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In order to provide a more efficient persistent storage device, one or more long-term storage media are included along with a non-volatile memory. In one embodiment, one portion of the non-volatile memory is used as a write buffer and a read cache for writes and reads to the long-term storage media. Interfaces are provided for controlling the use of the non-volatile memory as a write buffer and a read cache. Additionally, a portion of the non-volatile memory is used to provide a direct mapping for specified sectors of the long-term storage media. Descriptive data regarding the persistent storage device is stored in another portion of the non-volatile memory.

A proactive, resilient and self-tuning memory management system and method that result in actual and perceived performance improvements in memory management, by loading and maintaining data that is likely to be needed into memory, before the data is actually needed. The system includes mechanisms directed towards historical memory usage monitoring, memory usage analysis, refreshing memory with highly-valued (e.g., highly utilized) pages, I/O pre-fetching efficiency, and aggressive disk management. Based on the memory usage information, pages are prioritized with relative values, and mechanisms work to pre-fetch and/or maintain the more valuable pages in memory. Pages are pre-fetched and maintained in a prioritized standby page set that includes a number of subsets, by which more valuable pages remain in memory over less valuable pages. Valuable data that is paged out may be automatically brought back, in a resilient manner. Benefits include significantly reducing or even eliminating disk I/O due to memory page faults.

Systems and methods for indexing and searching data, such as file contents and/or metadata. In one exemplary method, an index corresponding to files on a storage device is created. Index is partitioned into subindexes according to certain criteria, such as the location of files or exclusivity of access to files. Subindex contains the entire content of files or metadata describing files, in addition to identifiers leading back to files' physical storage. Index is maintained by moving files' index entries from one subindex to another as files change in relation to the partition criteria, such as changing location. Searching some subindexes, like one corresponding to files in a shared folder, is done with permission checking. Searches of certain other subindexes, like one corresponding to the home folder of the user searching, are done without permission checking the underlying files resulting in a performance improvement.

An architecture for an integrated circuit apparatus and method that allows significant performance improvements for signature based network applications. In various embodiments the architecture allows high throughput classification of packets into network streams, packet reassembly of such streams, filtering and pre-processing of such streams, pattern matching on header and payload content of such streams, and action execution based upon rule-based policy for multiple network applications, simultaneously at wire speed. The present invention is improved over the prior art designs, in performance, flexibility and pattern database size.

Disclosed is a method of creating an exceptional pronunciation dictionary for automatic pronunciation generation in Korean. The automatic pronunciation generator in Korean is an essential element of a Korean speech recognition system and a TTS (Text-To-Speech) system. The automatic pronunciation generator in Korean is comprised of a part of regular rules and an exceptional pronunciation dictionary. The exceptional pronunciation dictionary is created by extracting the words which have exceptional pronunciations from text corpus based on the characteristics of the words of exceptional pronunciations through phonological research and text analysis. Thus, the method contributes to the performance improvement of automatic pronunciation generator in Korean as well as that of a speech recognition system and a TTS system in Korean.

Most semiconductor devices manufactured today, have uniform dopant concentration, either in the lateral or vertical device active (and isolation) regions. By grading the dopant concentration, the performance in various semiconductor devices can be significantly improved. Performance improvements can be obtained in application specific areas like increase in frequency of operation for digital logic, various power MOSFET and IGBT ICS, improvement in refresh time for DRAM's, decrease in programming time for nonvolatile memory, better visual quality including pixel resolution and color sensitivity for imaging ICs, better sensitivity for varactors in tunable filters, higher drive capabilities for JFET's, and a host of other applications.

Personality, behavior and competency assessment data is obtained for a sales person (or group of sales persons), particularly via a computer-implemented interface. The resulting overall individual (or aggregated) assessment data is then compared with high sales performer benchmark data to identify performance improvement opportunities that, in turn, are used to identify at least one specific action for the sales person (or group of sales persons). Such techniques may be use with sales management personnel as well. Reports based on the assessment results and comparisons thereof with high sales performer benchmark data may be created and provided to the individuals being assessed or persons associated with the individual sales persons. The personality, behavior and competency assessment data may also be used to identify predictive characteristics of high sales performers that may be subsequently used to predict other characteristics of individuals or groups.

A system for evaluating and responding to customer satisfaction index (CSI) data generated by businesses such as automotive dealers and call centers. The system includes a reporting module providing on-line reporting of the CSI data, a diagnostic module for generating comparisons and for identifying issues relating to the CSI data, a research module for conducting on-line research relating to the generated comparisons and identified issues, a procedures module for viewing business procedures relating to the generated comparisons and identified issues, a training module for providing and tracking via on-line and/or off-line training affecting the generated comparisons, the identified issues and/or the procedures, a sales and recognition building module tracking motivation programs, and a customer retention module.

