Abstract: A voltage island is disclosed. The voltage island comprises a physical domain and a lower voltage supply rail within the physical domain. The voltage island also includes an upper voltage supply rail within the physical domain. The physical domain is coupled to the appropriate voltage supply rail to ensure reverse biased junctions. Accordingly, a system in accordance with the present invention allows circuit placements associated with multiple voltage islands within a common circuit row or even adjacent circuit rows to be utilized in which the area effectiveness is greatly improved. The use of common Nwell biasing connected to the higher power supply ensures no forward biased junctions and allows butted circuit placement in cases where the other circuit physical constraints permit. This configuration will minimize the density loss associated multiple voltage island implementations.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for preparing a disk drive of a computing system for test, including the steps of recording a plurality of test files to a partition of the disk drive until a free space of the partition is less than a predetermined value; and thereafter deleting a portion of the plurality of test files from the partition. A computer program product including a computer readable medium carrying a program for preparing a disk drive of a computing system for test, the computer program product having code for recording a plurality of test files to a partition of the disk drive until a free space of the partition is less than a predetermined value; and code for deleting a portion of the plurality of test files from the partition.

Abstract: A system and method for conserving power in an electronic device. The system includes a processor and a tilt sensor operatively coupled to the processor. The processor utilizes the tilt sensor to monitor a tilt angle of the electronic device, and causes the electronic device to enter a power conservation state if the tilt angle falls outside of a predetermined range. As a result, the electronic device goes into a power conservation state immediately when the electronic device is no longer in use.

Abstract: A method for providing a high power, low resistance, high efficient vertical DMOS device is disclosed. The method comprises providing a semiconductor substrate with a source body structure thereon. The method further comprises providing a plurality of slots in the source/body structure and providing a metal within the plurality of slots to form a plurality of structures. A slotted PowerFET array is disclosed. This slotted approach results in a dense PowerFET, a low Ron due to the slotted design, an oxide isolated process without any due extra steps other than the slots, lower capacitance, lower leakage, smaller die, improved heat transfer, improved electro-migration, lower ground resistance, less cross talk, drops the isolation diffusion and the sinker diffusion, mostly low temperature processing and provides double metal with single metal processing.

Abstract: An audio apparatus that enables audio output and volume to be controlled according to the usage situation is provided for. In an audio apparatus of the present invention, certain hypothetical connection situations are compared with actual connection situations, and when the actual connection situation matches a described hypothetical connection situation, the audio volume corresponding to that hypothetical connection situation is extracted from storage, and is used as the audio volume to be output from the audio apparatus.

Abstract: A method and system for providing a magnetic element that can be used in a magnetic memory is disclosed. The magnetic element includes pinned, spacer, free, and spin barrier layers. The spacer layer is nonmagnetic and resides between the pinned and free layers. The free layer can be switched using spin transfer when a write current is passed through the magnetic element. The free layer resides between the spacer layer and the spin barrier layer. The spin barrier layer is configured to reduce an outer surface contribution to a damping constant of the free layer. In one aspect, the spin barrier layer has a high areal resistance and may substantially eliminate spin pumping induced damping. In another aspect, the magnetic element also includes a spin accumulation layer between the spin barrier and free layers. The spin accumulation layer has a high conductivity, preferably being metallic, and may have a long spin diffusion length.

Abstract: An illumination device, including: a shell with a plurality of sides, where the device can be positioned upon a surface or attached or suspended at any of the plurality of sides; and at least one light-emitting device within the shell, where when the device is positioned upon a surface or attached or suspended at any of the plurality of sides of the shell, light from the at least one light-emitting device emits through each of the plurality of sides of the shell. The device is thus easy to deploy and use. Its design is compatible with outsourced manufacturing, allowing for cost savings. The device can be reused many times. The device can also emit light for many hours longer and has ruggedness that far exceeds conventional devices. The device can also be used where conventional devices and other lighting devices cannot, including underwater.

Abstract: A method and system for conducting a transaction over a network is disclosed. The network includes a first system and a second system. The method and system comprise initiating a transaction, comparing a value of the first system with a value of the second system and continuing the transaction based on the comparison. Through the use of the present invention, a client can download for-fee files as often as necessary in spite of potential lost connections. Consequently, the client can download files he or she has paid for with the assurance that he or she will pay just once because payment is not for the content, but for an encryption key that is capable of being utilized by the client system to subsequently decrypt the downloaded file.

Abstract: A query processing system having a data manager, and a query manager also includes a buffer. The query manager calls the data manager to access data based on a query. Where there is no predicate check or consumption operation on the record accessed, the data manager will notionally return the record to the query manager. However, the data manager accomplishes the return by writing the relevant portions of the record to a buffer. The data manager maintains stabilization of the page containing the record while the buffer is being written to. The data manager continues to access records on the stabilized page and to write such records to the buffer where appropriate. The query manager retrieves the records from the buffer after the data manager has completed its operation resulting from the query manager call.

Abstract: Methods and systems for image and video enhancement and data-loss recovery using wavelet transforms are disclosed. A wavelet transformed image is defined as multiple sections, where one section is the original image, and coefficients are estimated for each other section using information obtained from that section. An inverse wavelet transform on the wavelet transformed image obtains an enlarged image. For obtaining a high resolution video frame, one section is the original video frame, and coefficients are estimated for each other section using information from a lower level wavelet transform of a corresponding section of a past or future frame of the video sequence. For recovery of data lost from transmitted original data, the locality of the lost data is determined in lower and higher levels of a wavelet transform tree, and information at the locality in the lower and higher levels is used to estimate the lost data.

Abstract: A hash table for a collection of data items includes a set of hash buckets, each hash bucket being associated with a subset of the collection of data items, and a set of properties entries in each of the hash buckets. Each properties entry includes a pointer to an associated data item in the subset associated with the bucket and a set of representative values identifying the associated data item. A hash table can also include bucket groups defining a second level hash table to permit resizing of the hash table.

Abstract: A FLASH memory has an array of FLASH cells that each store N multiple bits of information as charge stored on a floating gate. Reference voltages or currents are generated for each boundary between the 2N states or levels and for an upper limit and a lower limit reference for each state. A selected bit line driven by a selected FLASH cell generates a sense node that is compared to a full range of 3*2N?1 comparators in parallel. The compare results are decoded to determine which state is read from the selected FLASH cell. An in-range signal is activated when the sense node is between the upper and lower limit references. The target programming count or programming pulses is adjusted during calibration to sense in the middle of the upper and lower limit references. Margin between references is adjusted by calibration codes that select currents for summing.

Abstract: A content management system is provided including a server computer and a client computer. The server includes a data repository and a stored procedure. The disclosed methodology provides a way of handling parameter passing of structured data for stored procedures in the system. The system is capable of both encoding data into a structured data format and decoding data from the structured data format. The structured data format employs a binary large object (BLOB) and character large object (CLOB) to achieve handling of fixed length binary data and variable length character data. Advantageously, the stored procedure interface need not be rewritten and customized for each stored procedure in the server.

Abstract: An electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection device is disclosed. The ESD protection device comprises a source diffusion in a substrate and a deeper body diffusion in the substrate. The ESD protection device further includes a gate function provided at a space between the source diffusion and the body diffusion surface terminations; and further includes a drain located a predetermined distance from the body diffusion. Finally, the ESD protection device includes a structure for shorting the source and the body diffusion to each other and to ground at variable distances from the channel region, thus providing a programmable variable snap back voltage to provide a protection when an ESD voltage is encountered.

Abstract: A hot-pluggable video architecture system is disclosed. The system includes one or more computers, where each of the computers includes a system bus for carrying signals, such as video bus cycles, a hot-pluggable bus, and a hot-pluggable host controller coupled to the system bus and the hot-pluggable bus. According to the present invention, the hot-pluggable host controller includes a video resource controller for reading and converting the video bus cycles on the system bus into signals having a format of the hot-pluggable bus. An external hot-pluggable video subsystem is further provided that can be removably coupled to the hot-pluggable bus of any one of the computers for processing the signals into a format suitable for a display.

Abstract: According to the method, apparatus, and computer readable medium of the present invention, a scan is performed by accessing all rows of a table in a relational database, evaluating each row to determine whether the row satifies a set of predicates of a database query, and returning the row if it satisfies the set of predicates. According to a preferred embodiment of the present invention, all rows are evaluated regardless of current locks. The scan is continued if the row does not satisfy the set of predicates regardless of the current lock on the row. The locking semantics according to the invention has the advantage that it completely removes the problem of lock contention on the rows that do not satisfy statement predicates.

Abstract: A method and system for providing simulation of an integrated circuit during development of the integrated circuit is disclosed. The integrated circuit has an island that includes an interface. The method and system include a snooper, a checker and a generator. The snooper is coupled with an interface and is for obtaining an output provided by the island during simulation. The checker is coupled with an interface and is for checking the output to determine whether the output is a desired output. The generator is coupled with an interface and is for providing an input to the interface during simulation. The generator is coupled with a test case that directs the generator.

Abstract: A system and method for providing a method for reducing artifacts in a video sequence of image frames is disclosed. The method and system include classifying scenes in the sequence of image frames, analyzing the content of the image frames and performing temporal filtering on the image frames. The method and system further include applying a set of rules to results of the classification and the content analysis to adapt characteristics of the temporal filtering for the scene.

Abstract: A system and method for performing an action on a target model associated with a notify model is disclosed. In the preferred embodiment of the present invention, the target model includes target objects and the notify model includes notify objects. The system and method comprises a model map for mapping each of the notify objects to an associated target object, and an action operator for performing the action on one or more target objects in the target model in response to a modification of the selected notify object. In the system and method, the action operator performs the action on one or more identified target objects associated with the modified selected notify object, the one or more identified target objects being determined with reference to the model map.

Abstract: A method and system for providing magnetic memory cells in a magnetic memory is disclosed. The method and system include providing each magnetic memory element, providing a first write line and a second write line for each magnetic memory element. The magnetic memory element has a top portion and a bottom portion. The first write line is below the magnetic memory element and is electrically connected with the bottom portion of the magnetic memory element. The second write line is above the magnetic memory element. The second write line is electrically isolated from the magnetic memory element and oriented at an angle to the first write line. The magnetic memory cell allows for a simplified fabrication process, a reduced cell size, and an improved programming efficiency.