729 results about "Process state" patented technology

A method of process, industrial, environmental or other control includes executing a first sequence of instructions in a first process (or thread) and executing a second sequence of instructions in a second process (or thread) that is loosely coupled with the first. States of the first and second processes are compared following their respective completions of the first and second instruction sequences. The comparison can cover registers, memory, flags, interrupts, tasks, and/or events in each of the respective processes. Execution of further instruction sequences by either process is delayed pending a favorable comparison of the process states. If the process achieve comparable states, the first process can take up execution of a third sequence, while the second process takes up execution of a fourth sequence. In the event that one of the processes does not complete its respective instruction sequence within a set period of time, or if the process states do not otherwise favorably compare after execution of the respective sequences, the method calls for signaling an error. A device for process, industrial, environmental or other control operates in accord with such a method.

The process state of a chamber after a maintenance procedure can be monitored in-situ in order to ensure that the chamber is ready for processing, while minimizing waste and downtime due to aftereffects of the maintenance procedure. The composition of a bulk plasma in a process chamber can be analyzed using an analytical tool to capture the emission spectrum of the plasma. The spectrum can be analyzed to generate a model of the current chamber conditions, which can be compared to a model of ideal chamber conditions using a statistical analysis approach such as multivariate primary component analysis. If the current and ideal models match to within a set confidence level, the chamber conditions are acceptable for processing devices, and any processing of cycling workpieces or other plasma-cleansing processes can be stopped.

Incremental single and multiprocess checkpointing and restoration is described, which is transparent in that the application program need not be modified, re-compiled, or re-linked to gain the benefits of the invention. The processes subject to checkpointing can be either single or multi-threaded. The method includes incremental page-boundary checkpointing, as well as storage checkpointing of data files associated with applications to ensure correct restoration without the need to restore files for other application programs. Incremental and full checkpoints are asynchronously merged to ensure proper operation while reducing checkpointing delay. By way of example a user-level programming library is described for loading into the address space of the application in conjunction with a loadable kernel module (LKM) or device driver used to capture and restore process state on behalf of the application. These techniques are particularly well suited for use with high-availability (HA) protection programming.

This invention teaches a quality assurance system for additive manufacturing. This invention teaches a multi-sensor, real-time quality system including sensors, affiliated hardware, and data processing algorithms that are Lagrangian-Eulerian with respect to the reference frames of its associated input measurements. The quality system for Additive Manufacturing is capable of measuring true in-process state variables associated with an additive manufacturing process, i.e. those in-process variables that define a feasible process space within which the process is deemed nominal. The in-process state variables can also be correlated to the part structure or microstructure and can then be useful in identifying particular locations within the part likely to include defects.

In a radio communication system that performs HARQ (Hybrid Automatic Repeat request), a mobile station returns the HARQ process state of the mobile station to the free state by the reception of ACK. In this state, the mobile station, upon receiving from the scheduling base station an SA (scheduling assignment) for assigning resources for retransmission, transmits a transmission process state notification reporting that the mobile station is in the free state when the mobile station does not have new data to be transmitted. The base station therefore recognizes that the mobile station is in the free state and returns the HARQ process state of the base station to the free state and halts the assignment of resources to the mobile station.

An apparatus and method for depositing plural layers of materials on a substrate within a single vacuum chamber allows high-throughput deposition of structures such as these for GMR and MRAM application. An indexing mechanism aligns a substrate with each of plural targets according to the sequence of the layers in the structure. Each target deposits material using a static physical-vapor deposition technique. A shutter can be interposed between a target and a substrate to block the deposition process for improved deposition control. The shutter can also preclean a target or the substrate and can also be used for mechanical chopping of the deposition process. In alternative embodiments, plural substrates may be aligned sequentially with plural targets to allow simultaneous deposition of plural structures within the single vacuum chamber. A monitoring and control device can be wed to optimize equipment state, process state, and wafer state parameters by sensing each respective state during or after the deposition process.

