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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.

Methods, systems, and machine readable media are disclosed for Methods, systems, and machine-readable media are disclosed for utilizing mobile electronic devices in various types of financial transactions. According to one embodiment, a system for supporting mobile commerce applications can comprise a management and control layer. The management and control layer can be adapted to control communications to and from mobile wallet applications. The system can also have a gateway services layer communicatively coupled with the management and control layer and a plurality of content provider systems communicatively coupled with the gateway services layer. The content provider systems can be adapted to provide financial transaction content or services related to the mobile commerce functions of the mobile wallet applications via the management and control layer and gateway services layer.

The invention discloses a multimode terminal and a data transmitting method thereof. The multimode terminal of the invention is provided with at least one mobile communication protocol stack, one wireless local area network protocol stack, a shared buffer area and a transmitting controller, wherein, the mobile communication protocol stack is used for storing IP data packet received from the internet to the shared buffer area and then informing the transmitting control layer; the transmitting control layer is used for informing the wireless local area network protocol stack storage address of the IP data packet in the shared buffer area; the wireless local area network protocol stack is used for taking the IP data packet out of the share buffer area and sending the IP data packet to a radio installation, and anyone of the mobile communication protocol stack, the transmitting control layer and the wireless local area network protocol stack modifies target IP address of the IP data packet to be the IP address of the radio installation in the wireless local area network connection. The multimode terminal and data transmitting method of the invention can effectively improve data transmission utilization.

A semiconductor structure is provided that includes a V_t stabilization layer between a gate dielectric and a gate electrode. The V_t stabilization layer is capable of stabilizing the structure's threshold voltage and flatband voltage to a targeted value and comprises a nitrided metal oxide, or a nitrogen-free metal oxide, with the proviso that when the V_t stabilization layer comprises a nitrogen-free metal oxide, at least one of the semiconductor substrate or the gate dielectric includes nitrogen. The present invention also provides a method of fabricating such a structure.

A method and system for using a communication network having a relay node to provide wireless communication with a mobile station. A ranging region is established with the mobile station in which the establishment of the ranging region includes the transmission of control information corresponding to the relay node. The mobile station is allowed to enter the communication network. The relay node is used to wirelessly communicate with the mobile station in at least one of the uplink and downlink directions.

The nitride-based semiconductor device includes a carrier traveling layer 1 composed of non-doped Al_xGa_1-xN (0≦X<1); a barrier layer 2 formed on the carrier traveling layer 1 and composed of non-doped or n-type Al_YGa_1-YN (0<Y≦1, X<Y) having a lattice constant smaller than that of the carrier traveling layer 1; a threshold voltage control layer 3 formed on the barrier layer 2 and composed of a non-doped semiconductor having a lattice constant equal to that of the carrier traveling layer 1; and a carrier inducing layer 4 formed on the threshold voltage control layer 3 and composed of a non-doped or n-type semiconductor having a lattice constant smaller than that of the carrier traveling layer 1. The nitride-based semiconductor device further includes a gate electrode 5 formed in a recess structure, a source electrode 6 and a drain electrode 7.

A solar-control glass that has acceptable visible light transmission, absorbs near infrared wavelength light (NIR) and reflects midrange infrared light (low emissivity mid IR) along with a preselected color within the visible light spectrum for reflected light is provided. Also provided is a method of producing the improved, coated, solar-controlled glass. The improved glass has a solar energy (NIR) absorbing layer comprising tin oxide having a dopant such as antimony and a low emissivity control layer (low emissivity) capable of reflecting midrange infrared light and comprising tin oxide having fluorine and/or phosphorus dopant. A separate iridescence color suppressing layer as described in the prior art is generally not needed to achieve a neutral (colorless) appearance for the coated glass, however an iridescence suppressing layer or other layers may be combined with the two layer assemblage provided by the present invention. If desired, multiple solar control and/or multiple low emissivity layers can be utilized. The NIR layer and the low emissivity layer can be separate portions of a single tin oxide film since both layers are composed of doped tin oxide. A method of producing the coated solar control glass is also provided.

