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20090077506 | Simultaneous Multi-Layer Fill Generation - Techniques are disclosed for optimizing the pattern density in the circuit layout design of a circuit layer. A layer in circuit design is analyzed to define empty regions that can be filled with fill polygons (referred to hereafter as “fill” regions). Next, a pattern of fill polygons is generated. After the fill polygons have been defined, the layout design for the layer is divided into separate areas or “windows,” and a target density for each window is determined. Once this target density for the window has been determined, the fill polygons required to most closely approach this target density are generated and added to the circuit layout design. This process may be repeated with progressively different (e.g., smaller) fill polygons, until each window meets or exceeds both the specified minimum density and complies with the specified maximum density gradient. Additionally, some implementations may allow a user to simultaneously optimize the density of multiple layers of a circuit by adding fill polygons to multiple layers of a circuit design simultaneously. Representations of sections of a multilayer fill structure will then be added to corresponding layers the circuit design until a specified target density is met. | 03-19-2009 |
20110289471 | Simultaneous Multi-Layer Fill Generation - Techniques are disclosed for optimizing the pattern density in the circuit layout design of a circuit layer. A layer in circuit design is analyzed to define empty regions that can be filled with fill polygons (referred to hereafter as “fill” regions). Next, a pattern of fill polygons is generated. After the fill polygons have been defined, the layout design for the layer is divided into separate areas or “windows,” and a target density for each window is determined. Once this target density for the window has been determined, the fill polygons required to most closely approach this target density are generated and added to the circuit layout design. This process may be repeated with progressively different (e.g., smaller) fill polygons, until each window meets or exceeds both the specified minimum density and complies with the specified maximum density gradient. Additionally, some implementations may allow a user to simultaneously optimize the density of multiple layers of a circuit by adding fill polygons to multiple layers of a circuit design simultaneously. Representations of sections of a multilayer fill structure will then be added to corresponding layers the circuit design until a specified target density is met. | 11-24-2011 |
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20100098055 | Communication system and method - A method of controlling a connection between a user terminal and an access node connected to a communication network is provided. The user terminal establishes a data connection with the access node, periodically generates a message at predetermined intervals and transmits the periodic message to at least one network node via the access node over the communication network. Responses to the periodic messages are received from the at least one network node. The responses are analysed to determine whether to terminate the connection to the access node, and in the case that the connection to the access node should be terminated, a disconnect message is transmitted to the access node from the user terminal. | 04-22-2010 |
20100100951 | Communication system and method - A method of authenticating a user terminal with an access node providing restricted access to a communication network is provided. The method comprises the user terminal transmitting a request for an authentication token to a trusted network node via an unrestricted channel on the access node, the request comprising a network identity for a user of the user terminal. The network node verifies the identity of the user using the network identity, generates an authentication token and transmits the authentication token to the user terminal via the unrestricted channel. The user terminal derives login information from the authentication token and provides the login information to the access node. The access node authenticates the login information and removes the restricted access such that the communication network can be accessed by the user terminal. | 04-22-2010 |
20120059873 | Download Logic for Web Content - A method of providing selectable media content from a server to a user at a user terminal, the method comprising: retrieving program code from the server, responsive to the user interacting with a communication client application executed at the user terminal; storing variables in a storage means at the user terminal; executing said program code at the user terminal to read said variables to determine the media content to be provided to the user based on said variables; retrieving said determined media content from the server; and providing said media content to the user at the user terminal. | 03-08-2012 |
20120087367 | Integrating Communications - A method of accessing a first communication system of a first communication provider via a packet-based network, the first communication system maintaining a first list of contacts being users of the first communication system. The method comprises establishing a contact-sharing channel with a second communication system of a second, partner communication provider, wherein the second communication system is accessible via an independently executable web-browser and the packet-based network, and wherein the second communication system maintains second group of contacts being users of the second communication system. The contact-sharing channel is used to fetch contact information of one or more of the second contacts, so as to display at least part of the fetched contact information in the client application and establish a communication based on at least part of the fetched contact information. | 04-12-2012 |
20140146802 | Communication System and Method - A method of controlling a connection between a user terminal and an access node connected to a communication network is provided. The user terminal establishes a data connection with the access node, periodically generates a message at predetermined intervals and transmits the periodic message to at least one network node via the access node over the communication network. Responses to the periodic messages are received from the at least one network node. The responses are analysed to determine whether to terminate the connection to the access node, and in the case that the connection to the access node should be terminated, a disconnect message is transmitted to the access node from the user terminal. | 05-29-2014 |
