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20110167435 | Systems and methods for remote storage management - A system comprises a first storage resource, a second storage resource, a hosted application, a proxy engine, and a proxy interface. The first storage resource stores first data and uses a first program interface for communicating the first data. The second storage resource stores second data and uses a second program interface for communicating the second data. The hosted application uses application data, the first data and/or the second data including the application data. The proxy engine directs application data requests by the hosted application to the first storage resource or to the second storage resource. The proxy interface uses the first program interface to communicate with the first storage device and the second program interface to communicate with the second storage device to respond to the application data requests. | 07-07-2011 |
20130179898 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR REMOTE STORAGE MANAGEMENT - A system comprises a first storage resource, a second storage resource, a hosted application, a proxy engine, and a proxy interface. The first storage resource stores first data and uses a first program interface for communicating the first data. The second storage resource stores second data and uses a second program interface for communicating the second data. The hosted application uses application data, the first data and/or the second data including the application data. The proxy engine directs application data requests by the hosted application to the first storage resource or to the second storage resource. The proxy interface uses the first program interface to communicate with the first storage device and the second program interface to communicate with the second storage device to respond to the application data requests. | 07-11-2013 |
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20080227291 | FORMATION OF COMPOSITE TUNGSTEN FILMS - Embodiments of the invention provide methods for depositing tungsten materials. In one embodiment, a method for forming a composite tungsten film is provided which includes positioning a substrate within a process chamber, forming a tungsten nucleation layer on the substrate by subsequently exposing the substrate to a tungsten precursor and a reducing gas containing hydrogen during a cyclic deposition process, and forming a tungsten bulk layer during a plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PE-CVD) process. The PE-CVD process includes exposing the substrate to a deposition gas containing the tungsten precursor while depositing the tungsten bulk layer over the tungsten nucleation layer. In some example, the tungsten nucleation layer has a thickness of less than about 100 Å, such as about 15 Å. In other examples, a carrier gas containing hydrogen is constantly flowed into the process chamber during the cyclic deposition process. | 09-18-2008 |
20080280438 | METHODS FOR DEPOSITING TUNGSTEN LAYERS EMPLOYING ATOMIC LAYER DEPOSITION TECHNIQUES - In one embodiment of the invention, a method for forming a tungsten-containing layer on a substrate is provided which includes positioning a substrate containing a barrier layer disposed thereon in a process chamber, exposing the substrate to a first soak process for a first time period and depositing a nucleation layer on the barrier layer by flowing a tungsten-containing precursor and a reductant into the process chamber. The method further includes exposing the nucleation layer to a second soak process for a second time period and depositing a bulk layer on the nucleation layer. In one example, the barrier layer contains titanium nitride, the first and second soak processes independently comprise at least one reducing gas selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, silane, disilane, dichlorosilane, borane, diborane, derivatives thereof and combinations thereof and the nucleation layer may be deposited by an atomic layer deposition process or a pulsed chemical vapor deposition process while the bulk layer may be deposited by a chemical vapor deposition process or a physical vapor deposition process. | 11-13-2008 |
20100015751 | HYBRID HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELL FABRICATION USING A METAL LAYER MASK - Embodiments of the invention contemplate the formation of a high efficiency solar cell using a novel processing sequence to form a solar cell device. In one embodiment, the methods include the use of various etching and patterning processes that are used to define active regions of the device and regions where the device and/or contact structure is to be located on a surface of a solar cell substrate. The method generally includes the steps of forming one or more layers on a backside of a solar cell substrate to prevent attack of the backside surface of the substrate, and provide a stable supporting surface, when the front side regions of a solar cell are formed. In one embodiment, the one or more layers are a metalized backside contact structure that is formed on the backside of the solar cell substrate. In another embodiment, the one or more layers are a chemical resistant dielectric layer that is formed over the backside of the solar cell substrate. | 01-21-2010 |
20100015756 | HYBRID HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELL FABRICATION USING A DOPING LAYER MASK - Embodiments of the invention contemplate the formation of a high efficiency solar cell using a novel processing sequence to form a solar cell device. In one embodiment, the methods include forming a doping layer on a back surface of a substrate, heating the doping layer and substrate to cause the doping layer diffuse into the back surface of the substrate, texturing a front surface of the substrate after heating the doping layer and the substrate, forming a dielectric layer on the back surface of the substrate, removing portions of the dielectric layer from the back surface to from a plurality of exposed regions of the substrate, and depositing a metal layer over the back surface of the substrate, wherein the metal layer is in electrical communication with at least one of the plurality of exposed regions on the substrate, and at least one of the exposed regions has dopant atoms provided from the doping layer. | 01-21-2010 |
