Abstract:
One or more on-chip VNCAP or MIMCAP (310, 312) capacitors utilize a variable MOS capacitor (340) to improve the uniform capacitance value of the capacitors. This permits the production of silicon semiconductor chips (302) on which are mounted capacitors having capacitive values that are precisely adjusted to be within a range of between about 1% and 5% of their design value. This optimization can be achieved by the use of a back-to-back connection between a pair of the variable MOS capacitors for DC decoupling. It involves the parallelization of on-chip BEOL capacitance of VNCAP and/or MIMCAP capacitors by the insertion in the FEOL of pairs of back-to-back variable MOS capacitors.
Abstract:
Under the present invention, when a wireless device user is authenticated by a provider of wireless connectivity, certain information is communicated from the wireless device to a server maintained in the location of the user. Such information includes, among other things, information identifying the location of the wireless device. This information is typically maintained in a table or the like. After a data connection has been established with a public network, the information will be communicated to the provider of the public network and will be used thereby to track the location of the wireless device and/or user. In addition, the provider of the public network can query the server when updates to the information are desired. At this or any other time, the wireless device can be queried for any such updates.
Abstract:
The present invention provides a method, system and program product for deploying and allocating resources, and addressing threats in an autonomic sensor network ecosystem. Specifically, under the present invention, the autonomic sensor network ecosystem includes a set (e.g., one or more) of sensor networks each having a set of sensor peers and at least one super peer; a set of micro grid gateways; and a set of enterprise gateways. Each micro grid gateway is typically adapted to receive requests from a sensor network, an enterprise gateway, and/or another micro grid gateway. Moreover, each micro grid gateway includes a request broker for receiving the requests; a request queue manager for queuing the requests; a scheduler for scheduling the requests; and a resource manager for monitoring the set of sensor networks.