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Embodiments of the present invention are directed to a gas distribution system which distributes the gas more uniformly into a process chamber. In one embodiment, a gas distribution system comprises a gas ring including an outer surface and an inner surface, and a gas inlet disposed at the outer surface of the gas ring. The gas inlet is fluidicly coupled with a first channel which is disposed between the outer surface and the inner surface of the gas ring. A plurality of gas outlets are distributed over the inner surface of the gas ring, and are fluidicly coupled with a second channel which is disposed between the outer surface and the inner surface of the gas ring. A plurality of orifices are fluidicly coupled between the first channel and the second channel. The plurality of orifices are spaced from the gas inlet by a plurality of distances, and have sizes which vary with the distances from the gas inlet as measured along the first channel, such that the size of the orifice increases with an increase in the distance between the orifice and the gas inlet as measured along the first channel.

A director is provided to receive source address instances of packets routed through routing devices of a network. The director determines whether any of the reported source address instances are to be deemed as spoof source address instances. The director further determines where filtering actions are to be deployed to filter out packets having certain source addresses deemed to be spoof instances. The director makes its determinations based at least in part on a selected one of a number of consistency measures. The consistency measures may include but are not limited to spatial consistency, destination consistency, migration consistency, and temporary consistency. The consistency measures are evaluated using spatial, destination source address range, migration and timing S/D/M/T distribution profiles of the reported source addresses. In some embodiments, the determinations are based further in view of reference S/D/M/T distribution profiles, which may be an exemplary S/D/M/T distribution profile of a typical non-spoof source address or a historical S/D/M/T distribution profile of the source address.

An enterprise wide electronic commerce system allows trading partners to act as participants in a complex trading process. Participants communicate with one another by joining conversations that are hosted in a collaboration space and managed by a collaboration hub. In this manner, the enterprise workflow may have an effect on, or be affected by, local workflows. The invention provides a workflow integration system for enterprise wide electronic collaboration. An embodiment of the invention includes a workflow integration system for a collaboration system that allows for sharing of workflow information between collaboration participants, comprising a collaboration server having stored thereon an enterprise workflow, a workflow server having stored thereon a participant workflow and an integration mechanism for allowing said enterprise workflow and said participant workflow to interact with one another.

An enterprise wide electronic commerce system allows trading partners to act as participants in a complex trading process. Participants communicate with one another by joining conversations that are hosted in a collaboration space and managed by a collaboration hub. In this manner, the enterprise workflow may have an effect on, or be affected by, local workflows. The invention provides an open market collaboration system for enterprise wide electronic commerce. An embodiment of the invention includes a collaboration system that allows the exchange of data between participants in an electronic commerce environment, comprising a collaboration hub for the transfer of data between participants, a collaboration space defining the rules governing said transfer of data and the role of said participants, and a hub transport that allows a participant to send and receive data from the collaboration hub in accordance with the definitions of the collaboration space.

Signal repeater system of the general type that facilitates using various standards and various modulation types to improve properties with various infrastructure, in particular power grid systems.

The solution of the present application provides many types and forms of resources, such as products or services, to an environment of heterogeneous devices. An agent and centralized service may communicate to deliver an optimum package of resources to a device. Each device may include an agent that collects information important to determining the appropriate resources for the device and understanding the environment the devices are contributing to. The information may be stored and analyzed in a cross device knowledge base, and the knowledge base may be consulted to determine resources appropriate for devices. The agent and centralized service may engage in pro-active alerting and provisioning of services, based on any collected information, to minimize the burden of resource procurement on the customer. After delivery of resources, the agent and centralized service may also perform updating, repairing, and healing functions for the resources. Resources may be aggregated into a cohesive platform to be combined and delivered in an optimum manner, and resources may also be maintained and monitored to ensure their quality via escalation or remedial action. Devices may be connected to the resources through intelligent routing.