An etching process state judgment method comprising: a spectral data obtaining step, in which an optical emission spectrum distribution is obtained by monitoring optical emission during an etching process of a plurality of wafers; a peak detection step, in which peaks are detected from the optical emission spectrum distribution at a specific time point during the etching process, to obtain peak characteristics; a common peak identifying step, in which peaks common to the wafers are identified among the peaks detected in the peak detection step; and a state detection step, in which the characteristics are compared regarding the common peaks, to detect a state of each wafer in the etching process.

A state (anomaly or normalcy) of an etching process is detected from optical emission spectrum distribution at the time of etching process, by a simple method without assuming substances.

Multiple aggregation groups, which can be multiple partitions in an aggregated data table, are formed. Each group includes multiple aggregation records; each aggregation record includes an aggregation of values contained by a different subset of multiple database records. While an aggregation group is accessed by a single program thread during an aggregation group update transaction, no other threads are allowed to access that group. The aggregation groups are combined into a single table of aggregation records. Each of the multiple database records may correspond to an instance of an organizational activity and include a field having a value indicating the corresponding instance to be in one of several process states. Each aggregation group may further include time-sorted aggregation records, each time-sorted aggregation record containing an aggregation value for instances in one of the several process states during a time period associated with the time-sorted aggregation record. Aggregation records corresponding to instances completed outside of a preselected time window are deleted.

A method for tracking objects in three dimensions in a radar system is provided that includes receiving spherical coordinates of an estimated location of each object of a plurality of detected objects, a range rate of each object, and variances for the spherical coordinates and the range rate of each object, determining whether or not each object is currently being tracked, updating a tracking vector for an object based on the object spherical coordinates, range rate, and variances when the object is currently being tracked, and initializing a tracking vector for an object when the object is not currently being tracked, wherein a tracking vector for an object is a process state vector for an extended Kalman filter designed to track an object, elements of the tracking vector including Cartesian coordinates of the object location, the object velocity in three directions, and the object acceleration in three directions.

A method and an apparatus for reducing process non-uniformity across a processed semiconductor wafers. A first semiconductor wafer is processed. A process non-uniformity associated with the first processed semiconductor wafer is identified. A feedback correction in response to the process non-uniformity during processing of a second semiconductor wafer is performed and/or a feed-forward compensation is performed in response to the process non-uniformity during a subsequent process performed across the first semiconductor wafer is performed.

An error-handling framework is provided for business process transactions. The error-handling framework facilitates coordination of the invocation of exception and compensation handlers in response to errors. The error-handling framework includes support for custom ordering of compensation actions, data flow into and out of compensation actions, and management of the process state visible to compensation actions.

A data representation language representation of the state of a process executing on a client or service in a distributed computing environment may be created. The representation may include a computation state of the device and/or virtual machine on which the process is executing, wherein the computation state of the device and/or virtual machine comprises information about the execution state of the process on the device and/or virtual machine. A process state may include, but is not limited to: threads, all objects referenced by the threads, transient variables created during the execution of the process, objects and their data, etc. In one embodiment, data describing one or more leases representing grants of access to external services, obtained from spaces by the process, may also be stored with the process state. The data representation language representation of the state of a process may be moved from node to node within the distributed computing environment. The representation of the state of a process may also be stored as a data representation language object in a store mechanism, and later retrieved from the store mechanism to resume the process execution on the same node or on a different node in the distributed computing environment. In one embodiment, an object compilation/decompilation process may be used in creating the representation of the state of a process and in regenerating the state of the process by decompiling the representation of the state of the process.

A method, system, and computer program product for implementing inter-process integrity serialization services is provided. The method includes enabling process states including a must-stay-controlled (MSC) state and an extended must-stay-controlled (EMSC) state for an invoking process when it is determined that only programs designated as controlled, if any, have been loaded for the invoking process. The invoking process requests loading of a target program into temporary storage for performing a security service. Based upon a control indicator of the target program, the MSC state, and the EMSC state, the method includes controlling one or more activities within the temporary storage. The activities include loading the target program into the temporary storage, executing a main program in the temporary storage, and resetting the MSC state and the EMSC state across execution of the main program during the lifetime of the invoking process.

