Did You Know...
...that the inventor of the electric motor was a blacksmith named Thomas Davenport? Described as "a brilliantly unsuccessful inventor", Davenport invented the first rotary electric motor. In 1836 he headed out -- on foot -- from his Vermont home to file a patent application at the Patent Office in Washington, D.C. By the time he got there, he had squandered away his money and couldn't afford the $30 filing fee so he turned around and went home. When he later mailed in his application with money he'd raised, the Patent office was destroyed in a fire. He did finally get credit for his invention on Feb. 5, 1837.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8185921 | Parental control of displayed content using closed captioning According to one embodiment, a method for blocking scenes with objectionable content comprises receiving incoming content, namely a scene of a program. Thereafter, using closed captioning information, a determination is made if the scene of the program includes obje... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185758 | Method and system for determining an energy-efficient operating point of a platform A method and system for determining an energy-efficient operating point of the platform or system. The platform has logic to dynamically manage setting(s) of the processing cores and/or platform components in the platform to achieve maximum system energy efficiency.... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185739 | Method and system for detecting successful authentication of multiple ports in a time-based roving architecture In one embodiment of the present invention, a method includes authenticating an HDCP transmitting device at a first port of an HDCP receiving device. A port of the HDCP receiving device is connected to a pipe of an HDCP architecture of the HDCP receiving device at a... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185733 | Method and apparatus for automatically publishing content based identifiers A method and apparatus for automatically publishing content based identifiers are described. In one embodiment, the method comprises accessing an electronic communication to obtain a content based identifier (CBI) contained in the electronic communication. In one em... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185723 | Method and apparatus to extract integer and fractional components from floating-point data A method is presented including decomposing a first value into many parts. Decomposing includes shifting (310) a rounded integer portion of the first value to generate a second value. Generating (320) a third value. Extracting (330) a plurality ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185347 | Outlier correction with a median method A method and apparatus, including computer program products, for determining characteristic parameters on the basis of a series of m values, H_1, H_2, . . . , H_m, over time. The values are descriptive for a predetermined process, and the series has linear character... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185149 | User programmable switch The various methods and devices described herein relate to devices which, in at least certain embodiments, may include at least one mechanical switch for user to select a user profile interface setting and at least one processor for causing the device to respond to ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184918 | Header-based processing of images compressed using multi-scale transforms A method and apparatus is described for segmenting an image, for adaptively scaling an image, and for automatically scaling and cropping an image based on codestream headers data. In one embodiment, a file that can provide a header that contains multi-scale entropy ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184594 | Handover processing method, eNB and network communication system thereof Embodiments of the present invention includes a handover processing method, a source eNB, a neighboring eNB and a network communication system. In one embodiment of the handover processing method, a source eNB selects a target eNB from neighboring eNBs that can acce... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184347 | Opportunistic process control for printers A method is disclosed. The method includes receiving print data at an electrophotographic printer; examining the print data to determine if an image within the print data may be used to perform one or more process control measurements and performing the process cont... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184124 | Automatic color adjustment of a template design The present invention generates a color template design to format a presentation. According to one aspect, a plurality of template designs are provided on a visual display. A selection of one of the plurality of template designs is received from a user. A plurality ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8183646 | Field effect transistor with narrow bandgap source and drain regions and method of fabrication A transistor having a narrow bandgap semiconductor source/drain region is described. The transistor includes a gate electrode formed on a gate dielectric layer formed on a silicon layer. A pair of source/drain regions are formed on opposite sides of the gate electro... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8183556 | Extreme high mobility CMOS logic A CMOS device includes a PMOS transistor with a first quantum well structure and an NMOS device with a second quantum well structure. The PMOS and NMOS transistors are formed on a substrate. ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8183454 | Method and system for displaying components of music instruction files A graphical view of a file component associated with an audio that is displayed in a graphical user interface (GUI) is automatically switched during playback of the audio. The switching is based on a Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) view-switching track a... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8182139 | Calibration of temperature sensing circuitry in an electronic device Temperature sensing circuitry is used for thermal management of an electronic device. The temperature sensing circuitry includes at least one thermistor placed at or near a component of the electronic device. The temperature sensing circuitry also includes a high-pr... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8181170 | Unwind information for optimized programs Analyzing a first binary version of a program and unwind information associated with the first binary version of the program, performing optimization on the first binary version of the program to produce a second binary version of the program based at least in part ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8181041 | Wave-modulated switching frequency voltage regulator A method and apparatus for a wave-modulated switching frequency voltage regulator VR are described. In one embodiment, a controller dynamically adjusts a phase switching frequency of the VR to render the VR immune from synchronization between an IC load frequency an... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180983 | Caching filenames of a striped directory in predictable locations within a volume locally accessible to a storage server node A method and system for caching filenames of a directory that is striped across the volumes serviced by a plurality of storage server nodes. The method comprises storing a filename in a first volume and a second volume of the striped volume set in the same locations... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180977 | Transactional memory in out-of-order processors Methods and apparatus to provide transactional memory execution in out-of-order processors are described. In one embodiment, a stored value corresponds to the number of transactional memory access requests that are uncommitted. The stored value may be used to provid... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180967 | Transactional memory virtualization Methods and apparatus to provide transactional memory execution in a virtualized mode are described. In one embodiment, data corresponding to a transactional memory access request may be stored in a portion of a memory after an operation corresponding to the transac... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180923 | Network access control for many-core systems In a processor based system comprising a plurality of logical machines, selecting a logical machine of the system to serve as a host; the host communicating with a policy decision point (PDP) of a network to provision a data channel interconnecting the processor bas... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180291 | Power-scavenging receiver to generate a signal to be used to control operational state Methods and apparatuses for selectively powering an electronic device based on signals from a power-scavenging receiver circuit. ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8178952 | Method of forming high-k dual dielectric stack The present invention discloses a method including: providing a Group III-V component semiconductor material; forming a first layer over a surface of the Group III-V component semiconductor material, the first layer to unpin a Fermi level at the surface; forming a s... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8178436 | Adhesion and electromigration performance at an interface between a dielectric and metal Interconnect structures having improved adhesion and electromigration performance and methods to fabricate thereof are described. A tensile capping layer is formed on a first conductive layer on a substrate. A compressive capping layer is formed on the tensile cappi... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8178047 | Miniature chemical analysis system An apparatus, according to one aspect, may include a chromatograph and a bulk acoustic resonator. The chromatograph may include a channel that is defined at least partially in a monolithic substrate. The channel may have an inlet to receive a sample and an outlet. A... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8176913 | Respirator helmet with quick release safety lens An apparatus including a lens, a gasket to receive the lens and a frame removably coupled to a respirator helmet is defined. The gasket forms a seal with a respirator helmet. The frame secures the lens within the gasket and defines a release mechanism to enable a qu... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8176452 | Method and apparatus for circuit partitioning and trace assignment in circuit design Methods and apparatuses for incremental circuit partitioning and incremental trace assignment. In one embodiment of the present invention, a cost function based on both the partitioning solution and the trace assignment solution is used for the partitioning of a cir... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8176345 | Power saving operation for a media drive According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes a media drive having a normal operation mode and a power saving operation mode in which less power is consumed than in the normal operation mode, a control module configured to control the med... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8176012 | Read-only mirroring for load sharing A system and method that provides users of network data storage with the ability to gain advantages of a clustered storage server system, in which volumes from multiple server nodes are linked into a virtual global hierarchical namespace, without first having to mig... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175524 | Information processing apparatus having a shared antenna element According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes an antenna element, a first wireless communication module including a printed circuit board and a wireless communication circuit which is provided on the printed circuit board, and a second wi... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175440 | Broadcast receiver and broadcast receiving method A broadcast receiver includes: an image analyzer configured to perform an analysis on a series of images; a recorder configured to record a result of the analysis and the series of images; and an image processor configured to perform image processing on a target ima... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175288 | User interface for mixing sounds in a media application A media application for providing outputs (e.g., audio outputs) in response to inputs received from an input device is provided. The media application may connect input mechanisms of an input device with parameters of channel strips (e.g., which may define output so... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175229 | Enhancing messaging services using translation gateways In one embodiment, a translation gateway is for use between a network of a messaging service provider and a hostile data network. The gateway is to forward messages using a secure connection through the hostile network, to a customer's network. Different types of in... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175194 | Signal receiving apparatus and signal processing method According to one embodiment, a signal receiving apparatus includes a first setting module, a calculator, a detection module, a generator, and a determination module. The first setting module is configured to set a rising or falling of an arbitrary high pulse as a st... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175040 | Random access request extension for an additional resource request Methods and apparatuses enable sending a fast access request in a preamble of a random access request. The fast access request provides for an uplink assignment having bandwidth sufficient to allow the transmission of data with a scheduling request. The fast access ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8174529 | Graphics processing unit and information processing apparatus According to one embodiment, a graphics processing unit detects characteristics of video data by analyzing frames of the video data by using at least one first processing core of a plurality of processing cores, and applies a process, which is associated with the de... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8174174 | Cathode structures for X-ray tubes An apparatus and method comprising a cathode structure which can be a cylindrical filament coiled in a helix or which can be constructed of a ribbon or other suitable shape. The cathode structure can be heated by passage of an electrical current, or by other means s... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8174084 | Stress sensor for in-situ measurement of package-induced stress in semiconductor devices A stress sensor is disclosed herein. The stress sensor includes a plurality of carbon nanotubes in a substrate, and first and second contacts electrically connectable with the plurality of carbon nanotubes. Methods of making and using the stress sensor are also disc... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8174060 | Selective spacer formation on transistors of different classes on the same device A method of selectively forming a spacer on a first class of transistors and devices formed by such methods. The method can include depositing a conformal first deposition layer on a substrate with different classes of transistors situated thereon, depositing a bloc... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8173495 | Semiconductor on insulator A method and apparatus for producing a relatively thin, relatively uniform semiconductor layer which has improved carrier mobility. In an embodiment, a lattice-matched insulator layer is formed on a semiconductor substrate, and a lattice-matched semiconductor layer ... | 05/08/2012 |
