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A disk is segmented into a first data segment and a secondary data segment. The secondary data segment stores a logical mirror of the first data segment of another disk. Fast access to data stored on the disk is provided by partitioning the disk such that the first data segment includes the fast tracks of the disk and the secondary data segment includes the slow tracks of the disk and forwarding all data requests to the first data segment. Upon detecting a failure, the logical mirror of data stored in the first data segment of the failed disk is accessible from the secondary data segment of a non-failed disk. The first data segment can be rebuilt quickly on another disk from the logical mirror stored in the secondary data segment.

The present application is directed towards policy based routing for intelligent traffic management via multiple next hops. In some embodiments, the systems and methods disclosed herein may provide management of inbound and outbound traffic across multiple network links, and may further provide reliability in case of link failure, and provide balancing of traffic, responsive to the latency and bandwidth requirements of various applications. Accordingly, these systems and methods may provide intelligent policy-based routing and network and port address translation, sensitive to application traffic types, protocols, source IP addresses and ports, destination IP addresses and ports, or any combination thereof, and can balance traffic loads among multiple available paths based on multiple traffic characteristics. The routing may performed on a packet-by-packet basis, a transaction-by-transaction basis, or a session-by-session basis, and the systems and methods may include capabilities for application-aware health monitoring of available network paths.

A mechanism to allow hosts on the plaintext side of IP-layer encryptors to utilize Performance Enhancing Proxies (PEPs) on the ciphertext side of IP-layer encryptors is provided. Two processes are utilized for each IP-layer encryptor to extend a higher-level protocol (as represented, for example, by OSI layers 4-7) from the plaintext or red-side of the IP-layer encryptor to the ciphertext or black-side of the IP-layer encryptor. These two processes are known as the red-side Performance Enhancing Proxy Enabler (PEPE) and the black-side PEPE. The red-side and black-side PEPEs of a local IP-layer encryptor work together with red-side and black-side PEPEs of a remote IP-layer encryptor to transmit packets between the IP-layer encryptors using a higher-level protocol. Hence, PEPEs allow packets exchanged by red-side hosts separated by IP-layer encryptors to be transmitted on the black-side using a higher-level protocol. Therefore, PEPEs allow hosts on the red-side to take advantage of PEPs on the black-side.

A signature generation and verification system including a signature generation apparatus and a signature verification apparatus is provided. Based on signer certification information possessed by a signer, the signature generation apparatus generates a digital signature and verification data corresponding to a given electronic document and outputs the set of the digital signature and the verification data as signature data. Upon receipt of the electronic document and the signature data, the signature verification apparatus verifies the digital signature using the verification data to verify the integrity of the electronic document. As needed, the signature verification apparatus performs user identification ex-post facto by authenticating that the signer certification information from which the verification data was generated belongs to a legitimate user without knowledge of the signer certification information.

Disclosed are method and apparatus for evaluating reliability of reckoning location information and providing reliability information. A mobile terminal implementing the method provides a user with a handheld device to provide accurate location information. The method for providing reliability of a reckoning location preferably includes: reckoning a location using speed and direction information input from a sensor unit when satellite signal intensity of GPS satellite information is less than a first threshold value; calculating a moving distance using the reckoning location for a reckoned time of the location; evaluating the reliability of the reckoning location according to the moving distance; and providing the reckoning location and the reliability to a location information utility unit such that the location information utility unit determines presence of utility of the reckoning location according to the reliability.

A warning device and for monitoring a health status of a bearing mounted to a piece of rotating machinery is provided. The warning device includes a generally cylindrical body portion, an annular top portion, a base portion, and a battery for powering the device. The device has at least one sensor that senses one of a velocity, an enveloped acceleration and a temperature value of the bearing and at least one light emitting diode that displays the health status of the bearing according to input from one of the sensors. A mounting pad integral to the base portion allows the warning device to be mounted to rotating industrial machinery. A circuit board is disposed within the body and at least one thermally conductive circuit board trace is integrally disposed within the mounting pad. The trace conducts heat from the mounting pad to one of the at least one sensors.

Systems and methods are described that that dynamically configure high-speed data link lightpaths between access routers and backbone routers at geographically dispersed locations to reassign traffic when a backbone router fails or is removed from service. Embodiments reduce the quantity of backbone router ports used in dual backbone router-homed networks.

The invention discloses a transmission path updating method. The method comprises that a terminal detects the states of communication links between the terminal and adjacent network nodes; when the link state is changed, the terminal determines at least one other terminal associated with the terminal; and the terminal sends a first update indication message which includes link identity and link change identification of the communication link to the other terminals, and the first update indication message is used to indicate each of the other terminals to update corresponding transmission path sets according to the link identity and link change identification. The invention also discloses a terminal and a system. According to the invention, available transmission paths of the terminals can be updated timely and accurately.

The invention discloses a communication method, and according to the method, local terminal equipment and opposite terminal equipment mutually notify whether the home terminal equipment and the opposite terminal equipment have control word processing capability or not through a BGP message; after receiving the BGP message carrying the control word indication information sent by the local terminaldevice, the opposite terminal device determines that the local terminal device has the control word processing capability, and when the opposite terminal device also has the control word processing capability, the opposite terminal device sends a service message to the home terminal device, the opposite terminal device carries the control word. And when the home terminal equipment does not have the control word processing capability, the BGP message sent to the opposite terminal equipment does not carry the control word indication information, and the opposite terminal equipment does not carrythe control word when sending the service message to the home terminal equipment. Therefore, normal communication between the network equipment with the control word processing capability and the network equipment without the control word processing capability is effectively ensured, and the reliability of service transmission is improved.

