Abstract: A method of forming a CMOS structure, and the device produced therefrom, having improved threshold voltage and flatband voltage stability. The inventive method includes the steps of providing a semiconductor substrate having an nFET region and a pFET region; forming a dielectric stack atop the semiconductor substrate comprising an insulating interlayer atop a high k dielectric; removing the insulating interlayer from the nFET region without removing the insulating interlayer from the pFET region; and providing at least one gate stack in the pFET region and at least one gate stack in the nFET region. The insulating interlayer can be AlN or AlOxNy. The high k dielectric can be HfO2, hafnium silicate or hafnium silicon oxynitride. The insulating interlayer can be removed from the nFET region by a wet etch including a HCl/H2O2 peroxide solution.

Abstract: An MRAM has a plurality of bit lines, a reference bit line, a plurality of memory cells and reference cells and a read section. The memory cells are provided along the bit lines and the reference cells along the reference bit line. The memory cell and reference cell have a tunneling magnetic resistance and a reference tunneling magnetic resistance, each of which has a spontaneous magnetization whose direction is reversed in accordance with data stored therein. The read section has a first resistance section which contains a ninth terminal connected with a bit line and a tenth terminal connected with the first power supply, a second resistance section which contains an eleventh terminal connected with the reference bit line and a twelfth terminal connected with the first power supply, and a comparing section which compares a sense voltage on the ninth terminal and a reference voltage of the eleventh terminal.

Abstract: In its many embodiments, the present invention provides a novel class of imidazo[1,2-a]pyridine compounds as inhibitors of cyclin dependent kinases, methods of preparing such compounds, pharmaceutical compositions containing one or more such compounds, methods of preparing pharmaceutical formulations comprising one or more such compounds, and methods of treatment, prevention, inhibition, or amelioration of one or more diseases associated with the CDKs using such compounds or pharmaceutical compositions.

Abstract: Programmable dynamic amplifiers with hysteresis are provided. The hysteretic amplifiers have a first input voltage threshold when the output voltage is at a high voltage and a second input voltage threshold when the output voltage is at a low voltage. A multiplexer controls the hysteretic threshold voltages in response to the output signal of the amplifier. The hysteretic amplifiers can be programmed to have positive or negative hysteresis. When the amplifier is programmed with positive hysteresis, the output voltage transitions after the input voltages have both reached a common voltage value. When the amplifier is programmed with negative hysteresis, the output voltage transitions before the input voltages have both reached a common voltage value.

Abstract: A startup process of an access point (AP) includes a discovery phase and an announcement phase. During the discovery phase, the AP detects neighboring APs from its own extended service set (ESS), neighboring APs from different ESSs, and external sources of interference. During the announcement phase, the AP transmits its beacon signals at maximum power in order to accelerate recognition by neighboring APs running the discovery phase. An automatic initialization channel selection process of an AP scans channels the AP will use to communicate. Information of each scanned channel is recorded and a best performance channel is determined for use by the AP.

Abstract: A method of illuminating a computer keyboard, including: providing a keyboard with individually illuminatable keys; probabilistically determining the most likely key(s) that would be pressed next; illuminating the key(s) that are determined to be most likely pressed next while leaving keys probabilistically least likely to be pressed next unilluminated, an electronic dictionary is utilized to determine keys likely needed and the dictionary suggests keys based on running applications such that, if a calculator is running, numeric keys are illuminated and if a word processor is running, alphabet and related keys are illuminated; updating the electronic dictionary to include new words; disabling selective illumination when filling identification and password fields; providing disabling and enabling options; after time when none of the suggested keys have been pressed, automatically illuminating all keys; after additional time when none of all illuminated keys have been pressed, unilluminating all of the keys.

Abstract: A method monitors data resources of a data processing network on behalf of a new consumer. The method comprises determining monitoring requirements of the new consumer. The monitoring requirements include: a list of data resources monitored for the new consumer; metrics of the monitoring data for the new consumer; a data format for monitoring data provided to the new consumer; a time interval between periods of sending the monitoring data to the new consumer; and actions taken during failure of the data resource. The method also includes comparing the monitoring requirements of the new consumer with monitoring capabilities of a plurality of monitoring entities to identify at least one monitoring entity, including monitoring capabilities matching the monitoring requirements of the new consumer.

Abstract: The subject invention provides for systems and methods that improve visualization of messages in a user's inbox. The systems and methods cluster messages into four groups: unaccessed, unaccessed and pending; pending; and read. This allows a user to more efficiently handle large volumes of messages in a prioritized way. Additionally, it supports a seamless flow between triage of new messages, management of recently received messages, and retrieval of recent as well as older messages for the user. Messages can include conversations between a user and one or more contacts, email (electronic mail) messages, voice messages, images, documents, tasks, as well as other forms of media. In one aspect of the invention, messages can be organized and/or prioritized into any of at least four clusters, whereby the four clusters appear in the order of unaccessed, unaccessed and pending, pending, and accessed.

Abstract: In a non-volatile memory, a selected page on a word line is successively programmed by a series of voltage pulses of a staircase waveform with verifications in between the pulses until the page is verified to a designated pattern. The programming voltage at the time the page is programmed verified will be to estimate the initial value of a starting programming voltage for the page. The estimation is further refined by using the estimate from a first pass in a second pass. Also, when the test is over multiple blocks, sampling of word lines based on similar geometrical locations of the blocks can yield a starting programming voltage optimized for faster programming pages.