A method and system of managing calls over a data network includes admitting a call if a throughput requirement is met. After a call request, the call request defining a throughput requirement, is received for establishing a call, a network resource responds with a throughput requirement request. A throughput measurement is performed between the destination terminals. A throughput measurement response, including the throughput measurement, is transmitted to the network resource. Further, a plurality of communities may be defined, each including one or more terminals. A call may be admitted between communities based on the throughput requirement being met in a connection between each respective terminal. Additionally, one or more of a plurality of resource elements may be selected in response to the call request based on the throughput requirement being met. The resource elements, which may include codecs (coders/decoders), packet sizes (for carrying audio data), and others, may be used in the requested call.

A method, device and computer program product for performing cell reselection based on priorities, where the method includes measuring a signal of a candidate cell, and selecting the candidate cell when the signal characteristic of the candidate cell satisfies a certain criterion for a certain time duration, wherein the certain time duration is modified according to a priority of the candidate cell.

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.

An apparatus for preparing and vending beverages based on selections input by consumers is provided, including one or more sources of roasted coffee beans; one or more sources of teas; one or more sources of cocoa; at least one grinder for preparing ground coffee from said roasted coffee beans; one or more sources of flavoring ingredients; a source of water; one or more sources of fresh dairy products; and a mechanism for preparing the beverage. Also provided is a method for preparing a beverage according to selections entered by a consumer, including receiving beverage selections entered by a consumer; collecting payment for the beverage based on the beverage selections entered; retrieving preset standards for proper preparation of the beverage based on the beverage selections; displaying the beverage preparation process and the freshness of ingredients used to prepare the beverage; preparing the beverage in accordance with the preset standards; monitoring the preparation of the beverage for compliance with the preset standards; and providing the beverage to the consumer.

A gas floating-transporting apparatus transports a material to be treated along a predetermined direction in a thermal space so as to thermally treat the material to be treated. The apparatus includes a gas floating mechanism and a transporting mechanism. The gas floating mechanism includes a gas ejection device which expels the gas toward a portion of the material to be treated on which a floating force is acted so as to float the material to be treated, and a gas supply device which supplies the gas to the gas ejection means. The transporting mechanism includes an abutting member which abuts a trailing end of the floated material to be treated and moves along the predetermined direction, and which pushes the material to be treated by the movement thereof, whereby the floated material to be treated is moved along the predetermined direction.

Systems and methods providing a route optimization mechanism for transmitting data traffic across different autonomous systems based on real-time route performance detection. Regarding a request for routing data between a source node that is coupled to a first autonomous system and a destination node located in a second autonomous system, each of a plurality of edge nodes in the first autonomous system operates to detect and evaluate real-time route performance. The evaluation results are compared and used to select an edge node and an associated link for transporting data between the source node and the destination node. The route optimization mechanism can be adopted in an SDN-based or other virtual network autonomous system.

The present invention relates to an arrangement and a method for ensuring quality during scanning/copying of images/documents. The method includes the steps of feeding in the page(s) that are to be scanned/copied. Thereafter, a first measurement of outer characteristics is performed with respect to skew, double-feeding/overlapping, deviating shape, and geometric deformation for calculating a first quality measure Q1. Thereafter, the first quality measure Q1 is compared with a predetermined first quality limit Q+1. If Q1>=Q+1, then an automatic adjustment is performed in the form of a geometric transformation in order to improve the first quality measure Q1. Thereafter, the contents of the page are analyzed with respect to structure and objects in order to calculate a second quality measure Q2, which is compared with a predetermined second quality limit Q+2. If Q2>=Q+2, then image improvement methods are performed on each identified object. Thereafter, an information analysis of each page is performed, followed by a comparison with pre-defined form/document types for calculating a third quality measure Q3, which is compared with a predetermined third quality limit Q+3. If Q3>=Q3, then a fourth quality measure Q is calculated, which is an overall quality measure that is compared with a predetermined fourth quality limit Q+. If Q>=Q+, then pre-processing is performed in order to achieve a correct output format, depending on pre-defined information about the printer/output unit.

Disclosed are a server system for performing moving picture data communication with a client device over a wireless network, and an operating method thereof. A server device compresses the moving picture data received from an external medium at a variably controlled compression rate according to transmission bandwidth of the current wireless network and an image quality level set by a user in response to a request of the client device. Moreover, the server device transmits the compressed moving picture data to the client device in a wireless fashion. Therefore, transmission delay and playback delay can be avoided and data loss is avoided during a data transmission operation, such that stable data communication can be performed.

