Abstract: A system for enhanced resource utilization includes a network interface with access to memory of a device, in communication with an operating system of the device. The system receives, from the operating system, an identification of a predetermined amount of the memory for a packet buffer, store multiple packets in the allocated memory. A total size of the multiple packets is smaller than or equal to the predetermined amount of memory. The system generates a status record for each received packet stored in the allocated memory, and stores the generated status records in the allocated memory. The system also allocates a socket buffer for each packet stored in the allocated memory such that the socket buffer has reference to the corresponding packet in the allocated memory.

Abstract: A system and method is provided for variable bit rate encoding using a complexity ratio. Quantization parameter is calculated using a complexity ratio, which is equal to a local complexity divided by a global complexity. Complex pictures are allocated a larger bit budget relative to simple pictures. With the larger bit budget the quality of complex pictures can be maintained while reducing the overall size of the encoded video stream.

Abstract: A method scales plasma process settings from a first processing device to a second processing device. The first processing device has a first geometry and a first set of process parameters. The second processing device has a second geometry and a second set of process parameters. A first set of plasma process settings that generates the first set of process parameters of the first processing device having the first geometry is determined. The first set of plasma process settings is reduced to isolate at least one variable on which the first set of plasma process settings depends on for each plasma process setting. A scaling factor is calculated for each plasma process setting from the first set of plasma process settings such that the first set of process parameters substantially equals the second set of process parameters.

Abstract: A probe for measuring properties of plasma includes a shell, a contact extending through the shell and having a first connecting portion positioned in the shell, and a connector guide attached to a second connecting portion, the second connecting portion being detachably coupled to the first connecting portion. In another embodiment, a probe for measuring properties of plasma includes a shell, a contact extending through the shell, wiring extending from the contact and along an interior of the shell, and a coolant inlet line for injecting coolant into the interior of the shell for cooling the wiring. A method for cooling wiring positioned in an interior of a probe includes providing a coolant inlet line for injecting coolant into the interior of the probe and inserting the coolant inlet line in the interior of the probe such that the coolant cools the wiring.

Abstract: A feed forward power control loop is provided for a tissue stimulation system. The tissue stimulating system includes an external device and an implantable device. Only the amount of power required by the implantable device is transmitted across a transcutaneous transmission link to the implantable device from the external device, thereby reducing power fluctuations within the implantable device, and reducing the amount of power expended by the external device. In one embodiment, the power control loop is used with a cochlear stimulating system that includes an externally wearable signal receiver and processor (WP) and an implanted cochlear stimulator (ICS). The feed forward power control loop predicts the power requirements of the ICS. The prediction is used to determine the level of RF power to be transmitted by the WP.

Abstract: A probe for measuring properties of plasma includes a shell, a contact extending through the shell and having a first connecting portion positioned in the shell, and a connector guide attached to a second connecting portion, the second connecting portion being detachably coupled to the first connecting portion. In another embodiment, a probe for measuring properties of plasma includes a shell, a contact extending through the shell, wiring extending from the contact and along an interior of the shell, and a coolant inlet line for injecting coolant into the interior of the shell for cooling the wiring. A method for cooling wiring positioned in an interior of a probe includes providing a coolant inlet line for injecting coolant into the interior of the probe and inserting the coolant inlet line in the interior of the probe such that the coolant cools the wiring.

Abstract: A probe for measuring properties of plasma includes a shell, a contact extending through the shell and having a first connecting portion positioned in the shell, and a connector guide attached to a second connecting portion, the second connecting portion being detachably coupled to the first connecting portion. In another embodiment, a probe for measuring properties of plasma includes a shell, a contact extending through the shell, wiring extending from the contact and along an interior of the shell, and a coolant inlet line for injecting coolant into the interior of the shell for cooling the wiring. A method for cooling wiring positioned in an interior of a probe includes providing a coolant inlet line for injecting coolant into the interior of the probe and inserting the coolant inlet line in the interior of the probe such that the coolant cools the wiring.

Abstract: A signal processing technique for improving the axial resolution and/or the sensitivity of an ultrasonic imaging system. This technique also improves the lateral resolution and the depth of field. The technique is based on combining two or more transmit wave functions in an optimal manner to achieve a synthetic waveform which has greater bandwidth and/or energy than the individual wave functions. This scheme operates on the imaging data before the data reaches the envelope detector, while the phase information is still maintained within the signal. Using a synthetic transmit wave design approach, the effective emitted pressure waveform would have a bandwidth which would be wider than the transducer bandwidth with high sensitivity. The synthetic transmit waveform design scheme consists of firing two or more relatively long transmit waveforms for each single A-line in a given focal zone. The frequency spectrum for each of these transmit pulses is centered at a slightly different frequency.