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| 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 |
| 20140357612 | COMPOUNDS FOR KINASE MODULATION, AND INDICATIONS THEREFOR - Compounds active on protein kinases and methods for regulating protein kinase pathways are described, as well as methods of using such compounds to treat diseases and conditions associated with aberrant activity of protein kinases. | 12-04-2014 |
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| 20120197605 | COMPREHENSIVE ASSESSMENT SYSTEM AND ASSESSMENT METHOD FOR VIBRATION AND LOAD OF WIND GENERATING SET - The invention discloses a comprehensive assessment system and a comprehensive assessment method for vibration and load of a wind generating set. The system comprises a wind generating set model simulation module configured to simulate a wind generating set model to acquire simulation data; a wind generating set sample assessment module configured to assess wind generating set samples to acquire assessment data; a wind generating set assessment module configured to assess the vibration and the load of the wind generating set to acquire wind generating set assessment data; and a wind generating set expert analysis system configured to analyze the sample assessment data, the simulation data and the wind generating set assessment data to acquire an assessment result. The invention can be used for accurately testing, analyzing and assessing the load of each main component of the large wind generating set. | 08-02-2012 |
| 20120242900 | Media Processing Devices For Detecting and Ranking Insertion Points In Media, And Methods Thereof - In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, a method for inserting secondary content into a media stream includes dividing the media stream having a plurality of frames into a plurality of shots at a processor. The method further includes grouping consecutive shots from the plurality of shots into a plurality of scenes. A first list of insertion points is generated for introducing the secondary content. The insertion points of the first list are boundaries between consecutive scenes in the plurality of scenes. An average insertion point saliency of the media stream is generated at the insertion points in the first list. A second list of insertion points is then generated. The insertion points in the second list are arranged to maximize a function of the average insertion point saliency and a distance between each insertion point in the second list with other insertion points in the second list. | 09-27-2012 |
| 20130134381 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device and a semiconductor device made by the method is disclosed. The method comprises forming a buried N+ layer in an upper portion of a P-type substrate; performing ion implantation on the buried N+ layer; annealing the buried N+ layer; forming an epitaxial semiconductor layer on the buried N+ layer through epitaxial deposition, wherein, an upper portion of said epitaxial semiconductor layer and a portion underlying said P+ region of said epitaxial semiconductor layer are doped to form a P+ region and an N− region, respectively. Increasing the ion implant dosage of the BNL layer, adjusting the method of annealing the BNL layer to increase the width of the BNL layer, or increasing the thickness of the EPI layer, reduces the vertical BJT current gain and suppressed the substrate leakage current. | 05-30-2013 |
| 20140122832 | PARTIAL VECTORIZATION COMPILATION SYSTEM - Generally, this disclosure provides technologies for generating and executing partially vectorized code that may include backward dependencies within a loop body of the code to be vectorized. The method may include identifying backward dependencies within a loop body of the code; selecting one or more ranges of iterations within the loop body, wherein the selected ranges exclude the identified backward dependencies; and vectorizing the selected ranges. The system may include a vector processor configured to provide predicated vector instruction execution, loop iteration range enabling, and dynamic loop dependence checking. | 05-01-2014 |
| 20140181672 | INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - The present disclosure discloses an information processing method and an electronic apparatus, for solving a technical problem that when a user inputs a voice instruction different from the fixed voice instruction due to incapability of remembering the fixed voice instruction, the electronic devices cannot respond or will mistakenly respond. The method including determining a current application corresponding to a current application interface on the display unit as a first application, the current application interface being a first application interface to which the first application corresponds; obtaining M input objects on the first application interface, M being an integer equal to or larger than one; processing the M input objects to obtain M pieces of prompt information of M character phrases corresponding to the M input objects, the M pieces of prompt information being capable of being displayed on the display unit. | 06-26-2014 |
| 20140201633 | PROGRESS ADJUSTMENT METHOD AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - The present invention discloses a progress adjustment method and an electronic device, the progress adjustment method is applied to an electronic device including a display unit on which data contents corresponding to first data are output in a chronological order, the method comprising displaying a progress bar corresponding to the first data on the display unit, and unit progress of the progress bar being a first unit progress; when obtaining a first input operation, controlling switching of the data contents of the first data with the first unit progress according to the first input operation; obtaining a second sliding operation; and generating a first sub progress bar based on a current progress unit that includes a progress identifier on the progress bar according to the second sliding operation; unit progress of the first sub progress bar being a second unit progress. | 07-17-2014 |
