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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20110043390 | ENCODING AND DECODING METHODS USING GENERALIZED CONCATENATED CODES (GCC) Systems, apparatuses, and methods for encoding and decoding using generalized concatenated codes (GCC) are described. The methods include receiving data; encoding the received data to obtain first encoded data; encoding the first encoded data until a GCC encoding reache... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110041115 | NON-INVASIVE LEAKAGE POWER DEVICE CHARACTERIZATION OF INTEGRATED CIRCUITS USING DEVICE GROUPING AND COMPRESSIVE SENSING Techniques are generally described for non-invasive, post-silicon characterization of—leakage power for devices of an integrated circuit (IC). A system of sparse leakage power equations may be developed for the devices (e.g. gates) within the IC to be solved using com... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110039600 | WIRELESS MOBILE PHONE HAVING ENCODED DATA ENTRY FACILITIES A wireless mobile phone is provided with one or more buttons and complementary logic to facilitate entry of encoded representations of a variable length encoding scheme of alphanumeric data. As a result, a user may use the provided facilities to engage in non-verbal com... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110032975 | VARIABLE STATE LENGTH INITIALIZATION Through the use of a variable state length initialization, both the transmitter and the receiver can have control of the length of one or more initialization states. For example, a transmitter can send information, such as a message, to the receiver at the commencement ... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20110028778 | URINARY INCONTINENCE DEVICE A urinary incontinence device for insertion in a urethra of a user. The device includes a non-absorbent body having an outer surface, the body having a leading end and a trailing end; a removal mechanism having a first end attached to the body and a portion of the remov... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20110026501 | VIRTUAL NETWORK SERVICE PROVIDER FOR MOBILE VIRTUAL NETWORK OPERATOR ACTIVATION Embodiments of the present disclosure describe methods and system configurations to activate a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO). A method includes wirelessly broadcasting a virtual Network Service Provider (NSP) to provide wireless activation of one or more Mobile... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20110022624 | DATA STRUCTURE AND SYSTEM FOR IP ADDRESS LOOKUP AND IP ADDRESS LOOKUP SYSTEM A tree data structure for storing strings of searchable data divided into substrings has at least one first type node that has a substring associated with it and at least one second type node that does not having a substring associated with it. A second type node is dir... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20110019751 | ADAPTIVE ALLOCATION FOR VARIABLE BANDWIDTH MULTICARRIER COMMUNICATION Data is distributed among the channels of an asynchronous data subscriber loop (ADSL) communications system in accordance with an adaptive algorithm which from time to time measures the signal to noise ratio of the various channels and finds a margin for each channel de... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20110010428 | PEER-TO-PEER STREAMING AND API SERVICES FOR PLURAL APPLICATIONS Embodiments of apparatuses with a universal P2P service platform are disclosed herein. A unified infrastructure is built in such apparatuses and a unified P2P network may be established with such apparatuses. In various embodiments, such an apparatus comprises a P2P ope... | 01/13/2011 |
| 20110009076 | PROVIDING CQI FEEDBACK WITH COMMON CODE RATE TO A TRANSMITTER STATION Methods and apparatuses for providing CQI feedback with common code rate to a transmitter station are described herein. In one implementation, the methods may include a receiver station that is communicatively linked to a transmitter station via k spatial channels trans... | 01/13/2011 |
| 20110004796 | ACKNOWLEDGMENT CHANNEL DESIGN FOR WIRELESS ACCESS NETWORKS Embodiments of the present invention provide an acknowledgment channel design in which an acknowledgment sequence is scrambled with a station-specific scrambling sequence. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.... | 01/06/2011 |
| 20110002372 | DOWNLINK CHANNEL PARAMETERS DETERMINATION FOR A MULTIPLE-INPUT-MULTIPLE-OUTPUT (MIMO) SYSTEM Embodiments of methods and apparatus for providing downlink channel parameters determination for downlink channels associated with a multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) system are generally described herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.... | 01/06/2011 |
| 20110002297 | GATEWAY ASSOCIATION Embodiments provide components of a communication network that may facilitate efficient optimization of the communication network. In various embodiments, network gateway selection for incoming subscriber stations may be allocated to one or more components that make int... | 01/06/2011 |
