1. A method of managing information locations of predetermined information existing on a network, comprising:
a procedure in which an acquisition destination-selecting section reads out, from a communication log storage section storing a communication log concerning emails transmitted and received, the communication log within a predetermined time period, and identifies an other-end party with whom a target user has performed transmission and reception of at least one reciprocated pair of emails not less than a predetermined number of times to select the other-end party as an information acquisition destination; and
a procedure in which an information location-generating section extracts key information related to a location of information at the information acquisition destination contained in the emails transmitted and received to and from the information acquisition destination, and based on the key information, generates information location information indicating the location of the information at the information acquisition destination to store the information location information in an information location-accumulating section.
2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the procedure in which the acquisition destination-selecting section selects the information acquisition destination includes, when the other-end party has performed transmission and reception of at least one reciprocated pair of emails with another user belonging to a same group to which the target user belongs, selecting the other user as the information acquisition destination.
3. The method according to claim 2, wherein the procedure in which the acquisition destination-selecting section selects the information acquisition destination includes, when the target user has not performed the transmission and reception of emails not less than the predetermined number of times with the predetermined time period, performing the selection based on a communication situation between the other user belonging to the same group to which the target user belongs and the other-end party.
4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the procedure in which the information location-generating section generates the information location information includes acquiring an email address of the other-end party as the key information, extracting a domain name from the email address, and generating a location candidate based on the domain name, as well as determining whether the location candidate exists on the network, and if the location candidate exists, storing the location candidate in the information location-accumulating section.
5. The method according to claim 4, wherein a procedure of generating the location candidate based on the domain name includes:
a step of generating the location candidate by adding a predetermined scheme name to the extracted domain name,
a step of determining whether or not the location candidate exists on the network, and
a step of, when the location candidate generated by addition of the scheme name does not exist and the domain name has a predetermined hierarchical structure, deleting a character string corresponding to a bottom of the domain name and adding the scheme name to thereby generate the location candidate, and
wherein until the existence of the location candidate is confirmed or there is no remaining character string of the domain name, the step of deleting a character string corresponding to the bottom of the domain name to generate the location candidate, and the step of confirming whether or not the location candidate exists are repeated.
6. The method according to claim 5, wherein the procedure of generating the location candidate includes using http or https defining a HTTP protocol as the scheme name.
7. The method according to claim 5, wherein the procedure of generating the location candidate further includes, when the location candidate does not exist on the network, a step of adding, between the scheme name of the location candidate and the domain name, a character string corresponding to a service provided by a domain having the domain name.
8. The method according to claim 5, wherein the procedure of generating the location candidate includes using www as a character string corresponding to a service provided by a domain having the domain name.
9. The method according to claim 1, wherein the procedure in which the information location-generating section generates the information location information includes acquiring bodies of emails transmitted or received to or from the information acquisition destination as the key information; if a body of each email contains a predetermined information location, reading out the predetermined information location; and if the predetermined information location appears not less than a predetermined number of times in the bodies of emails, storing the predetermined information location in the information location-accumulating section.
10. The method according to claim 1, wherein the procedure in which the information location-generating section generates the information location information includes, by using an email address of the information acquisition destination as the key information, checking whether or not there is registered the information location information corresponding the email address of the information acquisition destination for another member belonging to a same group to which the target user belongs, in the information location-accumulating section, and if there is registered, associating the information location information with the target user and registering the information location information in the information location-accumulating section.
11. The method according to claim 1, wherein an information location-deleting section reads out the email address of the target user associated with the information location information stored in the information location-accumulating section, and the email address of the information acquisition destination, and based on the email addresses, searches the communication log, to thereby calculate an elapsed time from when transmission or reception of an email was executed between the target user and the information acquisition destination last time, and if the elapsed time exceeds a predetermined time period, deletes the target user stored in the information location-accumulating section, the information acquisition destination, and the information location information associated with the target user and the information acquisition destination, from the information location-accumulating section.
