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An atomic layer deposition system and method utilizing radicals generated from a high-density mixed plasma for deposition is disclosed. A high-quality oxide or oxynitride can be deposited by exposing a substrate to a first precursor which is adsorbed onto the substrate during a first phase of one deposition cycle. After purging the deposition chamber, the substrate is exposed to a second precursor which includes oxygen radicals and krypton ions formed from the high-density mixed plasma. The ions and radicals are formed by introducing a radical generating feed gas (e.g., O₂) and an ion generating feed gas into a plasma chamber and exciting the gases to form the high-density mixed plasma. The radicals and ions are then introduced to the substrate where they react with the first precursor to deposit a layer of the desired film. Krypton is preferably used as the ion generating feed gas because the metastable states of krypton lead to an efficient dissociation of oxygen into oxygen radicals when compared with other inert gases.

A multicolored LED device made of a semipolar material having different indium containing regions provided on different spatial features of GaN material. Other materials such as non-polar materials can also be used.

A method and system for protecting only a portion of the software to be protected against tampering is described. Such a portion may be stored in a tamper-resistant physical device, with optional encryption, for downloading when needed for execution. Several layers of tamper resistance are provided without excessively impacting performance of the protected software. For instance, obfuscation is applied to the code for the service module to minimize the large expense associated with obfuscation. The invention includes embodiments that deliver critical logic, policy information and other similar information with the help of mobile agents, which may be hosted by a server in a smart card.

A hybrid centralized and distributed processing system includes a switching device that connects a storage processor to one or more servers through a host channel processor. The switching device also connects the storage processor to one or more storage devices such as disk drive arrays, and to a metadata cache and a block data cache memory. The storage processor processes access request from one or more servers in the form of a logical volume or logical block address and accesses the metadata cache to determine the physical data address. The storage processor monitors the performance of the storage system and performs automatic tuning by reallocating the logical volume, load balancing, hot spot removal, and dynamic expansion of storage volume. The storage processor also provides fault-tolerant access and provides parallel high performance data paths for fail over. The storage processor also provides faster access by providing parallel data paths for, making local copies and providing remote data copies, and by selecting data from a storage device that retrieves the data the earliest.

This disclosure describes a system for Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV) pass-thru for network packet processing via a virtualized environment of a device. The system includes a device comprising a virtualized environment and a plurality of virtual machines having a virtual network interface for receiving and transmitting network packets. A driver for the physical network interface of the device creates a plurality of virtual devices corresponding to the physical network interface, which appear as a Peripheral Component

Interconnect (PCI) device to the virtualized environment. A virtual device of the plurality of virtual devices is assigned via the virtualized environment to each virtual machine of the plurality of virtual machines. The virtual machine uses the virtual device assigned to the virtual machine, to receive and transmit network packets via the physical network interface of the device.

Operating system events are monitored and a file change request of a process is detected. If the process is suspicious, then the file to be changed is backed up and then the process is allowed to change the file as requested. If it is later determined that the process is ransomware, the process is blocked and further file backups are halted. The original file is recovered and the encrypted file is discarded. If it is later determined that the process is not malicious, then further file backups are halted. Any backup files are discarded. Ransomware may be detected by comparing a file extension of the process with file extensions of any files requested to be changed, by comparing file extensions of any files requested to be changed, or by an analysis of behavior of the process itself.

A non-volatile memory device has a channel region between source/drain regions, a floating gate, a control gate, a first dielectric region between the channel region and the floating gate, and a second dielectric region between the floating gate and the control gate. The first dielectric region includes a high-K material. The non-volatile memory device is programmed and/or erased by transferring charge between the floating gate and the control gate via the second dielectric region.

In an information processing system having an equipment controller for enabling the digitization of complex work processes conducted during testing and/or operation of machinery and equipment, a local wireless communications network is implemented using at least one fixed point wireless communications access station and one or more voice-responsive wireless mobile computing/communications devices that are capable of accurate vocal command recognition in noisy industrial environments. The computing/communications device determines spectral characteristics of ambient non-speech background noises and provides active noise cancellation through the use of a directional microphone and an adaptive noise tracking and subtraction process. The device is carried by a user and is responsive to one or more vocal utterances of the user for communicating data to the information processing system and/or generating operational control commands to provide to the equipment controller for controlling the machinery or equipment.

