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1. A method for forming a field emission diode for an electrostatic discharge device, the method comprising:
forming a first electrode, a sacrificial layer, and a second electrode, wherein the sacrificial layer separates the first and second electrode;
forming a cavity between the first and second electrode by removing the sacrificial layer, wherein the cavity separates the first and second electrodes; and
depositing an electron emission material on a surface of at least one of the first and second electrodes through at least one access hole after formation of the first and second electrodes, wherein the access hole is located remotely from a location of electron emission on the first or second electrodes;
plugging the access hole after depositing the electron emission material and forming a vacuum or low gas pressure in the cavity, wherein the cavity is hermetically sealed.
2. The method of claim 1, wherein the electron emission material is deposited with selective electroless deposition on the surface of the first and second electrodes.
3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:
selectively depositing the electron emission material on the first and second electrodes through an access hole, and wherein the electron emission material is palladium.
4. The method of claim 1, wherein the electron emission material is palladium, wherein the palladium is deposited with selective electroless deposition on the surface of at least one of the first and second electrodes.
5. The method of claim 1, wherein at least one of the first or second electrodes is formed with field enhancement structures.
6. The method of claim 1, wherein the electron emission material is deposited with chemical vapor deposition.
7. The method of claim 1, wherein the first electrode is formed with field enhancement structures, wherein depositing an electron emission material on at least one of the first and second electrodes through an access hole comprises coating tips of the field enhancement structures.
8. The method of claim 1, wherein the depositing the electron emission material on the surface of at least one of the first and second electrodes through an access hole comprises selectively coating the first electrode.
9. The method of claim 1, wherein the depositing the electron emission material on the surface of at least one of the first and second electrodes through an access hole comprises only partially covering the surface of one of the first or second electrodes and forming clusters of the electron emission material on the surface of the one of the first or second electrodes.
10. The method of claim 1, further comprising:
etching a silicon oxide sacrificial layer, wherein etching removes oxide from the surface of the first and second electrode.
11. The method of claim 1, wherein the first electrode is silicon and the second electrode is silicon.
12. A method for selectively coating an electrode in a cavity of a field emission diode, the method comprising:
depositing an electron emission material into a cavity of a formed field emission diode,
wherein the electron emission material is deposited on a surface of at least one of a first and second electrode,
wherein the depositing occurs through an access hole,
wherein the access hole is located remotely from a location of electron emission on the first and second electrode;
plugging the access hole after depositing the electron emission material and forming a low pressure vacuum in the cavity, wherein the cavity is hermetically sealed.
13. The method of claim 12, wherein the electron emission material is deposited with selective electroless deposition on the surface of the first and second electrodes.
14. The method of claim 12, wherein the electron emission material is deposited by selectively coating the first electrode by electrolytic deposition.
15. The method of claim 12, wherein the depositing an electron emission material comprises immersing the surfaces of the first and second electrode in a deposition bath comprising a solution comprising palladium.
16. The method of claim 12, wherein the electron emission material is palladium.
17. The method of claim 12, wherein the depositing an electron emission material comprises only partially covering the surface of the first electrode and forming clusters of the electron emission material on the surface of the first electrode.
18. The method of claim 12, wherein the first electrode comprises field enhancement structures, wherein depositing an electron emission material comprises coating tips of the field enhancement structures.

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 managing conflict resolution in an adaptive bitrate (ABR) streaming environment with respect to a bandwidth pipe serving a customer premises, the method, comprising:
receiving a session request from a new ABR client launched in the customer premises that includes one or more existing ABR clients, wherein each existing ABR client is engaged in a corresponding ABR streaming session;
forecasting bandwidth requirements for the one or more existing ABR clients with respect to the corresponding ABR streaming sessions after accounting for a bandwidth requirement for the new ABR client’s session request;
detecting a conflict if any of forecasted bandwidth requirements violates a bitrate threshold policy relative to the corresponding ABR streaming sessions of the existing ABR clients; and
if there is a conflict, providing a conflict notification message to the new ABR client and rejecting the session request from the new ABR client.
2. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the conflict notification message comprises a video-encoded still image of a message that the session request from the new ABR client is being rejected on account of a bandwidth conflict.
