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Embodiments of the invention provide methods and apparatus for improving the performance of file transfer to a client from a distributed storage system which provides single name space to clients. In one embodiment, a system for providing access to files in a distributed storage system comprises a plurality of storage nodes and at least one computer device connected via a network. Each storage node is configured, upon receiving a file access request for a file from one of the at least one computer device as a receiver storage node, to determine whether or not to inform the computer device making the file access request to redirect the file access request to an owner storage node of the file according to a preset policy. The preset policy defines conditions for whether to redirect the file access request based on at least one of file type or file size of the file.

The present invention discloses a testing circuit and method for thin film transistor display array, for testing the yield of thin film transistor array. The testing circuit comprising: An array tester, a test panel (DUT), a sense amplifier array. The sense amplifier is composed by a plurality of trans- impedance amplifier unit and a plurality of parasitic capacitance discharge circuit unit. Every sense amplifier includes: a trans-impedance amplifier, which is implemented by an operational amplifier, two switches and an operation capacitance, the trans-impedance amplifier is used to form an integrated circuit, the output is transmitted to a sampling / hold circuit via a switch; a parasitic capacitance discharge circuit is used to form a discharge rout for the charge of the parasitic capacitance.

A testing circuit and method for thin film transistor display array, for testing the yield of a thin film transistor array is provided. The testing circuit includes an array tester, a test panel (DUT) and a sense amplifier array. The sense amplifier is composed of a plurality of trans-impedance amplifier units and a plurality of parasitic capacitance discharge circuit units. Every sense amplifier includes a trans-impedance amplifier, which is implemented by an operational amplifier, two switches and an operation capacitance. The trans-impedance amplifier is used to form an integrated circuit and the output is transmitted to a sampling / hold circuit via a switch. Also included is a parasitic capacitance discharge circuit that is used to form a discharge route for the charge of the parasitic capacitance.

Catheter for monitoring the concentration of an analyte in a body fluid having an implantable distal area (7) for the uptake of body fluids and a proximal area (8) with an outlet opening (14), wherein the catheter comprises a catheter casing (1) having microopenings which are permeable to at least part of the body fluid and at least partially hold back corpuscular components, and a catheter core (2) which is located in the catheter casing (1). The catheter core preferably has a microstructure on its peripheral surface and / or the catheter casing has a microstructure on its inner wall which form a hollow space between the catheter core and catheter casing. Moreover the invention concerns a method for the manufacture of such a catheter.

A method and a switching router for simple scheduling of realtime data telegrams with calculable load-insensitive cycle times. A transmission cycle (4) is subdivided into three phases. In a first phase (1), only realtime data telegrams are sent; in a second phase (2), realtime and non-realtime data telegrams are sent; and in a third phase (3), the transmission of long non-realtime data telegrams is suppressed. Short filler telegrams can be sent during the phase (3). This ensures that data transmission of the realtime data telegrams will proceed smoothly. Transmission in certain phases is regulated by the priorities assigned to the data telegrams.

An apparatus and methods are disclosed for intelligently determining when to merge transactions to backup storage. In particular, in accordance with the illustrative embodiment, queued transactions may be merged based on a variety of criteria, including, but not limited to, one or more of the following: the number of queued transactions; the rate of growth of the number of queued transactions; the calendrical time; estimates of the time required to execute the individual transactions; a measure of importance of the individual transactions; the transaction types of the individual transactions; a measure of importance of one or more data updated by the individual transactions; a measure of availability of one or more resources; a current estimate of the time penalty associated with shadowing a page of memory; and the probability of rollback for the individual transactions, and for the merged transaction.

A system for monitoring conditions within a tire (12) including a sensor assembly (14) including a pressure sensor (36), an accelerometer (34), a temperature sensor (32), and a transmitter (40) to transmit signals indicative of current tire conditions. A remote transmitter (22) for actuating a remote keyless entry system (19) emits a signal to actuate a function of the keyless entry system (19) such as unlocking doors (20) of the motor vehicle (10). A receiver assembly (16) includes an amplitude shift keyed receiver (52) and a frequency shift keyed receiver (58) selectively engagable to receive radio frequency transmissions from the tire monitoring system or the remote keyless entry system (19).

A wind farm includes a plurality of wind energy installations which generate electrical energy to be output to a power supply system and a wind farm master for controlling the wind energy installations. Each wind energy installation includes a generator which is driven by a rotor, and the wind farm master includes a power control device having a plurality of loops. This plurality of loops includes a fast loop that includes a controller which acts on a first group of the wind energy installations and a slow loop that includes a controller which acts on a second group of the wind energy installations, the fast controller having a substantially higher dynamic than the slow controller.

