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A method, terminal device, network element, system and computer program product for controlling discontinuous reception or transmission at a terminal device of a communication network are disclosed. A regular discontinuous reception or transmission cycle of a regular discontinuous reception or transmission scheme is set by using a first control layer, and in addition thereto a shorter temporary discontinuous reception or transmission cycle of an interim discontinuous reception or transmission scheme can be set by using a second control layer. This arrangement provides long discontinuous reception or transmission cycles for power consumption improvements while at the same time ensuring that the network can easily and flexibly shorten these cycles for increased data throughput, if needed.

To prevent a point defect and a line defect in forming a light-emitting device, thereby improving the yield. A light-emitting element and a driver circuit of the light-emitting element, which are provided over different substrates, are electrically connected. That is, a light-emitting element and a driver circuit of the light-emitting element are formed over different substrates first, and then electrically connected. By providing a light-emitting element and a driver circuit of the light-emitting element over different substrates, the step of forming the light-emitting element and the step of forming the driver circuit of the light-emitting element can be performed separately. Therefore, degrees of freedom of each step can be increased, and the process can be flexibly changed. Further, steps (irregularities) on the surface for forming the light-emitting element can be reduced than in the conventional technique.

A method of generating a codebook for a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system is provided. The codebook generation method includes: assigning a single-polarized preceding matrix to diagonal blocks among a plurality of blocks arranged in a block diagonal format in which a number of diagonal blocks corresponds to a number of polarization directions of transmitting antennas; and assigning a zero matrix to remaining blocks excluding the diagonal blocks.

The present invention provides a seamless game world system in the field of massively multiplayer online games, comprising a plurality of game servers and at least a client, each of the game servers being assigned to a zone in the game world divided into zones. The seamless game world comprises: a game logic computing module for computing an avatar's new status; a map controller for detecting whether an area of interest of the avatar has crossed the border of a host server of the avatar and spanned neighbor game servers based on the avatar's new status computed by the avatar computing module, and determining to make / delete a clone on a neighbor game server or synchronize the clone's status based on the detected result; and an avatar status update module for performing a normal status update on the avatar based on the computed result of the game logic computing module after the map controller notices its neighbor game server to delete the clone from an avatar list.

A reference voltage register stores a reference value Vref indicating the output voltage Vout of a power supply circuit. A digital filter amplifies the difference between the output voltage Vout from the power supply circuit and the reference value Vref stored in the reference voltage register. A pulse width computation unit computes the duty such that the output voltage Vout matches the reference value Vref, and generates the on-time of a pulse signal corresponding to the duty. A reference value operation unit updates the reference voltage register depending on the output current from the power supply circuit or the temperature around the power supply circuit.

A system for restricting spinal flexion includes superior and inferior tether structures joined by a pair of compliance members. Compliance members comprise tension members which apply a relatively low elastic tension on the tether structures. By placing the tether structures on or over adjacent spinous processes, flexion of a spinal segment can be controlled in order to reduce pain.

A method, terminal device, network element, system and computer program product for controlling discontinuous reception or transmission at a terminal device of a communication network are disclosed. A regular discontinuous reception or transmission cycle of a regular discontinuous reception or transmission scheme is set by using a first control layer, and in addition thereto a shorter temporary discontinuous reception or transmission cycle of an interim discontinuous reception or transmission scheme can be set by using a second control layer. This arrangement provides long discontinuous reception or transmission cycles for power consumption improvements while at the same time ensuring that the network can easily and flexibly shorten these cycles for increased data throughput, if needed.

The wireless communication system configured in this manner performs priority control of communication as follows: (a) A wireless relay station stores a priority table in which, from among the communications handled by the stream server, the identifiers of those communications that are relayed with higher priority are registered. (b) The wireless relay device relays communications specified by the communication identifiers registered in the priority table with higher priority than other communications. (c) The stream server receives communication start requests from any of the wireless terminals and sends to the wireless relay station communication identifiers specifying the communications that are about to be started, and requests registration in the priority table. (d) The wireless relay station registers the communication identifiers whose registration has been requested in the priority table, to an extent that a proportion S / U of a sum S of consumption bandwidths of the communications specified by communication identifiers registered in the priority table to the available bandwidth U of the wireless network does not exceed a predetermined upper limit. Thus, flexible priority control is performed, and the quality of prioritized communication can be ensured.

