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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20100202549 | MULTIPLE INPUT, MULTIPLE OUTPUT WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, ASSOCIATED METHODS AND DATA STRUCTURES Briefly, in accordance with one or more embodiments, in response to receiving a wireless communication signal, a non-uniform codebook is generated based at least in part on one or more characteristics of the received wireless communication signal for quantization and co... | 08/12/2010 |
| 20090241666 | PIEZOELECTRIC SENSOR DYNAMIC RANGE IMPROVEMENT A MEMS piezoelectric sensor comprises a plurality of capacitors some of which may be used for sensing and others used for feedback. The capacitors may be switched to connect or disconnect selected capacitors from the sensor. Embodiments convert a two port sensor into a ... | 10/01/2009 |
| 20090094362 | Method and system for managing quality of service in a network According to embodiments, the present invention comprises a method and system for managing support of quality of service requirements for various clients of a telecommunications network at a server level. Servers assigned to the various clients may include quality of se... | 04/09/2009 |
| 20090093381 | Solid phase electrochemical synthesis with controlled product cleavage Methods for electrochemically synthesizing polymers are provided in which a cleavable linker is coupled to the surface of at least one electrode of an array of electrodes on a substrate and a polymer coupled to the cleavable linker is synthesized through a series of mon... | 04/09/2009 |
| 20090093131 | Low-temperature catalyzed formation of segmented nanowire of dielectric material The present invention discloses a method of forming a segmented nanowire including: providing a substrate; pre-cleaning the substrate; pre-treating the substrate; forming and placing a catalyst over the substrate; and forming the segmented nanowire over the catalyst wit... | 04/09/2009 |
| 20090092071 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENCODING SUBSCRIBER STATION IDENTIFICATIONS AND CONNECTIONS IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS A method and apparatus for encoding an identification of a subscriber station and its connections in a data frame for transmission in a wireless communication network comprising at least one base station and at least one subscriber station is disclosed. The method compr... | 04/09/2009 |
| 20090090982 | Ultra-abrupt semiconductor junction profile The present invention discloses a method including: providing a substrate; forming recessed regions adjacent to both sides of a gate on the substrate; performing an angled co-implant of a species in two steps with two different energies and two different doses into the ... | 04/09/2009 |
| 20090089818 | DETERMINING THE CONTEXT OF A COMPUTING DEVICE In some embodiments a remote request is received relating to a context of a computer after the computer has been powered off. A sensor of the computer is turned on to obtain context information of the computer from the sensor. The obtained context information is provide... | 04/02/2009 |
| 20090089617 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TESTING MATHEMATICAL ALGORITHMS A method and apparatus for testing mathematical programs where code coverage is exceedingly difficult to hit with random data test vectors (probability <2−64) is provided. To enable testing of the mathematical program, instructions in the mathematical pr... | 04/02/2009 |
| 20090089582 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING UPGRADEABLE KEY BINDINGS FOR TRUSTED PLATFORM MODULES A processing system with a trusted platform module (TPM) supports migration of digital keys. For instance, an application in the processing system may create a first configuration key as a child of a TPM storage root key (SRK) when the processing system has a first conf... | 04/02/2009 |
| 20090089564 | Protecting a Branch Instruction from Side Channel Vulnerabilities Embodiments of an invention to protection a branch instruction from side channel vulnerabilities are described. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a request to modify the operation of a processor to protect against side channel attacks, and modifying branch ... | 04/02/2009 |
| 20090089546 | Multiple multi-threaded processors having an L1 instruction cache and a shared L2 instruction cache In general, in one aspect, the disclosure describes a processor that includes an instruction store to store instructions of at least a portion of at least one program and multiple engines coupled to the shared instruction store. The engines provide multiple execution th... | 04/02/2009 |
| 20090089527 | EXECUTING A PROTECTED DEVICE MODEL IN A VIRTUAL MACHINE Embodiments of apparatuses, methods, and systems for executing a protected device model in a virtual machine are disclosed. In one embodiment, an apparatus includes recognition logic, memory management logic, control logic, and execution logic. The recognition logic is ... | 04/02/2009 |
