Yahoo! Inc.

Other

The Penn State Research Foundation

Google Inc.

Oath Inc.

John Sampson

Todd Sampson

Steve Ho

Eric Marcoullier

Neil Scott Rafer

Suman Datta

Jacques E Ludman

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan

Sumitha George

Henry J Caulfield

Xueqing Li

Sumeet Kumar Gupta

Ian Kennedy

Emanuel Miller

Raymund Ramos

Kaisheng Ma

Chris Goffinet

Pankaj Kothari

Saurabh Sahni

Mani Kumar

Embodiments include nonvolatile a memory (NVM) device that can be configured for logic switching and/or digital computing. For example, embodiments of the NVM device can be configured as any one or combination of a memory cell, a D flip flop (DFF), a Backup and Restore circuit (B&R circuit), and/or a latch for a DFF. Any of the NVM devices can have a Fe field effect transistors (FeFET) configured to exploit the I&#x2212;Vhysteresis of the steep switch at low voltage for logic memory synergy. The FeFET-based devices can be configured to include a wide hysteresis, a steep hysteresis edge, and high ratio between the two Istates at V=0.

Nonvolatile digital computing with ferroelectric FET

Embodiments include nonvolatile a memory (NVM) device that can be configured for logic switching and/or digital computing. For example, embodiments of the NVM device can be configured as any one or combination of a memory cell, a D flip flop (DFF), a Backup and Restore circuit (B&R circuit), and/or a latch for a DFF. Any of the NVM devices can have a Fe field effect transistors (FeFET) configured to exploit the I-Vhysteresis of the steep switch at low voltage for logic memory synergy. The FeFET-based devices can be configured to include a wide hysteresis, a steep hysteresis edge, and high ratio between the two Istates at V=0.

Potential connections from a first user of a first online service to other users of the online service may be recommended by identifying a second online service from a plurality of online services, wherein the first user is a member of the second online service, identifying a second user of the second online service, wherein a connection exists in the second online service between the first user and the second user, and recommending that a connection be established in the first online service between the first user and the second user. Such recommendations may also be generated by identifying a second user and a third user, where the second user and the third user are members of a second online service, a connection exists in the first online service between the first user and the second user, and a connection exists in the second online service between the second user and the third user, and recommending that a connection be established in the first online service between the first user and the third user.

Identifying and recommending connections across multiple online services

A system and method are directed towards enabling centralized registration for managing a selective display of visitor information to distributed social networking websites. A visitor may enter selective personal information, and determine what information is made available on a social networking webpage. The visitor may then return to the social networking website to view selective visitor information, such as within a reader roll. A visitor to a social networking website may select to not have their information displayed at selective a social networking website, while still being displayed at another social networking website. In one embodiment, selecting to not display their information may be performed by 'mousing' over their information and selecting a display option. Social networking websites may look to a centralized registration system to determine whether to display the visitor information, while still being able to obtain information about the visitor, and/or provide benefits to the visitor.

Centralized registration for distributed social content services

Embodiments of the invention are directed to identifying network resources or other topics that are of interest to members of multiple online communities to which a user belongs. Online communities include blogs, websites, games, e-commerce systems, messaging systems, wikis, etc. For each online community, click activity or other client behaviors are tracked and analyzed to determine statistical metrics about community activity, such as which articles, links, services, or other network resources are popular in the online community. At least some of the tracking or analysis can be performed by clients that access the online communities, by a server of each online community, and/or by a central tracking system. The results for each community may be further analyzed relative to each other. The results are provided for all communities with which a given user is associated. For example, a list of the most popular links in the user's selected online communities.

Hot within my communities

A method of gathering information relevant to the interests of a user includes receiving activity history associated with the user from a network data source, where the activity history includes a description of a user action initiated by the user, generating a first metadata item based upon the activity history; and storing the first metadata item as user profile information associated with the user in a user profile database. Generating the first metadata item may include extracting text from the activity history and generating the first metadata item based upon the text. The activity history may include a description of a user action. The method may further include providing a server plugin for performing a second method in response to access of web content on a server by the user, the second method comprising retrieving a content object from the server, determining if the first metadata item is relevant to the content object, adding a web link to the web content as a reference to the content object in response to the content object being relevant to the first metadata item; and providing the web content to the user.

Augmenting online content with additional content relevant to user interest

A system and method are directed towards enabling control of widgets using on-widget data controls. A visitor may enter selective personal information and determine what information is made available on a social networking webpage. A visitor to a social networking website may select to not have their information displayed at a social networking website, while still being displayed at another social networking website. A visitor's information may be displayed within a reader roll, an association listing, a visitor comment page, or the like. An owner of a social networking website may also select not to have a visitor's information displayed on the website. In one embodiment, selecting not to display information may be performed by 'mousing' over the information and selecting a display option. Social networking websites may look to a centralized registration system to determine whether to display the visitor information.

On-widget data control

Rendering a contributor representation, such as an avatar, near content such as a comment, contributed to a web page such as a blog. The contributor representation is associated with a contributor identifier, such as an email address, and stored at a centralized registrar. The centralized registrar provides a content service with an initial script to include in the web page along with the contributor identifier. A requesting client runs the initial script, which requests an additional script from the centralized registrar. The additional script can track user actions and analyzes the DOM of the web page for an attribute associated with the contributor identifier and contributed content. Based on a location of the attribute in the DOM, the additional script also determines a location in the web page to insert the contributor representation. The additional script then requests and inserts the contributor representation to be rendered near the contributed content.

Comment faces

A fiber Fourier spectrometer having a focusing element, a beamsplitter, a pair of monomode optical fibers, a block of electro-optic material defining a pair of optical paths and means for controlling the effective length of one of the optical paths. A source of electromagnetic radiation is focused through and reflected by the beamsplitter into the pair of monomode fibers, respectively, and from there to the respective optical paths within the electro-optic block of material. The outputs of the two optical paths are combined and received by an intensity detector. Varying the effective path length of one of the optical paths alters the phase of the beam passing therethrough. Because the source of electromagnetic radiation has different wavelengths, the spectral components of the source are phase retarded by different amounts as they pass through the electro-optic material and can therefore be analyzed by a conventional Fourier spectroscopy technique.

Fiber fourier spectrometer

A fiber stellar interferometer having a pair of adjustably movable focusing lenses, a pair of monomode optical fibers, a block of electro-optic material defining a pair of optical paths, means for controlling the effective path length of one of the optical paths and an intensity detector. Electromagnetic radiation emanating from a source, such as a star, is received at two separate locations by the focusing lenses which direct this electromagnetic radiation into two separate beams which are focused into each of the pair of monomode fibers, respectively. The monomode fibers direct these two beams into respective optical paths within the electro-optic block of material. The outputs from the two optical paths are combined and received by the intensity detector. Varying the effective path length of one of the optical paths alters the phase of the beam passing therethrough. As a consequence thereof the intensity of the output received by the detector varies accordingly. These varying intensities can be utilized to determine the size and shape of the source by conventional stellar intensity interferometer techniques.

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