20120040490 | ENHANCED VISION SYSTEM FOR SCREEN PRINTING PATTERN ALIGNMENT - Embodiments of the invention also generally provide a solar cell formation process that includes the formation of metal contacts over heavly doped regions that are formed in a desired pattern on a surface of a substrate. Embodiments of the invention also provide an inspection system and supporting hardware that is used to reliably position a similarly shaped, or patterned, metal contact structure on the patterned heavily doped regions to allow an Ohmic contact to be made. The metal contact structure, such as fingers and busbars, are formed on the heavily doped regions so that a high quality electrical connection can be formed between these two regions. | 02-16-2012 |
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20090077027 | USING A CONTENT DATABASE TO INFER CONTEXT INFORMATION FOR ACTIVITIES FROM MESSAGES - Some embodiments of the present invention provide a system that infers activity-related context information from a message. Upon receiving the message, the system looks for activity-related keywords in the message, wherein the activity-related keywords are from a content database. If one or more activity-related keywords are found in the message, the system infers message-related context information from the one or more activity-related keywords. Next, the system uses the message-related context information to facilitate recommending an activity to a user. | 03-19-2009 |
20090187467 | LINGUISTIC EXTRACTION OF TEMPORAL AND LOCATION INFORMATION FOR A RECOMMENDER SYSTEM - One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that recommends activities. During operation, the system receives a piece of content obtained from text or converted to text from speech. The system then analyzes the received content to identify any activity type, indication of willingness to participate in any type of activities, and at least one piece of temporal information, which can be implicitly and/or explicitly stated in the content, and/or one piece of location information associated with the activity type. The system further recommends one or more activities, venues, and/or services that afford or support activities for a user based on the information extracted from the content. | 07-23-2009 |
20100076957 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETECTING SENSITIVE CONTENT IN A DOCUMENT - One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that detects sensitive content in a document. In doing so, the system receives a document, identifies a set of terms in the document that are candidate sensitive terms, and generates a combination of terms based on the identified terms that is associated with a semantic meaning. Next, the system performs searches through a corpus based on the combination of terms and determines hit counts returned for each term in the combination and for the combination. The system then determines whether the combination of terms is sensitive based on the hit count for the combination and the hit counts for the individual terms in the combination, and generates a result that indicates portions of the document which contain sensitive combinations. | 03-25-2010 |
20100161314 | Region-Matching Transducers for Text-Characterization - Computer methods, apparatus and articles of manufacture therefor, are disclosed for text-characterization using a finite state transducer that along each path accepts on a first side an n-gram of text-characterization (e.g., a language or a topic) and outputs on a second side a sequence of symbols identifying one or more text-characterizations from a set of text-characterizations. The finite state transducer is applied to input data. For each n-gram accepted by the finite state transducer, a frequency counter associated with the n-gram of the one or more text-characterizations in the set of text-characterizations is incremented. The input data is classified as one or more text-characterizations from the set of text-characterizations using the frequency counters associated therewith. | 06-24-2010 |
20110295591 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO ACQUIRE PARAPHRASES - An automatic paraphrase acquisition technique is provided. A common theme of the various embodiments described herein resides in careful design of simple tasks that can elicit the necessary information for the automated process. These tasks are performed quickly and inexpensively. By gathering the results produced, paraphrases can be generated automatically using the method and/or system. | 12-01-2011 |
20120271788 | INCORPORATING LEXICON KNOWLEDGE INTO SVM LEARNING TO IMPROVE SENTIMENT CLASSIFICATION - A sentiment classifier for sentiment classification of content. An aspect classifier is configured to classify content as being related to a particular aspect of information, the aspect classifier incorporating at least a portion of the domain specific sentiment lexicon. A polarity classifier is then configured to classify the content classified by the aspect classifier as having one of a positive sentiment of the particular aspect of information, a negative sentiment of the particular aspect of information or as having no sentiment as to the particular aspect of information. The polarity classifier also incorporating at least a portion of the domain specific sentiment lexicon. | 10-25-2012 |
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