Abstract: A system is configured to provide a suite of network-based services to users with high availability. The suite of network-based services may include browser-based collaboration functions, process management functions, index functions, search functions, help search functions, document-management functions, and/or other functions. The suite of network-based services may correspond to services provided by a server application such as Microsoft® SharePoint™ being executed on one or more processors of one or more servers. As used herein, the term “high availability” may refer a system design protocol that ensures a certain degree of operational continuity during a given measurement period.

Abstract: An optoelectronic device assembly can include: a coated element and an electroactive cell on the coated element, wherein the electroactive cell is selected from the group consisting of a light emitting diode and a photovoltaic cell. The coated element can include: transparent thermoplastic substrate and a protective weathering layer. The transparent thermoplastic substrate can include a material selected from the group consisting of aromatic polycarbonate and polyester, and combinations including at least one of the foregoing materials. The protective weathering layer can have a UV absorbance loss rate at 330 nm of less than or equal to 0.15 A/year as estimated from filtered xenon arc exposure and/or having a rate of erosion of less than or equal to 5 ?m per year as estimated from filtered xenon arc exposure.

Abstract: Methods for improving coating or etching uniformity of non-conductive substrates in plasma-mediated processes generally include applying an electrically conductive coating to the non-conductive substrate prior to plasma processing. The electrically conductive coating is disposed in electrical communication with a metallic electrode of a plasma reactor. By disposing a conductive layer on the non-conductive substrate, a uniform electric potential is created during plasma processing can be built up on the non-conductive, which is equivalent to that of the metallic electrode upon which it is disposed during plasma processing.

Abstract: A network-application association method comprises: performing corresponding operations for applications according to instructions of users; sending out association information according to users' relationship chains of the users and relations among the applications; judging whether the users respond to the association information; if the users respond to the association information, updating the users' relationship chains of the users or performing corresponding operations for the applications, according to operations for the users responding to the association information. In addition, the present invention further provides a network-application association system.

Abstract: An atomic deposition (ALD) thin film deposition apparatus includes a deposition chamber configured to deposit a thin film on a wafer mounted within a space defined therein. The deposition chamber comprises a gas inlet that is in communication with the space. A gas system is configured to deliver gas to the gas inlet of the deposition chamber. At least a portion of the gas system is positioned above the deposition chamber. The gas system includes a mixer configured to mix a plurality of gas streams. A transfer member is in fluid communication with the mixer and the gas inlet. The transfer member comprising a pair of horizontally divergent walls configured to spread the gas in a horizontal direction before entering the gas inlet.

Abstract: A device including a layer comprising a light emissive area and a light non-emissive area. A light-extracting feature is disposed over the light non-emissive area. The light-extracting features can include surface aberrations and reflective index matching elements. A method of forming the device is also provided.

Abstract: An optoelectronic device assembly can comprise: a coated element and an electroactive cell on the coated element, wherein the electroactive cell is selected from the group consisting of a light emitting diode and a photovoltaic cell. The coated element can comprise: transparent thermoplastic substrate and a protective weathering layer. The transparent thermoplastic substrate can comprise a material selected from the group consisting of aromatic polycarbonate and polyester, and combinations comprising at least one of the foregoing materials. The protective weathering layer can have a UV absorbance loss rate at 330 nm of less than or equal to 0.15 A/year as estimated from filtered xenon arc exposure and/or having a rate of erosion of less than or equal to 5 ?m per year as estimated from filtered xenon arc exposure.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for transmitting multiple services are provided, and which belong to the field of optical transmission technologies. The method includes: receiving bandwidth information of TCONTs of all nodes; dividing a payload area of a GTH frame into a preset number n of arrays, where each array includes a specified number of timeslots and the interval between any two neighboring timeslots in each array is n and n is a natural number; calculating, according to the bandwidth information of the TCONTs of all the nodes, timeslot positions of arrays occupied by the TCONTs of each node in the payload area; interleaving, according to the timeslot positions of the arrays occupied by the TCONTs of a local node in the payload area, the TCONTs of the local node into corresponding timeslots starting from a specified frame, obtaining a GTH frame, and transmitting the GTH frame.

Abstract: A suite of network-based services, such as the services corresponding to the server application distributed by Microsoft® SharePoint™, may be provided to users with high availability. The suite of network-based services may include browser-based collaboration functions, process management functions, index and search functions, document-management functions, help and help search functions, and/or other functions. A plurality of computing devices functioning as servers may be backed up by a single computing device.

Abstract: A barrier coating of organic-inorganic composition, the barrier coating having optical properties that are substantially uniform along an axis of light transmission, said axis oriented substantially perpendicular to the surface of the coating.

