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20100280350 | Chinese medicine tele-diagnostics and triage system - The present invention is tele-diagnostics and patient triage method and system for the practices of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) that acquire patient health condition info through 4 diagnostics process, provide pathogenesis analysis (disease cause, progression, projection), and treatment and prescription options remotely. This method and system established medical business modules with standard syntax through the implementation of medical decision support tools such as relational database, lookup tables, calculators, decision trees, manifestation reference charts, case comparison and statistics, and visualization in disease, pattern and syndrome identification, differentiation and determination. It essentially transform complex Chinese medicine practices into a networked, expert supported system with a knowledge base that deliver the needed information to assist a TCM physician to make medical decisions. Used in medical call centers and large general hospitals, this method and system help a plural of physicians quickly screen and diagnose a large number of patients and triage patients to different level of health care resources according to disease, condition and care needed for the patient. This system is to provide the method for TCM practitioner to treat patients of common disease with low risks that does not warrant a face to face diagnostics. This system also integrates with patient location based information to establish a quick referral system that connects call centers with clinics and hospitals nearby to provide face to face physician service and maintain continuity of care. A network of this system can alleviate the increasing pressure of resource shortage in rural and remote areas, particularly in developing countries. | 11-04-2010 |
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20080318420 | TWO STEP CHEMICAL MECHANICAL POLISH - In one embodiment, a method includes providing two structures with a spacing therebetween over a semiconductor substrate, providing a conformal first layer over the two structures and within the space therebetween, depositing a conformal protective layer over the first layer, planarizing the protective layer until a top surface of the first layer is exposed, and planarizing the first layer and the protective layer until a top surface of the two structures is exposed and a portion of the protective layer is between the two structures. | 12-25-2008 |
20080318428 | Method for Achieving Uniform Chemical Mechanical Polishing In Integrated Circuit Manufacturing - A method for planarizing a surface in an integrated circuit manufacturing process provides a first film of a first material over a non-uniform surface, such as a surface including isolation trenches. The first material includes, for example, a polysilicon layer to be used to form floating gates in a non-volatile memory integrated circuit. A second film, which is a sacrificial film formed using a second material, such as silicon oxide, is then provided over the first film. Partial removal of the second film is carried out using chemical mechanical polishing until a portion of the first film is exposed using a first slurry that is selective to the first material. Thereafter, the remaining layer of the second film is removed, along with planarization of the surface, using a second slurry that is highly selective, i.e., has a selectivity of the first film to the second film that is greater than a predetermine value (e.g., 16:1). | 12-25-2008 |
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20090130570 | Methods for Inspecting and Optionally Reworking Summed Photolithography Patterns Resulting from Plurally-Overlaid Patterning Steps During Mass Production of Semiconductor Devices - A batch of wafers is temporarily stalled during a Double Pattern Technology (DPT) process before a temporary representation of a second of to-be-overlaid patterns is permanently combined with a first of the patterns. Sampled ones of the stalled wafers are inspected to determine if sufficiently close alignment is present between the two patterns. If excessive misalignment is detected (e.g., by SEM microscopy), the second but still temporary pattern representation is erased from all wafers of the batch and the batch is routed for rework and corrected reestablishment of the temporary representation of the second of to-be-overlaid patterns. | 05-21-2009 |
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20090297956 | PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY WITH OPTICAL MASKS HAVING MORE TRANSPARENT FEATURES SURROUNDED BY LESS TRANSPARENT FEATURES - In photolithographic exposure, a feature ( | 12-03-2009 |
20100068658 | PHOTOLITHOGRAPHIC PATTERNING OF ARRAYS OF PILLARS HAVING WIDTHS AND LENGTHS BELOW THE EXPOSURE WAVELENGTHS - A pillar array is printed in positive photoresist using an optical mask ( | 03-18-2010 |
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20130155957 | COORDINATION AMONGST HETEROGENEOUS WIRELESS DEVICES - A computer-implemented method is proposed for coordinating communication amongst wireless communication devices in a wireless network. The coordination scheme creates a side channel between heterogeneous wireless devices to enhance their cooperation. At the transmitter, the coordination scheme appends a customized preamble to a data payload, where the preamble is comprised of a sequence of energy pulses separated by a gap and the duration of the gap encodes coordination data for the receive device. At the receiver, the coordination scheme detects the preamble of the data packet; extracts the coordination data from the preamble of the data packet; and coordinates communication between the transmit device and the receive device using the coordination data. | 06-20-2013 |
20130170533 | Coordinated Multi-Point Transmission - In a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) wireless system supporting Coordinated Multi-Point (CoMP) transmission and having a first base station, a second base station, and a user equipment, a communications method implemented in the first base station is disclosed. In an aspect, the communications method includes exchanging, with the second base station through local information exchange, first information about a first channel between the first base station and the user equipment and second information about a second channel between the second base station and the user equipment, and computing at least one of a precoding matrix, a receiver filter, and a projection matrix, wherein the user equipment estimates the first information and the second information, and shares the first information and the second information with the first base station. Other apparatuses and some methods for wireless communications also are disclosed. | 07-04-2013 |
20130237265 | SCALABLE NETWORK MIMO FOR WIRELESS NETWORKS - Systems and methods for system for channel access adaptation are disclosed. One system includes a plurality of remote antennas and a plurality of access points. The remote antennas transmit data to receivers and obtain channel state information. Additionally, each access point controls a different cluster of the remote antennas and receives the respective channel state information from the remote antennas of the cluster. Further, each access point is configured to, independently from other access points, adapt channel allocations to the remote antennas of the respective cluster based on a tracking of sums of collision loss probabilities. Each given sum is determined by the access point for a different given set of a plurality of sets of cooperating remote antennas in the respective cluster, where each constituent collision loss probability in the given sum is determined by the access point from a different interference clique to which the given set belongs. | 09-12-2013 |