Patents Assigned to International Corporation
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Publication number: 20130168861Abstract: An electrically conductive device and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. According to the method, a protein tube portion and a conductor penetrating through the protein tube portion are formed on a graphene layer, and the conductor is in electrical contact with the graphene layer. A dummy dielectric material layer surrounding the protein tube portion can be formed on the graphene layer for support. The graphene layer can be protected from damage during the formation of the protein tube portion and the conductor because no etching process is employed in the formation. The method can facilitate the application of graphene in semiconductor devices as conductive interconnects.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2012Publication date: July 4, 2013Applicants: Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (Beijing), Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (Shanghai)Inventors: Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (Shanghai), Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (Beijing)
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Publication number: 20130172631Abstract: A process is disclosed for monitoring separation streams of an ethanol purification process, including measuring the concentrations of impurities, monitoring one or more binary streams, or monitoring conductivity in an ethanol containing stream to determine acetic acid concentrations. The ethanol is produced by hydrogenating acetic acid. One or more on-line analyzers may be used to monitor the separation streams.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2012Publication date: July 4, 2013Applicant: CELANESE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATIONInventor: CELANESE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
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Publication number: 20130173665Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention describe using a data structure to represent variable domains in solving a constraint problem. The data structure includes nodes that are configured to represent ranges of values in order to save memory space and processor power. Ranges of values and single values may be both added to and removed from the data structure such that the data structure does not include duplicate values. Operations may include detecting multiple nodes with adjacent or overlapping ranges that may be combined into a single node, and adding or removing all the values in the structure that are beyond a threshold value. In one embodiment the data structure may be a balanced binary tree. Constraint solvers may either add values to the data structure as the values are eliminated from the solution, or they may remove those values.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 3, 2012Publication date: July 4, 2013Applicant: Oracle International CorporationInventor: Michael Colena
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Publication number: 20130167397Abstract: An improved oven (1) comprising a conveyor configured and arranged to move a product (11) to be processed through an oven, a primary air delivery system (45) configured and arranged to provide a heated primary air flow (47), a secondary air delivery system configured and arranged to provide a heated secondary air flow (48), a processing enclosure (21) configured and arranged to receive and contain the product and the primary air flow, an insulated enclosure (2) configured and arranged to receive the heated secondary air flow, the processing enclosure configured and arranged to extend through the insulated enclosure and the heated secondary air flow and to separate the primary air flow from the secondary air flow.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2012Publication date: July 4, 2013Applicant: Harper International CorporationInventors: Renee M. Bagwell, William J. Stry
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Publication number: 20130173498Abstract: Various arrangements for calculating costs of transferable items in accordance with an iterative periodic average costing model are presented. Indications of a plurality of transfers of transferable items among cost groups of a plurality of cost groups may be received. A plurality of matrices may be created. Elements of each matrix may correspond to iterative periodic average costing equations evaluated for the infinite iteration using the plurality of transfers of transferable items among cost groups and the plurality of cost groups. The cost of each transferable item within each cost group of the plurality of cost groups may be calculated using the plurality of matrices having the elements of each matrix corresponding to the iterative periodic average costing equations evaluated for the infinite iteration.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 29, 2011Publication date: July 4, 2013Applicant: Oracle International CorporationInventor: Anup Kumar Jha
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Publication number: 20130172633Abstract: In a first embodiment, the present invention relates to a process for producing ethanol. The process comprises the step of contacting a carbon monoxide feed and an impure methanol feed in a reactor under conditions effective to produce a crude acetic acid product. The impure methanol feed comprises more than 0.15 wt. % of impurities. The process further comprises the step of separating the crude acetic acid product to form an intermediate acetic acid product and at least one derivative stream. The intermediate acetic acid product may comprise acetic acid and at least one of the impurities from the impure methanol feed. The process further comprises the step of hydrogenating at least a portion of the intermediate acetic acid product to produce a crude ethanol product. The hydrogenation is preferably conducted over a catalyst.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2012Publication date: July 4, 2013Applicant: CELANESE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATIONInventors: Mark O. Scates, James H. Zink
