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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7019708 | Portable co-located LOS and SATCOM antenna A dual-band, dual-polarization LOS/SATCOM antenna having a plurality of omnidirectional elements surrounding a directional element. When the antenna is in an omnidirectional radiating mode, the directional element is disconnected from the circuit and only the omnidi... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7228437 | Method and system for securing local database file of local content stored on end-user system A method and system for forming a data table in memory on an end user system. The data table forming a library index of storage locations to electronic digital content in memory. The method consists of retrieving an encrypted file from storage. The file has a beginn... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7221581 | Memory with storage cells biased in groups A memory circuit includes a plurality of storage cells (100) arranged in rows and columns thus forming a storage matrix. The storage cells (100) corresponding to the same bit line (21-23) are divided into several groups (60-61 | 05/22/2007 |
| 7221212 | Trimming functional parameters in integrated circuits A trimming structure for trimming functional parameters of an Integrated Circuit—IC—(100) includes a first (115a) and at least one second functional blocks (115b, . . . ,115n) with which a first (Vrg,a) and at lea... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7220686 | Process for contact opening definition for active element electrical connections A method is provided for contact opening definition for active element electrical connections. According to the method, a layer of BPSG is formed on a surface of an integrated circuit, and a transparent layer of nitride UV is formed above the layer of BPSG. Preferab... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7222354 | Dynamic composition at the set-top box A method for displaying on a viewer information processing system with an interface to a display (a device for rendering audio and video), a set of multimedia segments to form a multimedia presentation. The method comprising the steps of receiving the play-list, whe... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7218084 | Integrated circuit with modulable low dropout voltage regulator A low dropout voltage (LDO) regulator comprises an output stage (EtS) of the amplifier (AMP), which has a main output and n auxiliary outputs which can respectively deliver a main control voltage (VGPRINC) and n auxiliary control voltages (VG1,... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7219102 | Method, computer program product, and system converting relational data into hierarchical data structure based upon tagging trees Tagging trees are generated and used to facilitate transforming data from relational databases into hierarchical formats, such as in XML documents. Tagging trees contain both XML hierarchical structure information as well a query information that is needed to access... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7218411 | Method for nesting finishing operations in a print environment A method and system for nesting finishing operations specifies finishing operations for a printfile according to a first architecture, establishes a first communications link from a data source to a print server and carries printer control data for the finishing ope... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7214996 | Optical semiconductor housing with transparent chip and method for making same Optical semiconductor package and its method of fabrication, which package comprises a semiconductor component (6), a rear face of which is attached to a front face of a mounting and electrical connection support (2) and a front face of which comprises... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7214597 | Electronic components and method of fabricating the same A method is provided for fabricating integrated electronic components. According to the method, an initial structure is produced on the surface of a first substrate. This initial structure incorporates a defined pattern formed from volumes of differentiated material... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7213005 | Digital content distribution using web broadcasting services A method, a system and computer readable medium of securely receiving data on a user's system from a web broadcast infrastructure with a plurality of channels. The method includes encrypting the data using a first encrypting key, wherein the first encrypting key is ... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7211300 | Method and apparatus for performing laser CVD An element is deposited by flowing a gas through a solid donor compound that includes the element, and over a substrate. The flow of gas deposits a film of a few monolayers of donor compound on the substrate. An optical radiation source (e.g., a femtosecond laser) w... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7210122 | Method for reducing write barrier overhead A computer system and method for compiling a program, where the program executes pointer assignments from a source object to a destination object, each source object being addressable through a first pointer and each destination object being addressable through a se... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7206748 | Multimedia player toolkit for electronic content delivery A method provides a collection of data structures and subroutines in a software toolkit, for developing an application for playing digital content data. The method comprises steps of receiving previously encrypted content data encrypted with an encrypted key from an... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7202137 | Process for producing an integrated electronic circuit comprising superposed components and integrated electronic circuit thus obtained A process for producing an integrated electronic circuit. The process begins with the production of a first electronic component and a second electronic component that are superposed on top of a substrate. A volume of temporary material is formed on the substrate at... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7197533 | Non-persistent service support in transactional application support environments A system, method and computer-readable medium are disclosed for providing support for a non-persistent service. According to a preferred method, a request for a transaction associated with a non-persistent service is received. It is determined whether the transactio... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7196808 | Printing in a secure environment A system and method for printing in a secure environment is disclosed. The method on a computer system includes receiving print stream data by a first module, wherein the first module includes a first set of permissions that are not compatible with permissions of an... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7196421 | Integrated circuit having at least one metallization level An integrated circuit is provided that includes at least one metallization level having a plurality of dummy conductors. At least one of the dummy conductors has an oriented shape made up of a plurality of non-parallel rectangles in mutual contact. In one embodiment... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7195946 | Process for fabricating a semiconductor device having a suspended micro-system and resultant device A method is provided for fabricating a semiconductor device that includes a suspended micro-system. According to the method, a silicon porous layer is formed above a silicon substrate, and the silicon porous layer is oxidized. An oxide layer is deposited, and a firs... | 03/27/2007 |