A solar-control glass that has acceptable visible light transmission, absorbs near infrared wavelength light (NIR) and reflects midrange infrared light (low emissivity mid IR) along with a preselected color within the visible light spectrum for reflected light is provided. Also provided is a method of producing the improved, coated, solar-controlled glass. The improved glass has a solar energy (NIR) absorbing layer comprising tin oxide having a dopant such as antimony and a low emissivity control layer (low emissivity) capable of reflecting midrange infrared light and comprising tin oxide having fluorine and/or phosphorus dopant. A separate iridescence color suppressing layer as described in the prior art is generally not needed to achieve a neutral (colorless) appearance for the coated glass, however an iridescence suppressing layer or other layers may be combined with the two layer assemblage provided by the present invention. If desired, multiple solar control and/or multiple low emissivity layers can be utilized. The NIR layer and the low emissivity layer can be separate portions of a single tin oxide film since both layers are composed of doped tin oxide. A method of producing the coated solar control glass is also provided.

A system for estimating and generating project plans for implementing packaged software applications, the system includes: a view layer configured to act as a user interface for user inputs and system outputs; a model and control layer configured to implement rules based on a series of estimation and implementation models, and to perform calculations of project plan details and project plan schedules; an estimation knowledge base layer configured to hold and derive the series of estimation and implementation models; and wherein the system for estimating and generating multi-dimensional project plans for implementing packaged software applications is carried out over networks comprising: the Internet, intranets, local area networks (LAN), and wireless local area networks (WLAN).

On an archive server, a secure storage control layer is interposed in the archive data stream between an archiving application and a storage device driver. The secure storage control layer includes an encryption engine providing for two-level cipher processing of data segments transported by the stream. A secure policy controller is coupled to the secure storage control layer and, responsive to identifying information obtained from the stream, retrieves a group of encryption keys from a secure storage repository to enable the encryption engine to selectively encrypt data segments or a single encryption key conditionally enabling the encryption engine to decrypt select data segments. For both encryption and decryption, the integrity of the stream is maintained allowing operation of the secure storage control layer to be functionally transparent to the archiving application and storage device driver.

A piezoelectric resonator of the present invention is structured such that on a substrate 5 having a cavity 4 formed therein, a lower electrode 3, a piezoelectric body 1, a spurious component control layer 16, and an upper electrode 2 are formed in this order from bottom up. The spurious component control layer 16 is a layer for controlling a spurious frequency, and composed of, for example, a metallic material, a dielectric material, or a piezo electric material. By additionally providing the spurious component control layer 16, it is made possible to cause variation of the spurious frequency due to unwanted variation to become greater than variation in resonance frequency of the main resonance of the piezoelectric resonator. Thus, it is possible to realize a piezoelectric resonator having an admittance frequency response where no spurious component occurs between resonance frequency fr and antiresonance frequency fa.

A system for calculating financial benefit estimations and generating reports for multi-dimensional project plans for implementing packaged software applications, the system includes: a view layer configured to act as a user interface for user inputs and system outputs; a model and control layer configured to implement rules based on a series of estimation and implementation models, and to perform calculations to determine financial benefits of implementing multi-dimensional project plans; an estimation knowledge base layer configured to hold and derive the series of estimation and implementation models; and wherein the system for generating financial benefit estimations and reports for the implementation of packaged software applications is carried out over networks comprising: the Internet, intranets, local area networks (LAN), and wireless local area networks (WLAN).

A system for generating staffing and cost estimations and reports for multi-dimensional project plans for implementing packaged software applications, the system includes: a view layer configured to act as a user interface for user inputs and system outputs; a model and control layer configured to implement rules based on a series of estimation and implementation models, and to perform calculations to determine costs and staffing requirements for multi-dimensional project plans; an estimation knowledge base layer configured to hold and derive the series of estimation and implementation models; and wherein the system for scoring and ranking multi-dimensional project plans for implementing packaged software applications is carried out over networks comprising: the Internet, intranets, local area networks (LAN), and wireless local area networks (WLAN).