A spatial light transmitter of a content supplying system stores ID information of its own and emits spatial light on which the ID information is superimposed from a light emitting portion. A spatial light receiver is used by being connected to a handheld terminal and receives spatial light emitted from the spatial light transmitter. When a user carries the handheld terminal and moves close to the spatial light transmitter, the spatial light receiver receives spatial light emitted from the spatial light transmitter, and ID information obtaining means of the spatial light receiver obtains the ID information which is superimposed on spatial light from a light receiving signal of the light receiving portion, thereby outputting the ID information to the handheld terminal. Alternatively, the ID information obtaining means of the handheld terminal obtains the ID information on the basis of the light receiving signal, and the handheld terminal reproduces the content selected on the basis of the ID information.

Method of controlling a wind power system including a plurality of system elements, the wind power system including a plurality of data processors distributed in the system elements, the method including the steps of: synchronizing at least a part of the data processors to at least one reference signal distributed to the data processors from a time synchronization arrangement, associating the data processors with local clock generation circuitries, wherein the local clock generation circuitries associated with data processors of a first subset of the data processors have a peak-to-peak tracking jitter higher than or equal to a predetermined threshold value and wherein a second subset of the data processors have a peak-to-peak tracking jitter less than the predetermined threshold value, controlling at least one of the system elements at least partly by means of a data processor from the first or second subset of data processors.

Embodiments of the present invention include one HARQ method and system in which the data is transmitted / received with N transmit antennas and M receive antennas, wherein each transmit antenna transmits data by using L subcarriers, M and N are natural numbers and L is the multiple of 2. The method comprises: converting the transmission data into N data streams, then converting each data stream into L substreams, allocating NL subcarriers to the NL substreams according to the same subcarrier allocation table prestored in the transmitter and the receiver, and transmitting the NL substreams by the transmit antennas; recovering the received data to the original N data streams according to the subcarrier allocation table prestored in the receiver and checking if each data stream is received correctly and feeding back the feedback information to the transmitter; and the transmitter transmitting new data or re-transmitting data according to the feedback information.

The invention discloses a satellite-ground synchronization method for an on-satellite processing beam-hopping satellite communication system, and belongs to the technical field of satellite communication. By periodically inserting the beam hopping plan corresponding to the beam position into the downlink frame, the ground terminal can be effectively assisted to realize the fast access of the uplink in the beam hopping environment. In addition, in combination with the working principle of the phased-array antenna, the satellite-borne time transmission method oriented to phased-array antenna beam hopping application is provided, and the time reference consistency among multiple phased-array antennas and between each wave position receiving beam and each wave position transmitting beam is effectively ensured. The synchronous control time sequence of the phased-array antenna is provided, the beam switching serial data and the wave speed switching control pulse signal are separately transmitted, the beam switching serial data are sent in advance before the beam switch control pulse is sent, the protection time in the beam switching process is shortened, and the transmission efficiency of the beam hopping application is effectively improved.

A cassette station, a processing station having a coating unit and a developing unit, and an inspecting station having a film thickness inspecting apparatus and a defect inspecting apparatus are disposed in the direction approximately perpendicular to the direction of the disposition of cassettes of the cassette station in such a manner that the inspecting station is disposed midway between the cassette station and the processing station. In the structure, the inspecting station and the processing station are connected and wafers are automatically transferred among the stations, operations from the substrate process to the inspection can be simplified and the time period necessary therefore can be shortened.

The invention discloses a gravity inductive type axis-counting device and a method for detecting the state of a tract district thereof, relating to a railway transport management device and a management method thereof. The gravity inductive type axis-counting device comprises an axis detector, an axis-counting information processing system, an input-output subsystem and a power supply, wherein the axis detector is composed of a wheel electronic detector and a gravity inductive type sensor unit; the wheel electronic detector consists of an axis-counting CPU unit, a signal processing unit, a sensor power unit and a state detecting unit; the axis-counting information processing unit comprises a CPU unit, a communication unit, and an I / O unit; and the input-output subsystem consists of a dynamic drive assembly unit, a relay and a button. In the method, a wheel signal is detected by a gravity inductive type sensor arranged on a rail, and is transmitted to the wheel electronic detector and the axis-counting information processing unit for processing, thus judging the state of the tract district. The invention has the advantages of accurate detection result, high reliability, scientific method and capability of realizing automatic judgment on the idle and occupied states of the tract district.

