dunedin,'' he
Since TracMap's establishment in 2005, it has grown to
provide GPS technology across the agriculture, search and
rescue, utilities and aviation sectors.
Mr Brown said TracMap, along with other Dunedin businesses
such as ADInstruments and Scott Technology, were doing well
by catering to niche markets, which was something bigger
companies were less equipped to do.
It had a strong base in New Zealand, but it was ''rapid
growth'' in overseas markets which was expected to result in
the company, which now had 30 staff, employing an extra 10
people in the next year.
''In order to satisfy the growth demand, we will be employing
more developers.
"In fact, we have got a vacancy for a developer right now,
and we will need sales managers and we will need
administration staff and call centre support staff.''
Growth areas included the sale of GPS systems for viticulture
and horticulture to Australia.
The United States was also a growing market, with the company
selling its first grape harvest systems to California.
The ability to design products which catered to its
customers' needs was one of its strengths.
''We design systems for 62-year-old males who have left their
reading glasses at home and don't know their wife's email
''If those guys can't use the system, then it doesn't matter
if the 25-year-old guys who are into texting and tweeting ...
can use it.
''If 20% or 30% of your staff can't because technology is
beyond them, then the system falls down.''
He also stressed the benefits of doing business in Dunedin,
which included paying less rent and the lifestyle that came
with living in a smaller city.
''We've attracted staff here, very good staff, because they
don't want to live in a big-city environment.''
Not getting constantly stuck in traffic was another plus.
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trying to get to a meeting, whereas in Dunedin if you want to
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workSpace ... you know that 22 minutes later you are going to
be sitting in their office.''
The team at innovation workSpace had designed and built
housing for a guidance device - called a light bar - attached
to the exterior of crop-dusting planes, which had helped it
sell its GPS guidance system in the United States.
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reluctant to move from using the outside light bars that they
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innovation workSpace came up with was excellent.
''The feedback we have had from customers and other aerial
applicators in the [United] States and in New Zealand and in
Australia [is] that it is the best light bar available.''
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Patent application title: CONVEYING SERVICE INVOCATION INFORMATION WITHIN MULTIMODAL CONVERSATION SYSTEMS
Srivatsa Srinivasan (Renton, WA, US)
Ankit Tandon (Bellevue, WA, US)
Ankit Tandon (Bellevue, WA, US)
Sundar Anantharaman (Rednond, WA, US)
Vijay Manian (Redmond, WA, US)
Lokesh Srinivas Koppolu (Redmond, WA, US)
Vadim Eydelman (Redmond, WA, US)
Aatif Awan (Bellevue, WA, US)
Microsoft Corporation
IPC8 Class: AH04M342FI
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Class name: Special services call diversion (e.g., call capture) call forwarding
Publication date: 2010-12-09
Patent application number: 20100310062
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Service invocation information including call routing, reasons for
redirections, and similar information are provided to party requesting a
communication session and recipients of an enhanced communication system
along the call routing path as the request is routed. Some of the
information is filtered based on system and/or user defined rules, user
permission levels, and comparable aspects.
1. A method to be executed at least in part in a computing device for
facilitating a call in an enhanced communication system,
comprising:receiving a request from a caller for initiating a
communication session;determining a subscriber of the enhanced
communication system for receiving the requested communication
session;determining a redirect rule associated with the recipient
subscriber;determining at least one other recipient subscriber to whom
the communication session request is to be redirected;redirecting the
communication session request to the at least one other recipient
subscriber; andproviding service invocation information associated with
the redirected communication session request to the at least one other
recipient subscriber.
2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:providing the service invocation information associated with the redirected communication session request to the requesting caller.
3. The method of claim 2, wherein the service invocation information includes at least one from a set of: information associated with the requesting caller, a redirection path of the communication session request, a subject matter of the requested communication session, and a reason for the redirection at each stage of the redirection.
4. The method of claim 2, wherein the requesting caller is also a subscriber of the enhanced communication system.
5. The method of claim 2, further comprising:filtering the service invocation information prior to providing to the requesting caller and the at least one other recipient subscriber based on at least one from a set of: a system rule, a subscriber defined rule, a permission level of the caller and the at least one other recipient subscriber.
6. The method of claim 1, wherein the redirect rule includes one of a system default rule and a subscriber defined rule.
7. The method of claim 1, further comprising:redirecting the communication session request to the at least one other recipient subscriber in response to an action by the recipient subscriber.
8. The method of claim 1, wherein the service invocation information is provided as a history information header that is updated as the communication session request is redirected.
9. The method of claim 1, wherein the requested communication session is a multimodal communication session including at least one from a set of: an audio communication, a video communication, a data sharing session, a text messaging session, an application sharing session, a whiteboard sharing session, and an electronic mail exchange.
10. The method of claim 1, wherein the communication session request is redirected to a plurality of other recipient subscribers employing at least one of serial forking and parallel forking.
11. A communication system for conveying service invocation information while routing a communication session request, the system comprising:a plurality of client devices for facilitating multimodal communications;a server for managing the communication system, the server configured to:receive a request from a caller for initiating a communication session;determine a recipient for the requested communication session;determine at least one other recipient to whom the communication session request is to be redirected based on at least one from a set of: a system default rule, a recipient predefined rule, and an action by the recipient;redirect the communication session request to the at least one other recipient; andprovide service invocation information comprising at least one from a set of: information associated with the requesting caller, a redirection path of the communication session request, a subject matter of the requested communication session, and a reason for the redirection at each stage of the redirection to the at least one other recipient as the communication session request is being redirected.
12. The system of claim 11, wherein Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) is utilized to facilitate communications within the communication system, and the server if further configured to:provide the service invocation information through SIP headers.
13. The system of claim 12, wherein a separate SIP header is employed for each type of service invocation information.
14. The system of claim 12, wherein each type of service invocation information is provided through comma separated values in a SIP header.
15. The system of claim 11, wherein the service invocation information is provided to a plurality of other recipients through one of serial and parallel forking, and wherein the service invocation information is employed to present a graph of a redirection path of the communication session request to each recipient.
16. The system of claim 15, wherein a particular recipient on the redirection path of the communication session request is presented in the graph a branch of the redirection path of the communication session request ending at that particular recipient.
