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| 8185072 | Method and apparatus for power reduction for interconnect links A power reduction proposal for a receiver circuit that adheres to a plurality of defined states and masking logic to mask the output of the squelch receiver. Furthermore, the proposal utilizes and counters to count the various timeout conditions. Consequently, the s... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8172783 | Conduit system for isolation of fluids in biological tissues The invention presents is a fluid isolation system and method for confining fluid is a biological mass having at least one upstream channel and downstream channel. The system includes a delivery conduit for administering fluid to the biological mass and a collection... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8161010 | Methods and systems for providing fault recovery to side effects occurring during data processing Embodiments may recover from faults by forming a new set of rows by removing rows associated with faulting save operations and repeating the saving and forming operations using the new set of rows until a set of rows that can be saved from the known start state with... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8160074 | Optimal reading of forwarding database from hardware Forwarding database entries in a memory of a network device are scanned. Each port on the network device maintains a forwarding database in the memory. A filtered list of forwarding database entries is automatically sent to a management module. ... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8158567 | Body cleansing composition A composition and method are provided. The composition is free of a non-botanical lathering agent and may include a botanical agent, a conditioning agent, a skin soothing agent, an antioxidant, an emulsifying agent, a chelating agent, and a preservative. The composi... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8151247 | Test data management Methods and apparatuses enable generating test content for test system from an executed transaction of an execution system. The data resulting from the execution of the transaction in the execution system is accessed and used to generate test content for a test case... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8125977 | Synchronization of computer system clock using a local gateway Methods and apparatuses for synchronizing a system clock of a computer via a local gateway are described herein. In one embodiment, a local clock of a gateway device is periodically synchronized with a remote time service facility over an external network. The synch... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8118803 | Deflectable catheter assembly A deflectable catheter assembly and methods of use are herein disclosed. The catheter assembly, in one embodiment, is deflectable and includes a first catheter, a second catheter, and a third catheter. The second catheter fits coaxially within the first catheter. In... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8112953 | Window framing system Pieces that are components of a frame for a window having a threat side and a safe side include a base and a pressure plate that together form part of one of a sill section, a head section, and a jamb section of the window. The base and pressure plate are elongated ... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8108344 | Method and system for maintaining current data for wireless devices A system includes a server to receive a request representing changes to data residing at a device. The request is received from the device that is coupled to the server. The server includes a first synchronizer to identify the changes via web services description. T... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8100304 | Method and apparatus for multi-positional locking holster A device including a rotational locking piece. The rotational locking piece includes a first portion and a second portion. The first portion is rotationally connected to the second portion. The first portion can be locked in relation to the second portion by a locki... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8099253 | Keyboard tester Apparatus and methods are described for pressing and releasing keys and measuring timing data of the key presses and releases of a keyboard input device to determine characteristics of different types of keyboards. A key of the keyboard may be pressed and released b... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8086044 | Block-based iterative multi-pass data filling technique for compound document compression A method and apparatus for data filling is disclosed herein. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving an image and a mask associated with the image and performing a block-based, iterative multi-pass data filling process to fill a layer as part of compound d... | 12/27/2011 |
| D651253 | Wine bottle label | 12/27/2011 |
| 8082288 | Method and apparatus for determining notable content on web sites using collected comments A computerized method for gauging the importance of web content and presenting selected content to a user is described. Comments that have been posted by a user to a first comment-enabled entry in a web site are collected. The collected comments of the user are anal... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8075518 | Controlling shaft bending moment and whipping in a tendon deflection or other tendon system A tendon deflection system including a shaft, a plurality of tendons movably disposed within the shaft, and a force-balancing element coupled to the tendons. In a first section, the plurality of tendons are arranged around the shaft at equal angles to each other and... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8074259 | Authentication mark-up data of multiple local area networks An authentication mark-up data of multiple local area networks is disclosed. In one embodiment of a system, the system includes a wide area network, an update device coupled to the wide area network, and any number of gateway devices coupled to the wide area network... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8072052 | Trench substrate Disclosed herein are a trench substrate and a method of manufacturing the same. The trench substrate includes a base substrate, an insulating layer formed on one side or both sides of the base substrate and including trenches formed in a circuit region and a dummy r... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8064759 | Method and apparatus for motion-state based image acquisition A method comprising receiving an indication from a user that the user wishes to take a picture. The method further comprising receiving motion data for a camera device and analyzing the motion data to determine a motion state of the camera. The method further compri... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8058722 | Power semiconductor module and method of manufacturing the same Disclosed herein is a power semiconductor module. The module includes metal plates each having a first through hole, with an anodic oxidation layer formed on a surface of metal plates and an interior of the first through hole. A cooling member has a second through h... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8044744 | Time modulation with cosine function A method and apparatus is described for a time modulated signal. A cosine function is used as the basis for the signal with time intervals at the maximum and minimum values of the cosine function defining the encoded data. The received waveform is twice differentiat... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8042089 | Process automation system and method employing multi-stage report generation The embodiments of the invention described herein employ sophisticated techniques for managing distributed processes in a process automation system. Specifically, one embodiment of the invention implements a general purpose property mechanism in which arbitrary data... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8028080 | Method and apparatus for media data transmission Methods and apparatuses for processing media data transmitted in a data communication medium. A digital processing system is provided with a time related sequence of media data provided to the digital processing system based on a set of data, wherein the set of data... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8026590 | Die package and method of manufacturing the same Disclosed herein are a die package and a method of manufacturing the die package. A solder layer is formed on a lower surface of a die. The die is self-aligned and attached to a support plate using surface tension between the solder layer and a metal layer of the su... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8024686 | Retiming of multirate system Methods and apparatuses for retiming of multirate system for clock period minimization with a polynomial time without sub-optimality. In an embodiment, a normalized factor vector for the nodes of multirate graph is introduced, allowing the formulation of the multira... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8015520 | Methods and apparatuses for automated circuit optimization and verification Methods and apparatuses to automatically determine conditions at hierarchical boundaries of a hierarchical circuit design and to use the determined conditions in hierarchical optimization and verification. In one embodiment, a hierarchical block is optimized and tra... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8015494 | Melded user interfaces In one embodiment, a method for combining the user interfaces of several applications is disclosed. Data generated by a first application is extracted from a display buffer. The data is associated with a user interface from the first application. From the extracted ... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8015169 | Method and an apparatus to request web pages and content rating information thereof A method and an apparatus request web pages and content rating information thereof have been disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving a request from a user for a web page, retrieving content rating of the web page in response to the request, and f... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8013583 | Dynamic switch power converter The present invention provides a dynamic switch power conversion circuit to improve the efficiency of a solar cell array, and specifically to operate the solar cell array under various sunlight intensities, especially under low light conditions. In an embodiment of ... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8013474 | System and apparatuses with multiple power extractors coupled to different power sources In some embodiments, an apparatus or system may include multiple power extractors each coupled to a different power source. The power extractors may be in parallel or in series. The extractors and power supplies may be joined together in a frame. A power source and ... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8010321 | Metrics independent and recipe independent fault classes A method and apparatus for diagnosing faults. Process data is analyzed using a first metric to identify a fault. The process data was obtained from a manufacturing machine running a first recipe. A fault signature that matches the fault is identified. The identified... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7999421 | Horizontal linear vibrator The present invention provides a horizontal linear vibrator which can reduce the thickness but increase the strength of vibrations while at the same time guaranteeing a sufficiently long lifetime and satisfactory responsivity. The horizontal linear vibrator includes... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7996894 | MAC address modification of otherwise locally bridged client devices to provide security A method is disclosed for providing security to a client-to-client communication. The method includes authenticating a first client and a second client with an access point device, transmitting the packet to the security device and modifying a destination media acce... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7996415 | On-the-fly pattern recognition with configurable bounds Some embodiments of on-the-fly pattern recognition with configurable bounds have been presented. In one embodiment, a pattern matching engine is configured based on user input, which may include values of one or more user configurable bounds on searching. Then the c... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7995145 | Inline audio/visual conversion A system, method, and apparatus for inline audio/visual conversion are described. Power to an inline converter is provided over the A/V cable that couples the converter to a destination such as a selector. ... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7991723 | Data pattern analysis using optimized deterministic finite automaton Techniques for data pattern analysis using deterministic finite automaton are described herein. In one embodiment, a number of transitions from a current node to one or more subsequent nodes representing one or more sequences of data patterns is determined, where ea... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7990974 | Packet processing on a multi-core processor A method for packet processing on a multi-core processor. According to one embodiment of the invention, a first set of one or more processing cores are configured to include the capability to process packets belonging to a first set of one or more packet types, and ... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7990950 | Fax messaging for new users Send and receive services are operated that send and receive fax messages, respectively, via fax protocols. Each new customer is offered a predetermined amount of the receive service, and a more limited amount of the send service, both free of charge to the customer... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7987373 | Apparatus and method for licensing programmable hardware sub-designs using a host-identifier Methods and apparatuses for enforcing terms of a licensing agreement between a plurality of parties involved in a particular hardware design through the use of hardware technologies. According to one embodiment, a hardware sub-design includes a license verification ... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7984400 | Techniques for use with automated circuit design and simulations Various techniques involving snapshots of the contents of registers are described and claimed. In some embodiments, a method includes receiving descriptions of design circuitry including design registers to receive register input signals. The method also includes ge... | 07/19/2011 |
