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| 7941305 | Method and apparatus for moving nuclear fuel The apparatus for creating and editing a nuclear reactor core template includes a graphical user interface and a processor controlling the graphical user interface to allow a user to selectively populate a loading map with fuel bundles residing in at least one fuel ... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7941146 | Method and apparatus for handling DTMF requests when inter-switch handover is involved In an embodiment of the method for handling subscriber input during interswitch handover of a call from a first switching station to a second switching station, DTMF digits received at the second switching station are sent in a message to the first switching station... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7941135 | Methods of performing live monitoring of a wireless communication network In a method of performing live monitoring of a wireless communication network, the network may be divided into a plurality of neighborhoods. A neighborhood may be represented by a given cell of interest and one or more neighbor cells of the cell of interest. A desir... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7940120 | Power amplifier linearization using RF feedback The power amplifier mainly includes a main amplifier, two splitters, one combiner, one subtracter, two phase shifters, one attenuator and one error amplifier. The splitters, subtracter and combiner are designed in the form of 90-degree or quadrature hybrid couplers.... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7936648 | Method and apparatus for overwriting data on recording-medium and the recording medium In one embodiment, the recording medium includes a user data area on which one or more recording ranges are allocated and a management area. The method of recording on the recording medium includes receiving an overwriting command to record data on a recorded area o... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7936612 | Phase change memory device generating program current and method thereof A phase change memory device may include a memory cell array, a write driver, and/or a control unit. The memory cell array may include a plurality of memory cells. The write driver may be configured to provide a program current to the memory cell array for setting a... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7929694 | Variable length private key generator and method thereof The present invention relates to a variable length private key generator. According to one embodiment, the variable length private key generator includes a permuter. The permuter is configured to generate a key stream of a desired length by permuting a plurality of ... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7929559 | Method of scheduling message delivery in a wireless communication system In one embodiment, a network element of the wireless communication system receives a request from a scheduling party. The request is for scheduling message delivery to a destination party. Message delivery parameters are obtained in response to the request. The mess... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7929537 | Methods for access control in femto systems In a method for controlling access to wireless resources provided by femto cells within a femto subnet a femto management system or radio access network may control access to femto cells within the femto subnet by assigning at least one hashing class mask of a first... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7929510 | Method of scaling soft symbols of an uplink enhanced dedicated transport channel (E-DCH) and method for enabling use of a log-map turbo decoding algorithm for processing the E-DCH A method of scaling soft symbols of an uplink E-DCH is provided, where the E-DCH is received from a user in a network for processing in a base station receiver in the network employing a log-MAP turbo decoding algorithm to process the E-DCH. The E-DCH includes an E-... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7929499 | Methods of multipath acquisition for dedicated traffic channels In a method of multipath acquisition for a dedicated traffic channel, path positions of the traffic channel that have desired signal energy for processing in a base station receiver may be determined as a function of information contained in a data part and a contro... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7929495 | Methods and apparatuses for power reduction in transceivers In a method for power reduction at a receiver, a first radio frame is processed to recover transmitted data based on transport format information. The transport format information is determined based on a combination of transport format information associated with a... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7929369 | Semiconductor memory device having refresh circuit and word line activating method therefor A semiconductor memory device includes a memory cell array having at least one memory bank. The memory bank being divided into memory blocks such that the memory blocks have a block position including at least one edge memory block at an edge of the memory bank and ... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7928795 | Semiconductor device for charge pumping Provided is a semiconductor device for performing charge pumping. The semiconductor device may include a first pumping unit, a second pumping unit, and a controller. The first pumping unit may be configured to output a boosted voltage via an output node by using a f... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7925429 | Personal GPS navigation device A navigation device is disclosed. In at least one embodiment, the navigation device includes a storage device to store map information; a processor to determine a route of travel based upon a current position of the navigation device and an input or sel... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7920432 | Semiconductor device having resistance based memory array, method of reading, and systems associated therewith One embodiment includes a non-volatile memory cell array, and a read unit configured to disable read operation for the non-volatile memory cell array for a time period following writing of data in the non-volatile memory cell array. ... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7917958 | Recording medium with copy protection indicating information and apparatus and methods for forming, recording, reproducing and restricting reproduction of the recording medium A recording medium, such as a high-density and/or read-only recording medium, such as BD-ROM, which includes copy protection indicating information, which can identify whether copy protection information is needed or not for the playback of contents stored on the re... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7917164 | Reverse link power control In one embodiment, a reverse link transmission power for a user equipment is determined based on a first path loss and a second path loss. The first path loss is path loss between a serving station and the user equipment, and the serving station serves the communica... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7903971 | Method of operating a passive optical network The invention relates to a method of operating a passive optical network. The passive optical network comprises an optical line termination being connected via optical fibers to a number of network terminations. The method comprises the step of generating an optical... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7902872 | Data transmitters and methods thereof In a data transmitter, a main line driver circuit transmits an input signal to a receiver via a channel. A pre-emphasis circuit emphasizes a voltage level of the transmitted input signal, and a pre-emphasis controller controls the pre-emphasis circuit. The pre-empha... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7902090 | Method of forming a layer on a semiconductor substrate In a method of forming a thin layer for a semiconductor device through an ALD process and a CVD process in the same chamber, a semiconductor substrate is introduced into a processing chamber, and an interval between a showerhead and the substrate is adjusted to a fi... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7899025 | Header suppression in a wireless communication network In one embodiment, a relationship is determined between radio link protocol (RLP) sequence numbers in received RLP packets and real-time protocol (RTP) sequence numbers of RTP packets represented by the received RLP packets. A RTP sequence number associated with a c... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7898886 | Sense amplifiers and semiconductor devices including the same A sense amplifier includes a first transistor having a gate electrode electrically connected to a bit line and a first electrode electrically connected to a complementary bit line. A second transistor has a gate electrode electrically connected to the complementary ... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7894873 | Method for determining the rectum distance in the colon A method is disclosed for automatically determining the rectum distance in a patient's colon, the path in the colon between a selected site, preferably a lesion, and the rectum being determined by processing 3D image data records. At least two 3 image data records a... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7894277 | Semiconductor device having resistance based memory array, method of reading and writing, and systems associated therewith At least one embodiment includes a non-volatile memory cell array, a write buffer configured to store data being written into the non-volatile memory cell array, and a write unit configured to write data into the non-volatile memory cell array. The write unit is con... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7893431 | ZnO based semiconductor devices and methods of manufacturing the same A semiconductor device may include a composite represented by Formula 1 below as an active layer. x(Ga2O3)·y(In2O3)·z(ZnO) Formula 1 wherein, about 0.75≦x/z≦ about 3.15, and about 0.55≦y/z... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7892877 | Method of manufacturing image sensor Provided is a method of manufacturing an image sensor which may include forming a plurality of photoelectric converters on a semiconductor substrate, forming a silicon nitride (SiN) film on the plurality of photoelectric converters, supplying plasma gas including hy... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7889827 | Method and apparatus for removing tack welds on reactor vessel components in a nuclear reactor An electrical discharge machining (EDM) tool and method for removing tack welds on a component in a reactor pressure vessel are disclosed. The tool may include a motor, a housing which engages the component having tack welds, an electrode, positioned in the housing,... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7889592 | Non-volatile memory device and a method of programming the same Provided are a non-volatile memory device and a method of programming the same. The method includes: performing a program operation; performing a program verify read operation; and performing a pass/fail determine operation simultaneously with one of a verify recove... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7889533 | Semiconductor device using magnetic domain wall movement and method of manufacturing the same A semiconductor device using a magnetic domain wall movement and a method of manufacturing the semiconductor device are provided. The semiconductor device includes a magnetic layer that is formed on a substrate and has a plurality of magnetic domains, and a unit tha... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7885238 | Methods for detecting acknowledgement channels using probabilities A first transceiver determines whether a second transceiver has properly decoded at least one of a received data packet and control information associated with the corresponding data packet based on an estimated probability. The estimated probability is indicative o... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7885107 | Methods of programming non-volatile memory cells A method of programming a non-volatile memory cell includes programming a first bit of multi-bit data by setting a threshold voltage of the non-volatile memory cell to a first voltage level within a first of a plurality of threshold voltage distributions. A second b... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7885104 | Information storage devices using magnetic domain wall movement and methods of operating the same An information storage device includes a magnetic layer configured to store information, a first and second conductive layer. The first conductive layer contacts a first end of the magnetic layer. The second conductive layer contacts a second end of the magnetic lay... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7882375 | Power off controllers and memory storage apparatus including the same and methods for operating the same Memory storage apparatus include a non-volatile memory for storing data and a power management unit configured to sense a level of an external power supply and to predict a loss of the external power supply. A power-polling time control circuit is configured to cont... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7881908 | Methods, program code segments, and devices for determining individual quantum absorption events in a radiation converter A method is disclosed for determining individual quantum absorption events in a radiation converter which counts quanta. In at least one embodiment of the method, temporally continuous analog-to-digital conversion of electrical signals generated by a quantum absorpt... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7875337 | Fiber and resin composite reinforcement A resin matrix connects a plurality of longitudinally aligned fibers together adjacent an outer side of the reinforcement. The outer side of the reinforcement has elongated peaks and elongated valleys. The valleys are defined by a space absent the resin matrix and l... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7873323 | Method of estimating inter-modulation distortion In the method, positions of a plurality of transmitting sources within a proximity of a base station are determined. A received signal spectrum of signals received at the base station from the plurality of transmitting sources are simulated. Inter-modulation distort... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7873053 | Method and apparatus for reserving network resources for pseudo point-to-point connections An embodiment includes encoding, into a resource reservation signaling message, (i) a group identifier assigned to a group of pseudo point-to-point connections established between a root node and at least one leaf node and (ii) a sub-group identifier assigned to a s... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7869821 | Enhancement of signalling in a “Push to Talk” type communication session by insertion of a visiting card SIP type signal protocol for a mobile communication network (N), comprising an invitation signal message (MI) “INVITE”, intended to set-up a “Push to Talk” type communication session between a calling communication client (A) and one or several called commun... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7856355 | Speech quality assessment method and system In one embodiment, distortion in a received speech signal is estimated using at least one model trained based on subjective quality assessment data. A speech quality assessment for the received speech signal is then determined based on the estimated distortion. ... | 12/21/2010 |