The invention discloses an intelligent coordination control method of a dynamic bi-directional green wave band for an urban traffic trunk road. The method comprises the steps of starting, processing coordination parameters, processing intersection parameters, processing time and processing cycle, etc. The method adopts a double-stage control structure, namely, a control layer of a traffic control center server and a control layer of an intersection intelligent signal controlling machine, through the information interaction and the coordination of the traffic control center server and the intersection intelligent signal controlling machine, phase sequence is optimized in an on-line manner; and common period, highway section upper phase difference, highway section down phase difference, the starting time of an upper coordination phase, the starting time of a down coordination phase, green ratio at each intersection and other key control parameters are optimized and calculated on a real-time basis. The intelligent coordination control method gets rid of the limit of equal intersection intervals required for the coordination control of the green wave band for the urban traffic trunk road, and realizes the unceasing travel of bi-directional traffic flows on the main road by applying the traffic engineering technique, the artificial intelligence technique and the automatic control technique, thereby reducing the parking rate while the traffic capacity of the trunk road is improved, and obviously reducing the traveling time.

In a transistor, an AlN buffer layer 102, an undoped GaN layer 103, an undoped AlGaN layer 104, a p-type control layer 105, and a p-type contact layer 106 are formed in this order on a sapphire substrate 101. The transistor further includes a gate electrode 110 in ohmic contact with the p-type contact layer 106, and a source electrode 108 and a drain electrode 109 provided on the undoped AlGaN layer 104. By applying a positive voltage to the p-type control layer 105, holes are injected into a channel to increase a current flowing in the channel.

The method for controlling layers alignment in a multi-layer sample (10), such a semiconductors wafer based on detecting a diffraction efficiency of radiation diffracted from the patterned structures (12, 14) located one above the other in two different layers of the sample.

An adjustably opaque window including an external pane, an internal pane, a light transmission control layer and a shock-absorbing layer is provided. The external pane and the internal pane provide a cavity between them, and the light transmission control layer and the shock-absorbing layer are positioned in the cavity. The shock-absorbing layer is a flexible sheet that supports and protects the light transmission control layer. The light transmission layer consists of liquid crystal cells. The transmission ratio of the cells can be controlled variably.

The invention discloses a virtual Internet-of-things gateway system capable of realizing multiprotocol and network self-adapting; and the gateway system uses a virtual Internet-of-things gateway to connect a sensor network with a traditional communication network and realize the protocol conversions of different types of sensor networks, equipment local interconnect and remote control. The invention is characterized in that the virtual Internet-of-things gateway contains a sensing access module in a sensing access layer, a protocol adaptation module and a network element service module which are in a protocol adaptation layer, a thing-connecting service control module in a control layer, and a heterogeneous network access module in a wide area access layer; the entire system adopts the virtual gateway method; the gateway equipment of the virtual Internet-of-things gateway system are arranged and only a plurality of physical interfaces are required to be added without greatly changing the internal circuit structure, thus the various demands of the future network can be satisfied and the development demand of the future Internet of things can be satisfied; and the incompatibility problem of the existing common gateway to the future Internet of things is effective solved, thus the gateway in the virtual gateway system has wide network applicability.

The invention relates to the technical field of photovoltaic micro-grid control, and particularly discloses a real-time coordination and control method of a photovoltaic micro-grid system. A central real-time optimal control layer and a local control layer are involved in the real-time coordination and control method. The central real-time optimal control layer collects the voltage and frequency of an AC bus of the photovoltaic micro-grid system, the charge state of a storage battery pack, the output power of photovoltaic power generation micro-sources, the output power of the storage battery pack, the output power of a super capacitor and the real-time power of a load in real time, generates a real-time coordination and control strategy and a secondary frequency modulation and scheduling plan, and issues the strategy and the plan to all local controllers. The local control layer coordinates and controls all the micro-sources in real time, and particularly achieves the scheduling plan issued by the central real-time optimal control layer. According to the real-time coordination and control method, a micro-grid central optimizing controller can manage, coordinate and control all the local controllers in a unified mode, the micro-grid can efficiently and economically run, the output power of the photovoltaic power generation unit is utilized to the maximum extent, the output power fluctuation and the tracking load change of the photovoltaic power generation unit are restrained, the running method of the micro-grid is reasonably adjusted, and energy balance is achieved.

A pressure support system and method of treating disordered breathing that optimizes the pressure delivered to the patient to treat the disordered breathing while minimizing the delivered pressure for patient comfort. The controller in the pressure support system operates as a set of prioritized control layers, wherein each control layer competes for control of the pressure generating system to implement a unique pressure control process. The pressure support system also controls the pressure provided to the patient based on the variability of the monitored data and a trend analysis of this data, including an indication the skewness of the patient's inspiratory waveform.