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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7362146 | Large supply range differential line driver A differential transmission line driver with supplemental current sources that overcome switching anomalies and EMU issues when the logic state of the driver is switching. During a logic transition, a current source, that is directed to the output of the driver, may... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7319353 | Non-latching enveloping curves generator An enveloping curves generator is disclosed that guarantees that one curve will envelop or overlap another when both are traversing from one logic level to another, and where the other overlaps the first when both traversing the other direction. In one case, a steer... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7313720 | Technique for increasing the number of persistent consistency point images in a file system An on-disk storage arrangement increases the number of persistent consistency point images (PCPIs) that may be maintained for a volume of a storage system. The on-disk storage arrangement comprises a novel volume information (volinfo) block representing a root of th... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7310747 | System and method for diagnostics execution and data capture in a storage system using nonvolatile memory The present invention provides a system and method for diagnostics execution in which diagnostics code is stored in a designated partition on a removable nonvolatile memory device, such as a compact flash or a personal computer (PC) card that is interfaced with the ... | 12/18/2007 |
| D557680 | Audio/video control and switching console | 12/18/2007 |
| 7305892 | Method for operating a mass flowmeter A method is disclosed for operating a mass flowmeter that employs the Coriolis principle and that incorporates a measuring tube through which flows a fluid medium, which measuring tube is stimulated to oscillate in a predefined pattern, allowing the resulting oscill... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7304541 | Temperature compensated voltage regulator integrated with MMIC's A voltage regulator integrated with a monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC) power amplifier that supplies a regulated bias current to the MMIC power amplifier that is compensated for temperature and voltage supply variations. The regulator circuit includes ... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7296483 | Magnetoinductive flowmeter with detachable components A magnetoinductive flowmeter incorporates an electromagnetic circuit with at least one coil and a minimum of two detachably interconnected components of a magnetic material. One of the components features a resiliently deformable spring section that presses against ... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7286358 | Surface mounted resistor with improved thermal resistance characteristics A surface mountable resistor chip assembly, containing an integral heat sink, convective cooling provision exhibits higher continuous-mode power ratings than prior art surface mount resistors having comparable printed circuit board footprints. The preferred embodime... | 10/23/2007 |
| D553759 | Dry-cast concrete block | 10/23/2007 |
| D553117 | Audio/video control and switching unit | 10/16/2007 |
| 7275449 | Mass flow meter composed of two measuring tubes with a connecting device between them A mass flowmeter employing the Coriolis principle incorporates in at least one section two measuring tubes that extend along a common plane, as well as a connecting device that connects the two measuring tubes in the section in which they extend along the common pla... | 10/02/2007 |
| D551449 | Basket weave eyeglass case | 09/25/2007 |
| 7275179 | System and method for reducing unrecoverable media errors in a disk subsystem A system and method for reducing unrecoverable errors in a disk drive by under-taking an aggressive reassignment of slow-reading or currently recoverable-but-erroneous sectors to the spares pool is provided. A recovered error is treated by the system operating syste... | 09/25/2007 |
| D551672 | User interface for a computer display | 09/25/2007 |
| 7271885 | Plasmon resonance measuring method and apparatus Detection apparatus for performing surface plasmon resonance (SPR) measurements on a sample includes a support having side walls and a bottom wall defining a plurality of adjacent wells. The bottom wall has integrated therein SPR detectors underlying the wells for d... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7269038 | Vrms and rectified current sense full-bridge synchronous-rectification integrated with PFC A synchronous full bridge rectifier is controlled to provide a power factor near unity. The full bridge rectifiers are transistors each with a controlling input. The AC input signal and currents within the circuit are sensed and sent to a controller. In response, th... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7269696 | Method and apparatus for encapsulating a virtual filer on a filer An architecture provides the ability to create and maintain multiple instances of virtual servers, such as virtual filers (vfilers), within a server, such as a filer. A vfiler is a logical partitioning of network and storage resources of the filer platform to establ... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7266717 | System and method of selection and communication of a disk for storage of a coredump This invention provides a system and method for selecting and communicating a single disk (a “coredump disk”) for use in a coredump procedure by a failed file server (or filer). A selection method on the failed filer determines the “best candidate” coredump ... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7263398 | Apparatus for measuring intravascular blood flow Microwave apparatus for measuring the blood flow rate in a patient's blood vessel includes an intravascular catheter having proximal and distal ends and containing an inner coaxial cable forming a first antenna and an outer cable coaxial with the inner cable and for... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7261001 | Magnetoinductive flowmeter and method for producing a magnetoinductive flowmeter A magnetoinductive flowmeter includes a measuring tube, a magnetic field device serving to generate and guide a magnetic field at least part of which permeates the measuring tube, and two electrodes for collecting a voltage induced in a medium as it flows through th... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7260737 | System and method for transport-level failover of FCP devices in a cluster A system and method for clustered failover of storage appliances is provided. In the event of a failover of one storage appliance to a surviving storage appliance, the surviving storage appliance assumes the identity of the failed storage appliance. This assumption ... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7260678 | System and method for determining disk ownership model A system and method for determining a disk ownership model to be utilized by a storage system is disclosed. The storage system and method determines the individual disk ownership of each accessible disk to the storage system. If the number of disks utilizing a first... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7255947 | Fuel substance and associated cartridge for fuel cell The present invention provides a gel fuel, which includes a fuel substance held in a polymeric structure. One embodiment of the composition includes neat methanol, to which a thickening substance, such as that sold commercially under the trade name Carbopol®, is ad... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7256769 | System and method for text entry on a reduced keyboard A system and method for efficient Asian character text input into a reduced keypad machine such as a word processor, telephone, hand-held computer, or personal computer is provided. The system comprises a data entry keypad associated with a monitor, and a disambigua... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7257676 | Semi-static distribution technique A semi-static distribution technique distributes parity across disks of an array. According to the technique, parity is distributed (assigned) across the disks of the array in a manner that maintains a fixed pattern of parity blocks among the stripes of the disks. W... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7257528 | Method and apparatus for Chinese character text input A method and apparatus for inputting Chinese character text into a machine such as a word processor or personal computer. The system consists of an apparatus which forms a closed feedback loop with the operator. The operator supplies stroke selections and other data... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7254813 | Method and apparatus for resource allocation in a raid system The present invention implements an I/O task architecture in which an I/O task requested by the storage manager, for example a stripe write, is decomposed into a number of lower-level asynchronous I/O tasks that can be scheduled independently. Resources needed by th... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7251663 | Method and apparatus for determining if stored memory range overlaps key memory ranges where the memory address space is organized in a tree form and partition elements for storing key memory ranges An efficient method and apparatus for storing and retrieving memory ranges is disclosed. A key range that is stored or to be stored is associated with a node in the tree hierarchy encompassing the entire memory address space. All previously stored ranges are listed ... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7250916 | Leaky wave antenna with radiating structure including fractal loops An antenna is provided for acquiring RF signals from various satellite ranging systems including GPS, GLONASS, GALILEO and OmniSTAR®. The antenna configuration includes a radiating structure of multi-arm spiral slots terminated with fractal loops. A leaky wave micr... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7249150 | System and method for parallelized replay of an NVRAM log in a storage appliance A system and method for enabling parallel replay of a backup memory log of client transaction request entries to a network storage appliance file system is provided. The backup memory is typically implemented as a non-volatile random access memory (NVRAM). An initia... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7249227 | System and method for zero copy block protocol write operations A system and method for zero copy block protocol write operations obviates the need to copy the contents of memory buffers (mbufs) at a storage system. A storage operating system of the storage system receives data from a network and stores the data in chains of mbu... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7249286 | System and method for automatically diagnosing protocol errors from packet traces A system and method for automatically diagnosing protocol errors from packet traces is provided. The system and method performs an automatic trace analysis on a packet trace to generate an analysis that is then fed into a diagnosis/resolution module. The diagnosis/r... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7245615 | Multi-link protocol reassembly assist in a parallel 1-D systolic array system The present invention comprises a technique for performing a reassembly assist function that enables a processor to perform packet reassembly in a deterministic manner. The technique employed by the present invention enables a processor to reassemble a packet withou... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7243555 | Transmitting and receiving circuitry for an ultrasonic flowmeter, and method for operating such transmitting and receiving circuitry A transmitting and receiving circuitry system for an ultrasonic flowmeter includes an ultrasound transducer interface for connection to an ultrasound transducer of the ultrasonic flowmeter, an amplifier with a first input and a second input, as well as a signal gene... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7243115 | System and method for asynchronous mirroring of snapshots at a destination using a purgatory directory and inode mapping A system and method for updating a replicated destination file system snapshot with changes in a source file system snapshot, facilitates construction of a new directory tree on the destination from source update information using a temporary or “purgatory” dire... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7243207 | Technique for translating a pure virtual file system data stream into a hybrid virtual volume A technique converts a stream of virtual volume block numbers (vvbns) into a hybrid virtual volume (vvol) file system containing both physical volume block numbers (pvbns) and vvbns. The stream of vvbns is illustratively embodied as a file system data stream of a vv... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7234175 | Lavatory cleansing devices A liquid dispensing unit for a toilet bowl comprises a first container containing a first, liquid formulation, a second container containing a second formulation, which may be a solid tablet. The liquid from container flows onto a delivery surface from where it is w... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7235316 | Integrated heat management of electronics and fuel cell power system A method and apparatus for managing heat generated by a device that is powered at least in part by a direct oxidation fuel cell. Additional heat tends to improve the reaction in the direct oxidation fuel cell, and so unwanted heat produced by a powered device can be... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7236493 | Incremental compilation for classification and filtering rules A technique classifies packets in a manner that is both deterministic and efficient. A hierarchical arrangement of lookup tables is organized into levels to classify the packets. Entries contained in the lookup tables are incrementally built and added to the lookup ... | 06/26/2007 |
