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General Electric Company

Huawei Technologies Co., Limited

Haier Smart Home Co., Ltd.

Qingdao Haier Washing Machine Co., Ltd.

Petrochina Company Limited

East China University of Science

Sheng Xu

Kuan Feng

Rong Yan

Yu Fen Yuan

Huo Ding Li

Xing Liu

Liang Chen

Xing S H Liu

Jun Wei Zhang

Yali Wang

Yu Wang

Yonghua Lin

Libo Wang

Min Liu

Zhenxing Huang

Qian Chen

Wangjun Wu

Yanfei Gu

Peng Wei

Yu Jin

Yongai Zhang

Sihan Wang

Zhixian Lin

Tailiang Guo

Guizhi Wang

Baojun Zhang

Xiuhui Wang

Dalong Zhong

Buwei Yu

Fuling Huang

Yun Ye

Deshun Zhang

Xuemei Han

Shukun Sun

Jianzhong Li

Liqin Hu

Jiabo Qu

Gang Wang

Lingting Fan

Guiyue Guo

Jianmin Yao

Zhilong Chen

YiHui Xu

Shuxia Zhang

Puke Mi

Jinhua Qian

Hao Chen Gui

Panfeng Lu

Yuxin Gao

Ling Jiang

A control method for a smart home system, the smart home system comprising a smart socket and a laundry treatment device. The laundry treatment device is electrically connected to the smart socket. The control method includes: measuring electricity consumption parameters of a laundry treatment device by a smart socket; determining operation information of the laundry treatment device according to the electricity consumption parameters; determining the amount of detergent consumed by the laundry treatment device according to the operation information; and calculating a remaining amount of the detergent in the laundry treatment device according to the amount of detergent consumed; and based on a calculation result, selectively giving an insufficient detergent prompt by a reminding apparatus.

Control method for smart home system

The present invention relates to a method of processing a component, wherein the component comprises at least one opening in a surface thereof, the method comprising: placing the component in an electrophoretic fluid comprising particles of a masking material as an electrode, applying a voltage to the component and a counter electrode of the component, depositing particles of the masking material in the electrophoretic fluid into the at least one aperture through electrophoresis to mask the at least one aperture; processing a surface of the component; and removing the masking material in the at least one opening.

Method of masking apertures in a component and processing the component

A distributed storage system places data in a time-based manner. The distributed storage system comprises a plurality of storage nodes for storing user data, and each user in at least one user is assigned a storage node sub-set for storing user data thereof. The distributed storage system monitors and records user accesses on storage nodes. The distributed storage system calculates a time-based access pattern of a user and time-based access patterns of the storage nodes outside the storage node sub-set of the user in the distributed storage system according to recorded user accesses. The distributed storage system adjusts the storage node sub-set of the user according to the time-based access pattern of the user and the time-based access patterns of the storage nodes outside the storage node sub-set of the user in the distributed storage system.

Time-based data placement in a distributed storage system

A process for the synthesis of 1,3-diethyl 2-(2-methylhydrazinylidene)propanedioate comprising the step of: reacting 2-halosubstituted diethyl malonate or mixtures of 2-halo-substituted diethyl malonates with methylhydrazine or the salt thereof in the presence of an acid catalyst is disclosed. 1,3-diethyl 2-(2-methylhydrazinylidene)propanedioate is an intermediate useful for preparing 1,3,4-triazines.

Process for the synthesis of intermediates useful for preparing 1,3,4-triazine derivatives

Embodiments of the present invention disclose an antenna receiving mode configuration processing method, a base station controller, and a base station. When a user applies to a base station for establishing or adding radio links, an antenna receiving mode of the user is determined according to resource allocation information of the user. User admission processing is performed according to a channel element consumption rule that corresponds to the antenna receiving mode of the user. The base station controller includes a mode determining module and an admission processing module. The base station includes a configuring module, a monitoring module, and an adjusting module.

Method for antenna receiving mode configuration processing, base station controller and base station

A method for synthesis of 1-decene oligomer is provided, wherein 1-decene is polymerized at 80-120&#xb0; C., 0.8-1.4 MPa in the presence of aluminum trichloride catalyst supported on gamma-alumina and n-hexane solvent where the volume ratio of 1-decene to n-hexane is 3:8-4:1. The catalyst is treated as follows: impregnating gamma-alumina carrier in 0.5-2.0 M of hydrochloric acid, sulfuric acid, nitric acid or mixtures thereof, then vacuum drying at 80-100&#xb0; C. and calcining at 400-800&#xb0; C.; dissolving 5-10 g of anhydrous aluminum trichloride in 100 ml of tetrachloromethane, trichloromethane or dichloromethane solvent; adding the obtained solution into 10-20 g of activated alumina carrier and obtaining the catalyst after vacuum drying. The conversion of 1-decene is 50 wt % or more. The oligomer has a kinematic viscosity at 40&#xb0; C. of 6.0-25 mm/s and a viscosity index of 160-262.