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Publication number: 20130174166Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for efficiently sequencing operations performed in multiple threads of execution in a computer system. In one set of embodiments, sequencing is performed by receiving an instruction to advance a designated next ticket value, incrementing the designated next ticket value in response to receiving the instruction, searching a waiters list of tickets for an element having the designated next ticket value, wherein searching does not require searching the entire waiters list, and the waiters list is in a sorted order based on the values of the tickets, and removing the element having the designated next ticket value from the list using a single atomic operation. The element may be removed by setting a waiters list head element, in a single atomic operation, to refer to an element in the list having a value based upon the designated next ticket value.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 29, 2011Publication date: July 4, 2013Applicant: Oracle International CorporationInventor: Oleksandr Otenko
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Publication number: 20130172614Abstract: A process for producing acetic acid comprising the steps of reacting carbon monoxide and at least one of methanol and a methanol derivative in a first reactor under conditions effective to produce a crude acetic acid product; separating the crude acetic acid product into at least one derivative stream, at least one of the at least one derivative stream comprising residual carbon monoxide; and reacting at least a portion of the residual carbon monoxide with at least one of methanol and a methanol derivative over a metal catalyst in a second reactor to produce additional acetic acid.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2013Publication date: July 4, 2013Applicant: CELANESE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATIONInventor: Celanese International Corporation
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Publication number: 20130172632Abstract: The process of the current invention relates to the production of ethanol from a crude ethanol product obtained from the hydrogenation of acetic acid and ethyl acetate in the presence of a catalyst. Conversion of ethyl acetate may be improved by adding water to the reactor. At least 0.01 wt. % water may be added to the reactor. The crude ethanol product is separated in one or more columns to yield an ethanol product.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 6, 2012Publication date: July 4, 2013Applicant: CELANESE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATIONInventors: Radmila Wollrab, Zhenhua Zhou, Victor J. Johnston, David Lee, Heiko Weiner
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Publication number: 20130174041Abstract: A computing system provided according to an aspect of the present invention contains a server system operable to send a same hierarchical menu to client systems which display the sub-menus of the hierarchical menu in a overlapping style or a cascading style. As a result, the implementation of server systems supporting such client systems may be simplified. According to another aspect, an event handler is also implemented on the server system, to process the events generated by client system displaying menus in both the overlapping style and the cascading style. According to yet another aspect, a server system stores a in-memory representation of a context menu, and thereafter serves requests from different clients for the same hierarchical menu based on such in-memory representation.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 4, 2012Publication date: July 4, 2013Applicant: Oracle International CorporationInventor: Amogh Chakravarthy
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Publication number: 20130173582Abstract: A web crawler indexes documents including information about document contents and metadata including information such as a URL. However, some applications rely on URL's that change frequently or are constructed to include user information so that the contents retrieved is customized to the user. An approach is provided for storing generic URL's in an index at crawl time, which are customized for the user at search time. A callback mechanism may be used to dynamically transform the generic URL into a URL that is specific to the user issuing the query and/or includes current information that may change frequently. In this way, when the query or search results are returned to the user, the user receives links that are active and valid for that particular user, directing the user to the appropriate site, application, etc. without requiring continuous updating of a very large index.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 2, 2012Publication date: July 4, 2013Applicant: Oracle International CorporationInventors: Ciya Liao, Thomas Chang, Muralidhar Krishnaprasad, Meeten Bhavsar
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Publication number: 20130170591Abstract: In a clock-adjustment circuit, a phase-detection circuit receives a first clock associated with a first clock domain and a second clock associated with a second clock domain, and determines a phase relationship between the first clock and the second clock. Then, the phase-adjustment circuit in the clock-adjustment circuit adjusts a phase of the first clock relative to the second clock if the determined phase relationship is associated with a metastable range of a first-in first-out (FIFO) buffer that transfers data from the first clock domain to the second clock domain, thereby reducing latency associated with the FIFO buffer.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 30, 2011Publication date: July 4, 2013Applicant: ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATIONInventor: Jianghui Su
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Publication number: 20130168633Abstract: A device that may be used for a phase change random access memory in a semiconductor device and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. The device includes a phase change unit and two sidewall electrodes respectively located on two opposite sidewalls of the phase change unit. The phase change unit includes a three layer structure, in which a phase change material layer is positioned between a top insulating material layer and a bottom insulating material layer. The first sidewall electrode and the second sidewall electrode are in contact with two opposite end faces of the phase change material layer. The contact area between electrode and phase change material is reduced, thereby obtaining a relatively small drive current and meeting a demand that the integrated level of such a device is increasingly enhanced.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2012Publication date: July 4, 2013Applicants: Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation, Semiconductor Manufacturing International CorporationInventors: Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corpo, Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corpo
