1. A thin film transistor, comprising:
a substrate;
source and drain electrodes arranged on the substrate;
a semiconductor layer contacting the source and drain electrodes and comprising a channel region;
a protective film arranged on the semiconductor layer and having a same pattern as the semiconductor layer, the protective film comprising a laser-absorbing material;
a gate electrode arranged on the substrate;
a gate insulating film arranged between the gate and the source and drain electrodes; and
a separation pattern arranged within the semiconductor layer and within the protective film, the separation pattern adapted to define the channel region of the semiconductor layer.
2. The thin film transistor of claim 1, wherein the semiconductor layer is an organic semiconductor layer, and the gate insulating film being one of a mono-layered film and a multi-layered film, the mono-layered film and layers within the multi-layered film being selected from the group consisting of an organic film, an inorganic film, and an organic-inorganic hybrid film.
3. The thin film transistor of claim 1, wherein the protective film is thinner than the semiconductor layer, and has a thickness of 10 to 1000 \u212b.
4. The thin film transistor of claim 1, wherein the protective film comprises an aromatic group material.
5. The thin film transistor of claim 4, wherein the protective film comprises a fluoride-based polymer.
6. The thin film transistor of claim 5, wherein the gate insulating film comprises a high dielectric constant (high-k) material selected from the group consisting of Ta2O5, Y2O3, TiO2, barium strontium titanate (BST), lead zirconate titanate (PZT), and barium zirconate titanate (BZT).
7. The thin film transistor of claim 1, wherein the protective film comprises:
a photosensitive material; and
an insulating material comprising a material selected from the group consisting of silicon oxide, silicon nitride, polyvinyl alcohol (PVA), polyvinyl chloride (PVC), poly methylmethacrylate (PMMA), polyimide, parylene, polyvinyl phenol (PVP) and PIAl2O3.
8. A method, comprising:
providing a thin film transistor that comprises gate, source and drain electrodes and a semiconductor layer;
forming the semiconductor layer on a substrate;
forming a protective film on the semiconductor layer; and
patterning the semiconductor layer and the protective film to define a channel region of the semiconductor layer via laser ablation.
9. The method of claim 8, wherein the protective film is thinner than the semiconductor layer and has a thickness of 10 to 1000 \u212b.
10. The method of claim 8, wherein the protective film comprises a fluoride-based polymer, and the gate insulating film comprises a high dielectric constant (high-k) material selected from the group consisting of Ta2O5, Y2O3, TiO2, barium strontium titanate (BST), lead zirconate titanate (PZT), and barium zirconate titanate (BZT).
11. The method of claim 8, wherein either the gate, the gate insulating film, and the source and drain electrodes are formed prior to said forming of the semiconductor layer or the source and drain electrodes are formed before forming the semiconductor layer, the semiconductor layer is then patterned, and then the gate insulating film and the gate electrode are formed.
12. The method of claim 8, wherein the semiconductor layer and the protective film are patterned to be line-shaped or box-shaped to define the channel region of the semiconductor layer.
13. A flat panel display, comprising:
a thin film transistor arranged on a substrate and comprising gate, source and drain electrodes, and a semiconductor layer having a channel region;
a display device comprising a plurality of pixel electrodes connected to the thin film transistor;
a gate insulating film arranged between the gate and the source and drain electrodes of the thin film transistor; and
a protective film arranged on the semiconductor layer and having a pattern identical to a pattern of the semiconductor layer, the pattern of the protective film being adapted to define the channel region of the semiconductor layer, the protective film comprising a laser-absorbing material.
14. The flat panel display of claim 13, wherein the protective film is thinner than that of the semiconductor layer and has a thickness of 10 to 1000 \u212b.
15. The flat panel display of claim 13 wherein the protective film comprises an aromatic group material.
16. The flat panel display of claim 15, wherein the protective film comprises a fluoride-based polymer.
17. The flat panel display of claim 16, wherein the gate insulating film comprises a high dielectric constant (high-k) material selected from the group consisting of Ta2O5, Y2O3, TiO2, barium strontium titanate (BST), lead zirconate titanate (PZT), and barium zirconate titanate (BZT).
18. The flat panel display of claim 13, wherein the semiconductor layer and the protective film each comprise either a groove-shaped separation pattern adapted to define the channel region, a line-shaped pattern, a box-shaped pattern, or a mesh-shaped pattern.