| 20090089514 | Implementing Asynchronous Request for Forcing Dynamic Memory into Self Refresh In some embodiments a memory controller receives a signal indicating a power condition of a system. In response to the received signal the memory controller controls a clock enable signal to a memory, allows only already issued memory controller signals to finish, and f... | 04/02/2009 |
| 20090089497 | METHOD OF DETECTING PRE-OPERATING SYSTEM MALICIOUS SOFTWARE AND FIRMWARE USING CHIPSET GENERAL PURPOSE DIRECT MEMORY ACCESS HARDWARE CAPABILITIES In some embodiments, a method of detecting pre-operating system malicious software and firmware using chipset general purpose direct memory access hardware capabilities is presented. In this regard, a security agent is introduced to access system memory used by instruct... | 04/02/2009 |
| 20090089456 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SYNCHRONIZING SIMULTANEOUS MEDIA STREAM PLAYBACK ACROSS NONSYNCHRONIZED NETWORK TIMING/CLOCK ISLANDS A system and method for synchronizing simultaneous media stream playback across disjoint network timing/clock islands. An embodiment of a method includes determining a closest device to a source device in a network communications path between the source device and one o... | 04/02/2009 |
| 20090086981 | Methods and Apparatus for Batch Bound Authentication A processing system may include a processing unit and nonvolatile storage responsive to the processing unit. The nonvolatile storage may include a candidate boot code module and an authentication code module. The processing unit may be configured to execute code from th... | 04/02/2009 |
| 20090086972 | SUPPRESSING POWER SUPPLY NOISE USING DATA SCRAMBLING IN DOUBLE DATA RATE MEMORY SYSTEMS Embodiments of the invention are generally directed to systems, methods, and apparatuses for suppressing power supply noise using data scrambling in double data rate memory systems. In some embodiments, an integrated circuit includes a transmit data path to transmit dat... | 04/02/2009 |
| 20090085748 | MITIGATING PROCESSING LATENCY IN RFID EXCHANGES In a radio frequency identification (RFID) system that requires an RFID reader to receive a response from an RFID tag and then transmit a command to the RFID tag within a certain time period, the RFID reader may place an initial part of the command transmission in the R... | 04/02/2009 |
| 20090085721 | Methods and Apparatus for Efficiently Tracking Activity Using Radio Frequency Identification A wearable data processing system includes a high power radio module and a low power radio module. The high power radio module may retrieve data from radio frequency identifier (RFID) tags. The low power radio module may transmit data to a base station data pertaining t... | 04/02/2009 |
| 20090085697 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ANALOG VALIDATION OF HIGH SPEED BUSES USING ELECTROMAGNETIC COUPLERS In at least one embodiment an apparatus is provided that includes an electromagnetic coupler to provide sampled electromagnetic signals and an electronics component to receive the sampled electromagnetic signals from the electromagnetic coupler, to amplify and recover a... | 04/02/2009 |
| 20090085623 | BIAS SIGNAL DELIVERY Provided herein are approaches for controlling remote slave DLL circuits with a master DLL circuit by conveying a relevant bias signal as a current signal instead of as a voltage signal.... | 04/02/2009 |
| 20090085618 | WAKE-UP CIRCUIT Disclosed herein is a wake-up circuit for a bias input of a circuit such as a slave DLL circuit, to allow it to be placed in a reduced power mode and be “awoken” (brought up to a control bias level) in a sufficiently small enough amount of time. The wake-up circuit ... | 04/02/2009 |
| 20090085607 | EMBEDDED POWER GATING With embodiments disclosed herein, the distribution of gated power is done using on-die layers without having to come back out and use package layers.... | 04/02/2009 |
| 20090085552 | POWER MANAGEMENT USING DYNAMIC EMBEDDED POWER GATE DOMAINS In some embodiments of the invention, a processor with a power management scheme using dynamically switchable embedded power gates.... | 04/02/2009 |
| 20090085438 | PIEZOELECTRIC FAN, COOLING DEVICE CONTAINING SAME, AND METHOD OF COOLING A MICROELECTRONIC DEVICE USING SAME A piezoelectric fan includes a piezoelectric actuator patch (110, 210, 310) and a blade (120, 220, 320) attached to the piezoelectric actuator patch. The blade has a hole (121, 127, 221) in it, and a door (122, 128, 222) is adjacent to the ho... | 04/02/2009 |
| 20090085169 | METHOD OF ACHIEVING ATOMICALLY SMOOTH SIDEWALLS IN DEEP TRENCHES, AND HIGH ASPECT RATIO SILICON STRUCTURE CONTAINING ATOMICALLY SMOOTH SIDEWALLS A high aspect ratio silicon structure comprises a silicon substrate (110) having a surface (111), an electrically insulating layer (120) over portions of the silicon substrate, a hardmask (130) over the electrically insulating layer, and a de... | 04/02/2009 |