The present invention relates to a software development infrastructure and/or methodology in, for example, multi-platform computing environments. More specifically, this invention relates to a software development system and an approach for providing, for example in at least one embodiment, a lattice-based organization of interdependent software products for multi-dimensional progressive application specialization. The inventive system and method optionally starts with a generic root product node and incorporates more domain specific extensions in multiple tiers of constructs, facilities, and complexities, to create specialized applications.

Methods, systems, and computer program products for ensuring data quality and integrity of a data set derived from a data source are described. The data source may be one or more data repositories or data warehouses, or one or more transaction systems. Data from the data source may be stored in a staging area. A data repository is built using the data. The data repository comprises a data structure that forms a model of the data from the data source. The building step involves applying business rules from a rules database to the data. The business rules are dependent upon meta data. The building step further involves detecting any errors in the data and storing data satisfying the business rules in the data repository. A log of any detected errors may be maintained in the data repository.

In a 3G cellular network, a Reverse Link Channel Quality Indicator Channel (R-CQICH) may be transmitted on a reverse link to support forward link high-speed data transmissions. Accordingly, the R-CQICH may be utilized to track the quality of the signal path between the wireless unit and the base station. The base station may include a CQI component that utilizes a received Channel Quality Indicator (CQI) signal from the wireless unit to generate CQI quality metrics based on the quality of the received signal. Also, the CQI quality metrics may be compared to different thresholds to adjust various system configurations in the base station. The base station may also provide feedback to the wireless unit with the updated system configurations. This technique allows CQI quality metrics to be utilized to adjust system configurations dynamically and enhance the operation of a wireless system.

A policy rule scenario control apparatus comprises a scenario data storing unit storing one or more scenario data produced by combinations of a plurality of types of policy rules and applying conditions of these policy rules, a monitoring unit monitoring an operating state of a network device, a scenario selecting unit selecting the scenario data having the applying condition suitable to the monitor result, and a scenario implementing unit implementing policy control on the network device on the basis of, in the selected scenario data, the policy rule having the applying condition suitable to the monitor result, and implementing the policy control on the network device on the basis of a result of the implementation and another policy rule having the applying condition suitable to a subsequent monitor result. This enables automatically applying the policy rule validly according to the network state varying at all times.

A method of forming a gate stack for semiconductor electronic devices utilizing wafer bonding of at least one structure containing a high-k dielectric material is provided. The method of the present invention includes a step of first selecting a first and second structure having a major surface respectively. In accordance with the present invention, at least one, or both, of the first and second structures includes at least a high-k dielectric material. Next, the major surfaces of the first and second structures are bonded together to provide a bonded structure containing at least the high-k dielectric material of a gate stack.

An oven for heating and frying food, particularly a rapid cook oven, includes walls and an openable oven door delimiting an oven space and heaters to heat food in the oven space. Such heaters including: microwave radiation devices, a frying plate having an undersurface, and heat circulating-air devices comprising a flow duct for removing circulating air from the oven space and leading it back into the oven space after cleaning, and a fan installed in the flow duct for creating a circulating-air flow in the said flow duct. The oven additionally includes structure delimiting a cooker space, thermal insulation between the oven space and the cooker space and a heater comprising a cooker situated in the cooker space.

A method and apparatus suitable for monitoring the quality and/or performance of a processing aid or a component during manufacture, storage, or use of electronics or electronic assemblies is provided. The apparatus incorporates a sampling device, a multivariate sensing system (e.g., a multi-sensor array or at least one sensor capable of measuring multiple variables) capable to process an analysis of low vapor pressure or vaporizable constituents in electronics by detecting some changes in the physico-chemical properties of the sensor and/or electronics and applying multivariate analysis. In one embodiment, the sensing system comprises an array of metal oxide sensors and a multivariate analysis algorithm for data processing. This method and apparatus can be employed for various quality control purposes such as contamination analysis or failure analysis of integrated circuits components.