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...that while attempting to develop a super strong glue, 3M employee Spencer Silver accidentally developed a glue that was so weak it would barely hold two pieces of paper together? However, his colleague Art Fry needed the glue. Fry sang with his church choir and marked the pages of his hymnal with small scraps of paper that often fell out. He used Silver's glue to hold the papers in place. Today we call this invention Post-it Notes.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8111698 | Method of performing a layer operation in a communications network In an embodiment of the present invention, a scheduling operation is performed at a lower layer based on upper layer information. In another embodiment of the present invention, an action is performed at an upper layer based on received lower layer information. Also... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8111695 | Resource admission control for customer triggered and network triggered reservation requests Customer triggered resource reservation requests (131) are granted or refused in an access node (104) on the basis of available resources on downlinks (102) between the access node (104) and customer premises, and eventually uplinks (1... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8111631 | Systems and methods for automatic configuration of customer premises equipments A system for automatically configuring a device which is compatible with the Technical Report TR-069 of the DSL Forum, said system comprising a first automatic configuration server compatible with the Technical Report TR-069 of the DSL Forum, which is adapted and ar... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8109766 | Method for predicted reactor simulation In the method for reactor simulation, a user modifies one or more design inputs used in creating a response surface. The response surface defines relationships between the design inputs and operational outputs of at least one or more aspects of a core design. A reac... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8107584 | Apparatuses and methods for damping nuclear reactor components Example embodiment damping devices may include a housing capturing a piston. The housing may be filled and/or able to be filled with a damping fluid compatible with the nuclear reactor coolant, so that a leak from the housing or coolant passing into the housing does... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8107550 | Methods for precoding signals for transmission in wireless MIMO system Methods discussed herein provide more efficient precoding matrices for precoding signals prior to transmission. The methods discussed herein improve throughput in wireless MIMO systems. Methods discussed herein are applicable to frequency division duplexing (FDD) sy... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8102875 | Remote unit with exterior connectivity, and corresponding information delivery method A remote unit consisting of an enclosure, equipment providing network access, connections to a limited amount of subscribers and a central office which also provides exterior connectivity. Users and information sources in the vicinity of the remote unit can use a wi... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8098812 | Method of controlling an adaptation of a filter The invention concerns a method of controlling an adaptation of a filter, and a controller and a computer program product to execute this method. The filter is an adaptive finite impulse response (=FIR) filter for modelling an echo path impulse response for echo can... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8098613 | Method of managing transmission delay in a wireless communication system In one embodiment of a method of managing transmission delay in a wireless communication system, a length of time over which a mobile station is permitted to re-transmit a packet or portion of a packet over a channel is controlled such that the length of time depend... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8094627 | Method for the support of high bit rate services in a mobile communication system One object of the present invention is a method for the support of high bit rate services in a mobile communication system, said method comprising a step wherein a network entity signals to a Mobile Station, according to signalling procedures used in case of access ... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8094573 | Method of managing transmission within a wireless communications network The method includes sending a request for permission to transmit by each ready node in the wireless network. Each ready node is a node of the wireless network ready to transmit, each request identifies a node in the network that is the destination, and each request ... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8090237 | Recording medium containing moving picture data and additional information thereof and reproducing method and apparatus of the recording medium The present invention relates to a recording medium containing moving picture data and additional information thereof and to reproducing method and apparatus of the recording medium. The present recording medium has script files including additional information abou... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8089938 | Method of synchronizing with an uplink channel and a method of determining a propagation delay in a wireless communications system A method of synchronizing with an uplink channel and a method of determining a propagation delay in a wireless communications system are provided. In the example method of synchronizing, a propagation delay between a target base station and a mobile station is calcu... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8089879 | In-band flow control methods for communications systems In the method, a source device places identifiers in data packets to be transmitted. The identifiers may include in-band flow control acknowledgment data in response to a flow control request transmitted from a destination device. When the destination device receive... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8089320 | Differential amplifier and oscillator In one embodiment, the differential amplifier (DA) includes a first inverter inverting a first input signal and outputting the inverted first input signal to a current supply controller and a current drain controller. A second inverter inverts the first input signal... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8086908 | Apparatus and a method for reporting the error of each level of the tunnel data packet in a communication network The invention provides methods and devices for reporting and parsing the errors of a packet based on IPSec protocol family in a communication network. Concretely, the reserved field in ICMP security failure message is used to denote the error type at the second leve... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8086257 | Dedicated control channel detection for enhanced dedicated channel In a method of detecting a signal, a control channel associated with a physical channel may be decoded to produce at least one decoding metric. A control channel signal on the control channel may then be detected based on the decoding metric. ... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8084344 | Methods of fabricating a semiconductor device A method of fabricating a contact plug of a semiconductor device is provided, the method includes forming a gate pattern on a substrate, forming a capping pattern to cover an upper surface and sidewalls of the gate pattern, forming an interlayer insulation layer on ... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8081862 | Recording medium containing moving picture data and additional information thereof and reproducing method and apparatus of the recording medium The present invention relates to a recording medium containing moving picture data and additional information thereof and to reproducing method and apparatus of the recording medium. The present recording medium has script files including additional information abou... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8081686 | Scalable spectrum CDMA communication systems and methods with dynamic orthogonal code allocation At least a portion of a total spectrum bandwidth of a wireless system may be allocated to each of a plurality of users by assigning at least one unique spreading code to each of the plurality of users. At least two of the plurality of users may have different spectr... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8081098 | Integrator, delta-sigma modulator, analog-to-digital converter and applications thereof In one embodiment, the modulator in an analog-to-digital converter includes a first reset switch and second reset switch, each controlled by a reset signal. The first reset switch is connected in a first reset feedback path between an input and an output of an integ... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8078166 | Device for controlling access of subscriber terminals of a CS domain to services of an IMS communication network The invention concerns a device (D) dedicated to controlling access of a terminal (UE), connected to a CS domain of a mobile network comprising a MSC center (VMSC) running CS communications, to a IMS network services of which its user is a subscriber. Said device (D... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8077572 | Recording medium with restricted playback feature and apparatus and methods for forming, recording, and reproducing the recording medium A recording medium, such as a high-density and/or read-only recording medium, such as BD-ROM, capable of preventing unauthorized duplication of data streams, written thereon, onto another medium, such as a BD-RE or BD-R, which includes physical mark information, and... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8073305 | Recording medium containing moving picture data and additional information thereof and reproducing method and apparatus of the recording medium The present invention relates to a recording medium containing moving picture data and additional information thereof and to reproducing method and apparatus of the recording medium. The present recording medium has script files including additional information abou... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8052600 | Method and system for non-invasive measurement of prescribed characteristics of a subject In the non-invasive measuring system, a wireless communication device or other sensing device, gathers Doppler information from signals transmitted by the wireless communication or sensing device and reflected off of a target subject. The gathered information is tra... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8050377 | Irradiation target retention systems, fuel assemblies having the same, and methods of using the same Example embodiments and methods are directed to irradiation target retention devices that may be inserted into conventional nuclear fuel rods and assemblies. Example embodiment devices may hold several irradiation targets for irradiation during operation of a nuclea... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8046834 | Method of polymorphic detection A computer program signature may be determined based on the function flow grammar for a given source code. The function flow grammar may be determined based on reduced control flow graphs generated based on control flow graphs for each function within the source cod... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8045673 | Core spray sparger T-box clamp assemblies and methods of using thereof Example embodiments are directed to core spray sparger T-box repairs, specifically, to universal core spray sparger T-box weldless clamps having remote-friendly operation and methods of using universal core spray sparger T-box weldless clamps. Example embodiment cla... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8045427 | Apparatus for optical pick-up An optical pickup includes a light source configured to emit light, a beam splitter configured to transmit or reflect light, an object lens configured to condense the light transmitted by the beam splitter onto an optical storage, and a diffraction grating having a ... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8043448 | Non-heat treated zirconium alloy fuel cladding and a method of manufacturing the same Disclosed herein are zirconium-based alloys that may be fabricated to form nuclear reactor components, particularly fuel cladding tubes, that exhibit sufficient corrosion resistance and hydrogen absorption characteristics, without requiring a late stage α+β or β-... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8030747 | Stacked package and method of manufacturing the same In one embodiment, the stacked package includes a first chip disposed over a package substrate. The first chip has at least one first chip dummy pad, and the first chip dummy pad is not electrically connected to circuits of the first chip. A first dummy bonding wire... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8027194 | Memory system and method of accessing a semiconductor memory device One embodiment of a nonvolatile memory device includes a memory cell array including a plurality of multi-level cells, and a control unit configured to determine a characteristic of data to be stored in the memory cell array. The control unit is configured to select... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8027193 | Semiconductor memory device having bit line disturbance preventing unit A read data path circuit for use in the semiconductor memory device includes a bit line sense amplifier, a local input/output line sense amplifier, a column selection unit operationally coupling a bit line pair with the local input/output line pair in response to a ... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8023608 | Communication system using multi-phase clock signals A communication system using multi-phase clock signals. The communication system includes a transmitter and a receiver. The transmitter outputs first data and a clock signal based on first multi-phase clock signals, and performs a coarse lock operation on the clock ... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8023319 | Phase change memory The phase change memory device includes a plurality of memory banks, a plurality of local conductor lines connected to the plurality of memory banks, at least one global conductor line connected to the plurality of local conductor lines, and at least one repair cont... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8018782 | Non-volatile memory devices and methods of erasing non-volatile memory devices In one embodiment, an erase method for a memory including a memory array having at least first and second programmable transistors connected in series, includes restricting flow of electrons from the first programmable transistor into the second programmable transis... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8018777 | Flash memory device for adjusting non-selected word line voltage during reading Disclosed is a flash memory device including a memory cell array having memory cells arranged at intersections of word lines and bit lines, such that one bit line is associated with a plurality of memory cells connected in series, a voltage generator configured to g... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8018021 | Schottky diode and method of fabricating the same A schottky diode may include a schottky junction including a well formed in a semiconductor substrate and a first electrode contacting the first well. The well may have a first conductivity type. A first ohmic junction may include a first junction region formed in t... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8013627 | Semiconductor device and method of fabricating the same Provided is a semiconductor device and a method of fabricating the same. The semiconductor device may include at least one logic circuit and at least one spare circuit. The at least one spare circuit may be that is a substitute for the at least one logic circuit and... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8010122 | Method of scheduling data transmission for a multi-carrier wireless communication system A method of scheduling at least one of a plurality of mobile stations for data transmission in a multi-carrier wireless communication system that includes scheduling at least one mobile station on at least one of a plurality of carriers of the multi-carrier wireless... | 08/30/2011 |
