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Methods for forming a metallic film on a substrate by cyclical deposition are provided. In some embodiments methods may include contacting the substrate with a first reactant comprising a non-halogen containing metal precursor comprising at least one of copper, nickel or cobalt and contacting the substrate with a second reactant comprising a hydrocarbon substituted hydrazine. In some embodiments related semiconductor device structures may include at least a portion of a metallic interconnect formed by cyclical deposition processes.

Image text enhancement techniques are described. In an implementation, graphically represented text included in an original image is converted into process capable text. The process capable text may be used to generate a text image which may replace the original text to enhance the image. In further implementations the process capable text may be translated from a first language to a second language for inclusion in the enhanced image.

A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device structure, such as a FinFET device structure, is provided. The method begins by providing a substrate comprising a bulk semiconductor material, a first conductive fin structure formed from the bulk semiconductor material, and a second conductive fin structure formed from the bulk semiconductor material. The first conductive fin structure and the second conductive fin structure are separated by a gap. Next, spacers are formed in the gap and adjacent to the first conductive fin structure and the second conductive fin structure. Thereafter, an etching step etches the bulk semiconductor material, using the spacers as an etch mask, to form an isolation trench in the bulk semiconductor material. A dielectric material is formed in the isolation trench, over the spacers, over the first conductive fin structure, and over the second conductive fin structure. Thereafter, at least a portion of the dielectric material and at least a portion of the spacers are etched away to expose an upper section of the first conductive fin structure and an upper section of the second conductive fin structure, while preserving the dielectric material in the isolation trench. Following these steps, the fabrication of the devices is completed in a conventional manner.

The present invention provides a method and an apparatus for automating authentication of a user. In one embodiment, a method calls for detecting an authentication event at a wireless communication device to gain access to a first wireless network through an access point associated with the first wireless network, automatically obtaining a credential from a second wireless network in response to the authentication event, and authenticating the user based on the credential to establish a connection between the wireless communication device and the first wireless network. A client-server based communication system includes a client module at a wireless communication device for user authentication of a Wi-Fi device to a Wi-Fi network through an access point associated therewith. For the purposes of authentication, the client-server based communication system further includes a server module with which the client module may automatically exchange signaling messages, such as short message service messages over a wide area network. Such a Wi-Fi user authentication process may, for example, substantially simplify access at a Wi-Fi hotspot in a wireless local area network, reducing manual actions or steps. As a result, a wireless user may be authenticated relatively fast. By offering a desired user experience, user-acceptance of a wireless communication device and/or service may be increased.

Apparatuses may perform and methods may include receiving a broadcast signal that includes a physical layer pipe identified by a predetermined identifier indicating that the physical layer pipe includes service guide bootstrap information. The bootstrap information may identify one or more service guides available for download. The physical layer pipe may include a header that includes version values that identify changes in signaling data and changes in the service guides. Based on receiving the header only, an apparatus may determine whether the signaling data and/or service guides previously stored in the apparatus need to be updated.

Named Entity Recognition in Query (NERQ) involves detection of a named entity in a given query and classification of the named entity into one or more predefined classes. The predefined classes may be based on a predefined taxonomy. A probabilistic approach may be taken to detecting and classifying named entities in queries, the approach using either query log data or click through data and Weakly Supervised Latent Dirichlet Allocation (WS-LDA) to construct and train a topic model.

The present invention provides a method and apparatus for assigning uplink acknowledgement channels in scheduled packet data systems is provided. The method includes providing at least one message indicating that at least one packet is scheduled to be provided to at least one mobile unit over a downlink. The message also indicates at least one time-frequency resource for providing acknowledgment of the at least one packet on an uplink.

An interactive multi-view module identifies a plurality of media items associated with a real-world event, each of the plurality of media items comprising a video portion and an audio portion. The interactive multi-view module synchronizes the audio portions of each of the plurality of media items according to a common reference timeline, determines a relative geographic position associated with each of the plurality of media items and presents the plurality of media items in an interactive multi-view player interface based at least on the synchronized audio portions and the relative geographic positions.