| 20090085156 | METAL SURFACE TREATMENTS FOR UNIFORMLY GROWING DIELECTRIC LAYERS A fabrication process for a MIM capacitor comprises providing a substrate, depositing a first metal layer on a dielectric layer of the substrate, forming an interfacial layer on the first metal layer, wherein the interfacial layer has a hydroxyl terminated surface, depo... | 04/02/2009 |
| 20090085129 | DEFECT-FREE SOURCE/DRAIN EXTENSIONS FOR MOSFETS HAVING GERMANIUM BASED CHANNEL REGIONS A process for forming defect-free source and drain extensions for a MOSFET built on a germanium based channel region deposits a first silicon germanium layer on a semiconductor substrate, deposits a gate dielectric layer on the silicon germanium layer, and deposits a ga... | 04/02/2009 |
| 20090083768 | CONTEXT PLATFORM FRAMEWORK FOR AGGREGATION, ANALYSIS AND USE OF CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION A context platform framework for aggregation, analysis and use of contextual information is described. An embodiment of a system includes an aggregator to receive context information from a plurality of providers via a provider application program interface (API), where... | 03/26/2009 |
| 20090083495 | MEMORY CIRCUIT WITH ECC BASED WRITEBACK Provided herein are circuits incorporating a dynamic technique to minimize power overhead with writeback. In some embodiments, error-correction-code (ECC) is used to dynamically detect bit failures and use that information to identify memory sub-sections to be enabled f... | 03/26/2009 |
| 20090081975 | REMOVING HARMONIC AND CO-EXISTENCE INTERFERENCE IN RADIO RECEIVERS A wireless device includes a two-stage filter that separates UHF and VHF transmission bands in such a way as to maximize cross channel isolation, so preventing cross channel signal contamination and additionally protecting all signals from host coexistence blocking tran... | 03/26/2009 |
| 20090081381 | METHOD OF ENABLING SELECTIVE AREA PLATING ON A SUBSTRATE A method of enabling selective area plating on a substrate includes forming a first electrically conductive layer (310) over substantially all of the substrate, covering sections of the first electrically conductive layer with a mask (410) such that the fi... | 03/26/2009 |
| 20090080832 | Quasi-waveguide printed circuit board structure In some embodiments a channel is formed in printed circuit board material, the formed channel is plated to form at least two side walls of a quasi-waveguide, and printed circuit board material is laminated to the plated channel using thermoset adhesive. Other embodiment... | 03/26/2009 |
| 20090080583 | ADAPTIVE CONTROL OF CLOCK SPREAD TO MITIGATE RADIO FREQUENCY INTERFERENCE In some embodiments an adaptive clocking controller determines a clock spread of a system clock that would result in a lowest total interference between a channel received by a radio receiver and the system clock. A clock generator modifies a spread of the system clock ... | 03/26/2009 |
| 20090080498 | ADAPTIVE RADIO FREQUENCY INTERFERENCE MITIGATION DURING CHANNEL SCANNING OR HOPPING In some embodiments an adaptive clock controller is to determine clock interference associated with a channel changing pattern for a radio in a computing platform, and to determine an earliest switching time of a clock of the computing platform. A clock generator is to ... | 03/26/2009 |
| 20090080266 | DOUBLE DATA RATE (DDR) LOW POWER IDLE MODE THROUGH REFERENCE OFFSET Embodiments of the invention are generally directed to systems, methods, and apparatuses for a double data rate (DDR) low power idle mode through reference offset. In some embodiments, a host offsets a reference voltage from a termination voltage of a command/address in... | 03/26/2009 |
| 20090080232 | AREA EFFICIENT PROGRAMMABLE READ ONLY MEMORY (PROM) ARRAY A programmable ROM (PROM) architecture includes cascode NMOS transistors with a fuse bit cell that is arrayed, with sleep transistors located in each column of the array that in a standby mode shut down the entire fuse array. A fuse redundancy scheme may be used to repa... | 03/26/2009 |
| 20090079522 | COMPONENT-LESS TERMINATION FOR ELECTROMAGNETIC COUPLERS USED IN HIGH SPEED/FREQUENCY DIFFERENTIAL SIGNALING Component-less termination for electromagnetic couplers used in high speed/frequency differential signaling is described. In one embodiment, the apparatus includes a first signal line and a second signal line forming a differential pair, a first electromagnetic coupler ... | 03/26/2009 |
| 20090079063 | MICROELECTRONIC PACKAGE AND METHOD OF COOLING AN INTERCONNECT FEATURE IN SAME A microelectronic package comprises a substrate (110, 310), a die (320) supported by the substrate, an interconnect feature (130, 230, 330) connecting the die and the substrate to each other, and a thermoelectric cooler (140, 170, 240, 340) a... | 03/26/2009 |