17. A computer-readable storage medium with instructions stored thereon for conveying service invocation information associated with redirected communication session requests, the instructions comprising:in response to receiving a request from a caller for initiating a communication session, determining a target called party for the requested communication session;determining at least one other party to whom the communication session request is to be redirected based on at least one from a set of: a system default rule, a target called party predefined rule, and an action by the target called party;redirecting the communication session request to the at least one other party; andproviding service invocation information comprising at least one from a set of: information associated with the requesting caller, a redirection path of the communication session request, a subject matter of the requested communication session, and a reason for the redirection at each stage of the redirection to the at least one other party and the caller as the communication session request is being redirected, wherein the service invocation information is provided as a history information header and is filtered based on at least one from a set of: a system rule, a target called party defined rule, a permission level of the caller, and a permission level of the at least one other party.
18. The computer-readable medium of claim 17, wherein the redirection includes at least one of: a delegation through serial forking and a team call through parallel forking.
19. The computer-readable medium of claim 17, wherein the service invocation information further includes presence information associated with the target called party.
20. The computer-readable medium of claim 17, wherein the service invocation information is persisted upon establishment of the communication session.
[0001]Modern communication systems have a large number of capabilities including integration of various communication modalities with different services. For example, instant messaging, voice/video communications, data/application sharing, white-boarding, and other forms of communication may be combined with presence and availability information of subscribers. Such systems may provide subscribers with the enhanced capabilities such as providing instructions to callers for various status categories, alternate contacts, calendar information, and comparable features.
[0002]Subscribers of enhanced communication systems with above described capabilities may employ multiple client devices and/or applications to facilitate their communications. For example, a subscriber may use a handheld device for text messaging, a desktop computer for audio and video communications, as well as application sharing. Some or all of these devices/applications may be active at the same time or at different times.
[0003]When a communication request is received at an enhanced communication system, the request may be routed multiple times until arriving at a suitable recipient who can answer the request. The requesting party may not know how the notification was routed, what the routing process utilized to reach a recipient, and which decision processes were involved in reaching the appropriate recipient. As a result the requesting party may be unaware of available resources and possible options in reaching desired solution therefore diminishing resolution satisfaction.
[0004]This summary is provided to introduce a selection of concepts in a simplified form that are further described below in the Detailed Description. This summary is not intended to exclusively identify key features or essential features of the claimed subject matter, nor is it intended as an aid in determining the scope of the claimed subject matter.
[0005]Embodiments are directed to providing routing information associated with a requested communication session to the requesting party and potential target parties as the request is being routed based on system and/or user rules in an enhanced communication system.
[0006]These and other features and advantages will be apparent from a reading of the following detailed description and a review of the associated drawings. It is to be understood that both the foregoing general description and the following detailed description are explanatory and do not restrict aspects as claimed.
[0007]FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating an example unified communications system, where embodiments may be implemented for conveying service invocation information as multimodal communications are routed;
[0008]FIG. 2 is a conceptual diagram illustrating a basic example system where an incoming communication session request is redirected to recipients utilizing parallel forking;
[0009]FIG. 3 is a conceptual diagram illustrating another basic example system where an incoming communication session request is redirected to recipients utilizing serial forking;
[0010]FIG. 4 is a conceptual diagram illustrating a further basic example system where a within the network initiated communication session is routed to a plurality of recipients utilizing parallel and serial forking;
[0011]FIG. 5 illustrates paths taken by a routed call request and how the routing information may be presented to different parties associated with the call request;
[0012]FIG. 6 illustrates transmittal of a call request notification and associated information as the call request is routed through different paths;
[0013]FIG. 7 through FIG. 12 illustrate actions between endpoints and servers of a system according to embodiments under various example scenarios for call redirection;
[0014]FIG. 13 is a networked environment, where a system according to embodiments may be implemented;
[0015]FIG. 14 is a block diagram of an example computing operating environment, where embodiments may be implemented; and
[0016]FIG. 15 illustrates a logic flow diagram for a process of providing call redirect information to a caller and called parties as the call request is being routed.
[0017]As briefly described above, a notification to initiate a communication session may be forked in serial or parallel to establish the communication session with a proper recipient. Along with the routed notification, information associated with the notification and its routing history may be provided to the recipients as well as the requesting party. In the following detailed description, references are made to the accompanying drawings that form a part hereof, and in which are shown by way of illustrations specific embodiments or examples. These aspects may be combined, other aspects may be utilized, and structural changes may be made without departing from the spirit or scope of the present disclosure. The following detailed description is therefore not to be taken in a limiting sense, and the scope of the present invention is defined by the appended claims and their equivalents.
[0018]While the embodiments will be described in the general context of program modules that execute in conjunction with an application program that runs on an operating system on a personal computer, those skilled in the art will recognize that aspects may also be implemented in combination with other program modules.
[0019]Generally, program modules include routines, programs, components, data structures, and other types of structures that perform particular tasks or implement particular abstract data types. Moreover, those skilled in the art will appreciate that embodiments may be practiced with other computer system configurations, including hand-held devices, multiprocessor systems, microprocessor-based or programmable consumer electronics, minicomputers, mainframe computers, and comparable computing devices. Embodiments may also be practiced in distributed computing environments where tasks are performed by remote processing devices that are linked through a communications network. In a distributed computing environment, program modules may be located in both local and remote memory storage devices.
[0020]Embodiments may be implemented as a computer-implemented process (method), a computing system, or as an article of manufacture, such as a computer program product or computer readable media. The computer program product may be a computer storage medium readable by a computer system and encoding a computer program that comprises instructions for causing a computer or computing system to perform example process(es). The computer-readable storage medium can for example be implemented via one or more of a volatile computer memory, a non-volatile memory, a hard drive, a flash drive, a floppy disk, or a compact disk, and comparable media.
[0021]Throughout this specification, the term "server" generally refers to a computing device executing one or more software programs typically in a networked environment. However, a server may also be implemented as a virtual server (software programs) executed on one or more computing devices viewed as a server on the network. More detail on these technologies and example operations is provided below. The term "client" refers to client devices and/or applications. The term "call" is used herein to refer to any communication session within an enhanced communication system. As such a "call" may include an audio communication, a video communication, a data sharing session, a text messaging session, an application sharing session, a whiteboard sharing session, an electronic mail exchange, and similar ones. Similarly, the term "caller" or "calling party" and "called party" refer to human, machine, or software sources that initiate and accept a communication session request, respectively.