| 20110002279 | UPLINK OPEN LOOP POWER CONTROL SYSTEM Embodiments of the present invention provide an uplink open loop power control system in which interference over thermal information is transmitted to mobile stations. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.... | 01/06/2011 |
| 20110002263 | BEAMFORMING USING BASE AND DIFFERENTIAL CODEBOOKS Embodiments of methods and apparatus for determining and/or quantizing a beamforming matrix are disclosed. In some embodiments, the determining and/or quantizing of the beamforming matrix may include the use of a base codebook and a differential codebook. Additional var... | 01/06/2011 |
| 20110001587 | DIE-TO-DIE ELECTRICAL ISOLATION IN A SEMICONDUCTOR PACKAGE Some of the embodiments of the present disclosure provide a semiconductor package comprising a first die; a second die; and an inductor arrangement configured to inductively couple the first die and the second die while maintaining electrical isolation between active ci... | 01/06/2011 |
| 20100329317 | METHOD AND MULTI-CARRIER TRANSCEIVER WITH STORED APPLICATION PROFILES FOR SUPPORTING MULTIPLE APPLICATIONS A system and method for supporting multiple applications are described. A digital subscriber line system includes two transceivers in communication over a communication channel using multicarrier modulation. Application profiles are defined for characterizing transmissi... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100324974 | Multi-Attribute Web Content Auctions Embodiments include methods, apparatus, and systems which may provide for multi-attribute auctioning. Bids and offers which comprise non-price attributes may be received by an auction service, such as web content bids and offers for space on webpages. The service may ev... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100324973 | Dynamic Webpage Generation Including Request-Time Auctioned Web Content Embodiments include methods, apparatus, and systems associated with providing request-time auctioning of web content and web services. The auction may be performed by a request-time web content auctioning service, which may accept bids of content and/or services from co... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100322359 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR A DATA-DEPENDENT NOISE PREDICTIVE VITERBI An improved Viterbi detector is disclosed in which each branch metric is calculated based on noise statistics that depend on the signal hypothesis corresponding to the branch. Also disclosed is a method of reducing the complexity of the branch metric calculations by clu... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100322119 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR MULTI-CARRIER COMMUNICATIONS WITH VARIABLE CHANNEL BANDWIDTH Methods and apparatus for multi-carrier communication with variable channel bandwidth are disclosed, where the time frame structure and the OFDM symbol structure are invariant and the frequency-domain signal structure is flexible. In one embodiment, a mobile station, up... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100321732 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING POSITION AND VELOCITY OF A HANDHELD DEVICE Embodiments of the present invention provide a handheld device that comprises an information module for obtaining and/or receiving information pertaining to a surface adjacent to the device, and a position determination arrangement for determining at least one of a posi... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100318945 | METHOD FOR N-VARIANT INTEGRATED CIRCUIT (IC) DESIGN, AND IC HAVING N-VARIANT CIRCUITS IMPLEMENTED THEREIN Techniques are generally described for designing an integrated circuit (IC). In various embodiments, the techniques include designing, at a functional specification level, N-variants of a particular circuit. The various embodiments may then implement the designed N-vari... | 12/16/2010 |
| 20100318877 | ERROR CORRECTING CODES FOR INCREASED STORAGE CAPACITY IN MULTILEVEL MEMORY DEVICES Embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods, systems, and apparatuses related to multilevel encoding with error correction. In some embodiments, data may be programmed and/or read from a matrix of nonvolatile memory cells with concatenated encoding/decoding sc... | 12/16/2010 |
| 20100318671 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SELECTION OF STREAMING MEDIA A system reduces latency associated with accessing multiple sources of content provided to a mobile device. In one implementation, a streaming server receives multiple live encoded streams and makes the received encoded streams available to the mobile device. The mobile... | 12/16/2010 |
| 20100316974 | METHOD OF MAKING A SURGICAL TEMPLATE USED FOR A COMPUTER-GUIDED DENTAL IMPLANT SURGERY A method of making a surgical template comprises: producing a 3-D geometrical image by a CT scanning performed on a patient's jaw and establishing corresponding implant planning data to obtain a 3-D first digital image, making a positive plaster model of the patient's j... | 12/16/2010 |
