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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7295551 | Support mobile device in asymmetric link environment Methods and apparatus for registering a mobile device such as a mobile node or mobile router with a Home Agent in an asymmetric link environment. A Foreign Agent associates each of one or more interfaces of the Foreign Agent with a different care-of address. An agen... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7270605 | Peer-to-peer gaming system A gaming system is disclosed. The gaming system includes at least two gaming components. Each gaming component includes a controller and a communications interface. The gaming system also includes a communication link to allow the controllers of the gaming component... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7238097 | Polishing pad and method of producing same A transparent pad having a polishing surface with an average surface roughness of 5 μm or less is used as a polishing pad. An indentation is formed on the back surface of the transparent pad such that its rate of light transmission is locally changed. The transpare... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7204146 | Device and method for measuring thickness A device for measuring thickness of an object has a vibration generator for generating vibrations in the object, a vibration detector for detecting vibrations generated in the object by the vibration generator and a frequency analyzer for calculating resonance frequ... | 04/17/2007 |
| D540399 | Financial cabinet apparatus for a gaming machine | 04/10/2007 |
| D540398 | Stand-alone gaming machine apparatus | 04/10/2007 |
| 7198257 | Fluid-filled vibration damping device A fluid-filled vibration damping device including: a rubber elastic body elastically connecting a first and second mounting member and partially defining a pressure-receiving chamber filled with a non-compressible fluid; a flexible layer partially defining an equili... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7200824 | Performance/power mapping of a die Methods and apparatus are provided for harnessing the effects of process variations in a semiconductor device. In one example, implementing an electronic design based on collected performance parameters is provided. In general, a core is segmented into multiple core... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7186181 | Wide area program distribution and game information communication system Methods and apparatus are described for distributing gaming applications to a plurality of gaming sites located in a plurality of regulatory regions via a wide area network. Each regulatory region has a regulatory scheme associated therewith. A plurality of gaming a... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7186648 | Barrier first method for single damascene trench applications Methods for forming a diffusion barrier on low aspect features of an integrated circuit include at least three operations. The first operation deposits a barrier material and simultaneously etches a portion of an underlying metal at the bottoms of recessed features ... | 03/06/2007 |
| D537885 | Tabletop gaming machine terminal apparatus | 03/06/2007 |
| D537482 | Support pedestal apparatus for a gaming machine terminal | 02/27/2007 |
| D537126 | Informational display assembly for a gaming table | 02/20/2007 |
| 7176673 | Direct current detection circuit A direct current detection circuit has a zero-phase current transformer with source lines inserted therethrough for detecting current differences among them and generates a comparison voltage value based on a divided voltage value obtained between the zero-phase cur... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7177024 | Bottom fluorescence illumination assembly for an imaging apparatus A macroscopic fluorescence illumination assembly is provided for use with an a imaging apparatus with a light-tight imaging compartment. The imaging apparatus includes an interior wall defining a view port extending into the imaging compartment to enable viewing of ... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7176830 | Image processing system for mounting to a vehicle An image processing system to be mounted to a vehicle includes a radar adapted to measure distance and direction to an object based on reflected electromagnetic waves which are outputted to scan the exterior of the vehicle, an image-taking device such as a camera fo... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7176683 | Iterative decomposition of water and fat with echo asymmetry and least square estimation A method of separating signals from water and lipid in a body using spin-echo magnetic resonance imaging comprising steps of acquiring image signals at three acquisition times asymmetrically positioned with respect to a spin-echo time, the three acquisition times be... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7176144 | Plasma detemplating and silanol capping of porous dielectric films Methods of preparing a low-k dielectric material on a substrate are provided. The methods involve using plasma techniques to remove porogen from a precursor layer comprising porogen and a dielectric matrix and to protect the dielectric matrix with a silanol capping ... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7172977 | Method for non-destructive removal of cured epoxy from wafer backside Disclosed is a method for non-destructive removal of cured epoxy from a wafer backside. A wafer back-coated with epoxy is soaked in an acetone bath for a period of time, allowing degradation of the epoxy coating adhesion strength. The epoxy coating is then peeled or... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7172450 | High temperature open ended zero insertion force (ZIF) test socket A socket for use in testing packaged integrated circuits having leads depending therefrom includes a first member for receiving the integrated circuit package and having a plurality of holes for receiving leads extending from the package. A second member has a plura... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7172184 | Substrate carrier for electroplating solar cells A carrier for use in processing of a plurality of wafers or other substrates includes a support frame on which the wafers are mounted and in one embodiment at least one auxiliary frame for holding the substrates on the support frame. A plurality of clips extend from... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7169231 | Gas distribution system with tuning gas An apparatus for providing different gases to different zones of a processing chamber is provided. A gas supply for providing an etching gas flow is provided. A flow splitter in fluid connection with the gas supply for splitting the etching gas flow from the gas sup... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7168692 | Fluid filled vibration damping device whose flexible layer having thick walled portion A fluid filled vibration damping device including: an elastic body elastically connecting a first and a second mounting member and partially defining a pressure receiving chamber filled with a non-compressible fluid and undergoing fluid pressure variation upon appli... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7169616 | Method of purging trapped gas from a system fluid contained in an actuation valve An apparatus and method for delivering repetitive, precision, low volume liquid dispensing from a dispensing orifice of a non-contact liquid dispensing apparatus. An elongated communication passageway of the dispensing apparatus is defined by interior walls having o... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7167185 | Visualization of photomask databases Faster and more accurate techniques for displaying images are described. The techniques can be applied in various applications that include semiconductor fabrication processes. The invention uses preprocessed images to generate a user-selected image in order to incr... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7168047 | Mouse having a button-less panning and scrolling switch A mouse for controlling movements on a display screen is disclosed. The mouse includes a housing that is gripped by a user during manipulation of the mouse and a sensor configured to detect the presence of a user's hand or portions thereof located outside of and in ... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7168089 | Secured virtual network in a gaming environment A disclosed gaming machine may securely communicate with devices over a public network such as the Internet. The gaming machine utilizes a combination of symmetric and asymmetric encryption that allows a single gaming machine to securely communicate with a remote se... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7168090 | Mobile IP authentication Methods and apparatus for authenticating a mobile node are disclosed. A server is configured to provide a plurality of security associations associated with a plurality of mobile nodes. A packet identifying a mobile node may then be sent to the server from a network... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7166531 | VLSI fabrication processes for introducing pores into dielectric materials Porous dielectric layers are produced by introducing pores in pre-formed composite dielectric layers. The pores may be produced after the barrier material, the metal or other conductive material is deposited to form a metallization layer. In this manner, the conduct... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7163896 | Biased Hetch process in deposition-etch-deposition gap fill Biased plasma etch processes incorporating H2 etch chemistries. In particular, high density plasma chemical vapor etch-enhanced (deposition-etch-deposition) gap fill processes incorporating etch chemistries which incorporate hydrogen as the etchant that c... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7163899 | Localized energy pulse rapid thermal anneal dielectric film densification method A densified dielectric film is formed on a substrate by a process that involves annealing a film deposited on the substrate by application of a localized energy pulse, such as a laser pulse, for example one of about 10 to 100 ns in duration from an excimer laser, th... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7163889 | Film for copper diffusion barrier The present invention provides a low dielectric constant copper diffusion barrier film suitable for use in a semiconductor device and methods for fabricating such a film. Some embodiments of the film are formed of a silicon-based material doped with boron. Other emb... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7160936 | Method of producing ultraviolet radiation absorbent An ultraviolet radiation absorbent for thermoplastic polymer materials such as polyethylene terephthalate or polycarbonate contains cyclic imino ester compound of a specified structure in an amount of over 99.5 weight % and less than 100 weight % and having an acid ... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7161600 | Methods and apparatus for transforming three-dimensional objects in video games An unprocessed cluster index and its amount of parallel movement are acquired. The order of processing clusters does not matter as long as the frame is the same. Subsequently, with respect to an unprocessed vertex corresponding to this acquired cluster index, a vert... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7156735 | Parallel games on a gaming device A gaming machine displays multiple game outcome presentations to one or more players playing the gaming machine. A player may initiate a new game on the gaming machine while the outcome of a previous game is being presented to the player. For a number of different g... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7159137 | Synchronized communication between multi-processor clusters of multi-cluster computer systems Improved techniques are provided for detecting and correcting errors and skew in inter-cluster communications within computer systems having a plurality of multi-processor clusters. The local nodes of each cluster include a plurality of processors and an interconnec... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7156562 | Opto-electronic module form factor having adjustable optical plane height An apparatus opto-electronic module that is flexible in design such that components of different types and dimensions can be incorporated into the module without straying from certain mechanical standards requirements is described. Generally, an opto-electronic modu... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7157798 | Selective refractory metal and nitride capping A method for creating a refractory metal and refractory metal nitride cap effective for reducing copper electromigration and copper diffusion is described. The method includes depositing a refractory metal nucleation layer and nitriding at least the upper portion of... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7155710 | Method and apparatus for gaming device software configuration A method and apparatus for packaging, distributing, installing, deleting, or updating gaming software is disclosed. In one embodiment the method and apparatus of the invention identifies a plurality of files, which may exceed hundreds of files, to be distributed, in... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7155698 | Method of locating areas in an image such as a photo mask layout that are sensitive to residual processing effects Images such as mask layouts, signatures, and photographs are compared to identify similarities or dissimilarities in the images. Descriptions of the images use geometric shapes including lines, rectangles, and triangles to facilitate the comparisons and decrease com... | 12/26/2006 |