[0022]Referring to FIG. 1, diagram 100 of an example unified communications system, where embodiments may be practiced, is illustrated. A unified communication system is an example of enhanced communication systems with a wide range of capabilities and services that can be provided to subscribers. A unified communication system is a real-time communications system facilitating instant messaging, presence, audio-video conferencing, web conferencing functionality, and comparable capabilities.
[0023]In a unified communication ("UC") system such as the one shown in diagram 100, users may communicate via a variety of end devices (102, 104), which are client devices of the UC system. Each client device may be capable of executing one or more communication applications for voice communication, video communication, instant messaging, application sharing, data sharing, and the like. For some of the advanced communication modes, the end devices may be used in conjunction with peripheral devices 103 such as external monitors, speakers, microphones, and similar ones. In addition to their advanced functionality, the end devices may also facilitate traditional phone calls through an external connection such as through PBX 124 to a Public Switched Telephone Network ("PSTN"). End devices may include any type of smart phone, cellular phone, any computing device executing a communication application, a smart automobile console, and advanced phone devices with additional functionality. Moreover, a subscriber of the UC system may use more than one end device and/or communication application for facilitating various modes of communication with other subscribers. End devices may also include various peripherals coupled to the end devices through wired or wireless means (e.g. USB connection, Bluetooth® connection, etc.) to facilitate different aspects of the communication.
[0024]UC Network(s) 110 includes a number of servers performing different tasks. For example, UC servers 114 provide registration, presence, and routing functionalities. Presence functionality enables the system to route calls to a user to anyone of the client devices assigned to the user based on default and/or user set policies. For example, if the user is not available through a regular phone, the call may be forwarded to the user's cellular phone, and if that is not answering a number of voicemail options may be utilized. Since the end devices can handle additional communication modes, UC servers 114 may provide access to these additional communication modes (e.g. instant messaging, video communication, etc.) through access server 112. Access server 112 resides in a perimeter network and enables connectivity through UC network(s) 110 with other users in one of the additional communication modes. UC servers 114 may include servers that perform combinations of the above described functionalities or specialized servers that only provide a particular functionality. For example, home servers providing presence functionality, routing servers providing routing functionality, rights management servers, and so on. Similarly, access server 112 may provide multiple functionalities such as firewall protection and connectivity, or only specific functionalities.
[0025]Audio/Video (A/V) conferencing server 118 provides audio and/or video conferencing capabilities by facilitating those over an internal or external network. Mediation server 116 mediates signaling and media to and from other types of networks such as a PSTN or a cellular network (e.g. calls through PBX 124 or from cellular phone 122). Mediation server 116 may also act as a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) user agent.
[0026]In a UC system, users may have one or more identities, which is not necessarily limited to a phone number. The identity may take any form depending on the integrated networks, such as a telephone number, a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Uniform Resource Identifier (URI), or any other identifier. While any protocol may be used in a UC system, SIP is a commonly used method.
[0027]SIP is an application-layer control (signaling) protocol for creating, modifying, and terminating sessions with one or more participants. It can be used to create two-party, multiparty, or multicast sessions that include Internet telephone calls, multimedia distribution, and multimedia conferences. SIP is designed to be independent of the underlying transport layer.
[0028]SIP clients may use Transport Control Protocol ("TCP") to connect to SIP servers and other SIP endpoints. SIP is primarily used in setting up and tearing down voice or video calls. However, it can be used in any application where session initiation is a requirement. These include event subscription and notification, terminal mobility, and so on. Voice and/or video communications are typically done over separate session protocols, typically Real-time Transport Protocol ("RTP").
[0029]As mentioned above, embodiments may be implemented in enhanced communications systems such as UC systems facilitating multimodal communications. A request for initiating a single or multimodal communication session (call) may be received from a party (caller) outside the UC network or within the UC network. The target of the request (called party) may have set up rules for routing received call requests. For example, calls from particular callers or regarding a particular subject matter may be forwarded to selected delegates of the called party. Routing of the calls may also be done based on system default rules such as forwarding the call to the called party's administrative assistant if the called party is unavailable. Moreover, the called party may manually deflect the call by forwarding it upon determining a source or subject matter of the call before answering.
[0030]Once the call request is being routed, the request may be sent to a single or multiple recipients of the UC system. In a relatively large system, the call request may go through several forks before it is accepted by a recipient and the requested communication session is facilitated. The communication session may begin with multiple modes of communication or with a single mode of communication and be escalated to multiple modes. Multimodal communication sessions are also referred to as conversations, where subscribers may communicate over a plurality of devices, applications, and communication modes simultaneously or sequentially. For example, two subscribers may initiate a conversation by exchanging instant messages through their desktop computers. Later, the communication may be elevated to audio and instant message with one subscriber utilizing their desktop for both modes, while the other uses the desktop computer for instant messaging and a smart phone device for the audio mode.
[0031]While the example system in FIG. 1 has been described with specific components such as mediation server, A/V server, and similar devices, embodiments are not limited to this system of the example components and configurations. An enhanced communication system conveying service invocation information as a call is being routed may be implemented in other systems and configurations employing fewer or additional components. Furthermore, such systems do not have to be enhanced communication systems integrating various communication modes. Embodiments may also be implemented in systems facilitating different communication modes distinctly by coordinating implementation of the rules across different communication modes using the principles described herein.
[0032]FIG. 2 includes conceptual diagram 200 illustrating a basic example system where an incoming communication session request is redirected to recipients utilizing parallel forking. While a system according to embodiments is likely to include a number of servers, client devices, and services such as those illustratively discussed in FIG. 1, only those relevant to embodiments are shown in diagram 200 of FIG. 2.
[0033]In a system according to embodiments, caller 230 may send a request for a communication session to called party 238 in various modalities (232). Aspects of the communications within the enhanced communication network, of which called party 238 is a part, may be managed by one or more servers such as server 236. As discussed previously, the requested call may be redirected from called party 238 based on a system rule, called party 238's predefined rules, or a real time action by the called party 238. This ability for an entity to invoke specific call routing functions on a server is referred to as service invocation. When a conversation between two parties is initiated, the server applies the service invocation rules. According to one embodiment, the call may be routed to one or more delegates (240, 242, 244) in parallel (simultaneously). This is also referred to as parallel forking.
