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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide Ge-rich GST-212 phase change materials to realize higher crystallization temperature, lower reset current requirement and better retention than conventional GST-225 phase change memory.SOLUTION: The Ge atomic concentration x is within a range from 30% to 65%, the Sb atomic concentration y is within a range from 13% to 27% and the Te atomic concentration z is within a range from 20% to 45%. A Ge-rich family of such materials is also described. A memory device comprising such materials suitable for integrated circuits is described.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an optical proximity correction method using a modified merit function based upon a yield.SOLUTION: Known failure mechanisms related to layout geometries are used to derive yield functions based upon distance values between layout features, such as, edge features. In comparing edge points on a predicted layout pattern with corresponding points on a design layout pattern, a yield test is first undertaken before movement of the points on the predicted layout pattern to positions of a higher yield. When the yield is acceptable, no further movement is made. When incremental movement of the points places the points within acceptable proximity before an acceptable yield is reached, the point are flagged for further consideration.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To receive subsequent write data without a backhitch after a synchronization request.SOLUTION: A tape drive receives write requests and a synchronization request of a plurality of data pieces from a host device, performs a synchronization process (storing buffer data in a tape medium), and returns a completion of the synchronization request to the host device. The tape drive includes: a write control that transfers data from the buffer to the tape medium; and a command queuing function to asynchronously process a plurality of commands issued in succession from the host device. The write control is configured to (a) store data, transferred according to a first write request, in the buffer and receive a write request for a data set following a first synchronization request, and (b) return a completion of processing of the first synchronization request after receiving the write request by use of the queuing function. The write control stores, as a position of the synchronization request, a buffer position at which the last data is located at the time of receiving the synchronization request. The completion of the first synchronization request is returned after a subsequent second write request is received.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide techniques, programs and systems for effectively reflecting a manipulation of an object in graph data.SOLUTION: A method enables a manipulation performed on an object as an image of a mapping of at least a part of graph data including nodes and edges to be reflected in the graph data. The method includes the steps of: specifying, from among nodes in the graph data that are related to the object being modified by the manipulation, a shared node that may be related to another object as well; and reflecting the manipulation in the graph data while preventing the shared node from being modified.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To generate a uniformly distributed discrete pattern.SOLUTION: An information processing device 100, for calculating a spatial arrangement of plural elements of a discrete pattern formed by the elements spatially discretely arranged, calculates, for each element, a density at initial positions respectively given to the individual elements on the basis of density distribution of the elements within a region where the elements of the discrete pattern are arranged, to set a diagram having a size in accordance with the density and representing a region in which the individual elements reject others and the moving range of the diagram at the initial positions of the individual elements, and minimizes a target function to give a penalty to a mutual collision of diagrams and protrusion of a diagram from the moving range, using the respective positions of the individual diagrams as decision variables to calculate the optimum solution of the respective positions of the individual diagrams and output the resultant optimum solution of the respective positions of the individual diagrams as the spatial positions of the elements.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a semiconductor bonding device capable of alleviating stress and performing solder bump connection of a thin silicon chip to a substrate.SOLUTION: In solder bump connection between a contact on a silicon chip having a thickness of 50 μm or less and a plurality of contacts on a substrate, a tool head to which a PGS (Pyrolytic Graphite Sheet) having a thickness of 75-125 μm is adhered is used to form an electrical mechanical bonding by heating and melting and gradual heating based on forced convection of air.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide techniques for automatically associating a scanner device with a user.SOLUTION: The method associates and/or disassociates a mobile POS scanner device with a particular shopper. Shoppers may be identified, for example, by scanning using biometrics. As an example of the use, the shopper's fingerprint is scanned as a trigger to activate the scanner, to scan an item's barcode. The fingerprint is transmitted, along with the scanned barcode, to a server or another device for comparison to previously-stored information. The scanner is then automatically associated with the shopper to whom the fingerprint corresponds. Disassociating the scanning from a shopper is triggered using a sensor (such as a light) that forms part of the scanner device, thereby the sensor is activated when the shopper releases the scanner device.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide techniques for automatically associating a scanner device with a user.SOLUTION: The method associates and/or disassociates a mobile POS scanner device with a particular shopper. Shoppers may be identified by scanning using biometrics. As an example of the use, the shopper's fingerprint is scanned as a trigger to activate the scanner, to scan an item's barcode. The fingerprint is preferably transmitted, along with the scanned barcode, to a server or another device for comparison to previously-stored information. The scanner is then automatically associated with the shopper to whom the fingerprint corresponds. Disassociating the scanning from a shopper is triggered using a sensor (such as a light) that forms part of the scanner device, thereby the sensor is activated when the shopper releases the scanner device.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide protection against unauthorized access.SOLUTION: A system comprises: a detection unit configured to detect unauthorized access to an information processing apparatus; and a control unit configured to shift modes of the information processing apparatus. A computer executes a first virtual machine and a second virtual machine. When the system is operating normally, the control unit causes the information processing apparatus implemented by the first virtual machine to operate in a normal mode, and causes the information processing apparatus implemented by the second virtual machine to operate in a standby mode. If the unauthorized access is detected, the control unit shifts the information processing apparatus implemented by the first virtual machine into a decoy mode, and shifts the information processing apparatus implemented by the second virtual machine into the normal mode.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To perform sub-metering of fluid use using a single acoustic transducer positioned at a common supply point.SOLUTION: A computer attached to the transducer determines when each consumption point is active and measures the respective amount of fluid drawn by each. Acoustic signatures of each consumption point differ depending on the length of piping runs and locations of elbows, tees, and other structures which cause acoustic energy as the fluid flows through. The acoustic signatures are recorded by the computer and are used to simultaneously differentiate fluid use at each consumption point.