Hitachi, Ltd.

Fujitsu Corporation

Eastman-kodak Company

Mitsubishi Rayon Company, Limited

Micron Technology Incorporated

Hitachi Maxell, Limited

Spansion Llc.

Longitude Semiconductor S.a.r.l.

Mitsubishi Rayon Cleansui Company, Limited

Hatakeyama Et Al.

Alps Alpine Co., Ltd.

Atsushi Hatakeyama

Hiromichi Fujisawa

Kanji Kato

Hisamitsu Kawaguchi

Hirohiko Mochizuki

Masaaki Fujinawa

Yoshihiro Takemae

Masao Taguchi

Mitsuru Akizawa

Yasurou Matsuzaki

Masao Nakano

Takaaki Suzuki

Satoshi Asakawa

Junji Ogawa

Hidefumi Masuzaki

Masaharu Murakami

Yukinori Kodama

Makoto Yanagisawa

Shusaku Yamaguchi

Akihiko Yamaguchi

Itsuko Kiuchi

Hideaki Kawai

Hiroyoshi Tomita

Toshiya Uchida

Kuninori Kawabata

Koichi Nishimura

Nobuo Beniyama

Masato Takita

Katsumi Tada

Tadao Aikawa

Noriyuki Kaneoka

Junichi Higashino

Mitsuo Ooyama

Wayne F Niskala

Kota Saito

Michio Iijima

David Cohn

Shinya Fujioka

Atsushi Takeuchi

Ryo Kawai

Masato Matsumiya

Yoshinori Okajima

Kenichi Kawasaki

Yasuhiro Fujii

Akira Kikutake

Toshimi Ikeda

Natsuko Sugaya

Nobutaka Taniguchi

Satoshi Sasaki

Seishi Ohmori

Toshihiro Hananoi

Tsutomu Sasaki

Yasuaki Nakano

Mitsunori Satomi

Hiroaki Wada

Seiji Kashioka

Fumio Baba

Jun Yoshida

Masaki Izumi

Masayuki Takeda

Natsuko Mizutani

Toru Ishikawa

Kang-Yong Kim

Junichi Kasai

Nobuo Kawamura

Shinichi Yamada

Kazuhiro Kurihara

Tomonori Sato

Kaoru Mori

Hyun Yoo Lee

Kouki Noguchi

Mitsutaka Sato

Shunichi Torii

Yasuharu Sato

Satoshi Yoshizawa

Ayako Kitamoto

Kunio Kido

Minoru Yamashita

Takanori Shimura

Hatsumi Takeda

Tsutomu Miura

Eiichi Hadano

Mitsunobu Tasaka

Kazunari Kido

Yasushi Kawashimo

Yoshiyuki Matsuoka

Naotsugu Toume

Masaaki Okano

Takashi Ishizawa

Masamichi Yumino

Hiroe Ando

Naoki Minegishi

Minoru Wakabayashi

Akiyoshi Yamamoto

Disclosed herein is an apparatus that includes a plurality of memory banks and a refresh controller configured to perform a refresh operation on one or more of the plurality of memory banks having a first state without performing the refresh operation on one or more of the plurality of memory banks having a second state responsive to a first refresh command, and perform the refresh operation on a selected one of the plurality of memory banks responsive to a second refresh command. The refresh controller is configured to bring the selected one of the plurality of memory banks into the second state when the refresh operation is performed responsive to the second refresh command.

Semiconductor device performing refresh operation

A document retrieval system includes a storage device and a retrieval server. The storage device stores document data including documents compressed so as to correspond to a plurality of divided document groups, indexes indicating correspondence relations between partial character strings for retrieving the documents and first identifiers indicating the documents, and a first correspondence table in which the document groups are divided into document small groups, and second identifiers which indicate the document small groups correspond to the partial character strings. The retrieval server retrieves, in response to an input of a retrieval character string, a second identifier corresponding to a partial character string included in the retrieval character string, from the first correspondence table, decompresses document data in a document group, retrieves a first identifier corresponding to the partial character string, obtains document data corresponding to the retrieved first identifier, and outputs the retrieved first identifier.

Document retrieval system and retrieval method

A data search method and system are provided in which data including a suitable reply to a query can be retrieved through a concept search. A data search method for searching for a text group that is similar to an inquiry text from data storing a plurality or text groups into which a plurality of texts are grouped includes: obtaining first information that is likely to be a search object and an appearance frequency of the first information with respect to each of the text groups and classifying the first information as second information that is a search object if the appearance frequency of the first information is less than or equal to a predetermined frequency; extracting third information included in the inquiry text; searching for the third information from the second information with respect to each of the text groups; and outputting the identifiers of a predetermined number of text groups with a higher number of hits on the third information included in the inquiry text.