[0034]Conventional systems have limited ability to convey the service invocation indication in real time to the caller or called parties. Having this information may enable both sides to make decisions and enhance their use of the communication system. For example, caller 230 may be a customer calling a customer service center. Caller 230 may first be automatically directed to called party 238 based on automatically collected information (e.g. product type, question type, etc.). Called party 238 may not be available, and the call forked to called party 238's team members. In a system according to embodiments, service invocation information such as where the call initiated, how the call was redirected, to whom the call was redirected, a subject matter of the call, a reason for the redirection, and similar information may be provided to the team members of called party 238. Having that knowledge may help them address the caller's questions as soon as they accept the call, or help them decide which one of the team members should accept the call.
[0035]Embodiments provide means for providing the service invocation information to recipients (and the caller) regardless of the routing path(s). The service invocation information may include, for example, caller presence information. Since SIP is a commonly used communication protocol, the service invocation information may be provided within the SIP structure as SIP headers, comma separated values, or other formats. Of course, other protocols may also be employed to convey the service invocation information. For example, the information may be transmitted as metadata.
[0036]FIG. 3 includes diagram 300 illustrating a basic example system where an incoming communication session request is redirected to recipients utilizing serial forking. In a system according to embodiments, caller 330 may send a request to initiate a call with called party 338 in various modalities (332) employing different client devices. Aspects of the communications may be managed by one or more servers such as server 336. One of the aspects includes redirecting the call request utilizing serial forking to reach at least one recipient 340, 342 or 344.
[0037]Serial forking is different from parallel forking described in conjunction with the previous figure. Upon invoking a redirect rule for called party 338, the call request is forwarded to recipient 340. The call request may be redirected again to recipient 342 based on a system default rule, a recipient defined rule, or a real time action by the recipient 340. The same process may be repeated for recipient 342, and the call may end up being accepted by recipient 344. At each stage of redirection, service invocation information as described above is provided to the recipients according to embodiments. The information may enable each recipient to decide whether they should accept the call or redirect. For example, if recipient 340 is informed that called party 338 did manually redirect the call to recipient 340, he/she may accept the call instead of further redirecting.
[0038]As mentioned previously, caller 330 may also be provided with service invocation information as the call is being routed within the enhanced communication system. According to some embodiments, the information provided to the caller or the recipients may be filtered based on default rules or user defined rules. For example, the system may allow only the fact that the call is being redirected to another recipient to be provided to a caller outside the system. On the other hand, a caller within the system may receive more information such as the reason for redirecting, etc. The original called party may also define rules for how much information should be provided in association with the routing of the call request. The filtering of the provided information may also be based on permission levels of each recipient (or the caller). Embodiments are not limited to unified communication systems such as Microsoft Office Communicator System® by Microsoft Corp. of Redmond, Wash.
[0039]FIG. 4 includes conceptual diagram 400 illustrating a further basic example system where a within the network initiated communication session is routed to a plurality of recipients utilizing parallel and serial forking.
[0040]The configuration shown in diagram 400 includes, differently from the previous two example configurations, caller 430 sending the request for single or multimodal communication session from within the enhanced communication network managed by one or more servers such as server 436. Thus, caller 430 may have more capabilities regarding communication than a caller from outside the system and may also be provided more service invocation information compared to a caller outside the system. Moreover, the call request in diagram 400 is routed through a combination of routing types. At first stage, the call is redirected to recipients 440 and 446 (which may be a group of recipients) through parallel forking. At second stage the call request is forwarded from recipient 440 to recipients 442 and 444 serially based on a system rule, a recipient defined rule, or real time recipient action.
[0041]FIG. 5 illustrates paths taken by a routed call request and how the routing information may be presented to different parties associated with the call request. The service invocation information may be used, among other things, to present a caller or called party (forwarded recipient) a graph of the progress for the call request depending on a location of the caller or called party on the call routing path.
[0042]In the example scenario of diagram 500, caller 530 sends a call request to initiate a communication session with called party 538 within a communication system managed by one or more servers such as server 536. The call request is redirected at called party 538 to recipients 540 and 546 through parallel forking, then again at recipients 540, 542, and 544 through serial forking. Depending on access privileges, caller 530 and called party 538 may be enabled to view an entire path 580 of the call routing as it happens on a monitor such as 572. Further information such as reason for redirection at each stage, call subject matter, availability or other information associated with each recipient, and so on, may also be provided along with a of call routing progress. The recipient 546 may view a partial path 582 of the call routing on his monitor 576, since that branch of the routing tree ends at recipient 546 and is independent from the other (serial) branch.
[0043]As another example, recipient 544 may view the entire serial branch of the routed call request 578 on his monitor 574, since that branch is independent from the branch of the call routing tree directed at recipient 546. As mentioned previously, the information provided to the caller and other recipients may be filtered based on their permission levels, system default rules, and rules defined by the recipients upstream from a recipient receiving the information.
[0044]FIG. 6 illustrates transmittal of a call request notification and associated information as the call request is routed through different paths. Caller 630 sends a notification to called party 638 to initiate a call. Following the notification called party 638 may pass the call request downstream by forking in parallel and sending notifications to forwardee 640 and forwardee 646. Forwardee 640 may pass the call request further downstream by forking in parallel and sending notifications to forwardee 642 and forwardee 648. The call routing path information along with additional service invocation information may be passed back to called party 638. In addition to each of the forwardees receiving service invocation information up to their node in the system, caller 630 may also receive service invocation information subject to filtering based on predefined rules as discussed previously.
[0045]The service invocation information may be conveyed throughout the system as metadata within the communication protocol. For example, in an enhanced communication system (e.g. unified communication) SIP headers may be employed to provide the service invocation information. Specific SIP headers may be defined within the protocol such as a history-info header that includes parameters like routing history of the call request, reasons for redirections, and similar information. The information may also be conveyed in other formats such as comma separated parameter listings, and the like. Default headers may be defined based on commonly used information and additional custom headers may be defined for systems utilizing custom information (e.g. presence information, subject matter information, etc.).
[0046]Furthermore, the headers may define which portion of the information is to be provided to a particular person along the routing path. Alternatively, the communication system may define user permissions based on each user's permission levels and SIP headers containing service invocation information.