The invention provides an interactive system for an advertisement player, which comprises mobile equipment, the advertisement player and advertisement playing equipment, wherein the mobile equipment is used for collecting or / and editing data information, and sends the collected or / and edited information to the advertisement player directly based on a network; the advertisement player is used for receiving, storing and processing the information sent by the mobile equipment to form advertisement content to be played; and the advertisement playing equipment is connected with the advertisement player, and used for playing the advertisement content in the advertisement player. Correspondingly, the invention further provides another interactive system for the advertisement player. The two interactive systems for the advertisement player provide advertisement services for merchants based on local and networking modes respectively; requirements of the merchants on editing and displaying advertisements immediately are met; and a very good support platform is provided for advertisement interaction between the merchants.

A three-dimensional virtual space simulator comprises a section for determining the action of an avatar according to the input by the user and generating action instruction data representing the content of the action, a section for determining the action of an agent autonomously and generating action instruction data representing the content of the action, and a process control section for displaying each character in a virtual space according to the action instruction data received from the sections wherein the process control section and a graphic process section share an interface for receiving the action instruction data from the avatar action instruction section, and an interface for receiving the action instruction data from the agent action instruction section. Consequently, a flexible participation mode of the user and high reliability are realized.

In this invention, a combined job obtained by combining a plurality of jobs is authenticated as a single job. According to the arrangement of this invention, when print jobs are to be spooled, these jobs are transferred from a dispatcher to a spooler where the jobs are combined. Upon reception of a print instruction, the print job is read out from a spool file, transferred from a despooler to a graphic engine again, and transferred from the dispatcher to a printer driver. At this time, the printer driver issues an authentication request in printing to a job accounting client. Thus, only one authentication request suffices for one combined job.

An electronic arrangement for analyzing a model-based testing scenario relating to a system under test (SUT), includes a model handler entity for obtaining and managing model data indicative of a model intended to exhibit the behavior of the SUT, a test plan handler entity for obtaining and managing test plan data indicative of a number of test cases relating to the model and expected outcome thereof, a test execution log handler entity for obtaining and managing test execution log data indicative of the execution of the test cases by the test executor and / or SUT, a communications log handler entity for obtaining and managing communications log data indicative of message traffic between the test executor entity and SUT, and an analyzer entity for detecting a number of failures and their causes in the model-based testing scenario on the basis of model, test plan, test execution log and communications log data.

The present invention relates to a handover method that a current coordinator transfers a coordinating function of controlling a network to a different device configuring the network. The present invention relates to a method of selecting an optimal device as a coordinator in selecting the different device using priority information decided by a prescribed evaluation reference. And, the present invention relates to a method of simplifying a procedure in a manner of transmitting relevant information together with a handover request message. In a wireless network including a coordinator, a secondary coordinator is decided in advance. If the coordinator is suddenly unable to perform a function, the present invention relates to a method of enabling the function of the coordinator to be performed by the decided secondary coordinator. Thus, a process for transferring the coordinating function without the handover process is called a recovery process. The present invention relates to the recovery method and a method of deciding a secondary coordinator to perform a recovery. In the method of deciding the secondary coordinator, a method of deciding a more proper coordinator using information on coordinator priority is provided.

The present invention provides a mobile terminal, a resource access control system for a mobile terminal, and a resource access control method in a mobile terminal which can flexibly change resources that can be accessed by an application. An application manager 118 of a mobile terminal 101 transmits an identifier of a root certificate of an application to a server 102 at predetermined timing, e.g., when the application is started, to thereby retrieve a corresponding resource list from a resource database 122. The corresponding resource list is added to an access database 115, or the contents of the access database 115 are updated with the corresponding resource list. Access to resources specified by the resource list is permitted. When the resource list is changed, the contents of the resource list may be transmitted from the server 102 to the mobile terminal 101 by a push type notification.

A revolution member supporting apparatus holds and rotates a disc-shaped object (object to be rotated) such as a semiconductor wafer. The revolution member supporting apparatus includes a rotatable member which rotates about an axis of roation, and a plurality of holding members which are disposed along a circle having a center corresponding to the axis of rotation of the rotatable member, and which revolve around the axis of rotation when the rotatable member rotates, wherein the holding members are allowed to swing about their own central axes.