The present invention provides a container seal having excellent thermal resistance, opening ability, and sealing ability. The container seal includes a top layer having an opening tab and a bottom layer thermally bonded to aluminum foil and a container. The top layer includes: first and second partial opening taps; first and second opening guide-separating bands connected to the first and second partial opening taps and formed along the inner edge of the container entrance so that the top layer and the bottom layer can be open along the inner edge of the container entrance when the first and second opening taps are pulled; and a ring-shaped thermal bonding layer spaced from the first and second opening guide-separating bands by the first and second separating lines and being in contact with a lip of the container outside the first and second opening guide-separating bands.

An apparatus for controlling a converter includes: a failure detector that detects failure of a sensor included in an input or output side of the converter, a substitution factor calculator that calculates a substitution factor based on a measurement value of a sensor in a high voltage battery connected to an input side of the converter when failure is detected in the sensor of the input side by the failure detector and calculates the substitution factor based on measurement values of a sensor connected to one or more loads when failure is detected in the sensor of the output side, and an emergency operation controller that controls an operation in a constant current or constant voltage scheme based on the calculated substitution factor.

The present invention relates to an apparatus and a method of acquiring an image for dental diagnosis. More particularly, the present invention relates to an apparatus and a method of acquiring a near-infrared image for dental diagnosis, wherein an image for dental diagnosis is acquired using near-infrared radiation and a general image camera rather than using X-rays.

In order to judge an ink end state of at least one of ink cartridges detachably mounted on a recording head incorporated in an ink jet recording apparatus, a consumed ink amount in each ink cartridge is counted. When the counted consumed ink amount of one ink cartridge reaches a first value indicating the ink end state, a count value is added to the counted consumed ink amounts of any other ink cartridges, in order to obtain verification count values. When at least one of the verification count values reaches a second value which is less than the first value, it is judged that the ink cartridge in which the verification count value reaches the second value is in the ink end state.

A multi-chip semiconductor package and a fabrication method thereof are provided. A substrate having an upper surface and a lower surface is prepared. At least a first chip is mounted on the upper surface of the substrate. A non-conductive material is applied over predetermined area on the first chip and the upper surface of the substrate. At least a second chip is mounted on the non-conductive material, and formed with at least a suspending portion free of interference in position with the first chip, wherein the non-conductive material is dimensioned in surface area at least corresponding to the second chip, so as to allow the suspending portion to be supported on the non-conductive material. With the second chip being completely supported on the non-conductive material without causing a conventional chip-crack problem, structural intactness and reliability can be effectively assured for fabricated package products.

A method of producing a III-V fin structure within a gap separating shallow trench isolation (STI) structures and exposing a semiconductor substrate is disclosed, the method comprising providing a semiconductor substrate, providing in the semiconductor substrate at least two identical STI structures separated by a gap exposing the semiconductor substrate, wherein said gap is bounded by said at least two identical STI structures, and, producing a III-V fin structure within said gap on the exposed semiconductor substrate, and providing a diffusion barrier at least in contact with each side wall of said at least two identical STI structures and with side walls of said III-V fin structure and wherein said semiconductor substrate is a Si substrate.

A level-turning point of input data is detected; and a sampling clock is generated in response to the level-turning point of the input data. The input data are sampled in synchronization with the sampling clock.

An automatic door apparatus of a projector is provided. The projector includes a case. The case has a heat discharging opening for discharging heat out of the projector. The automatic door apparatus includes: a frame disposed at the case, the frame facing the heat discharge opening; a door assembly reciprocally movable along the frame in a first direction for opening and closing the heat discharge opening; and a driving unit disposed in the case for moving the door assembly along the first direction, the driving unit moving the door assembly along the first direction from a first position to a second position to open the heat discharge opening in response to a first operation mode of the projector, the driving unit moving the door assembly along the first direction from the second position to the first position to close the heat discharge opening in response to a second operation mode of the projector.

The invention belongs to the technical field of dry distillation production, and particularly relates to an oil shale dry distillation semi-coke dry-process coke-discharging device. The device of theinvention comprises an oil shale dry distillation furnace, a cooling coke-quenching and waste heat recovery unit, a furnace continuous coke-discharging unit and an oil shale dry distillation semi-cokeexport unit, which are successively connected from top to bottom. In the prior art, wet-process coke discharging devices have high water consumption during coking, heat cannot be recovered, sewage isgenerated, and semi-coke has overhigh content of moisture but low energy utilization; and in some areas with relatively scarce water resources, wet-process coke discharging devices are limited to water during coking, and development and utilization of oil shale are severely constrained. The above problems are solved by the device of the invention. The device of the invention adapts to imbalance of resource distribution, breaks through water restrictions, is beneficial to development of the oil shale industry, and greatly improves energy utilization rate and reduces pollution.

A technique for providing reliability to an interconnect fabric for communication among a set of nodes. Ports associated with each node are partitioned into a first set of ports and a second set of ports. A first interconnect fabric is formed among the first set of ports for each node in response to a set of flow requirements. A second interconnect fabric is formed among the second set of ports. Reliability is enhanced because, in the event of a failure of any single element of the first interconnect fabric, the flows among the nodes can still be achieved by the second interconnect fabric.