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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7562137 | Method for validating a remote device A first device determines a possibility of an invalidation of a second device, wherein the first device is coupled to the second device via a fabric. A query is sent from the first device to validate the second device, in response to determining the possibility of t... | 07/14/2009 |
| 7453798 | Active flow management with hysteresis The present invention provides for a computer network method and system that applies “hysteresis” to an active queue management algorithm. If a queue is at a level below a certain low threshold and a burst of packets arrives at a network node, then the probabili... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7408934 | Broadcast between subnetworks connected via router The present invention allows the contents of network-wide broadcast in a first subnetwork to be passed to a second subnetwork even if a router is set to prevent the network-wide broadcast in the first subnetwork from going out of the first subnetwork. In response to... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7356067 | Spread spectrum verification circuit A method for verifying a spread spectrum function and a spread spectrum verification circuit are provided. Comparing an output frequency of the spread spectrum function with a reference frequency for the spread spectrum function tests an upper bound of the spread sp... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7204014 | Magnetic head with thin gap layers A method for fabricating a magnetic head wherein a read head portion of the magnetic head includes a second gap insulation layer that includes a first portion that is fabricated upon the electrical leads of the read head and a second portion that is fabricated upon ... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7117271 | Web server enabling direct scheduling and calendaring capability A client/server network enables access to non-HTML objects from a web browser. The system includes a database for storing non-HTML files. A system user requests a non-HTML file from a database using a web browser. The web browser transmits the request to a server vi... | 10/03/2006 |
| 6850709 | Apparatus and method for improved connectivity in wireless optical communication systems The present invention provides an apparatus and a method for improved connectivity in wireless optical networks. Therefore at least two or more receiving units are used which receive an infrared signal and convert it to a digital signal. The digital signals represen... | 02/01/2005 |
| 6826706 | Timer/timeout evaluation system that saves the counts of all timers when at least one timer has timed out An apparatus for evaluating at least one timer in the event of a timeout condition in a system includes circuitry that generates an indication that certain system conditions have occurred, clock circuitry, enabled by the indication, that generates a timeout counter ... | 11/30/2004 |
| 6795468 | Electric pumping of rare-earth-doped silicon for optical emission A structure having a p-n junction in a semiconductor having a first p-type region and a first n-type region along with a region located in the vicinity of the p-n junction that is doped with a rare-earth element. In addition, the structure includes a charge source c... | 09/21/2004 |
| 6111873 | Voice over data for remotely located operators A method for managing operator services comprises the steps of: compressing respective voice calls between a public switched telephone network (PSTN) and a local area network (LAN) of telephone operator work stations into respective streams of digital voi... | 08/29/2000 |
| 6069081 | Two-step chemical mechanical polish surface planarization technique A method of planarizing a dielectric coating applied over an underlying structure on an integrated circuit wafer employs a two-step chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) process. The underlying structure is characterized as having elevated areas and recesse... | 05/30/2000 |
| 6038181 | Efficient semiconductor burn-in circuit and method of operation The disclosed invention provides a circuit and burn-in test method for semiconductor devices that increases the speed of burn-in tests. The present invention accomplishes this by causing each of the devices under test to be tested multiple times (from 2 t... | 03/14/2000 |
| 5874318 | Dishing and erosion monitor structure for damascene metal processing According to the preferred embodiment, an erosion and dishing monitor and monitor method are provided that facilitates the accurate optimization of a planarization process as in semiconductor process. The dishing monitor comprises at least two monitor str... | 02/23/1999 |
| 5550540 | Distributed coding and prediction by use of contexts The present invention comprises a distributed data processing system including a plurality of data processing elements for expeditiously performing an encoding or prediction function pursuant to a context-based model in an adaptive, optimal and time-progr... | 08/27/1996 |
| 5363397 | Integrated short cavity laser with bragg mirrors An edge emitting laser combines many of the desirable attributes of the common forms of surface-emitting and edge-emitting laser structures together with elimination of their drawbacks. The laser cavity of a device according to the present invention is sh... | 11/08/1994 |
| 5175658 | Thin film magnetic head having a protective coating and method for making same A magnetic head slider having a protective coating on the rails thereof, the protective coating comprising a thin adhesion layer, a thin layer of amorphous hydrogenated carbon, and a thin masking layer. The protective coating is deposited on the air beari... | 12/29/1992 |
