Abstract: In accordance with one embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a technique for resource allocation brokering in nested containers. According to one aspect, a broker mechanism is established within a first container. A second container also is established within the first container. The second container has a client mechanism. The first container's broker mechanism communicates with the second container's client mechanism to provide notices to the second container's client mechanism. The second container also has a broker mechanism that may or may not be a part of the second container's client mechanism. A third container is established within the second container. The third container also has a client mechanism. The second container's broker mechanism communicates with the third container's client mechanism to provide notices to the third container's client mechanism.

Abstract: A method for decontaminating at least one object contained in a chamber, the method including a succession of alternated steps of lowering and increasing the pressure in the chamber.

Abstract: In various exemplary embodiments, a system and associated method to provide management of a plurality of electronic elements in a datacenter is disclosed. The system includes a datacenter management system coupled to a wireless network to receive information regarding a spatial location of a handheld device within the datacenter. The datacenter management system provides information to the handheld device related to each of the plurality of electronic elements. The datacenter management system includes a management processor to process information related to each of the plurality of electronic elements and a database to store information related to each of the plurality of electronic elements.

Abstract: In accordance with one embodiment, there are provided mechanisms and methods for creating a telemetry process for a service in a computing environment. With these mechanisms and methods, it is possible to deploy telemetry processes for the service based upon a specification of one or more operational metrics for determining the status of the service. This ability to deploy telemetry processes for the service based upon a specification of one or more operational metrics for determining the status of the service makes it possible to attain improved monitoring capabilities and more efficient usage of computing resources assigned to monitoring tasks for a service in a computer system.

Abstract: A method and an equipment for cleaning masks used for photolithography steps, including at least one step of thermal treatment under pumping at a pressure lower than the atmospheric pressure and at a temperature greater than the ambient temperature.

Abstract: A storage device for bottles with a neck, comprising at least one coupling member suitable for suspending the device beneath a shelf of a domestic refrigerator, and a hollow dispensing guide extending longitudinally from a rear end to a front end having a dispensing opening. The dispensing guide has a top face provided with the coupling member, a bottom face and a C-shaped cross section with an opening into the bottom face. The opening has a width suitable for allowing the narrowed portion of the neck of a bottle to slide freely and so that the longitudinal rims of the opening oriented toward the inside form bearing rails of a length more than twice the diameter of the widened portion of the neck of the bottle, on which this widened portion rests when the bottle is suspended.

Abstract: In accordance with one embodiment of the present invention, there are provided methods and mechanisms for determining an allocation of resources, including hardware resources in a computing environment. With these methods and mechanisms, it is possible for computing resource allocations to satisfy one or more operational considerations, such as for example without limitation: “reduce device heat dissipation”, “avoid single point of failure in switched network” and other allocation needs are contemplated.

Abstract: The invention relates to the use of 5,5-dimethyl-3-ethyl-3,4-dihydrofuran-2-one (A), named “Noxolide” by the applicant, as an olfactory agent in perfumery, and also as a food flavouring. The invention also relates to a novel process for the preparation of 5,5-dimethyl-3-ethyl-3,4-dihydrofuran-2-one.

Abstract: Method for regulating the titration of a solution, in which a predetermined amount of a product contained in the solution is added to the solution according to a time interval, called the addition interval, which is proportional to the product of the time degradation coefficient D of the product in solution and the total volume Vt of the solution at the time of the addition.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for synchronizing personal data between a memory of at least one mobile equipment unit and an external device. Each of the mobile equipment units includes or is connected to a SyncML synchronization client. The external device can include a SyncML synchronization server associated with the SyncML synchronization client. In one embodiment the external device is a smart card. The smart card is associated with the mobile equipment unit and the SyncML synchronization client transmits a synchronization request to the SyncML synchronization server. The SyncML synchronization server synchronizes the personal data between the smart card and the mobile equipment unit.

Abstract: Cremone-bolt door-locking controlled by rack-and-pinion means. The cremone-bolt rod is connected to a first rack support that is slidably mounted inside a housing that houses a second slidably mounted rack support, each rack support carrying a rack segment in engagement with a pinion, at least one rack segment being hinged to its own rack support and being provided with a set of teeth that is extended over a curved portion of its end.

Abstract: A smart card is initially connected to a first mobile terminal and includes a first directory file adapted to store first contact cards. To access the first contact cards, initially stored in a directory of the first terminal, from a second mobile terminal an application in the first terminal copies each of the first cards of the directory in the first directory file, if the latter does not include the first card. In the second terminal connected to the card withdrawn from the first terminal, the application copies each of the first cards of the first directory file in the file of the second terminal, if the latter does not include the first card and if the first directory file is inaccessible by the second terminal.

Abstract: A storage device for bottles with a neck, comprising at least one coupling member suitable for suspending the device beneath a shelf of a domestic refrigerator, and a hollow dispensing guide extending longitudinally from a rear end to a front end having a dispensing opening. The dispensing guide has a top face provided with the coupling member, a bottom face and a C-shaped cross section with an opening into the bottom face. The opening has a width suitable for allowing the narrowed portion of the neck of a bottle to slide freely and so that the longitudinal rims of the opening oriented toward the inside form bearing rails of a length more than twice the diameter of the widened portion of the neck of the bottle, on which this widened portion rests when the bottle is suspended.

Abstract: A method and an equipment for cleaning masks used for photolithography steps, including at least one step of thermal treatment under pumping at a pressure lower than the atmospheric pressure and at a temperature greater than the ambient temperature.

Abstract: In a method for backing up personal data of a wireless communications network subscriber, the data is saved in a mobile communications device and backed up in a server of the network. A first subset of data is prepared from a set to be saved by a SIM card and is transmitted to the server for backing up. In an asynchronous backup mode, after the transmission of a subset of data to be backed up on the server, the backup is delayed for a certain period of time in order to free the mobile device for the user, and the backup is resumed at the end of this period.

Abstract: In a method for saving personal data for a subscriber to a wireless communications network, the data is being memorized in a mobile communication station and saved in a network server by means of a first communication channel and in a first saving mode. A determination is made whether the mobile device may establish a second communication channel and/or has an other mode of saving. If so, communication is opened on the second channel and/or according to the other mode, and the data is saved by means of the second communication channel and/or the other mode.

Abstract: A receiver apparatus for receiving broadcast video programs comprises a power-on operating mode wherein which a number of components of said receiver are in power-on states and a low-power operating mode for saving power when the receiver is not used wherein which at least part of said components are in power-off states. According to the invention, the receiver comprises a low-power circuit for switching the receiver from one current operating mode to the other operating mode, comprising a bi-stable circuit for storing the states of said components in each of the two operating modes and for detecting a switch command for switching the receiver from the current operating mode to the other operating mode, in order that upon detection of the switch command the bi-stable circuit triggers the components from their current states into their other states.

Abstract: The invention concerns a system for regulating the titer of a solution, which consists in adding in the solution a predetermined amount of a product contained in the solution in a time interval, called addition time interval, proportional to the product of the time coefficient D of degradation of said product in solution and to the total volume Vt of the solution at the time of the addition. The invention also concerns a device for controlling the regulation of the titer of a solution, said solution containing a product, comprising means (10) for controlling injection of a predetermined amount of said product into said solution according to a time interval, called addition time interval, proportional to the product of the time coefficient D of degradation of said product and to the total volume Vt of the solution at the time of addition.