A servo controller for synchronously controlling a master driving source for driving a driving shaft and a slave driving source for driving a driven shaft, having a position control section that performs a position control based on a positional deviation which is a difference between a position command value given to the slave driving source and a feedback value detected from the slave driving source, an operational section that calculates a synchronization error which is a difference of the positional deviation between the master driving source and the slave driving source, and a correction data calculating section that calculates first correction data for correcting the positional deviation of the slave driving source.

In this invention, a combined job obtained by combining a plurality of jobs is authenticated as a single job. According to the arrangement of this invention, when print jobs are to be spooled, these jobs are transferred from a dispatcher to a spooler where the jobs are combined. Upon reception of a print instruction, the print job is read out from a spool file, transferred from a despooler to a graphic engine again, and transferred from the dispatcher to a printer driver. At this time, the printer driver issues an authentication request in printing to a job accounting client. Thus, only one authentication request suffices for one combined job.

A terminal (101) includes interfaces for communication with a mobile network (102) and a wireless LAN (103). A first IMS server (107) performs IMS call control processing relating to terminals located in the mobile network (102) and a second IMS server (111) relays a signal relating to IMS call control processing concerning terminals located in the wireless LAN (103). These IMS servers search for a mobile network packet gateway (106), a packet data gateway (110), and a gateway to be controlled by a route change request for requesting change of a packet transmission path and relay the route change request. The route change request provided from the terminal (101) is relayed by the IMS servers to provide the change request to all networks specified. The packet transmission path is changed by the gateway in accordance with the request. Thus, the terminal having the interfaces for both of the mobile communication network and the wireless LAN can select a network to use for each communication port.

A method and an apparatus for allocating resources in a wireless communication system are provided. The method generates, in a bit size of first resource allocation information used to schedule a first band, second resource allocation information for scheduling a second band, and transmits the second resource allocation information through the first band.

The invention provides a method, a device and a system for recording logs in the equipment control process, which aim to solve the problem of log management. The method comprises the following steps of: 1, reading a log configuration file, parsing and thus acquiring a log file number threshold value which is preset in the log configuration file; 2, creating a new log file or opening the existing log file; 3, detecting whether the number of the created log files surpasses the log file number threshold value or not, and if the number of the created log files surpasses the log file number threshold value, deleting according to a preset strategy until the number of the created log files is less than or equal to the log file number threshold value; and 4, acquiring log information to be recorded and recording the log information to be recorded into the new log file or the opened existing log file. By the invention, the automatic management and maintenance of the log file number are realized, and the severe result that an industrial personal computer crashes because a hard disk is fully written by the log files is thoroughly avoided.

A display surface of the present invention includes a display operation surface (2) including an input operation surface (2a) that constitutes at least a part of the display operation surface (2), the input operation surface (2a) being configured to be directly touched by a user so that an input operation is performed, the input operation surface (2a) having a first region (3) and a second region (4) which are provided in a single substrate, the first region (3) being planar and substantially flat, and the second region (4) being protruded and / or recessed with respect to a reference plane which is an input surface the first region (3). It is therefore possible to realize (i) a touch panel which has further improved operator's operability and is provided to an electronic device having multi-functions, (ii) a display device including the touch panel, and (iii) an electronic device including the touch panel.

An instruction for an arithmetic / logic operation to a main processing circuit is stored in the form of a micro program in a micro instruction memory, and the operation of the main processing circuit is controlled in accordance with the micro program, under the control of a controller. In the main processing circuit, a memory mat is divided into entries each storing data of a plurality of bits, and for each entry, a processor (ALU) is arranged. Arithmetic / logic operations are performed entry-parallel and in bit-serial manner between each entry and the associated ALU. In accordance with the micro program control method, a large amount of data can be processed efficiently. Thus, a processing device that efficiently performs an arithmetic / logic operation on a large amount of data at high speed is provided.

