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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7342287 | Power gating schemes in SOI circuits in hybrid SOI-epitaxial CMOS structures Disclosed are a multi-threshold CMOS circuit and a method of designing such a circuit. The preferred embodiment combines an MTCMOS scheme and a hybrid SOI-epitaxial CMOS structure. Generally, the logic transistors (both nFET and pFET) are placed in SOI, preferably i... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7130452 | System and method for multi-party validation, authentication and/or authorization via biometrics A system and method for multi-party authentication is described. The multi-party authentication process uses synchronous and persistent biometrics signals received from parties to a transaction, based on a policy, to approve a transaction request. The biometrics sig... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7131098 | Computer program product for implementing uncertainty in integrated circuit designs with programmable logic Disclosed is a method, system and computer program product to specify an integrated circuit. The integrated circuit includes a hardwired specific logic technology portion and a programmable specific logic technology portion. The method includes generating a hybrid l... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7095328 | System and method for non intrusive monitoring of “at risk” individuals Disclosed is a system and method for monitoring one or more humans while maintaining the privacy of those individuals. The system includes one or more activity pickups that create one or more respective information outputs. A computer system monitors one or more of ... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7085798 | Sense-amp based adder with source follower pass gate evaluation tree A 64-bit adder implemented in partially depleted silicon on insulator technology and having two levels of lookahead uses a dynamic eight-bit carry module containing a differential pass-gate evaluation tree employing a chain of source followers that feeds a sense amp... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7084386 | System and method for light source calibration A light source calibration target has a surface in view of a camera of an image capture system, The target includes a substrate having a substantially Lambertian surface, a visually distinct polygonal shape having corners formed on said surface so as to be visually ... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7086023 | System and method for probabilistic criticality prediction of digital circuits The present invention is a system and method for determining criticality probability of each node, edge and path of the timing graph of a digital circuit in the presence of delay variations. The delay of each gate or wire is assumed to consist of a nominal portion, ... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7023528 | Hybrid electronic mask An electronically programmable mask for lithography has an array of individually controllable light sources aligned with an array of individually controllable liquid crystals, so that individual pixels may be turned on or off and phase-shifted to provide a desired l... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7005319 | Global planarization of wafer scale package with precision die thickness control In accordance with the present invention, a method for producing at least two different chips with a controlled total chip thickness such that when these chips are placed into a corresponding pocket of a plurality of pockets located in a wafer chip carrier wherein e... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6990008 | Switchable capacitance and nonvolatile memory device using the same A device (2) with a switchable capacitance comprises a first and a second electrode (12, 20) facing each other, a dielectric layer (14) between a first and a second capacitor electrode (12, 20), and a switching member (18) between ... | 01/24/2006 |
| 6990586 | Secure data transmission from unsecured input environments An apparatus, business method and program product for selectively providing access to a service facility such as a financial institution or bank. Client access codes (passwords, PINs) are maintained by the service facility in a database. When a client seeks access t... | 01/24/2006 |
| 6987686 | Performance increase technique for use in a register file having dynamically boosted wordlines For increasing the performance of a register file that is constructed to include dual-Vt bitlines or single-Vt bitlines. A boost of the drive signal for one of the transistors of a bitline circuit, preferably for the high voltage threshold read... | 01/17/2006 |
| 6983468 | Automated interface generation for computer programs in different environments Automated interface generation for computer programs operating in different environments is provided. An automated interface generation system, method, computer program product and article of manufacture is provided comprising an import utility and a runtime environ... | 01/03/2006 |
| 6978446 | System and method for protecting against leakage of sensitive information from compromising electromagnetic emanations from computing systems A method for changing an operation performed by an electronic device includes defining a process flow chart of the operation to be performed by the electronic device, the process flow chart having one or more primitive actions, the operation having one or more compo... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6975532 | Quasi-static random access memory A quasi-static random access memory cell exhibits increased READ mode operation stability by statically storing the cell logic value during idle periods and dynamically storing the cell logic value during READ mode operation. ... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6973428 | System and method for searching, analyzing and displaying text transcripts of speech after imperfect speech recognition A speech conversation is changed to a text transcript, which is then pre-processed and subjected to text mining to determine salient terms. Salient terms are those terms that meet a predetermined level of selectivity in a collection. The text transcript of the speec... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6959327 | System and method for dispatching and scheduling network transmissions with feedback A computer dispatcher connected to one or more respective network buffers has stored file lists that identify one or more of the files in the database that are to be transmitted over networks connected to the respective network buffer. A scheduler(s) schedule one or... | 10/25/2005 |
| 6948082 | