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20110152258 | Compounds and Methods for Kinase Modulation, and Indications Therefor - Compounds and salts thereof, formulations thereof, conjugates thereof, derivatives thereof, forms thereof and uses thereof are described. In certain aspects and embodiments, the described compounds or salts thereof, formulations thereof, conjugates thereof, derivatives thereof, forms thereof are active on at least one Raf protein kinase. In certain aspects and embodiments, the described compounds are active in inhibiting proliferation of a Ras mutant cell line. Also described are methods of use thereof to treat diseases and conditions, including diseases and conditions associated with activity of B-Raf V600E mutant protein kinase, including melanoma, glioma, glioblastoma multiforme, pilocytic astrocytoma, colorectal cancer, thyroid cancer, lung cancer, ovarian cancer, prostate cancer, liver cancer, gallbladder cancer, gastrointestinal stromal tumors, biliary tract cancer, and cholangiocarcinoma. Also described are methods of use thereof to treat diseases and conditions, including diseases and conditions associated with activity of c-Raf-1 protein kinase, including acute pain, chronic pain or polycystic kidney disease. | 06-23-2011 |
20110263595 | COMPOUNDS AND METHODS FOR KINASE MODULATION, AND INDICATIONS THEREFOR - Compounds and salts thereof, formulations thereof, conjugates thereof, derivatives thereof, forms thereof and uses thereof are described. In certain aspects and embodiments, the described compounds or salts thereof, formulations thereof, conjugates thereof, derivatives thereof, forms thereof are active on one or more of Fms, Kit, Flt3, TrkA, TrkB and TrkC kinase protein. Also described are methods of use thereof to treat diseases and conditions, including diseases and conditions associated with activity of one or more of Fms, Kit, Flt3, TrkA, TrkB and TrkC, including rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis, osteoporosis, peri-prosthetic osteolysis, systemic sclerosis, demyelinating disorders, multiple sclerosis, Charcot Marie Tooth syndrome, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, global ischemia, ulcerative colitis, Crohn's disease, immune thrombocytopenic purpura, atherosclerosis, systemic lupus erythematosis, myelopreparation for autologous transplantation, transplant rejection, glomerulonephritis, interstitial nephritis, Lupus nephritis, tubular necrosis, diabetic nephropathy, renal hypertrophy, type I diabetes, acute pain, inflammatory pain, neuropathic pain, acute myeloid leukemia, melanoma, multiple myeloma, breast cancer, prostate cancer, pancreatic cancer, lung cancer, ovarian cancer, gliomas, glioblastoma, neurofibromatosis, osteolytic bone metastases, brain metasteses, gastrointestinal stromal tumors, and giant cell tumors. | 10-27-2011 |
20140128373 | COMPOUNDS AND METHODS FOR KINASE MODULATION, AND INDICATIONS THEREFOR - Compounds active on protein kinases are described, as well as methods of making and using such compounds to treat diseases and conditions associated with aberrant activity of protein kinases. | 05-08-2014 |
20140128390 | COMPOUNDS AND METHODS FOR KINASE MODULATION, AND INDICATIONS THEREFOR - Compounds active on c-kit protein kinases or mutant c-kit protein kinases having any mutations are described, as well as methods of making and using such compounds to treat diseases and conditions associated with aberrant activity of the c-kit protein kinases and mutant c-kit protein kinases. | 05-08-2014 |
20140213554 | COMPOUNDS AND METHODS FOR KINASE MODULATION, AND INDICATIONS THEREFOR - Compounds active on c-kit protein kinases or mutant c-kit protein kinases having any mutations are described, as well as methods of making and using such compounds to treat diseases and conditions associated with aberrant activity of the c-kit protein kinases and/or mutant c-kit protein kinases. | 07-31-2014 |
20140241247 | IMPLEMENTING A 3G PACKET CORE IN A CLOUD COMPUTER WITH OPENFLOW DATA AND CONTROL PLANES - A control plane device in a cloud computing system executes a plurality of virtual machines for implementing network function virtualization (NFV). The control plane device is operable to manage implementation of a general packet radio service (GPRS) tunnel protocol (GTP) in a packet core (PC) of a third generation (3G) network having a split architecture where a control plane of the PC of the 3G network is in the cloud computing system. The control plane communicates with a data plane of the PC through a control plane protocol. The data plane is implemented in a plurality of network devices of the 3G network. The control plane device and the plurality of virtual machines are operable to communicate with other control plane devices in the cloud computing system and with the plurality of network devices of the data plane. | 08-28-2014 |
20140288070 | COMPOUNDS AND METHODS FOR KINASE MODULATION, AND INDICATIONS THEREFOR - Compounds and salts thereof, formulations thereof, conjugates thereof, derivatives thereof, forms thereof and uses thereof are described. In certain aspects and embodiments, the described compounds or salts thereof, formulations thereof, conjugates thereof, derivatives thereof, forms thereof are active on at least one Raf protein kinase. In certain aspects and embodiments, the described compounds are active in inhibiting proliferation of a Ras mutant cell line. Also described are methods of use thereof to treat diseases and conditions, including diseases and conditions associated with activity of B-Raf V600E mutant protein kinase, including melanoma, glioma, glioblastoma multiforme, pilocytic astrocytoma, colorectal cancer, thyroid cancer, lung cancer, ovarian cancer, prostate cancer, liver cancer, gallbladder cancer, gastrointestinal stromal tumors, biliary tract cancer, and cholangiocarcinoma. Also described are methods of use thereof to treat diseases and conditions, including diseases and conditions associated with activity of c-Raf-1 protein kinase, including acute pain, chronic pain or polycystic kidney disease. | 09-25-2014 |
20140321330 | CONTROLLER PLACEMENT FOR FAST FAILOVER IN THE SPLIT ARCHITECTURE - A method implemented by a network topology design system, the network topology design system including a processing device. The method to determine placement of a controller within a network with a split architecture where control plane components of the split architecture network are executed by a controller and the control plane components are separate from data plane components of the split architecture network. The placement of the controller is selected to minimize disruption of the split architecture network caused by a link failure, a switch failure or a connectivity loss between the controller and the data plane components. | 10-30-2014 |
20140355453 | METHOD AND ARRANGEMENT FOR FAULT ANALYSIS IN A MULTI-LAYER NETWORK - The invention relates to a method for fault analysis in a multi-layer network. The method includes receiving a first set of performance measurements occurring in response to the fault and representing at least a first and a second layer in a multi-layer communications network. A probable set of network elements affected by the fault are localized. The type of fault is inferred from one or more symptoms in the performance measurements. The root cause of the failure is determined from a combination of information on probable set of network elements and inferred type of fault. | 12-04-2014 |
20140379891 | Methods and Apparatuses to Identify User Dissatisfaction from Early Cancelation - In the present disclosure methods and apparatuses for identifying web page transactions causing user dissatisfaction is presented. The description disclose method steps and means for determining at least one network characteristic for all transactions associated with a web page and said user, determining a network characteristics function dependent on said at least one network characteristic using the transactions not associated with cancellations and for each cancelled transaction determining a value indicative of if said cancelled transaction was a result of user dissatisfaction by comparing said at least one network characteristic for said cancelled transaction with a value derived from said network characteristics function. | 12-25-2014 |
20150067170 | METHOD AND SYSTEM TO ALLOCATE BANDWIDTH BASED ON TASK DEADLINE IN CLOUD COMPUTING NETWORKS - A method implemented to provide a virtual network to tenants requiring bandwidth in a cloud computing environment is disclosed. The method starts with receiving a request for a task at a network device, the request including a first parameter indicating VMs required, a second parameter indicating bandwidths the required VMs need, a third parameter indicating a duration of the task, and a fourth parameter indicating a deadline of the task. The network device then selects a starting time and a bandwidth allocation of the task, where the bandwidth allocation is shrank to be smaller than the second parameter indicating, and where the selection aims at minimizing a measurement of cloud resource utilization considering consumptions of both VMs and bandwidth. Then the network device allocates VMs for the request at the starting time with the bandwidth allocated at a particular location in the cloud computing environment. | 03-05-2015 |
20150081855 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ASSIGNING MULTI-INSTANCE SERVICES IN A PROVIDER NETWORK - A system and method for placing inline services having multiple instances in a service provider network. In one implementation, a topology of the service provider network and services to be placed therein are defined, wherein a network node may include a data forwarding functionality and a control plane functionality. Using service chaining policy requirements, the number of service instances, etc. as input, services and their multiple instances are placed within the network such that an overall network metric is optimized for all subscriber data flows. | 03-19-2015 |
20150107618 | OXYGEN CONTAINING PLASMA CLEANING TO REMOVE CONTAMINATION FROM ELECTRONIC DEVICE COMPONENTS - A gas comprising oxygen is supplied to a plasma source. A plasma jet comprising oxygen plasma particles is generated from the gas. A contaminant is removed from the component using the oxygen plasma particles. | 04-23-2015 |
20150156120 | LOCALIZED CONGESTION EXPOSURE - A method of localized congestion exposure within a local loop in a cellular network that is performed by a localized congestion exposure sender node of the local loop. The method includes receiving downlink packets that are destined for a downstream user device. The method also includes receiving packets that have feedback indicating a congestion level from a downstream node of the cellular network. The method further includes inserting a declaration of an expected downstream congestion level into headers of the received downlink packets; and forwarding the downlink packets that have the declaration of the expected downstream congestion level inserted into the headers toward the downstream user device. | 06-04-2015 |
20150163150 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF SERVICE PLACEMENT FOR SERVICE CHAINING - A method for placing services at network devices is disclosed. A network contains a plurality of network devices and the network offers a set of services to subscribers. Each subscriber of the network utilizes a subset of the set of service, where an order of the services is not predefined. The method starts with ordering the services from the most utilized service to the least utilized, and selects services from the most utilized to the least utilized. For each service, a network device is selected so that placing the service adds a least sum of additional delay based on services already placed in the network, and a path for each subscriber utilizing the service is updated to include the service, where the path is an ordered chain of services, and where the service is inserted in the path to result in minimum addition to delay to the subscriber. | 06-11-2015 |
20150180705 | CONTROLLER PLACEMENT FOR FAST FAILOVER IN THE SPLIT ARCHITECTURE - A method implemented by a network topology design system, the network topology design system including a processing device. The method to determine placement of a controller within a network with a split architecture where control plane components of the split architecture network are executed by a controller and the control plane components are separate from data plane components of the split architecture network. The placement of the controller is selected to minimize disruption of the split architecture network caused by a link failure, a switch failure or a connectivity loss between the controller and the data plane components. | 06-25-2015 |
20150183793 | COMPOUNDS AND METHODS FOR KINASE MODULATION, AND INDICATIONS THEREFOR - Compounds and salts thereof, formulations thereof, conjugates thereof, derivatives thereof, forms thereof and uses thereof are described. In certain aspects and embodiments, the described compounds or salts thereof, formulations thereof, conjugates thereof, derivatives thereof, forms thereof are active on one or more of Fms, Kit, Flt3, TrkA, TrkB and TrkC kinase protein. Also described are methods of use thereof to treat diseases and conditions, including diseases and conditions associated with activity of one or more of Fms, Kit, Flt3, TrkA, TrkB and TrkC, including rheumatoid arthiritis, osteoarthritis, osteoporosis, peri-prosthetic osteolysis, systemic sclerosis, demyelinating disorders, multiple sclerosis, Charcot Marie Tooth syndrome, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, global ischemia, ulcerative colitis, Crohn's disease, immune thrombocytopenic purpura, atherosclerosis, systemic lupus erythematosis, myelopreparation for autologous transplantation, transplant rejection, glomerulonephritis, interstitial nephritis, Lupus nephritis, tubular necrosis, diabetic nephropathy, renal hypertrophy, type I diabetes, acute pain, inflammatory pain, neuropathic pain, acute myeloid leukemia, melanoma, multiple myeloma, breast cancer, prostate cancer, pancreatic cancer, lung cancer, ovarian cancer, gliomas, glioblastoma, neurofibromatosis, osteolytic bone metastases, brain metasteses, gastrointestinal stromal tumors, and giant cell tumors. | 07-02-2015 |
20150195203 | CONGESTION CONTROL IN PACKET DATA NETWORKING - A network element controls congestion in a link of a packet data network. A congested link is identified and a throttle rate is determined for one or more of the traffic groups traversing the congested link. The central controller determines the throttle rates using a weight of the group and the current traffic rate of the group through the link. The throttle rates are sent to switches to throttle traffic for each affected group. | 07-09-2015 |
20150207586 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR OPTICAL LAMBDA FLOW STEERING - A system implementing an optical steering domain that steers traffic flows through a plurality of processing nodes is described. The system includes a first, second, and third wavelength selective switch (WSS). The first WSS receives the traffic flows, and transmits traffic flows out a plurality of tributary ports toward the processing nodes. The second WSS receives the processed traffic from the processing nodes, and sends it to a third WSS. The third WSS receives the processed traffic from the second WSS, and causes the processed traffic requiring further processing to be transmitted out its third plurality of tributary ports to be looped back toward the plurality of processing nodes, and causes the processed traffic that does not require further processing to be transmitted by a different tributary port of the third WSS that is an exit port leading out of the optical steering domain. | 07-23-2015 |
20150207706 | METHOD FOR SCALABLE DISTRIBUTED NETWORK TRAFFIC ANALYTICS IN TELCO - Exemplary methods for performing distributed data aggregation include receiving Internet Protocol (IP) traffic from only a first portion of the network. The methods further include utilizing a big data tool to generate a summary of the IP traffic from the first portion of the network, wherein a summary of IP traffic from a second portion of the network is generated by a second network device utilizing its local big data tool. The methods include sending the summary of the IP traffic of the first portion of the network to the third network device, causing the third network device to utilize its local big data tool to generate a summary of the IP traffic of the first and second portion of the network based on the summaries received from the first and second network devices, thereby allowing the IP traffic in the network to be characterized in a distributed manner. | 07-23-2015 |
20150236968 | DENIAL OF SERVICE PREVENTION IN A SOFTWARE DEFINED NETWORK - A method in a controller module is described for allocating rate-limiting meters to a plurality of network elements (NEs) of a software defined network (SDN). The method includes receiving a plurality of rate limit indicators, from one or more network destinations, for a plurality of flows of data that arrive at the network destinations; sending one or more meter installation messages to cause a plurality of meter entries corresponding to the plurality of rate limit indicators to be installed by one or more of the NEs according to a metering configuration that is determined by, for each of the flows, selecting a flow of the plurality of flows that has not been selected yet and that traverses a path in the SDN having a fewest number of the plurality of NEs, and selecting a NE from the path that the selected flow traverses to have a meter entry installed. | 08-20-2015 |
20150295849 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR NETWORK FUNCTION PLACEMENT - A method implemented for network function placement is disclosed. The method optimizes network function placement for each traffic flow, to minimize the overall inter-pod traffic volume. For each traffic flow going through a data center, the method initiates a pod list. The network functions of the traffic flow is sorted in a descending order by resource demanded. Then one network function is selected one at a time according to the descending order. For each network function, the pods in the pod list is sorted in an ascending order by resource available in each pod. The method selects a first pod for the network function when possible. When no pod in the pod list has enough resource for the network function, the method adds a pod with the most available resource from a pod pool to the pod list, and selects the added pod for the network function. | 10-15-2015 |
20150326694 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR PROVIDING A DATA OBJECT FROM A CONTENT SERVER TO A CLIENT DEVICE OVER A RADIO ACCESS NETWORK (RAN) - A method and apparatus for providing a data object from a Content Server to a client device over a Radio Access Network (RAN). A first property is determined that may affect the way in which the data object is to be transferred. A property of the data object is also determined. In response to the determined first property and the property of the data object, a characteristic of a transfer of the data object from the Content Server to the client device is amended. The data object is then provided from the Content Server to the client device. The method allows characteristics of the transfer of the data object to be changed to optimize transfer to the client device. Examples of the first property include properties in the RAN or client device instructions. | 11-12-2015 |
20160006663 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR COMPRESSING FORWARD STATE OF A DATA NETWORK - A method implemented in a network device of a software-defined network (SDN) system for compressing network state of the SDN system is disclosed. The method comprises combining flow tables for a set of the network elements into a combined table, wherein each row within the combined table is keyed off a common field of each flow table. The method continues with selecting a set of columns of the combined table for compression, wherein the selection is based at least partially on topology of the set of the network elements within the network, and compressing the set of columns of the combined table into a set of compressed entries and a set of classification and regression trees (CaRTs), wherein upon a request for an entity within a predicted subset, an entity within a predicting subset and a corresponding CaRT are used to restore the entity within the predicted subset. | 01-07-2016 |
20160050131 | PASSIVE REACHABILITY MEASUREMENT FOR INLINE SERVICE CHAINING - A method is implemented by a computing device in communication with a network having a plurality of switches. The method performs path correctness testing where the path defines a service chain associated with a flow of data. The method configures the plurality of switches using a flow control protocol. The method includes the steps of selecting a switch from the path to configure path correctness testing, sending a configuration request to the selected switch to instate at least one rule for testing path correctness, receiving copies of flow packets from at least one switch in the path, and comparing the copies of flow packets with a service chain configuration of the flow to confirm path correctness. | 02-18-2016 |
20160050132 | METHOD AND SYSTEM TO DYNAMICALLY COLLECT STATISTICS OF TRAFFIC FLOWS IN A SOFTWARE-DEFINED NETWORKING (SDN) SYSTEM - Methods implemented in an electronic device are disclosed for dynamically collecting traffic flow in a SDN system. For each of a plurality of sets of traffic flows, the method causes a monitor to be configured to collect traffic statistics. The monitors are instructed to collect traffic statistics, and the traffic statistics are received. For each monitor, the method determines if the received traffic statistics are within a set of acceptable limits or not, wherein the set of acceptable limits includes one or more of an upper bound and a lower bound. For each of the sets of traffic flows of which the received traffic statistics were determined outside of the acceptable limits, the method causes a change of increase or decrease of collection of the traffic statistics of the traffic flows. | 02-18-2016 |
20160057052 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF CHECKPOINT AND ROLLBACK RECOVERY FOR FORWARDING STATES OF A SOFTWARE-DEFINED NETWORKING (SDN) SYSTEM - Methods implemented in an electronic device are disclosed for checkpoint and rollback recovery in a SDN system. The method utilizes message identifiers to indicate an order of consistent states of forwarding tables of a plurality of network elements of the SDN system. The SDN controller of the SDN system receives a request to recover the network to a previous state, and identifies a consistent state of forwarding table for each of the plurality of network elements utilizing the message identifiers associated the consistent states, where the identified consistent states represent the previous state of the network without the identified consistent states being captured at the same time at the plurality of network elements. The SDN controller indicates the identified consistent state for each of the plurality of the network elements to a corresponding network element, where the corresponding network element makes its forwarding table consistent with the identified consistent state. | 02-25-2016 |
20160105378 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DATA SET MIGRATION OVER A CIRCUIT SWITCHING NETWORK - A method for data set migration, implemented in a network device is disclosed. The method includes receiving a request at a network device to migrate a data set, and sending a signaling packet from a first data center toward a first in a series of circuit switching devices to reach a second data center, where the signaling packet includes metadata containing transmission selection and characteristics of the data set, where the signaling packet is processed through the series, each of which configures its forwarding path based at least on the metadata of the signaling packet. The method continues with waiting for a period long enough to allow each of the series to configure its forwarding path, where that circuit switching device releases the configured forwarding path after the migration duration. The method continues with sending the data set following the transmission selection of the signaling packet after the period expires. | 04-14-2016 |
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20120155400 | SENDING METHOD, SYSTEM AND DEVICE FOR ENHANCED DEDICATED RANDOM ACCESS UPLINK CONTROL CHANNEL - The present invention discloses a method, system and device for transmitting an E-DCH Random Access Uplink Control Channel (E-RUCCH), where the method includes: a UE judging whether a plurality of E-RUCCH transmission processes temporally overlap; and if there is overlapping, then the UE selecting and performing one of the E-RUCCH transmission processes and returning scheduling information and the identifier of the UE to a base station over an E-RUCCH. The method addresses the problem of coordination between E-RUCCH transmission processes triggered due to various reasons in a TD-SCDMA system with the enhanced feature of CELL_FACH introduced thereto. | 06-21-2012 |
20120188225 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DYNAMIC DISPLAY OF APPLICATION INTERFACE - The present application discloses a method for dynamic display of an application interface, including: parsing a configuration file of a first application to obtain a display string identifier of the first application; reading a display string of the first application from a resource file of the first application according to the display string identifier; and dynamically displaying the display string on the interface. The present invention also discloses an apparatus for dynamic display of an application interface. With the present invention, dynamic display of an application interface may be implemented. | 07-26-2012 |
20120202497 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND DEVICE FOR TRIGGERING SCHEDULING INFORMATION REPORTING - Embodiments of the application provide a method, system and device for triggering scheduling information reporting. The method including: determining, by a terminal, whether state transition occurs or an Enhanced Dedicated Channel (E-DCH) Radio Network Temporary Identifier (E-RNTI) changes; when determining the state transition occurs or the E-RNTI changes, adopting, by the terminal, reconfigured resources or a new E-RNTI to trigger the scheduling information reporting. By adopting the method for triggering the scheduling information reporting put forward by embodiments of the application, information about state transition at a terminal or changed E-RNTI may be reported to a Base Station (BS) timely, so as to guarantee normal communications between BS and terminal. | 08-09-2012 |
20130045942 | N6-SUBSTITUTED ADENOSINE DERIVATIVES AND N6-SUBSTITUTED ADENINE DERIVATIVES AND USES THEREOF - The present invention provides N | 02-21-2013 |
20140042465 | ARRAY SUBSTRATE, METHOD FOR FABRICATING THE SAME AND DISPLAY DEVICE - Provided are an array substrate, a method for fabricating the same and a display device. The array substrate comprises: a transparent pixel electrode, a first data line and a first transparent common electrode, the array substrate further comprises: a second data line and an insulating layer having a via hole disposed in an non-aperture region of the array substrate, the second data line is connected to an extension of the transparent pixel electrode and connected to the second transparent common electrode through the via hole in the insulting layer. | 02-13-2014 |
20140301214 | INTER-RADIO ACCESS TECHNOLOGY TRANSITION BASED ON QUALITY OF SERVICE EVALUATION - A method for determining whether to allow performance of an inter-radio access technology (IRAT) transition is provided. The method can include a wireless communication device determining a realized quality of service (QoS) for packet switched data traffic on a first radio access technology (RAT); determining whether the realized QoS satisfies a threshold QoS; suspending IRAT transition to a second RAT in an instance in which it is determined that the realized QoS satisfies the threshold QoS; and allowing IRAT transition to the second RAT in an instance in which it is determined that the realized QoS does not satisfy the threshold QoS. | 10-09-2014 |
20150103768 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DOWNLINK DATA TRANSMISSION - The present invention relates to the technical field of communications. Disclosed are a method and device for downlink data transmission for use in reducing network resource wastage when a network side is transmitting data to a certain group of user terminals, thus increasing network resource utilization rate. The method comprises: grouping specific user terminals into a group, and identifying each group with a unique Group ID; a user terminal, when idle, monitors paging messages intended for it, and a first message; when a network side is transmitting downlink data, the network side transmits downlink data transmission scheduling information, and pages the group of user terminals at a timing of the group by means of the first message carrying the Group ID of the group; the user terminals that have received the first message receive the downlink data at a time window and a fixed physical resource position on the basis of the group-based downlink data transmission scheduling information received. This reduces waste of network resources in M2M communications when the network side is transmitting data to a certain group of user terminals, thus increasing the effect of network resource utilization rates. | 04-16-2015 |
20150235586 | Array Substrate, Method for Manufacturing Array Substrate, and Display Device - The present invention relates to the field of display technology, and provides an array substrate, a method for manufacturing an array substrate, and a display device. The array substrate comprises a substrate, a data line, and a gate line and a pixel electrode formed sequentially on the substrate. The data line includes a fixed segment arranged on a same layer as, and spaced from, the gate line or the pixel electrode, and a connection segment electrically connected to the fixed segment. The present disclosure is possible to prevent the data line from being too close to the pixel electrode at the shift side, thereby to prevent a charging voltage for the pixel electrode from being affected by the capacitance effect and ensure the display quality of an image. In addition, no additional resistor is required, so it is able to reduce the power consumption. | 08-20-2015 |
20150296088 | Method and Device of Communicating Paging Area Information - Examples of the present disclosure provide a method and a device for communicating paging area information. A radio access network (RAN) side device can determine a smaller area for group paging by using information of a group paging area provided by a services capability server (SCS) and cell coverage information. Therefore, when users are managed in groups, paging areas determined can be more accurate, and paging efficiency can be increased, waste of resources resulted from performing group paging in a too-large paging area can be avoided. The mechanism can prevent random access of a large number of users who have received the group paging from overloading the RAN and from impacting conventional human-to-human (H2H) users. | 10-15-2015 |
20150308904 | MIXED-MODE TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT COMMUNICATION PHASE CONDUCTOR AND TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The disclosure provides a mixed-mode temperature measurement communication phase conductor and a temperature measurement communication system. The mixed-mode temperature measurement communication phase conductor includes: a stainless sleeving optical unit and a support line hinged with the stainless sleeving optical unit, wherein an aluminium wire is hinged outside the stainless sleeving optical unit and the support line; the stainless sleeving optical unit includes: multiple single-mode fibres and at least one multi-mode fibre, wherein fibres in the stainless sleeving optical unit are mutually hinged. The disclosure realizes whole-distance temperature measurement of conductor by setting the single-mode fibre to perform communication and the multi-mode fibre to perform temperature measurement. | 10-29-2015 |
20150354004 | Method for Nondestructive Detection of MiRNA Expression in Cell and Determination of Cell Type and State - The present invention provides a method for non-invasively detecting the expression levels of miRNAs in cell media and determining the types and status of the cells, and specifically provides a method for determining the type and status of the cells according to the expression level of miRNAs in a cell medium. The method comprises: culturing different types of cells, collecting the medium of the cells, extracting RNAs from the medium, performing reverse transcription on the RNAs, detecting miRNAs in the cell medium by the fluorescent quantitative PCR method, and determining the types and status of the detected cells according to the relationship between the expression levels of miRNAs in different types and status of cells and the expression level of the detected miRNAs. The method of the present invention proves for the first time that the expression levels of miRNAs in the medium can be detected to determine the types and status of cells, comprising the pluripotency level of stem cells and the status of cells obtained through transdifferentiation, so as to avoid causing damages to cells, and is especially suitable for the experimental and clinical applications in which the number of cells is limited. | 12-10-2015 |
20160041416 | DISPLAY SUBSTRATE, PREPARING METHOD THEREOF, AND DISPLAY DEVICE - A display substrate, a preparing method thereof, and a display device are disclosed; the display substrate comprises a display region, a non-display region, and a transparent support enhancement layer, the support enhancement layer is disposed at least in a region corresponding to the display region. The display substrate is not easy to be damaged by pressure, and can efficiently avoid a phenomenon of display defects of a display device. | 02-11-2016 |
