Author: claimsbot

1. A method, comprising:
a first party providing an advertisement on Internet on behalf of an advisor, wherein the advertisement is displayed to a user and includes at least a reference to establish a telephonic communication with the advisor and indicates whether the advisor is currently available to communicate at a time when the user is viewing the advertisement;
receiving a user selection corresponding to the advisor, while the advisor is available;
while the advisor is currently available, a central controller using the selection from the user to facilitate initiation of a telephonic connection between the advisor and the user, including the central controller establishing a first telephonic connection with the user and the central controller initiating a second telephonic connection with the advisor to connect the advisor and the user; and
the first party charging an amount for the telephonic connection established between the advisor and the user.
2. The method of claim 1, wherein the first party providing the advertisement includes providing a reference to be selected by the user to initiate a connection to the advisor.
3. The method of claim 2, wherein the reference includes a hyper-link to be selected by the user to initiate a connection to the advisor.
4. The method of claim 2, wherein the first party providing the advertisement includes providing a reference to be selected by the user to initiate a call to the advisor through Internet telephony.
5. The method of claim 1, further including the first party providing advertisements on a media channel on behalf of multiple advertisers, the advertisements to include at least a reference to a telephonic connection with the respective advertisers;
the first party charging an amount each time a telephonic connection is established between a respective advertiser and a customer.
6. The method of claim 1, wherein the advertisement is provided in response to a search submitted by the user.
7. The method of claim 6, wherein the advertisement is provided in response to a search submitted by the user for a geographic location.
8. The method of claim 6, wherein the advertisement is provided in response to a search submitted by the user for a subject matter.
9. The method of claim 6, wherein the advertisement is provided in response to a key word search submitted by the user.
10. The method of claim 1, wherein the first party charges an amount for each telephonic connection established between the advisor and the user based on the advertisement.
11. The method of claim 1, wherein the first party charging the amount comprises:
the first party deducting the amount from an amount received from the user.
12. The method of claim 1, wherein the first party charging the amount comprises:
the first party charging the user.
13. The method of claim 1, wherein the amount charged is according to a price specified by the advisor.
14. The method of claim 1, wherein the telephonic connection is provided by Internet telephony.
15. The method of claim 1, wherein the telephonic connection includes video.
16. A machine-readable medium containing instructions, which when executed on a data processing system, cause the system to perform a method, the method comprising:
a first party providing an advertisement on Internet on behalf of an advisor, wherein the advertisement is displayed to a user and includes at least a reference to establish a telephonic communication with the advisor and indicates whether the advisor is currently available to communicate at a time when the user is viewing the advertisement;
receiving a user selection corresponding to the advisor, while the advisor is available;
while the advisor is currently available, a central controller using the selection from the user to facilitate initiation of a telephonic connection between the advisor and the user, including the central controller establishing a first telephonic connection with the user and the central controller initiating a second telephonic connection with the advisor to connect the advisor and the user; and
the first party charging an amount for the telephonic connection established between the advisor and the user.
17. The medium of claim 16, wherein the first party providing the advertisement includes providing a reference to be selected by the user to initiate a connection to the advisor.
18. The medium of claim 17, wherein the reference includes a hyper-link to be selected by the user to initiate a connection to the advisor.
19. The medium of claim 17, wherein the first party providing the advertisement includes providing a reference to be selected by the user to initiate a call to the advisor through Internet telephony.
20. The medium of claim 16, the method further including the first party providing advertisements on a media channel on behalf of multiple advertisers, the advertisements to include at least a reference to a telephonic connection with the respective advertisers;
the first party charging an amount each time a telephonic connection is established between a respective advertiser and a customer.
21. The medium of claim 16, wherein the advertisement is provided in response to a search submitted by the user.
22. The medium of claim 21, wherein the advertisement is provided in response to a search submitted by the user for a geographic location.
23. The medium of claim 21, wherein the advertisement is provided in response to a search submitted by the user for a subject matter.
24. The medium of claim 21, wherein the advertisement is provided in response to a key word search submitted by the user.
25. The medium of claim 16, wherein the first party charges an amount for each telephonic connection established between the advisor and the user based on the advertisement.
26. The medium of claim 16, wherein the first party charging the amount comprises:
the first party deducting the amount from an amount received from the user.
27. The medium of claim 16, wherein the first party charging the amount comprises:
the first party charging the user.
