All The Claims

1-13. (canceled)
14: A resonator comprising:
a substrate;
at least two oscillating masses;
means for making the masses oscillate using electrical forces, suspension beams for suspending the masses from the substrate, and coupling beams that link the masses together, wherein the suspension beams are all connected to the masses through the coupling beams, with the suspension beams and the coupling beams forming a continuous single assembly of beams that includes attachment beams to the substrate and attachment beams to the masses,
wherein the continuous single assembly of beams also includes a junction beam that undergoes deformation according to oscillation of the masses, extending along a closed line to which the attachment beams to the substrate and the attachment beams to the masses are connected.
15: A resonator according to claim 14, wherein the junction beam extends over a curved line.
16: A resonator according to claim 14, wherein the junction beam surrounds the masses, which are in a form of half-moons that have rectilinear sides opposite each other and curved sides opposite the junction beam.
17: A resonator according to claim 14, wherein the attachment beams to the substrate include anchorage beams that extend overall in a direction of alignment of the masses between two regions of attachment to the substrate, which are perpendicular to the anchorage beams and joined to the anchorage beams at mid-distance from the regions of attachment.
18: A resonator according to claim 16, wherein the junction beam surrounds the masses, and the means for making the masses oscillate includes elements for producing oscillation located between the junction beam and the masses.
19: A resonator according to claim 14, wherein the substrate includes a decoupling frame that surrounds the masses, the means for making the masses oscillate, and the suspension beams and the coupling beams, and said decoupling frame being fixed to an underlying portion of the substrate by two frame anchorage regions aligned in a principal direction of oscillation of the masses.
20: A resonator according to claim 19, wherein the attachment beams to the masses are aligned with the frame anchorage regions.
21: A resonator according to claim 20, wherein the frame and the junction beam are configured to form end-stops in front of the frame anchorage regions and the oscillating masses possess opposite sides configured to form a mutual end stop.
22: A resonator according to claim 18, wherein the masses extend between the means for making the masses oscillate and possess opposite sides between them said masses equipped with interlocking electric combs.
23: A resonator according to claim 14, wherein the masses each include two-sub-masses placed symmetrically along a principle direction of oscillation of the masses, and the coupling beams include, for each mass, a sub-assembly of beams that extends between the sub-masses and that include two beams respectively linked to the sub-masses and to an interconnecting beam with the two beams connected to the sub-masses extending along a principal direction of oscillation of the masses.
24: A resonator according to claim 14, further comprising electrodes for measuring capacitance with the masses, the electrodes being fixed to the substrate and arranged in mass housings and being asymmetric along a direction of oscillation of the masses.
25: A resonator according to claim 14, wherein the means for making the masses oscillate includes interlocking toothed combs that exhibit an overlap length that is greater than an oscillation amplitude of the oscillating masses.
26: A resonator according to claim 22, wherein the interlocking electrical combs have teeth with a total mass equal to a total mass of extensions present on a face opposite the teeth of each oscillating mass.

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 manufacturing an integrated circuit package system comprising:
connecting a carrier and an integrated circuit, mounted thereover, by a bond wire;
preforming a penetrable wire-in-film encapsulation having a cavity with orthogonal sidewalls;
pressing the penetrable wire-in-film encapsulation over the carrier, the bond wire, and the integrated circuit with the sidewalls of the cavity having a characteristic of an intersecting bulge caused by compression and the cavity exposing a portion of the integrated circuit; and
curing the penetrable wire-in-film encapsulation.
2. The method as claimed in claim 1 wherein preforming the penetrable wire-in-film encapsulation having the cavity includes attaching the penetrable wire-in-film encapsulation to a stiffener.
3. The method as claimed in claim 1 wherein preforming the penetrable wire-in-film encapsulation having the cavity includes preforming a penetrable film adhesive having a B-stage characteristic.
4. previously presented) The method as claimed in claim 1 further comprising mounting a device over the integrated circuit and in the cavity of the penetrable wire-in-film encapsulation.
