The present invention includes methods and devices for providing. According to some implementations, radio frequency identification ("RFID") tags are positioned at various locations throughout a building. Building locations can be determined from the RFID tags. Emergency service providers may be equipped with a portable device that includes at least one RFID reader for reading the RFID tags. Some implementations involve transmitting the RFID tag data to a control center from which the emergency ...

A method for tracing an instrumented program on a system during booting, including loading object code defining enabling information into a property file associated with a tracing framework, rebooting the system, processing the property file to enable the tracing framework, wherein enabling the tracing framework comprises creating an anonymous consumer state, and tracing the instrumented program using the enabled tracing framework.

The present invention relates to a method and a device for controlling power in a network transmitted from a first station to a second station. The second station determines a power target value for a signal received from the first station and sends power control commands to the first station depending on a deviation between said power target value and a received power level. The second station detects faulty data blocks received from the first station and requests retransmission of faulty data ...

Gas shielding is employed to prevent metal plating on contacts during electroplating to reduce particulate contamination and increase thickness uniformity. In another embodiment, gas shielding is employed to prevent deposition on the backside and edges of a semiconductor wafer during plating.

A method for segregating qualities of an agricultural product during processing of the product comprises the step of setting a desired range of a measurement value (2). The measurement value represents a property of the product and defines a first quality of the product for which the measurement value is inside the range and a second quality of the product for which the measurement value is outside the range. The method further comprises the step of analyzing (4) the quality of the product that ...

The present invention provides a system and method allowing customers to conduct a remote banking transaction at a fuel dispenser, including obtaining cash in association with the transaction at the dispenser or a common terminal in the dispenser forecourt. The system may include a cash dispenser at the dispenser, fueling position, or the central terminal, or, alternatively, a delivery system configured to deliver cash from a central location to the customer at the dispenser, fueling position, o...

A method to protect data of a drive from illegal accessing without increasing the load of processing on the drive side and to prevent not only illegal copying on the drive side but also an illegal action on the host unit side. Authentication of the drive is executed by the host unit. If the drive is authenticated, then a contents key is encrypted using a host ID registered in advance in a storage area of the host unit and a session key and first identification information read out from a storage...

A method of machining one or more tooth slots in a bevel gear-shaped workpiece with a cup-shaped tool having one or more stock removing surfaces. The method comprises indexing the workpiece by rotation about a workpiece axis to bring one of the tooth slots to a final machining position. Simultaneously with at least a portion of the indexing, positioning the tool to contact the workpiece to commence machining the slot and infeeding the tool during the indexing while moving the tool with the index...

A method of physical circuit design can include the steps of packing components of a circuit design that are dependent upon an architecture of the circuit design and assigning initial locations to each component of the circuit design. The components of the circuit design can be clustered by combining slices and including slices into configurable logic blocks according to design constraints, while leaving enough white space in the configurable logic blocks for post-placement circuit optimizations...

A pipe bending mandrel for use inside the pipe embodies a flexible body suspended between spaced supports and made of a series of diametrically opposed, pipe-engaging shoes that are clamped tightly in place against the pipe by toggle joints in a manner to preclude displacement during bending so that pipe buckling and wrinkling at the bend are effectively eliminated. A reciprocable control common to the toggles and actuated by a single power device results in equalized forces imparted to the pipe...