A system (1) and a method for transmitting and presenting video data as well as a communications terminal (4) suitable therefor and a suitable video center (2), users being able to request and obtain video data from the video center (2) by means of communications terminals (4), in particular mobile communications terminals (4), over a telecommunications network (3), in particular a mobile radio network (3), picture signals corresponding to the received video data being projected upon the retina (51) of the user through a virtual retina display device (41) of the communications terminal (4), current eye positions of the user being determined in the communications terminal (4) and being transmitted to the video center (2), and the video center (2) comprising a video filter module which filters said video data, prior to their transmission, on the basis of received current eye positions such that outer image regions, corresponding to the video data, projected on the retina (51) outside the fovea (511) have a lesser resolution than the inner image areas, corresponding to the video data, projected on the fovea (511) of the retina (51), and the filtered video data accordingly contain a lesser quantity of data than the unfiltered video data.

A wind farm with plural wind turbines which are connectible to a farm grid that is in turn connectible to an electricity supply mains via a connection point, wherein the wind farm features the following: a central control system, which determines a correction value for a local desired value for one or plural wind turbines by way of a first regulator, depending on an actual value of an electric variable before or after the connection point, and a turbine control for at least one wind turbine, which determines a local desired value for an electric variable to be generated by the wind turbine by way of a second regulator, depending on an actual value of an electric variable measured in the farm grid, wherein the turbine control determines the sum of the local desired value and the correction value as the total desired value for the electric variable of the wind turbine to be generated.

A system and method for establishing a Secure Internet Channeling Agent (SICHA), a third party trusted authorized channeling agent, making direct, secure, and fast Internet channeling between a user device and a media content server. In the preferred embodiment, the SICHA directly relays user's channeling request to the media content server with user's reserved channeling socket information for the fast channeling. At the same time, the SICHA generates and transmits one-time symmetric secure channel keys to both of the media content server and the user device to encrypt and decrypt media content stream. The encrypted media content stream is transmitted to the user device through a virtually dedicated UDP channel. Finally, the SICHA also relayed channel ending message when the user device request.

The invention provides an indication method of downlink service data and a device. The method comprises the following steps: a first station STA associated with a wireless access point AP controls anawakening receiver of the first STA to wake up within a preset first monitoring interval, and receives an awakening beacon frame sent by the AP, wherein the awakening beacon frame comprises an indication field for indicating whether the AP has the downlink service data which are going to be transmitted to the first STA; the first STA controls a master radio of the first STA to be free from wakingup within a second monitoring interval to receive the beacon frame sent by the AP; and according to the indication field, the first STA determines whether the AP has the downlink service data which are going to be transmitted to the first STA. With the method provided by the invention, the MR of the first STA is free from waking up within the second monitoring interval to receive the beacon framebroadcasted by the AP, thus, wake-up frequency of the MR is reduced greatly, and power consumption of the first STA is reduced.

A mud pulse telemetry technique that uses a number of bits per interval based on parameters of the pulse position modulation system in order to reduce data transfer time in a pulse position modulation system. More particularly, depending on parameters of the pulse position modulation such as the minimum-time and the bit-width, it may be possible to decrease overall transmission time by splitting values having a larger number of bits into multiple transmissions with each transmission having a smaller number of bits.

The invention discloses a method for controlling a built-in radio frequency identification (RFID) encrypted solid-state hard disk, which comprises the following steps of: connecting all modules, then verifying whether an encryption key is accurate, finally making the encrypted solid-state hard disk enter a normal working state; after an operating system sends 'read' advanced instructions to the encrypted solid-state hard disk, reading the data subjected to error code correction and decryption through a high-speed direct memory access network; after the operating system sends 'write' advanced instructions to the encrypted solid-state hard disk, writing the processed data into one or more pages of a flash memory; and after the operating system sends 'deletion' advanced instructions to the encrypted solid-state hard disk, performing 'deletion' on the whole page through a flash memory central processing unit, and writing other un-deleted data in the page into other pages. The method has the advantages of low system cost, high stored data security and short data transmission time, is particularly suitable for portable mobile storage equipment, and can be implemented in a semiconductor chip.

The invention discloses a method for performing chemically mechanical polishing by using chemically mechanical polishing equipment. The chemically mechanical polishing equipment comprises a plurality of chemically mechanical polishing machines, a manipulator, and transition devices, wherein the plurality of chemically mechanical polishing machines and the transition devices are arranged around the manipulator. The method comprises the following steps of: A) conveying wafers on the transition devices to at least more than one of the plurality of chemically mechanical polishing machines by the manipulator so as to polish the wafers by using the plurality of chemically mechanical polishing machines; B) conveying the polished wafers by using the manipulator to the transition devices; and C) repeating the steps A) and B) until the polishing of all wafers is finished. The method for performing chemically mechanical polishing by using the chemically mechanical polishing equipment has the advantages of short wafer transmission distance, and wafer transmission time and high working efficiency.