12. The method according to claim 1, wherein when new information location information is registered in the information location-accumulating section, an RSS reader registration processing section registers the new information location information in a crawling destination list of the RSS reader associated with the target reader of the new information location information.
13. An information location management device that manages locations of predetermined information existing on a network, comprising:
an acquisition destination-selecting section to read out, from a communication log storage section storing a communication log concerning emails transmitted and received, the communication log corresponding to a predetermined time period, identify an other-end party with whom a target user has performed transmission and reception of at least one reciprocated pair of emails not less than a predetermined number of times to select the other-end party as an information acquisition destination; and
an information location-generating section to extract key information related to a location of information at the information acquisition destination contained in the emails transmitted and received to and from the information acquisition destination, and based on the key information, generate information location information indicating the location of the information at the information acquisition destination to store the information location information in an information location-accumulating section.
14. A computer-readable storage medium storing an information location management program executed by a computer for managing locations of predetermined information existing on a network,
wherein the information location management program causes a computer to function as:
an acquisition destination-selecting section to read out, from a communication log storage section storing a communication log concerning emails transmitted and received, the communication log corresponding to a predetermined time period, identify an other-end party with whom a target user has performed transmission and reception of at least one reciprocated pair of emails not less than a predetermined number of times to select the other-end party as an information acquisition destination; and
an information location-generating section to extract key information related to a location of information at the information acquisition destination contained in the emails transmitted and received to and from the information acquisition destination, and based on the key information, generate information location information indicating the location of the information at the information acquisition destination to store the information location information in an information location-accumulating section.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
What is claimed is:
1. An electrochemical cell comprising an alkali metal anode; a cathode; and an electrolyte operatively associated with the anode and the cathode, the improvement in the cell comprising:
a cyclic carbonate additive dissolved in the electrolyte and having the formula
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2. The electrochemical cell of claim 1 wherein n1.
3. The electrochemical cell of claim 1 wherein at least one of the R1, R2, R3, R4 groups contains an sp2 or sp hybridized carbon or nitrogen atom connected directly to the ring carbon atom.
4. The electrochemical cell of claim 1 wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6 are the same or different and they are selected from the group consisting of a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group of 1 to 12 carbon atoms, an alkenyl group of 2 to 13 carbon atoms, an alkynyl group of 2 to 12 carbon atoms, an aryl group of 6 to 12 carbon atoms, an aralkyl group of 7 to 13 carbon atoms, a nitro group, and a cyano group provide that not all of them are a hydrogen atom.
5. The electrochemical cell of claim 1 wherein the cyclic carbonate additive is selected from the group consisting of 4,6-diphenyl-1,3-dioxan-2-one, 4-phenyl-6-methyl-1,3-dioxan-2-one, 4,6-diacetonitrile-1,3-dioxan-2-one, 4-acetonitrile-6-methyl-1,3-dioxan-2-one, 4,6-vinyl-1,3-dioxan-2-one, 4-vinyl-6-methyl-1,3-dioxan-2-one, 4,6-dipropyne-1,3-dioxan-2-one, 4-propyne-6-methyl-1,3-dioxan-2-one, and mixtures thereof.
6. The electrochemical cell of claim 1 wherein the cyclic carbonate additive is present in the electrolyte in a range of about 0.001M to about 0.20M.
7. The electrochemical cell of claim 1 wherein the, cathode active oxide is selected from the group consisting of silver vanadium oxide, copper silver vanadium oxide, manganese dioxide, cobalt oxide, nickel oxide, copper vanadium oxide, titanium disulfide, copper oxide, copper sulfide, iron sulfide, iron disulfide, LiNiO2, LiMn2O4, LiCoO2, LiCo0.92Sn0.08O2, LiCo1xNixO2, and mixtures thereof.