A method and communications device for providing antenna tuning to compensate for antenna de-tuning caused by a presence of an object detected using an antenna element within a capacitive touch and proximity sensor (CTPS). The CTPS propagates object detection signals associated with a detected object to a detection IC. An object detection and antenna tuning (ODAT) logic uses object detection signal information to generate tuning control signals to trigger compensatory antenna tuning, based on pre-established mappings of object detection signal data and antenna tuning states. The tuning control signals indicate at least one of (a) a level of compensatory antenna impedance tuning and (b) an amount of compensatory antenna length adjustment. In response to generating the tuning control signals, the ODAT logic triggers the propagation of the tuning control signals to the antenna matching and control circuit to provide the corresponding antenna tuning.

A method of improving and strengthening the performance of metal and protecting the metal against degradation and suppression thereof by controlling ultrasonic impact is disclosed. The method addresses the problems of degradation of metal properties during prolonged service under external forces, thermodynamic fluctuations and negative environmental factors. The method also relates to the technologies oriented to protect against (prevent) and to suppress the danger of materials failure due to unfavorable change in performance over time. The well-known methods of “combating” metal degradation cover a wide range of technologies from metallurgical alloying during melting, casting, welding and application of coatings to various thermal treatments and effects on the surface. The invention provides a new versatile method of addressing degradation problems in all these cases.

The present invention is directed to system for and methods of real time observing, monitoring, and detecting anomalies in programs' behavior at instruction level. The hardware assist design in this invention provides fine grained observability, and controllability. Fine grained observability provides unprecedented opportunity for detecting anomaly. Controllability provides a powerful tool for stopping anomaly, repairing the kernel and restoring the state of processing. The performance improvement over pure software approach is estimated to be many orders of magnitudes. This invention is also effective and efficient in detecting mutating computer viruses, where normal, signature based, virus detection is under performing.

A method for making recommendations to improve advertisement campaign performance includes receiving a seed campaign insertion order (IO) having one or more campaign IO lines; computing a plurality of neighbor ad campaigns based on a comparison of the seed campaign IO with a dataset of advertiser ad campaign IO lines; generating campaign IO recommendations by executing an algorithm to recommend a campaign feature and value (FV) as a change to a line of the seed campaign IO based on success of such use by the neighbor ad campaigns; ranking the FV recommendations based on at least one performance metric; filtering the FV recommendations based on a plurality of performance-enhancing criteria of the seed campaign IO and the neighbor ad campaigns with respect to individual FV recommendations; and displaying the ranked FV recommendations to the advertiser for selection.

A preferably non-electrical nerve communication enhancement tool that sends specific, pre-timed, controlled vibrational and/or acoustical stimulation frequencies to the body to enhance nerve communication for the purpose of assisting in proper function of skeletal muscle, smooth muscle, sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems, and facilitating rapid and improved cerebellar timing circuit and related cerebellar learning mechanism pathways such as the inferior olivary-Purkinje-Thalamus cell system and other similar neuronal pools, to improve muscle memory, coordinated functional neuron-musculo-skeletal performance improvement, enhance blood flow, increased range of motion, flexibility, strength and dexterity, neuromuscular re-education, muscle tone recovery, pain modulation, improved eye-hand coordination, gait improvement, balance and stability gains, kinetic chain integration, neurological performance enhancement, sensory dysfunction reduction, and improvement in mental and cognitive function.

A performance analysis support system is disclosed that provides one or more recommended solutions of a performance improvement project to management and the expected improvement benefit of each solution. The performance analysis support system guides a user through a detailed, consistent analysis process, helping organizational leaders accurately diagnose critical performance or productivity issues. Then, the performance analysis support system estimates the personnel and equipment requirements, time, costs, and return on investment associated with each solution generated based on the analysis results. In addition, the performance analysis support system provides management immediate access to ongoing and past analyses.

Methods are disclosed for producing highly doped semiconductor materials. Using the invention, one can achieve doping densities that exceed traditional, established carrier saturation limits without deleterious side effects. Additionally, highly doped semiconductor materials are disclosed, as well as improved electronic and optoelectronic devices/components using said materials. The innovative materials and processes enabled by the invention yield significant performance improvements and/or cost reductions for a wide variety of semiconductor-based microelectronic and optoelectronic devices/systems. Materials are grown in an anion-rich environment, which, in the preferred embodiment, are produced by moderate substrate temperatures during growth in an oxygen-poor environment. The materials exhibit fewer non-radiative recombination centers at higher doping concentrations than prior art materials, and the highly doped state of matter can exhibit a minority carrier lifetime dominated by radiative recombination at higher doping levels and higher majority carrier concentrations than achieved in prior art materials. Important applications enabled by these novel materials include high performance electronic or optoelectronic devices, which can be smaller and faster, yet still capture or emit light efficiently, and high performance electronics, such as transistors, which can be smaller and faster, yet cooler.

A flexible and extensible architecture allows for secure searching across an enterprise. Such an architecture can provide a simple Internet-like search experience to users searching secure content inside (and outside) the enterprise. The architecture allows for the crawling and searching of a variety or sources across an enterprise, regardless of whether any of these sources conform to a conventional user role model. The architecture further allows for security attributes to be submitted at query time, for example, in order to provide real-time secure access to enterprise resources. The user query also can be transformed to provide for dynamic querying that provides for a more current result list than can be obtained for static queries.