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The design of an integrated circuit device is simplified by employing reusable modules to avoid or reduce the need to design special purpose glue logic otherwise needed to interconnect the modules. Functional modules comprise interface circuits that are interconnected by buses and operate according to prescribed bus-access protocols. In a preferred embodiments, bus access is arbitrated in an adaptive manner that may be controlled by a principal module in the device. In other embodiments, bus arbitration is not required. The operation of each functional module may be programmed under the control of the principal module.

A battery authentication system according to the present invention includes a battery and an electronic device. The battery includes a battery authentication portion that includes battery identification information and performs authentication between the battery and the electronic device. The electronic device includes: a power source that supplies electric power from the battery to respective portions in the electronic device; a storage portion that stores the battery identification information of usable batteries; a device authentication portion that performs authentication of the battery; and a control portion that compares the battery identification information of the battery with the battery identification information stored in the storage portion. The control portion compares the battery identification information of the battery authenticated successfully in the device authentication portion with the battery identification information stored in the storage portion, and controls the power source based on a result of the comparison. According to the battery authentication system of the present invention, it is possible to recognize whether a battery mounted is authenticated or not, and accordingly to determine whether the battery can be used or not. Therefore, it is possible to permit the use of a genuine battery and a non-genuine battery and to eliminate a counterfeit battery.

A GNSS receiver reduces the time to first fix by utilizing the properties of existing radiated signals of opportunity, such as AM or FM radio signals, television signals and so forth, to reduce the uncertainties associated with oscillator frequency and phase , and further utilizing an Almanac and battery backed-up date and time to determine the satellites in view and reduce the uncertainties associated with Doppler. The receiver may use multiple signals of opportunity to determine the city or local area in which the receiver is located based on the set of frequencies of the signals, and also to reduce search uncertainties for oscillator frequency by estimating an offset based on the differences between the frequencies of the respective signals of opportunity at the receiver and the nominal broadcast frequencies of the signals.

A reusable flexible seal is disclosed having a flexible main portion and a peripheral ring surrounding the flexible main portion adapted to engage the rim of a container. The flexible main portion includes an upper surface, a lower surface, and is dimensioned and configured to generally eliminate the head space over the contents of the container when assembled on the container. A venting mechanism includes at least one tab member extending inwardly from the peripheral ring for creating a gap between the lower surface of a portion of the peripheral ring and the upper surface of a portion of the edge of container wall.

A load-balanced network architecture is disclosed in which a traffic flow deliverable from a source node to a destination node via intermediate nodes is split into parts, and the parts are distributed to respective ones of the intermediate nodes. Path delay differences for the parts are substantially equalized by delay adjustment at one or more of the intermediate nodes, and packets of one or more of the parts are scheduled for routing from respective ones of the intermediate nodes to the destination node based on arrival times of the packets at the source node.

An encapsulation process for forming a multi-compartment capsule. The process comprising the steps of: (1) providing a primary capsule having a base and a cap; (2) providing a secondary capsule having a base and a cap; (3) introducing at least one ingredient having a first physical state (i.e., solid, liquid, gas or dispersion) into a receiving chamber within the internal periphery of the secondary capsule; (4) positioning the cap of the secondary capsule into a sealing relationship with the base of the secondary capsule; (5) introducing at least one ingredient having a second physical state (i.e., solid, liquid, gas or dispersion) into a receiving chamber within the internal periphery of the primary capsule; (6) introducing the secondary capsule into the internal periphery of the primary capsule; and positioning the cap of the primary capsule into a sealing relationship with the base of the primary capsule. The ingredients introduced within the primary and secondary capsules comprise at least one active ingredient or medicament (e.g., pharmaceutical, biotechnical, nutraceutical, vitamin, dietary supplement, mineral or combination thereof). The component parts of the multi-compartment capsule may include various time-release coatings to facilitate release of active ingredient(s) or medicaments at different rates. The capsular cap may be configured in such a manner or a filling material may be introduced into the cap to substantially reduce any potential dead space volume within the capsule, thereby minimizing the opportunity for reaction between an air bubble and one or more of the active ingredients introduced into the capsule.

The flow of resin during the molding of composite articles is controlled by forming areas of immobilized resin during the infusion of resin into the fibrous body. The immobilized resin is formed using an immobilization agent that interacts with the infused resin to form a high viscosity resin barrier that is effective in blocking the flow of non-immobilized resin. The barriers of immobilized resin are located within the fibrous body so as to control the flow of non-immobilized resin during the molding process to prevent or least reduce resin depletion and to selectively block resin flow from the mold.