1. A method of providing a report of public information, comprising:
from at least a network server, transmitting a form with fields for obtaining identifying information, identifying an individual, to a client terminal;
receiving at at least a network server from said client terminal, identifying information associated with said form fields, said identifying information substantially uniquely identifying an individual person;
at at least a network server, creating a customer profile corresponding to a customer and corresponding to said identifying information;
at at least a network server, querying at least two databases containing publicly-available information corresponding to said identifying information;
retrieving as a result of said querying, at least two pieces of information relating to a same event, person, or thing;
generating a report containing both of said at least two pieces;
transmitting said report to a client terminal;
said report being arranged to indicate discrepancies at least by displaying both of said two pieces of information.
2. A method as in claim 1, wherein said step of generating further comprises including in said report at least one instruction for repairing a discrepancy between said at least two pieces of information.
3. A method as in claim 2, wherein said step of generating further comprises including in said report at least one computer decodable link to a control or web site with information about how to respond to said discrepancy between said at least two pieces of information.
4. A method as in claim 1, wherein said step of generating includes identifying said at least two pieces of information as relating to a same event, person, or thing and formatting said report to juxtapose, in a special manner, said two pieces of information, whereby a user is easily able to understand a discrepancy in data housed at separate databases.
5. A method as in claim 1, wherein said step of generating includes identifying said at least two pieces of information as relating to a same event, person, or thing and including an indication of a result of said identifying in said report, whereby a user is easily able to understand a discrepancy in data housed at separate databases.
6. A method of providing a report of public information, comprising:
from at least a network server, transmitting a form with fields for obtaining identifying information, identifying an individual, to a client terminal;
receiving at at least a network server from said client terminal, identifying information associated with said form fields, said identifying information substantially uniquely identifying an individual person;
at at least a network server, querying, based at least in part on said information an aggregator database containing records from multiple primary data sources including at least state and federal records pertaining to various persons, events, andor things and retrieving a resulting set of records;
at at least a network server, querying one of said multiple primary data sources and retrieving at least one record that pertains to a same one of said various persons, events, andor things;
generating a report containing both of said at least one record and said resulting set of records such that said at least one record can be compared to one pertaining to said same one of said various persons, events, andor things, by a user, to determine if discrepancies exist;
transmitting said report to a client terminal.
7. A method as in claim 6, wherein said step of generating further comprises including in said report at least one instruction for repairing a discrepancy between two pieces of information.
8. A method as in claim 7, wherein said step of generating further comprises including in said report at least one computer decodable link to a control or web site with information about how to respond to said discrepancy between two pieces of information.
9. A method as in claim 6, wherein said step of generating includes identifying records retrieved in said first and second steps of retrieving that correspond to a same person, event, andor thing and formatting said report responsively to a result of said identifying.
10. A method as in claim 9, wherein said step of formatting includes aligning discrepant portions of said records in adjacent positions in said report.
11. A method of providing a report of public information, comprising:
generating a user interface to allow customers to obtain personal information about themselves that are stored at publicly-available databases;
said user interface permitting customers of a service to enter identifying information and authenticating information;
at at least a network server, authenticating a user and storing corresponding identifying information pertaining to said user;
at at least a network server, querying, based on said identifying information, an aggregator database containing records derived from a primary database and retrieving aggregator records resulting from said first step of querying;
at at least a network server, querying, based on said identifying information, said primary database and retrieving primary records resulting from said second step of querying;
generating a report containing said primary and aggregator records in a format that allows comparison by a user;
at least one of said primary and aggregator records pertaining to a same person, event, andor thing and containing redundant information unless a discrepancy between at least a corresponding portion of each of said primary and aggregator records exists.
12. A method as in claim 11, wherein said step of generating further comprises including in said report at least one instruction for repairing a discrepancy between two pieces of information.
13. A method as in claim 12, wherein said step of generating further comprises including in said report at least one computer decodable link to a control or web site with information about how to respond to a discrepancy between two pieces of information in said report.
14. A method as in claim 13, wherein said decodable link to a control or web site with information is provided in said report adjacent records containing information from both primary and aggregator records that may pertain to a same person, event, andor thing.
15. A method as in claim 11, wherein said step of generating includes identifying records retrieved in said first and second steps of retrieving that correspond to a same person, event, andor thing and formatting said report responsively to a result of said identifying.
16. A method as in claim 15, wherein said step of formatting includes aligning discrepant portions of said records in adjacent positions in said report.
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 semiconductor memory device comprising:
a sense amplifier which includes a pair of first NMOS transistors and a pair of PMOS transistors connected to a bit line pair as a complementary pair and amplifies a potential difference of a memory cell formed on said bit line pair;
a back bias generating circuit which generates a back bias voltage to be applied to said first NMOS transistors in a state in which a predetermined current is flowing through a second NMOS transistor having approximately the same operating characteristic as that of said first NMOS transistors, and performs a feedback control in response to a threshold voltage of said second NMOS transistor so as to decrease an absolute value of said back bias voltage as said threshold voltage increases and to increase said absolute value of said back bias voltage as said threshold voltage decreases; and
control means which performs control in a sensing operation of said sense amplifier such that said pair of first NMOS transistors operates previously and after a lapse of a predetermined time said pair of first PMOS transistors operates.
2. A semiconductor memory device according to claim 1, wherein said back bias voltage generating circuit includes a series circuit including a first resistor connected to a drain and a gate of said second NMOS transistor and a second resistor connected to a source of said second NMOS transistor and includes a level detection circuit for detecting a voltage level of said source of said second NMOS transistor through which a predetermined current flows,
and wherein a voltage level of said back bias voltage is controlled in response to a detected output of said level detection circuit.
3. A semiconductor memory device according to claim 2, wherein at one end of said series circuit, said first resistor is connected to a first reference voltage higher than said back bias voltage, and at an other end of said series circuit, said second resistor is connected to said back bias voltage,
and wherein said level detection circuit includes a comparator having one input terminal connected to the source of said second NMOS transistor and an other input terminal connected to a second reference voltage higher than said back bias voltage and lower than said first reference voltage.
4. A semiconductor memory device according to claim 2, wherein said back bias generating circuit performs said feedback control so that using a voltage change \u0394Vtn of said threshold voltage Vtn, a resistance value R1 of said first resistor and a resistance value R2 of said second resistor, a relationship of
\u0394VBB=(R2R1)\xb7\u0394Vtn
is satisfied.
5. A semiconductor memory device according to claim 2, wherein said first resistor and said second resistor are variable resistors.
6. A semiconductor memory device according to claims 1 to 5, wherein said back bias generating circuit comprises a ring oscillator in which oscillating operation thereof is controlled in response to a detected output of said level detection circuit and a charge pump for generating said gate voltage by charge pumping operation based on an oscillating output of said ring oscillator.