Abstract: By adding perspective information in addition to binocular parallax, the invention provides a three-dimensional medical imaging apparatus that allows surgery to be performed with a more natural three-dimensional view, similar to that achieved with the naked eye. The three-dimensional medical imaging apparatus includes an image-acquisition optical system and an imaging device for acquiring three-dimensional images of a subject. The image-acquisition optical system includes an objective optical system for forming an image of the subject at an image-forming plane, and an entrance pupil position of the image-acquisition optical system is disposed between the objective optical system and the subject.

Abstract: A system and method for controlling, by an outside entity, one or more devices associated with a location. A representative embodiment of the system architecture comprises an internal computer system through which a device may be remotely controlled by the outside entity during a communication session between the outside entity and the internal computer system through an external computer network. The external computer network can be the Internet. When the outside entity is requested to control the device, the outside entity's identity information is authenticated before the communication session is established. In a preferred embodiment, the internal computer system is protected by a firewall. The firewall allows the outside entity to access the internal computer system to control the device if the outside entity can provide proper identity information. The identity information of the outside entity may be a password that is recognized by the firewall.

Abstract: A resin film comprising a multilayer structure of a print layer (A), a gloss-imparting layer (B) and a substrate layer (c) as laminated in that order, wherein the print layer (A) comprises from 90 to 100% of a propylene random copolymer or the like and from 0 to 10% of an inorganic fine powder or the like, the gloss-imparting layer (B) comprises from 70 to 100% of a thermoplastic resin and from 0 to 30% of an inorganic fine powder or the like, the substrate layer (C) comprises a thermoplastic resin, the resin film has a glossiness, as measured on the surface side of the print layer (A), of from 70 to 110%, the resin film has an oxygen atom concentration, as measured through X-ray photoelectron spectrometry on the surface side of the print layer (A), of from 5 to 20%. The printed matter of the resin film with a UV-curable ink has extremely good weather resistance.

Abstract: This disclosure addresses providing gigabit-rate data transmission over wireless radio links, using carrier frequencies in the millimeter-wave range (>30 GHz). More specifically, a circuit for detection of amplitude-shift keyed (ASK) or other amplitude modulations (AM) which can be easily incorporated into an integrated circuit receiver system is described, making the receiver capable of supporting both complex IQ modulation schemes and simpler, non-coherent on-off or multiple-level keying signals. Several novel radio architectures are also described which, with the addition of a frequency discriminator network, have the capability of handling frequency shift keyed (FSK) or other frequency modulations (FM), as well as AM and complex IQ modulation schemes. These radio architectures support this wide variety of modulations by efficiently sharing detector hardware components.

Abstract: A schema is provided that supports documenting API elements that is flexible and captures current technologies as well as evolves without interfering or breaking the definitions of the existing elements. The schema utilizes a flexible and extensible element that can be used to define various elements of the APIs and can be extended to define new technology when it is introduced.

Abstract: In order to reduce product weight, enhance design freedom, reduce production cost and improve productivity, an aluminum piston with an incorporated seal is provided, the piston comprising an aluminum die-cast piston main body (101) arranged to be axially movable in a clutch cylinder (1), a film (102) which is made of a rubber-like elastic material and covers a region from a pressure-receiving end surface (101e) of the piston main body (101) to surfaces (101f, 101g) facing toward the opposite side to said pressure-receiving end surface (101e) through inner and outer peripheral surfaces thereof, and seal lips (103, 104) formed on the film (102) at inner and outer peripheral portions of the piston main body (101) so as to be slidably in close contact with the clutch cylinder (1).

Abstract: A microcomputer is provided with an extracting section capable of extracting a specific frequency component from an input signal. The extracting section extracts, from a pinion angle corresponding to a signal indicating the state of a steering system, a frequency component corresponding to a vibration that increases generation of a rattling noise in a speed reducing mechanism. The extracting section outputs an effective value of the extracted frequency component as a power spectrum. If the power spectrum output from the extracting section is equal to or more than a predetermined threshold value, the microcomputer outputs a motor control signal to reduce the assist force generated by the EPS actuator.

Abstract: A dense boron-based or phosphorus-based dielectric material is provided. Specifically, the present invention provides a dense boron-based dielectric material comprised of boron and at least one of carbon, nitrogen, and hydrogen or a dense phosphorus-based dielectric comprised of phosphorus and nitrogen. The present invention also provides electronic structures containing the dense boron-based or phosphorus-based dielectric as an etch stop, a dielectric Cu capping material, a CMP stop layer, and/or a reactive ion etching mask in a ULSI back-end-of-the-line (BEOL) interconnect structure. A method of forming the inventive boron-based or phosphorus-based dielectric as well as the electronic structure containing the same are also described in the present invention.

Abstract: A database having listings rather than long documents is searched using a term frequency-inverse document frequency (Tf/Idf) algorithm.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a toner by using a liquid dispersion in which a dispersoid containing a material for manufacturing a toner is dispersed in a dispersion medium, and containing a dispersant having a function of improving the dispersibility of the dispersoid, the method including the steps of: preparing the liquid dispersion, applying ozone to the liquid dispersion and/or a liquid dispersion from which at least a portion of the dispersion medium has been removed, and irradiating UV-rays to the liquid dispersion and/or the liquid dispersion from which at least a portion of the dispersion medium has been removed.