Abstract: Enabling the automatic identification of participants to a common event to enable data sharing between the participants. An event identifier embedded in the content data associates the content data with an event. A content data service maintains a list of event identifiers and a list of participants associated with each event. Each of the participants communicates with the content data service to identify the other participants. The participants communicate with each other to share content data from the common event.

Abstract: Enabling the automatic identification of participants to a common event to enable data sharing between the participants. An event identifier embedded in the content data associates the content data with an event. A content data service maintains a list of event identifiers and a list of participants associated with each event. Each of the participants communicates with the content data service to identify the other participants. The participants communicate with each other to share content data from the common event.

Abstract: Managing digital video files on a computer. A media file system object stores metadata representative of a video clip defined from a video file to be managed. A shell interface associated with an operating system of the computer exposes the object to enable management of the video clip directly via the operating system.

Abstract: A silicon nitride layer is deposited on a substrate within a processing region by introducing a silicon containing precursor into the processing region, exhausting gases in the processing region including the silicon containing precursor while uniformly, gradually reducing a pressure of the processing region, introducing a nitrogen containing precursor into the processing region, and exhausting gases in the processing region including the nitrogen containing precursor while uniformly, gradually reducing a pressure of the processing region. During the steps of exhausting, the slope of the pressure decrease with respect to time is substantially constant.

Abstract: A substrate carrier for a parallel wafer processing reactor supports a plurality of substrates. The substrate carrier includes a plurality of susceptors, which may be thermal plates or annular rings that are arranged horizontally in a vertical stack. The substrates are mounted between pairs of susceptors on two or more supports provided around the outer periphery of the susceptors. The number of substrates mounted between each pair of susceptors may the same or different but is two or more between at least one pair of susceptors.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to encoding and encrypting digital content, and distributing the encoded digital content to end users. A content provider creates or chooses a digital rights profile that is unique to a license server. The digital content is encoded and encrypted with the digital rights profile as portions of a streaming digital content are immediately received. The encoded digital profile is sent to an end user for rendering. The end user must have a license from the license server to decrypt the encoded digital content. Either the end user has a pre-existing license to decrypt, or must order a license to decrypt the received encoded and encrypted digital content.

Abstract: Information pathways for communications among personnel, among computers, and between personnel and computers, in a local communication system, including remote communications via leased lines or the public network is described. To a public central office, the present invention appears as a private branch exchange (PBX), served by many trunks, WATS, and "Foreign Exchange" lines, and providing all the standard PBX services; to the remote leased facility, it appears as a standard tie line terminator or, if the remote is another ICS, as a logical tie line terminator for which several logical tie lines are combined into each leased T1 line; to the in-house computer, it provides switched connection to other computers or to terminals at up to 19,200 Baud modulated data, at 32K-Baud for native (internal system) data (including 2K-Baud of forward error correction), or up to several gigabits direct binary transmission (such as the transmission scheme used with NDS and ANR displays, etc.

Abstract: A switching network is comprised of a plurality of identical chips and a network (control) processor. Each of the chips is a novel intelligent switch and includes both a cross point array as well as apparatus to control the cross point array in response to a set of multi bit commands or to formulate a response to a query concerning status of the switching array. The number of command lines connecting network (control) processor to each of the array chips may be as few as two. The cross point array includes a cross point device (switch) for each inlet-outlet combination. The total number of cross points in the network is lower than that dictated by a CLOS network.

Abstract: Dictating apparatus is enhanced for normal and conference speech recording by simple circuitry for detecting "long periods of silence" and compressing the record during these periods, as for example by discontinuing the recording process. Starting and stopping the recording transducing apparatus is a basic concept. Conventional recording apparatus is adapted to function under control of circuitry using available digital circuit modules. Analog speech and like waves are converted to incremental digital form by delta modulating circuitry. "Silence periods" are recognized by digital sensing circuitry coupled to triggering logical control circuitry for operating the recording apparatus only in the presence of desired sound. Basically a predetermined series of indications of "silence" serve to trigger a latching flip-flop circuit for disabling substantially conventional dictating apparatus and the like until the desired sound resumes and the latching circuit is reset for continuing the recording of dictation.