20160044632 | PAGING METHOD, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM - Disclosed are a paging method, apparatus, and system, used for solving the problems in the prior art of long time lapse and low paging reception reliability in terminals when using an extended DRX cycle to carry out monitoring. The method in the embodiments of this invention comprises: a terminal performs paging reception in an extended paging location within each extended paging cycle; and within at least one extended paging cycle, the terminal performs paging retransmission reception in at least one specific paging location other than the extended paging location. As the terminal performs paging reception at least twice within at least one extended paging cycle, the embodiments of the present invention may improve terminal power-saving and also ensure the time lapse and reliability of paging reception, thereby achieving the aims of assuring user experience and improving system performance. | 02-11-2016 |
20160056177 | Array Substrate, Manufacturing Method Thereof and Display Device - The present invention provides array substrate, manufacturing method thereof, and display device, relating to manufacturing technology field of liquid crystal display. The array substrate of the present invention includes: a base substrate, on which a plurality of gate lines and a plurality of data lines are provided; shielding electrodes, which are provided above and electrically insulated from the data lines, and the shielding electrodes at least partially cover the data lines; first electrodes, which are provided in the same layer as the shielding electrodes and are electrically insulated from the shielding electrodes; second electrodes, which are provided above and electrically insulated from the first electrodes, wherein, the shielding electrodes are applied with a shielding voltage signal, the second electrodes are applied with a stable voltage signal, and no electric field or weak electric filed is formed between the shielding electrodes and the second electrodes. | 02-25-2016 |
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20130028070 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RESILIENT ROUTING OF CONTROL TRAFFIC IN A SPLIT-ARCHITECTURE SYSTEM - The invention is a routing algorithm characteristic that minimizes the weight, meaning that the probability that a node is disconnected from the controller in case of a failure in the network is minimized. The first algorithm used in the invention is an approximation algorithm for finding the controller routing tree that provides maximum resilience in the network. The algorithm is referred to herein as the Maximum Resilience (MR) algorithm. The heuristic MR algorithm selects a shortest-path tree as a starting point and modifies the tree in order to improve resilience. The output of the MR algorithm is not necessarily a shortest-path tree, but provides more resilience compared to the initial tree. The RASP algorithm provides a shortest-path tree with improved network resilience compared to other possible shortest-path trees. | 01-31-2013 |
20130028073 | Controller Placement for Fast Failover in the Split Architecture - A method implemented by a network topology design system, the network topology design system including a processing device. The method to determine placement of a controller within a network with a split architecture where control plane components of the split architecture network are executed by a controller and the control plane components are separate from data plane components of the split architecture network. The placement of the controller is selected to minimize disruption of the split architecture network caused by a link failure, a switch failure or a connectivity loss between the controller and the data plane components | 01-31-2013 |
20130028142 | RESILIENCY-AWARE HYBRID DESIGN OF CONTROLLER-SWITCH CONNECTIVITY IN A SPLIT-ARCHITECTURE SYSTEM - A method and apparatus for optimizing the resilience of a network using a combination of in-band and out-of-band signaling is disclosed. The metric used in the embodiment's algorithm to determine resilience is the maximum number of protected neighbors. Nodes closer to the controller are assigned a higher weight than those further from the controller because if their connection to the network is interrupted, all their downstream nodes will be affected and disconnected. Therefore, when determining a path to the controller, switches with alternate paths to the controller are preferred. Dedicated connections using out-of-band signaling are assigned to convert unprotected nodes to protected nodes thus improving the resilience of the network. | 01-31-2013 |
20130039214 | Implementing OSPF in Split-Architecture Networks - A method is implemented in a network element that functions as one of a plurality of controllers for one of a plurality of areas of a split architecture network. The controller provides a control plane for the area of the split architecture network where the controller is remote from a plurality of switches providing a data plane for the area of split architecture network. The controller facilitates optimized routing across the plurality of areas of the split architecture network by providing limited intra-area link cost data to other controllers of other areas of the split architecture network and to traditional routers of a network including the split architecture network. The limited intra-area link cost data provides costs of each possible shortest path traversal of the area of the controller without providing all internal link cost data. | 02-14-2013 |
20130054761 | Implementing a 3G Packet Core in a Cloud Computer with Openflow Data and Control Planes - A method for implementing a general packet radio service (GPRS) tunnel protocol (GTP) in a packet core (PC) of a third generation (3G) network having a split architecture where a control plane of the PC of the 3G network is in a cloud computing system, the cloud computing system including a controller, the controller to execute a plurality of control plane modules, the control plane to communicate with the data plane of the PC through a control plane protocol, the data plane implemented in a plurality of network elements of the 3G network by configuring switches implementing a data plane of the SGSN and GGSN and intermediate switches to establish a first and second GTP tunnel endpoint. | 02-28-2013 |
20130064079 | Network-Wide Flow Monitoring in Split Architecture Networks - Flow monitoring tasks are assigned to a set of switches in a split architecture network to optimize network-wide flow monitoring. The assignment maximizes the number of monitored flows and reduces overhead of the flow monitoring. A controller receives an estimated traffic volume for each path in the network. The controller calculates, for all of the switches and all of the paths, sampling fractions that maximize the number of the flows sampled by the switches. In response to a request for setting up a new flow to traverse one of the paths in the network, the controller assigns the new flow to one of the switches that are located on the one of the paths, based on the sampling fraction for the assigned switch and the one of the paths, the bandwidth constraint and the memory constraint. | 03-14-2013 |
20130132542 | Method and System for Effective BGP AS-Path Pre-pending - A method implemented in a network element to determine an autonomous system (AS) path pre-pending (ASPP) vector for an AS of the network element that accounts for AS business relationship induced policies and global impact of ASPP decisions by using comparable paths between AS in a network for application of network management strategies, the comparable paths grouped by path types defined by local preference polices, the method including gathering AS level topological data for the network, categorizing AS link relationships in the topological data, computing the comparable paths for each AS pair, and applying any one of a load balancing process, back-up path provisioning process or traversal avoidance process to the comparable paths to determine an ASPP vector for the AS of the network element. | 05-23-2013 |
20130215769 | CONTROLLER PLACEMENT FOR FAST FAILOVER IN THE SPLIT ARCHITECTURE - A method implemented by a network topology design system, the network topology design system including a processing device. The method to determine placement of a controller within a network with a split architecture where control plane components of the split architecture network are executed by a controller and the control plane components are separate from data plane components of the split architecture network. The placement of the controller is selected to minimize disruption of the split architecture network caused by a link failure, a switch failure or a connectivity loss between the controller and the data plane components. | 08-22-2013 |
