We haven't dived too deeply into the patents themselves, but it looks like Ed's going to have a bit of a fight on his hands here, as the patents seem to describe systems that have preloaded content about music that's then accessed when a data trigger is received over the air, not just storing song information for later purchase over the Internet.
Most of them use the data to trigger electrodes in the chip to stimulate pixels of light on the retina, which are then processed normally by the brain as images.
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Given the impact that the report may have upon the extent to which claims data alone can trigger lengthy, expensive, and burdensome audits and investigations, the report should be critical reading for health care providers and the counsel upon whom they rely.
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Karpati and Kaplan said the data crunching has helped trigger a number of investigations.
Making data digital from the start can trigger a whole range of positive events.
If you're into your data, you can also access trigger statistics from the software, complete with graphs.
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The most powerful feature, though, is the ability to create programs that can automate tasks, send alerts and trigger events based on data from the sensors.
For example, when a user visited a website that had code for one tracking technology, the data collection would call out to and trigger other tracking technologies that weren't embedded on the site.
For instance, it uses U.S. Postal Service data to determine when someone has moved--a "trigger event" that may mean a consumer is in the market for certain types of items, such as kitchenware.
This involves mining data for lifecycle events to generate targeted messaging based on an automated trigger engine.
Ellison knew when he acquired Sun that the explosion of the global Internet economy, the customer-engagement economy, the real-time-and-always-on economy, the Big Data economy, or the whatever-you-want-to-call-it economy, would trigger analytical and transactional workloads for Oracle customers that would crush traditional, non-optimized hardware and software combinations.
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