[0047]FIG. 7 through FIG. 12 illustrate actions between endpoints and servers of a system according to embodiments under various example scenarios for call redirection. In these example interactions, a history information header as mentioned above may be employed. The history information header may be a SIP header used as a standard mechanism for capturing the history information associated with a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) request. This capability enables many enhanced services by providing the information as to how and why a call arrives at a specific application or user.
[0048]An example history information header may look like:
TABLE-US-00001 History-Info: <sip:firstname.lastname@example.com?Reason=SIP;cause=302; Text="Moved Temporarily">;index=1, <sip:email@example.com?Reason=SIP; cause=408;text=''RequestTimeout''>;index=1.1, <sip:email@example.com?Reason=SIP; \ cause=486;text=''Busy Here''>; index=1.2, <sip:firstname.lastname@example.com>;index=2
[0049]In the above example, the history-info header shows that the SIP request was addressed to Bob and was forked to User2 and User3 both of whom rejected the call with the reason being "408 Timeout" and "486 Busy Here" respectively. The call was then routed to Carol based on some call processing rules on the proxy.
[0050]In a system according to embodiments, the server managing call routing may add a history-info header to a communication session request (INVITE) if it is redirecting that INVITE to one or more users besides the original target of the request. The server may also add a history-info entry for the new target of the request. The history-info header may not capture retargeting in scenarios where multiple endpoints are registered for the same user, since the history information is useful the retargeting is happening from one user to another. When adding a history-info header for the entity being retargeted, a header parameter associated with the reason of retargeting may be added with values like "forwarding", "team-call", "delegation", and the like.
[0051]As illustrated in the example interactions below, when a subscriber initiates a communication request, messages are exchanged between the subscriber's application and the call routing server while the call is being routed, these pre-media exchanges enable all participants in the conversation to promptly facilitate the communication once a target subscriber has accepted the request and avoid delays in setting up the conversation. Thus, the call routing server may include the top level history-info header in a redirection response to the caller so that the caller is aware of what kind of redirection (team call, boss/admin) is happening. However, due to privacy reasons, the server may leave out the history-info entries for the entities to which the INVITE is retargeted i.e. team members in case of a team call.
[0052]According to the example scenario illustrated in diagram 700 of FIG. 7, Alice 712 calls Bob 716 who has static unconditional forwarding set to Carol 718. UC server 714 forwards the call to Carol 718 and in the INVITE sent to Carol, a history-info entry is added indicating that the call was actually targeted for Bob 716 and that it was retargeted because of unconditional forwarding rules set on the UC server 714.
[0053]In the example scenario illustrated in diagram 800 of FIG. 8, Alice 812 calls Bob who has static unconditional forwarding set to Carol 818. UC server 814 forwards the call to Carol 818 as in the previous example. Differently from diagram 700, Carol 818 does not answer and after a timeout, UC server 814 terminates the call leg with Carol 818 sending a CANCEL request. Then, UC server 814 forwards the call to Bob's voicemail (816) with an INVITE and updates the history-info header indicating the fact that the call to Carol timed out. In the meantime, Alice 812 may be provided information that the call is now being forwarded to Bob's voicemail.
[0054]In the example scenario of diagram 900 in FIG. 9, a communication request from Alice 912 to Bob 916 is forwarded to Bob 916 by the UC server 914. Bob decides to deflect the request to his voicemail 918, which is done by the UC server 914 with an INVITE sent to voicemail 918 while notifying Alice 912 that the call is being forwarded to voicemail.
[0055]According to the example scenario illustrated in diagram 1000 of FIG. 10, Bob 1016 has instructed UC server 1014 to simultaneously notify his communication application and call a second number (inside or outside the system) when a communication request arrives targeting Bob. Thus, when Alice 1012 sends a request for Bob 1016, UC server 1014 sends out two INVITEs, one to Bob 1016 and another to mediation server 1018 for the second number (in the example case of an outside phone number).
[0056]Alice is notified about the progress of the call to Bob only for privacy reasons. When the second number accepts the call, a CANCEL notice is sent to Bob 1016 and the communication session request terminated before the call is facilitated between Alice and the second number through mediation server 1018.
[0057]As mentioned previously, team calls may also be facilitated in a system according to embodiments. Diagram 1100 of FIG. 11 illustrates a call request (INVITE) from Bob 1112 to Robin 1116 arriving at UC server 1114, which is also Robin's home server. Robin has a static condition configured for calls to be directed to her team (1118) simultaneously with her. While multiple INVITEs are sent out, Bob is notified of the progress of the calls to Robin and her team. When Robin accepts the call personally, the INVITEs to her team (1118) are cancelled and the call facilitated between Bob and Robin.
[0058]The example scenario in diagram 1200 of FIG. 12 is similar to that shown in diagram 1100. A communication session request from Bob 1212 is forwarded to Robin 1216 and her team 1218 by the UC server 1214 due to the simultaneous ring condition configured by Robin. However, the request times out due to non of the called parties accepting. Upon determining the timeout, UC server 1214 forwards the request to Robin's voicemail 1220 with an INVITE and updates the history-info indicating why the request was sent to the voicemail. For privacy purposes, the progress report to Bob may exclude the reason for the redirection of the call to the voicemail.
[0059]The above discussed scenarios, example systems, modalities, redirection types, and configurations are for illustration purposes. Embodiments are not restricted to those examples. Other forms of notifications, configurations, communication modes, and scenarios may be used in implementing routing of call requests with conveyance of service invocation information in a similar manner using the principles described herein.
[0060]FIG. 13 is an example networked environment, where embodiments may be implemented. An enhanced communication system providing communication services conveying service invocation information for routed calls may be implemented via software executed over one or more servers 1318 such as a hosted service. The system may facilitate communications between client applications on individual computing devices such as a handheld computer 1314, smart phone 1313, a laptop computer 1312, and desktop computer 1311 (`client devices`) through network(s) 1310.
[0061]As discussed above, modern communication technologies such as UC services enable subscribers to utilize a wide range of computing device and application capabilities in conjunction with communication services. This means, a subscriber may use one or more devices (e.g. a regular phone, a smart phone, a computer, a smart automobile console, etc.) to facilitate communications. Depending on the capabilities of each device and applications available on each device, additional services and communication modes may be enabled.
