After approximately three years of litigation,the patent infringement suit brought by Card Monroe Corp.(CMC)against Tuftco Corp.(Tuftco)for infringement of CMC’s United States Patents Nos.8,141,505,8,359,989,and 8,77...After approximately three years of litigation,the patent infringement suit brought by Card Monroe Corp.(CMC)against Tuftco Corp.(Tuftco)for infringement of CMC’s United States Patents Nos.8,141,505,8,359,989,and 8,776,703 has been officially concluded.The case,Civil Action No.1:14 CV 292,was filed by CMC in federal court asserting infringement of CMC’s U.S.patents covering its ColorPoint technology by carpet tufting machines manufactured,used,sold,and/or offered for sale by Tuftco under the names ColorTuft,iTuft c,Colortuft Graphics,iTuft 5c,and iTuft 6c,configured to perform the ColorTuft or Easy Pattern method of operation.展开更多
This paper considers the problem of jointly estimating marginal quantiles of a multivariatedistribution.A sufficient condition for an estimator that converges in probability under a multivariate version of Robbins–Mo...This paper considers the problem of jointly estimating marginal quantiles of a multivariatedistribution.A sufficient condition for an estimator that converges in probability under a multivariate version of Robbins–Monro procedure is provided.We propose an efficient procedurewhich incorporates the correlation structure of the multivariate distribution to improve the estimation especially for cases involving extreme marginal quantiles.Estimation efficiency of theproposed method is demonstrated by simulation in comparison with a general multivariate Robbins–Monro procedure and an efficient Robbins–Monro procedure that estimates the marginalquantiles separately.展开更多
文摘After approximately three years of litigation,the patent infringement suit brought by Card Monroe Corp.(CMC)against Tuftco Corp.(Tuftco)for infringement of CMC’s United States Patents Nos.8,141,505,8,359,989,and 8,776,703 has been officially concluded.The case,Civil Action No.1:14 CV 292,was filed by CMC in federal court asserting infringement of CMC’s U.S.patents covering its ColorPoint technology by carpet tufting machines manufactured,used,sold,and/or offered for sale by Tuftco under the names ColorTuft,iTuft c,Colortuft Graphics,iTuft 5c,and iTuft 6c,configured to perform the ColorTuft or Easy Pattern method of operation.
基金This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China[grant number 11271134]the 111 Project(B14019)of Ministry of Education of China.
文摘This paper considers the problem of jointly estimating marginal quantiles of a multivariatedistribution.A sufficient condition for an estimator that converges in probability under a multivariate version of Robbins–Monro procedure is provided.We propose an efficient procedurewhich incorporates the correlation structure of the multivariate distribution to improve the estimation especially for cases involving extreme marginal quantiles.Estimation efficiency of theproposed method is demonstrated by simulation in comparison with a general multivariate Robbins–Monro procedure and an efficient Robbins–Monro procedure that estimates the marginalquantiles separately.