The invention discloses a dry method for preparing a TEM sample of a two-dimensional material. The method comprises the following steps: peeling a two-dimensional material sheet from the surface of the two-dimensional material by an adhesive tape, repeatedly adhering and separating until the sheet presents a dense sample area, and adhering a glass slide and PDMS (Polydimethylsiloxane) gel tablet, so that the PDMS gel surface is adhered to the adhesive tape dense sample surface, and the adhesive tape is peeled; and taking a micro grid, and transferring the sample on the PDMS gel tablet onto the micro grid under an optical microscope, thereby obtaining the TEM sample of the two-dimensional material. According to the method disclosed by the invention, any pollutant is not introduced in the operating process, the topographic characteristics and structural properties of the two-dimensional material are not damaged, and the method has the characteristics of flexibility, simple operation and capacity of efficiently obtaining the TEM sample of the sheet two-dimensional material.

The invention relates to a method for realizing terminal track playback in a network geographic information system. The method comprises the following steps that: a client generates and transmits a track playback request with a track playback parameter in an asynchronous data transmission mode; a server receives the request and processes the data associated with the request to form updated data; a server-side transmits the updated data to the client in the asynchronous data transmission mode; and the client receives the updated data and updates a track image layer. The invention also relates to the network geographic information system. The method and the system for realizing the terminal track playback in the network geographic information system of the invention have the following advantages that: the data transmission amount is less and the transmission time is shorter, because the track playback request and the updated data are both transmitted in the asynchronous data transmission mode, and the image layer to be updated is searched in the server according to the parameter in the request, and return data is formed.

A method, and corresponding computer program product and computer system, for replicating a database image in a distributed database environment comprises: defining a checkpoint image of the primary node including a database structure and a plurality of database pages; creating a replica database by initiating a backup node and saving the defined structure on the initiated backup node; sending each database page of the checkpoint image for saving on the backup node; saving every transaction on the primary node and creating a corresponding REDO transaction; identifying each data page operated on by each REDO transaction; sending each created REDO transaction to the backup node in the order in which the corresponding transaction occurred, and prioritizing each identified database page so that it arrives at the backup node before or substantially at the same time as a corresponding REDO transaction.

A system for monitoring conditions within a tire (12) including a sensor assembly (14) including a pressure sensor (36), an accelerometer (34), a temperature sensor (32), and a transmitter (40) to transmit signals indicative of current tire conditions. A remote transmitter (22) for actuating a remote keyless entry system (19) emits a signal to actuate a function of the keyless entry system (19) such as unlocking doors (20) of the motor vehicle (10). A receiver assembly (16) includes an amplitude shift keyed receiver (52) and a frequency shift keyed receiver (58) selectively engagable to receive radio frequency transmissions from the tire monitoring system or the remote keyless entry system (19).

In an exposure apparatus of the invention, for a spatial light modulator, each of a plurality of pixel portions fewer than the total number of the pixel portions is controlled with a control signal generated according to exposure information. Namely, a part of the pixel portions is controlled without controlling a whole of the pixel portions on the substrate. Thus, the number of pixels in the pixel portions is described, and transfer time of the control signal becomes short. This enables modulation speed of the laser beam to be increased and the high-speed exposure to be performed. An incorporated laser light source, in which the laser beams are incorporated and struck on the optical fiber, is preferable to the laser device. By adopting the incorporated laser light source, high brightness and high output can be obtained, and it is preferable to the exposure of the spatial light modulator. Since the fiber array is obtained with few optical fibers, it is low cost Since the number of optical fibers is few, the light-emitting region is further decreased when the optical fibers are arrayed.

The present invention aims at providing a powder toner transferring method which fluidizes a powder toner with a gas supplied from an air supply means, sucks the fluidized powder toner with a suction means and transfers the powder toner by discharging the powder toner in a toner storage container, where the suction of the powder toner by means of the suction means is performed with a reciprocating-motion pump. The present invention also aims at providing a powder toner filling method that comprises the powder toner transferring process.

In an exposure apparatus of the invention, for a spatial light modulator, each of a plurality of pixel portions fewer than the total number of the pixel portions is controlled with a control signal generated according to exposure information. Namely, a part of the pixel portions is controlled without controlling a whole of the pixel portions on the substrate. Thus, the number of pixels in the pixel portions is decreased, and transfer time of the control signal becomes short. This enables modulation speed of the laser beam to be increased and the high-speed exposure to be performed. An incorporated laser light source, in which the laser beams are incorporated and struck on the optical fiber, is preferable to the laser device. By adopting the incorporated laser light source, high brightness and high output can be obtained, and it is preferable to the exposure of the spatial light modulator. Since the fiber array is obtained with few optical fibers, it is low cost. Since the number of optical fibers is few, the light-emitting region is further decreased when the optical fibers are arrayed.