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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7821403 | Magnetically releasable grooved tack clutch for reusable and non-reusable applications A system, apparatus (100) and method are described for an electronic article surveillance security tag (102) having a magnetically releasable tack retaining system, and a magnetic detaching device for use with the electronic article surveillance tag. O... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7782817 | Systems and techniques for improved data throughput in a wireless network Techniques to improve data communications for a wireless system are described. An apparatus may include an asymmetric data channel manager to perform asymmetric link adaptation for multiple wireless data channels based on a class of data flow for each data channel. ... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7774521 | Method and apparatus for reducing power consumption for isochronous data transfers A method and article for reducing power consumption for isochronous data transfers are described. The method may include receiving packets of data having multimedia information with empty spaces. The packets of data may be stored in a first buffer having a first buf... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7766691 | Land grid array (LGA) socket loading mechanism for mobile platforms Techniques for a land grid array (LGA) socket loading mechanism for mobile platforms are described. An apparatus includes a LGA socket mounted to a printed circuit board, and an LGA package seated in the LGA socket. The LGA package includes an LGA package substrate ... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7765825 | Apparatus and method for thermal management of a memory device A system and method for thermal management of a memory device is described. In an embodiment, one or more thermal sensors sends a signal to a thermal control module indicating that a pre-determined temperature threshold for a memory device or devices has been reache... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7761874 | Managing processing system power and performance based on utilization trends Systems and methods of managing processing system performance provide for determining a utilization of a processing system over a time quantum. A trend in the utilization of the processing system is also determined, where the trend can be used to select a performanc... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7751440 | Reconfigurable frame parser A method and apparatus to perform frame parsing are described wherein a configuration module stores configuration information and a parsing module, connected to the configuration module, receives a frame of information and determines a frame format associated with t... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7747886 | Management of power states in a portable computing device Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and apparatus for managing power states in a personal computing device, while maintaining a perception by the user of “instant on” functionality. In various embodiments of the invention, the power states are ... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7747292 | Techniques for adaptive interference cancellation Techniques to perform adaptive interference cancellation are described. A first apparatus may include a timing recovery module to produce a timing recovery command signal, an interference canceller to receive an interference reference signal and produce an interfere... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7746967 | Beam-former and combiner for a multiple-antenna system A compensating correction value for adjusting analog signals received from multiple antenna elements takes into account the effects of colored noise, co-channel interference, and inter-sample interference. The method of generating the compensating correction value f... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7746810 | Wake on wireless network techniques Wake on wireless network techniques are described. An apparatus may include a wireless transceiver, a processor coupled to said transceiver, and a connection management module for execution by the processor. The connection management module may establish a connectio... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7743188 | Method and apparatus for accessing a contacts database and telephone services Embodiments described herein provide a method and technique for operating a computing device. An interface is displayed for enabling the computing device to control a voicemail system. The interface includes one or more display objects, wherein each display object i... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7738546 | Feed forward equalizer for a communication system A method and apparatus for a feed forward equalizer for a communication system are described. An equalizer comprising a tapped filter having multiple filter multipliers and a summing element is described. The equalizer further comprises a correlator having multiple ... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7734943 | Low power display refresh An application processor coupled to a Static Random Access Memory (SRAM) interfaces with a graphics accelerator. A Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM) stores frame buffer data that may be transferred to a display through a switch located on the graphics accelerator ... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7725886 | Merger of tables storing protocol data unit related data In general, in one aspect, the disclosure describes a method of determining if a first query for data related to a protocol data unit in a first table is a query to a table merged into a combination table formed from multiple tables. If so, the method can generate a... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7725751 | Termination techniques for bus interfaces Techniques involving the transfer of signals across interconnection media are disclosed. For instance, an apparatus may include an apparatus having an interconnection medium, a first device that may drive the interconnection medium, and a second device. The second d... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7724858 | Techniques to manage latency for multiple receivers Method and apparatus to manage delay for multiple receivers for a wireless system are described. ... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7724146 | Magnetically releasable electronic article surveillance tag A system, apparatus and method are described for an electronic article surveillance security tag having a magnetically releasable tack retaining system, and a magnetic detaching device for use with the electronic article surveillance tag. Other embodiments are descr... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7721051 | Techniques to improve cache performance Method and apparatus to improve cache performance using interarrival times between demand requests are described. ... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7720030 | Techniques for explicit feedback delay measurement Techniques for explicit feedback delay measurement are described. An apparatus may comprise a processor to generate a steering matrix for transmit spatial processing over a channel, determine a delay time associated with explicit feedback information for the channel... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7719084 | Laminated magnetic material for inductors in integrated circuits An embodiment is an inductor that may include a laminated material structure to decrease eddy currents therein that may limit the operation of the inductor at high frequency. An embodiment may employ electroless plating techniques to form a layer or layers of magnet... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7710989 | Scalable and configurable queue management for network packet traffic quality of service Various embodiments are directed to scalable and configurable queue management for network packet traffic Quality of Service (QoS). In one or more embodiments, the queue management may be implemented by a network processor comprising a queue manager to assert interr... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7710781 | Data storage and processing algorithm for placement of multi-level flash cell (MLC) VT A wireless device that includes a memory device having an engine to execute a voting algorithm to average a memory cell data sensing result over time to provide a charge placement in the memory cell. ... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7710234 | Control of eddy currents in magnetic vias for inductors and transformers in integrated circuits An embodiment is a magnetic via. More specifically, an embodiment is a magnetic via that increases the inductance of, for example, an integrated inductor or transformer while mitigating eddy currents therein that may limit the operation of the inductor or transforme... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7707378 | DDR flash implementation with hybrid row buffers and direct access interface to legacy flash functions A Double Data Rate (DDR) nonvolatile memory includes a DDR I/F block to receive an address that is used to separate DDR data into coherent data and non-coherent data that are stored separately in the DDR nonvolatile memory. ... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7706789 | Techniques to manage roaming A system, apparatus, method and article to manage roaming in a wireless communication system are described. An apparatus may include a first wireless device having a processor to receive roaming information for a second wireless device from a third wireless device, ... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7698575 | Managing power consumption by requesting an adjustment to an operating point of a processor A processor is provided with a workload that has a real-time demand. A processor clock frequency requirement is set for the processor, based on a deadline margin for the real-time demand. Other embodiments are also described and claimed. ... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7693500 | Panoramic display for a wireless device Various embodiments of a panoramic display for a wireless device are described. In one embodiment, a wireless device may include a display comprising a plurality of display regions. The display regions may include a central display region and multiple lateral displa... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7693244 | Encoding, clock recovery, and data bit sampling system, apparatus, and method A system, apparatus, method and article to encode, clock recover, and sample data bits are described. The apparatus may include a pulsed digital module comprising a first clock input, a first data input, a data output, and a reset input. The first clock input to rec... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7693240 | Techniques to converge and adapt a communication system receiver A system, apparatus, method and article to converge a communications system receiver are described. The apparatus may include an interference canceller to receive an interference signal and to produce an adaptive signal. The interference canceller is adapted by a fi... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7692642 | Method and apparatus for controlling display refresh An approach for dynamic refresh rate control. For one aspect, a policy, such as a power, performance, quality or other policy, for example, is accessed. A refresh rate may then be dynamically selected in response to detected display content activity and policy prefe... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7689838 | Method and apparatus for providing for detecting processor state transitions In some embodiments, the method and apparatus to provide for the detection of processor transition states is described. Some embodiments include at least two threads which provide detection for high and low priority states, which provide for power state transitions ... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7688848 | Optimizing bandwidth of DSL connections An arrangement is provided for optimizing the bandwidth of DSL connections. A DSL connection is established via a customer premise equipment, a copper line connecting to the customer premise equipment, and a DSL access multiplexer connecting to the copper line. The ... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7685219 | Parallel systolic CORDIC algorithm with reduced latency for unitary transform of complex matrices and application to MIMO detection Various embodiments include a parallel coordinate rotation digital computer (CORDIC) technique, according to which multiple elements in a vector representing a received multiple input multiple output (MIMO) signal may be processed in parallel. The result is a reduct... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7684342 | Media independent trigger model for multiple network types A media independent trigger model for multiple network types is disclosed. A change in communication environment trigger is communicated from a media dependent interface to an upper media independent application. The communication environment trigger may be from a l... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7676103 | Enhancing video sharpness and contrast by luminance and chrominance transient improvement An apparatus, system, method, and article for enhancing video sharpness are described. The apparatus may include a media processing node to enhance sharpness of an input image. The media processing node may include a wavelet decomposition module to perform wavelet d... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7672653 | Removing interfering signals in a broadband radio frequency receiver Various embodiments are directed to removing interfering signals in a broadband radio frequency (RF) receiver by implementing a silicon tuner arranged to replicate high quality factor (Q) performance without the advantages of using high Q components available for mo... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7672529 | Techniques to detect Gaussian noise A system, apparatus, method and article to filter media signals are described. The apparatus may include a media processor. The media processor may include an image signal processor having multiple processing elements to determine a level of noise for an image using... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7668102 | Techniques to manage retransmissions in a wireless network Method and apparatus to manage retransmissions in a wireless network are described. ... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7667447 | Load adaptive power delivery Embodiments disclosed herein include a power monitor and controller which are used to control the operation of a voltage regulator depending on an operating mode or state of a load device, such as a hard disk drive. By controlling the voltage regulator in this manne... | 02/23/2010 |