8. The electrochemical cell of claim 1 wherein the tetrahydrofuran, diisopropylether, methyl acetate, diglyme, triglyme, tetraglyme, 1,2-dimethoxyethane, 1,2-diethoxyethane, 1-ethoxy,2-methoxyethane, dimethyl carbonate, diethyl carbonate, dipropyl carbonate, ethyl methyl carbonate, methyl propyl carbonate, ethyl propyl carbonate, propylene carbonate, ethylene carbonate, butylene carbonate, acetonitrile, dimethyl sulfoxide, dimethyl formamide, dimethyl acetamide, -valerolactone, -butyrolactone, N-methyl-pyrrolidone, and mixtures thereof.
9. The electrochemical cell of claim 1 wherein the electrolyte includes a salt selected from the group consisting of LiPF6, LiBF4, LiAsF6, LiSbF6, LiClO4, LiAlCl4, LiGaCl4, LiC(SO2CF3)3, LiN(SO2CF3)2, LiSCN, LiO3SCF2CF3, LiC6F5SO3, LiO2CCF3, LiSO3F, LiNO3, LiB(C6H5)4, LiCF3SO3, and mixtures thereof.
10. The electrochemical cell of claim 1 of a primary chemistry comprising a lithium anode, a silver vanadium oxide cathode and an electrolyte of 1.0M to 1.4M LiAsF6 or LiPF6 dissolved in propylene carbonate and 1,2-dimethoxyethane.
11. The electrochemical cell of claim 1 of a secondary chemistry having graphite as an anode material, LiCoO2 as a cathode active material and an activating electrolyte of ethylene carbonate, dimethyl carbonate, ethyl methyl carbonate and diethyl carbonate.
12. An electrochemical cell, which comprises:
a) a lithium anode;
b) a cathode of silver vanadium oxide; and
c) an activating electrolyte comprising a cyclic carbonate having the formula
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13. The electrochemical cell of claim 12 wherein n1.
14. The electrochemical cell of claim 12 wherein at least one of the R1, R2, R3, R4 groups contains an sp2 or sp hybridized carbon or nitrogen atom connected directly to the ring carbon atom.
15. The electrochemical cell of claim 12 wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6 are the same or different and they are selected from the group consisting of a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group of 1 to 12 carbon atoms, an alkenyl group of 2 to 13 carbon atoms, an alkynyl group of 2 to 12 carbon atoms, an aryl group of 6 to 12 carbon atoms, an aralkyl group of 7 to 13 carbon atoms, a nitro group, and a cyano group provide that not all of them are a hydrogen atom.
16. A method for providing an electrochemical cell, comprising the steps of:
a) providing a casing;
b) housing an anode of lithium inside the casing;
c) providing a cathode of a cathode active material inside the casing; and
d) activating the anode and the cathode with an electrolyte having a cyclic carbonate dissolved therein, the cyclic carbonate having the formula
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17. The method of claim 16 wherein n1.
18. The method of claim 16 wherein at least one of the R1, R2, R3, R4 groups contains an sp2 or sp hybridized carbon or nitrogen atom connected directly to the ring carbon atom.
19. The method of claim 16 wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6 are the same or different and they are selected from the group consisting of a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group of 1 to 12 carbon atoms, an alkenyl group of 2 to 13 carbon atoms, an alkynyl group of 2 to 12 carbon atoms, an aryl group of 6 to 12 carbon atoms, an aralkyl group of 7 to 13 carbon atoms, a nitro group, and a cyano group provide that not all of them are a hydrogen atom.
20. The method of claim 16 including selecting the cyclic carbonate from the group consisting of 4,6-diphenyl-1,3-dioxan-2-one, 4-phenyl-6-methyl-1,3-dioxan-2-one, 4,6-diacetonitrile-1,3-dioxan-2-one, 4-acetonitrile-6-methyl-1,3-dioxan-2-one, 4,6-divinyl-1,3-dioxan-2-one, 4-vinyl-6-methyl-1,3-dioxan-2-one, 4,6-dipropyne-1,3-dioxan-2-one, 4-propyne-6-methyl-1,3-dioxan-2-one, and mixtures thereof.