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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7937644 | Error detection in physical interfaces for point-to-point communications between integrated circuits An apparatus, system and method for detecting errors in a physical interface during the transmission and/or receipt of data communications between integrated circuits (“ICs”) are disclosed. In one embodiment, an apparatus for generating error-detection codes in ... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7936790 | Synchronizing related data streams in interconnection networks A method and apparatus for synchronizing related data streams in interconnection networks. Some embodiments of an apparatus include a transmitter to transmit a data stream to a second apparatus, where the transmitter transmits a data packet to the second apparatus. ... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7928003 | Air gap interconnects using carbon-based films A method of forming an interconnect structure comprising: forming a sacrificial inter-metal dielectric (IMD) layer over a substrate, wherein the sacrificial IMD layer comprising a carbon-based film, such as amorphous carbon, advanced patterning films, porous carbon,... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7925659 | Business process change analysis and test case adaptation based on change detection Methods and apparatuses enable comparing a current system configuration of a test system with a previous system configuration to determine whether differences exist between the two configurations and information about the technical objects used when performing a bus... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7921417 | Method and computer system for activation of source files Method and computer system for activation of source files. A source file repository stores a plurality of active source files belonging to a component. A central compilation service receives an activation request for at least one inactive source file of the componen... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7921231 | Discovery of electronic devices utilizing a control bus Discovery of electronic devices utilizing a control bus. An embodiment of a method includes connecting a receiving device to a cable, where the cable includes a control bus. If the receiving device is in a disconnect state and a signal from a transmitting device is ... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7917629 | Interface for external system management A system and method for an interface for external system management is disclosed. According to an embodiment of the invention, a method includes connecting a first client system with a web service of a server, the server including an application, the client system u... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7914623 | Post-ion implant cleaning for silicon on insulator substrate preparation A combination of a dry oxidizing, wet etching, and wet cleaning processes are used to remove particle defects from a wafer after ion implantation, as part of a wafer bonding process to fabricate a SOI wafer. The particle defects on the topside and the backside of th... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7911956 | Packet level prioritization in interconnection networks A method and apparatus for packet level prioritization in interconnection networks. An embodiment of an apparatus includes a transmitter to transmit a data stream to a recipient apparatus, the data stream including a plurality of data packets, the data packets inclu... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7908501 | Progressive power control of a multi-port memory device A method and system for progressively reducing the power consumption of a serial memory device is provided, called the power control system. The power control system monitors the ports of a multi-port serial memory so that they can be enabled or disabled on a per-po... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7904885 | Change management for structure objects A structure object is locked to prevent changes to the structure object in previous phases of a software life cycle. When a request to change the structure object in a previous phase is received, a change request file is opened. The changed request is approved or de... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7903684 | Communications architecture for transmission of data between memory bank caches and ports A serial communications architecture for communicating between hosts and data store devices. The Storage Link architecture is specially adapted to support communications between multiple hosts and storage devices via a switching network, such as a storage area netwo... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7903550 | Bandwidth reservation for data flows in interconnection networks A method and apparatus for bandwidth reservation for data flows in interconnection networks. Some embodiments of an apparatus for transmitting a data stream include a transmitter to transmit a data stream to a recipient apparatus, the data stream including a plurali... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7899285 | Leaky surface-plasmon mode directional coupler and polarization detection module for magneto-optical pickup head using the same A leaky plasmon mode directional coupler and a polarization detection module for a magneto-optical pickup head, which uses the leaky plasmon mode directional coupler, are provided. The leaky plasmon mode directional coupler is manufactured by integrating a planar wa... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7895599 | User interface independent remote interface data loader Methods and apparatuses enable providing asynchronous data loading from a remote or separate interface. A data loader provides a synchronous interface for receiving and queuing requests to execute functions on a distributed object tree. The data loader dequeues and ... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7892911 | Metal gate electrodes for replacement gate integration scheme Metal gate electrodes for a replacement gate integration scheme are described. A semiconductor device includes a substrate having a dielectric layer disposed thereon. A trench is disposed in the dielectric layer. A gate dielectric layer is disposed at the bottom of ... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7890962 | Business process extensions to enable alerts and reports within the context of groupware A backend enterprise server includes an application that sends metadata to a groupware client. The metadata enables an enterprise user to modify a function of the backend application from within the context of the groupware client. The groupware client sends metadat... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7889661 | Constrained multipath routing method in a multi-protocol label switching (MPLS) network Disclosed herein is a constrained multipath routing method. In a Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) network, network conditions and traffic engineering requirements assigned to each link are set. The amount of assignments of each traffic requirement assigned to e... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7886278 | Object reference monitoring A system and method for object reference monitoring. In one embodiment of the invention, a method includes running a computer application, monitoring a configuration point of the computer application during runtime, determining that a program object is accessed by t... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7881493 | Methods and apparatuses for use of eye interpretation information Eyetracking techniques and analysis techniques are disclosed. At least one interpretation of eyetracking data is received from an eye interpretation engine. A characteristic of an application is dynamically modified based on the interpretation of the eyetracking dat... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7849339 | Power-saving clocking technique A method and system for providing a clock signal having reduced power consumption is provided, called the hybrid clock system. The hybrid clock system uses a PLL for high-speed data transfers, but provides a power-saving mode for transferring data while consuming le... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7856520 | Control bus for connection of electronic devices A method and apparatus for a control bus for connection of electronic devices. An embodiment of a method includes coupling a transmitting device to a receiving device, including connecting a control bus between the transmitting device and the receiving device, with ... | 12/21/2010 |