28. The medium of claim 16, wherein the amount charged is according to a price specified by the advisor.
29. The medium of claim 16, wherein the telephonic connection is provided by Internet telephony.
30. The medium of claim 16, wherein the telephonic connection includes video.
31. A system, comprising:
means for a first party providing an advertisement on Internet on behalf of an advisor, wherein the advertisement is displayed to a user and includes at least a reference to establish a telephonic communication with the advisor and indicates whether the advisor is currently available to communicate at a time when the user is viewing the advertisement;
means for receiving a user selection corresponding to the advisor, while the advisor is available;
means for a central controller using the selection from the user to facilitate initiation of a telephonic connection between the advisor and the user, while the advisor is currently available, including the central controller establishing a first telephonic connection with the user and the central controller initiating a second telephonic connection with the advisor to connect the advisor and the user; and
means for the first party charging an amount for the telephonic connection established between the advisor and the user.
32. The system of claim 31, wherein means for the first party providing the advertisement includes means for providing a reference to be selected by the user to initiate a connection to the advisor.
33. The system of claim 32, wherein the reference includes a hyper-link to be selected by the user to initiate a connection to the advisor.
34. The system of claim 32, wherein means for the first party providing the advertisement includes means for providing a reference to be selected by the user to initiate a call to the advisor through Internet telephony.
35. The system of claim 31, further including means for the first party providing advertisements on a media channel on behalf of multiple advertisers, the advertisements to include at least a reference to a telephonic connection with the respective advertisers; and
means for the first party charging an amount each time a telephonic connection is established between a respective advertiser and a customer.
36. The system of claim 31, wherein the advertisement is provided in response to a search submitted by the user.
37. The system of claim 36, wherein the advertisement is provided in response to a search submitted by the user for a geographic location.
38. The system of claim 36, wherein the advertisement is provided in response to a search submitted by the user for a subject matter.
39. The system of claim 36, wherein the advertisement is provided in response to a key word search submitted by the user.
40. The system of claim 31, wherein the first party charges an amount for each telephonic connection established between the advisor and the user based on the advertisement.
41. The system of claim 31, wherein means for the first party charging the amount comprises:
means for the first party deducting the amount from an amount received from the user.
42. The system of claim 31, wherein means for the first party charging the amount comprises:
means for the first party charging the user.
43. The system of claim 31, wherein the amount charged is according to a price specified by the advisor.
44. The system of claim 31, wherein the telephonic connection is provided by Internet telephony.
45. The system of claim 31, wherein the telephonic connection includes video.

The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.

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8. A method of scheduling groups of mobile users, the method comprising:
setting a group identifier for each mobile user;
scheduling, at a base station, physical layer resources intended for the mobile users for those mobile users requiring resources;
dividing the physical layer resources into sub-resources, each sub-resource being shared between mobile users having the same group identifier; and
providing an indication with the physical layer resources of an occurrence and a position within the physical layer resources of the sub-resources allocated to each mobile user in the group.
9. A method according to claim 8, wherein the physical layer resources comprise a protocol data unit (PDU) and the -sub-resources each comprise a sub-PDU.
10. A method according to claim 8, wherein the indication is provided in a higher layer header. cm 11. A method according to claim 10, wherein the header is a medium access control header (MAC).
12. A method according to claim 10, wherein the position of sub-resources for each user, within the physical layer resources, is pre-allocated and the indicator identifies whether or not sub-resources for that user are provided in a specific transmission
13. A method according to claim 10, wherein the physical layer resources comprise a particular frequency band and the sub-resources comprise frequency chunks within the particular frequency band.
14. A method according to claim 10, wherein the group comprises all mobile users scheduled by the base station.
15. A method according to claim 9, wherein the indication is provided in a higher layer header.
16. A method according to claim 15, wherein the header is a medium access control header (MAC).
17. A method according to claim 16, wherein the position of sub-resources for each user, within the physical layer resources, is pre-allocated and the indicator identifies whether or not sub-resources for that user are provided in a specific transmission
18. A method according to claim 17, wherein the physical layer resources comprise a particular frequency band and the sub-resources comprise frequency chunks within the particular frequency band.
19. A method according to claim 18, wherein the group comprises all mobile users scheduled by the base station.

1. A switching device, comprising:
a substrate having a surface region;
a first dielectric material overlying the surface region of the substrate;
a bottom wiring structure overlying the first dielectric material;
a first stricture comprising at least a contact material overlying the bottom wiring structure and a switching material overlying the contact layer, the first structure having a top surface region and a side region, the top surface region including a top region of the switching material;
a second dielectric layer overlying the first structure;
a side wall spacer structure formed in an opening region of the second dielectric layer, the opening region comprising a portion of the top surface region of the switching material, the side wall spacer structure being formed using a third dielectric material;
a conductive material overlying the opening region, the conductive material being in contact with the switching material; and
a top wiring structure overlying the conductive material.