Method for synthesis of 1-decene oligomer

The present invention relates to display manufacturing technology, especially for a dielectric-free triode field emission display device based on double-gate/single-cathode type electron emission units and the device drive methods. This device comprises parallelly positioned anode and cathode/gate plates, during production, gate/cathode/gate electron emission units are set on the cathode/gate plate side by side. The spacing between cathode and gate electrodes is vacuum circumstance. For each cathode, an anode is positioned on the anode plate, facing the cathode. And the voltages applied on the cathode and gate electrodes are to scan and the anode voltage is to adjust the signal. When the electrodes on the cathode/gate plate take on fixed roles, fixed voltages are used to drive the device. When these electrodes on the cathode/gate plate can be used interchangeably as cathode or gate electrodes, respectively, pulse scanning method is used to drive the device.

Dielectric-free triode field emission display device based on double-gate/single-cathode type electron emission units and the device drive methods

An information handling system includes a multi-core processor that processes variable-length code (VLC) bitstream data. The bitstream data includes multiple codewords that the processor organizes into functionally common subsets. The processor includes a general purpose processor (GPU) and one or more special purpose processor (SPUs). An SPU of the processor may includes two SPU buffers. The processor first transfers bitstream data into GPU buffer memory and then populates the SPU buffers one after another with bitstream data. The SPU buffers may each include an overlap region that the SPU populates with the same bitstream data. The SPU parses the bitstream data in the SPU buffers in alternating fashion. The SPU may shift parsing from the one SPU buffer to the other SPU buffer when parsing reaches a subset boundary within an overlap region.

Variable-length code (VLC) bitstream parsing in a multi-core processor with buffer overlap regions

An information handling system includes a multi-core processor that processes variable-length code (VLC) bitstream data. The bitstream data includes multiple codewords for interpretation. The processor includes a general purpose unit (GPU) and a special purpose unit (SPU). The GPU includes GPU buffers and the SPU includes SPU buffers. After populating one GPU buffer with bitstream data, the processor populates another GPU buffer with subsequent bitstream data. The processor may populate the GPU buffers in alternating fashion. The processor populates one SPU buffer with bitstream data while parsing bitstream data in the other SPU buffer. The GPU of the processor populates the SPU buffers in alternating fashion. The size of the GPU buffers may be a multiple of the size of the SPU buffers. After the SPU buffers consume the bitstream data from one GPU buffer, the other GPU buffer transfers its bitstream data to the SPU buffers for parsing.

Asymmetric double buffering of bitstream data in a multi-core processor

An information handling system (IHS) may include a processor with multiple compute elements that decode pictures from an encoded video bitstream. Each compute element may perform a different part or sequential stage of a picture decoding process to obtain decoded pictures. A memory includes a decoded picture buffer that associates with a first stage of the sequential stages. The memory may also include respective decoded picture buffer snapshots for sequential stages other than the first sequential stage. A last sequential stage provides fully decoded pictures to a decoded picture pool in memory. The decoded picture buffer and decoded picture buffer snapshots may store pointers to decoded pictures in the decoded picture pool that the sequential stages need to perform decoding of pictures. In this manner, the sequential stages may share decoded pictures that the decoded picture pool stores.

Picture processing via a shared decoded picture pool

The present invention provides a method and apparatus for partitioning, sorting a data set on a multi-processor system. Herein, the multi-processor system has at least one core processor and a plurality of accelerators. The method for partitioning a data set comprises: partitioning iteratively said data set into a plurality of buckets corresponding to different data ranges by using said plurality of accelerators in parallel, wherein each of the plurality of buckets could be stored in local storage of said plurality of accelerators; wherein in each iteration, the method comprises: roughly partitioning said data set into a plurality of large buckets; obtaining parameters of said data set that can indicate the distribution of data values in that data set; determining a plurality of data ranges for said data set based on said parameters; and partitioning said plurality of large buckets into a plurality of small buckets corresponding to the plurality of data ranges respectively by using said plurality of accelerators in parallel, wherein each of said plurality of accelerators, for each element in the large bucket it is partitioning, determines a data range to which that element belongs among the plurality of data ranges by computation.

Method and apparatus for partitioning and sorting a data set on a multi-processor system

An information handling system includes a processor that may perform preprocessing on a variable-length code (VLC) bitstream before decoding the bitstream. The bitstream includes multiple codewords. The processor analyzes incoming VLC bitstream information and generates codeword table information for storage in a system memory or a VLC codeword tables location. The processor generates a VLC lookup table from the information in the VLC codeword tables and stores that VLC lookup table in a system memory of the IHS. The VLC lookup table may exhibit two dimensional indexing by leading zero count and bit-length possibility.

Preprocessing variable-length code (VLC) bitstream information

An information handling system includes a processor that may perform decoding of a variable-length code (VLC) bitstream after preprocessing the bitstream. The bitstream includes multiple VLC symbols as binary codewords. The processor analyzes incoming VLC bitstream information and generates VLC codeword symbol information in conformance with a VLC lookup table. The processor may access a 2 dimensional VLC lookup table in real time or on-the-fly. The VLC lookup table may reside in a system memory of the IHS. The single VLC lookup table may exhibit two dimensional indexing by leading zero count and bit-length possibility.

Decoding variable-length code (VLC) bitstream information

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