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Decorative Jeweled Wheel Cover
An improved wheel is provided wherein decorative items such as gem stones are embedded in either the wheel surface, a special mounting section attached to the wheel surface, or to a spoke strap that wraps around each spoke and positions embedded gem stones on the outside surface of the spoke.
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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20110040918 | Host for Use with Dual Interface Card with Backward and Forward Compatibility Techniques are presented that allow a memory card operable according to two protocols (such as a legacy protocol and newer protocol), and having a corresponding dual interface, to be used with hosts that support the new protocol as well as having backward compatibility ... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110022666 | DEVICE IDENTIFIER SELECTION Systems and methods of device identifier selection are disclosed. In a particular embodiment, a method includes, at a hub device having a plurality of ports including a first port, a second port, and a third port, receiving a first message from a host device. The first ... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20110022665 | DEVICE IDENTIFIER SELECTION Systems and methods of device identifier selection are disclosed. In a particular embodiment, a method includes receiving an enumeration message via a host interface of a device operatively coupled to a host device as well as to one or more other devices and identifying... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20110010497 | A STORAGE DEVICE RECEIVING COMMANDS AND DATA REGARDLESS OF A HOST A storage device includes an input device for receiving data and commands directly from a user, without the storage device reporting to or notifying of the storage device activities that result from the received data and received commands. The user may visually-code the... | 01/13/2011 |
| 20100332956 | POLYNOMIAL DIVISION Systems and methods to perform polynomial division are disclosed. In a particular embodiment, the method includes receiving a codeword and storing a portion of the received codeword at a register. The portion of the received codeword has a first number of terms. A divis... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100332949 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF TRACKING ERROR DATA WITHIN A STORAGE DEVICE Systems and methods of tracking error data are disclosed. A method includes receiving a first checksum associated with error locations of a first error correction code operation and receiving a second checksum associated with error locations of a second error correction... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100332943 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR SELECTIVELY REFRESHING A REGION OF A NON-VOLATILE MEMORY OF A DATA STORAGE DEVICE A method and device for selectively refreshing a region of a non-volatile memory of a data storage device is disclosed. In a particular embodiment, a method is disclosed that includes comparing a time stamp received from a host device to a first time stamp retrieved fro... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100332923 | SYSTEM AND METHOD RESPONSIVE TO A RATE OF CHANGE OF A PERFORMANCE PARAMETER OF A MEMORY Systems and methods are disclosed that are responsive to a rate of change of a performance parameter of a memory. In a particular embodiment, a rate of change of a performance parameter of a non-volatile memory is determined. The rate of change is compared to a threshol... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100332729 | MEMORY OPERATIONS USING LOCATION-BASED PARAMETERS Systems and methods of performing memory operations using location-based parameters are disclosed. A method includes identifying a first set of parameter values associated with a first physical block of a memory array. The first set of parameter values is identified bas... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100332728 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF SELECTING A FILE PATH OF A REMOVABLE STORAGE DEVICE Systems and methods of identifying a file path of a removable storage device are disclosed. A method includes, at a host device that is coupled to the removable storage device, selecting a file path that is associated with the removable storage device by accessing a siz... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100332586 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PREDICTIVE DATA ACQUISITION Systems and methods of predictive data acquisition are disclosed. A personal proxy server is configured to acquire first data in response to a first request to access the first data and to acquire second data prior to receiving a second request to access the second data... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100332569 | STORAGE DEVICE WITH MULTIMEDIA INTERFACE CONNECTOR Storage devices with multimedia interface connectors and methods are disclosed. In a particular embodiment, a data storage device includes a controller coupled to a memory, a streaming media capture circuit coupled to the controller, and a video playback circuit coupled... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100332534 | FILE SYSTEM AND METHOD OF FILE ACCESS A file system and method of file access are disclosed. In a particular embodiment, a method is performed at a host device coupled to a non-volatile memory, where the host device includes a memory having a first file data structure. A first directory entry in a file dire... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100329034 | ESTIMATING VALUES RELATED TO DISCHARGE OF CHARGE-STORING MEMORY CELLS One or more groups of charge-storing memory cells are selected from a plurality of regular charge-storing memory cells of a storage device. The selected memory cells are initialized with initial binary data, by charging them with corresponding amounts of electric charge... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100328493 | REMOVABLE DATA STORAGE DEVICE WITH INTERFACE TO RECEIVE IMAGE CONTENT FROM A CAMERA Systems and methods of receiving image content in a first format and storing converted image content in a second format are disclosed. A method includes receiving image content in a first format from a camera at an interface of a data storage device that includes a cont... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100311394 | MOBILE SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING PERSONALIZED INFORMATION An information system includes a server that creates an information reservoir with data units for a user of a mobile communication device based on a unique user profile of the user of the mobile communication device. The server creates the unique user profile based on i... | 12/09/2010 |
| 20100306126 | MANAGEMENT OF GOALS AND RECOMMENDATIONS Methods, systems, and computer-readable media are disclosed for managing goals and recommendations. A particular method includes identifying one or more financial planning objectives for a financial planning client, receiving information relating to the one or more fina... | 12/02/2010 |
| 20100299456 | MANAGEMENT OF INTERNAL OPERATIONS BY A STORAGE DEVICE A method of handling internal operations of a storage device includes in response to information derived from one or more commands received from a host device when the storage device is coupled to the host device, determining whether a sequence of commands is in one of ... | 11/25/2010 |
| 20100278179 | System and Method of Detecting Lost Packets In a particular embodiment, a method includes receiving a first request to retransmit a first packet. The method also includes selectively retransmitting the first packet based on a first list that identifies packets to retransmit and based on a second list that identif... | 11/04/2010 |
| 20100262799 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR FACILITATING FAST WAKE-UP OF A NON-VOLATILE MEMORY SYSTEM A method includes storing at a non-volatile memory in a data storage device a first copy of a memory management table. The method further includes storing, at the non-volatile memory, a list of data entries that identify unused blocks of the non-volatile memory, where t... | 10/14/2010 |
| 20100262677 | DISTRIBUTED LOCAL WEB-SERVER ARCHITECTURE FOR STORAGE DEVICES A method includes exchanging information between a local web-server of a local storage device and a remote web-server through a network. The exchange of the information is initiated autonomously by the local storage device upon a determination by the local web server th... | 10/14/2010 |
| 20100257428 | METHOD FOR IMPLEMENTING ERROR-CORRECTION CODES IN NON-VOLATILE MEMORY A method in a data storage device for storing a plurality of data bits into a non-volatile memory includes transforming a plurality of data bits to be stored in a non-volatile memory device to generate a plurality of transformed data bits. The method further includes ge... | 10/07/2010 |
| 20100241258 | System and Method to Modify a Metadata Parameter A method includes receiving digital audio data at an audio adjustment system. The method includes converting a portion of the digital audio data to an analog audio signal with a digital-to-analog converter of the audio adjustment system to form a sample analog audio sig... | 09/23/2010 |
| 20100238834 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF VOICE OVER INTERNET PROTOCOL COMMUNICATION Systems and methods of Voice over Internet Protocol (VOIP) communication are provided. A particular system includes a VoIP endpoint. The VoIP endpoint is adapted to monitor a packet loss measure between the VoIP endpoint and a second VoIP endpoint during a VoIP communic... | 09/23/2010 |
| 20100228802 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO RESPOND TO A DATA FILE DELETION INSTRUCTION Systems and methods responsive to a data file deletion instruction are disclosed. A method includes receiving an instruction to delete a data file. The data file is stored at a plurality of persistent memory cells of a memory. The memory also stores a directory that inc... | 09/09/2010 |
| 20100217917 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF FINALIZING SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY Systems and methods of finalizing a semiconductor memory are disclosed. A method includes receiving an instruction to finalize data at a data storage device that includes a controller coupled to a semiconductor memory. The data storage device also includes a status indi... | 08/26/2010 |
