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20100205919 | HEPA Filter Cartridge for Canister Vacuums - The present disclosure generally provides systems and methods for easily replaceable, high efficiency particulate air or HEPA-quality filtration for vacuum systems in an effective, efficient, and cost-sensitive manner. As an example, the HEPA filter cartridge could include a minimizer and connecting structures associated with an exhaust of such a HEPA filter cartridge. The surface area of the minimizer or the connecting structures could be increased or decreased to control, restrict, or otherwise maintain a predetermined, preferable, or allowable amount of backpressure subjected to the HEPA filter cartridge or other suitable performance characteristic. | 08-19-2010 |
20130037135 | DUAL-SOURCE WATER SYSTEMS - Dual-source water systems may include a selectively controllable mechanism for receiving water from a direct line connection or from a water containment apparatus. The system also may include a filtration system, wherein water may flow through the selectively controllable mechanism to the filtration system. The selectively controllable mechanism may be a valve system and may include a transition switch to switch between water flowing from the direct line connection or from the water containment apparatus. | 02-14-2013 |
20140065023 | Active Photocatalytic Oxidation - Embodiments of the present disclosure could generally provide an active oxidation and purifying system to maximize the rate of photocatalytic oxidation and ambient air filtration by structurally optimizing the system to maximize potential ultraviolet (UV) light exposure to the surface and apertures of the active power cells. In one example, the active power cells could include a plurality of apertures disposed in a transverse manner from the first surface to the second surface of the active power cell. For example, the first set of the apertures could be disposed about 45 degrees relative to a median axis along the first and second surfaces, while a second set of apertures could be disposed about negative 45 degrees relative to the same median axis. | 03-06-2014 |
20150047373 | ROOM CLEANING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A multi-step process for cleaning, disinfecting and substantially eliminating allergens in a room is provided. | 02-19-2015 |
20150231298 | ACTIVE PHOTOCATALYTIC OXIDATION - An active oxidation and purifying system is provided to increase or maximize the rate of photocatalytic oxidation and ambient air purification capacity by providing both direct ultraviolet (UV) light and reflected UV light directed to the surface and apertures of active cell panels coated with a photocatalytic material. In one example, the active cells also include a plurality of apertures disposed in a transverse manner from the first surface to the second surface of the active cell. Furthermore, a first set of the apertures could be disposed about 45 degrees relative to a median axis along the first and second surfaces, while a second set of apertures could be disposed about negative 45 degrees relative to the same median axis in order to increase the surface area impinged by the direct and reflected UV light. | 08-20-2015 |
20150359395 | Vacuum Brush Drive - A vacuum cleaner is described, the vacuum cleaner having a vacuum head with a housing, a suction port, a motor, and a brush. The brush is connected to a drive pully, the motor has a motor pinion, and a belt extends from the motor pinion to the drive pulley the belt having teeth with a rounded profile. | 12-17-2015 |
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20090307713 | Hypervisor-Based Facility for Communicating Between a Hardware Management Console and a Logical Partition - A hypervisor-based facility is provided for communicating between a hardware management console (HMC) and a logical partition of a data processing system. The facility includes: packaging a request or response of a source endpoint as cargo in a generic transport primitive, the source endpoint being either an HMC or a logical partition of the data processing system; and forwarding the generic transport primitive from the source endpoint to a target endpoint via the hypervisor. The forwarding includes receiving the transport primitive at the hypervisor and forwarding the cargo of the transport primitive to the target endpoint. The cargo includes the request or response from the source endpoint, and the hypervisor forwards the cargo absent inspection or parsing of that cargo. The target endpoint is the other one of the logical partition or the hardware management console of the data processing system. | 12-10-2009 |
