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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8185886 | Method and apparatus to enable dynamically activated firmware updates Dynamic updating of firmware in a processing system without performing a system reset may be accomplished by allocating memory space for updated firmware in a dynamic random access memory of the processing system during the system initialization process for the proc... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185758 | Method and system for determining an energy-efficient operating point of a platform A method and system for determining an energy-efficient operating point of the platform or system. The platform has logic to dynamically manage setting(s) of the processing cores and/or platform components in the platform to achieve maximum system energy efficiency.... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185734 | System and method for execution of a secured environment initialization instruction A method and apparatus for initiating secure operations in a microprocessor system is described. In one embodiment, one initiating logical processor initiates the process by halting the execution of the other logical processors, and then loading initialization and s... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185723 | Method and apparatus to extract integer and fractional components from floating-point data A method is presented including decomposing a first value into many parts. Decomposing includes shifting (310) a rounded integer portion of the first value to generate a second value. Generating (320) a third value. Extracting (330) a plurality ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185700 | Enabling speculative state information in a cache coherency protocol In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method for receiving a bus message in a first cache corresponding to a speculative access to a portion of a second cache by a second thread, and dynamically determining in the first cache if an inter-thread depende... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185671 | Technique for increasing control and status signal density in a fixed register address space A plurality of registers may function as both the control and status registers. Each bit location of the registers is writable to set a value on a control signal and readable to read a current value on a status signal. A multiplexer provides readability of the curre... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185571 | Processor for performing multiply-add operations on packed data A method and apparatus for including in a processor instructions for performing multiply-add operations on packed data. In one embodiment, a processor is coupled to a memory. The memory has stored therein a first packed data and a second packed data. The processor p... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185102 | Reducing co-interference on a multi-radio platform A wireless communications device in a first network with contention-based access may send a special frame to one or more other devices in the first network, informing them that it will not be available to receive any transmissions during a specified time period. The... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185072 | Method and apparatus for power reduction for interconnect links A power reduction proposal for a receiver circuit that adheres to a plurality of defined states and masking logic to mask the output of the squelch receiver. Furthermore, the proposal utilizes and counters to count the various timeout conditions. Consequently, the s... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184855 | Three-level scheme for efficient ball tracking A three-level ball detection and tracking method is disclosed. The ball detection and tracking method employs three levels to generate multiple ball candidates rather than a single one. The ball detection and tracking method constructs multiple trajectories using ca... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184693 | Adaptive filtering for bit-depth scalable video codec Adaptive filtering may be used to increase the quality of tone mapped, baseline layer encoded information. As a result, scalable video codecs may be implemented with improved picture quality in some embodiments. ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184557 | Apparatus and method for computer controlled call processing applications in packet switched telephone networks A method is presented comprising transmitting, from an application computer communicably connected to a call controller which is connected to a data network, packetized messages indicative of telephone calls in progress at an endpoint of the data network, or indicat... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184524 | Adaptive puncturing technique for multicarrier systems Various embodiments are described for adaptive puncturing techniques. An adaptive bit loading block may select different modulation schemes and puncturing patterns for different subcarriers of a communications channel based on channel state information for one or mo... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184422 | Overheat detection in thermally controlled devices Systems and methods of overheat detection provide for generating a control signal on a die containing a processor based on an internal temperature of the processor and a control temperature threshold. It can be determined whether to generate a warning temperature ev... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8183697 | Apparatus and methods of forming an interconnect between a workpiece and substrate Embodiments of an apparatus and methods of forming interconnect between a workpiece and substrate and its application to packaging of microelectronic devices are described herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed. ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8183692 | Barrier layer for fine-pitch mask-based substrate bumping A structure that may be used in substrate solder bumping comprises a substrate (110), a solder resist layer (120) disposed over the substrate, a plurality of solder resist openings (121) in a surface (122) of the solder resist layer, a co... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8183646 | Field effect transistor with narrow bandgap source and drain regions and method of fabrication A transistor having a narrow bandgap semiconductor source/drain region is described. The transistor includes a gate electrode formed on a gate dielectric layer formed on a silicon layer. A pair of source/drain regions are formed on opposite sides of the gate electro... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8183556 | Extreme high mobility CMOS logic A CMOS device includes a PMOS transistor with a first quantum well structure and an NMOS device with a second quantum well structure. The PMOS and NMOS transistors are formed on a substrate. ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8183496 | Method of forming a pattern on a work piece, method of shaping a beam of electromagnetic radiation for use in said method, and aperture for shaping a beam of electromagnetic radiation A method of forming a pattern (700) on a work piece (1260) includes placing a pattern mask (1210) over the work piece, placing an aperture (100, 500, 600, 1220) over the pattern mask, and placing the work piece in a beam of electromagneti... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8181204 | Linking to video information A system enables dynamic linking between a variety of video formats including television broadcasts, web pages, and video displays which are stored on magnetic or optical media. Each frame of the video information is identified together with a plurality of locations... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8181185 | Filtering of performance monitoring information In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method for receiving a signal in a filter register of a performance monitor from an execution unit to enable a field of the filter register associated with a first thread when a filter enable instruction is execute... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8181179 | Changing a scheduler in a virtual machine monitor Machine-readable media, methods, and apparatus are described to change a first scheduler in the virtual machine monitor. In some embodiments, a second scheduler is loaded in a virtual machine monitor when the virtual machine monitor is running; and then is activated... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8181176 | Uniform storage device access using partial virtual machine executing within a secure enclave session In a computing system having a processor package, an operating system, and a physical I/O device, a partial virtual machine is provided to instantiate a virtual I/O device corresponding to the physical I/O device, the virtual I/O device having a virtual I/O controll... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8181170 | Unwind information for optimized programs Analyzing a first binary version of a program and unwind information associated with the first binary version of the program, performing optimization on the first binary version of the program to produce a second binary version of the program based at least in part ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8181118 | Personal information device on a mobile computing platform A method and apparatus for integrating a personal information device (PID) on a mobile computer that includes activating a first mode to display data originating with the PID in a first display area of a display. The mobile computer switches to a second mode to disp... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8181041 | Wave-modulated switching frequency voltage regulator A method and apparatus for a wave-modulated switching frequency voltage regulator VR are described. In one embodiment, a controller dynamically adjusts a phase switching frequency of the VR to render the VR immune from synchronization between an IC load frequency an... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8181032 | Method and apparatus with chipset-based protection for local and remote authentication of booting from peripheral devices Method and apparatus enabling a computing system to deter or thwart unauthorized boot-up from peripheral devices are disclosed herein. In various embodiments, a monitoring module and a managing module are employed cooperating with each other to authorize users in bo... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8181025 | Method and apparatus for registering agents onto a virtual machine monitor A method for managing an agent includes verifying an integrity of the agent in response to a registration request. Memory protection is provided for the agent during integrity verification. An indication is generated when registration of the agent has been completed... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180977 | Transactional memory in out-of-order processors Methods and apparatus to provide transactional memory execution in out-of-order processors are described. In one embodiment, a stored value corresponds to the number of transactional memory access requests that are uncommitted. The stored value may be used to provid... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180967 | Transactional memory virtualization Methods and apparatus to provide transactional memory execution in a virtualized mode are described. In one embodiment, data corresponding to a transactional memory access request may be stored in a portion of a memory after an operation corresponding to the transac... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180923 | Network access control for many-core systems In a processor based system comprising a plurality of logical machines, selecting a logical machine of the system to serve as a host; the host communicating with a policy decision point (PDP) of a network to provision a data channel interconnecting the processor bas... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180921 | Method and apparatus for load balancing A method and apparatus is provided in which a multi-site load balancing system directs a client to a site best able to respond to the client's request based on a combination of balancing methods. Performance metric balancing is employed to select sites having the be... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180367 | Cluster-based fingerprinting algorithms Methods and apparatus to provide cluster-based fingerprinting algorithms are described. In one embodiment, m closest fingerprints from k fingerprints are determined. The k fingerprints may be determined as closest fingerprints to a scan s in a signal strength domain... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180291 | Power-scavenging receiver to generate a signal to be used to control operational state Methods and apparatuses for selectively powering an electronic device based on signals from a power-scavenging receiver circuit. ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179979 | Detection and compensation of discontinuities in data stream In one embodiment of the invention, a method includes receiving a video stream that includes a temporal discontinuity. Checkpoints are distributed in a non-linear fashion with unequal spacing between the checkpoints. The temporal discontinuity is then detected at on... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179870 | Method and apparatus for securing devices in a network An access point receives a notification (or advertisement) from a device, which lacks a service. The access point adds the service to the notification, and forwards the notification to other devices on the network. Upon receiving from a control point a request to us... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179869 | Redundant multicast service in wireless network In a wireless network in which the base station has full duplex capability (can transmit on the downlink channel and simultaneously receive on the uplink channel), but the mobile stations have only half duplex capability (each can transmit on the uplink channel and ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179844 | Channel aware multiple user MIMO scheme unified with single user closed loop MIMO A base station is capable of unifying a single-user MIMO scheme with a multi-user MIMO scheme by receiving a Rank-1 CQI values from one or more subscriber stations. The base station also receives preceding vectors from the subscriber stations, and then determines wh... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179330 | Omnidirectional wideband antenna An antenna may comprise a first loop, a second loop, and a third loop, which are arranged to have a common intersection point on an axis that is common to the first, second, and the third loop. The first, second, and the third loop are mutually separated by an angle... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8178952 | Method of forming high-k dual dielectric stack The present invention discloses a method including: providing a Group III-V component semiconductor material; forming a first layer over a surface of the Group III-V component semiconductor material, the first layer to unpin a Fermi level at the surface; forming a s... | 05/15/2012 |