19. The flat panel display of claim 13, further comprising a plurality of gate lines and a plurality of data lines crossing each other and a plurality of pixel regions defined by the plurality of gate lines and the plurality of data lines,
wherein the thin film transistor and the display device are each arranged one of said plurality of pixel regions,
wherein the semiconductor layer and the protective film each comprise either a separation pattern of either closed loop shaped grooves or at least a pair of parallel line-shaped grooves extending along one of the plurality of gate lines and one of the plurality of data lines, or wherein the semiconductor layer and the protective film each comprise a box-shaped pattern that corresponds to the source and drain electrodes and a space between the source and drain electrodes, a line-shaped pattern extending in a gate line or in a data line direction, or a mesh-shaped pattern extending in both the gate line and the data line directions.
20. The thin film transistor of claim 13, wherein the protective film comprises:
a photosensitive material; and
an insulating material comprising a material selected from the group consisting of silicon oxide, silicon nitride, polyvinyl alcohol (PVA), polyvinyl chloride (PVC), poly methylmethactylate (PMMA), polyimide, parylene, polyvinyl phenol (PVP) and PIAl2O3.
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 method for modified dialing behavior comprising:
capturing a dialing stream in a virtual input buffer;
Comparing the dialing stream of the calling party to a history of dialing streams stored in a database;
analyzing the history of dialing streams to determine a desired dialing behavior of the calling party;
Passing a modified dialing stream to a mobile operating system based on the determined desired dialing behavior of a calling party.
2. The method of claim 1 further comprising notifying the calling party that the modified dialing stream has been sent to the mobile operating system.
3. The method of claim 1 further comprising recording the dialing stream of the calling party in a database, and continually revising the dialing behavior based on the additional dialing stream.
4. The method of claim 1 wherein the database is located on one of a subscriber interface module, a memory stick, or a handset.
5. The method of claim 1 wherein the dialing stream of the calling party is a dialing pattern that is a sequence of characters, numbers, or both which would not be recognized as a valid entry by a telephony network.
6. The method of claim 1 wherein the modified dialing stream results in an intentionally dropped call.
7. The method of claim 1 wherein the modified dialing stream is sent from a mobile subscriber with insufficient credit to make a call.
8. The method of claim 1 wherein statistically significant historical dialing behaviors and dialing patterns are used to improve the performance of the method.
9. The method of claim 1 wherein business rules validate dialing behavior and dialing patterns prior to passing user input held in the virtual input buffer to a mobile operating system for further call processing.
10. The method of claim 1 further comprising sending a message to the dialed party.
11. The method of claim 10 wherein the message sent is in the form of machine readable code in a network protocol that can be interpreted by one or more network elements.
12. The method of claim 11 wherein the machine readable code message includes a location.
13. The method of claim 11 wherein the machine readable code inside the network protocol is constructed for delivery to a network element which is a USSD service.
14. The method of claim 11 wherein the message is capable of being interpreted by client software resident on the dialed party’s mobile as the discovery of similar client software.
15. The method of claim 11 further comprising receiving a message in the form of machine readable code in a network protocol from the dialed party’s mobile client software that acknowledges discovery of the dialing party’s mobile handset.
16. A method for communicating with a calling party, comprising:
Receiving a message from a calling party;
Interpreting the message as a discovery of similar client software operating on the calling party’s handset;
Sending a discovery message to the calling party to facilitate further communications.
17. The method of claim 16 wherein the received message is interpreted by a dialed party’s mobile as a command to automatically initiate a call back to the calling party.
18. The method of claim 16 wherein the message sent is in the form of machine readable code in a network protocol that can be interpreted by one or more network elements.
19. The method of claim 18 wherein the machine readable code inside the network protocol is constructed for delivery to a network element which is a USSD service.
20. The method of claim 16 wherein the message received is a text message and the message sent is constructed for delivery to a network element which is a USSD service.
21. A method of communication between a calling party and a called party comprising:
Determining a dialing behavior of a calling party;
Analyzing a dialing stream of the calling party with reference to the dialing behavior of the calling party;
Suggesting modified dialing behavior of the called party;
Controlling a modified dialing stream sent to a mobile operator system based on the suggesting step which mimics the determined calling behavior of the calling party.
22. The method of claim 21 wherein the analyzing step indicates that the dialing behavior is indicative of an intentionally dropped call.
23. The method of claim 22 further comprising receiving a comfort message indicating that a missed call message has been sent to the called party.
24. The method of claim 22 further comprising receiving a discovery message from the receiving party indicating that the receiving party also uses a similar client.