| 7853959 | Business process extension for productivity suite application Methods and apparatuses to provide extension to a groupware client to enable the groupware client to access a workflow of a business process from the context of the groupware client. An enterprise server that manages the workflow can interface with the groupware cli... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7853607 | Related actions server Methods and apparatuses enable providing an action related to a business object in response to receiving a request to access the business object. In one embodiment, a related action is identified based on a context of a work environment from which the request is gen... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7851242 | Monolithic white and full-color light emitting diodes using optically pumped multiple quantum wells An embodiment is a method and apparatus for a white or full-color light-emitting diode. First single or multiple quantum wells (QWs) at a first wavelength are formed at an active region between a p-type layer and an n-type layer of a light-emitting diode. Multiple p... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7844762 | Parallel interface bus to communicate video data encoded for serial data links In some embodiments, a device includes a bus, a parallel source, and a parallel sink. The parallel source is to provide parallel groups of signals including video signals to the bus, wherein the bus has a number of lanes that is fewer than a number of signals used t... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7840861 | Scan-based testing of devices implementing a test clock control structure (“TCCS”) Methods and computer readable media for performing scan-based testing of circuits using one or more test clock control structures are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes performing an intra-domain test to exercise a first subset of domains of the plurali... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7838933 | Printing method for high performance electronic devices A method of depositing elongated nanostructures that allows accurate positioning and orientation is described. The method involves printing or otherwise depositing elongated nanostructures in a carrier solution. The deposited droplets are also elongated, usually by ... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7838865 | Method for aligning elongated nanostructures A method of depositing elongated nanostructures that allows accurate positioning and orientation is described. The method involves printing or otherwise depositing elongated nanostructures in a carrier solution. The deposited droplets are also elongated, usually by ... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7836483 | Automatic derivation of access control policies from a choreography A system architecture and algorithm for automatically generating, installing and enforcing access control policies that correspond to an agreed specification of collaboration. A collaboration member enforces its access control policies using a dedicated access contr... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7836223 | Operation of media interface to provide bidirectional communications Embodiments of the invention are generally directed to operation of a media interface to provide bidirectional communications. An embodiment of a method includes connecting a first device to a second device via a media interface, the media interface including a comm... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7835348 | Method and apparatus for dynamic anomaly-based updates to traffic selection policies in a switch Techniques and architectures to dynamically modify policies used to determine how data in switched network traffic is selected for security inspection. One embodiment of the invention modifies policies used to determine how data in network traffic is redirected from... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7832637 | Managing retail transactions An embodiment of the present invention includes a technique for retail transactions. A display unit shows product information on a product. A transaction controller provides the product information. A database stores at least one of the product information and custo... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7831877 | Circuitry to prevent peak power problems during scan shift In some embodiments, a chip includes first and second scan chain segments each including registers and multiplexers to provide to the registers scan input signals during scan input periods and captured output signals during a capture periods. The chip also includes ... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7831778 | Shared nonvolatile memory architecture A method and system that utilizes a shared nonvolatile memory for initializing multiple processing components in a device. The startup logic and configuration data for processing components within a device is stored in a single nonvolatile memory. Upon receipt of a ... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7831600 | Cluster communication manager A cluster manager application program library includes an event handler to communicate an event from an application server instance to which the library is linked to a message server in a cluster of application server instances. The library further includes a notifi... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7819985 | Method and apparatus for wafer cleaning An apparatus for wet processing individual wafers comprising; a means for holding the wafer; a means for providing acoustic energy to a non-device side of the wafer; and a means for flowing a fluid onto a device side of the wafer. ... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7814204 | Method of and system for analyzing the content of resource requests Systems and methods are described for analyzing the content of resource requests. A tokenizer parses the resource request and derives a key therefrom. A database associates values of the key with categories of service. An association engine uses the key to obtain on... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7811924 | Air gap formation and integration using a patterning cap Methods for patterning films and their resulting structures. In an embodiment, an amorphous carbon mask is formed over a substrate, such as a damascene layer. A spacer layer is deposited over the amorphous carbon mask and the spacer layer is etched to form a spacer ... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7811849 | Placing a MEMS part on an application platform using a guide mask A method for fabricating a micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) device. The method comprises placing a guiding mask on an application platform, the guiding mask including an opening that defines the position of a MEMS part to be placed on the application platform.... | 10/12/2010 |