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Publication number: 20130173859Abstract: Systems and methods that make use of logical partitions of a second tier of disk storage at a disaster recovery (DR) site remote from a production site as part of a DR setup to advantageously reduce disruption to production site data production operations during DR procedures while providing for the substantially immediate recall or retrieval of data previously migrated to the remote second tier of disk storage.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 16, 2012Publication date: July 4, 2013Applicant: Oracle International CorporationInventors: Roland N. Gorrell, Frank Bochula, Tom Dawdy, Jeff Johnson, Vinnie Byrne
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Publication number: 20130168741Abstract: The disclosure relates to a complementary junction field effect transistor (c-JFET) and its gate-last fabrication method. The method of fabricating a semiconductor device includes: forming a dummy gate on a first conductivity type wafer, forming sidewall spacers on opposite sides of the dummy gate, forming a source and a drain regions on the opposite sides of the dummy gate, removing the dummy gate, forming a first semiconductor region of a second conductivity type in an opening exposed through the removing the dummy gate, and forming a gate electrode in the opening.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2012Publication date: July 4, 2013Applicants: SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION (Beijing), Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (Shanghai)Inventors: Semiconductor Manufacturing International (Shanghai), SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION (Beijing)
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Publication number: 20130173774Abstract: Disclosed are methods and apparatuses to share application state across devices. This approach allows the user to switch devices and have the application on the new device share the same state as the previous device. In addition, this approach allows the user to shut down a device at a first point in time, and later be presented with the same state for the application at a second point in time on the same device when it is turned back on.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2012Publication date: July 4, 2013Applicant: Oracle International CorporationInventor: Oracle International Corporation
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Publication number: 20130168872Abstract: A semiconductor device may include a first line of vias including a first via and a second via immediately adjacent to the first via. The semiconductor device may further include a second line of vias arranged immediately adjacent to and parallel to the first line of vias, the second line of vias including a third via immediately adjacent to the first via and the second via, the second line of vias further including a fourth via immediately adjacent to the third via, the first via, and the second via. The shortest distance between the second via and the fourth via may be greater than the shortest distance between the first via and the second via.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 24, 2012Publication date: July 4, 2013Applicants: Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation, Semiconductor Manufacturing International CorporationInventors: Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation, Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation
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Publication number: 20130168747Abstract: The present invention discloses a method for manufacturing a semiconductor device. According to the method provided by the present disclosure, a dummy gate is formed on a substrate, removing the dummy gate to form an opening having side walls and a bottom gate, a dielectric material is formed on at least a portion of the sidewalls of the opening and the bottom surface of the opening, and a pre-treatment is performed to a portion of the dielectric material layer on the sidewalls of the opening, and thus the properties of the dielectric material is changed, and then the pre-treated dielectric material on the sidewalls of the opening is removed by a selective process. The semiconductor device manufactured by using the method of the present disclosure is capable of effectively reducing parasitic capacitance.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2012Publication date: July 4, 2013Applicant: SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING INTERNATIONAL CORPORATIONInventors: SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING INTERNA, SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFATURING INTERNATI
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Publication number: 20130174154Abstract: A native application built for a mobile device can embed non-native JAVA code that may be executed by a JAVA virtual machine also embedded as a library within the native application. Enterprise applications may be extended for use by mobile devices. Business logic for an application may be constructed just once and then used in both enterprise applications and mobile device applications.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 22, 2012Publication date: July 4, 2013Applicant: Oracle International CorporationInventor: Oracle International Corporation
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Publication number: 20130174133Abstract: The disclosed embodiments provide a system that facilitates the development and compilation of a software program. During operation, the system obtains a set of compilation units to be used in the software program and a version order associated with a programming language of the compilation units. Next, for each compilation unit from the set of compilation units, the system uses the version order to select a version of the programming language that is compatible with the compilation unit. The system then uses the version to compile the compilation unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 30, 2011Publication date: July 4, 2013Applicant: ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATIONInventors: Brian Goetz, Alexander R. Buckley
