Abstract: The present disclosure relates to utilizing a distributed data management system to provide improved data management, redundancy, and reliability in distributed directory systems. To illustrate, a distributed data management system improves existing distributed directory systems by relocating and distributing the management of data records from a centralized cache device to the backend storage partition devices. In this manner, the backend storage partition devices become responsible for automatically pushing data record metadata and changes to the centralized cache device, which only passively redirects the incoming requests to the proper backend storage partition devices. Additionally, the backend storage partition devices automatically resolve conflicts and restore lost data if the centralized cache device or a backend storage partition device suffers from faults or device failures.

Abstract: An electrochromic device comprising a pair of glass, plastic plates or plastic films At least one plate or film, is provided with an electrically conductive coating. At least one plate or film and its conductive coating are transparent and the other may be mirrored. The plates or films are joined together and form a volume filled with an electrochromic medium which comprises at least one reducible electrochromic substance OX2 and at least one oxidizable electrochromic substance RED1. The OX2 corresponds to the formula in which R201 and R202, each are alkyl, cycloalkyl, alkenyl, aralkyl, aryl, ?[C(PQ)]? or a bivalent bridge B, Z201 is a bivalent radical of the formulae CR210R211, O, C?O or o-phenylene, R210 and R211, each are hydrogen, methyl or ethyl, or CR210R211 is C3- to C7-cycloalkane-1,1-diyl. The rings C, D, E and F, each may be substituted by up to 4 alkyl and/or alkoxy radicals, or respectively, may be linked via a —(CH2)4— or —CH?CH—CH?CH— bridge. P and Q, each are —CN or —COO-alkyl.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing electrochromic devices, in particular that having a large working surface area and which does not produce a volumetric shrinkage and can operate during a long maintenance of electrocoloured state of an electrochromic compound, high control voltages and polarity inversion. The inventive electrochromic device comprises at least two electrodes (1, 2), at least one of them being optically transparent. A closed sealed space is formed between said electrodes and filled with the electrochromic compound which is embodied in the form of a solid-like film. The inventive method for producing the electrochromic device consists in prefabricating an initial electrochromic compound in the form of a dispersed electrochromic system which contains at least a suspension and/or colloid.

Abstract: An electrochromic device comprising a pair of glass or plastic plates or plastic films of which at least one plate or film, preferably both plates or films, are provided on in each case one side with an electrically conductive coating, of which at least one plate or film and its conductive coating are transparent, of which the other may be mirrored, and of which in the case of at least one of the two plates or films the electrically conductive layer can be divided into separate, individually contacted area segments, where the plates or films are joined together via a sealing ring on the sides of their conductive coating, and the volume formed by the two plates or films and the sealing ring is filled with an electrochromic medium which comprises at least one reducible electrochromic substance OX2 and at least one oxidizable electrochromic substance RED1, characterized in that one OX2 corresponds to the formula 1

Abstract: An electrochromic device comprising a pair of glass or plastic plates or plastic films of which at least one plate or film, preferably both plates or films, are provided on in each case one side with an electrically conductive coating, of which at least one plate or film and its conductive coating is transparent, of which the other may be mirrored, and of which in the case of at least one of the two plates or films the electrically conductive layer can be divided into separate, individually contacted area segments and the conductive coatings can be connected at at least one point to an electrical conductor, where the plates or films are joined together via a sealing ring on the sides of their conductive coating, and the volume formed by the two plates or films and the sealing ring is filled with an electrochromic medium which comprises at least one reducible electrochromic compound OX2 and at least one oxidizable electrochromic compound RED1, in which the electrochromic medium also comprises a further reducib