| 20100309967 | METHOD AND A MULTI-CARRIER TRANSCEIVER SUPPORTING DYNAMIC SWITCHING BETWEEN ACTIVE APPLICTION SETS A transceiver and method for communicating over a communications channel having a plurality of subchannels are described. In particular, the transceiver is capable of dynamically switching between communicating data for a first active application set and communicating d... | 12/09/2010 |
| 20100308895 | INPUT VECTOR SELECTION FOR REDUCING CURRENT LEAKAGE IN INTEGRATED CIRCUITS Techniques are generally described for selecting input vectors that reduce or minimize leakage current for a plurality of integrated circuits (ICs) with the same design, but that differ due to manufacturing variability. In various embodiments, the techniques include det... | 12/09/2010 |
| 20100303053 | AGGREGATED SESSION MANAGEMENT METHOD AND SYSTEM A system and method for managing a session is provided wherein a sending computer, after a period of time in which a number of enumerated packets have been sent to a receiving computer, sends a report request to the receiving computer, which then sends to the sending co... | 12/02/2010 |
| 20100301467 | WIREBOND STRUCTURES Embodiments of the present disclosure provide an apparatus comprising a semiconductor die, a bond pad formed on the semiconductor die, the bond pad comprising aluminum (Al), a bonding material comprising gold (Au) coupled to the bond pad, the bonding material covering a... | 12/02/2010 |
| 20100299728 | File transfer system for direct transfer between computers A file authentication requesting device that stores a computer program for requesting authentication of files in digital systems, the device comprises a confirmation request system that generates a request for a confirmation receipt from a third party authenticator auth... | 11/25/2010 |
| 20100299331 | ACCESSING DEEP WEB INFORMATION ASSOCIATED WITH TRANSPORTATION SERVICES USING A SEARCH ENGINE Methods, apparatuses, and articles for receiving a search request associated with a transportation service from a client device, the search request including a plurality of search criteria, are described herein. Additionally, the methods, apparatuses, and articles furth... | 11/25/2010 |
| 20100297968 | CIRCUITS AND METHODS FOR COMBINING SIGNAL POWER The present disclosure includes techniques for combining signal power. In one embodiment, a plurality of power amplifiers generate amplified signals. A plurality of first transmission lines are electrically coupled outputs of the power amplifiers. Second transmission li... | 11/25/2010 |
| 20100293434 | NON-VOLATILE MEMORY WITH BI-DIRECTIONAL ERROR CORRECTION PROTECTION Embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods and apparatuses related to NVM devices with bi-directional error correction protection. In some embodiments, multiple multi-level parity cells are used to represent parity values stored in codewords of an NVM device.... | 11/18/2010 |
| 20100290072 | PARALLEL VIDEO PROCESSING ARCHITECTURE The video data is parallel processed allowing for extremely fast video processing or a greatly reduced clock requirement for the video processing circuit. In operation, each video channel reads from main memory. This allows each video channel to track the laser directly... | 11/18/2010 |
| 20100289621 | METHOD FOR OPTIMIZING RFID DEPLOYMENT AND RFID DEPLOYMENT OPTIMIZER OF USE THEREOF A method for optimizing the deployment of RFID apparatus, and a RFID deployment optimizer of use thereof are provided. The method includes the steps: A. analyzing the interrogation zone where the RFID apparatus are deployed, B. identifying the readability o RFID tag ass... | 11/18/2010 |
| 20100288865 | GRINDING DEVICE OF VERTICAL GRINDER A grinding device of vertical grinder, comprising a driving device (1); a vertical grinding barrel (2) which is driven by the driving device; a grinding roller (3); and a pressure applying device (4) acting on the grinding roller (3); ... | 11/18/2010 |
| 20100287604 | IDENTIFICATION OF INTEGRATED CIRCUITS Techniques are generally described for generating an identification number for an integrated circuit (IC). In some examples, methods for generating an identification of an IC may comprise selecting circuit elements of the IC, evaluating measurements of an attribute of t... | 11/11/2010 |
| 20100287413 | ERROR DETECTION AND/OR CORRECTION THROUGH COORDINATED COMPUTATIONS Techniques are generally described for addressing computation errors via coordinated computation on two computing platforms are disclosed. In some embodiments, one or more cuts may be taken of a computation to observe variables, and the observations may be analyzed to d... | 11/11/2010 |
| 20100287409 | STATE VARIABLE-BASED DETECTION AND CORRECTION OF ERRORS Embodiments provide methods and apparatuses for detecting errors in a computation using state variables. In various embodiments, corrections of the errors through the state variables are also provided. In various embodiments, the disclosed techniques may be used for pow... | 11/11/2010 |