| 20150039540 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR EVALUATING PREDICTIVE MODEL - In an approach for evaluating a predictive model, a computer identifies features of training samples in a set of training samples and selects at least one evaluation metric from a set of evaluation metrics as one or more available metrics based on the identified features. The computer applies a predictive model created based on the set of training samples to a set of test samples so as to calculate values of the one or more available metrics and evaluates the predictive model by using the one or more available metrics and the values of the available metrics. With the technical solutions described with respect to the embodiments of the present invention, one or more evaluation metrics that are applicable to specific training sample features may be determined from several evaluation metrics, so that users can precisely evaluate predictive models by using the determined evaluation metrics. | 02-05-2015 |
| 20150052463 | INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, APPARATUS, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An information processing method, apparatus, and an electronic device are provided. The information processing method includes: obtaining a first input operation by a sensing apparatus, the first input operation corresponding to a first input action; determining the first input action based on the first input operation and generating a first instruction corresponding to the first input action; executing the first instruction for a first object corresponding to the first input operation; determining, based on the first input operation, that the first input action is completed and a gesture at the time of completion of the first input action is maintained; and continuing to execute the first instruction for the first object corresponding to the first input operation. | 02-19-2015 |
| 20150107219 | CHEMICAL-ELECTROMAGNETIC HYBRID PROPELLER WITH VARIABLE SPECIFIC IMPULSE - A chemical-electromagnetic hybrid propeller with variable specific impulse. Fuel gas ejected out from a spraying tube of the chemical propeller through chemical propulsion enters an ionization chamber through a first magnetic mirror tube for ionization. The fuel gas after ionization is heated up by radio-frequency ion cyclotron waves in an ion cyclotron wave heating chamber so as to improve the kinetic energy. Then a second magnetic mirror tube is used, so that ions in the fuel gas after the ionization are heated up many times in a reciprocating manner between the magnetic mirror tubes, and ejected to generate forward propulsion force. By means of the propeller, the propulsion force and the specific impulse are greatly increased. | 04-23-2015 |
| 20150117767 | METHOD AND APPARATUS OF DETERMINING AIR QUALITY - The present invention discloses a method and apparatus of determining air quality. The method comprising: determining at least one key area; acquiring a reference clear image, a training image under poor air quality and corresponding actual air quality index in at least one location of the key area; and training an air quality model of the key area based on feature extracted from the reference clear image and the training image and based on the actual air quality index. With the method and apparatus of the invention, air quality can be determined based on image. | 04-30-2015 |
| 20150120195 | IDENTIFYING SUBSURFACE MATERIAL LAYER - In an approach for identifying subsurface material layers, a computer processor: acquires a well log of a location to be explored, the log comprising data corresponding to multiple geophysical parameters, the data of each parameter comprising measurement values of the parameter at different depths underground; matches a reference data of each parameter corresponding to each of multiple layer transition types with the data of that parameter in the well log at depths underground, wherein each layer transition type indicates an upper material layer and a lower material layer, and the reference data is used to represent a variation trend of the parameter in a transitional zone conforming with the layer transition type; and according to the matching result, determines a layer transition type at the location to be explored and a depth of an interface between the upper material layer and the lower indicated by the layer transition type. | 04-30-2015 |
| 20150210406 | Fuel-Free Spacecraft Propelling System Based on Spatial Atomic Oxygen and Propelling Method - A fuel-free spacecraft propelling system having an open-ended outer cylinder of a propelling device and an atomic oxygen collecting device is disclosed. The latter is arranged at the forwardly-propelled front end of the outer cylinder and is hermetically connected with an RF generating device and an ion cyclotron wave heating device through a magnetic confinement device. A spiral wave discharge oxygen plasma inlet and a spiral wave discharge oxygen plasma outlet in the ion cyclotron wave heating device are respectively provided with another magnetic confinement device. The propulsion of the invention does not need to carry the propellant, which greatly reduces the launch costs, and enables a spacecraft to advantageously have an increased orbit life over existing spacecraft systems. | 07-30-2015 |
