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A table searching system for facilitating high speed linear searching of a table of information by a plurality of searching agents is provided. The system includes: a memory unit for storing a table of information including a plurality of data entries each having data contents; a plurality of searching agents each being communicatively coupled with the memory unit, and having a port for receiving an associated search key value; and a memory controller unit providing a centralized interface between the memory unit and each of the agents, the controller unit being operative to control the memory unit to provide the contents of a current one of the table entries to each of the agents during each of a plurality of cycles of operation. Each of the searching agents is operative to determine an associated best matching one of the data entries based on comparisons between the associated key value and the contents of the data entries provided by the memory unit.

A portable terminal device includes a first communication unit that transmits communication setting information and function information to an information processing device in non-contact communication, an input receiving unit that receives an input of the communication setting information and the function information, and a second communication unit that transmits entity information to the information processing device or receives entity information from the information processing device in non-contact communication.

A portable closed wound drainage system that uses a pouch shaped dressing which is inserted into a wound. At least a portion of the outer surface of the pouch is porous to allow exudates to enter. Exudates are removed from the pouch by flexible tubing which is secured inside the pouch at one end, and secured at the other end to a portable drain / suction unit. The pouch contains porous material, and may optionally contain beads and fillers which are antibacterial in nature. The tubing can have a single or multi-lumen structure with perforations in the side walls of the end of the tube that is inserted in the pouch to allow body fluids to enter laterally. The portable drain / suction unit is preferably a portable battery powered device. The pouch and the tube are sealed by a flexible sealing material which is applied to the outer surface of the skin around the periphery of the pouch and the tubing as it exits the pouch. This sealing material is preferably a hydro-colloid, a silicone, or a lyogel, such as a hydrogel, which are easily deformable. A cosmetic cover sheet is attached to the patient's skin over the closed wound drainage system.

A mobile terminal device establishes a wireless connection by a first communication unit with an information processing apparatus, and establishes a wireless communication by a second communication unit that is capable of enabling a wireless communication in a wider range based on communication setting information received through the first communication unit. A setting-item acquiring unit receives a setting item for an information processing performed by the information processing apparatus through the second communication unit. A setting-screen display unit displays a setting screen with which a value of the setting item can be selected.

A compound that is useful for forming a metal by reaction with a reducing agent is described by formula (I):whereinM is a metal selected from Groups 2 through 12 of the Periodic Table; andR1, R2, R3, and R4 are each independently H or C1-C8 alkyl.

An RFID tag includes an RFID unit and an antenna unit. The RFID unit is formed in a form of a minute dipole antenna having a predetermined length and includes an IC chip. The antenna unit includes an antenna pattern and an RFID mounting portion. Lengths of the RFID unit and the antenna unit are substantially identical. The RFID unit and the antenna can be manufactured independently.

An e-commerce database system that maintains a list of merchant and customer accounts, each account has an assigned amount of UNEEs (e-commerce currency units) and identification information about the merchants or customers. The electronic currency units are purchased by a customer for placement into their UNEE account. Payments in UNEE's are made for purchases by the customer and result in a transfer of electronic currency from the customer's UNEE account to the merchant's UNEE account. Payments received by the merchant can be retained as UNEEs, or they can be converted into a national currency or other asset of value selected by the merchant. The merchant can also purchase UNEEs for use by the merchant. UNEE transactions between a customer and a merchant result in a request to the central database system with instructions to transfer the desired number of UNEEs between accounts. The availability of the UNEEs is verified by the central database system, and if funds are available, the UNEEs are transferred.

Disclosed is a data replication technique for providing erasure encoded replication of large data sets over a geographically distributed replica set. The technique utilizes a multicast tree to store, forward, and erasure encode the data set. The erasure encoding of data may be performed at various locations within the multicast tree, including the source, intermediate nodes, and destination nodes. In one embodiment, the system comprises a source node for storing the original data set, a plurality of intermediate nodes, and a plurality of leaf nodes for storing the unique replica fragments. The nodes are configured as a multicast tree to convert the original data into the unique replica fragments by performing distributed erasure encoding at a plurality of levels of the multicast tree.