20130219048 | Quantifying User Quality of Experience by Passive Monitoring - A method is implemented in a network element to generate quality of experience (QoE) metrics for hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) sessions over a network between a user device and an HTTP server. The QoE metrics are based on detecting premature termination of a download process that indicate low QoE. This QoE metric data can then be utilized by network administrators or service providers to adjust network characteristics to improve the QoE or to offer changes in services to a customer that would improve the QoE. | 08-22-2013 |
20130258847 | Congestion Control and Resource Allocation in Split Architecture Networks - A controller performs network-wide congestion control in a split architecture network. The controller receives flow statistics from switches for each entity that communicates via the network. The controller chooses a most congested link as a bottleneck link based on a packet loss rate that is derived from the flow statistics and estimated for each entity on each link of the network. The controller identifies a target path in the network that passes through the bottleneck link and carries the most traffic, and calculates a throttling probability for each sharing entity that shares the target path based on the capacity of the bottleneck link, capacity of the first link of the target path, bandwidth consumption and packet loss rate of each sharing entity. The controller then transmits the throttling probability of each sharing entity to the ingress switch of the target path to reduce the congestion on the bottleneck link. | 10-03-2013 |
20130294236 | CONGESTION CONTROL IN PACKET DATA NETWORKING - A network element controls congestion in a link of a packet data network. A congested link is identified and a throttle rate is determined for one or more of the traffic groups traversing the congested link. The central controller determines the throttle rates using a weight of the group and the current traffic rate of the group through the link. The throttle rates are sent to switches to throttle traffic for each affected group. | 11-07-2013 |
20130332983 | Elastic Enforcement Layer for Cloud Security Using SDN - An efficient elastic enforcement layer (EEL) for realizing security policies is deployed in a cloud computing environment based on a split architecture framework. The split architecture network includes a controller coupled to switches. When the controller receives a packet originating from a source VM, it extracts an application identifier from the received packet that identifies an application running on the source VM. Based on the application identifier, the controller determines a chain of middlebox types. The controller further determines middlebox instances based on current availability of resources. The controller then adds a set of rules to the switches to cause the switches to forward the packet toward the destination VM via the middlebox instances. | 12-12-2013 |
20140016477 | Implementing OSPF in Split-Architecture Networks - A method is implemented in a network element that functions as one of a plurality of controllers for one of a plurality of areas of a split architecture network. The controller provides a control plane for the area of the split architecture network where the controller is remote from a plurality of switches providing a data plane for the area of split architecture network. The controller facilitates optimized routing across the plurality of areas of the split architecture network by providing limited intra-area link cost data to other controllers of other areas of the split architecture network and to traditional routers of a network including the split architecture network. The limited intra-area link cost data provides costs of each possible shortest path traversal of the area of the controller without providing all internal link cost data. | 01-16-2014 |
20140122724 | METHOD AND SYSTEM TO ALLOCATE BANDWIDTH IN CLOUD COMPUTING NETWORKS - A method implemented by a network service provider to provide a virtual network to tenants requiring bandwidth in a cloud computing environment, wherein the virtual network includes a first set of one or more virtual switches that manage a second set of one or more physical servers that host a first plurality of available virtual machines (VMs), the method comprising receiving by at least one virtual switch a bandwidth request for a second plurality of VMs, determining whether to accept the request of the second plurality of VMs by calculating an allocation range (AR) associated to the virtual switch, wherein the AR denotes at least one discontinuous VM allocation space within the virtual switch, and allocating VMs to the tenant in response to the determination of accepting the request of the second plurality of VMs. | 05-01-2014 |
20140143407 | MULTI-OBJECTIVE SERVER PLACEMENT DETERMINATION - Methods and apparatus for determining recommended geographic server locations for online social networks by attempting to minimize user-server latency and inter-user communications latency. In an embodiment, geographic and relationship information for a plurality of users is acquired. The plurality of users may belong to one or more networks. The acquired information is transformed into a graph. A first plurality of clusters is generated with a first clustering algorithm. A second plurality of clusters is generated by iteratively examining pairs of the first plurality clusters, and swapping nodes between the examined clusters if it will reduce a total cut weight of the graph and locate each pair of nodes within a defined maximum distance from the centroid of the target cluster. In an embodiment, a method uses a joint analysis approach based upon characteristics of a plurality of existing networks. | 05-22-2014 |
20140215074 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PLACING SERVICES IN A NETWORK - Embodiments of the present disclosure include a method and apparatus for placing services in a network. The network and a set of services to be placed within the network are defined. A set of requirements for a plurality of subscribers is determined. Each requirement is a sequence of services to traverse for each subscriber. The services are placed such that a total delay or total distance is minimized for all subscribers. | 07-31-2014 |
20140241356 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR FLOW TABLE LOOKUP PARALLELIZATION IN A SOFTWARE DEFINED NETWORKING (SDN) SYSTEM - A method implemented in a Software Defined Networking (SDN) network for flow table lookup parallelization is disclosed. The SDN network contains at least a SDN controller and at least a forwarding element and the SDN network utilizes a plurality of flow tables to perform lookup for forwarding traffic. The method starts with determining dependency of flow tables within the forwarding element using a set of dependency determination rules. A dependency graph is then constructed based on determined dependency of flow tables. A dependency degree count for each flow table within the forwarding element is determined based on the dependency graph. Based on the dependency degree count determination for each flow table, a plurality of parallel lookup groups (PLGs) for the forwarding element is formed, where each parallel lookup group contains one or more flow tables having a same dependency degree count. | 08-28-2014 |
20140258535 | NETWORK BANDWIDTH ALLOCATION IN MULTI-TENANCY CLOUD COMPUTING NETWORKS - A computing device determines an optimal allocation of network bandwidth on a plurality of communications links for a plurality of virtual machines (VMs) in a multi-tenant cloud network based upon a set of bandwidth requirements for the plurality of VMs. The computing device generates a plurality of spanning tree data structures (TDSs). Edges in the TDSs include computed bandwidth values indicating an amount of bandwidth to be reserved over a communications link represented by that edge for the plurality of VMs. The computing device generates a weighted distance value for each TDS of the plurality of TDSs, and selects a TDS of the plurality of TDSs having a smallest weighted distance value as the TDS having computed bandwidth values representing the optimal allocation of network bandwidth. | 09-11-2014 |
