Abstract:
Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture for borrow processing in storage pools. A plurality of physical volumes are allocated to a first storage pool. A determination is made whether the first storage pool has less than a threshold number of empty physical volumes. If the first storage pool has less than the threshold number of empty physical volumes, then at least one empty physical volume is borrowed to the first storage pool from a second storage pool.
Abstract:
Provided are a method, system, and program for managing storage units. Storage pool information indicates an assignment of a plurality of storage units to a plurality of storage pools, wherein each pool is assigned zero or more storage units, and wherein data associated with one storage pool is stored in at least one storage unit assigned to the storage pool. User selection is received to move at least one storage unit to a target storage pool. A determination is made of at least one storage unit assigned to a source storage pool to move to the target storage pool. The storage pool information is updated to indicate the determined at least one selected storage unit as assigned to the target storage pool.
Abstract:
A recording device at a calling party premises is configured for recording a message for a messaging subscriber by the calling party, and sending the recorded message, via a data network, to a destination message store serving the messaging subscriber. The recording device sends the recorded message based on messaging subscriber attributes retrieved via the data network. Hence, a calling party can utilize a recording device at the calling party premises for recording a message for a messaging subscriber, and sending the message via the data network to a destination message store, eliminating the necessity of establishing any voice-grade connection or a media connection between the calling party and any server (e.g., messaging server, media gateway server, etc.).
Abstract:
A package of a semiconductor device with a flexible wiring substrate and a method thereof are provided. The package of the semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate with at least one pad on a surface thereof, a bump bonded to the pad, an adhesive layer on the bump, and a flexible wiring substrate having at least one contact section being electrically connected with the bump by the adhesive layer. The present invention makes the flexible wiring substrate directly conductively attached onto the semiconductor substrate. The package size is shrunk and the cost down can be obtained.
Abstract:
Processes for making particularly branched, especially monomethyl-branched or nongeminal dimethyl-branched surfactants used in cleaning products; preferred processes comprising particular combinations of two or more adsorptive separation steps and, more preferably, particular alkylation steps; products of such processes, including certain modified alkylbenzenes, modified alkylbenzenesulfonate surfactants, and consumer cleaning products, especially laundry detergents, containing them. Preferred processes herein more specifically use specific, unconventional sequences of sorptive separation steps to secure certain branched hydrocarbon fractions which are used in further process steps as alkylating agents for arenes or for other useful surfactant-making purposes. Surprisingly, such fractions can even be derived from effluents from current linear alkylbenzene manufacture.
Abstract:
Disclosed is an apparatus and method for detecting errors in one-hot words, which have only a single bit set in the absence of errors. The apparatus comprises a plurality of input signal lines, a plurality of switching devices, a plurality of intermediate signal lines, and logic circuitry. The switching devices are connected to the input signal lines. The intermediate signal lines are also connected to the switching devices. The connection is in such a way that when a particular input signal line is set, all intermediate signal lines connected by a switching device to that particular input signal line are forced to a predetermined logic state. The intermediate signal lines are input to the logic circuitry, which outputs a signal indicative of whether at least two of the plurality of input signal lines are set. The method detects non-one-hot conditions in a group of M bits. The method encodes the group of M bits into at least 2·log2M encoded bits, such that each one-hot condition in the group of M bits generates a unique condition in the encoded bits. The method determines on the basis of the encoded bits whether the group of M bits are in a non-one-hot condition. In another respect, the method first partitions a group D of bits into two non-intersecting subsets NS0 and S0 such that D is the union of NS0 and S0. The method determines whether any of the bits in the subset NS0 are hot. The method also determines whether any of the bits in the subset S0 are hot. The group D is partitioned again into another two completely different non-intersecting subsets NS1 and S1 such that D is the union of NS1 and S1. The method then determines whether any of the bits in NS1 are hot and whether any of the bits in S1 are hot. On the basis of the determinations made so far, the method determines whether the group D contains at least two hot bits. The apparatus and method detect all non-one-hot words, is scalable, and can be implemented physically with a small propagation delay that is largely independent of the number of input signal lines or the size of the group D.
Abstract:
The present invention is in the field of processes for making alkylbenzenesulfonate surfactants. The processes herein include a combination of two essential steps, delinearization and alkylation. The delinearization step selected herein introduces particular types of limited branching into an aliphatic hydrocarbon having ten or more, but no more than about 16, carbon atoms. The hydrocarbon includes olefin having a hydrocarbon chain length suitable for detergent manufacture, e.g., C10-C14, or a corresponding paraffin. The second essential step is an alkylation step having an internal isomer selectivity of from 0 to no more than about 40 in which the hydrocarbon is used to monoalkylate benzene catalytically with an alkylation catalyst. Such alkylation catalysts preferably comprise an at least partially crystalline porous zeolite-containing solid, the zeolite having moderate acidity and intermediate pore size. Preferred alkylation catalysts include certain at least partially dealuminized acidic nonfluorinated mordenites. The processes herein further comprise sulfonating, neutralizing and incorporating the resulting modified alkylbenzenesulfonate surfactants into consumer products. The invention relates also to the products of the processes, including modified surfactants and consumer cleaning products containing them.