90 results about "Smart memory" patented technology

A surgical device 20 for attaching staples 40 to a portion of a body comprising an anvil 23; a smart memory material (SMM) 50, 75 capable of going from one physical state to another physical state; a supply of staples in communication with the smart memory material and placed near the anvil; and an activating apparatus 21 which is in communication with the smart memory material and which can cause the change in the physical state of the smart memory material, which change in state causes the movement of the staples against the anvil thereby securing the staples 40 to the desired body portion. The device utilizes a source of electricity which when activated causes the SMM to expand in volume thereby moving an individual staple from the supply of staples. The device may also contain a surgical knife 62 to cut a body portion wherein a SMM is in communication with the knife whereby when the SMM expands it engages the knife causing the knife to cut the desired body portion.

Systems and methods for massively parallel processing on an accelerator that includes a plurality of processing cores. Each processing core includes multiple processing chains configured to perform parallel computations, each of which includes a plurality of interconnected processing elements. The cores further include multiple of smart memory blocks configured to store and process data, each memory block accepting the output of one of the plurality of processing chains. The cores communicate with at least one off-chip memory bank.

A smart memory computing system that uses smart memory for massive data storage as well as for massive parallel execution is disclosed. The data stored in the smart memory can be accessed just like the conventional main memory, but the smart memory also has many execution units to process data in situ. The smart memory computing system offers improved performance and reduced costs for those programs having massive data-level parallelism. This smart memory computing system is able to take advantage of data-level parallelism to improve execution speed by, for example, use of inventive aspects such as algorithm mapping, compiler techniques, architecture features, and specialized instruction sets.

A device integrated with payment function and collection function, includes a smart memory card and an intelligent terminal. The intelligent terminal is adapted to generate a secure transaction management instruction, send the secure transaction management instruction to the smart memory card and notify an execution result of the secure transaction management instruction; to interact with a bank side system via a remote communication network; to interact with user via a user interface; to interact with another device in near field communication mode; to process transaction instruction, generate a secure transaction application instruction and send the secure transaction application instruction to the smart memory card; and to notify an execution result of the secure transaction application instruction. The smart memory card is adapted to execute the safe transaction management instruction and the safe transaction application instruction.

A memory interface for use with a multiprocess memory system having a gating memory, the gating memory associating one or more memory access methods with each of a plurality of memory locations of the memory system wherein the gating memory returns a particular one access method for a particular one memory location responsive to a memory access instruction relating to the particular one memory location, the interface including: a request storage for storing a plurality of concurrent memory access instructions for one or more of the particular memory locations, each the memory access instruction issued from an associated independent thread context; an arbiter, coupled to the request storage, for selecting a particular one of the memory access instructions to apply to the gating memory; and a controller, coupled to the request storage and to the arbiter, for: storing the plurality of memory access instructions in the request storage; initiating application of the particular one memory access instruction selected by the arbiter to the gating memory; receiving the particular one access method associated with the particular one memory access method from the gating memory; and initiating a communication of the particular access method to the thread context associated with the particular one access instruction.

A system includes at least one server and at least one host computer coupled to a communication network. A memory card wallet includes a content addressable memory that stores server identifiers, such as URLs, and user information associated with the resource provider, such as user identification numbers and passwords. The user inserts the memory card wallet into the host computer, and instead of entering user identifiers and passwords, the memory card wallet can provide such information to the server. When the user enters a server identifier that matches a server identifier stored in the content addressable memory, the memory card wallet provides the user information associated with the matched sever identifier.

The invention belongs to the technical field of an intelligent memory method, and particularly relates to a word memory intelligent learning method and a system thereof. According to the memory ability of different learners, times spent on the memory of words in each day and the degree of difficulty of memorizing different words, the forgetting models of each word in different periods (transient memory, short-term memory and long-term memory) are calculated, then according to a forgetting critical point, the optimal review time of each word is accurately calculated, thus new word amount of each memory and old word amount of review are planned, and the overall learning progress can be predicated. The learning system established according to the above method is accurate and rapid, a lot of times and energy are saved for the learner, thus the efficiency of word memory is raised, and the system is especially suitable for memorizing a large amount of words. This system is applied to a computer or various smart mobile devices.

Enhanced functionality is provided in memory devices by enhancing the control logic to recognize predetermined data sequences. Standard (legacy) device operations are used to communicate the predetermined data sequences, thereby allowing existing device drivers to be used with the enhanced devices.

The invention discloses a near field payment method for a smart phone. The scheme is that: the phone without a near field communication (NFC) chip and a smart memory card with an encryption algorithm are adopted, a digital certificate of a bank card is downloaded into the smart memory card matched with the digital certificate as a payment voucher, the smart memory card is inserted into the smart phone, and near field communication trading software is installed in a memory of a body of the smart phone or in the smart memory card. The smart phone is held close to a point of sale (POS) terminal,performs near field communication with the POS terminal by utilizing own wireless communication technology of the phone and obtains bank card operation authority by authenticating the digital certificate, and a trading amount is displayed on the POS terminal and the phone. The near field communication trading software in the smart phone realizes mobile payment. In the method, the use of the NFC chip is avoided and an NFC antenna is not required to be arranged or modified in the smart phone. When NFC mobile phones are not popularized in China, the method can be used as a transitional scheme for the near field payment of the phone.