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20090188045 | Under-thigh support - A self-inflatable under-thigh support used in combination with a car seat for use by a driver of a vehicle in order to shorten brake-activation reaction time and reduce pressure on the lower side of the thigh for improving blood circulation. The under-thigh support is made in the form of an elongated body of a triangular cross-section that consists of an air-proof inner casing made from a non-stretchable flexible material and a squeezable foam plastic that fills the interior of the casing. The casing is provided with a valve that can be opened for squeezing the pad to a compressed state and then closed for preserving the pad in a compressed state convenient for storage and transportation. For use of the pad, the valve is opened, the squeezed foam plastic is expanded, and then the valve is closed, whereby the pad is maintained in a predetermined shape and with a predetermined rigidity. | 07-30-2009 |
20090189432 | Self-inflatable footrest - A self-inflatable footrest for use in a vehicle or a plane that comprises an elongated body having a floor-rest surface and a foot-supporting surface which is inclined with respect to the floor-rest surface. The footrest consists of an air-proof inner casing filled with plastic foam and provided with a valve for sealing the interior of the inner casing or for opening connection thereof to the atmosphere so that when the valve is opened, the plastic foam can be compressed for displacing air from the cells of the plastic foam with subsequent closing of the valve, whereby the footrest becomes several times smaller in value for convenience of storage and transportation. | 07-30-2009 |
20090259377 | System and method for shortening brake-activation-reaction time - A system and method for determining the shortest time needed for a driver to brake a vehicle in case of emergency by attaching tilt sensors to the accelerator and brake pedals or to elements rigidly connected to these pedals, connecting the outputs of these sensors to a computer, registering various moments and time intervals that occur during braking from initiation of release of the accelerator pedal to completion of depressing the brake pedal, and calculating total braking time. The position of the driver's seat is then changed several times in order to determine the position that ensures the shortest brake time. The same procedure can be repeated by determining the shortest brake time when using a specific under-thigh support developed by the inventors. The emergency signal is produced by a randomly illuminating lamp, the light of which is perceived by a photoreceiver and the moment of initiation of which is registered on the computer as the initial point of measurement. | 10-15-2009 |
20090277279 | METHOD OF FINDING A THIGH SUPPORT HAVING GEOMETRY, RIGIDITY, AND ELASTICITY FOR MOST OPTIMAL BLOOD CIRCULATION IN THE LOWER EXTREMITIES OF A SEATED PERSON - A method of finding a thigh support for most optimal blood circulation in the lower extremities of a seated person consisting of measuring a blood-circulation parameter such as blood-flow velocity through the lower extremities of a seated person under different seating conditions, including those with or without the use of any thigh-supporting means. It has been proven that with the use of a thigh-supporting means, the measured blood-circulating parameter was much better than in a person seated without the use of a thigh-supporting means. Blood-flow velocity through the lower extremities of a person seated on the aforementioned seating device was measured by determining the Doppler shift in the frequency of returning ultrasound waves. | 11-12-2009 |
20100022925 | Thigh support with vibratory device for improved blood circulation - A thigh support that consists of a resilient, e.g., a self-inflatable, part for supporting the thigh of a vehicle driver and a vibration-transmission member for transmitting vibrations to the driver's leg in order to improve blood circulation in the leg of the driver during long hours of driving. The thigh support may be of a type intended for shortening brake-activation time and combining brake-activation shortening time function with the function of improving blood circulation in the driver's leg due to transmission of vibration to the leg from the vibratory unit of the thigh support. The vibration-transmission member comprises a sealed cartridge in the form of a rubber casing filled with liquid and containing a sealed and encapsulated vibration motor that transmits vibration through the liquid. | 01-28-2010 |
20130060614 | Local network for beauty salons - The invention provides a self-contained local network for a group of specialized beauty salons located in a certain area. The main distinction of the proposed beauty-salon service network is that it allows subscribed customers to obtain products, advertisements, consultations, and other services that cannot be obtained at all or for competitive costs from stores, shops, or salons beyond the network. The network includes a common, powerful computer or server that is connected through a web site of a master salon with individual web sites of other salons of the system, a plurality of services that include consultation services from remotely located top stylists, cosmetologists, etc. The network also provides access to an Internet shop, delivery service, scheduling service, etc. | 03-07-2013 |
20130318814 | Apparatus for Drying Wet Objects in a Drying Container by Using Heat Emitted from Heat-Emitting Louvers - The apparatus of the invention is intended for drying wet clothing by using heat emitted through the louvers of an air conditioner in a vehicle or a wall-mounted room air conditioner. The apparatus comprises a sealable container that has an inlet port and an outlet port. The apparatus is provided with a flexible inlet hose, one end of which has a cup-shaped adapter for attachment to the air conditioning vent on the dashboard of the vehicle. The adapter is made from a soft and transparent plastic and contains inside its body two hooks that can be engaged with the racks of the louvers of the air conditioner vent. Transparency of the adapter body facilitates connection to the air-conditioner vent. Wet air exhausts to the outside of the vehicle through the outlet hose that connects to the outlet port of the container. | 12-05-2013 |
20140018141 | METHOD FOR EXPANDING SALES THROUGH COMPUTER GAME - What is offered is a method for expanding sales for a merchant by attracting customers through a computer game. The method is based on the use of a computer game platform having an administrator panel and rentable by a merchant who advertises the product and offers a customer the choice to print a coupon and use it directly for purchasing the product or to participate in a betting-free and gambling-free computer game. The game is based on a bonus-based player's incentive to attract “n” number of friends as potential buyers of the product for participation in the game so that the merchant can economically justify the discount coupons and loss of one entire product due to attraction of a large amount of potential buyers. | 01-16-2014 |