Abstract: Methods and equipment for the removal of semiconductor wafers grown on the top surface of a single crystal silicon substrate covered by a porous silicon separation layer by using IR irradiation of the porous silicon separation layer to initiate release of the semiconductor wafer from the substrate, particularly at edges (and corners) of the top surface of the substrate.

Abstract: A marine vessel hull, and marine vessels comprising at least one such hull, comprising a non-entrapment hull having at least one partial-beam, longitudinally vented transverse step, each partial-beam, longitudinally vented transverse step comprising a transverse step with port and starboard portions that do not continuously extend from port chine to starboard chine. In one embodiment, the port and starboard portions extend inwardly to an intersection with at least one longitudinal step but do not fully extend from starboard to port across the full beam of the vessel. In another, the port and starboard portions extend between longitudinal steps across the centerline but not to the starboard and port chines.

Abstract: A marine vessel hull, and marine vessels comprising at least one such hull, comprising a non-entrapment hull having at least one partial-beam, longitudinally vented transverse step, each partial-beam, longitudinally vented transverse step comprising a transverse step with port and starboard portions that extend inwardly to an intersection with at least one longitudinal step but do not fully extend from starboard to port across the full beam of the vessel.

Abstract: A hot runner nozzle includes a nozzle body, an annular outlet channel in the nozzle body, a source channel upstream of the annular outlet channel in the nozzle body, and a flow transition channel in the nozzle body. The flow transition channel interconnects the source channel with a part-annular segment of the annular outlet channel. The flow transition channel widens in a downstream direction and has a non-uniform cross-sectional channel thickness in either or both of the longitudinal (downstream) and transverse directions. The geometry of the flow transition channel may promote at least one of a uniform velocity profile and a uniform temperature profile in a generated annular or part-annular melt flow.

Abstract: A general-purpose integrated circuit capable of scaling to meet the requirements of a beamforming system for a wide range of applications and benefit from economies of scale is disclosed. The integrated circuit includes a delay and phase correcting engine in order to reference the incoming data to a common array center and steering direction. It also includes a frequency channelization engine to perform phase-shift beamforming tasks effectively and/or frequency channelize the output data stream. A flexible reconfigurable routing logic can be included, which allows a multiplicity of operation modes, and generates a multiplicity of linear combinations of the input and internally generated data streams.

Abstract: Systems and methods for automating client-side synchronization and discovery of public keys and certificates of external contacts include a key synchronizer at a client device. The key synchronizer obtains, from the client device, an external contact associated with an external domain outside of a local domain of the client device and then identifies, based on the external domain, a public key registry outside of the local domain. The key synchronizer obtains, from the public key registry, a registry-supplied public key or digital certificate for the external contact and then stores the registry-supplied key as a locally-stored key in the local key store such that the client device can obtain and apply the locally-stored key to secure an email targeting the external contact as a recipient of the email.

Abstract: A general-purpose integrated circuit capable of scaling to meet the requirements of a beamforming system for a wide range of applications and benefit from economies of scale is disclosed. The integrated circuit includes a delay and phase correcting engine in order to reference the incoming data to a common array center and steering direction. It also includes a frequency channelization engine to perform phase-shift beamforming tasks effectively and/or frequency channelize the output data stream. A flexible reconfigurable routing logic can be included, which allows a multiplicity of operation modes, and generates a multiplicity of linear combinations of the input and internally generated data streams.

Abstract: A method, system, apparatus, and computer-readable memory containing instructions include receiving, at an agent operating on a client device, a (domain name system) DNS resolution request for a domain name. The DNS resolution request is transmitted to a first DNS server including a firewall service and a second DNS server within a local network to the client device. Responses to the DNS resolution request from the first and second DNS server are received. The agent determines how to resolve the DNS resolution request based on one or more of the received responses.

Abstract: Data is transmitted in accordance with a parameter. For a metric associated with transmission of the data, a response to a stochastic error state of the metric includes making a first adjustment to the parameter in a first direction. A response to a deterministic error state of the metric includes making a second adjustment to the parameter in a second direction, where the second direction is in opposition to the first direction. A transition point between the two states is identified, and a response to the identification is made.

Abstract: Application data may be transmitted while oscillating a transmission parameter. A metric associated with a complementary network property is analyzed to identify a transition point between a stochastic error state and a deterministic error state of the complementary network property. Additional network properties or states may be inferred from the transition point, and the transmission of the application data may be optimized based on the inferred additional properties or states.