The processor enhanced memory module PEMM can be incorporated into the hardcopy image processing pipeline of existing printer controllers by using the smart memory model. Here the data generated from RISC based PDL interpretation or pre-rasterized data can be processed in an accelerated fashion into page bit maps, color space converted, and compressed by the PEMM. Since the DSP on the PEMM is programmable, the resolution, color space, and type of compression along with other printer specific processing can have formats other than those determined by the fixed functionality of the ASIC devices present in the pipeline.

The invention discloses an intelligent memory card system and a method for realizing the interaction of the system. In the invention, an extension application chip is added into the existing memory card so as to form the intelligent memory card. Based on the extension of a card-terminal application program carried in the extension application chip, the intelligent memory card can realize the management of various intelligent application programs operated in a terminal device which is connected with the intelligent memory card by the interaction of the terminal device and an application server, so as to ensure that the function of the intelligent memory card is not limited to data storage, wherein, the intelligent memory card can download various intelligent application programs from the application server, and in-card application programs in the intelligent memory card can be downloaded from the application server by the terminal device for updating; the intelligent memory card can also accept various mobile applications and dynamic services provided by the application server by the interaction of the terminal device and the application server, thereby ensuring that the intelligent memory card can support more function extensions.

A method for increasing the fluid productivity of a hydraulically fractured well and reducing the production of particulate proppant plugging during production of fluids from a hydraulic fracture in a subterranean formation penetrated from an earth surface by a well by the use of smart memory particles and dissolvable proppant particles in the fracturing fluid.

An example method involves receiving, at a first memory node, data to be written at a memory location in the first memory node. The data is received from a device. At the first memory node, old data is read from the memory location, without sending the old data to the device. The data is written to the memory location. The data and the old data are sent from the first memory node to a second memory node to store parity information in the second memory node without the device determining the parity information. The parity information is based on the data stored in the first memory node.

A smart memory computing system that uses smart memory for massive data storage as well as for massive parallel execution is disclosed. The data stored in the smart memory can be accessed just like the conventional main memory, but the smart memory also has many execution units to process data in situ. The smart memory computing system offers improved performance and reduced costs for those programs having massive data-level parallelism. This smart memory computing system is able to take advantage of data-level parallelism to improve execution speed by, for example, use of inventive aspects such as algorithm mapping, compiler techniques, architecture features, and specialized instruction sets.

The present invention provides a method of Patricia tree rapid inquiry, including following steps: (a) dividing Patricia tree into one or more subtrees according to depth of tree; (b) compressing all node information of each subtree to a compressing tree structure; (c) accessing high bandwidth of the EMS memory via the processor, acquiring all information of a subtree by reading once memory, the method of Patricia tree rapid inquiry can reduce times of smart memory access of Patricia inquiry tree computing and improve finding efficiency.

A smart memory system preferably includes a memory including one or more memory chips, and a processor including one or more memory processor chips. The processor includes a common address/data/control memory bus that is configured to provide an asynchronous handshaking interface between the memory array and the memory processor. The processor can offload error data from the memory chip for analysis, and can store poor retention bit address information for memory refreshing in a non-bolatile error retention memory. Porgram logic can also be included for memory address re-configuration. Power management logic can also be included, which can have a process-voltage-temperature compensation voltage generator for providing stable and constant read currents. An asynchronous handshaking interface is provided between the memory array and the memory processor. Write error tagging and write verification circuits can also be included.

A smart memory includes a memory array and one or more memory-intensive additional functions, all packaged in a standard memory package that has substantially the same fit and form as a standard integrated-circuit memory. One type of smart memory chip is a multi-media RAM (MMRAM) chip that provides on a single integrated-circuit chip a memory array and a compressor/decompressor (CODEC) section where connections between the memory array section and the CODEC section are on the single integrated-circuit die. The smart memory eliminates the need for additional special function integrated-circuit packages and significantly reduces the clock rate and the power consumption of a baseband chip in a personal communication device.

Tracking device embodiments, comprising: portable housing with a locking mechanism; band latched about a wrist; tampering detection device to detect tampering with the band, comprising: power source; latch configured to latch one end of the band within the housing; a shape memory material component connected to the latch; an electrical circuit for controlling the power source to heat the shape memory material component to cause the shape memory material component to change from a first length/shape to a second length/shape during supply of power to perform a locking function; a timer; two-way network communication device; a tracking element; tampering signal generation circuit. In embodiments, a tamper resistant container cap, comprises: cap housing releasably lockable to an open end of a container and a locking mechanism using a shape memory material component.