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A computerized system, method and process allows telecommunications carriers to find, evaluate and select locations for equipment through direct access to end users, while providing citizens the opportunity to offer the use of their dwelling or other assets to carriers. The system and method further provides a computerized mechanism for (a) creating an inventory and marketplace for available properties for use in telecommunications networks, (b) providing quality and/or performance monitoring and control for wireless communication systems based on data in the clearinghouse, and (c) providing localized content over wireless networks using the clearinghouse.

An image sensor packaging structure with a low transmittance encapsulant is provided. The image sensor packaging structure includes a substrate, a chip, a transparent lid, and the low transmittance encapsulant. The chip is combined with the substrate. The transparent lid is adhered to the chip and cover above a sensitization area of the chip to form an air cavity. The low transmittance encapsulant is formed on the substrate and encapsulates the chip and the transparent lid so as to accomplish the package of the image sensor packaging structure. Due to the feature of prohibiting from light passing through the low transmittance encapsulant, the arrangement of the low transmittance encapsulant can avoid the light from outside interfere the image sensing effect of the image sensor. Therefore, the quality of the image sensing can be ensured.

The present invention relates to a method of and an apparatus for forming a thin metal film of copper, silver, or the like on a surface of a semiconductor or another substrate. A method of forming a thin metal film, comprises preparing a dispersed liquid having a metal-containing organic compound dispersed in a predetermined solvent, coating the dispersed liquid on a surface of a substrate and evaporating the solvent to form a coating layer, and applying an energy beam to the coating layer to decompose away an organic substance contained in the coating layer in an area irradiated with the energy beam and bond metal contained in the coating layer. According to the present invention, it is possible to form a thin metal film of good quality efficiently and stably. The thin metal film used as metal interconnects in highly integrated semiconductor circuits contributes to the progress of a process of fabricating semiconductor devices.

The present invention provides efficient and effective quality of service for information that is time sensitive (e.g., real time data). An intermediate network communication system and method (e.g., a router) of the present invention performs cut through switching to reduce latency problems for time sensitive information. In one embodiment of the present invention, communication packet header information is encoded with a time sensitive identifier that identifies the information as time sensitive. In one exemplary transfer control protocol/internet protocol TCP/IP implementation of the present invention, time sensitive indication is provided in the link layer information. In one embodiment of the present invention, time sensitive information is dropped if the intermediate network device can not communicate the information within specified timing constraints. In one embodiment of the present invention time sensitive information is cut through routed on a virtual channel and pre-empts non time sensitive information. In one embodiment a communication path probe is cut through routed via intermediate network devices to establish a communication path before other information is communicated from a originating source to a final destination. In one embodiment the present invention leverages previously collected information to establish a communication path. In one embodiment the present invention, an intermediate network device establishes a second communication link if a first communication link is unavailable.

A method for practical QoS routing, which provides a solution to the delay constrained least cost routing problem, is presented. The method uses the concept of aggregated costs and finds the optimal multiplier based on Lagrange relaxation. The method is polynomial in running time, and produces a theoretical lower bound (i.e. optimal solution), along with the result. The differences between the lower bound and result are small, indicating the quality of the result. Additionally, by further relaxing the desire for an optimal solution, an option is provided to control the trade-off between running time of the algorithm and quality of the result.

A vertebra bone cement introduction system includes a main frame comprised of lateral handle and vertical insertion tube; a pouring frame comprised of lateral handle and vertical extension tube; an external injection device to inject cement into extension tube; a taper being meshed to extension tube; a polygonal hole disposed to taper and a recession in the mid of taper connected to a silicon gel bag containing cement; a locking rod penetrating the extension tube; and the lateral rod of the pouring frame being turned in reverse to disengage taper from extension tube while leaving taper and bag in a hole drilled on the bone.

An event analysis system and method of analysing events are provided. The method comprises the steps of displaying event element icons in a user interface, updating the location of moved event element icons in the user interface, and determining an organization of the event elements based upon the location of the event element icons in the user interface. The event element icons represent event elements in an event or chain of event elements. The event element icons are movable in a coding panel of the user interface. The event analysis system comprises a presentation module for generating a user interface and event element icons for the user interface, a controller module for controlling the display of the user interface, and a data model module for holding a data structure representing the event elements and used to generate the event element icons.

The congestion control in a networking device having a plurality of input interface queues includes (a) estimating the data arrival rate on each of the plurality of input interface queues, and (b) determining, for each polling round, the sequence in which the plurality of input interface queues should be polled and the quantity of data to be processed from each of the plurality of input interface queues each time the input interface queue is polled, using the estimated data arrival rate on each of the plurality of input interface queues.

