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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7949889 | Forced idle of a data processing system Exemplary embodiments of methods and apparatuses to manage a power of a data processing system are described. One or more constraint parameters of a system are monitored. The data processing system is forced into an idle state for a first portion of a time while all... | 05/24/2011 |
| D637835 | Multiple tier wire frame baker's rack | 05/17/2011 |
| 7535770 | Flash memory device with reduced drain stresses A memory device includes a matrix of memory cells arranged in a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns, each memory cell including a transistor having a first conduction terminal, a second conduction terminal and a control terminal; a plurality of bit lines ea... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7535732 | Electromagnetic interference shielding for device cooling Embodiments disclosed herein include EMI shielding to cool a computing device with one or more vents. In some embodiments, a louvered vent formed in the EMI shield of a computing device creates an air curtain between the EMI shield and a heat-generating component to... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7535712 | Electronic apparatus According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus comprising: a housing; a circuit board that is housed in the housing; a heat generation portion that is mounted on the circuit board; a heat radiation portion that is housed in the housing; a first conductor layer... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7535699 | Electronic apparatus with keyboard According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus with a keyboard coupled to a cable, comprises a housing including a wall on which the keyboard is mounted, the wall including an opening, a circuit board which is accommodated inside the housing, and to which the ... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7535159 | Tuning fork crystal oscillation plate and method of manufacturing the same A tuning fork crystal oscillation plate includes a tuning fork crystal oscillation piece, first and second grooves, first and second groove electrodes, first side surface electrodes, and second side surface electrodes. The first groove electrode is connected to the ... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7535122 | Various methods and apparatuses for a multiple input-voltage-level voltage-regulator and a multiple voltage-level DC power supply A method, apparatus, and system are described in which operating characteristics of voltage regulator (VR) may be controlled. Example operating characteristics that are controlled may be 1) power conversion efficiency based on load demand on the VR, 2) response rate... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7535080 | Reducing parasitic mutual capacitances A method to reduce parasitic mutual capacitances in embedded passives. A first capacitor is formed by first and second electrodes embedding a dielectric layer. A second capacitor is formed by third and fourth electrodes embedding the dielectric layer. The third and ... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7533257 | Server authentication verification method on user terminal at the time of extensible authentication protocol authentication for internet access A server certificate verification method in a terminal during. Extensible Authentication Protocol authentication for Internet access is provided, the method including (a) receiving a server certificate from a wireless LAN authentication server, and transmitting a se... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7533235 | Reserve stacking The reserves of a flexible volume and the aggregate which contains the flexible volume are “stacked”. When the flexible volume is created, a portion of the flexible volume having a capacity equal to or less than an unreserved portion of the flexible volume is gu... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7533204 | Enumeration of devices on a memory channel According to one embodiment, a method is disclosed. The method includes receiving a bit pattern value at a first memory device from a host device via an interface to establish a first sideband address and the first memory device receiving a unique device identificat... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7533201 | Queue management mechanism in network processor wherein packets stored at memory device corresponds to addresses stored in plurity of queues within queue management According to one embodiment, a method is disclosed. The method includes selecting a first of a plurality of programmable interrupt enable registers, a controller determining for the first register whether there interrupts at a queue manager to be processed by a proc... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7533186 | Integrated security framework A method and apparatus for an integrated security framework. An embodiment of a method comprises identifying network paths for a system; identifying products and platforms for the system; applying application security for the system; analyzing security status for th... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7533014 | Method and system for concurrent use of two or more closely coupled communication recognition modalities A method and system are provided in which a speech recognition system and one or more other input modalities are run in parallel. The system is especially useful in easing the Chinese input obstruction due to the difficulty of conforming Chinese ideograms to typical... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7532732 | Method and apparatus for VoIP telephony call announcement A system and method for call announcement using a typical computing device permits a typical computing device, such as a PDA, to be used more effectively for telephony. In particular, a novel headphones connector and a software program/module being executed by the c... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7532636 | High bus bandwidth transfer using split data bus Methods and apparatus for achieving high bus bandwidth transfer using a split data bus. A data bus is split into multiple segments whose access is, individually controlled by an arbitration control unit in a manner that supports concurrent data transfers. Thus, the ... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7532574 | Method and apparatus for improved priority based connection establishment within a PNNI ATM network A method to assist in deciding whether or not an ATM PNNI network link is able to sustain a new connection is described. The method comprises, if the link is not within an LCN exhaustion state and the new connection requests more bandwidth than is advertised as bein... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7532564 | Sub-banded ultra-wideband communications systems A sub-banded ultra-wideband (SB-UWB) system may combine aspects of an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) modulation scheme with aspects of an ultra-wideband system. In one embodiment, the system may use orthogonal waveforms to form an ultra-wideband w... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7532525 | Semiconductor memory device for decreasing the total number of data transfer lines A memory device with global lines being used for other applications when the global lines are not in use is provided. The memory device includes: a plurality of banks; a global input/output line for transferring data input/output signals of the plurality of banks in... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7532470 | Electronic apparatus According to one embodiment, there is provided an electronic apparatus including: a substrate on which an electronic component is mounted; a casing that accommodates the substrate and has a recess portion; an air vent through which the recess portion is communicated... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7532315 | Automatic lens blocking apparatus An automatic lens blocking apparatus having a tracer and a lensmeter therein, for adhering a block to a lens by using a robot arm, is disclosed. The automatic lens blocking apparatus comprises: a tracer for obtaining data on a shape of a glass frame and data on a ce... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7532217 | Methods and systems for scoring multiple time-based assets and events The methods and systems for scoring multiple time-based assets and events include declaratively playing a first media sequence; and declaratively initiating a second media sequence at a predetermined time prior to an end point of the first media sequence wherein the... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7532146 | Multi-bit pipeline analog-to-digital converter having merged capacitor switching structure Provided is a multi-bit pipeline analog-to-digital converter (ADC) having a merged capacitor switching structure. In a multiplying digital-to-analog converter (MDAC) used in the multi-bit pipeline ADC, switches are connected between the bottom plates of respective d... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7532083 | Active nonlinear transmission line An apparatus for propagating a non-dispersive signals includes a transmission line with a voltage dependent propagation constant and distributed gain elements to maintain the non-dispersive signal between a maximum propagating amplitude and a minimum propagating amp... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7531879 | Method and resultant structure for floating body memory on bulk wafer A method for making floating body memory cells from a bulk substrate. A thin silicon germanium and overlying silicon layers are formed on the bulk substrate. Anchors and a bridge are formed to support the silicon layer when the silicon germanium layer is etched so t... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7531872 | High voltage transistor and method for fabricating the same A high voltage transistor operating through a high voltage and a method for fabricating the same are provided. The high voltage transistor includes: an insulation layer on a substrate; an N+-type drain junction region on the insulation layer; an N−... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7531858 | Complementary metal oxide semiconductor image sensor with multi-floating diffusion region The present invention relates to a complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) image sensor. Particularly, a unit pixel of the complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) image sensor, wherein the unit pixel has a rectangular shape and is defined with the top ... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7531836 | Body bias compensation for aged transistors Embodiments of the invention include on-chip transistor degradation detection and compensation. In one embodiment of the invention, an integrated circuit is provided including a circuit with a body bias terminal coupled to a body of one or more transistors to receiv... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7531437 | Method of forming metal gate electrodes using sacrificial gate electrode material and sacrificial gate dielectric material A semiconductor device comprising a semiconductor body having a top surface and a first and second laterally opposite sidewalls as formed on an insulating substrate is claimed. A gate dielectric is formed on the top surface of the semiconductor body and on the first... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7531429 | Methods and apparatuses for manufacturing ultra thin device layers for integrated circuit devices Embodiments of the invention use silicon on porous silicon wafers to produce a reduced-thickness IC device wafers. After device manufacturing, a temporary support is bonded to the device layer. The uppermost silicon layer is then separated from the silicon substrate... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7531393 | Non-planar MOS structure with a strained channel region An embodiment is a non-planar MOS transistor structure including a strained channel region. The combination of a non-planar MOS transistor structure, and in particular an NMOS tri-gate transistor, with the benefits of a strained channel yields improved transistor dr... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7531295 | Method and apparatus for lithographic imaging using asymmetric illumination According to one aspect of the present invention, a method and apparatus for processing a substrate may be provided. A reticle may be positioned relative to a substrate. The reticle may have a plurality of features with dimensions extending in a first and a second d... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7531267 | Process for preparing carbon nanotube electrode comprising sulfur or metal nanoparticles as a binder The present invention provides an electrode made of carbon nanotubes or carbon nanofibers and a process for preparing the same. The electrode comprising a current collector, sulfur or metal nanoparicles as a binder, and carbon nanotubes or carbon nanofibers is chara... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7531218 | Methods and apparatuses for fluidic self assembly Methods and apparatuses for assembling a structure onto a substrate. A method according to one aspect of the invention includes dispensing a slurry onto a substrate wherein the slurry includes a first plurality of elements, each of which is designed to mate with a r... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7531102 | Simultaneous selective polymer deposition and etch pitch doubling for sub 50nm line/space patterning First radicals and second radicals are simultaneous deposited into a space defined by two adjacent lines of photoresists and an underlying layer. A portion of the first radicals and the second radicals combine to form a polymer layer on the layer in the center of th... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7531068 | Method for manufacturing silicon nanodot film for light emission in nano-size photonic devices A method for manufacturing a silicon nanodot thin film having uniform doping concentration without damage by placing a substrate on a stage within a chamber. The method further including depositing a matrix thin film based on the silicon by PECVD, while doping a lig... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7530830 | Misalignment tolerant connector An electrical connector having a plug assembly and a socket assembly is described. The plug assembly includes a plug body and an outer barrel with an inner conductive receptacle electrically coupled to a first conductor in the plug body. The socket assembly includes... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7530780 | Method and apparatus for wind power foundation An apparatus and method for a wind power foundation. An embodiment of a wind power plant includes a tower having a top and a bottom. The plant also includes an assembly, the assembly including a transition piece that is coupled with a concrete cap. The assembly has ... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7530164 | Wafer-level underfill process making use of sacrificial contact pad protective material A method for connecting electronic components, such as, an integrated circuit die and a package substrate, is described. According to one aspect of the invention, a contact pad protective material is applied on one or more of the contact pads on an integrated circui... | 05/12/2009 |