3. The method as recited in claim 2, wherein the still image is encoded at a particular bitrate.
4. The method as recited in claim 3, wherein the particular bitrate for encoding the still image is computed using a Kush Gauge calculation.
5. The method as recited in claim 2, wherein the conflict notification message is provided to the new ABR client by way of a HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) redirect message generated by an ABR back office that includes a manifest URL for the video-encoded still image.
6. The method as recited in claim 1, further comprising:
determining that there is no conflict relative to the session request from the new ABR client: and
setting up a new streaming session responsive to the session request from the new ABR client.
7. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the session request from the new ABR client includes display device information associated with an external audiovideo (AV) device for rendering content to be streamed.
8. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the forecasting of bandwidth requirements is performed at a premises gateway responsive to a forecasting request from a subscriber policy management node.
9. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the forecasting of bandwidth requirements is performed at a content delivery network (CDN) edge delivery node responsive to a forecasting request from a subscriber policy management node.
10. A system for managing conflict resolution in an adaptive bitrate (ABR) streaming environment with respect to a bandwidth pipe serving a customer premises, the system comprising:
a back office operative to receive a session request from a new ABR client launched by a client device in the customer premises that includes one or more existing ABR clients, wherein each existing ABR client is engaged in a corresponding ABR streaming session;
a subscriber policy management node operative to request, responsive to a message from the back office, one of a premises gateway and a CDN edge delivery node for forecasted bandwidth requirements of the one or more existing ABR clients with respect to the corresponding ABR streaming sessions after accounting for a bandwidth requirement for the new ABR client’s session request, the subscriber policy management node further operative to detect a conflict if any of forecasted bandwidth requirements violates a bitrate threshold policy relative to the corresponding ABR streaming sessions of the existing ABR clients; and
a conflict management node operative, responsive to a conflict detection message from the subscriber policy management node, to generate a conflict message encoding request to a video message system for facilitating transmission of a still image of a conflict notification message to the new ABR client that the session request from the new ABR client is being rejected on account of a bandwidth conflict.
11. The system as recited in claim 10, wherein the still image is video-encoded at a particular bitrate.
12. The system as recited in claim 11, wherein the particular bitrate for encoding the still image is computed using a Kush Gauge calculation.
13. The system as recited in claim 12, wherein the encoded still image of the conflict notification message is provided to the new ABR client by way of a HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) redirect message generated by the back office that includes a manifest URL for the video-encoded still image.
14. The system as recited in claim 10, wherein the session request from the new ABR client includes display device information associated with an external audiovideo (AV) device for rendering content to be streamed.
15. A premises gateway configured to manage a bandwidth pipe serving a customer premises, the premises gateway comprising:
one or more processors; and
a bitrate forecasting module coupled to the one or more processors, wherein the bitrate forecasting module includes instructions executable by one or more processors and configured to:
forecast bandwidth requirements, responsive to a request from a subscriber policy management node, for one or more existing ABR clients of a customer premises with respect to corresponding ABR streaming sessions after accounting for a bandwidth requirement of a new ABR client’s request for initiating a new streaming session on a client device; and
generate a bandwidth forecast response message to the subscriber policy management node, the bandwidth forecast response message including bitrates forecasted for the existing ABR streaming sessions and the requested new streaming session based at least in part upon priority weights associated with the existing ABR streaming sessions and the requested new streaming session.
16. The premises gateway as recited in claim 15, wherein the new ABR client’s request for initiating a new streaming session request includes display device information associated with an external audiovideo (AV) device for rendering content to be streamed.
17. An edge delivery node disposed in a content delivery network (CDN) and configured to manage a bandwidth pipe serving a customer premises, the edge delivery node comprising:
one or more processors; and
a bitrate forecasting module coupled to the one or more processors, wherein the bitrate forecasting module includes instructions executable by one or more processors (1402) and configured to:
forecast bandwidth requirements, responsive to a request from a subscriber policy management node, for one or more existing ABR clients of a customer premises with respect to corresponding ABR streaming sessions after accounting for a bandwidth requirement of a new ABR client’s request for initiating a new streaming session on a client device; and
generate a bandwidth forecast response message to the subscriber policy management node, the bandwidth forecast response message including bitrates forecasted for the existing ABR streaming sessions and the requested new streaming session based at least in part upon priority weights associated with the existing ABR streaming sessions and the requested new streaming session.