A computer graphics system provides for processing image data including Z data for use in displaying three-dimensional images on a display unit. The system includes: a depth buffer providing for temporary storage of Z data; and a graphics processing unit having a graphics engine for generating image data including Z data, and a memory interface unit communicatively coupled to the graphics engine and communicatively coupled to the depth buffer via a depth buffer interface. The graphics processing unit is operative to compress at least a portion of the generated Z data, to write the compressed portion of Z data to the depth buffer via the depth buffer interface in a compressed format, to read portions of compressed Z data from the depth buffer via the depth buffer interface, and to decompress the compressed Z data read from the buffer. An advantage of the present invention is that effective Z data bandwidth through the depth buffer interface is maximized in order to facilitate fast depth buffer access operations.

A headset having a built-in memory to store parameter settings relating to headset performance characteristics such as headphone(s) and/or microphone performance characteristics. The performance characteristics can be measured during headset production and stored in the memory. A host adapter may communicate with the headset through a serial communications port of the headset. The host adapter may read the headset performance characteristics and adjust signals transmitted to and received from the headset in accordance thereto. When the headset is used in a system, the system parameters can be manually set and stored in the headset memory. When the headset is used again in the same system, the system parameters can be read from the memory and automatically set. The memory may also store product history information of the headset such as production date, serial and model numbers, and/or any service history.

A test battery method and system (10, 100, 200, 225) for use in assessing auditory function (e.g., the screening or diagnosis of impairments, fitting of hearing aids, etc.) is provided which performs one or more auditory tests including, for example, an acoustic reflectance test. Such an acoustic reflectance test may be a reflectance tympanometry test that includes a feedback system to control static pressure in the ear canal. Such acoustic reflectance tests may be used alone or in combination with one or more other auditory tests. Further, for example, such a battery of tests may include middle-ear muscle reflex tests in combination with one or more other auditory or hearing tests.

A control system (18) and method for controlling an automotive vehicle (10) includes a number of sensors that are used to generate a potential rollover signal. In response to the potential rollover, active differentials (112, 114, 116) may be used alone or in addition to braking to prevent the vehicle from rolling over.

A method for increasing the performance of a transmission control protocol (TCP) session transmitted over a telephony local loop between a client and a server. The method comprises: providing a proxy system between the client and the server, the client and the server being coupled through a network; intercepting, at the proxy system, a request transmitted by the client; transparently establishing a first TCP session between the client and the proxy system, and a second TCP session between the proxy system and the server; and storing data, received from the server in response to the request, in a buffer at the proxy system, when throughput between the server and proxy system is greater than throughput between the proxy system and the client.

An apparatus and method of optimizing write combining operations using write combining buffers. A plurality of control fields are assigned to each of the write combining buffers. Each of the control fields has a value corresponding to one of a plurality of write combining states. A first of the plurality of write combining states transitions to a second of the plurality of write combining states in response to a write combining operation.

A method and apparatus are provided for identifying diffe rences between a stored pattern and a matching image subset, where variations in pattern position, orientation, and size do not give rise to false differences. The invention is also a system for analyzing an object image with respect to a model pattern so as to detect flaws in the object image. The system includes extracting pattern features from the model pattern; generating a vector-valued function using the pattern features to provide a pattern field; extracting image features from the object image; evaluating each image feature, using the pattern field and an n-dimensional transformation that associates image features with pattern features, so as to determine at least one associated feature characteristic; and using at least one feature characteristic to identify at least one flaw in the object image. The invention can find at least two distinct kinds of flaws: missing features, and extra features. The invention provides pattern inspection that is faster and more accurate than any known prior art method by using a stored pattern that represents an ideal example of the object to be found and inspected, and that can be translated, rotated, and scaled to arbitrary precision much faster than digital image re-sampling, and without pixel grid quantization errors. Furthermore, since the invention does not use digital image re-sampling, there are no pixel quantization errors to cause false differences between the pattern and image that can limit inspection performance.