Data search method and data search system

This string search method for a computer that searches documents for a specified string includes the following steps: a first step in which the specified string is divided into a plurality of characters or strings, including a first character or string and a second character or string; a second step in which a plurality of sets are created by grouping a plurality of documents in units; a third step in which a determination is made as to whether or not the first character or string appears in that set; a fourth step in which a determination is made as to whether or not the second character or string appears in that set; and a sixth step in which, if first appearance information and second appearance information were both added to one of the plurality of sets, namely a first set, a detailed search is performed on said first set.

Search method

Disclosed herein is a device that includes an internal circuit, a first terminal supplied with a first voltage, a first power-supply line coupled between the first terminal and the internal circuit, a potential monitoring terminal, and a first switch coupled between the internal power-supply line and the potential monitoring terminal.

Semiconductor device having potential monitoring terminal to monitor potential of power-supply line

In a case where a master virtual machine, which is constructed on the basis of master information for configuring either part or all of a virtual machine, and an individual virtual machine, which is constructed on the basis of individual information that is configured partially or entirely in accordance with the master information, exist as the types of virtual machines that a physical client provides to a user terminal, a security check of a plurality of virtual machines is selectively executed, with respect to each check item, for a virtual machine of the type corresponding to the contents of the check item.

Security management device and method

A structure for an opening section closed by a net through which fluid flows. The opening section is provided in a vertical wall so as to rise to the vertical wall side from the corner formed between the vertical wall and a horizontal wall. A downward protruding rib is provided on the lower side of the opening section. The lower edge of the net is provided so as to be affixed to at least the rib.

Structure for opening section, and water purification cartridge

An evaluation system evaluates the suitability of an application in a plurality of types of application execution environments based on the characteristics of this application and the usage of this application by a user. The evaluation system displays information denoting the result of this evaluation.

System and method for evaluating application suitability in execution environment

A business process management computer, when the load of a service execution computer etc. is increased, determines the condition of a service call step which is calling a service execution unit, etc. of said service execution computer, etc. If said condition is the bottleneck condition, it determines the condition of the service call step in other process which is calling said service execution unit, etc. If there is no condition other than the bottleneck in that condition, the addition of the resource for said service execution computer, etc. is determined and if there is a condition in which the throughput can be limited, it is determined that the throughput should be limited. In a process which is configured with a plurality of service call steps, when the resource insufficiency has occurred, a means to make the adequate addition of the resource possible can be provided.

Business process management system, method thereof, process management computer and program thereof

A format conversion decision definition generating unitstores information whether or not a response message format from a service unitmay be utilized in all later service callings of a business process without format conversion in a repositoryas format conversion decision information, by referring to business process definition informationand adapter definition information. Then, when a business process operation control unitexecutes the business process, an adapter operation control unitrefers to the format conversion decision informationabout a target serviceat the time, and skips the format conversion when information indicating that the format conversion is unnecessary is stored in the format conversion decision information

Business process operation method and system

A method for controlling a management computer connected to a server for permitting communications therebetween, wherein the server transmits to a client the result of processing executed in response to each processing request sent from the client. The management computer stores an allowance for a value indicative of a load on the server, receives from the server a value calculated on the basis of the number of processing requests from the client and the value indicative of the load on the server. The management computer calculates an allowance for the value calculated from the number of processing requests, based on the value calculated from the number of processing requests, the allowance for the value indicative of the load, and the value indicative of the load, and transmits to the server the calculated allowance for the value calculated from the number of processing requests.

Method for controlling a management computer

A method for collecting log information relating to specific processing from pieces of log information for integration is disclosed. Session information, which is given every time log information is processed and included in the log information held by a server, is recorded in a session-information management table. In addition, how session information associates with others among different pieces of log information is recorded in a session-information association table. Recursively searching the session-information association table by use of session information specified by a user through a target log entry input unit enables identification of a set of session information relating to the processing to which the user pays attention. Information corresponding to each of the session information related is collected from log information, and is integrated according to the recorded data and time of a log.

Method and system for displaying integrated log information

A nonvolatile semiconductor memory device includes a plurality of memory cells holding memory cell information, a plurality of bit lines connected to the plurality of memory cells, the plurality of bit lines including a first bit line conected to a selected one of the plurality of memory cells and a plurality of second bit lines connected to non-selected memory cells, a plurality of reference cells supplying different reference currents respectively, and a read-out circuit, wherein, when reading the memory cell information, the read-out circuit is coupled to the first bit line connected to the selected memory cell and coupled to one of the plurality of reference cells through one of the plurality of second bit lines connected to the non-selected memory cells.

Multi-value nonvolatile semiconductor memory device equipped with reference cell and load balancing circuit

A semiconductor device includes a first memory cell array that includes memory cells for storing data and is managed on a sector basis, a second memory cell array including memory cells storing sector protection information on the sector basis, and a control circuit checking the sector protection information stored in the second memory cell array whenever the sector to be programmed or erased is selected. Thus, the sector protection information in all the sectors does not have to be latched at the time of power on. The latch circuit equal in number to the sector does not have to be provided. It is thus possible to reduce the number of the circuits drastically and the chip area can be reduced.

Semiconductor memory device and control method having data protection feature

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Atsushi Hatakeyama