| 20150248761 | PATTERN RECOGNITION BASED ON INFORMATION INTEGRATION - A method for recognizing a primitive in an image includes recognizing at least one primitive in the image to obtain at least one candidate shape of the at least one primitive, which at least one candidate shape has a respective confidence; determining whether the recognizing of the at least one primitive has a potential error based on the confidence; obtaining auxiliary information about the at least one primitive from a user in response to determining that the recognizing has the potential error; and re-recognizing the at least one primitive at least in part based on the auxiliary information. | 09-03-2015 |
| 20150264444 | SYSTEM, DEVICE AND METHOD FOR VIEWING AND CONTROLLING AUDIO VIDEO CONTENT IN A HOME NETWORK - An audio/video device may determine that a UI is displayed in a first AV signal, and may capture a frame of the UI in order to provide UI information to a UI generation component that generates a second UI. The AV device may then provide the second UI for display in place of the first UI. The AV device may act as a virtual controller device capable of controlling multiple devices and streaming content from multiple devices to multiple displays. | 09-17-2015 |
| 20150277582 | INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An information processing method and an electronic device thereof are provided. The information processing method comprises: determining whether a state change of an electronic device meets a first preset condition, in the case that a display unit of the electronic device displays a first display content in a first display mode, the first display mode enables that the first display content viewed at a first side of the electronic device is consistent with display content sent by the electronic device to the display unit; and displaying the first display content in a second display mode if the state change meets the first preset condition, the second display mode is different from the first display mode, and the second display mode enables that the first display content viewed at a second side of the electronic device is consistent with display content sent by the electronic device to the display unit. | 10-01-2015 |
| 20150278440 | ANALYZING PROPERTY OF PROTEIN SEQUENCE - A method and apparatus for analyzing a property of a protein sequence comprising: looking up in a reference database at least one reference protein sequence that matches the protein sequence in response to having received the protein sequence; mapping the protein sequence and the at least one reference protein sequence to an eigenvector and at least one reference vector respectively by comparing any two sequences in a set comprising the protein sequence and the at least one reference protein sequence; training a classifier by using the at least one reference vector and property of the at least one reference protein sequence; and analyzing property of the protein sequence by the classifier based on the eigenvector. Further an apparatus is provided for analyzing property of a protein sequence. Thus, a property in various respects of the protein sequence can be obtained without manual experiment. | 10-01-2015 |
| 20150294184 | PATTERN RECOGNITION BASED ON INFORMATION INTEGRATION - A method for recognizing a primitive in an image includes recognizing at least one primitive in the image to obtain at least one candidate shape of the at least one primitive, which at least one candidate shape has a respective confidence; determining whether the recognizing of the at least one primitive has a potential error based on the confidence; obtaining auxiliary information about the at least one primitive from a user in response to determining that the recognizing has the potential error; and re-recognizing the at least one primitive at least in part based on the auxiliary information. | 10-15-2015 |
| 20150301511 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - The present disclosure provides a method for controlling an electronic device and an electronic device, to enable the electronic device to autonomously deform to be matched with an accommodating space thereof, thereby improving intelligence of the electronic device and providing good user experience. The method includes: acquiring, through a first detection sensor arranged on the electronic device, a space parameter representing an accommodating space where the electronic device is located, when a deformable structure of the electronic device is in a first form; and acquiring, based on the space parameter, a first control instruction to control the deformable structure to deform from the first form to a second form, and thus cause a deformation of the electronic device that makes the electronic device matched with the accommodating space, and controlling the deformable structure to remain in the second form before acquiring a second control instruction for controlling the deformable structure to deform from the second form to a third form, the third form being the same as or different from the first form. | 10-22-2015 |
| 20150308843 | BUILDING MISSING MOVEMENT PATH OF AN OBJECT - The present disclosure discloses a method and an apparatus for building a missing part of a movement path of an object. One or more frequent points is determined, wherein each of the one or more frequent points is a point on a historical movement path having a number of occurrences greater than a first threshold. A credibility of one or more path segments in determined. A first path segment of the one or more path segments is selected, wherein the credibility of the first path segment is greater than a second threshold. A missing part of a movement path of an object is built using the first path segment. | 10-29-2015 |