[0062]Client devices 1311-1314 are used to facilitate communications through a variety of modes between subscribers of the communication system. A call initiated by one of the client devices 1311-1314 may be redirected through serial or parallel forking and go through multiple recipients before being established. As the call is being routed, service invocation information, as discussed above, may be provided to the caller and the recipients. Information associated with subscribers and facilitating multimodal conversations, as well as routing history and other data, may be stored in one or more data stores (e.g. data store 1317), which may be managed by any one of the servers 1318 or by database server 1316.
[0063]Network(s) 1310 may comprise any topology of servers, clients, Internet service providers, and communication media. A system according to embodiments may have a static or dynamic topology. Network(s) 1310 may include a secure network such as an enterprise network, an unsecure network such as a wireless open network, or the Internet. Network(s) 1310 may also coordinate communication over other networks such as PSTN or cellular networks. Network(s) 1310 provides communication between the nodes described herein. By way of example, and not limitation, network(s) 1310 may include wireless media such as acoustic, RF, infrared and other wireless media.
[0064]Many other configurations of computing devices, applications, data sources, and data distribution systems may be employed to implement a communication system with service invocation information provision for redirected calls. Furthermore, the networked environments discussed in FIG. 13 are for illustration purposes only. Embodiments are not limited to the example applications, modules, or processes.
[0065]FIG. 14 and the associated discussion are intended to provide a brief, general description of a suitable computing environment in which embodiments may be implemented. With reference to FIG. 14, a block diagram of an example computing operating environment for an application according to embodiments is illustrated, such as computing device 1400. In a basic configuration, computing device 1400 may be a client device as part of an enhanced communication system and include at least one processing unit 1402 and system memory 1404. Computing device 1400 may also include a plurality of processing units that cooperate in executing programs. Depending on the exact configuration and type of computing device, the system memory 1404 may be volatile (such as RAM), non-volatile (such as ROM, flash memory, etc.) or some combination of the two. System memory 1404 typically includes an operating system 1405 suitable for controlling the operation of the platform, such as the WINDOWS® operating systems from MICROSOFT CORPORATION of Redmond, Wash. The system memory 1404 may also include one or more software applications such as program modules 1406, communication application 1422, and service invocation module 1424.
[0066]Communication application 1422 may be part of a service that facilitates communication through various modalities between client applications, servers, and other devices. Service invocation module 1424 may enable client applications to forward a notification by forking in serial or in parallel. This basic configuration is illustrated in FIG. 14 by those components within dashed line 1408. In a system according to embodiments, records may be synchronized through communication with dedicated servers for each of the distinct modalities of the conversation, multipurpose servers, or a combination of servers and endpoints of the communication system.
[0067]Computing device 1400 may have additional features or functionality. For example, the computing device 1400 may also include additional data storage devices (removable and/or non-removable) such as, for example, magnetic disks, optical disks, or tape. Such additional storage is illustrated in FIG. 14 by removable storage 1409 and non-removable storage 1410. Computer readable storage media may include volatile and nonvolatile, removable and non-removable media implemented in any method or technology for storage of information, such as computer readable instructions, data structures, program modules, or other data. System memory 1404, removable storage 1409 and non-removable storage 1410 are all examples of computer readable storage media. Computer readable storage media includes, but is not limited to, RAM, ROM, EEPROM, flash memory or other memory technology, CD-ROM, digital versatile disks (DVD) or other optical storage, magnetic cassettes, magnetic tape, magnetic disk storage or other magnetic storage devices, or any other medium which can be used to store the desired information and which can be accessed by computing device 1400. Any such computer readable storage media may be part of computing device 1400. Computing device 1400 may also have input device(s) 1412 such as keyboard, mouse, pen, voice input device, touch input device, and comparable input devices. Output device(s) 1414 such as a display, speakers, printer, and other types of output devices may also be included. These devices are well known in the art and need not be discussed at length here.
[0068]Computing device 1400 may also contain communication connections 1416 that allow the device to communicate with other devices 1418, such as over a wireless network in a distributed computing environment, a satellite link, a cellular link, and comparable mechanisms. Other devices 1418 may include computer device(s) that execute communication applications, other directory or policy servers, and comparable devices. Communication connection(s) 1416 is one example of communication media. Communication media can include therein computer readable instructions, data structures, program modules, or other data in a modulated data signal, such as a carrier wave or other transport mechanism, and includes any information delivery media. The term "modulated data signal" means a signal that has one or more of its characteristics set or changed in such a manner as to encode information in the signal. By way of example, and not limitation, communication media includes wired media such as a wired network or direct-wired connection, and wireless media such as acoustic, RF, infrared and other wireless media.
[0069]Example embodiments also include methods. These methods can be implemented in any number of ways, including the structures described in this document. One such way is by machine operations, of devices of the type described in this document.
[0070]Another optional way is for one or more of the individual operations of the methods to be performed in conjunction with one or more human operators performing some. These human operators need not be collocated with each other, but each can be only with a machine that performs a portion of the program.
[0071]FIG. 15 illustrates a logic flow diagram for process 1500 of providing call redirect information to a caller and called parties as the call request is being routed. Process 1500 may be implemented as part of a communication system that facilitates multiple communication modes.
[0072]Process 1500 begins with operation 1510, where a request to initiate a single or multimodal communication session (call) is received. At operation 1520, a redirect order is determined based on system rules, target party defined rules, or real time action by the target party such as rejection of the call request. The redirect order may include routing of the call through serial forking, parallel forking, or a combination of the two.
[0073]At optional operation 1530, a redirect request may be received from the target party, which is an example of a real time action by the target party. At operation 1540, the call is routed following the system and/or recipient defined rules and real time actions by the recipients on the routing path. The call may be routed as delegation using serial forking or as team call using parallel forking. As the call is being routed, service invocation information such as routing history, reasons for redirection, and other optional information may be provided to the recipients. Similarly, service invocation information associated with the call request being routed is provided to the original requester at operation 1550. Any information provided to the recipients and the original requestor may be filtered based on system rules, recipient defined rules, and permission levels of the parties.
[0074]At operation 1560, the communication session is facilitated upon one or more recipients accepting the request. Some or all of the service invocation information provided during the routing of the call request may be persisted to provide the participants in the communication session a context.
[0075]The operations included in process 1500 are for illustration purposes. A communication service conveying service invocation information may be implemented by similar processes with fewer or additional steps, as well as in different order of operations using the principles described herein.
