Abstract: A fall detection and alert system and associated methods are described. The system includes a right footwear item and a left footwear item, each of which includes foot pressure sensors, communications circuitry configured to transmit foot pressure signals from the pressure sensors to a mobile device, such as a smartphone, and a power source. The system also includes an application for the mobile device that causes the mobile device to receive transmitted foot pressure signals from the communications circuitry of the footwear, analyze the foot pressure signals to determine whether a wearer of the footwear items has fallen, display a warning if it is determined that the wearer of the footwear items has fallen, along with an option to cancel the warning, and send a signal to a caregiver if the warning has not been canceled within a predetermined period of time.

Abstract: A fall detection and alert system and associated methods are described. The system includes a right footwear item and a left footwear item, each of which includes foot pressure sensors, communications circuitry configured to transmit foot pressure signals from the pressure sensors to a mobile device, such as a smartphone, and a power source. The system also includes an application for the mobile device that causes the mobile device to receive transmitted foot pressure signals from the communications circuitry of the footwear, analyze the foot pressure signals to determine whether a wearer of the footwear items has fallen, display a warning if it is determined that the wearer of the footwear items has fallen, along with an option to cancel the warning, and send a signal to a caregiver if the warning has not been canceled within a predetermined period of time.

Abstract: Some embodiments include a semiconductor device having two gate electrodes which are of about a same gate width as one another, and having a first diffusion region between the two gate electrodes. The semiconductor device also has second and third diffusion regions on opposing sides of the two gate electrodes from one another and which sandwich the two gate electrodes and the first source/drain region therebetween. Each of the second and third diffusion regions is longer than the first diffusion region in a direction of the gate width. Some embodiments include a semiconductor device having a PMOS construction and an NMOS construction, with both constructions having a shorter middle diffusion region sandwiched between a pair of longer outer diffusion regions.

Abstract: A fall detection and alert system and associated methods are described. The system includes a right footwear item and a left footwear item, each of which includes foot pressure sensors, communications circuitry configured to transmit foot pressure signals from the pressure sensors to a mobile device, such as a smartphone, and a power source. The system also includes an application for the mobile device that causes the mobile device to receive transmitted foot pressure signals from the communications circuitry of the footwear, analyze the foot pressure signals to determine whether a wearer of the footwear items has fallen, display a warning if it is determined that the wearer of the footwear items has fallen, along with an option to cancel the warning, and send a signal to a caregiver if the warning has not been canceled within a predetermined period of time.

Abstract: A semiconductor device comprises one or more elements subjected to trimming, formed on a main surface side of a silicon substrate and that is/are to be laser trimmed, and an electrode lead of the element subjected to trimming disposed below the position of the element subjected to trimming. The electrode lead subjected to trimming comprises a diffusion layer formed in an uppermost layer of the silicon substrate. The diffusion layer is covered with a protection film made of doped polysilicon and is directly formed on the silicon substrate.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention relate to a method and system for remotely backing-up computer memories utilizing a global communications network. An embodiment of the present invention utilizes the INTERNET to access a plurality of computers. The plurality of computers is in electrical communication with a central office. In one embodiment of the invention, a computer located in the central office administers a memory back-up procedure at a customer's location. The central office computer may also assess whether the memory back-up procedure has been successfully completed, and if not, send an electronic notification to a predetermined system or individual that a failure has occurred, and to automatically provide repairs.

Abstract: The invention provides a communications system and method for receiving at a network computer system electronic information from a multiple of sites (consumers) on a communications network, such as the Internet, and formatting and transmitting the information from the network computer system over a telecommunications network using simple protocols to a selected site. The invention provides a communications system and method particularly suited for processing electronic consumer orders including receiving at a network computer system a multiple of electronic order messages placed by consumers through a communications network or the Internet and transmitting the order messages to a multiple of designated vendors that do not have network communication capabilities or Internet access. The communications system and method enable the designated vendors without access to the Internet to receive electronic orders from consumers.

Abstract: A computer network system is set forth for bi-directionally communicating information in a predetermined format between a plurality of client computers and a server. The system includes an archive computer system having a mass storage database. The archive computer system can store and retrieve a number of client records to and from the mass storage database. Prior to storing each client record in the database, the record is appended with a transparent sector. The transparent sector includes software application and version related information which is associated with the software application and version used to generate the record. Upon retrieval of the record from the mass storage database, the contents of the transparent sector is compared to a table to insure the requesting client computer includes a software application and version compatible with the retrieved record.

Abstract: The invention provides a communications system and method for receiving at a network computer system electronic information from a multiple of sites (consumers) on a communications network, such as the Internet, and formatting and transmitting the information from the network computer system over a telecommunications network using simple protocols to a selected site. The invention provides a communications system and method particularly suited for processing electronic consumer orders including receiving at a network computer system a multiple of electronic order messages placed by consumers through a communications network or the Internet and transmitting the order messages to a multiple of designated vendors that do not have network communication capabilities or Internet access. The communications system and method enable the designated vendors without access to the Internet to receive electronic orders from consumers.

Abstract: A semiconductor integrated circuit includes upper level and lower level substrate interconnection layers which are positioned in a scribing line area and which are separated from each other an interlayer insulating film formed therebetween. For planarization, an upper surface of the interlayer insulating film is coated with an SOG silicon oxide insulating film formed by coating an SOG organic solution by means of a spin coating. The lower level substrate interconnection layer is divided into a plurality of segments separated from each other by gaps which are provided at a plurality of different locations and which allow the SOG organic solution to escape through the gaps by a centrifugal force when the SOG organic solution is applied by the spin coating. The upper level substrate interconnection layer is electrically connected to the plurality of segments of the lower level substrate interconnection layers through contacts hole formed to penetrate through the interlayer insulating film.

Abstract: By provided a dummy region, having a shape similar to and being formed in the same process as, the active regions having transistors that constitute memory cells formed therein, between two transistors, the spacing between the active region and the dummy region is made to be equal to the spacing between other transistors. By reducing the nonuniformity in the gate width of the transistors within the memory cell array regions with the above arrangement, it is possible to prevent the reduction of the transistor performance, and to prevent a performance reduction and the generation of malfunctions due to a delay in the data output time of the semiconductor memory device.

Abstract: A semiconductor memory device is disclosed which has a multilevel conductor structure including conductors of a lower-level and conductors of an upper-level. The memory device comprises first and second memory cells disposed adjacent to and space from each other, a first conductor at the lower-level included in the first memory cell to constitute the first memory cell and having a portion formed along the space between the memory cells, a second conductor at the lower-level included in the second memory cell to constitute the second memory cell and having a portion formed along the space between the memory cells, a third conductor at the upper-level formed to pass along the space between the first and second memory cells, and a dummy conductor at the lower-level formed under the third conductor to lie between the portion of the first conductor and the portion of the second conductor.