A method for ensuring secured communications for embedded platforms includes steps for receiving a device identifier at an authenticating server over a public network from an extended trust device, the authenticating server being communicatively coupled between a secured server and the public network and the device identifier derived from a plurality of machine parameters resident on the extended trust device, accessing a database of authorized device identifiers corresponding to known extended trust devices, and establishing, in response to the device identifier matching one of the authorized device identifiers, a secure private network between the extended trust device and the secured server. The machine parameters may be a combination of a user-configurable parameter and a non-user-configurable parameter. The method may be embodied as a series of process steps stored on a computer readable medium executable by a processor.

The invention provides an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) three-dimensional straight path tracking control method with PID (Piping and Instruments Diagram) feedback gain. The method comprises the following steps of: step 1, initializing; step 2, calculating a relative position deviation between an AUV and a virtual guide point on a desired track under a Serret-Frenet coordinate system through an AUV three-dimensional track tracking error equation; step 3, calculating a virtual controlling quantity of movement speed, a trim angle and a yawing angle of the virtual guide point on the desired track through adopting a backstepping method based on the feedback gain; step 4, calculating a virtual controlling quantity of trim angle speed and yawing angle speed of the AUV; and step 5, deducing an under-actuated AUV three-dimensional path tracking dynamics control law comprising control signals of propeller thrust, a trim control moment and a yawing control moment, and realizing under-actuated AUV three-dimensional straight path tracking control. The method can be used for realizing tracking control on a track point and a straight path track of an AUV three-dimensional space.

An adaptive gain control system and related operating method for digital audio samples is provided. The method is suitable for use with a digital media encoding system that transmits encoded media streams to a remotely-located presentation device such as a media player. The method begins by initializing the processing of a media stream. Then, the method adjusts the gain of a first set of digital audio samples in the media stream using a fast gain adaptation scheme, resulting in a first group of gain-adjusted digital audio samples having normalized volume during presentation. The method continues by adjusting the gain of a second set of digital audio samples in the media stream using a steady state gain adaptation scheme that is different than the fast gain adaptation scheme, resulting in a second group of gain-adjusted digital audio samples having normalized volume during presentation.

A method for reducing piracy in software activation may be implemented on a computer readable medium storing software instructions that execute the method, which includes steps for receiving a media identifier of a media and a device identifier from a first remote device executing the media, the device identifier being based on a combination of a user-configurable parameter and a non-user-configurable parameter of the first remote device, granting a usage license for the media to the first remote device, correlating the usage license with the media identifier and the device identifier, generating a sale metric for the media based on a number of usage license granted, determining a piracy metric of the media based on availability of illegal copies of the media, and charging a publisher of the media a fee based on the sale and piracy metrics.

A method for coordinated multipoint transmission includes collecting, in a serving CoMP-MA, channel state information, CSIs, reported by terminals served by eNBs within a cooperating set. The serving CoMP-MA selects dominant interferers as candidate transmitting eNBs for a terminal. CoMP joint transmission is initiated by forwarding, to the candidate transmitting eNBs, PDCP PDUs received from SGW and targeted to the selected terminal, and by setting the status of the terminal to joint transmission. High and low thresholds of PDCP buffers of the serving CoMP-MA are adjusted. As information required for air interface scheduling becomes available, the method includes extracting, in the serving CoMP-MA, radio resource allocations, RLC and MAC headers, references to user plane data, and precoding matrices from protocol entities, and forwarding them to the transmitting eNBs that have acknowledged PDCP PDUs, in order the transmitting CoMP-MA to prepare air interface for the terminal.

Articles of footwear, including athletic footwear, include cleat structures, strapping systems, sole structures, and/or improved natural motion characteristics are described. Also, methods for making such articles of footwear (and particularly sole structures for articles of footwear) are described.

