Abstract:
A ferroelectric capacitor structure and its method of making in which a ferroelectric stack of two metal-oxide electrodes (46, 52) sandwiching a ferroelectric layer (50) is fabricated on a silicon substrate (40) with an intervening barrier layer, preferably of TiN (42). In one embodiment, a platinum layer (44) is grown between the TiN and the lower metal-oxide electrode at a sufficiently high temperature that provides crystallographically ordered growth of the ferroelectric stack. In another embodiment, the platinum layer was completely eliminated with the lower electrode (46) being grown directly on the TiN (42). Although the conventional conductive metal-oxide used in the electrode is lanthanum strontium cobalt oxide (LSCO), lanthanum nickel oxide provides good electrical and lifetime characteristics in a ferroelectric cell. Alternatively, the electrodes can be formed of the rock-salt metal oxides, such as neodymium oxide (NdO).
Abstract:
A method and system for placing advertisements in a computer network. A server containing a collection of advertisements is placed in electronic communication with the computer network. The advertisements on the server are not tied to any particular page containing information on the network, but rather, are retrieved in response to a query entered by the user (17) and dynamically mixed with the content of the pages returned in response to the query (16). The present invention displays the content pages with focused, targeted advertisements as a part of the page, in accordance with a particular layout. The advertisements can be made to satisfy a set of constraints (19) requested by the advertiser, as well as the constraints of the publisher of the page. The system uses contracts (21) to specify the marketing rules (18) that link ads with specific queries, to permit advertisers to target a specific audience, and to guarantee a certain amount of exposure of the advertisement in prime advertising space. Algorithms are used to check for contract consistency to ensure that all contracts that are accepted can be properly satisfied. The present invention also provides a download delay-time advertising feature.
Abstract:
An optical filter, such as a wavelength-division multiplexer, demultiplexer, or optical router, in which several single-mode waveguides are coupled to the sides of an optical interaction region containing a wavelength dispersive element that collects light from one or more input waveguides inputting light to the interaction region and disperses it according to wavelength to one or more output waveguides outputting wavelength-separated light. According to the invention, a multi-moded waveguide (42) is interposed between one or more of the single-moded waveguides (40) and the optical interaction region (54). It has a predetermined length to create at one end a multiply peaked image of a singly peaked profile presented to it at the other end, thus being a multi-moded interference (MMI) filter that presents a flatter filter profile at the interface between the MMI and the optical interaction region and affords reduced filter sensitivity to wavelength drift of an optical signal.
Abstract:
An airdisk (80) performs a TDMA/FDMA (Time Division Multiple Access/Frequency Division Multiple Access) wireless broadcast, divided into periodically-repeated time-slotted data items, analogous to sectors on a rotating disk, over multiple broadcast frequencies, analogous to tracks on a disk. The data items (1-14) on the airdisk may be sorted according to user interest, user profile, or from polling user preferences as by the monitoring of an uplink for user requests. The monitoring of the uplink can be performed in a time less than the rotation period of the airdisk. Users may be precluded from requesting data already on the airdisk for a prescribed time period. The sorting of the data items may be according to rank of popularity, iteratively calculated by an objective function which exchanges ranked weighted data items on the airdisk to obtain the value of candidate sort orders which optimize the objective function.
Abstract:
A system and method for the direct reconstruction of a diffusion image from measurements of the transmitted intensity of the scattered radiation effected by irradiating the object (710) with a time-domain source (720). The transmitted intensity detected by detector (730) is related to the diffusion coefficient by an integral operator. The image is directly reconstructed by a processor (750), with input means (760) and output means (770), by executing a prescribed mathematical algorithm, as determined with reference to the integral operator, on the transmitted intensity.
Abstract:
A system and method for the direct reconstruction of the absorption and diffusion images from measurements of the transmitted intensity of the scattered radiation effected by irradiating the object (710) with a time-domain source (720). The transmitted intensity detected by the detector (730) is related to the absorption and the diffusion coefficients by an integral operator. The images are directly reconstructed by a processor (750) by executing a prescribed mathematical algorithm, as determined with reference to the integral operator, on the transmitted intensity.
Abstract:
Ferroelectric capacitor heterostructures exhibiting exceptional reliability and resistance to fatigue and imprinting comprise hybrid electrodes of highly conductive platinum (14) with polycrystalline metallic oxide (15) and ferroelectric materials (16) deposited on Si-CMOS-compatible substrates (11) without the requirement for interposed crystallographic orientation templates.
Abstract:
In a network-based telephone system [100] including a service control point (SCP) [102] for accessing a call processing record (CPR), an intelligent peripheral (IP) [104] provides an intelligent interface between a caller and the SCP [102]. The IP [104] communicates with the SCP [102] through a peripheral interface (PI) [128]. External systems [106] are accessed by SCP [102] through a generic data interface (GDI) [124] to obtain customer data. The GDI [124] keeps track of the data stored in the various external systems [106]. Upon receiving a request for data, GDI [124] forms sub-requests, routes the sub-requests to the appropriate external systems [106], and returns a message containing the requested data.
Abstract:
In a telephone network, customized advanced intelligent network (AIN) services are provided to standard IN/1 "800" service customers. An IN/1 service switching point (IN/1 SSP) (130) receives a call directed to the standard IN/1 "800" service customer (112), and generates an "800" query to an "800" services data base (156). An "800" service control point ("800" SCP) (150) generates an "800" response containing a carrier identification code, and the IN/1 SSP routes the call via a trunk group designated by the carrier identification code. An AIN-equipped service switching point (AIN SSP) (126) then generates an AIN query to an AIN service data base (174). In response, an AIN-equipped service control point (AIN.SCP) (170) executes AIN service records corresponding to the standar IN/1 "800" service customer to generate an AIN response containing call processing instructions. The AIN SSP (126) then uses the call processing instructions to complete the call.
Abstract:
A method and system are provided for managing memory to reassemble data packets received from different virtual channels in an ATM network. The method and system recognizes that both reliable and best effort traffic must be supported by a network interface. The system makes use of a virtual First-In-First-Out (FIFO) concept that partitions random access memory (RAM) space into multiple FIFO queues. The virtual FIFOs can have different sizes, and can be allocated to connections depending on quality of service requirements. A dedicated embedded controller (721) to provide flexibility is used in the system, as well as Content Addressable Memory (CAM) devices (723, 724) and external logic. The method and system can also be applied at ATM transmitters in the implementation of congestion control algorithms.