| 20100217910 | MEMORY CARD AND HOST DEVICE An apparatus includes a first Universal Serial Bus (USB) connector and a card holder associated with the first USB connector. A controller including a USB host interface is coupled to the first USB connector. A housing enclosing the controller and at least partially enc... | 08/26/2010 |
| 20100216341 | MEMORY CARD AND HOST DEVICE A data storage device includes a memory card structure having an edge connector portion. The edge connector portion has a thickness that complies with a memory card specification. The data storage device also includes an electrical connector portion of a Universal Seria... | 08/26/2010 |
| 20100211872 | USER-APPLICATION INTERFACE A user interface apparatus includes a display device, display application, and processor. The display device includes a display area, and the display area includes an active area. The processor and display application are configured to display application stacks, each o... | 08/19/2010 |
| 20100205350 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF HOST REQUEST MAPPING Systems and methods for reading data are disclosed. In a particular embodiment, a data storage device includes a host interface that is adapted to couple the data storage device to a host. The host includes memory that is addressable by a host memory address space. The ... | 08/12/2010 |
| 20100199135 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND COMPUTER-READABLE CODE TO TEST FLASH MEMORY A flash memory device includes a flash memory residing on at least one flash memory die. The flash memory device also includes a flash controller residing on a flash controller die that is separate from the at least one flash memory die. The flash memory and the flash c... | 08/05/2010 |
| 20100199032 | ENHANCED DATA COMMUNICATION BY A NON-VOLATILE MEMORY CARD A method of transmitting a stream of data bits from a memory card to a host device includes determining, at the memory card, a first number of data lines between the memory card and the host device, from one to a plurality of data lines. If the first number of data line... | 08/05/2010 |
| 20100195384 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO READ DATA SUBJECT TO A DISTURB CONDITION Systems and methods for reading data are disclosed. In a particular embodiment, a method includes measuring characteristics of a plurality of cells at a memory. The characteristics correspond to a plurality of values including a first value stored at a particular cell a... | 08/05/2010 |
| 20100191962 | FILE SYSTEM FILTER AUTHENTICATION A method of accessing content includes installing a file system filter for a secure removable memory device on a host device. A challenge is sent from the file system filter to a software entity on the host device, and a software entity response is received at the file ... | 07/29/2010 |
| 20100191955 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISTRIBUTING DIGITAL CONTENT A method for distributing digital content is disclosed. The method includes receiving, at an operator of a wireless communications network, a request for digital content from a first mobile device. The method further includes determining, at the operator, that a second ... | 07/29/2010 |
| 20100191879 | HOST-PERIPHERAL ADAPTOR A host-peripheral adaptor includes a host adaptor and a portable peripheral adaptor. The host adaptor includes a substantially flat peripheral-adaptor-side interface. The peripheral-adaptor-side interface is designed in a way that it is not easy to tamper with. The port... | 07/29/2010 |
| 20100169780 | STORAGE DEVICE MANAGING PLAYABLE CONTENT Displaying storage device-generated menus for playback includes connecting a storage device to a host capable of playing back video content, and presenting to the host a root directory through which a content selection file allows selecting video files for playback thro... | 07/01/2010 |
| 20100169395 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR FILTERING A FILE SYSTEM A host is provided with a filtered file system based on the native file system of a local storage device and other relevant factors. A filter interfaces with the local storage device and the host, and a controller reads the native file system, establishes access criteri... | 07/01/2010 |
| 20100169394 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING ACCESS TO FILES BASED ON USER IDENTITY A storage device provides a file system to a host based on the access rights of a user determined during authentication. If the authentication does not succeed, the storage device provides to the user a file system restricted to files authorized by public access rights.... | 07/01/2010 |
| 20100169393 | STORAGE DEVICE PRESENTING TO HOSTS ONLY FILES COMPATIBLE WITH A DEFINED HOST CAPABILITY A method includes defining a host capability; creating for a storage device a second directory tree from a first directory tree of the storage device that is included in a file system within the storage device; and, for a data file that is stored in the storage device a... | 07/01/2010 |