Methods, systems, and computer-readable media are disclosed to generate an interface for a web service and to query the web service. A particular method includes generating a user interface associated with a web service. The user interface includes one or more input parameter options associated with the web service. The user interface is generated based on a service specification and one or more series specifications associated with the service specification. User input is received via the user interface, where the user input includes a selection of at least one of the one or more input parameter options. A query of the web service is generated based on the received user input, where the query reflects at least one selected input parameter option. The method includes invoking the generated query with respect to the web service to receive results and automatically adding the received results to the user interface.

Methods for image based localization using an electronic computing device are presented, the methods including: capturing a local image with an image capture device; associating metadata with the local image; causing the electronic computing device to receive the local image; causing the electronic computing device to match the local image with a database image, where the database image is three-dimensional (3D); and calculating a pose of the image capture device based on a pose of the database image and metadata associated with the local image. In some embodiments, the metadata includes at least pitch and roll data corresponding with the image capture device at a time of image capture.

An apparatus includes a counter for tracking and communicating a number of plug drops through a longitudinal bore; a plug element adapted to be dropped into the longitudinal bore; and a valve defining a plug seat to be disposed within the longitudinal bore to catch the plug element when the plug element is dropped and when the number of plug drops as communicated by the counter exceeds a predetermined number. A method, includes: dropping a plurality of plugs down a longitudinal bore in which a plurality of plug seats are disposed; counting the number of plug drops from within the longitudinal bore; and catching one of the plugs at a preselected one of the plug seats when the number of plug drops exceeds a predetermined number.

A method for handling product reviews can detect a first quality product review from a second quality product review. The first and second quality product reviews can be associated with a product. The first quality product review can be filtered. An opinion segment in the second quality product review can be identified and the polarity can be determined of the opinion segment. An opinion set can be generated with the opinion segment for a product feature. A score (or weighty can be aggregated of segments in the opinion set for the product feature.

Methods of generating filters automatically from data processing jobs are described. In an embodiment, these filters are automatically generated from a compiled version of the data processing job using static analysis which is applied to a high-level representation of the job. The executable filter is arranged to suppress rows and/or columns within the data to which the job is applied and which do not affect the output of the job. The filters are generated by a filter generator and then stored and applied dynamically at a filtering proxy that may be co-located with the storage node that holds the data. In another embodiment, the filtered data may be cached close to a compute node which runs the job and data may be provided to the compute node from the local cache rather than from the filtering proxy.

A system for extracting one or more regions of interest from a plurality of images to retrieve images based on visual similarity to a query image. Sequences of image processing associated with a segmentation strategy selected by user are performed on a set of training images to identify the region of interests. The segmentation strategy and the regions of interest are stored, as well as a visual signature of the image that captures the global layout of the image. New images are processed for which no segmentation strategy had previously been defined. A search is made through the layout signatures collected from the set of training images to identify images with similar layouts. Given a query and its visual characteristics, the system finds images stored in the database with visually similar regions of interest.

In the present disclosure, CSI and/or a plurality of ACK/NACKs related to a group of DL data transmissions may be buffered at the UE as a GACK until a DCI trigger is received from the eNB. When the DCI trigger is received, the UE may transmit the CSI and/or GACK. In this way, HARQ feedback and/or CSI may be reliably communicated even if a CCA does not clear and/or UL subframes are unavailable. In an aspect of the disclosure, a method, a computer-readable medium, and an apparatus are provided. In an aspect, the apparatus may be a UE. The apparatus monitors one or more subframes for a DCI trigger. In a further aspect, the apparatus receives the DCI trigger in a subframe. In another aspect, the apparatus transmits UCI using a subsequent subframe.

Described embodiments provide a method of allocating resources of a media controller for a data transfer. A data transfer request is received from at least one host device, and includes a host device ID and a data transfer request ID. The media controller generates a Tag ID of the data transfer request based on the host device ID and the data transfer request ID, and generates a starting memory address of a tag table based on the Tag ID of the data transfer request. A tag count value is read from the starting memory address of the tag table. If the tag count value reaches a threshold, an absence of a tag overlap is determined and the Tag ID of the data transfer request is added to the tag table at the starting memory address.