| 20150316961 | INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND DEFORMABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE - The present disclosure discloses an information processing method and a deformable electronic device. The information processing method is applied in a deformable electronic device. The method comprises: acquiring a first deformation parameter corresponding to deformation of the electronic device when the first content is displayed on the display unit provided in the deformable electronic device; determining a control instruction based on the first deformation parameter; and displaying a second content on the display unit based on the control instruction, the first content being different from the second content. | 11-05-2015 |
| 20150319575 | TAGGING GEOGRAPHICAL AREAS - A method of tagging a geographical area includes obtaining, with a processing device, attribute information and mobile tracking data of a plurality of mobile objects, wherein the mobile tracking data comprises sampling time and corresponding sampling point locations of the mobile objects; converting the mobile tracking data of the plurality of mobile objects into new mobile tracking data according to the correspondence relationship between the sampling time and a time slices, wherein the new mobile tracking data include time slices and corresponding sampling point locations; and obtaining a set of attribute information of at least one geographical area with respect to the time slices based on the new mobile tracking data, wherein the at least one geographical area is obtained by clustering the sampling point locations. | 11-05-2015 |
| 20150319576 | TAGGING GEOGRAPHICAL AREAS - A method of tagging a geographical area includes obtaining, with a processing device, attribute information and mobile tracking data of a plurality of mobile objects, wherein the mobile tracking data comprises sampling time and corresponding sampling point locations of the mobile objects; converting the mobile tracking data of the plurality of mobile objects into new mobile tracking data according to the correspondence relationship between the sampling time and a time slices, wherein the new mobile tracking data include time slices and corresponding sampling point locations; and obtaining a set of attribute information of at least one geographical area with respect to the time slices based on the new mobile tracking data, wherein the at least one geographical area is obtained by clustering the sampling point locations. | 11-05-2015 |
| 20150379410 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING DATA IN A MISSING SEGMENT OF A TIME DATA SEQUENCE - A method and an apparatus for generating data in a missing segment of a target time data sequence are disclosed. The method includes: determining whether there is a breakpoint in the missing segment; determining candidate values of the data in the missing segment; and generating values of the data in the missing segment by selectively using the candidate values of the data in the missing segment, according to whether there is the breakpoint in the missing segment. With the method and the apparatus, the data in the missing segment of the target time data sequence can be generated more accurately. | 12-31-2015 |
| 20160063909 | Method For Adjusting Display Effect And Electronic Apparatus - A method for adjusting a display effect and an electronic apparatus that includes a frame body, a fixing device, and a functional main body section. The functional main body section includes a display device disposed in the frame body. When a user views a first display content in the first display region in a first interactive mode, a light beam emitted by the display device is incident upon the user's eyes so that the user perceives a first perception picture. The display parameter of the display device is adjusted by obtaining the adjustment parameter for instructing to adjust the display effect of the first perception picture, and thereby generating the corresponding control signal, so that a current display effect of the first perception picture is different from a display effect of the first perception picture before the adjustment. | 03-03-2016 |
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| 20130075688 | Semiconductor Memory Device and Manufacturing Method Thereof - A semiconductor memory device includes a first insulating portion. The semiconductor memory device further includes a phase-change material element that contacts the first insulating portion. The semiconductor memory device further includes an electrode that contacts a side surface of the phase-change material element, the side surface of the phase-change material element being not parallel to a top surface of the electrode. The semiconductor memory device further includes a second insulating portion surrounding the phase-change material element. | 03-28-2013 |
| 20130123391 | COPOLYMERS - Embodiments include copolymers obtainable by reacting styrenic compound, maleic anhydride, and a cyclo-olefin, wherein the cyclo-olefin is selected from the group consisting of dicyclopentadiene, dicyclopentadiene derivatives, norbornene, norbornene derivatives, and combinations thereof. Embodiments include curable compositions having the copolymer, an epoxy compound and a solvent. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130145984 | METHOD OF EPITAXIAL GROWTH EFFECTIVELY PREVENTING AUTO-DOPING EFFECT - This invention relates to a method of epitaxial growth effectively preventing auto-doping effect. This method starts with the removal of impurities from the semiconductor substrate having heavily-doped buried layer region and from the inner wall of reaction chamber to be used. Then the semiconductor substrate is loaded in the cleaned reaction chamber to be pre-baked under vacuum conditions so as to remove moisture and oxide from the surface of said semiconductor substrate before the extraction of the dopant atoms desorbed from the surface of the semiconductor substrate. Next, under high temperature and low gas flow conditions, a first intrinsic epitaxial layer is formed on the surface of said semiconductor substrate where the dopant atoms have been extracted out. Following this, under low temperature and high gas flow conditions, a second epitaxial layer of required thickness is formed on the structural surface of the grown intrinsic epitaxial layer. Last, silicon wafer is unloaded after cooling. This method can prevent auto-doping effect during the epitaxial growth on semiconductor substrate and thus ensure the performance and enhance the reliability of the devices in peripheral circuit region. | 06-13-2013 |
