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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20110047401 | Providing Adaptive Frequency Control For A Processor In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method for receiving utilization data from thread units of one or more processor cores, determining an operating frequency for a core clock signal based on the utilization data, a target utilization value, and an opera... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110047395 | Platform Communication Protocol A host chipset heartbeat may be utilized, in some embodiments, to handle interrupts from external devices on a power efficient basis. The availability of the host chipset heartbeat may be signaled to external devices and those external devices may time their activities ... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110047217 | Real Time Collaborative Three Dimensional Asset Management System In some embodiments, real time collaborative asset management may be provided for computer graphics. This may be implemented using a server proxy between an asset server and client applications. The server proxy enables real time collaborative asset management. The serv... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110044414 | Mitigating Radio Receiver Multipath Noise In one embodiment, a method for processing radio frequency signals includes estimating an average value of a demodulated signal and a noise signal, both obtained from a radio frequency signal, estimating a noise floor based on the noise signal, generating a blend contro... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110044266 | Allocating Group Resources for Wireless Communications A single format of MAC control message may be used for the addition, deletion, or rearrangement of users in a group within a wireless network. In some cases, a change in the nature of the group may be implemented immediately upon receipt of a positive acknowledgement. A... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110044265 | Distributing Group Size Indications to Mobile Stations Group size indications may be distributed from a base station to a mobile station in the form of assignment-advanced-MAP transmit control signaling. The signaling control information may be sent to a station, such as a mobile station, using a table that indicates the si... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110044010 | PLUGGABLE POWER CELL FOR AN INVERTER In one embodiment, a power cell chamber for a drive system includes moveable and fixed portions. The moveable portion includes a rectifier stage to rectify an input signal received from a secondary winding of a transformer to provide a rectified signal and an inverter s... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110043883 | LENS DEVICE WITH AN INTEGRATED SHUTTER UNIT A lens device includes a base, a lens unit, a dividing plate, a cover plate, a shutter unit, and an actuator unit. The base has a front section with a front surface, a rear section with a rear surface, a lens hole, and a mounting space. The lens unit is disposed in the ... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110041093 | Method And Apparatus To Control The Display Of Windows In A Processing System A processing system may include a display device, a primary window manager, and an auxiliary window manager. The primary window manager may display a first remote-enabled window in the display device. The processing system may also include a program to generate a mouse-... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110041017 | On-Die Logic Analyzer For Semiconductor Die In one embodiment, the present invention includes a semiconductor die such as a system on a chip (SoC) that includes a logic analyzer with a built-in trace buffer to store information communicated between on-die agents at speed and to provide the information to an off-d... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110039391 | Fabricating Bipolar Junction Select Transistors for Semiconductor Memories A bipolar junction transistor may act as a select device for a semiconductor memory. The bipolar junction transistor may be formed of a stack of base and collector layers. Sets of parallel trenches are formed in a first direction down to the base and in a second directi... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110038308 | FORMING SPATIAL BEAMS WITHIN A CELL SEGMENT To perform wireless communications in a wireless network, at least two spatial beams are formed within a cell segment, where the at least two spatial beams are associated with different power levels. The at least two spatial beams are swept across the cell segment accor... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110037967 | OPTICAL SIGHT An optical sight includes an outer barrel unit, an objective lens unit, an ocular lens unit, a magnification unit, a range-finding module, and a display unit. The objective lens and the ocular lens unit are mounted to front and rear ends of the outer barrel unit, respec... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110037771 | Display Processing Line Buffers Incorporating Pipeline Overlap Apparatus, systems and methods for display processing line buffers incorporating pipeline overlap are disclosed. For example, an apparatus is disclosed including processing logic to use pixel processing algorithms to process a pixel value of a first portion of an image,... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110037769 | Reducing the Bandwidth of Sampler Loads in Shaders Bandwidth may be conserved in messages transferred between a shader and a sampler by converting loads in array of structures format to structure of arrays format. More particularly, four four channel loads in array of structures format may be combined into a single eigh... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110032923 | MOBILE SWITCHING CENTER PLATFORM HAVING INTERFACES WITH FUNCTIONALITIES DEFINED BY AN ARCHITECTURE THAT PROVIDES PACKET-SWITCHED MULTIMEDIA SUBSCRIBER SERVICES A mobile switching center platform includes a circuit-switched switch to establish circuit-switched communications sessions on behalf of at least one wireless terminal. The mobile switching platform further includes interfaces having functionalities defined by an archit... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20110032904 | METHOD AND APPARATUS TO CONTROL HANDOFF BETWEEN DIFFERENT WIRELESS SYSTEMS A wireless communications network includes a first base station system that performs wireless communications according to a first protocol (e.g., 1xEV-DO protocol) and a second base station system that performs wireless communications according to a second, different pr... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20110029689 | RESILIENT NETWORK DATABASE This invention relates to methods and apparatus for providing a resilient network database. The invention relates particularly, but not exclusively, to the IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS). The invention is directed to an interface for a database node comprising: a port fo... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20110026461 | COMMUNICATING OVER A WIRELESS LINK USING A DATA CONTAINER STRUCTURE THAT HAS PARTITIONS OF DIFFERENT TYPES A wireless communications node communicates, over a wireless link, data in a data container structure that includes a configurable concatenation of partitions of different types. The partitions of different types in the data container structure carry information accordi... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20110025700 | Using a Texture Unit for General Purpose Computing An interpolation unit, such as may be found in a texture unit or texture sampler, may be used utilized to perform general purpose mathematical computations such as dot products. This enables some general purpose computations and operations to be offloaded from a central... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20110019386 | Multimode Signaling on Decoupled Input/Output and Power Channels A multimode system with at least two end points may include a multimode signaling path that, in some embodiments, is a multimode cable or a multimode board and is pluggably connectable to packages at each end point. Each end point may include a processor die package cou... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20110019080 | IMAGE CAPTURING DEVICE WITH PROTECTION FOR A LENS MODULE AND A DISPLAY SCREEN THEREOF An image capturing device includes a first device body and a second device body. The first device body includes a first front surface, a first rear surface, and a lens module disposed at the first front surface. The second device body is disposed rotatably in front of t... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20110018874 | Method, Apparatus, and Computer Program Product For Improved Graphics Performance A method for improving performance of generation of digitally represented graphics. The method comprises: receiving a first representation of a base primitive; providing a set of instructions associated with vertex position determination; executing said retrieved set of... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20110018313 | FOLDABLE CHAIR FRAME A foldable chair frame includes a seat, a backrest, left and right armrests, left and right pivot joints, and front and rear legs. The backrest is coupled pivotably to the seat. Each of the left and right armrests is coupled pivotably to the backrest. Each of the left a... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20110013563 | COMMUNICATING A FEEDBACK DATA STRUCTURE CONTAINING INFORMATION IDENTIFYING CODING TO BE APPLIED ON WIRELESSLY COMMUNICATED SIGNALING To perform wireless communications in a closed loop multiple input, multiple output (MIMO) system, a feedback data structure is communicated over a wireless channel between a first wireless node and a second wireless node, where the feedback data structure contains indi... | 01/20/2011 |
| 20110013428 | MODULAR MULTI-PULSE TRANSFORMER RECTIFIER FOR USE IN ASYMMETRIC MULTI-LEVEL POWER CONVERTER In one embodiment, the present invention includes a system having multiple modular transformers each including a primary winding coupled to an input power source and phase-shifted secondary windings each coupled to a power cell. The system further includes different pha... | 01/20/2011 |
| 20110012364 | POWER CONVERTER FOR USE WITH WIND GENERATOR In one embodiment, the present invention includes a turbine to generate mechanical energy from kinetic energy, a generator coupled to the turbine to receive the mechanical energy and to output multiple isolated supply powers, and multiple power stages each coupled to th... | 01/20/2011 |
| 20110009972 | EXPANDABLE OSTEOSYNTHESIS CAGE An expandable osteosynthesis implant has branches (5) each connected at one end to a seat (7) which is pierced by an orifice (8), suitable for being slid from a posterior direction between the facing faces of two consecutive vertebrae in order to ho... | 01/13/2011 |
| 20110008100 | JOINT ASSEMBLY FOR A FOLDABLE FURNITURE PIECE A joint assembly includes a base unit, a pivot unit, and a latch unit. The pivot unit is coupled pivotably to the base unit, and is rotatable relative to the base unit between folded and unfolded positions. The latch unit includes a latch member coupled pivotably to the... | 01/13/2011 |
| 20110004747 | Initializing Femtocells A femtocell may be initialized on a network by automatically contacting a network service provider. The access point then automatically downloads an initial configuration from a bootstrap server belonging to the network service provider. In some cases, a femtocell acces... | 01/06/2011 |
| 20110002298 | Reducing Overhead in Wireless Communications Stations in a wireless network may communicate directly using MAC management messages. As examples, servers may communicate using MAC management messages with mobile stations, base stations may communicate using MAC management messages, and relay cells may communicate u... | 01/06/2011 |
| 20110002239 | Determining the Location of a Femtocell A server may automatically attempt to locate a femtocell. Information may be obtained from the femtocell or neighboring femtocells to determine location. Servers associated with the femtocell may be contacted using that information to determine the femtocells location.... | 01/06/2011 |
| 20100332852 | Creating Secure Communication Channels Between Processing Elements Two processing elements in a single platform may communicate securely to allow the platform to take advantage of the certain cryptographic functionality in one processing element. A first processing element, such as a bridge, may use its cryptographic functionality to r... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100332801 | Adaptively Handling Remote Atomic Execution In one embodiment, a method includes receiving an instruction for decoding in a processor core and dynamically handling the instruction with one of multiple behaviors based on whether contention is predicted. If no contention is predicted, the instruction is executed in... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100332767 | Controllably Exiting An Unknown State Of A Cache Coherency Directory In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a read request from a first caching agent and if a directory entry associated with the request is in an unknown state, an invalidating snoop message is sent to at least one other caching agent to invalidate information in a... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100330947 | Providing Image Rejection Calibration For A Receiver According to one embodiment, a method for updating filter values of an image canceller is provided. The method may include determining a channel-to-image (C/I) ratio between a channel signal and an image signal at the canceller input and generating a gain control value ... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100329560 | Human pose estimation in visual computing The present invention discloses a method of estimating human pose comprising: modeling a human body as a tree structure; optimizing said tree structure through importance proposal probabilities and part priorities; performing foreground detection to create image region ... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100329315 | Transmitting Video Between Two Stations in a Wireless Network In accordance with some embodiments, a differential frame may be constructed, for example, by differencing frames or using an error prediction method. More frequently and less frequently used values of a differential frame are identified. Symbols with lower and higher t... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100329255 | Multiple Compression Techniques For Packetized Information In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method for comparing a packet header to a stored packet header, generating a comparison vector based on the comparison, and transmitting the packet from the transmitter without the packet header if the packet header an... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100328883 | Pluggable Power Cell For An Inverter In one embodiment, a power cell chamber for a drive system includes moveable and fixed portions. The moveable portion includes a rectifier stage to rectify an input signal received from a secondary winding of a transformer to provide a rectified signal and an inverter s... | 12/30/2010 |