20100332912 | VISUAL FEEDBACK SYSTEM FOR USERS USING MULTIPLE PARTITIONS ON A SERVER - Systems, methods and articles of manufacture are disclosed for conveying which hardware components of a logically partitioned computer system are assigned to a selected logical partition of the computer system. Partition information for the computer system may be received. Further, a request may be received from a user to view which hardware components of the computer system are assigned to a selected logical partition of the computer system. Based on the received partition information, hardware components may be determined that are assigned to the selected logical partition. Based on the determined hardware components, a virtual model of the computer system may be generated that visually distinguishes hardware components assigned to the selected logical partition from hardware components not assigned to the selected logical partition. Responsive to the request, the virtual model may be output to a graphical display device. | 12-30-2010 |
20110219371 | Managing and Reporting Conflicts Between Multiple Users Accessing A Logically Partitioned Computer System - A management system for managing computer resources assigned by a hypervisor to one or more logical partitions and/or one or more appliance partitions in a multi-user computer system receives login information from a new user logging into the computer system through a service interface (e.g. a hardware management console) or a non-service interface, builds a conflict list, and sends the conflict list for presentation to the new user. The new user is notified of any users that are logged into any part of the computer system that could conflict with the new user's actions. Such users may be logged into the computer system through service and/or non-service interfaces. In one embodiment, the new user can choose to continue logging in irrespective of any conflicts shown. After choosing to continue, the new user is preferably requested to input an end-time. This end-time may be displayed, in turn, to all subsequent users that log into any part of the computer system that could cause conflict. The management system is preferably a component of the hypervisor. | 09-08-2011 |
20120102490 | RETAINING OWNERSHIP OF A VIRTUAL FUNCTION WHILE AN ADAPTER IS REPLACED - In an embodiment, a power off command is received that specifies a slot in a computer that connects to a first adapter. The first adapter comprises a physical and virtual functions. Data transfer from a logical partition to the virtual function is stopped, a lock of the virtual function held by the logical partition is released, and the slot is powered off. Ownership of the virtual function is retained by the logical partition while the lock is released and the slot is powered off. A power on command is received that specifies the slot that connects to a second adapter. The second adapter comprises the physical and virtual functions. In response to the power on command, the slot is powered on, and the lock is obtained of the virtual function for the logical partition. | 04-26-2012 |
20140258570 | IMPLEMENTING CONFIGURATION PRESERVING RELOCATION OF SRIOV ADAPTER - A method, system and computer program product are provided for implementing configuration preserving relocation of a Single Root Input/Output Virtualization (SRIOV) adapter in a computer system. At system power on an SRIOV adapter having been relocated to a different slot while the system was powered off is automatically detected, and the configuration data associated with the adapter automatically updated so that it remains associated with the adapter in the adapter's new location. | 09-11-2014 |
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20090006674 | Methods of Performing Maintenance on Double-Slot PCI Device - Systems and methods are provided for performing maintenance on a multiple-slot device having multiple adapters in a computer system including a peripheral interface having a plurality of device connection slots. The invention includes determining that a selected slot on the peripheral interface is associated with an adapter of a multiple-slot device, identifying a further slot associated with the multiple-slot device based on the selected slot, and providing power to, or removing power from, the selected slot and the identified further slot. Numerous other aspects are provided. | 01-01-2009 |
20100079302 | Managing Condition Indicators that Use the Same Physical Indicator Device in a Logically Partitioned Computer System - A computer system independently maintains states of multiple condition indicators as logical state data, each indicator for a different respective condition and having at least an active and inactive state. Multiple condition indicators share a single human-perceptible physical indicator having at least (N+1) states, where N is the number of condition indicators, the physical indicator states including a state for all conditions inactive, and a respective separate state for each respective condition active. Preferably, the conditions comprise a fault condition and an identify condition, and the physical indicator is a light which is off if neither condition is active, is constant on if the fault condition is active, and is flashing if the identify condition is active. | 04-01-2010 |