5. The method as claimed in claim 1 further comprising attaching a lid over the cavity and the integrated circuit.
6. A method for manufacturing an integrated circuit package system comprising:
connecting a carrier and an integrated circuit, mounted thereover, by a bond wire;
preforming a penetrable wire-in-film encapsulation having a cavity with orthogonal sidewalls;
pressing the penetrable wire-in-film encapsulation over the carrier, the bond wire, and the integrated circuit with the sidewalls of the cavity having a characteristic of an intersecting bulge caused by compression and the cavity exposing a bond pad of the integrated circuit;
curing the penetrable wire-in-film encapsulation; and
attaching an external interconnect below the carrier.
7. The method as claimed in claim 6 wherein connecting the carrier and the integrated circuit includes connecting a substrate and an integrated circuit die.
8. The method as claimed in claim 6 wherein connecting the carrier and the integrated circuit includes connecting the carrier and a flip chip.
9. The method as claimed in claim 6 wherein connecting the carrier and the integrated circuit includes connecting the carrier and an inter-stacking module.
10. The method as claimed in claim 6 further comprising attaching a lid over the cavity and an optical area of the integrated circuit.
11. An integrated circuit package system comprising:
a carrier;
an integrated circuit over the carrier;
a bond wire connecting the carrier to the integrated circuit; and
a preformed penetrable wire-in-film encapsulation having a cavity with sidewalls over the carrier, the bond wire, and the integrated circuit with the sidewalls of the cavity having a characteristic of an intersecting bulge caused by compression and exposing a portion of the integrated circuit.
12. The system as claimed in claim 11 further comprising an electrical interconnect between the integrated circuit and the carrier.
13. The system as claimed in claim 11 wherein the penetrable wire-in-film encapsulation includes a penetrable film adhesive having a B-stage characteristic.
14. The system as claimed in claim 11 further comprising a device over the integrated circuit and in the cavity of the penetrable wire-in-filmencapsulation.
15. The system as claimed in claim 11 further comprising attaching a lid over the cavity and the integrated circuit.
16. The system as claimed in claim 11 wherein:
the integrated circuit includes a bond pad;
the penetrable wire-in-film encapsulation exposes the bond pad through the cavity; and
further comprising an external interconnect attached below and to the carrier.
17. The system as claimed in claim 16 wherein:
the carrier includes a substrate; and
the integrated circuit includes an integrated circuit die.
18. The system as claimed in claim 16 wherein the integrated circuit includes a flip chip.
19. The system as claimed in claim 16 wherein the integrated circuit includes an inter-stacking module.
20. The system as claimed in claim 16 further comprising a lid over the cavity and an optical area of the integrated circuit.

1. A hybrid recommendation system comprising:
an offline testing module to offline test recommendation functions on a dataset and further to adjust the recommendation functions based on performance metrics determined from the offline testing;
an online testing module to facilitate online testing of the recommendation functions by an online testing system;
a recommendation engine executed by a processor to generate recommendation indices from a top-performing set of the recommendation functions determined based on the online and offline testing and store the recommendation indices in a data store;
a selection module to receive dynamic data identifying current activity of a user and perform a lookup on at least one of the recommendation indices to determine candidate recommendations; and
a filter module to select one or more of the candidate recommendations to present to the user based on a filter or rule.
2. The hybrid recommendation system of claim 1, wherein the offline testing module is to generate at least one of the recommendation functions from a training dataset determined from the dataset which is comprised of historic purchase data and to test the recommendation functions from a test dataset determined from the historic purchase data, wherein the training dataset and the test dataset include non-overlapping time periods for transactions for purchases.
3. The hybrid recommendation system of claim 2, wherein the offline testing module is to test the recommendation functions from the test dataset by determining recommendations by the recommendation functions based on information in the test dataset and measuring the performance metrics based on the recommendations.
