International Business Machines Corporation

Acm Research (shanghai) Inc.

Shu Qing Yang

Hui Gu

Yao Ma

Dong Hai Yu

Lei Chen

Hui Wang

Jun Wei Zhang

Fuping Chen

Xiaoyan Zhang

Fufa Chen

Kuan Feng

Hongchao Yang

Wenjun Wang

Voha Nuch

Jun W Zhang

Jian Wang

Yuan Yuan Li

Zhao Wang

Miao Tao Feng

A coater with automatic cleaning function and a coater automatic cleaning method. The coater () includes a coater chamber () capable of being filled up with cleaning solution, a substrate chuck () holding and positioning a substrate (), and at least one shroud () capable of moving up for preventing photoresist from splashing out of the coater chamber (), or moving down and immersing into the cleaning solution for cleaning. The coater () automatic cleaning method includes the following steps: turning off a liquid outlet valve (A,B,) of the coater (); filling up a coater chamber () with cleaning solution; after photoresist in the coater chamber () being dissolved into the cleaning solution, turning on the liquid outlet valve (A,B,) and draining the cleaning solution out of the coater chamber ().

Coater with automatic cleaning function and coater automatic cleaning method

Provided are a method, system, computer storage device, and storage area network for maintaining a communication path from a host to a storage subsystem in a network. A storage subsystem controls data transfer and access to a storage devices in a network, wherein the storage subsystem is coupled to a switch and the switch is coupled to a host in the network. A topological storage is coupled to the host, the switch and the storage subsystem, for storing a topological coupling relationship between the host and the switch and a topological coupling relationship between the switch and the storage subsystem. In response to determining a failed path between the storage subsystem and the switch coupled to the storage subsystem, the storage subsystem determines a first port on the storage subsystem in the failed path. The storage subsystem determines from the topology storage the topological coupling relationship between the host and the switch and the topological coupling relationship between the switch and the storage subsystem. The storage subsystem redirects, based on the topological coupling relationships, a message sent to the first port of the storage subsystem to an operational second port in the storage subsystem coupled to the switch.

Maintaining a communication path from a host to a storage subsystem in a network

A mechanism is provided for thin provisioning. An original time-domain sequence of a load parameter of storage resources already allocated to an application program is collected. A future load peak time period of the storage resources already allocated to the application program is determined based on the collected original time-domain sequence of the load parameter. A new storage resource unit from a high-speed storage is allocated in response to receipt of a request to allocate the new storage resource unit to the application program in the future load peak time period. On an occasion of thin provisioning, whether the physical storage resources newly allocated to the application program are located in a low-speed storage or a high-speed storage is determined according to the accesses of the application program to the already-allocated physical storage resources.

Thin provisioning

A storage system is dynamically reconfigured. The storage system includes storage pools that each include one or more storage disks. Storage pools to be expanded are determined as target storage pools. For the target storage pools, source storage disks to be moved into the target storage pools are determined from other storage pools than the target storage pools in the storage system. The source storage disks are migrated to the respective target storage pools.

Dynamic reconfiguration of storage system

Thin provisioning storage resources associated with an application program

Provided are a method, system, computer storage device, and storage area network for maintaining a communication path from a host to a storage subsystem in a network. A storage subsystem controls data transfer and access to a storage devices in a network including a switch and a host. A topological storage stores topological coupling relationship between the host and the switch and a topological coupling relationship between the switch and the storage subsystem. In response to determining a failed path, the storage subsystem determines a first port on the storage subsystem in the failed path. The storage subsystem determines from the topology storage the topological coupling relationships between the host and the switch and the switch and the storage subsystem. The storage subsystem redirects, based on the topological coupling relationships, a message sent to the first port of the storage subsystem to an operational second port in the storage subsystem.

The present subject matter discloses a method for transmitting a text message including: receiving a text message to be transmitted, which is encoded with a first character set encoding scheme; determining whether a final receiver of the text message supports the first character set encoding scheme; and in response to the situation in which the final receiver of the text message does not support the first character set encoding scheme: converting the text message to be transmitted into an image; and transmitting the converted image. With this method, parties involved in transmission of a text message can enable convenient and efficient transmission of the text message without requiring each party involved in the transmission of the text message to satisfy specific prerequisites normally necessary for proper reproduction of the text message transmitted from an opposite party. One of the specific prerequisites is that the parties involved in the real time communication should support a specific character set encoding scheme. The subject matter further provides a device for transmitting a text message capable of implementing the method for transmitting a text message, a device for processing a text message provided with the device for transmitting a text message, and a system for transmitting a text message through the device for processing a text message.

Converting displayable portions of a text message into images

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Beijing, China

Shu Qing Yang