| 20130189799 | METHOD OF FABRICATING DUAL TRENCH ISOLATED EPITAXIAL DIODE ARRAY - The present invention discloses a method of fabricating dual trench isolated epitaxial diode array. This method starts with the formation of heavily-doped first conductivity type regions and heavily-doped second conductivity type regions on the substrate, followed by epitaxial growth, then the formation of the isolations between diode array word lines by deep trench etch and the formation of the isolations between bit lines vertical to deep trenches by shallow trench etch, and finally the formation of separate diode array cells in the regions enclosed by deep and shallow trench isolations by ion implantation. This invention also provides a method of preventing the crosstalk current between adjacent word lines and bit lines of epitaxial diode arrays isolated by foregoing dual shallow trenches. This invention can be used for diode-driven, high-density, large-capacity memory, such as phase change random access memory, resistive memory, magnetic memory and ferroelectric memory; the method thereof is completely compatible with conventional complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) process, and because the diode arrays can be formed before the formation of peripheral circuits, no drift of peripheral circuits will be caused by the thermal process thereof, thereby solving the technical challenge of fabricating high-density, large-capacity embedded phase change random access memory. | 07-25-2013 |
| 20140128545 | CURABLE COMPOSITIONS - Embodiments include curable compositions including an epoxy resin and a hardener component including a terpolymer having first constitutional unit, a second constitutional unit, and a third constitutional unit, where the epoxy group to the second constitutional unit has a molar ratio in a range of 1.0:1.0 to 2.7:1.0. Embodiments include prepregs that include a reinforcement component and the curable composition and an electrical laminate formed with the curable composition. | 05-08-2014 |
| 20140294115 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONFIGURING TRANSMISSION MODE - Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and an apparatus for configuring a transmission mode, where the method includes: obtaining channel matrix information, where the channel matrix information is any one of the following: a precoding matrix indicator which most matches a current uplink channel matrix of a terminal, a current downlink precoding matrix indicator of the terminal, an uplink channel matrix of the terminal and the precoding matrix indicator which most matches the current uplink channel matrix of the terminal, and the uplink channel matrix of the terminal and the current downlink precoding matrix indicator of the terminal; determining performance of data transmission performed by adopting a closed-loop mode and an open-loop mode according to the channel matrix information, and selecting the data transmission mode according to the determined performance of data transmission, where the data transmission mode includes the open-loop mode, the closed-loop mode. | 10-02-2014 |
| 20150102451 | NANOSCALE SILICON SCHOTTKY DIODE ARRAY FOR LOW POWER PHASE CHANGE MEMORY APPLICATION - Methods and devices associated with a phase change memory include Schottky diodes operating as selectors having a low turn-on voltage, low sneak current and high switching speed. A method of forming a semiconductor device includes providing a semiconductor substrate having a diode array region and a peripheral device region, forming an N+ buried layer in the diode array region, forming a semiconductor epitaxial layer on the N+ buried layer, and forming deep trench isolations through the epitaxial layer and the N+ buried layer along a first direction. The method also includes forming shallow trench isolations in the diode array region and in the peripheral region along a second line direction. The method also includes forming an N− doped region between the deep and shallow trench isolations and forming a metal silicide on a surface of the N− doped region. | 04-16-2015 |
| 20150102455 | METHOD OF FABRICATING DUAL TRENCH ISOLATED SELECTIVE EPITAXIAL DIODE ARRAY - Methods and devices associated with phase change memory include diodes operating as selector switches having a large driving current and high switching speed. A method of forming a semiconductor device includes providing a semiconductor substrate, defining a diode array region and a peripheral region on the semiconductor substrate, forming an N+ buried layer in the diode array region by performing an ion implantation process and an annealing process. The method also includes forming a semiconductor epitaxial layer on the N+ buried layer, forming deep trench isolations through the epitaxial layer and the N+ buried layer into a portion of the substrate in the first direction, and forming shallow trench isolations in the diode array region and in the peripheral region in the second direction. The shallow trench isolation has a depth equal to or greater than a thickness of the epitaxial layer. | 04-16-2015 |