4. The hybrid recommendation system of claim 3, wherein the performance metrics comprise recall and precision, wherein the recall performance metric is a ratio of items in a shopping cart that are matching recommendations and the precision performance metric is a percentage of the recommendations that were successful.
5. The hybrid recommendation system of claim 3, wherein the offline testing module is to compare the measured performance metrics to benchmarks and to vary an adjustable parameter of the at least one recommendation function if the measured performance metrics do not meet the benchmarks.
6. The hybrid recommendation system of claim 1, wherein the online testing system module is to compare measured metrics for a group of users to whom recommendations have been provided by the online testing system based on the recommendation functions to measured metrics for a control group to whom no recommendations are given, and to evaluate the recommendation functions based on the comparison.
7. The hybrid recommendation system of claim 6, wherein the metrics comprise a macro performance metric including at least one of average shopping cart size per customer, average sales per shopping cart, and average sales per customer and a micro performance metric including at least one items matching a recommendations for a customer and click-through rates for the items.
8. The hybrid recommendation system of claim 6, wherein the online testing module is to select the top-performing set of the recommendation functions from the recommendation functions that have the highest performance based on the evaluation of the metrics.
9. The hybrid recommendation system of claim 1, wherein the recommendation functions include at least one of a support scoring function, a support count scoring function, a confidence scoring function and a cosine metric scoring function.
10. The hybrid recommendation system of claim 1, wherein the recommendation functions include at least one function including parameters for price of items in a shopping cart and distance between a place where a purchase takes place and a location where a recommendation is going to be provided.
11. The hybrid recommendation system of claim 1, wherein the filter module is to apply real-time metrics and a rule to select the candidate recommendations to deliver to the user.
12. The hybrid recommendation system of claim 1, wherein the real-time metrics include current location of the user and recent purchases made by the user.
13. The hybrid recommendation system of claim 1, wherein the recommendations comprise recommendations for products to purchase or a coupon.
14. The hybrid recommendation system of claim 1, wherein the recommendation engine executes the recommendation functions to identify associations between sets of products and associations between users and products based on transaction data for product purchases, user demographics and product information, and the associations are stored in the indices.
15. The hybrid recommendation system of claim 1, wherein the indices are stored on a cluster of servers and map and reduce tasks are executed in parallel to perform the lookup on the indices.
16. A non-transitory computer readable medium including machine readable instructions that are executable by at least one processor to:
offline test recommendation functions on a dataset;
adjust the recommendation functions based on performance metrics determined from the testing;
online testing the recommendation functions by an online testing system;
generate recommendation indices from a top-performing set of the recommendation functions determined based on the online and offline testing;
store the recommendation indices in a data store;
receive dynamic data identifying current activity of a user;
perform a lookup on at least one of the recommendation indices to determine candidate recommendations; and
select one or more of the candidate recommendations to present to the user based on a filter or rule.
17. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 16, wherein the machine readable instructions are to:
generate at least one of the recommendation functions from a training dataset determined from the dataset which is comprised of historic purchase data; and
the offline testing includes testing the recommendation functions from a test dataset determined from the historic purchase data, wherein the training dataset and the test dataset include non-overlapping time periods for transactions for purchases.
18. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 16, wherein the machine readable instructions for the offline testing include machine readable instructions to determine recommendations by the recommendation functions based on information in the test dataset and measure the performance metrics based on the recommendations.
19. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 16, wherein the machine readable instructions for the online testing include machine readable instructions to compare measured metrics for a group of users to whom recommendations have been provided by the online testing system based on the recommendation functions to measured metrics for a control group to whom no recommendations are given, and
evaluate the recommendation functions based on the comparison to select the top-performing set of the recommendation functions.
