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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8185822 | Image application performance optimization Some embodiments provide a method that from a source external to a device, imports a first image and a lower resolution second image that corresponds to the first image into the device. The method assigns the second image as a temporary preview of the first image. T... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184130 | Method and apparatus for image acquisition, organization, manipulation, and publication To better realize the great potential of amateur digital photography, the present invention introduces an integrated system for the acquisition, organization, manipulation, and publication of digital images by amateur digital photography enthusiasts. The system of t... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8183882 | Reconfigurable IC that has sections running at different reconfiguration rates Some embodiments provide a reconfigurable IC that includes several sections. Each section includes several configurable circuits, each of which configurably performs a set of operations. Each section stores multiple configuration data sets for each configurable circ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8166442 | Local preferred direction architecture Some embodiments of the invention provide a Local Preferred Direction (LPD) wiring model for use with one or more EDA tools (such as placing, routing, etc). An LPD wiring model allows at least one wiring layer to have a set of regions that each have a different pref... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8166435 | Timing operations in an IC with configurable circuits Some embodiments provide a method that identifies a first physical design solution for positioning several configurable operations on several reconfigurable circuits of an integrated circuit (IC). The method identifies a second physical design solution for positioni... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8166071 | System and method for efficiently securing enterprise data resources Some embodiments provide a system and method that secures access to data objects of an enterprise that includes multiple data objects and multiple user applications that access data attributes of the data objects. In some embodiments, secure access is provided via a... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8166048 | Method and apparatus for data integration and management A system for maintaining master reference data for entities is disclosed. The system includes multiple reference data sets at multiple different data storages. A reference data set for a particular entity uniquely identifies the particular entity. The system also in... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165585 | Handover messaging in an unlicensed mobile access telecommunications system Methods and messages for performing handovers between an unlicensed mobile access network (UMAN) comprising a first radio access network and a second radio access network. URR (UMA radio resource) handover messages are exchanged between a mobile station (MS) and a U... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165086 | Method of providing improved integrated communication system data service Some embodiments provide a method and apparatus for seamlessly providing voice and data services across a licensed wireless network while accessing a second different communication network through a user equipment. The first and second communication networks include... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8160991 | Automated estimation of a country where a client computer is configured to operate A method for automatically estimating a country where a client computer is configured to operate. The method gathers information of the client computer (e.g., GMT offset, time zone name, daylight savings status, desktop language, etc.) and estimates a country where ... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8160588 | Method and apparatus for supporting the handover of a telecommunication session between a licensed wireless system and an unlicensed wireless system The invention discloses a wireless communication handset comprising licensed wireless communication signal processing circuitry and unlicensed wireless communication signal processing circuitry. The invention further discloses a control circuit connected to both the... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8159264 | Storage elements for a configurable IC and method and apparatus for accessing data stored in the storage elements Some embodiments provide a circuit for accessing stored data in a configurable IC that includes several configurable circuits. The IC also includes several storage circuits. Each storage circuit has (1) several storage elements for storing data for the configurable ... | 04/17/2012 |
| D657417 | Book that includes soil from predetermined places | 04/10/2012 |
| 8151227 | Method and apparatus for pre-tabulating sub-networks Some embodiments of the invention provide a method for pre-tabulating sub-networks. This method (1) generates a sub-network that performs a function, (2) generates a parameter based on this function, and (3) stores the sub-network in a storage structure based on the... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8151219 | System and method for multi-exposure pattern decomposition Some embodiments provide a method and system for identifying error markers for patterns within a design layout that do not meet the manufacturing constraints. Some embodiments extend a region from the error marked region to extract a pattern for decomposition analys... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8150803 | Relationship data management Some embodiments provide a system for processing relationship data that expresses relationship between various entities. In some embodiments, the entities are entities associated directly with an enterprise. The entities in some embodiments described below also incl... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8150397 | Method and apparatus for establishing transport channels for a femtocell Some embodiments are implemented in a communication system that includes a first wireless communication system and a second wireless communication system that includes a Femtocell access point (FAP) and a network controller that can communicatively couple the FAP to... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8143915 | IC with deskewing circuits Some embodiments provide a configurable integrated circuit (IC) comprising multiple deskew circuits for delaying data passage. Each of the deskew circuits comprises a stepwise delay circuit with multiple outputs and an input selection circuit with multiple inputs. M... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8138789 | Configuration context switcher with a clocked storage element Some embodiments provide an IC with configuration context switchers. The IC includes several configurable circuits, each of which configurably performs one of several operations at any given time, based on the configuration data set that it receives at that time. Th... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8135261 | Insertion and usage of metadata in digital video Some embodiments provide a method of capturing digital video. According to this method, the digital video is received at a first rate. The received digital video includes metadata. The method uses the metadata to store the digital video at a second rate that is diff... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8130703 | Apparatus and messages for interworking between unlicensed access network and GPRS network for data services Methods for performing various operations via unlicensed mobile access (UMA) radio link control (URLC) messages in an unlicensed mobile access network (UMAN). The UMAN comprises a first radio access network that may be employed for accessing data services provided b... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8126925 | Dynamic generation and automated distribution of user interface from database model A method and apparatus for automatically and dynamically generating a user interface for a client based upon a database model. An application server creates a user interface description in accordance with the database model. The description is then distributed to th... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8125497 | Adjustment of color values for optimized image processing A method for processing an image of a given file type is disclosed. The method involves converting the image into data formatted for a new pixel type, the new pixel type is closely correlated with and has all the components of pixels for the given file type. In addi... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8116586 | Estimating and removing distortion from an image Some embodiments provide a method of editing images with distortion caused by a camera lens. The method identifies a set of geometries on a set of images taken by the camera lens. The method finds transformations for applying on the set of identified geometries to r... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8115510 | Configuration network for an IC Some embodiments of the invention provide a configurable integrated circuit (IC) that includes several configurable circuits grouped in several tiles. The configurable IC also includes a configuration network for loading configuration data into the IC, where the con... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8112733 | Method and apparatus for routing with independent goals on different layers Some embodiments of the invention provide a method of routing. The method selects a net with a set of routable elements in a multi-layer layout region. In some embodiments, the method identifies a route for the net based on different congestion goals on different la... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8112468 | Method and apparatus for performing an operation with a plurality of sub-operations in a configurable IC Some embodiments provide a method of performing a mathematical operation on a set of operands. The mathematical operation includes several sub-operations. The method examines several bits of at least one operand at a time and depending on the value of these bits, re... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8111752 | Encoding mode pruning during video encoding A method for encoding a first set of pixels in a first image in a sequence of images is described. From a set of encoding modes, the method selects a first mode for encoding the first set of pixels. The method then determines whether encoding the first set of pixels... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8111751 | Encoding video Some embodiments of the invention provide a method for encoding a video signal that is formed by a series of successive images. Each image includes several sections, and each section has a set of image values. To encode a particular section of a particular image, th... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8107446 | Wireless RFID networking systems and methods Embodiments of the present invention include a wireless access point that acquires and processes radio frequency identification (RFID) information. The wireless access point may be coupled to a network of RFID readers over a wireless network. The RFID readers may re... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8104007 | Method and apparatus for thermal analysis Some embodiments of the invention provide a method for performing thermal analysis of an integrated circuit (“IC”) design layout that includes numerous circuit modules. The method divides the IC design layout into a set of elements, where at least one element in... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8104006 | Method and apparatus for thermal analysis Some embodiments of the invention provide a method for performing thermal analysis of an integrated circuit (“IC”) layout that includes numerous circuit modules. In some embodiments, the method initially defines several power dissipation equations that express t... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8103996 | Method and apparatus for thermal analysis of through-silicon via (TSV) Some embodiments of the invention provide a method for performing thermal analysis of an integrated circuit (“IC”) design layout. The IC design layout includes several wiring layers in some embodiments. The IC design layout includes a substrate that has at least... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8095662 | Automated scheduling of virtual machines across hosting servers Some embodiments provide a method and system for automatedly scheduling virtual machines across several hosting servers of a hosting service provider. Some embodiments perform the automated scheduling by receiving a server configuration that includes constraint data... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8094724 | Order value for specifying relationship between video pictures A method and apparatus for variable accuracy inter-picture timing specification for digital video encoding is disclosed. Specifically, the present invention discloses a system that allows the relative timing of nearby video pictures to be encoded in a very efficient... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8093922 | Configurable IC having a routing fabric with storage elements Some embodiments provide a configurable IC that includes a configurable routing fabric with storage elements. In some embodiments, the routing fabric provides a communication pathway that routes signals to and from source and destination components. The routing fabr... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8090371 | Network controller messaging for release in an unlicensed wireless communication system An unlicensed wireless service is adapted to generate the interface protocols of a licensed wireless service to provide transparent transition of communication sessions between a licensed wireless service and an unlicensed wireless service. In one embodiment, a mobi... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8090026 | Using order difference for calculating motion vector A method and apparatus for variable accuracy inter-picture timing specification for digital video encoding is disclosed. Specifically, the present invention discloses a system that allows the relative timing of nearby video pictures to be encoded in a very efficient... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8090023 | Method and apparatus for variable accuracy inter-picture timing specification for digital video encoding with reduced requirements for division operations A method and apparatus for performing motion estimation in a digital video system is disclosed. Specifically, the present invention discloses a system that quickly calculates estimated motion vectors in a very efficient manner. In one embodiment, a first multiplican... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8089479 | Directing camera behavior in 3-D imaging system A method of associating a computer generated camera with an object in a three-dimensional computer generated space. The method receives a command to associate the camera with an object in the simulated space. Based on the command the method determines a path for mov... | 01/03/2012 |