18. The edge delivery node as recited in claim 17, wherein the new ABR client’s request for initiating a new streaming session request includes display device information associated with an external audiovideo (AV) device for rendering content to be streamed.
19. The edge delivery node as recited in claim 17, wherein the request from the subscriber policy management node is received after a query by the subscriber policy management node to a redirector node disposed in the CDN, the query for determining the edge delivery node managing the bandwidth pipe associated with the customer premises.
20. The edge delivery node as recited in claim 17, further comprising a bandwidth allocation and pipe management module for allocating bandwidth to the customer premises using weighed fair queuing (WFQ) with respect to the ABR streaming sessions.

1. A trans-thiazineindigo pigment dispersant represented by Formula (1):
where:
R1 denotes a group required to form an aromatic or aliphatic carbocyclic ring or a heterocyclic ring which may have a substituent other than the -(E)p- group;
R2 denotes a group required to form an aromatic or aliphatic carbocyclic ring or a heterocyclic ring which may have a substituent other than the -(E)p- group;
E denotes a basic group substituted on the carbocyclic ring or heterocyclic ring including R1 andor on the carbocyclic ring or heterocyclic ring including R2 and is represented by Formula (3):
X denotes \u2014S\u2014, \u2014O\u2014, \u2014SO2\u2014, \u2014SO2NR\u2014, \u2014NRSO2\u2014, \u2014CH2NRCOCH2NR\u2014 or \u2014(CH2)mNH\u2014, wherein each R independently denotes a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms, which may have a substituent, an alkenyl group having 2 to 20 carbon atoms, which may have a substituent, or an aryl group having 6 to 20 carbon atoms, which may have a substituent, and m denotes an integer of 1 to 10;
a denotes 0 or 1;
Y denotes an alkylene group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms, which may have a substituent, an alkenylene group having 2 to 20 carbon atoms, which may have a substituent, an arylene group having 6 to 20 carbon atoms, which may have a substituent, or a heterocyclic group containing a nitrogen, oxygen or sulfur atom, or two or more of these groups may be bonded together directly or through a linking group selected from \u2014NR\u2014, \u2014O\u2014, \u2014SO2\u2014 and \u2014CO\u2014, wherein R is as defined above;
b denotes 0 or 1;
R3 and R4 each independently denotes an alkyl group having 1 to 30 carbon atoms, which may have a substituent, or an alkenyl group having 2 to 30 carbon atoms, which may have a substituent, or R3 and R4, taken together, may form a heterocyclic group containing a nitrogen, oxygen or sulfur atom; and
p denotes an integer of 1 to 6.
2. A cis-thiazineindigo pigment dispersant represented by Formula (2):
where:
R1 denotes a group required to form an aromatic or aliphatic carbocyclic ring or a heterocyclic ring which may have a substituent other than the -(E)p- group;
R2 denotes a group required to form an aromatic or aliphatic carbocyclic ring or a heterocyclic ring which may have a substituent other than the -(E)p- group;
E denotes a basic group substituted on the carbocyclic ring or heterocyclic ring including R1 andor on the carbocyclic ring or heterocyclic ring including R2 and is represented by Formula (3):
X denotes \u2014S\u2014, \u2014O\u2014, \u2014SO2\u2014, \u2014SO2NR\u2014, \u2014NRSO2\u2014, \u2014CH2NRCOCH2NR\u2014 or \u2014(CH2)mNH\u2014, wherein each R independently denotes a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms, which may have a substituent, an alkenyl group having 2 to 20 carbon atoms, which may have a substituent, or an aryl group having 6 to 20 carbon atoms, which may have a substituent, and m denotes an integer of 1 to 10;
a denotes 0 or 1;
Y denotes an alkylene group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms, which may have a substituent, an alkenylene group having 2 to 20 carbon atoms, which may have a substituent, an arylene group having 6 to 20 carbon atoms, which may have a substituent, or a heterocyclic group containing a nitrogen, oxygen or sulfur atom, or two or more of these groups may be bonded together directly or through a linking group selected from \u2014NR\u2014, \u2014O\u2014, \u2014SO2\u2014 and \u2014CO\u2014, wherein R is as defined above;
b denotes 0 or 1;
R3 and R4 each independently denotes an alkyl group having 1 to 30 carbon atoms, which may have a substituent, or an alkenyl group having 2 to 30 carbon atoms, which may have a substituent, or R3 and R4, taken together, may form a heterocyclic group containing a nitrogen, oxygen or sulfur atom; and
p denotes an integer of 1 to 6.
