Minshall
Edmund B. Minshall, Redwood City, CA US
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20130312835 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RAPID PUMP-DOWN OF A HIGH-VACUUM LOADLOCK - A gas expansion module for use with semiconductor wafer loadlocks and other regulated-pressure components of semiconductor processing tools is provided. The gas expansion module may be barometrically isolated from the loadlock or other component and pumped down to a vacuum condition while the loadlock is performing operations at a higher pressure, such as ambient atmospheric conditions. After an initial pump-down of the loadlock is performed, the gas expansion module may be fluidly joined to the loadlock volume and the gases within each allowed to reach equilibrium. A further pump-down of the combined volume may be used to bring the loadlock pressure to a desired vacuum condition. | 11-28-2013 |
Edmund B. Minshall, Sherwood, OR US
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20160056032 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR STABLE DEPOSITION RATE CONTROL IN LOW TEMPERATURE ALD SYSTEMS BY SHOWERHEAD ACTIVE HEATING AND/OR PEDESTAL COOLING - Disclosed are methods of depositing films of material on semiconductor substrates. The methods may include flowing a film precursor into a processing chamber through a showerhead substantially maintained at a first temperature, and adsorbing the film precursor onto a substrate held on a substrate holder such that the precursor forms an adsorption-limited layer while the substrate holder is substantially maintained at a second temperature. The first temperature may be at least about 10° C. above the second temperature, or the first temperature may be at or below the second temperature. The methods may further include removing at least some unadsorbed film precursor from the volume surrounding the adsorbed film precursor, and thereafter reacting adsorbed film precursor to form a film layer. Also disclosed herein are apparatuses having a processing chamber, a substrate holder, a showerhead, and one or more controllers for operating the apparatus to employ the foregoing film deposition techniques. | 02-25-2016 |
Gerald Minshall, Warwickshire GB
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20090252566 | CUTTING INSERT - A cutting insert ( | 10-08-2009 |
Greg Minshall, Los Altos, CA US
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20100095375 | Method for locating fraudulent replicas of web sites - A method for detecting Web sites used for phishing, including preselecting one or more Web sites to be examined for duplication, selecting at least one or more elements that are present in the preselected Web site and that relate to characteristic identifying features of the preselected Web site, forming at least one search query using the one or more elements, and submitting the at least one search query to an indexed public search engine. The elements illustratively may be URL substrings, content identification substrings, or tree structure-related substrings. A report of Web sites using the selected one or more search terms is received from the public search engine in response to the query, and the preselected Web site is eliminated from the Web sites found in the search. The remaining Web sites retrieved in the search are further analyzed, by additional focused searching of the retrieved pages, by comparing header or tree structure information, or other techniques to compare them with the preselected Web site to identify unauthorized near-replicas of the known legitimate Web site for responsive action. | 04-15-2010 |
Gregory G. Minshall, Berkeley, CA US
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20080259928 | Method and Apparatus for Out-of-Order Processing of Packets using Linked Lists - These and other aspects of the present invention will be better described with reference to the Detailed Description and the accompanying figures. A method and apparatus for out-of-order processing of packets using linked lists is described. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving packets in a global order, the packets being designated for different ones of a plurality of reorder contexts. The method also includes storing information regarding each of the packets in a shared reorder buffer. The method also includes for each of the plurality of reorder contexts, maintaining a reorder context linked list that records the order in which those of the packets that were designated for that reorder context and that are currently stored in the shared reorder buffer were received relative to the global order. The method also includes completing processing of at least certain of the packets out of the global order and retiring the packets from the shared reorder buffer out of the global order for at least certain of the packets. | 10-23-2008 |
Mark E. Minshall, San Jose, CA US
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20130016358 | BEAM SCATTERING LASER MONITOR - New systems for characterizing laser beams, using measurements performed on light which has been Rayleigh scattered from the beam. Different implementations are used for beam profiling, using images of the Rayleigh scattered light, and for laser beam power measurement, using the integrated Rayleigh scattered light. Both of these implementations can be applied to laser beams having high powers, since the measurements do not require insertion of any element into the beam itself, but rather depend on light scattered laterally from the passing beam. The measurements can thus be termed “non contact” measurements, in contrast to prior art methods which require an element inserted into the beam. The systems use Rayleigh scattering from the laser beam passing through ambient air, such that no special scattering chambers or liquids are required for the measurements. Special cancellation algorithms or filters are used to discriminate from light arising from scattering from dust particles. | 01-17-2013 |