25. The method of claim 24 further comprising additional modification of the calling behavior such that a second modified dialing stream is sent to the mobile operating system which uses less network resources.
26. The method of claim 25 wherein the second modified dialing stream is indicative of a USSB service.
27. The method of claim 22 wherein the modified dialing stream includes a command to intentionally drop a call without further input by the calling party.
28. The method of claim 21 wherein the analyzing step indicates that the dialing behavior is indicative of a zero credit call.
29. The method of claim 21 wherein a calling party’s dialing behavior is modified to press \u201cEnd\u201d immediately after \u201cSend\u201d to differentiate this dialing pattern from an insufficient credit call dialing pattern.
30. The method of claim 21 wherein the behavior of a user is modified to terminate input sequences with a character, such as* or #, to announce their intention to initiate one or more client services as opposed to initiating network based services by inputting \u201cSend\u201d.
31. The method of claim 30 wherein subsequent characters entered further differentiates unique service types.
32. The method of claim 30 wherein the services are initiated via machine readable code inside a protocol that is constructed for delivery to a network element which is a USSD service element.
33. A handset comprising:
A keypad configured for receiving keystrokes from a calling party;
A virtual keystroke buffer;
A memory for recording keystrokes; and
A processor configured for preprocessing the dialing stream;
passing a preprocessed dialing stream to a mobile operating system;
Recording the dialing pattern of the dialing party to a statistical database;
Analyzing the virtual keystroke buffer with reference to the database to determine the dialing behavior of the dialing party; and
Suggesting modified dialing behavior to the calling party.
34. The handset of claim 33 wherein the processor is further configured to send modified dialing streams to the network as a result of the suggesting step.
35. The handset of claim 33 wherein the processor is further configured to receive modified dialing streams from the calling party as a result of the suggesting step.
36. The handset of claim 35 wherein the processor is further configured to send a comfort message to the calling party.
37. The handset of claim 35 wherein the processor is further configured to send a message to a called party requesting a return call.
38. The handset of claim 37 wherein the processor is further configured to receive a discovery message from the called party.
39. The handset of claim 38 wherein the processor is further configured to send a message indicative of a USSB service based.
40. A method for modified dialing behavior comprising:
Capturing a dialing stream input sequence which includes a send command and a \u201c#\u201d or \u201c*\u201d character and in a virtual input buffer;
Comparing the dialing stream of the calling party to a history of dialing streams stored in a database;
analyzing the history of dialing streams to determine a desired dialing behavior of the calling party;
Passing a modified dialing stream to a mobile operating system based on the determined desired dialing behavior of a calling party.
41. The method of claim 40 wherein based on the modified dialing stream, services are initiated via machine readable code inside a protocol that is constructed for delivery to a network element which is a USSD service element.
42. The method of claim 41 wherein the machine readable code inside a protocol that is constructed for delivery to a network element is subsequently routed to be processed by a service external to and separate from the network.
43. The method of claim 42 wherein the machine readable code includes location information available locally at the mobile device.
44. The method of claim 43 wherein the location information is supplied by a network element.
45. The method of claim 42 wherein the service initiated is to locate the mobile device initiating the service.
46. The method of claim 45 wherein the location information is used to select a location based mobile ad for delivery to mobile user initiating the service.
47. The method of claim 42 wherein the service initiated is to request the location of another mobile device.
48. The method of claim 42 wherein the service initiated is to request navigation directions from the location of the initiating party to the location of another mobile party whose number was dialed.
49. The method of claim 42 wherein when the number dialed is associated with a fixed address.
50. The method of claim 49 wherein the service initiated provides navigation directions to the fixed address to which the dialed number is logically associated.
51. The method of claim 42 wherein a the service includes initiating a more economical long distance service voice call.
52. The method of claim 42 wherein the service includes initiating a voice call over a network connection other than the mobile network connection.
53. The method of claim 52 wherein the network connection is a VoIP call over an available network connection.
54. The method of claim 52 wherein the network connection is a user preferred network connection.
55. A computer-readable storage medium having instructions stored thereon which, when loaded onto a computer, cause the computer to perform the method of claim 1.
56. A computer-readable storage medium having instructions stored thereon which, when loaded onto a computer, cause the computer to perform the method of claim 16.
57. A computer-readable storage medium having instructions stored thereon which, when loaded onto a computer, cause the computer to perform the method of claim 21.
58. A computer-readable storage medium having instructions stored thereon which, when loaded onto a computer, cause the computer to perform the method of claim 40.