[0076]The above specification, examples and data provide a complete description of the manufacture and use of the composition of the embodiments. Although the subject matter has been described in language specific to structural features and/or methodological acts, it is to be understood that the subject matter defined in the appended claims is not necessarily limited to the specific features or acts described above. Rather, the specific features and acts described above are disclosed as example forms of implementing the claims and embodiments.
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My Neighborhood, Its Fall and Rise
By VIVIAN GORNICK
Published: June 24, 2001
I WAS born and raised in the West Farms section of the Bronx in the kind of working-class neighborhood that was then, by definition, either Jewish or Irish or Italian. Most of the raising got done in a small five-room apartment on the second floor of a narrow brick apartment house around the corner from the Bronx Zoo, on a street inside a quadrant bounded to the north by Bronx Park, the south by East Tremont Avenue, the west by Southern Boulevard and the east by Boston Road.
The park was then -- this was the 40's and 50's -- an open expanse of green in which we walked and rode our bikes daily, clambered over the rocky embankments of the Bronx River, and in the goodness of time defended our virginity in all weathers and every season. But the hub of the world was East 180th Street between Boston Road and Southern Boulevard. Here we did everything: shopped for food, did the laundry, took the buses; went to the bank, the drugstore, the shoe repair; met our friends, hung out at the candy store, stood talking on the corner far into the summer night, late into the winter afternoon.
Here, also, when I was 10, Dorothy Belinsky's father put his arm around me in the candy store and showed me a pornographic postcard; when I was 12 (now a widow's child) the butcher put a half pound of lamb chops on the scale and charged me for a pound; and when I was 13 the teacher in the Yiddish school above the cleaners pressed his fingers into my shoulder and told me that ideas were everything.
It was a world complete with minor villains and even more minor heroes; above all, it was a world devoted to working-class respectability. The five-story brick and stone apartment houses we lived in stood ranked in overpowering uniformity, block upon block upon block, without a break and without an end. The streets before them were shabby, clean, silent, charmless. All was of a piece: on the one hand, life was joyless, on the other it was coherent; either way, you were safe. But inside the apartments every straphanging father knew a weariness that hovered repeatedly at the breaking point, and every dissatisfied mother translated her deepest complaints into a habit of anxiety applied indiscriminately to either a cut knee or the outbreak of war.
It was the bleakness of expectation, the stultified vision and resented courage, that dragged us -- the children -- down, and made us hate the place. Our longing to get out of the Bronx was intense, and it induced, paradoxically, a solidarity that many were to carry well into other lives: the inevitable mixed legacy of the ghetto. For that's what the Bronx was for us: a working-class ghetto destined to be deserted by its young. By the time I graduated from college, nearly everyone I'd grown up with was gone, and the neighborhood itself was on its way down into the kind of urban defeat that has, over the last three decades, made headlines.
I WENT back just once, in the early 70's. The changes I found were enormous and, at the time, struck me as surreal. Never in all our years of dreary safety here could we have imagined these streets becoming a war zone. East Tremont Avenue -- the busiest, liveliest, most interesting business street in the entire neighborhood -- was now a place of terrible disintegration: boarded-up storefronts, gated windows, broken sidewalks, junky clothing set out on the street, the narcotic sound of salsa pouring from every storefront doorway, a falling-down restaurant plastered over with ''Vote'' signs across which was scrawled in indelible black ink, ''All politicians is a whore.''
At Southern Boulevard I turned back, walking up Vyse Avenue toward home; burned out buildings, garbage overflowing the sidewalks, teen-age boys dealing dope.
When I reached East 180th Street -- again, boarded-up fronts, broken-down stores, defaced signs -- an added sense of disconnect overcame me. O.K., Simon's Grocery had become Melendez's Groceria, and the synagogue had become the First Highway Church of Jesus Christ; but Jack's Appetizing was now Rivera's Auto Parts, the shoe repair Bar-B-Que Chicken, the hardware store a pawnbroker.
I got to my own street -- 181st between Vyse and Bryant -- and stood looking down it for a long moment: garbage strewn all around the houses, windows and doors broken, sidewalks full of holes, chalked obscenities, ground-down newspapers. My own once solid building now looked shrunken and terribly old. The glass in the front door was splintered, the iron banisters had been ripped from their brass ball sockets and the walls were covered with graffiti.
A chunky Hispanic woman came into the hall behind me. She stiffened, then asked if she could help me. ''I grew up in this building,'' I said. ''In 2B. I thought perhaps I could see the apartment once more. Do you happen to know who lives there?''
''I do,'' she said, as startled as I. She looked me over. ''Sure. You can come and see the apartment. But I better tell you first, my kids are all over the place!''
I laughed and we walked down the hall together, exchanging names. Hers was Rita Garcia. Nine people were living in Apartment 2B, as opposed to our old, crowded four, so of course there were stacks of things everywhere: clothes, toys, appliances. They barricaded the windows, narrowed the doorways, filled the hallway. Everything looked painfully rundown and given up on. The light and air that had once characterized these rooms seemed permanently gone. I stared and stared, lost in an orgy of remembering.
Rita Garcia took me to the door. I looked at her, and held out my hand.
''Thanks,'' I said.
''I got to get my kids out of here,'' she said.


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Where To Hang Art
Decorator Alexa Hampton explains the right height to place pics
Art: beautiful to look at but tricky to hang. Where to place it can be figured out much more readily when you remember one important thing: Art is meant to be seen.
To a certain extent, there is an intuitive aspect to picture hanging. Don't let it hang way, way up by the ceiling, and don't let it hug the floor—unless you are extremely tall or extremely short, in which case you are justified in your extreme choices.
I choose to take an average approach when hanging art. At 5 feet 9 inches tall, I feel I represent the masses. After all, according to Wikipedia, the national average for American women is 5-foot-4 and the average American male is 5-foot-9½, so I am right in the thick of things (the CDC says that women are 5-foot-3 and men 5-foot-8 but that doesn't suit my argument, so I'm going with Wikipedia on this one).