2. The device of claim 1 wherein the first dielectric material comprises silicon oxide or silicon nitride or a silicon oxide on silicon nitride on silicon oxide stack.
3. The device of claim 1 wherein the second dielectric material comprises silicon oxide.
4. The device of claim 1 wherein the third dielectric material comprises silicon nitride, silicon oxide, or a dielectric stack, the dielectric stack comprises a silicon oxide on silicon nitride on silicon oxide (ONO) stack.
5. The device of claim 1 wherein the opening region defines an active device region.
6. The device of claim 1 further characterized by an on-state current and an off-state current, the on-state current being independent of an area of the opening region and the off-state current being inversely proportional to the area.
7. The device of claim 1 wherein the top wiring structure and the bottom wiring structure is spatially arranged in a crossbar configuration.
8. The device of claim 1 wherein the substrate is a semiconductor substrate.
9. The device of claim 1 wherein the substrate comprises one or more COMS device formed thereon, the one or more CMOS devices being operably coupled to the switching device.
10. The device of claim 1 wherein at least a portion of the top wiring structure and at least a portion of the bottom wiring structure comprise a metal material selected from tungsten, copper, and aluminum.
11. The device of claim 1 wherein the contact material comprises a polysilicon material having a p+ impurity characteristic, the p+ impurity characteristic being provided by a boron species at a concentration ranging from about 1017 cm3 to about 1021 cm3.
12. The device of claim 1 wherein the polysilicon material has a thickness ranging from about 50 Angstroms to about 2000 Angstroms.
13. The device of claim 1 wherein the polysilicon material has a thickness ranging from about 100 Angstroms to about 500 Angstroms.
14. The device of claim 1 wherein the switching material comprises an amorphous silicon material having an intrinsic semiconductor characteristic.
15. The device of claim 14 wherein the amorphous silicon material has a thickness ranging from about 50 Angstroms to about 2000 Angstroms.
16. The device of claim 14 wherein the amorphous silicon material has a thickness ranging from about 100 Angstroms to about 500 Angstroms.
17. The device of claim 1 wherein the conductive material is a metal material selected from gold, silver, platinum, and palladium, and a combination.
18. The device of claim 17 wherein the conductive material comprises a silver material having a thickness ranging from about 50 Angstroms to about 2000 Angstroms.
19. The device of claim 17 wherein the conductive material comprises a silver material having a thickness ranging from about 100 Angstroms to about 500 Angstroms.

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 video encoder that implements scalable video coding (SVC) to provide SVC bitstreams comprising:
a sample adaptive offset (SAO) filter o receive uncoded andor uncompressed video stream to encode a lower-layer bitstream of the uncoded andor uncompressed video stream with SAO filter parameters, and to use the SAO filter parameters of the lower-layer bitstream to encode an enhancement layer bitstream; and
an output component to receive encoded lower-layer and enhancement layer bitstreams and output the SVC bitstream.
2. The video encoder of claim 1, wherein the lower-layer bitstream includes a base layer bitstream or a lower enhancement layer bitstream, wherein the SAO filter from a base layer decoder provides a select number of the SAO filter parameters to re-use in the SAO filter of enhancement layer decoder.
3. The video encoder of claim 1, wherein the SAO filter parameters include one or more of the following: control flags, SAO types, and SAO offset values.
4. The video encoder of claim 1, wherein the SAO filter parameters of the coded lower layer bitstream are directly re-used to encode the enhancement layer bitstream.
5. The video encoder of claim 1, wherein part of the SAO filter parameters of the lower layer bitstream are directly re-used to encode the enhancement layer bitstream, and the video encoder generates other SAO filter parameters to code the enhancement layer bitstream.
6. The video encoder of claim 1, wherein the SAO filter parameters from the lower layer bitstream are not re-used, and the video encoder generates another SAO filter parameters for a current enhancement layer bitstream.
7. The video encoder of claim 1, wherein a decision is made as to re-use of the SAO filter parameters by the video encoder for the enhancement layer bitstream.
8. The video encoder of claim 1, wherein the SAO filter parameters are used to apply re-use schemes for Y, Cb, and Cr color spaces.
9. The video encoder of claim 1, wherein the SAO filter parameters includes inherited SAO filter parameters from the lower layer bitstream to include multiple corresponding coding units from spatial, temporal and inter-layer neighbor coding units.
10. The video encoder of claim 1, wherein the SAO filter parameters are of a spatial, temporal or lower-layer neighbor coded coding unit and used to encode a current coding unit in the enhancement layer bitstream.