The invention relates to a compact, flexible CSP installation (1,101,201,301,401) for endless, semi-endless and batch operation with a casting machine, a roughing stand group (7,111,211) and a finishing stand group (12,118,218), wherein for the batch operation or the semi-endless operation, a coil store (8,113,213,501) is integrated into the roll table, which stores the pre-strip or slab coming from the roughing stand, with the coil store being deactivated in the case of endless operation. The coil store (8,113,213,501) is designed for an increased holding quantity of pre-strips or slabs such that two, three or more pre-strips or slabs can be wound to jumbo coils on a coil.

A tamper resistant apparatus 101 is mounted inside of a PC 900 and stores confidential information A through C. The tamper resistant apparatus 101 receives data from an application 118 which operates on the PC 900, processes the data using the confidential information A through C, and returns processed data to the application 118. To the tamper resistant apparatus 101, plural external sensors 110 provided to the PC 900 are connected. The plural external sensors 110 detect opening / closing of a case of the PC 900 or movement of the body of the PC 900 and send a detection signal to the tamper resistant apparatus 101. On inputting the detection signal from the plural external sensors 110, the tamper resistant apparatus 101 selects and erases confidential information to be erased from the confidential information A through C according to the tamper resistant policy stored previously.

The invention discloses a method for realizing a network target range system and a network target range management system, and aims at solving the problem that a network topology structure cannot be rapidly defined and / or changed and / or expanded. The method for realizing the network target range system comprises that an SDN controller calls global network resource; a cloud computing management platform calls computing resource and storage resource; the SDN controller defines the network topology, copies a subnet and isolates the network; the SDN controller distributes a network flow table to SDN switches; and the SDN switches utilize the computing resource and the storage resource in the called network to implement management. Thus, the computing resource, the storage resource and the network resource of the network target range system are scheduled and managed in a uniformed manner, the network topology structure which can be defined rapidly and flexibly required by the network target range system is realized, the network topology can be rapidly and flexibly changed, and the network scale of the target range experiment can be rapidly and flexibly expanded.

This invention relates to dust-proof, moisture-proof structures of the image pickup devices mounted in small-size thin types of electronic apparatus. More specifically, an image pickup device of this invention includes an image pickup element, a mounting base having a formed leg section which abuts on the image pickup element, an image pickup optical system that guides photographic object light to the imaging region of the image pickup element, and an outer frame member that contains the image pickup element, the mounting base, and the image pickup optical system. The space formed at the photoelectric conversion plane side of the image pickup element is sealed by using the mounting base or by using the mounting base and a part of the outer frame member.

The invention relates to a quasi-plane wave generator and a quasi-plane wave generating method based on an array antenna. The quasi-plane wave generator comprises a two-dimensional array antenna aperture with electrical sizes of length and width exceeding 10 lowest operating frequency wavelengths, an array antenna unit and an array antenna feeding network. The quasi-plane wave generator utilizes aHuygens principle to form a high-quality quasi-plane wave static zone in the vicinity 1.5 times of the aperture size away from the two-dimensional array antenna aperture through performing control over array antenna unit position, excitation amplitude and phases. The quasi-plane wave generator and the generating method based on the array antenna have wide application range, can be applied to directional diagram measurement of an electrical-large antenna and RF index measurement of a system having the electrical-large antenna, and are particularly suitable for base station antenna measurementof 5G mobile communication and measurement of terminal antennas and systems in millimeter wave bands.

A storage system is provided with a plurality of interface units each for connection with a server; an interface unit for connection with hard disk drives; a plurality of microprocessor units each for processing commands; and a switch unit for interconnecting the interface units and microprocessor units. A management console is also connected to the storage system. The storage system forces the management console to select an unused interface unit from among the plurality of interface units for use in a data input / output process between the server and the storage system, select a microprocessor unit which meets required performance of the server from among the plurality of microprocessor units for use in the data input / output process, and notify the administrator of the selected interface unit and microprocessor unit.

A method for charging Internet protocol multimedia communication sessions within a telecommunication system is disclosed. Charging records are generated by a control element in the system with a same correlation identifier for all the charging records produced for a communication session between parties. A multi-sided correlation identifier and a charging information field containing information related to a determined charging plan is passed via session control protocol between control elements. The charging plan information, along with the multi-sided correlation identifier, is propagated between control elements in the system. The multi-sided correlation identifier and selected charging data is included in each charging record generated for the communication session by each control element. The charge for the communication session is calculated on the basis of the selected charging data received by via the charging records including the multi-sided correlation identifier.