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| 7533049 | Method and system for rating securities, method and system for evaluating price of securities, method for establishing a market with the system A rating method for securities or fixed rate financing instruments includes calculating a rating value for each one of the securities or fixed rate financing instruments based upon a formula involving grading numbers and weighting factors corresponding to risk and r... | 05/12/2009 |
| D592011 | Cup to assist the taking of medicines orally | 05/12/2009 |
| 7529910 | Series and parallel operation of reconfigurable circuits with selection and timing buffers assembly for processing and binding divided data portions in matched timing A reconfigurable processor equipped with reconfigurable circuits (RCs) comprises unit A for dividing data input to the processor, and outputting a part of pieces of divided data to a RC, unit B for selecting or binding at least one piece of divided data among divide... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7529254 | Communication apparatus and method for inter-AS routing Disclosed here is a communication apparatus and method for inter-AS routing, which enables policy routing between a stub AS and an upstream AS. The policy routing includes control which is applicable only between adjacent autonomous systems (AS's). When a subject co... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7529251 | Data transfer device A high quality network is provided that eliminates the sorting time for sorting through registering look-up conditions, such as source and destination MAC addresses, in a content addressable memory, by generating a routing or flow control look-up key, and then selec... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7529165 | Test writing method and information recording device The object of the present invention is to provide a test writing method for seeking the optimum write power correctly and in a short time under a high speed recording condition in a test writing method and an information recording device for recording information by... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7529158 | Optical near-field generator and recording apparatus using the optical near-field generator A near-field optical probe and optical near-field generator are provided. A problem of a probe having a scatterer in which optical near-field noises are generated at the parts other than for a point at which an intense optical near-field is generated, is solved. In ... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7528602 | Magnetic shielding apparatus and magnetic field measuring apparatus using same A magnetic shielding apparatus having a high shielding effect. With the magnetic shielding apparatus having an opening (for example, a cylindrical magnetic shielding apparatus provided with a door), the door covering the opening is electrically and/or magnetically c... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7528408 | Semiconductor thin film and process for production thereof To improve the laser annealing process for polycrystallizing amorphous silicon to form silicon thin films having large crystal particle diameters at a high throughput, the present invention is directed to a process of crystallization by irradiation of a semiconducto... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7528271 | Intermediates, process for their preparation and synthesis of 1,4-benzoquiones The present invention discloses a new process for the preparation of 1,4-benzoquiones of formula (II) wherein R1, R2, R3 and R4 are independently selected from the group consistin... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7526592 | Interrupt control system and storage control system using the same An interrupt control system is provided where a signal-line-based interrupt system can be incorporated into interrupt control using MSIs (Message Signal Interrupts). The interrupt control system includes a first PCI interface, a second PCI interface, a PCI bridge se... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7523287 | Storage system and method for restricting access to virtual memory area by management host, and program for executing the same After a host creates a memory area in an external storage device, a setting is made such that the host can manage the memory area in the external storage device, so as to prevent an access to the storage device by another host to protect data therein. A second stora... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7522602 | Packet transfer apparatus with the function of flow detection and flow management method A packet transfer apparatus having: a flow detector 30 for identifying a flow to which an input packet belongs from header information of the input packet and outputting a flow bundle identifier peculiar to the identified flow or a flow bundle identifier comm... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7522592 | Packet transfer unit The present invention relates to a packet transfer unit, which comprises a search key memory that stores a search key for a transfer destination of a packet and verification information generated from the search key, in association with a storage location of transfe... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7522287 | Photothermal conversion measurement apparatus, photothermal conversion measurement method, and sample cell A liquid sample is irradiated with excitation light and measurement light, and a measurement position at which a traveling path of the measurement light passes through an excitation section of the excitation light in the sample is changed while the sample is being i... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7522246 | Liquid crystal display device with one pixel electrode having a plurality of generally circular patterns in each pixel region A liquid crystal display device comprising electrodes of the one side formed on the pixel regions on the surface of one of the substrates arranged facing each other with the liquid crystals interposed therebetween and on the side of the liquid crystals, and electrod... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7520615 | Display apparatus and image pickup apparatus A display apparatus is provided which can display different text/image information depending on the viewing angle and the viewer, display a high reality three-dimensional image viewable from any direction and realize stereoscopic viewing without glasses or the like.... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7519787 | Method and a computer for storage area management A method for storage management is provided which displays the materials on which it is determined which of the thin provisioning volume or the logical unit (LU) is to be used for storage promotion. The method is executed in a computer system having one or more host... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7519786 | Storage system, storage access restriction method and computer program product Provided is a storage system having one or more logical devices mapped to a virtual device provided in a mapping destination storage system, and a storage controller for controlling the reading and writing of data from and to the logical devices. Upon receiving a re... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7519783 | Storage control apparatus, storage system, and control method for storage system In a storage control apparatus employed in a storage system arranged by containing a plurality of storage control apparatus connected via an IP (Internet Protocol) network to each other, the storage control apparatus stores thereinto necessary storage expiration equ... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7519001 | Information processing apparatus and method of controlling the information processing apparatus An information processing system comprises an information processing apparatus, a switch, and a storage device, wherein the first communication ports and the third communication ports are connected to the second communication ports. When a response from a storage de... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7518980 | Optical disk The invention provides an optical disk that enables high-speed reproduction of address signals. A wobble address system for optical disk supports various types of synchronization, such as phase synchronization, bit synchronization, word synchronization, etc., to be ... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7518617 | Image processing apparatus and method of the same The invention discloses an image processing apparatus for adjusting the saturation of an input image. The input image also has a lightness and a hue. The image processing apparatus includes a look-up table, a processing unit, and a multiplier. The look-up table is u... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7518594 | Liquid crystal display device having an improved backlight A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display panel and a backlight disposed behind the liquid crystal display panel. The backlight includes: a light source including a discharge tube having no electrodes therein, and first and second electrodes ... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7518577 | Image display device An image display device which has a stable luminous brightness among pixels. An on/off control switch 15 for stopping the driving operation of a light emitting element 13 is provided in a pixel 1. A change in the luminous brightness caused by a ... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7518183 | Semiconductor device Heightening of breakdown voltage of a trench gate type power MISFET is actualized without increasing the number of manufacturing steps. In the manufacturing method of the semiconductor device according to the present invention, p− type semiconductor reg... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7515832 | Optical transmission equipment and integrated circuit Optical transmission equipment, capable of electrically adjusting the delay difference between a plurality of digital signal paths to be connected to a multilevel optical modulation unit or demodulation unit, having multiplexing circuits connected to the digital sig... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7512746 | Storage system with designated CPU cores processing transactions across storage nodes A storage system comprises a plurality of storage nodes and a controller coupling unit interconnecting controllers within the storage nodes. A memory in the controller has a plurality of shared memory areas each associated with a combination of one CPU core with one... | 03/31/2009 |
| 7512637 | Storage system and undo processing method A storage system and an undo processing method that can facilitate undo processing for configuration change operations that have been performed for storage apparatuses by different administrators. A management server manages the history of configuration change opera... | 03/31/2009 |
| 7512418 | Sensor node, base station, and sensor network system This invention achieves lower electric power consumption of a sensor node for carrying out an intermittent operation, in a sensor net system. A time when the sensor node transmits a signal to a base station is estimated. Then, in accordance with the estimation, a ta... | 03/31/2009 |
| 7512344 | Variable dispersion compensator A dispersion compensator is applicable to a WDM optical transmission system and features low loss, wideband usage, and minimum ripple. The dispersion compensator is constructed so that the light emitted from a collimator will be reflected from an etalon of a 100% si... | 03/31/2009 |
| 7511911 | Storage system having a power source state detection unit A storage system capable of reducing the start-up time of disk drives is provided. If a power source monitor circuit itself is normal (S93), the power source monitor circuit reads a detection signal from a detection circuit, and checks power sources (S94 | 03/31/2009 |
| 7511558 | Semiconductor devices utilizing double gated fully depleted silicon on insulator MOS transistors A CMOS circuit in low-voltage implementation, low power-consumption implementation, high-speed implementation, or small-size implementation. In a circuit which uses a FD-SOI MOST where a back gate is controlled by a well, voltage amplitude at the well is made larger... | 03/31/2009 |
| 7511338 | Semiconductor device and manufacturing method of the same An object of the present invention is to simplify manufacturing process of an n channel MIS transistor and a p channel MIS transistor with gate electrodes formed of a metal material. For its achievement, gate electrodes of each of the n channel MIS transistor and th... | 03/31/2009 |
| 7510789 | Perpendicular magnetic recording media A perpendicular magnetic recording medium includes an intermediate film formed of a plurality of layers between a soft magnetic film and a perpendicular magnetization film. The intermediate film includes at least two layers, i.e., an oxygen-containing layer, or a no... | 03/31/2009 |
| D589470 | Light-emitting module | 03/31/2009 |
| 7509467 | Storage controller and data management method Upon receiving a primary/secondary switching command from a secondary host system, a secondary storage control device interrogates a primary storage control device as to whether or not yet to be transferred data that has not been remote copied from the primary stora... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7508625 | Magnetic recording device A magnetic recording device which can write magnetic information with high density. The device uses, for a magnetic recording layer of a magnetic recording medium, a magnetic material whose anisotropy energy varies with an applied electric field. The head has an ele... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7508337 | Radar apparatus and signal processing method The radar apparatus of the present invention can obtain distance to a target and speed with higher accuracy even when multiple targets are running within a detecting field of a radar. The radar apparatus can transmit a radio wave by alternately switching a section h... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7507632 | Semiconductor device and manufacturing method thereof In a MIS transistor of which gate length is 10 nm or less, a gate insulator comprising a silicon oxide film formed on a silicon substrate and a high-k film formed on the silicon oxide film has a nitrided region including more nitrogen at the lateral side than at the... | 03/24/2009 |