3. The pigment dispersant according to claim 1, wherein X denotes \u2014S\u2014, \u2014SO2\u2014, or \u2014SO2NR\u2014.
4. The pigment dispersant according to claim 2, wherein X denotes \u2014S\u2014, \u2014SO2\u2014, or \u2014SO2NR\u2014.
5. A pigment composition comprising a pigment material, and a trans-thiazine indigo pigment dispersant according to claim 1.
6. A pigment composition comprising a pigment material, and a cis-thiazine indigo pigment dispersant according to claim 2.
7. The pigment composition according to claim 5, wherein the pigment material comprises a diketopyrrolopyrrole-based red pigment, a quinacridone-based red pigment, a thiazine indigo-based red pigment, or anthraquinone-based red pigment.
8. The pigment composition according to claim 6, wherein the pigment material comprises a diketopyrrolopyrrole-based red pigment, a quinacridone-based red pigment, a thiazineindigo-based red pigment, or anthraquinone-based red pigment.
9. The pigment composition according to claim 5, wherein the pigment material further comprises a yellow pigment.
10. The pigment composition according to claim 8, wherein the pigment material further comprises a yellow pigment.
11. A colored composition comprising a pigment composition according to claim 5 and a pigment carrier.
12. A colored composition comprising a pigment composition according to claim 6 and a pigment carrier.
13. A colored composition comprising a pigment composition according to claim 7 and a pigment carrier.
14. A colored composition comprising a pigment composition according to claim 8 and a pigment carrier.
15. A colored composition comprising a pigment composition according to claim 9 and a pigment carrier.
16. A colored composition comprising a pigment composition according to claim 10 and a pigment carrier.
17. A color filter comprising a filter segment prepared from a colored composition according to claim 11.
18. A color filter comprising a filter segment prepared from a colored composition according to claim 12.
19. A color filter comprising a filter segment prepared from a colored composition according to claim 13.
20. A color filter comprising a filter segment prepared from a colored composition according to claim 14.
21. A color filter comprising a filter segment prepared from a colored composition according to claim 15.
22. A color filter comprising a filter segment prepared from a colored composition according to claim 16.

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 board assembly comprising:
a first board comprising a first through hole defined therein and a gap formed on a bottom of the first board;
a second board comprising a supporting wall formed on a bottom thereof, a second through hole defined in the supporting wall and corresponding to the first through hole, and a receiving hole defined in the second board and communicated with the second through hole; and
a lock member comprising a head rotatably received in the receiving hole and blocked by the supporting wall, a neck connected to the head, and a latch portion formed on the neck, the latch portion extending through the first and second through holes to rotatably abut against the bottom of the first board and latched by the gap.
2. The board assembly of claim 1, wherein the neck is cylindrical, the latch portion comprises a plurality of blocks extending from a circumference of the neck, each of the first and second through holes comprises a plurality of extension slots for respectively receiving the blocks.
3. The board assembly of claim 1, wherein a C-shaped annular frame extends from the bottom of the first board and surrounds the first through hole, two bars extends from respective ends of the frame, a blocking portion extending from one bar, the gap is formed between the distal end of the blocking portion and the other bar.
4. The board assembly of claim 3, wherein the bars are extending radially from the center of the frame.
5. The board assembly of claim 2, wherein the blocking portion is L-shaped.
6. The board assembly of claim 2, wherein the blocking portion is at the bottom of the first board.
7. The board assembly of claim 1, wherein the head of the lock member defines a slot in a top wall thereof.