20. A hybrid recommendation system to determine recommendations to present to a user for online shopping, the system comprising:
an offline testing module to offline test recommendation functions on a dataset and further to adjust the recommendation functions based on performance metrics determined from the offline testing;
an online testing module to facilitate online testing of the recommendation functions by an online testing system;
a recommendation engine executed by a processor to generate recommendation indices from a top-performing set of the recommendation functions determined based on the online and offline testing and store the recommendation indices in a data store;
a selection module to receive dynamic data identifying current activity of a user, purchase history of the user and preferences for the user and to perform a lookup on at least one of the recommendation indices to determine candidate recommendations based on the current activity of the, the purchase history and the preferences, wherein the indices include product item-to-product item associations and customer-to-product associations; and
a filter module to select one or more of the candidate recommendations to present to the user based on a filter or rule.

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. An electric connector comprising:
a tubular coupler having
a front end;
a rear end being opposite to the front end; and
two paths defined through the coupler for communicating the front end with the rear end; and

two metallic pipes respectively disposed in the two paths in the coupler and each pipe having
a tubular portion disposed in a corresponding path in the tubular coupler and having a first end and a second end opposite to the first end; a channel defined through the tubular portion and extending along a longitudinal axis of the tubular portion for communicating the first end with the second end of the tubular portion;
a baffle sheet formed on the second end of the tubular portion to shield the channel and to prevent the channel from plugging; and
a connecting sheet extending from the second end of the tubular portion and located adjacent to the baffle sheet.
2. The electric connector as claimed in claim 1, wherein each pipe has two wings protruding from two sides of the pipe for fixing the pipe in the corresponding path in the coupler.
3. The electric connector as claimed in claim 2, wherein each path has a shoulder annularly extending from an inner periphery of the path and located adjacent to the rear end; each of the two wings is elastic and gradually outwardly extends from the first end toward the second end of the pipe to abut against the shoulder and to prevent the pipe being detached from the rear end of the tubular coupler.
4. The electric connector as claimed in claim 3, wherein the rear end of the coupler is connected with a casing; the casing has a cavity, an electric conductor, two conducting blades and a cap; the cavity is defined in the casing and communicates with the two paths in the tubular coupler; the electric conductor is received in the cavity in the casing; the two conducting blades are mounted through the casing and are electrically connected with the electric conductor; the cap is mounted on the casing to close the cavity in the casing; the two connecting sheets of the two pipes are welded on and are electrically connected with the electric conductor.
5. The electric connector as claimed in claim 2, wherein the rear end of the coupler is connected with a casing; the casing has a cavity, an electric conductor, two conducting blades and a cap; the cavity is defined in the casing and communicates with the two paths in the tubular coupler; the electric conductor is received in the cavity in the casing; the two conducting blades are mounted through the casing and are electrically connected with the electric conductor; the cap is mounted on the casing to close the cavity in the casing; the two connecting sheets of the two pipes are welded on and are electrically connected with the electric conductor.
6. The electric connector as claimed in claim 1, wherein the rear end of the coupler is connected with a casing; the casing has a cavity, an electric conductor, two conducting blades and a cap; the cavity is defined in the casing and communicates with the two paths in the tubular coupler; the electric conductor is received in the cavity in the casing; the two conducting blades are mounted through the casing and are electrically connected with the electric conductor; the cap is mounted on the casing to close the cavity in the casing; the two connecting sheets of the two pipes are welded on and are electrically connected with the electric conductor.
7. The electric connector as claimed in claim 1, wherein the two connecting sheets of the two pipes are respectively electrically connected with two conducting wires; the tubular coupler is injection molded on the two pipes and the two conducting wires; the two channels in the first ends of the two pipes communicate with the front end of the tubular coupler and the two conducting wires protrude from the rear end of the tubular coupler.
8. The electric connector as claimed in claim 7, wherein each of the two connecting sheets has two fixing strips respectively extending from two sides of the connecting sheet for winding on and electrically connecting to a corresponding conducting wire.
9. The electric connector as claimed in claim 1, wherein each of the two connecting sheets has two fixing strips respectively extending from two sides of the connecting sheet.