The invention concerns a cyclotron for accelerating a charged particle beam circulating in the median plane essentially in the form of two poles inducing a magnetic field and having a so-called axial injector, that is an injector arranged outside the cyclotron substantially along the main axis of the cyclotron and hence perpendicular to the median plane thereof and which is combined with deflecting means which enable the particle beam to be deflected until it is positioned in the median plane. The invention is characterized in that the deflecting means consist of a magnetic deflector.

A vapor-permeable element to be used in a composition of soles for shoes, including: a supporting frame, which delimits substantially at least one through hole; a membrane impermeable to water and permeable to water vapor and arranged above the supporting frame so as to cover at least the through hole; at least one vapor-permeable or perforated protective layer for the membrane, arranged between the supporting frame and the membrane, so as to cover at least the through hole. The membrane and the protective layer are joined, at least at their perimetric edges, to each other and to the supporting frame. The protective layer, in cooperation with a tread of the sole with which it is associated, is available for contact with the ground during use of the sole.

A capsule endoscope includes a storage unit that stores signal processing data necessary for signal processing specific to an imaging device of a capsule endoscope, and a transmitting unit that transmits the signal processing data stored in the storage unit. Besides, a capsule endscope system includes the capsule endoscope and a receiver which receives the signal processing data transmitted from the transmittting unit. The capsule endoscope does not perform signal processing specific to the imaging device but the receiver performs signal processing specific to the imaging device based on the received signal processing data.

A device driver includes an access permitted directory storage unit and an access-permission determining unit. The access-permitted directory storage unit stores as an access-permitted directory an activation directory for a process that is allowed to access an S memory (private memory). The access-permission determining unit checks whether an activation directory for a process that has requested for access to the S memory matches the access-permitted directory. Based on the result, the access-permission determining unit determines whether to accept the access request.

A combined in-store and fuel center point-of-sale system having a first point-of-sale system, having a checkout manager and one or more checkout terminals, and a second point-of-sale system, having a fuel center and one or more fuel pumps, in communication with each other and with one or more primary databases containing marketing data, consumer data, customer data, master sales data, discount data, and merchandise product data, for generating a fuel discount at the second point-of-sale system based on first purchasing activity at the first point-of-sale system and / or second purchasing activity at said second point-of-sale system. The fuel discount is maintained for each customer in one of said primary databases and is based on a total purchase of products, a total purchase of product units, a total purchase amount of a product type, time period for total purchase of products, or a tiered spending amount.

The database integration reference apparatus stores therein metadata for integration which defines the structure of the XML file used for outputting the query result, the correspondence relationship between the elements in the XML file and the elements in the databases, and the correspondence relationship among the elements in different databases. Using the metadata for integration, pieces of data that are distributed in a plurality of databases including an XML-DB and an RDB are integrated so that the user recognizes the distributed data as one virtual XML file. A query that is made to the integrated data and is written in an XML query language called XQuery is received, and a piece of integrated data is extracted in an XML format and output to the user terminal.

A resource coordinator manager automatically sets a LAN and a SAN for a server to be add according to an increase in load. An ASCC satellite executes a boot script to boot up a user application on the server. The ASCC satellite executes a stop script to stop a user application executed on a server to be returned to a server pool according to a decrease in load. The resource coordinator manager automatically releases a LAN and a SAN set for the server to be returned.

A shared storage device stores therein a correspondence between data retrieved by data collectors bys previously searching a data controller and a search target data identification (ID) for searching the data controller. The data collector first accesses the shared storage device and uses the search target data ID to search the shared storage device. Upon corresponding data being stored in the shared storage device, the data collector retrieves the data and transmits the retrieved data and the search target data ID to a load-dispersing device. Upon the corresponding data not being stored in the shared storage device, the data collector uses the search target data ID to search the data controller. After retrieving the data from the data controller, the data collector transmits to the load-dispersing device and further transmits to the shared storage device, the read data and the search target data ID used to search the data controller.