| 20150131188 | CURRENT SENSING CIRCUIT - A current sensing circuit comprises a first input terminal and a second input terminal for introducing a subject current from a device coupled between the first and second input terminals; a first amplifier having a first input node coupled to the first input terminal via a protection resistor, a second input node coupled to the second input terminal, and a first output node coupled to the first input node via a capacitor, wherein the first amplifier has a current sensing path for sensing the subject current and converting the subject current into an output voltage that changes with the subject current; and a protection circuit coupled between the first and second input nodes of the first amplifier, wherein the protection circuit is configured to draw a protection current from the first input terminal through the protection resistor to at least partially offset the subject current. | 05-14-2015 |
| 20150200359 | SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - A semiconductor memory device includes a first insulating portion. The semiconductor memory device further includes a phase-change material element that contacts the first insulating portion. The semiconductor memory device further includes an electrode that contacts a side surface of the phase-change material element, the side surface of the phase-change material element being not parallel to a top surface of the electrode. The semiconductor memory device further includes a second insulating portion surrounding the phase-change material element. | 07-16-2015 |
| 20150220742 | ANTI-THEFT IN FIRMWARE - Methods, systems and storage media are disclosed for enhanced system boot processing that authenticates boot code based on biometric information of the user before loading the boot code to system memory. For at least some embodiments, the biometric authentication augments authentication of boot code based on a unique platform identifier. The enhanced boot code authentication occurs before loading of the operating system, and may be performed during a Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) boot sequence. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 08-06-2015 |
| 20150259851 | POLYURETHANE BASED SYNTHETIC LEATHERS COMPRISING NANOPARTICLES AND HAVING IMPROVED PEEL STRENGTH - Disclosed herein are methods of producing externally stabilized, poromeric synthetic leathers having improved peel strength, the methods comprising: preparing a prepolymer from a mixture comprising at least one polyester polyol, at least one polyether polyol, at least one isocyanate and optionally in a solvent; mixing the prepolymer, water, and a first surfactant; optionally add a second chain extender to form a PUD; preparing a mixture comprising said PUD, at least one surfactant, and at least one thickener; frothing said mixture; applying the frothed mixture to a fabric and thereby forming a coated fabric; adjusting the thickness of the frothed mixture on the coated fabric; drying the coated fabric. Methods of improving the peel strength of poromeric synthetic leathers are also disclosed. Externally stabilized synthetic leathers having improved peel strength are also disclosed. | 09-17-2015 |
| 20150284902 | POLYURETHANE DISPERSION BASED SYNTHETIC LEATHERS HAVING IMPROVED EMBOSSING CHARACTERISTICS - Described herein are methods of preparing PUD based, poromeric, synthetic leathers having improved embossing characteristics, the methods comprising: preparing a polyurethane prepolymer, wherein the prepolymer comprises at least one isocyanate resin, and at least two polyols; preparing a first mixture comprising the polyurethane prepolymer, water, a chain extender, and a first surfactant that comprises at least one surfactant; preparing a second mixture comprising the first mixture, a thickening agent, and a second surfactant the comprises at least one surfactant, frothing the second mixture and thereby forming a frothed second mixture; applying the frothed second mixture to a fabric and thereby forming a coated fabric; optionally adjusting the thickness of the frothed third mixture on the fabric; and drying the coated fabric. | 10-08-2015 |
| 20150299945 | POLYURETHANE DISPERSION BASED SYNTHETIC LEATHERS COMPRISING ACRYLIC LATEX - Disclosed herein are synthetic leathers comprising latex, and having improved peel strength and/or improved embossability. The leathers comprising a fabric that is optionally impregnated with a polymer resin, wherein the fabric is in contact with a polymeric layer that was made from a mixture comprising a frothed polyurethane dispersion in water and latex. Methods of making these synthetic leathers, which have improved peel strength and/or improved embossability relative to non-latex containing synthetic leathers, are also disclosed. | 10-22-2015 |
| 20150307710 | HARDENER COMPOUND FOR EPOXY SYSTEM - Embodiments of the present disclosure include a hardener compound for curing with an epoxy resin, where the hardener compound includes a copolymer having a first constitutional unit of the formula (I), a second constitutional unit of the formula (II), and a third constitutional unit of the formula (III), where each q, n and m is independently a positive integer; each b is independently selected from the group of 6, 8, 10 and 12; each Y is independently an organic group; and each R is independently selected from the group of a hydrogen, an organic group and a halogen. Embodiments of the present disclosure include an epoxy system that includes the hardener compound and an epoxy resin. | 10-29-2015 |
| 20150354133 | POLYURETHANE DISPERSION BASED SYNTHETIC LEATHERS - A multilayer structure including (a) a fabric, (b) a polyurethane foam containing a plurality of cells defined therein, wherein the foam contains at least one surfactant, and (c) a skin layer, wherein the skin layer comprises a wetting agent and an acrylic polymer having a glass transition temperature of −20 degree Celsius or less, and the foam resides between the fabric and the skin layer; and the process of preparing the multilayer structure. | 12-10-2015 |