Abstract: Techniques for oscillatory complementary network property calibration of a network connection can be implemented by measuring a first network property (e.g., latency or bandwidth output) as a function of bandwidth input and performing statistical analysis to determine a correlation. If a non-zero correlation coefficient is detected, a second network property complementary to the first network property can be measured to determine a first value of the second network property. Likewise, the second network property can be measured as a function of bandwidth input to determine a second correlation which, if positive, may indicate how to determine a second value of the first network property. The first value and the second value can be utilized to determine a third value of a third network property (e.g., network latency and network capacity utilized to determine bandwidth-delay product).

Abstract: An optical sensor and airborne pathogen proliferation assembly for remote, optical detection and monitoring of pathogens is disclosed.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for the real-time identification of seizures in an Electroencephalogram (EEG) signal. The method provides for patient-independent seizure identification by use of a multi-patient trained generic Support Vector Machine (SVM) classifier. The SVM classifier is operates on a large feature vector combining features from a wide variety of signal processing and analysis techniques. The method operates sufficiently accurately to be suitable for use in a clinical environment. The method may also be combined with additional classifiers, such a Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) classifier, for improved robustness, and one or more dynamic classifiers such as an SVM using sequential kernels for improved temporal analysis of the EEG signal.

Abstract: Systems and methods for ring protection switching in a network based on selectively blocking and unblocking a port include forwarding traffic via the port over a data channel that utilizes a first service identifier, wherein the data channel is routed in the network along a closed loop; and selectively blocking and unblocking traffic on the port to provide the ring protection switching over the closed loop, wherein the selectively blocking and unblocking is performed based on a management channel that utilizes a second service identifier that is a different type from the first service identifier.

Abstract: An encoder operable to filter audio signals into a plurality of frequency band components, generate quantized digital components for each band, identify a potential for pre-echo events within the generated quantized digital components, generate an approximate signal by decoding the quantized digital components using inverse pulse code modulation, generate an error signal by comparing the approximate signal with the sampled audio signal, and process the error signal and quantized digital components. The encoder operable to process the error signal by processing delayed audio signals and Q band values, determining the potential for pre-echo events from the Q band values, and determining scale factors and MDCT block sizes for the potential for pre-echo events.

Abstract: In one example in accordance with the present disclosure, a method may include receiving code corresponding to an HTML page structure including a plurality of executable JavaScript code and enumerating a branching path in the JavaScript code. The method may include determining a branch of the branching path that would not execute during normal operation of a browser executing the JavaScript code. The method may also include generating an artificial condition for the branch and executing the branch using the artificial condition.

Abstract: A sub-band coder operable to process audio samples for use in a digital encoder. The sub-band coder comprising application code instructions executable on a processor configured to cause the coder to filter the audio samples into a plurality of frequency band components using at least one Pseudo-Quadrature Mirror Filter (PQMF) and modulate the plurality of frequency band components into a plurality of quantized band values using a pulse code modulation technique. The application code instructions further operable to cause the coder to decode the plurality of quantized band values into an approximation signal using an inverse pulse code modulation technique and at least one Inverse Pseudo-Quadrature Mirror Filter (IPQMF). The application code instructions operable to cause the coder generates an output for use by the digital encoder that includes the plurality of quantized band values, the approximation signal, and a plurality of encoded quantized band values.

Abstract: An encoder operable to filter audio signals into a plurality of frequency band components, generate quantized digital components for each band, identify a potential for pre-echo events within the generated quantized digital components, generate an approximate signal by decoding the quantized digital components using inverse pulse code modulation, generate an error signal by comparing the approximate signal with the sampled audio signal, and process the error signal and quantized digital components. The encoder operable to process the error signal by processing delayed audio signals and Q band values, determining the potential for pre-echo events from the Q band values, and determining scale factors and MDCT block sizes for the potential for pre-echo events.

Abstract: A codec operable to process audio data and related data. The codec further operable to receive at least one of an audio, audio auxiliary, program configuration, and data signals from a program source, the audio signals including at least one of single channel audio and multi-channel audio signals, audio auxiliary signals including spatial and motion data and environmental characteristics, the data signals including program related data. The codec further operable to generate a non-transitory encoded bitstream, wherein the bitstream includes at least one of synchronization command data and at least one of a program command data, audio channel data, audio auxiliary data, program content data, and an end of stream data, wherein the encoded bitstream includes an identifier for defining packet type for each data component. The synchronization command data includes a stream start flag defining an entry point for decoding the bitstream and further provides sample rate for the encoded bitstream.