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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8171680 | Building integrated photovoltaic conversion system implemented in both vision and spandrel areas A power generating system is manufactured, integrated and operated within an exterior shell or façade of a building structure. The system components—energy generating devices (which can be photovoltaic), control units and associated power/signal wiring are incorp... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8171679 | Integrated electrical conduit for solar PV system An unitized curtain wall unit houses energy conversion devices (such as photovoltaic modules), and includes integrated wiring conduits for routing signal and power cables within a building façade or exterior shell structures. ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8117113 | System and method for determining right of access Various methods and systems for auctioning items such as golf tee times, restaurant reservations, concert tickets or hotel reservations are disclosed. Users can effectively bid on a large number of items but receive at most one item at the end of the auction. This h... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8050632 | Transceiver based monitoring system & process A remote monitoring device is integrated as part of a cell phone or personal digital assistant. By sharing computing resources of a communications transceiver, the cost of a monitoring device can be significantly reduced, while still permitting sufficient functional... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8050631 | Cellphone based monitoring system and process A remote monitoring device is integrated as part of a cell phone or personal digital assistant. By sharing computing resources of a communications transceiver, the cost of a monitoring device can be significantly reduced, while still permitting sufficient functional... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8001052 | System and method for unique digital asset identification and transaction management The present invention provides a method for tracking of digital assets within a system through the use of digital serial numbers. Systems equipped with the present invention can uniquely identify copies of assets within it. Assets that originate within the system ca... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7996456 | Document distribution recommender system and method A document management system monitors proposed recipients for documents and provides recommendations on alterations to the distribution set, such as by adding or removing recipients. ... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7920426 | Non-volatile memory programmable through areal capacitive coupling A programmable non-volatile device is made which uses a floating gate that functions as a FET gate that overlaps a portion of a source/drain region. This allows a programming voltage for the device to be imparted to the floating gate through capacitive coupling, thu... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7905197 | Apparatus for making epitaxial film An apparatus for growing an epitaxial film and transferring it to an assembly substrate is disclosed. The film growth and transfer are made using an epitaxy lateral overgrowth technique. The formed epitaxial film on an assembly substrate can be further processed to ... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7845127 | Building integrated photovoltaic conversion system implemented in both vision and spandrel areas A power generating system is integrated within an exterior shell or facade of a building structure. The system components—energy generating devices (which can be photovoltaic), control units and associated power/signal wiring are incorporated and operated within i... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7856445 | System and method of delivering RSS content based advertising A system and method is disclosed for presenting relevant advertising to user search queries. The RSS content is processed as part of a search query. The results of the query are further selectively processed to identify concepts/topics therein. The resulting web pag... | 12/21/2010 |
| 7782668 | Integrated circuit embedded with non-volatile one-time-programmable and multiple-time programmable memory A programmable non-volatile device uses a floating gate that functions as a FET gate that overlaps a portion of a source/drain region. This allows a programming voltage for the device to be imparted to the floating gate through capacitive coupling, thus changing the... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7555431 | Method for processing speech using dynamic grammars Speech data is processed with one or more dynamic grammars, to reduce latency and improve accuracy. Different speech grammars are used by a speech recognition process depending on a context experienced by a speaker, and sentence grammars are similarly varied during ... | 06/30/2009 |
| 7424674 | Document distribution control system and method based on content A word processing tool is disclosed for checking the substance and not merely the spelling of words provided by a user. The word checker is capable of identifying potentially inappropriate word choices so that unintentional errors are not introduced into electronic ... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7392185 | Speech based learning/training system using semantic decoding An intelligent query system for processing voiced-based queries is disclosed, which uses a combination of both statistical and semantic based processing to identify the question posed by the user by understanding the meaning of the user's utterance. Based on identif... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7389243 | Notification system and method for media queue A notification system method is disclosed for alerting subscribers to a status of their rental queues. The system includes a number of components that interoperate to improve a subscriber's experience, including an intelligent queue monitor which works on his/her be... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7376556 | Method for processing speech signal features for streaming transport Speech signal information is formatted, processed and transported in accordance with a format adapted for TCP/IP protocols used on the Internet and other communications networks. NULL characters are used for indicating the end of a voice segment. The method is usefu... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7339819 | Spin based memory coupled to CMOS amplifier A nonvolatile hybrid memory cell is provided. The cell is comprised of a magnetic spin storage element and one or two semiconductor FET isolation elements. The magnetic spin storage element is an electron spin-based memory element situated on a silicon based substra... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7309888 | Spin based electronic device A thin film sensing device operates based on a spin polarized current. The spin device includes ferromagnetic layers characterized by different coercivities and/or magnetization states, and one or more low transmission barriers in between. The device is further conf... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7307875 | Spin based magnetic sensor A spin based device can be used as a magnetic field sensor. The device uses ferromagnetic materials for implementing a variable spin resistance to a spin injected current having a particular spin value. An external magnetic field can change the magnetization state o... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7277854 | Speech recognition system interactive agent A speech recognition system includes distributed processing across a client and server for recognizing a spoken query by a user. A number of different speech models for different languages are used to support and detect a language spoken by a user. In some implement... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7266347 | Remote monitoring device and process A remote monitoring device is integrated as part of a cell phone or personal digital assistant. By sharing computing resources of a communications transceiver, the cost of a monitoring device can be significantly reduced, while still permitting sufficient functional... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7253095 | Air gap formation method for reducing undesired capacitive coupling between interconnects in an integrated circuit device An air gap structure and formation method for substantially reducing the undesired capacitance between adjacent interconnects, metal lines or other features in an integrated circuit device is disclosed. The air gap extends above, and may also additionally extend bel... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7225125 | Speech recognition system trained with regional speech characteristics A speech recognition system uses speech recognition models which are specifically trained and optimized for users residing in a particular geographic area or region. The speech models are trained with samples of word variants expected to be used in a natural languag... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7215570 | Spin based device with low transmission barrier An electron spin-based device includes ferromagnetic layers with different coercivities, such that one of such layers is responsive to a magnetic field and the other is fixed. A value of an impedance in the spin based device for a spin polarized current varies in ac... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7209381 | Digital processing device with disparate magnetoelectronic gates Magnetic spin devices can be used as a memory element or logic gate. When connected in a circuit configuration, different spin devices can be written to in any number of different ways, such as with different device coercivities, different sets of write lines, diffe... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7203646 | Distributed internet based speech recognition system with natural language support A speech-enabled internet based computing system includes a configurable speech recognition engine used for interacting with content on a web accessible page. The speech recognition engine is distributed across a client and server architecture, and is adaptive so th... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7193891 | Spin based sensor device A spin based electronic device can be used as a magnetic field sensor. The device uses ferromagnetic materials for implementing a variable spin resistance. An external magnetic field can change the magnetization state of the device by orienting the magnetization of ... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7179740 | Integrated circuit with improved interconnect structure and process for making same A semiconductor die and an associated low resistance interconnect located primarily on the bottom surface of such die is disclosed. This arrangement provides a flexible packaging structure permitting easy interconnected with other integrated circuits; in this manner... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7159102 | Branch control memory A branch control memory store branch instructions which are adapted for optimizing performance of programs run on electronic processors. Flexible instruction parameter fields permit a variety of new branch control and branch instruction implementations best suited f... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7138329 | Air gap for tungsten/aluminum plug applications An air gap structure and formation method for substantially reducing the undesired capacitance between adjacent interconnects, metal lines or other features in an integrated circuit device is disclosed. The air gap extends above, and may also additionally extend bel... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7139714 | Adjustable resource based speech recognition system A real-time speech recognition system includes distributed processing across a client and server for recognizing a spoken query by a user. Both the client and server can dedicate a variable number of processing resources for performing speech recognition functions. ... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7068535 | Magnetic spin based memory with semiconductor selector A new nonvolatile hybrid memory cell is provided. The cell is comprised of a magnetic spin storage element and one or two semiconductor FET isolation elements. The magnetic spin storage element is an electron spin-based memory element situated on a silicon based sub... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7064976 | Method of operating a stacked spin based memory A method of operating a spin based memory cell stacked architecture is provided. The cells are comprised of magnetic spin storage elements stacked on top of each other on a silicon substrate, as well as one or two semiconductor FET isolation elements. ... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7050977 | Speech-enabled server for internet website and method An Internet-based server with speech support for enhanced interactivity is disclosed. This server hosts a server-side speech recognition engine and additional linguistic and database functions that cooperate to provide enhanced interactivity for clients so that thei... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7050329 | Magnetic spin based memory with inductive write lines A new nonvolatile hybrid memory cell is provided. The cell is comprised of a magnetic spin storage element which is written using inductive write lines. The magnetic spin storage element is an electron spin-based memory element situated on a silicon based substrate ... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7030466 | Intermediate structure for making integrated circuit device and wafer A semiconductor die and an associated low resistance interconnect located primarily on the bottom surface of such die is disclosed. This arrangement provides a flexible packaging structure permitting easy interconnected with other integrated circuits; in this manner... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7020013 | Magnetic field sensor using spin polarized current A hybrid magnetic-semiconductor structure can be used as a magnetic field sensor. The hybrid device uses ferromagnetic materials for implementing a variable spin resistance. An external magnetic field can change the magnetization state of the device by orienting the... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7016223 | Magnetoelectronic memory element with inductively coupled write wires The magnetization state of a ferromagnetic layer can be set to correspond to different values of a data item to be stored in a hybrid memory device. The magnetization state is non-volatile, and a write circuit can be coupled to the ferromagnetic layer to reset or ch... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7009875 | Magnetic memory device structure Ferromagnetic elements for use with spin memories, logic devices and processing circuits include a geometry incorporating an asymmetry about one axis and in some instances one or more curved sections. Magnetic memory elements can be set out in an array such that con... | 03/07/2006 |
