1. A disposable wearing article comprising:
a topsheet facing the wearer’s skin;
a backsheet facing away from the wearer’s skin;
a liquid-absorbent layer sandwiched between said top- and backsheets;
a front waist region;
a rear waist region;
a crotch region extending between said waist regions;
longitudinally opposite ends extending in a transverse direction and transversely opposite edges extending in a longitudinal direction;
transversely opposite edges of said crotch region being provided with leg elastic members attached in a stretchablecontractible manner, said leg elastic members comprising first elastic members extending from a side of said front waist region into said crotch region so as to be convex toward a middle zone of said crotch region and second elastic members extending from a side of said rear waist region into said crotch region so as to be convex toward the middle zone of said crotch region, and said first elastic members having transversely opposite lateral segments and intermediate segments extending between said lateral segments across said crotch region and said second elastic members having transversely opposite lateral segments and intermediate segments extending between said lateral segments across said crotch region;
said backsheet being composed of an inner sheet facing said liquid-absorbent layer and extending in said front and rear waist regions and said crotch region or at least said crotch region and an outer sheet extending on an outside of said inner sheet between said front and rear waist regions, a region of said backsheet in which said inner and outer sheets are placed upon each other having a light transmission in a range of 20 to 50%, and the respective intermediate segments of said first and second elastic members being sandwiched between said liquid-absorbent layer and said inner sheet.
2. The wearing article defined by claim 1, wherein color of said first and second elastic members is substantially the same as that of said inner and outer sheets and a color difference between said inner sheet and said first and second elastic members is in a range of 10 to 30.
3. The wearing article defined by claim 1, wherein a stretch ration of the respective intermediate segments of said first and second elastic members is in a range of 1.1 to 1.3.
4. The wearing article defined by claim 1, wherein the 5 respective intermediate segments of said first and second elastic members are left free from said liquid-absorbent layer.
5. The wearing article defined by claim 1, wherein said inner and outer sheets are formed from one of moisture-pervious but liquid-impervious plastic film and a hydrophobic fibrous nonwoven fabric.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
1. A client device comprising:
a memory;
a presence module adapted to be located in the memory;
a service directory adapted to be located in the memory;
a search module adapted to be located in the memory;
a processor coupled to the memory and adapted to
execute the presence module to enable the client device to receive service provider presence information from a presence server and store the service provider presence information in the service directory, with the service provider presence information including at least status information of at least one service provider, at least one service instance offered by the at least one service provider, and one or more characteristics of the at least one service instance, and
execute the search module to locate at least one service provider based at least in part on the service provider presence information stored in the service directory.
2. The client device of claim 1 further comprising:
a network interface coupled to the processor and adapted to send a service request to the at least one service provider in the event that the service provider presence information meets at least one service selection criterion.
3. The client device of claim 1 wherein the one or more characteristics of the at least one service instance include a selected one of a hosting environment element, a service interface, a location and a capability.
4. The client device of claim 1 wherein
receiving the service provider presence information comprises receiving the service provider presence information on a selected one of a solicitation basis or a notification basis.
5. A computer-implemented method comprising:
receiving, at a client device, service provider presence information from a presence server;
storing, by the client device, the service provider presence information in a service directory, with the service provider presence information including at least status information of at least one service provider, at least one service instance offered by the at least one service provider, and one or more characteristics of the at least one service instance; and
locating, by the client device, at least one service provider based at least in part on the service provider presence information stored in the service directory.
6. The computer-implemented method of claim 5 further comprising:
sending, by the client device, a service request to the at least one service provider in the event that the service provider presence information meets at least one service selection criterion.
7. The computer-implemented method of claim 5 wherein the one or more characteristics of the at least one service instance include a selected one of a hosting environment element, a service interface, a location and a capability.
8. The computer-implemented method of claim 5 wherein receiving, at the client device, the service provider presence information comprises receiving, at the client device, the service provider presence information on a selected one of a solicitation basis or a notification basis.
9. An article comprising a machine-readable storage medium that contains instructions of client device, which when executed, cause the client device to perform operations comprising:
receiving service provider presence information from a presence server;
storing the service provider presence information in a service directory, with the service provider presence information including at least status information of at least one service provider, at least one service instance offered by the at least one service provider, and one or more characteristics of the at least one service instance; and
locating at least one service provider based at least in part on the service provider presence information stored in the service directory.
10. The article of claim 9 wherein the operations further comprise:
sending a service request to the at least one service provider in the event that the service provider presence information meets at least one service selection criterion.
11. The article of claim 9 wherein the one or more characteristics of the at least one service instance include a selected one of a hosting environment element, a service interface, a location and a capability.
12. The article of claim 9 wherein receiving the service provider presence information comprises receiving the service provider presence information on a selected one of a solicitation basis or a notification basis.