| D538981 | Oval pet dish | 03/20/2007 |
| 7193655 | Process and device for de-interlacing by pixel analysis The invention provides for a process and a device for de-interlacing a video signal, wherein at output (S) is produced a signal (Sde) of video images de-interlaced by interpolating the pixels missing from the interlaced video signal presented at input (E), the inter... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7183160 | Manufacturing process for a flash memory and flash memory thus produced The invention relates to a production process for a flash memory from a semi-conductor substrate fitted with at least two adjacent rows of precursor stacks of floating gate transistors, the precursor stacks being at least partially covered by a protective resin and ... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7185024 | Method, computer program product, and system of optimized data translation from relational data storage to hierarchical structure A tagging tree that defines a hierarchical output data structure and relational database query operations that retrieve the data to be included in each hierarchical section is accepted and processed. A query optimizer analyzes the tagging tree to determine database ... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7184348 | Sensing circuit for a semiconductor memory A sensing circuit is provided for sensing semiconductor memory cells. The sensing circuit includes at least one first circuit branch, a feedback-controlled circuit element in the first circuit branch, a current-to-voltage conversion circuit in the first branch, and ... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7180224 | Electronic component having a resonator and fabrication process An electronic component (1) includes a substrate (2) and at least two piezoelectric resonators (3, 4) each having an active element (6, 9), a lower electrode (5, 8) and an upper electrode (7, 10). The lower electrode (5 | 02/20/2007 |
| 7170735 | Electrostatic discharge system An electrostatic discharge system for a road vehicle including an electrically conducting conductor element in electrical contact with an electrically conducting part of the vehicle body, an actuator mountable to the vehicle and adapted for selectively and reversibl... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7170790 | Sensing circuit A sensing circuit (120) for sensing currents, including: a measure circuit branch (132i), having a measure node for receiving an input current (Ic) to be sensed, for converting the input current into a corresponding input voltage (V−); at leas... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7170178 | Capacitive integrated circuit structure A capacitive structure is provided that includes secondary stacks of superposed secondary electrodes that each include transverse branches connected via a longitudinal branch, means for connecting the superposed secondary electrodes of each of the stacks, first and ... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7171371 | Method and system for providing pre and post operative support and care The present invention provides a system for providing support and care to persons considering or undergoing a medical procedure. The system includes a means for a provider to receive, process, and provide information regarding the persons to and from the persons and... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7167806 | Method and system for measuring temperature and power distribution of a device A present invention provides real-time temperature and power mapping of fully operating electronic devices. The method utilizes infrared (IR) temperature imaging, while an IR-transparent coolant flows through a specially designed cell directly over the electronic de... | 01/23/2007 |
| D535690 | Customs declaration form | 01/23/2007 |
| 7163154 | Contact less IC card with operating system used in contact type cards and reader for such contactless cards A contactless electronic IC card (10), includes a communication device (14) for communicating with a contactless electronic IC card reader (12) in accordance with the ISO 14443-4 standard, a contact type electronic IC card operating system (1... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7148743 | Demodulation device for reacquiring a modulated signal if reception is interrupted A demodulation device is provided that includes first and second power control circuits and demodulation circuits. The first power control circuit keeps the amplitude of a modulated input signal constant, and the demodulation circuits applying a demodulation process... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7149068 | Circuit for controlling the minimum operating voltage of switching power supply A circuit is provided for controlling a minimum operating voltage of an integrated control circuit of a switching power supply. The circuit includes at least one switch for switching the minimum operating voltage from a first voltage value to a second voltage value ... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7146466 | System for balancing multiple memory buffer sizes and method therefor A system for balancing multiple memory buffer sizes includes a memory partitioned into a plurality of subgroups, each subgroup containing similarly sized buffers. The system further includes a memory manager which manages requests for buffer space by storing and acc... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7144016 | Dry gas seal A gas seal assembly comprises a pair of mutually rotatable sealing members A, B, each of which has a face adjacent a gap between the two members. One of the members B is urged in a direction attempting to close the gap h which constitutes a leakage path through the ... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7143409 | Automated entitlement verification for delivery of licensed software A method, and computer readable medium for the central management, delivery and installation of media less software. The ordered software is packaged in such a way that only standard options are offered. The standard installation results in consistent software image... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7143302 | Pipeline structure A pipeline structure is provided for use in a digital system. The pipeline structure includes stages arranged in a sequence from a first stage for receiving an input of the pipeline structure to a last stage for providing an output of the pipeline structure. At leas... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7142109 | Container verification system for non-invasive detection of contents A radiation, explosives, and special materials, detection and identification system includes a housing supporting one or more gamma sensors and one or more solid-state neutron sensors proximate to container contents under examination. The system collects radiation d... | 11/28/2006 |