A data processing apparatus is provided comprising first processing circuitry, second processing circuitry and shared processing circuitry. The first processing circuitry and second processing circuitry are configured to operate in different first and second power domains respectively and the shared processing circuitry is configured to operate in a shared power domain. The data processing apparatus forms a uni-processing environment for executing a single instruction stream in which either the first processing circuitry and the shared processing circuitry operate together to execute the instruction stream or the second processing circuitry and the shared processing circuitry operate together to execute the single instruction stream. Execution flow transfer circuitry is provided for transferring at least one bit of processing-state restoration information between the two hybrid processing units.

The invention relates to the technology of integrated circuits and the field of artificial intelligence, and especially relates to an artificial neural network processor (ANNP) integrated circuit. The integrated circuit comprises a state control module, a data control module, a parameter control module, and a nerve cell operation array module. The state control module is used for detecting the working states of the data control module, the parameter control module, and the nerve cell operation array module. After the working states of all modules are detected, the state control module generates a current process state of the whole integrated circuit, and controls the data control module, the parameter control module and the nerve cell operation array module to work synchronously. The integrated circuit is simple in structure, greatly improves the operation performance, and effectively reduces the demands for data access bandwidth. The invention also discloses an integrated circuit design method for the ANNP integrated circuit.

A method and an apparatus are provided for adjusting a sampling rate based on a state estimation result. The method comprises receiving metrology data associated with processing of workpieces, estimating a next process state based on at least a portion of the metrology data and determining an error value associated with the estimated next process state. The method further comprises processing a plurality of workpieces based on the estimated next process state and adjusting a sampling protocol of the processed workpieces that are to be measured based on the determined error value.

The invention discloses a method for dynamic acquisition and transmission of wireless data. In a data acquisition process of the method, the time interval for data acquisition is dynamically adjusted, according to the change threshold of data acquisition. In a data storing process, the time interval and opportunity for data storing is dynamically adjusted according to the change threshold of data acquisition. In a data sending process, the opportunity for data sending is dynamically adjusted according to the acquisition value alarming threshold and changing rate alarming threshold of data acquisition. Dynamically increasing or reducing data sampling frequency without increasing power consumption of wireless equipment is realized based on data abnormity degree. Alarm information is timely sent by determination of dynamic data acquisition abnormity, so that managers can maintain equipment as early as possible. Wireless data bulk sent is reduced, and the power consumption of wireless monitoring equipment is reduced. The process state information of entire detected equipment can be monitored without increasing the total transmission data bulk.

An integration platform for managing long term processes. The platform includes a runtime engine that manages the process instances and communication with the processes to provide Web services. The runtime engine includes an execution engine module and a prediction module. The prediction module generates predictions for executing processes for inbound and outbound messages and eventual process outcomes. The predictions may be utilized when requisite data is unavailable or under defined circumstances. The prediction module utilizes process history, process description and process state data to generate relevant prediction data. The prediction module may include a learning module that applies analytical algorithms to the process history and descriptions to create models for use by the prediction module.

A method and apparatus allow a programmer to repeatedly debug a program from the same starting point. The entire process state of the process can be saved at any time in the course of a debugging session to a disk file, called the checkpoint file. Now registers or memory may be modified, if necessary, and the program may be brought back to the same starting point where the state had been previously saved by resuming from the checkpoint file. The method and apparatus allow the state of all the programs to be saved multiple times and resumed from any one of those states. The debugging of a problem is considerably facilitated by not having to start from scratch to debug the problem as the last saved state of the program can be used to start the debugging.

A plasma processing method is arranged to supply a predetermined process gas into a plasma generation space in which a target substrate is placed, and turn the process gas into plasma. The substrate is subjected to a predetermined plasma process by this plasma. The spatial distribution of density of the plasma and the spatial distribution of density of radicals in the plasma are controlled independently of each other relative to the substrate by a facing portion opposite the substrate to form a predetermined process state over the entire target surface of the substrate.