Accordingly, I usually pick 54 to 56 inches off of the floor as the center point for artwork, as it can suit many heights. When I hang clusters of art, I mass them on that same center point, making sure never to line up paintings along the same top or bottom line (fig. A). Instead, I arrange them so they share a center line (fig. B). Much like in a perspective drawing, where a vanishing point determines the entire composition, an arrangement of pictures with a single center line or point will successfully hang together as a whole. By that same token, artwork that hangs over a piece of furniture—be it a sofa or a table—should be close enough to the furniture that it relates to it as part of a single configuration. To do so, the art can be released from the 54-inch directive (fig. D). If the art is too high above the furniture, which should serve as an anchor, it will look like it has drifted into outer space.
The last really important thing to remember is this: If you are hanging a painting over a sofa or a chair, make sure it is high enough that your head can't hit it. Nothing looks good if you're nursing a concussion.
Common mistake:
Aligning the tops of artwork in a cluster
The fix:
Arrange artwork so it shares a center line.
Common mistake:
A single piece of art, off in limbo
The fix:
Art that hangs over a piece of furniture should be close enough to the furniture that it relates to it as part of a single configuration.
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A Late, Late Christmas Feast of Diamonds
No matter how late you've left it to buy the Christmas feast, it's unlikely to be as late as the just-in-time model pursued in Paris.
There's a perceived decline in standards of home cooking here and frozen ready-meals chain Picard is so ubiquitous that a culinary commentator recently bewailed "the deep freeze generation." Nevertheless, tomorrow morning street markets will be bustling with people who've risen early and braved icy temperatures to precision-shop for the festive board. Apart from the Bûche de Noël, a gooey Yule log cake, few purchases are specifically Christmassy. It's more about an excuse for a gastronomical splurge.
Some treats are ordered in advance, such as the most luxurious cheese board of the year. But while this makes for earnest, queue-clogging consultations with the cheesemonger in early December, other favorites—such as oysters—are selected just hours before landing on the table. Rather than a chore to be dispensed with as swiftly as possible, food shopping is seen as part of the celebration itself. With nary a soupçon of official prompting, citizens go to great lengths to achieve the level of cuisine Unesco has officially recognized as part of France's cultural heritage.
Like most expats here, we've acquired the gourmet impulse and this year forayed a little further afield in search of "the diamonds of cuisine."
Last week in a small market town in the Charente in southwestern France, we followed homemade road signs to the marché aux truffes (truffle market). The signs led into the lobby of the village hall scented with the aromas of the woodland floor. In a chilly room wooden tables were set up as stalls and 30 or so men and women in anoraks stood guard over squidgy black objects. Few buyers were in evidence. On our arrival, everyone glanced in our direction.
Although the truffles were wrapped in checked tea towels and more than one seller had earth under their fingernails, a sense of serious deal making was in the air. Next to top-notch electronic scales were handwritten cards indicating prices of up to €850 per kilo. The asking price per kilo for "winter truffles" from Charente-Maritime was €300, for black Périgord truffles it was €650. Once poetically referred to as "La belle ténébreuse" (mysterious beauty), today truffles are more commercially spun as "black pearls" or "French caviar."
After I'd explained why I was taking notes, vendors invited me to inhale their wares. They explained that hunting is now usually done with dogs rather than hogs. While pigs have a natural ability to sniff out truffles, they also want to eat what they find. A few customers were buying minuscule quantities for their own consumption, but there were evidently bigger buyers in the room as well. In mid-conversation with a vendor, I was politely asked to make way for a silver-haired man in a city coat and hat. Negotiations were sotto voce and sales seemed to be cash only. But this still isn't discreet enough for trufficulteurs (truffle farmers) who deal on the "parallel market." According to the newspaper Sud Ouest, go-betweens for Michelin-starred restaurants arrange roadside rendezvous with farmers selling truffles out of their car boot.
The secret plantations where one man and his dog forage for underground treasure seem a world away from the flurry of Paris markets on Christmas morning. In our neighborhood, the bakeries fire up their ovens and remain open until the last baguette is sold, bringing the joy of fresh croissants to fortify us for the last-minute cook-in.
Shivering for art's sake
A Vancouver-based landscape artist who depicts forest clearings in the snow once revealed to me that the most crucial part of her painter's kit is a thermal vest and long johns. In Paris, there's a highly specialized squad of artists who each year don Bhutan woolly hats and fingerless gloves to paint outside. Their aim? To earn seasonal pin money painting nostalgic scenes on the plate glass windows of bakeries and restaurants.
As I write, some of these artists are still at work, perched on stepladders on the pavement. Christmas decorations go up later here than in London, Berlin or New York but also remain in place longer. The plastic figure of Santa Claus is often still scaling the wall of our bakery when it's time to send out Valentine cards.
A popping good time
At a neighbor's festive get-together in Paris we were regaled with chilled Champagne and a gargantuan seafood platter. It was a shock, however, when at the children's table a bottle of Champagne was also popped and 12-year-olds and younger started toasting each other.
It turned out to be Champomy, a French-made fizzy drink for youngsters that is 99% apple juice but sold in a bottle that looks like the real thing and opens with an authentic pop. A website for French parents also suggests a homemade version. This involves wrapping foil around the top of a lemonade bottle and DIY champagne-style labels naming the vintage as Château KEVIN or SAM-pagne. Cheers to safeguarding the gastronomic heritage!
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BUSHLAND — Gary Robert Schweitzer, 60, of Bushland died Saturday, March 8, 2014.
Memorial services will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday in First Baptist Church Bushland with Jeff Ponder, pastor, and Mark DeVito, his brother-
in-law, officiating. Arrangements are by Boxwell Brothers Funeral Directors, 2800 Paramount Blvd.
Gary was born Feb. 28, 1954, in Cleveland, Ohio, to James and Hilda Schweitzer. Gary lived in the Amarillo area for more than 30 years. He married Kathy DeVito in 1983 in Amarillo.
Gary was devoted to his family and faith and attended First Baptist Church Bushland. He worked for Sears for 31 years. Gary was a proud American who loved camping, fishing, and his dogs.
He was preceded in death by his parents and two brothers, David and Jerry.
Survivors include his wife, Kathy Schweitzer of Bushland; two children, Anna Schweitzer of Houston and Jacob Schweitzer of Bushland; two brothers, Jim Schweitzer of San Antonio and Larry Schweitzer of Las Vegas; and a sister, Marge Ansel of Parma, Ohio.
Sign the online guest book at www.boxwellbrothers.com.
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