The present invention provides a method of determining characteristics of access classes in a wireless communication system. In one embodiment, a method is provided for implementation in an access network of a wireless communication system. The method includes mapping, at the access network, a plurality of priority levels to a plurality of access classes. Each access class is associated with at least one parameter used by access terminals to establish a wireless communication link with the access network. The method also includes transmitting, from the access network to a first access terminal, information indicating the mapping of the plurality of priority levels to the plurality of access classes in response to receiving a request to establish a communication session between the first access terminal and the access network.

A query for a help system includes data about a user system and a task that the user is attempting. The query may be used by a search engine to generate relevant results to aid the user. The user system data may include configuration data about hardware and software. The task data may be derived from the current state of a device, or from operational history that may be developed from a single user or a group of users. The query may have a mechanism to weight various keywords or components of the query and a feedback system may adjust the weights for future queries.

Captured images are analyzed to identify portrayed individuals and/or scene elements therein. Upon user confirmation of one or more identified individuals and/or scene elements entity information is accessed to determine whether there are any available communication addresses, e.g., email addresses, SMS-based addresses, websites, etc., that correspond with or are otherwise linked to an identified individual or scene element in the current captured image. A current captured image can then be automatically transmitted, with no need for any other user effort, to those addresses located for an identified individual or scene element.

A method includes defining a hierarchy of test routines in a test program for testing integrated circuit devices. A first device is tested at a first screening level in the hierarchy. The first device is tested at a second detailed level in the hierarchy responsive to the first device failing the testing at the first screening level.

The present invention provides a method of route optimization for a proxy mobile Internet protocol. The method may include providing information indicative of a first proxy address based on a first address associated with a first access terminal and receiving information indicative of a second proxy address associated with a second access terminal. The method may also include establishing a communication link between the first access terminal and the second access terminal based on the first and second proxy addresses such that the communication link does not include a home agent.

The present invention provides a method and device to record and visualize drawing and writing movements during functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) of brain activity. The system includes a touch-sensitive tablet, an elevated mounting platform, a stylus, and a controller box, as well as the necessary cabling and software. All equipment residing inside the magnet room is non-ferromagnetic and does not interfere with scanner operation and does not affect fMRI data quality. Individuals lying inside the scanner interact with device in a natural, intuitive way, similar to writing with pen and paper. Drawing motions captured by the tablet are displayed through a pair of fMRI-compatible goggles or by using a projector and screen. Other visual stimuli can be concurrently presented with the drawing motions for the purpose of assessing specific aspects of human behavior. The system allows for a plurality of experiments to be performed, all while brain activity is measured and recorded.

The invention discloses a transfer alignment method capable of estimating and compensating wing deflection deformation. The method comprises steps as follows: binding navigation information, namely, the speed, the posture and the position, of a main inertial navigation system to an auxiliary inertial navigation system to finish coarse alignment; constructing the observed quantity by using speed and posture information sent by the main inertial navigation system to the auxiliary inertial navigation system at the fixed frequency as well as speed and posture information of the auxiliary inertial navigation system; introducing correlated variables of a wing deflection deformation model into a state equation, and establishing a system state equation and an observation equation by using a measurement misalignment angle and speed matching method; performing iterative solution by using conventional Kalman filtering, estimating information such as the posture misalignment angle, the speed error and the like of the auxiliary inertial navigation system, and correcting the speed and the posture of the auxiliary inertial navigation system with the information to obtain initial navigation information of the auxiliary inertial navigation system to finish transfer alignment. The transfer alignment is realized with the measurement misalignment angle and speed matching method, and the method has the advantages that the method is small in calculated amount, simple in form, easy to understand and the like.

A pedaled drivetrain includes a drive mechanism, a wheel, a freewheel hub, and a locking mechanism. The wheel has a rotational axis. The freewheel hub connects the drive mechanism to the wheel, and the freewheel hub transmits torque from the drive mechanism to the wheel in a first rotational direction around the rotational axis. The locking mechanism has a locked state and an unlocked state. The locked state rotationally fixes a component of the drive mechanism to the wheel relative to the rotational axis.