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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8144078 | Enhanced brightness, color and contrast control for cathode ray tube monitor A method and apparatus for controlling brightness, color and contrast in CRT monitors used in information handling systems. In accordance with the present invention, a viewing area on a CRT monitor is enhanced by applying appropriate signals directly to the grids in... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8117385 | System and method of maximization of storage capacity in a configuration limited system A method, system and computer-usable medium are disclosed for providing management of serial attached small computer system interface (SAS) storage devices. A host computer comprises a storage controller connected to a SAS port expander comprising a plurality of por... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8095172 | Connectivity manager to manage connectivity services A system and method are disclosed for managing the service connectivity of a mobile device to a plurality of connectivity services. A mobile device comprising a service connectivity manager accesses a repository of service connectivity management information. The se... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8085202 | Wideband, high isolation two port antenna array for multiple input, multiple output handheld devices A multiple input-multiple output antenna assembly with high isolation between the antennas is disclosed. The antenna assembly includes a substrate with a ground layer at its surface. Two antennas are disposed opposing each other on the substrate. An isolation elemen... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8085200 | System and method for establishing a WPAN with precise locationing capability A system and method is provided for determining the location of an object. A first transceiver is associated with an object to be located. The first transceiver comprises a first transmitter and a first receiver operable to transmit and receive signals using a first... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8082514 | Visual display of physical port location for information handling system A system and method is provided for providing a user-interface comprising a visual display of the physical location of a plurality of I/O ports on the housing of a portable information handling system. In various embodiments, the physical location and status of the ... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8082341 | ActiveX detection and handling in mozilla-based browsers A system and method is disclosed that allows ActiveX functionality to be conditionally invoked by a non-ActiveX-enabled browser, such as those based on Mozilla technology, through the implementation of user-defined controls to mitigate system security vulnerability.... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8049741 | Video optimized LCD response time compensation An improved system and method for selectively applying LCD Response Time Compensation (LRTC) to areas of an LCD panel containing video motion. Motion vectors contained within macroblocks in a compressed video stream are utilized to qualify whether individual pixels ... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8041537 | Clock duty cycle measurement with charge pump without using reference clock calibration Embodiments of the disclosure provide systems and methods for clock duty cycle measurement. A clock signal and a complement of the clock signal are provided to a charge pump during first and second predetermined timing windows. A charge pump is operable to generate ... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8037016 | Adaptive storage system transcoder A system and method are disclosed for the transcoding of data from a first format to a second format. A data format transcoder receives a request for data from a requester. The desired format of the requested data is determined. A descriptor file containing formatti... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8005965 | Method and system for secure server-based session management using single-use HTTP cookies A methodology for providing secure session management is presented. After a single-use token has been issued to a client, it presents the token, and the server may identify the client based upon the presented token. However, the token may be used only once without b... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7996473 | Profile-based conversion and delivery of electronic messages A method, system and computer usable medium are disclosed for delivering an electronic message. A first computer is used to receive voice data from a user and to generate a message data file therefrom. A test is then conducted to determine whether a predetermined se... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7991850 | Resilient system partition for personal internet communicator The present invention provides a method and apparatus to restore the operating system of a personal internet communicator (PIC) to a “known good” operational state in the event of a catastrophic failure. In an embodiment of the invention, the hard drive of the p... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7990941 | Adaptive antenna system signal detection A system and method for processing signals in a communication system is disclosed herein. The system and method comprises processing steps and processing logic for generating a downlink subframe comprising a preamble and a plurality of data bursts within a predeterm... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7978691 | Connectivity manager with location services A system and method are disclosed for managing the connectivity of a mobile device to a plurality of network connectivity locations. A mobile device comprising a network connectivity manager accesses a repository of predetermined network connectivity management info... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7978623 | Channel rank updates in multiple-input multiple-output communication systems Embodiments of the disclosure provide a system and method for providing channel feedback information (CFI) from a user equipment device to a base station. CFI is transmitted from the user equipment device on first and second communication channels. The user equipmen... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7974370 | Parallel processing for single antenna interference cancellation A system and method is disclosed for providing single antenna interference cancellation processing with minimum latency. Incoming data frames are processed to generate a plurality of parallel data streams which are then further processed using a parallel single ante... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7965677 | Mobile computer with unattended online content processing A system, method and program code are disclosed for the unattended monitoring, retrieval and storage of online content by a mobile information processing system operating in a low power mode. An intelligent wireless modem is activated when a mobile information proce... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7937501 | Displayport CE system control functionality An improved method and apparatus is disclosed for communicating control information between components of an audio/video system. Processing and control logic is implemented to transfer a plurality of data streams on predetermined channels of a digital video interfac... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7934607 | Universal rack mount mechanism A system and method are described for a variable mount arm assembly for installing support structures within different types of rack systems. Embodiments of the invention disclose a rack system support member comprising a rotatable bracket having first and second mo... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7932919 | Virtual ring camera A system and method for a virtual omni-directional camera array, comprising a video control system (VCS) coupled to two or more co-located portable or stationary information processing systems, each enabled with a video camera and microphone, to provide a composite ... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7908382 | System and method to optimally manage performance's virtual users and test cases A method, apparatus and computer-usable medium for improved load testing of subsystems comprising a larger system by intelligently and stochastically distracting virtual users from healthy subsystems such that they collaboratively converge on a subsystem exhibiting ... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7900089 | Method for creating error tolerant and adaptive graphical user interface test automation A method, apparatus and computer-usable medium for the improved automated testing of a software application's graphical user interface (GUI) through implementation of a recording agent that allows the GUI interactions of one or more human software testers to be capt... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7899090 | Remote installation performance over management controllers in monolithic and modular systems A method and system are provided for installing software code on a remote information handling system (RIHS) comprising a management access controller (MAC). A remote management station (RMS) is implemented to manage the RIHS by communicating with its MAC over a net... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7889953 | System and method for managing images using parent-child relationship A system and method is disclosed for managing disk images used to manufacture information handling machines. In various embodiments of the invention, a disk image is initially created using an image builder server. A “definition,” also known as a “manifest,”... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7861168 | Removable hard disk with display information A system and method is disclosed for visually communicating disk storage meta information comprising a removable data storage device (RDSD). An RDSD enclosure comprising a disk storage drive, input/output interface, one or more connectors, a storage information modu... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7793156 | System and method to facilitate automatic globalization verification test A method, system and program are disclosed for validating the generation of globalized versions of software programs. The directory structure of an installed software program is traversed to discover resource files containing globalized strings. The values of the gl... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7765371 | Method and apparatus for full backups in advance An improved system and method are disclosed for the backup and restoration of data. An init image is created for a new system. Data is uploaded from a current system and a data image is generated. The resulting data image and the init image are combined to create a ... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7765196 | Method and apparatus for web cache using database triggers A method and apparatus for providing web pages to a client with improved speed and efficiency. Web pages are cached in a web server and are referenced from a database in a database server. When a request from a client is sent to the web server for a web page, the we... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7730154 | Method and system for fragment linking and fragment caching A method, a system, an apparatus, and a computer program product are presented for fragment caching. After a message is received at a computing device that contains a cache management unit, a fragment in the message body of the message is cached. Subsequent requests... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7725478 | Localization of CIM-Based instrumentation A system and method are disclosed for Common Information Model (CIM) management clients to predetermine a data provider's support for localization, select an available locale implementation, and receive the provider's indications and responses in the selected locale... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7685300 | Method for access by server-side components using unsupported communication protocols through passthrough mechanism A method is presented for obtaining information from a client for the benefit of a server using a particular communication protocol that the server does not implement. A primary server receives a client-generated request, and the primary server sends a first request... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7661090 | Task generation runtime engine A system and method for automating the generation and execution of sequences of manual operations, using a structured process and grammar, suitable for implementation in systems integration. The method of the invention allows manual operations to be defined by local... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7636780 | Verified computing environment for personal internet communicator A method and apparatus of the present invention provides a verified computing environment for a personal Internet communicator. In various embodiments of the invention, the functionality of software files on a personal Internet communicator can be modified based on ... | 12/22/2009 |
| 7636497 | Video rotation in a media acceleration engine The present invention provides a method and apparatus for enhancing the performance of video display devices by improving the utilization of memory resources used to process video data. In the system of the present invention, a display is configured to generate a vi... | 12/22/2009 |
| 7620716 | System and method to predict the performance of streaming media over wireless links An improved system and method for predicting streaming media performance through the use of real-time wireless network performance measurements and statistical analysis, combined with a generalized methodology for comparing digital media quality before and after tra... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7549112 | Unique response for puncture drive media error A system and method for identifying physical blocks marked as logically “bad” or “punctured” during a drive rebuild process enabling the information handling system to process these blocks more intelligently and preventing existing drive physical media error... | 06/16/2009 |
| 7548102 | Data latch with minimal setup time and launch delay The present invention provides a latch circuit that is operable to generate a pulse from first and second clock signals to allow gates in a datapath to propagate data with minimal latency. The first clock signal is a version of the system clock and the second contro... | 06/16/2009 |
| 7530099 | Method and system for a single-sign-on mechanism within application service provider (ASP) aggregation A methodology for providing a single-sign-on mechanism within an ASP aggregator service is presented. An aggregator token is generated by an ASP aggregator service and sent to a client device after its user has been successfully authenticated during a single-sign-on... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7501960 | Control of indicator lights in portable information handling system using ambient light sensors An improved system and method for controlling the brightness of indicator lights used on portable information handling systems. Various embodiments of the invention optimize the output of the indicator lights in accordance with detected ambient light levels. The bri... | 03/10/2009 |