20140297864 | METHOD AND SYSTEM TO ALLOCATE BANDWIDTH FOR HETEROGENEOUS BANDWIDTH REQUEST IN CLOUD COMPUTING NETWORKS - A method implemented by a network service provider to provide a virtual network to tenants requiring bandwidth in a cloud computing environment, where the virtual network includes a first set of one or more virtual switches that manage a second set of one or more physical servers that host virtual machines (VMs). The method starts with receiving by one virtual switch a request for a first plurality of VMs, where at least one VM of the first plurality of VMs contains a bandwidth different from bandwidths of the rest of one or more VMs. The it is determined whether to accept the request for the first plurality of VMs by calculating a set of allocation ranges (ARs) associated to the virtual switch, wherein each AR of the set of ARs denotes at least one discontinuous VM allocation space within a virtual switch. Then VMs are allocated for the request. | 10-02-2014 |
20140325649 | METHOD AND SYSTEM TO DYNAMICALLY DETECT TRAFFIC ANOMALIES IN A NETWORK - Methods implemented in a network are disclosed for dynamically distributing tasks of traffic anomaly monitoring and detecting traffic anomalies. The method starts collecting traffic statistics of large blocks of traffic flows as traffic aggregates. Based on the traffic statistics of traffic aggregates, a traffic anomaly is detected. Then for a traffic aggregate with a traffic anomaly, increased traffic sampling rate is applied to a smaller set of traffic flows within the traffic aggregate. If the smaller set of traffic flows does not contain a percentage of the traffic within the traffic aggregate, the sampling rate is further increase to an even smaller set of traffic flows until a small set of traffic flows are identified as the ones cause the traffic anomaly. | 10-30-2014 |
20140355436 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF BANDWIDTH-AWARE SERVICE PLACEMENT FOR SERVICE CHAINING - A method implemented in a network for placing services at network devices is disclosed. The network contains a plurality of network devices and offers a set of services to subscribers. Subsets of the set of services are included in ordered service chains for subscribers. The method starts with determining a list of bandwidth consumption entities of a service for each service within the set of services, where each bandwidth consumption entity is based on one or more chains of services. Then a weight of each service is calculated based on the list of bandwidth consumption entities of the service and a service with a highest weight within the group of one or more services that have not been placed is selected. The selected service is then placed at a network device based at least partially on calculating bandwidth impacts to the network by the service. | 12-04-2014 |
20150271280 | MULTI-OBJECTIVE SERVER PLACEMENT DETERMINATION - Methods and apparatus for determining recommended geographic server locations for online social networks by attempting to minimize user-server latency and inter-user communications latency. In an embodiment, geographic and relationship information for a plurality of users is acquired. The plurality of users may belong to one or more networks. The acquired information is transformed into a graph. A first plurality of clusters is generated with a first clustering algorithm. A second plurality of clusters is generated by iteratively examining pairs of the first plurality clusters, and swapping nodes between the examined clusters if it will reduce a total cut weight of the graph and locate each pair of nodes within a defined maximum distance from the centroid of the target cluster. In an embodiment, a method uses a joint analysis approach based upon characteristics of a plurality of existing networks. | 09-24-2015 |
20150341276 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF BANDWIDTH-AWARE SERVICE PLACEMENT FOR SERVICE CHAINING IN A SOFTWARE-DEFINED NETWORKING (SDN) SYSTEM - A method implemented in a network for placing services in a SDN system is disclosed. The network contains a plurality of network devices managed by a SDN controller and offers a set of services to subscribers. Subsets of the set of services are included in ordered service chains for subscribers. The method starts with determining a list of bandwidth consumption entities of a service for each service, where each bandwidth consumption entity is based on one or more chains of services. Then a weight of each service is calculated based on the list of bandwidth consumption entities of the service and a service with the highest weight within a group of services that have not been placed in the SDN system is selected. The selected service is then placed at a network device based at least partially on calculating bandwidth impacts to the SDN system by the service. | 11-26-2015 |
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20140349073 | AEROSOL DEPOSITION COATING FOR SEMICONDUCTOR CHAMBER COMPONENTS - A method for coating a component for use in a semiconductor chamber for plasma etching includes providing the component and loading the component in a deposition chamber. A pressure in the deposition chamber is reduced to below atmospheric pressure. A coating is deposited on the component by spraying an aerosol comprising a suspension of a first type of metal oxide nanoparticle and a second type of metal oxide nanoparticle onto the component at approximately room temperature. | 11-27-2014 |
20140374843 | REPLACEMENT METAL GATE TRANSISTOR - A replacement metal gate transistor is described. Various examples provide a replacement metal gate transistor including a trench, a first sidewall and a second sidewall. A layer is disposed in the trench where the layer has a bottom section disposed on a bottom of the trench and sidewall sections disposed on the first and second sidewalls, wherein the sidewall sections of the layer are at least 50% thinner than the bottom section of the layer. | 12-25-2014 |
20140377885 | PROCESS FLOW FOR REPLACEMENT METAL GATE TRANSISTORS - A replacement metal gate transistor and methods of forming replacement metal gate transistors are described. Various examples provide methods of manufacturing a replacement metal gate transistor that includes depositing a dielectric layer into a trench, wherein the dielectric layer is deposited onto the bottom of the trench and the sidewalls of the trench, depositing a first metal layer into the trench, wherein the first metal layer is deposited onto the bottom of the trench and the sidewalls of the trench over the dielectric layer, depositing a second metal layer into the trench, wherein the second metal layer is deposited onto the bottom of the trench and the sidewalls of the trench over the first metal layer, removing at least a portion of the second metal layer from the sidewalls of the trench, and depositing a conducting layer into the trench. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed. | 12-25-2014 |
20150021324 | ION ASSISTED DEPOSITION FOR RARE-EARTH OXIDE BASED COATINGS ON LIDS AND NOZZLES - A method of manufacturing an article comprises providing a lid or nozzle for an etch reactor. Ion assisted deposition (IAD) is then performed to deposit a protective layer on at least one surface of the lid or nozzle, wherein the protective layer is a plasma resistant rare earth oxide film having a thickness of less than 300 μm and an average surface roughness of 10 micro-inches or less. | 01-22-2015 |
20150024155 | ION ASSISTED DEPOSITION FOR RARE-EARTH OXIDE BASED THIN FILM COATINGS ON PROCESS RINGS - A method of manufacturing an article comprises providing a ring for an etch reactor. Ion assisted deposition (IAD) is then performed to deposit a protective layer on at least one surface of the ring, wherein the protective layer is a plasma resistant rare earth oxide film having a thickness of less than 300 μm and an average surface roughness of less than 6 micro-inches. | 01-22-2015 |
20150099347 | TRENCH FORMATION WITH CD LESS THAN 10 NM FOR REPLACEMENT FIN GROWTH - Embodiments described herein generally relate to methods of forming sub-10 nm node FinFETs. Various processing steps may be performed on a substrate to provide a trench over which a dielectric layer is conformally deposited. The dielectric layer is subsequently etched within the trench to expose the underlying substrate and a semiconductive material is deposited in the trench to form a fin structure. The processes of forming the trench, depositing the dielectric layer, and forming the fin structure can achieve sub-10 nm node dimensions and provide increasingly smaller FinFETs. | 04-09-2015 |