20100083252 | Controlling Access to Physical Indicators in a Logically Partitioned Computer System - A low-level logical partitioning function associates partitions, partitionable entities, and location codes. Partitionable entities are hardware components, not necessarily individually replaceable. The location code reflects the physical topology of the system packaging. It is preferably a string of concatenated elements, each element representing a device in a hierarchical level of devices which may contain other devices. A respective location code is likewise associated with each of multiple physical indicators. The location code of partitionable entities allocated to a partition is compared with the indicator's location code to determine whether a process executing within a partition can access the indicator. Preferably, each partition has a virtual indicator corresponding to a physical indicator, the state of the physical indicator being derived as a function of the states of multiple virtual indicators for multiple partitions. | 04-01-2010 |
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20080313659 | Page and device-optimized cascading style sheets - An arrangement for generating page and/or device-optimized cascading style sheets (“CSS”) is disclosed in which CSS blocks are provided in a collection of one or more files. In an illustrative example, the collection of files is arranged as XML (extensible Markup Language) files. Each CSS block is marked with attributes that indicate to which modules used to compose a page it applies, and/or its applicability to a specific device. At page rendering time, the CSS for the page is dynamically generated by selecting CSS blocks from the files based on detected device capabilities and/or the modules on the page. | 12-18-2008 |
20150193447 | SYNTHETIC LOCAL TYPE-AHEAD SUGGESTIONS FOR SEARCH - Architecture that generates local intent suggestions as completion suggestions (auto-suggest solutions) for an incomplete (or partially-entered) search query. The local intent suggestions are “synthetic” in that these suggestions are derived based on the near or total absence of any prior query history. The local intent suggestions can be derived and presented without the typical web-based suggestions or with the web-based suggestions. The web-based suggestions are blended (e.g., placed above, under, or mixed in with) with the local intent suggestions and displayed to the user. Web interfaces include, but are not limited to a full page display interface (e.g., that includes a full page map, pin points with images, sub-intents, title and description), and/or a right pane (sub-pane) auto-suggest interface with mini-map pinpoints, sub-intents, and disambiguation tiles, for example. | 07-09-2015 |
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20140304174 | SUMMARIZING TABULAR DATA ACROSS MULTIPLE PROJECTS USING USER-DEFINED ATTRIBUTES - A method, system, and computer program product for enterprise applications. Embodiments commence by accessing a first database table having columns pertaining to one or more cost items of a first project and accessing a second database table having columns pertaining to cost items of a second project. A user interface aids definition of user-defined inter-project attributes, wherein the user-defined inter-project attributes relate a database table column of the first project to a database table column of the second project. The user-defined inter-project attributes are used in preparing display information pertaining to at least two projects such that in response to a single action being performed under control of a client system, the prepared display information is sent to a display unit. In some cases, the prepared display information comprises a summary of values, and in some cases, an alert icon is displayed based on a summary value exceeding a threshold. | 10-09-2014 |
20140304282 | VIEWING HIERARCHICAL DATA USING A GRID FORMAT - Disclosed are methods and apparatuses for viewing hierarchical data. One disclosed approach provides a method and system for viewing and navigating through hierarchical data while maintaining a hierarchical context that allows for the user to traverse up and down the hierarchy. | 10-09-2014 |
20150088578 | PROJECT MANAGEMENT ALERTS USING HETEROGENEOUS PROJECT DATA - A method, system, and computer program product for enterprise systems and applications. Embodiments commence upon identifying a first account ledger of first data items and a second account ledger of second data items, then identifying a first data item that is stored in a first unit of measurement (e.g., US Dollars), and further identifying a second data item that is stored in a second unit of measurement (e.g., Euros). Configuration steps associate relationships or calculations (e.g., sums, maximums, conversions, etc.) between the first data item and the second data item. When the value of the first data item or the value of the second data item is changed (e.g., by a user-changed value or by a calculation affecting the data item), then alert logic is invoked. When the relationship between the first data item and the second data item is outside of a pre-calculated range then an alert is raised. | 03-26-2015 |