Richard D. Minshall, La Grange, IL US
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20160060293 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHOD FOR TREATING THROMBOSIS - A peptide, derivative or peptidomimetic the blocks binding of GNA12 to αSNAP is provided as are methods of using the same to inhibit thrombin-induced von Willebrand Factor secretion and prevent or treat thrombosis. | 03-03-2016 |
Robbie John Minshall, Chapel Hill, NC US
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20080288682 | Database Contention and Deadlock Detection and Reduction Within Application Servers - A method in a data processing system for detecting and reducing database contention and deadlock caused from within an application server. A determination is made as to whether a set of parameters in a statistical model indicates contention. If the set of parameters in the statistical model indicates contention, an application server administrator is notified of the contention and the number of threads in an application server pool is reduced. If the set of parameters in the statistical model indicates contention is reduced, the number of threads in the application server pool is increased. | 11-20-2008 |
20080294936 | SOFTWARE MEMORY LEAK ANALYSIS USING MEMORY ISOLATION - A computerized method, program product, and a service that allocates and isolates leaky memory during the execution of an application in a data processing system. A memory controller having several components first identifies a leaky section of memory and delegates to an allocation component to allocate more memory if possible. If, however, the problematic memory section should not be allocated more memory, an isolator component can isolate the memory section and further divide the memory section into subsections and so on. Each section and each subsection may then be tested to determine if more memory can be allocated, tested to determine if memory resources are strained so as to identify the application or its component causing the strain and then binding the memory. Each section and subsection and further divided and isolated until the leaky portion of memory is identified, and as a result, the software component causing the leak can also be identified. The software component associated with the leaky memory section or subsection can also be taken out-of-service. | 11-27-2008 |
20110093748 | Software Memory Leak Analysis Using Memory Isolation - A computerized method, program product, and a service that allocates and isolates leaky memory during the execution of an application in a data processing system. A memory controller having several components first identifies a leaky section of memory and delegates to an allocation component to allocate more memory if possible. If, however, the problematic memory section should not be allocated more memory, an isolator component can isolate the memory section and further divide the memory section into subsections and so on. Each section and each subsection may then be tested to determine if more memory can be allocated, tested to determine if memory resources are strained so as to identify the application or its component causing the strain and then binding the memory. Each section and subsection and further divided and isolated until the leaky portion of memory is identified, and as a result, the software component causing the leak can also be identified. The software component associated with the leaky memory section or subsection can also be taken out-of-service. | 04-21-2011 |
Ted Minshall, Sherwood, OR US
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20160079036 | Systems and Methods for Suppressing Parasitic Plasma and Reducing Within-Wafer Non-Uniformity - A substrate processing system for depositing film on a substrate includes a processing chamber defining a reaction volume. A showerhead includes a stem portion having one end connected adjacent to an upper surface of the processing chamber. A base portion is connected to an opposite end of the stem portion and extends radially outwardly from the stem portion. The showerhead is configured to introduce at least one of process gas and purge gas into the reaction volume. A plasma generator is configured to selectively generate RF plasma in the reaction volume. An edge tuning system includes a collar and a parasitic plasma reducing element that is located around the stem portion between the collar and an upper surface of the showerhead. The parasitic plasma reducing element is configured to reduce parasitic plasma between the showerhead and the upper surface of the processing chamber. | 03-17-2016 |
20160079057 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR REDUCING BACKSIDE DEPOSITION AND MITIGATINGTHICKNESS CHANGES AT SUBSTRATE EDGES - A substrate processing system for depositing film on a substrate includes a processing chamber defining a reaction volume and including a substrate support for supporting the substrate. A gas delivery system is configured to introduce process gas into the reaction volume of the processing chamber. A plasma generator is configured to selectively generate RF plasma in the reaction volume. A clamping system is configured to clamp the substrate to the substrate support during deposition of the film. A backside purging system is configured to supply a reactant gas to a backside edge of the substrate to purge the backside edge during the deposition of the film. | 03-17-2016 |