A personal-identification-information transmitting unit transmits personal identification information. A portable authentication apparatus receives the personal identification information, and performs an authentication process based on the personal identification information received and personal identification information stored in the portable authentication apparatus in advance. The portable authentication apparatus includes a control unit that controls provision of at least one of predetermined data and software to the information processing apparatus, based on a result of the authentication process.

An apparatus for generating freshwater using exhaust combustion gas and seawater includes a water spraying unit that sprays the seawater into the exhaust combustion gas; and a freshwater collecting unit that collects the freshwater from the exhaust combustion gas into which the seawater is sprayed.

To provide a polishing composition which allows high-speed polishing while etching and erosion are prevented and the flatness of metal film is maintained, there is provided a a polishing composition, comprising (A) a compound having three or more azole moieties, (B) an oxidizing agent, and (C) one or more species selected from among an amino acid, an organic acid, and an inorganic acid.

A sound-signal generating unit generates, when a positional relationship between a local information processing apparatus and a user is acquired, a sound signal that makes the user perceive a virtual sound source at a predetermined position in a three-dimensional space based on the acquired positional relationship.

A sheet conveying device includes a pair of upstream rollers and a pair of downstream rollers each including a drive roller and a driven roller, a calculating unit, and a control unit. The upstream rollers include a measuring unit that obtains speed information of the upstream rollers. The calculating unit calculates a target value based on the speed information. The control unit controls the speed of the drive roller of the downstream rollers based on the target value.

An optical scanning device includes, in an effective scanning area in the target surface, a mechanism that causes a scanning speed at each scanning position with respect to a scanning speed at an approximately center in the effective scanning area to be within a range under a predetermined condition.

An image forming apparatus that forms an image includes: a photosensitive element; an optical scanning device that includes a light source, and scans a surface of the photosensitive element in a main scanning direction with light emitted from the light source to form a latent image; a developing unit that develops the latent image; a photosensitive element period detecting sensor that detects a rotation period of the photosensitive element; a density sensor that detects a density variation of an image developed by the developing unit, in a sub scanning direction; and a processing device that corrects a driving signal of the light source according to the image information, based on an output signal of the density sensor and an output signal of the photosensitive element period detecting sensor.

A mark detecting unit detects a mark that is a reference position of an endless belt. An angular-displacement-error detecting unit detects an angular displacement error of an encoder caused by thickness fluctuation of the endless belt. A first calculating unit calculates a phase and a maximum amplitude to the mark. A second calculating unit calculates correction data according to a distance from the mark on the endless belt. A belt-drive control device controls a belt driving unit by adding the correction data to a preset control target value to stabilize speed fluctuation of the endless belt due to the thickness fluctuation.

A print server receives a transmission request and a printer ID from a client device, acquires print function information corresponding to the printer ID from print-function information DBs, and acquires function restriction information from a function-restriction information DB of a printer control server. The print server then generates setting screen information based on the print function information and the function restriction information, and transmits the setting screen information to the client device. The client device receives the setting screen information, and creates and displays a setting screen by using the setting screen information.

A network fault diagnostic device is configured in the following manner. A causal relation table stores causal relations between faults and events, and a monitor event selector refers to the causal relation table to extract a minimum event required for identifying a fault, and sets the event as a monitor event. The acquisition-event selector selects events from the causal relation table based on latest fault candidates, and sets priorities of the events selected, in the order of efficiently identifying faults. The event acquiring unit requests events in the order of the priorities set, and the event receiving unit receives each event in response to the respective requests. The fault determining unit narrows down the candidates of the fault based on the events received one by one.