20150118822 | METHODS FOR SILICON RECESS STRUCTURES IN A SUBSTRATE BY UTILIZING A DOPING LAYER - Embodiments of the present invention provide a methods for forming silicon recess structures in a substrate with good process control, particularly suitable for manufacturing three dimensional (3D) stacking of fin field effect transistor (FinFET) for semiconductor chips. In one embodiment, a method of forming recess structures in a substrate includes etching a first portion of a substrate defined by a second portion formed in the substrate until a doping layer formed in the substrate is exposed. | 04-30-2015 |
20150140787 | TRIMMING SILICON FIN WIDTH THROUGH OXIDATION AND ETCH - Embodiments described herein generally relate to methods of forming sub-10 nm node FinFETs. Various processing steps are performed on a substrate to provide a trench defining a mandrel structure. Sidewalls of the mandrel structure and a bottom surface of the trench are oxidized and subsequently etched to reduce a width of the mandrel structure. The oxidation and etching of the mandrel structure may be repeated until a desired width of the mandrel structure is achieved. A semiconducting material is subsequently deposited on a regrowth region of the mandrel structure to form a fin structure. The oxidizing and etching the mandrel structure provides a method for forming the fin structure which can achieve sub-10 nm node dimensions and provide increasingly smaller FinFETs. | 05-21-2015 |
20150158775 | ION BEAM SPUTTERING WITH ION ASSISTED DEPOSITION FOR COATINGS ON CHAMBER COMPONENTS - A method of manufacturing an article includes providing a component for an etch reactor. Ion beam sputtering with ion assisted deposition (IBS-IAD) is then performed to deposit a protective layer on at least one surface of the component, wherein the protective layer is a plasma resistant film having a thickness of less than 1000 μm. | 06-11-2015 |
20150221556 | METHOD TO FORM TRENCH STRUCTURE FOR REPLACEMENT CHANNEL GROWTH - Embodiments may include a method of semiconductor patterning including forming a first trench bordered by a first spacer material. The method may involve forming a second trench bordered by a second spacer material formed conformally around the first spacer material. The method may include filling the second trench with a semiconductor material. | 08-06-2015 |
20150228503 | HARDMASK TRIMMING IN SEMICONDUCTOR FIN PATTERNING - Embodiments may involve a method of semiconductor patterning, which includes patterning a first hardmask layer on top of a second hardmask layer. This patterning may define a feature with a first width. The method may encompass reducing the first width to a second width, where the second width is less than or equal to 10 nm. The method may include patterning the second hardmask layer to define a patterned second hardmask layer. The method may involve etching a semiconductor substrate underlying the second hardmask layer to define a fin structure with a third width of less than or equal to 10 nm. | 08-13-2015 |
20150371852 | SELF-ALIGNED MULTIPLE SPACER PATTERNING SCHEMES FOR ADVANCED NANOMETER TECHNOLOGY - The present disclosure provides forming nanostructures with precision dimension control and minimum lithographic related errors for features with dimension under 14 nanometers and beyond. A self-aligned multiple spacer patterning (SAMSP) process is provided herein and the process utilizes minimum lithographic exposure process, but rather multiple deposition/etching process to incrementally reduce feature sizes formed in the mask along the manufacturing process, until a desired extreme small dimension nanostructures are formed in a mask layer. | 12-24-2015 |
20150371868 | METHOD FOR FABRICATING VERTICALLY STACKED NANOWIRES FOR SEMICONDUCTOR APPLICATIONS - Embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods for forming nanowire structures with desired materials for three dimensional (3D) stacking of fin field effect transistor (FinFET) for semiconductor chips. In one example, a method of forming nanowire structures on a substrate includes in a suspended nanowire structure on a substrate, the suspended nanowire includes multiple material layers having a spaced apart relationship repeatedly formed in the suspended nanowire structure, wherein the material layer includes a coating layer coated on an outer surface of a main body formed in the material layer, selectively removing a first portion of the coating layer from the material layers to expose the underlying main body of the material layers while maintaining a second portion of the coating layer remaining on the material layers, laterally etching the main body of the material layers exposed by removal of the coating layer, and selectively growing film layers on the exposed main body of the material layer. | 12-24-2015 |
20150372118 | METHOD FOR FABRICATING VERTICALLY STACKED NANOWIRES FOR SEMICONDUCTOR APPLICATIONS - Embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods for forming nanowire structures with desired materials for three dimensional (3D) stacking of fin field effect transistor (FinFET) for semiconductor chips. In one embodiment, a method of forming nanowire structures on a substrate includes forming a multi-material layer on a substrate, wherein the multi-material layer includes repeating pairs of a first layer and a second layer, the substrate further comprising a patterned hardmask layer disposed on the multi-material layer, etching the multi-material layer through openings defined by the patterned hardmask layer to expose sidewalls of the first and the second layer of the multi-material layer, and laterally and selectively etching the second layer from the substrate. | 12-24-2015 |
20150372119 | METHOD FOR FABRICATING VERTICALLY STACKED NANOWIRES FOR SEMICONDUCTOR APPLICATIONS - Embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods for forming nanowire structures with desired materials for three dimensional (3D) stacking of fin field effect transistor (FinFET) for semiconductor chips. In one example, a method of forming nanowire structures on a substrate includes performing an ion implantation process to dope dopants into a suspended nanowire structure on a substrate, the suspended nanowire includes multiple material layers having a spaced apart relationship repeatedly formed in the suspended nanowire structure, wherein the material layer predominantly comprises a first type of atoms formed therein, the dopants including a second type of atoms into the suspended nanowire structure, oxidating surfaces of the multiple material layers, and converting the first type of atoms in the material layer to the second type of atoms from the dopants doped therein. | 12-24-2015 |
20160005833 | FEOL LOW-K SPACERS - Transistors and their methods of formation are described. Low dielectric constant material (e.g. a void) is placed between an elongated gate and a contact to increase the attainable switching speed of the gate of the device. An elongated structural slab of silicon nitride is temporarily positioned on both sides of the gate. Silicon oxide is formed over the silicon nitride slabs and the gate. Contacts are formed through the silicon oxide. The silicon oxide is selectively etched back to expose the silicon nitride slab. A portion or all the silicon nitride slab is removed and replaced with low-K dielectric or any dielectric with an air-gap to enable higher switching speed of the transistor. The highly-selective silicon nitride etch uses remotely excited fluorine and a very low electron temperature in the substrate processing region. | 01-07-2016 |
20160079126 | SELF ALIGNED REPLACEMENT FIN FORMATION - Methods and apparatus for forming FinFET structures are provided. Selective etching and deposition processes described herein may provide for FinFET manufacturing without the utilization of multiple patterning processes. Embodiments described herein also provide for fin material manufacturing methods for transitioning from silicon to III-V materials while maintaining acceptable crystal lattice orientations of the various materials utilized. Further embodiments provide etching apparatus which may be utilized to perform the methods described herein. | 03-17-2016 |
20160099178 | FIN STRUCTURE FORMATION BY SELECTIVE ETCHING - Methods and apparatus for forming FinFET structures are provided. Selective etching and deposition processes described herein may provide for FinFET manufacturing without the utilization of multiple patterning processes. Embodiments described herein also provide for fin material manufacturing methods for transitioning from silicon to III-V materials while maintaining acceptable crystal lattice orientations of the various materials utilized. Further embodiments provide etching apparatus which may be utilized to perform the methods described herein. | 04-07-2016 |