Abstract: In a computer system, a standby master processor is configured to serve as a backup processor for an active master processor. A third party replica processor is configured to monitor and record changes on the active master processor when the active master processor is executing, and is further configured to synchronize itself with the standby master processor when the standby master processor takes over execution from the active master processor. Logs of changes are maintained. A negotiation occurs between the standby master processor and the third party replica processor to determine the status of the logs of the standby master processor and the third party replica processor, and logs are applied or paused relating to one or more of the standby master processor and the third party replica processor to synchronize the standby master processor and the third party replica processor.

Abstract: An atomic deposition (ALD) thin film deposition apparatus includes a deposition chamber configured to deposit a thin film on a wafer mounted within a space defined therein. The deposition chamber comprises a gas inlet that is in communication with the space. A gas system is configured to deliver gas to the gas inlet of the deposition chamber. At least a portion of the gas system is positioned above the deposition chamber. The gas system includes a mixer configured to mix a plurality of gas streams. A transfer member is in fluid communication with the mixer and the gas inlet. The transfer member comprising a pair of horizontally divergent walls configured to spread the gas in a horizontal direction before entering the gas inlet.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method relating to graded-composition barrier coatings comprising first and second materials in first and second zones. The compositions of one or both zones vary substantially continuously across a thickness of the zone in order to achieve improved properties such as barrier, flexibility, adhesion, optics, thickness, and tact time. The graded-composition barrier coatings find utility in preventing exposure of devices such as organic electro-luminescent devices (OLEDs) to reactive species found in the environment.

Abstract: In a method for depositing a barrier coating, a device is provided comprising a first portion and a second portion where a surface of the second portion is in a shadow zone. The device is pretreated wherein the pretreating alters a deposition rate of the barrier coating on a surface exposed to the pretreating. The shadow zone is substantially unexposed to the pretreating. A barrier coating is deposited wherein the barrier coating substantially conforms to a profile of the device. The coating may be a graded-composition barrier coating wherein a composition of the coating varies substantially continuously across a thickness thereof. The first portion may include a flexible, substantially transparent substrate. The second portion may include an electronic device. The barrier coating and first portion may encapsulate the second portion. The method is a single, commercially advantageous, barrier deposition process, enabling increased product throughput and low process tact time.

Abstract: A device including a layer comprising a light emissive area and a light non-emissive area. A light-extracting feature is disposed over the light non-emissive area. The light-extracting features can include surface aberrations and reflective index matching elements. A method of forming the device is also provided.

Abstract: A method of processing a multilayer film is provided. The method includes providing a substrate film having a substrate film first surface and a substrate film second surface. The method also includes providing a barrier layer adjacent to the substrate film second surface. The barrier layer has at least one opening allowing fluid communication between the substrate film and an outer surface of the barrier layer. Further, the method includes contacting the substrate film first surface with a first reactant and finally contacting the outer surface of the barrier layer with a second reactant, said second reactant being reactive with said first reactant. The method of contacting the substrate film first surface to the first reactant and contacting the outer surface of the barrier layer to the second reactant is carried out under conditions under which reaction between said first reactant and the second reactant results in a formation of a reaction layer.

Abstract: Embodiments of the invention include a selective deposition method that allows for coating of selective portions of an object, such as an electronic device, and inhibits coating of other selective portions of the object, such as the electric contacts. The selective deposition method includes providing a web to transport the object through a deposition chamber. The web may include and reference mechanisms to register the object relative to the web. The method further includes providing deposition material and a shadow mask that has open spaces in it to inhibit coating selective portions of the object. The deposition material serves as the coating material.

Abstract: Processes for simultaneously encapsulating multiple optoelectronic devices and/or depositing a barrier film onto multiple substrates suitable for fabrication of optoelectronic devices thereon include the use of a plasma deposition apparatus having multiple pairs of opposing electrodes for deposition of reactants onto the substrate that is used to form the device or the complete device itself. The processes significantly reduce tact time relative to one at a time batch processing that is currently used for manufacturing optoelectronic devices.

Abstract: An apparatus for applying a patterned coating to an OLED substrate in a continuous roll-to-roll vapor based deposition process is provided comprising a vapor deposition source, a processing drum, a drive roller, and a shadow mask wherein the shadow mask comprises a mask line feature that selectively prevents deposition of the coating onto the substrate. Also presented is a method for applying the coating.

Abstract: A system and method for managing mobile phone ring tone profiles sets a first ring tone profile, a second ring tone profile, and a trigger value. If a phone number of an incoming call or an incoming message exists in a contact list of the mobile phone, or if the phone number exists in a call log and a communicate count of the phone number is more than the trigger value, the first ring tone profile is selected as a current ring tone profile of the mobile phone. If the phone number does not exist in the contact list and the call log, or if the phone number exists in the call log but the communicate count of the phone number in the call log is not more than the trigger value, the second ring tone profile is selected.