11. A video decoder that processes a scalable video coding (SVC) bitstream comprising:
a demultiplexor to receive the SVC bitstream and separate the SVC bitstream into a base layer bitstream and one or more enhancement layer bitstream streams, wherein the base layer bitstream stream includes sample adaptive offset (SAO) filter parameters;
a base layer bitstream decoding block to process the base layer bitstream and to use the SAO filter parameters; and
an enhancement layer bitstream stream decoding block to process the enhancement layer bitstream, wherein the sample adaptive offset (SAO) filter parameters of the base layer or lower enhancement layer bitstream are selectively re-used for the enhancement layer bitstream.
12. The video decoder of claim 11, wherein the base layer bitstream is decoded independently while an enhancement layer bitstream is decoded together with base layer and lower enhancement layer outputs.
13. The video decoder of claim 11, wherein decoding of the base layer bitstream and the enhancement layer bitstream adapts the SAO filter parameters used during encoding.
14. The video decoder of claim 11, wherein the SAO filter parameters of the base layer bitstream or lower enhancement layer bitstream are directly re-used to decode the enhancement layer bitstream.
15. The video decoder of claim 11, wherein part of the SAO filter parameters of the base layer bitstream or lower enhancement layer bitstream are directly re-used to decode the enhancement layer bitstream and the video decoder adapts other SAO filter parameters that were generated by a video encoder to code the enhancement layer bitstream.
16. The video decoder of claim 11, wherein the SAO filter parameters from the base layer bitstream or lower enhancement layer bitstream are not re-used, and the video decoder adapts the SAO filter parameters that were generated by a video encoder to code the enhancement layer bitstream.
17. The video decoder of claim 11, wherein the SAO filter parameters includes inherited SAO filter parameters from the base layer bitstream or lower enhancement layer bitstream to include multiple corresponding coding units from spatial, temporal and inter-layer neighbor coding units.
18. A device comprising:
one or more processors;
memory configured to the processors;
a video encoder configured to the processors and memory comprising:
a sample adaptive offset (SAO) filter to receive uncoded andor uncompressed video stream to encode a base layer bitstream of the uncoded andor uncompressed video stream with SAO filter parameters, and to use the SAO filter parameters of the base-layer bitstream to encode an enhancement layer bitstream; and
an output component to receive encoded base-layer and enhancement layer bitstreams and output the SVC bitstream for transmission.
19. The device of claim 18, wherein the SAO filter parameters include one or more of the following: control flags, SAO types, and SAO offset values, which are communicated to a decoder.
20. The device of claim 18, wherein the SAO filter from a base layer decoder provides a select number of the SAO filter parameters to re-use in the SAO filter of enhancement layer decoder.
21. The device of claim 18, wherein the SAO filter parameters of the base layer bitstream or lower enhancement layer bitstream are directly re-used to encode the enhancement layer bitstream
22. The device of claim 18, wherein part of the SAO filter parameters of the base layer bitstream or lower enhancement layer bitstream are directly re-used to encode the enhancement layer bitstream, and the video encoder generates other SAO filter parameters to code the enhancement layer bitstream.
23. The device of claim 18, wherein the SAO filter parameters from the base layer bitstream or lower enhancement layer bitstream are not re-used, and the video encoder generates another SAO filter parameters for a current enhancement layer bitstream.
24. The device of claim 18, wherein a decision is made as to re-use of the SAO filter parameters by the video encoder for the enhancement layer bitstream.
25. A method of implementing inter-layer sample adaptive offset (SAO) parameter re-use for scalable video coding (SVC) comprising;
performing sample adaptive offset (SAO) filtering to a coding unit (CU) of a lower-layer bitstream to generate SAO filtering parameters;
determining if the SAO filtering parameters are to be re-used to coding units of enhancement layer bitstream; and
re-using the SAO filtering parameters in SAO filtering the coding units of the enhancement layer bitstream.
26. The method of claim 25, wherein temporal neighbor coding unit from a coded enhancement layer coding prior to current enhancement layer coding unit is reused to encode the current enhancement layer coding unit.
27. The method of claim 25, wherein inter-layer coding unit from the lower layer bitstream is reused to encode current enhancement layer coding unit.
28. The method of claim 25, wherein spatial neighbor coding unit from the enhancement layer bitstream is reused to encode a current enhancement layer coding unit, wherein the spatial neighbor coding unit includes left, top, top-left or top-right coded neighboring coding unit to current coding unit.
29. The method of claim 25, wherein temporal inter-layer neighbor coding unit from a coded base layer picture prior to current base layer picture is reused to encode the current enhancement layer coding unit.
30. The method of claim 25, wherein temporal inter-layer neighbor coding unit from a coded base layer picture after current base layer picture is reused to encode the current enhancement layer coding unit.