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20090321631 | LOW-INERTIA MULTI-AXIS MULTI-DIRECTIONAL MECHANICALLY SCANNED ION IMPLANTATION SYSTEM - An ion implantation system configured to produce an ion beam is provided, wherein an end station has a robotic architecture having at least four degrees of freedom. An end effector operatively coupled to the robotic architecture selectively grips and translates a workpiece through the ion beam. The robotic architecture has a plurality of motors operatively coupled to the end station, each having a rotational shaft. At least a portion of each rotational shaft generally resides within the end station, and each of the plurality of motors has a linkage assembly respectively associated therewith, wherein each linkage assembly respectively has a crank arm and a strut. The crank arm of each linkage assembly is fixedly coupled to the respective rotational shaft, and the strut of each linkage assembly is pivotally coupled to the respective crank arm at a first joint, and pivotally coupled to the end effector at a second joint. | 12-31-2009 |
20100181470 | ION BEAM ANGLE CALIBRATION AND EMITTANCE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM FOR RIBBON BEAMS - An ion beam angle calibration and emittance measurement system, comprising a plate comprising an elongated slit therein, wherein the elongated slit positioned at a rotation center of the plate and configured to allow a first beam portion to pass therethrough. A beam current detector located downstream of the plate, wherein the beam current detector comprises a slit therein configured to permit a second beam portion of the first beam portion to pass therethrough, wherein the beam current detector is configured to measure a first beam current associated with the first beam portion. A beam angle detector is located downstream of the beam current detector and configured to detect a second beam current associated with the second beam portion. The plate, the current beam detector and the beam angle detector are configured to collectively rotate about the rotation center of the plate. | 07-22-2010 |
20110073781 | ION IMPLANTATION APPARATUS - An ion implanter has an implant wheel with a plurality of wafer carriers distributed about a periphery of the wheel. Each wafer carrier has a heat sink for removing heat from a wafer on the carrier during the implant process by thermal contact between the wafer and the heat sink. The wafer carriers have wafer retaining fences formed as cylindrical rollers with axes in the respective wafer support planes of the wafer carriers. The cylindrical surfaces of the rollers provide wafer abutment surfaces which can move transversely to the wafer support surfaces so that no transverse loading is applied by the fences to wafer edges as the wafer is pushed against the heat sink by centrifugal force. The wafer support surfaces comprise layers of elastomeric material and the movable abutment surfaces of the fences allow even thermal coupling with the heat sink over the whole area of the wafer. | 03-31-2011 |
20120146555 | D.C. Charged Particle Accelerator and A Method of Accelerating Charged Particles - A d. c. charged particle accelerator comprises accelerator electrodes separated by insulating spacers defining acceleration gaps between adjacent pairs of electrodes. Individually regulated gap voltages are applied across each adjacent pair of accelerator electrodes. In an embodiment, direct connections are provided to gap electrodes from the stage points of a multistage Cockcroft Walton type voltage multiplier circuit. The described embodiment enables an ion beam to be accelerated to high energies and high beam currents, with good accelerator stability. | 06-14-2012 |
20130056655 | ION IMPLANT APPARATUS AND METHOD OF ION IMPLANTATION - An apparatus and a method of ion implantation using a rotary scan assembly having an axis of rotation and a periphery. A plurality of substrate holders is distributed about the periphery, and the substrate holders are arranged to hold respective planar substrates. Each planar substrate has a respective geometric center on the periphery. A beam line assembly provides a beam of ions for implantation in the planar substrates on the holders. The beam line assembly is arranged to direct said beam along a final beam path. | 03-07-2013 |
20130119263 | Ion Implant Apparatus and a Method of Implanting Ions - Ion implant apparatus using a drum-type scan wheel holds wafers with a total cone angle less than 60°. A collimated scanned beam of ions, for example H | 05-16-2013 |
20140130741 | ION IMPLANT APPARATUS AND A METHOD OF IMPLANTING IONS - Ion implant apparatus using a drum-type scan wheel holds wafers with a total cone angle less than 60°. A collimated scanned beam of ions, for example H | 05-15-2014 |