An improved low-cost super-regenerative receiver includes sampling phase-locked loop. Phase sampling is controlled by the quench signal (264). In the preferred embodiment, logic state HIGH to logic state LOW transition of the quench signal (264) defines the timing for the event of sampling. While the quench signal (264) is in logic state HIGH, a quenched oscillator is being turned ON and the oscillation amplitude builds-up until a steady-state level is reached. When the oscillator is turned OFF, effective quality factor of an electronically tunable resonator (206) is reduced, by increasing losses in the circuit, thus to ensure aperiodic (non-oscillatory) decay. The resonator's charge—an energy stored on internal reactive components of the resonator (206), which existed at the instant of turning the oscillations OFF, is transferred during precisely defined period of time to the charge holding capacitor (404) of a charge transfer circuit (216). Charge is stored on the charge holding capacitor (404), which is also part of a loop filter, until the described here charge transfer cycle is repeated again. A frequency control signal (268) at the output of the loop filter sets the frequency of the oscillation for the duration of the succeeding oscillator ON time.

Scanning neighboring base stations in a wireless access system is provided. In one embodiment, a method of scanning neighboring base stations for assessing channel quality includes receiving from a serving base station information associated with at least one neighboring base station, and transmitting a scanning request message from a mobile subscriber station to the serving base station, wherein the scanning request message comprises a requested scan duration and a requested scan iteration, the requested scan iteration being associated with a requested number of iterations of the scanning of the at least one neighboring base station. The method also includes receiving a scanning response message from the serving base station, wherein the scanning response message comprises an allowed scan duration and an allowed scan iteration, the allowed scan iteration being associated with an allowed number of iterations of the scanning of the at least one neighboring base station.

A preferred aspect of an electrophotographic photoconductor of the present invention contains a layer containing a hardened material which is prepared by polymerizing (A) a chain-polymerizable group-containing tertiary amine compound in which at least one alkyl group is bound to a nitrogen atom constituting an amine structure through chain polymerization. Another preferred aspect of the electrophotographic photoconductor contains a layer containing a hardened material which is prepared by polymerizing the (A) component, and (B) a chain-polymerizable charge transporting compound through chain polymerization. Still another preferred aspect of the electrophotographic photoconductor contains a layer containing a hardened material which is prepared by polymerizing the (A) component, (B) the chain-polymerizable charge transporting compound, and (C) a trifunctional or more chain-polymerizable compound through chain polymerization.

A methodology is presented to address the need for rapid generation and optimization of algorithms that are efficient in solving a given class of problems within the framework of a software environment. The environment incorporates an evolutionary learning methodology which automatically optimizes the configurations of procedural components of the algorithm. In this way, both the efficiency and the quality of algorithm development is enhanced significantly.

A user device transmitting at least an uplink control channel using a single carrier scheme includes a channel quality indicator generating unit configured to generate a channel quality indicator indicating a downlink radio propagation condition; and a transmitting unit configured to transmit the uplink control channel including the channel quality indicator using a dedicated frequency band when no radio resource is allocated for transmission of an uplink data channel. The transmitting unit is configured to transmit a predetermined number of unit blocks in each slot period. If a system bandwidth is greater than a predetermined value, a set of factors used to multiply some of the unit blocks belonging to the same slot and containing the same information represents an orthogonal sequence; and a predetermined number of symbol elements constituting each of the some of the unit blocks represent at least a part of the channel quality indicator.

A method and apparatus are provided for coding a sequence of images. The method includes a step of coding at least one block of a current image of the sequence, implementing a prediction associating the block with at least one corresponding block in a reference image. The prediction includes the following steps, for at least one given block of the current image or of the reference image: determination of a plurality of control vectors for the block; at least one splitting of the block into sub-blocks; determination of a plurality of control vectors for the sub-blocks; and determination of a prediction value for at least one point of the current image. Moreover, the method includes a step of inserting, into a signal representative of the sequence, information regarding reconstruction of the control vectors for the given block.

Embodiments of the invention provide a renderer-agnostic method for representing materials independently from an underlying rendering engine. Advantageously, materials libraries may be extended with new materials for rendering with an existing rendering engine and implementation. Also, new rendering engines and implementations may be added for existing materials. Thus, at run-time, rather than limiting the rendering to being performed on a pre-determined rendering engine, the rendering application may efficiently and conveniently manage rendering a graphics scene on a plurality of rendering engines or implementations.

A method for a mobile terminal accessing wireless access points and a wireless access point are disclosed. The method includes: after acquiring an access request of a mobile station, when determining that its load exceeds a preset first load upper limit, according to acquired connection information of other wireless access points, a first wireless access point sends a load balance request to all the other wireless access points; a wireless access point receiving the request sends a load balance feedback message to the first wireless access point, carrying its load and connection authentication information required; the first wireless access point selects a load balance feedback message carrying a minimum load from all received messages, and then sends the connection authentication information carried in the selected message to the mobile station; and the mobile station initiates an access flow to a corresponding wireless access point according to the received information.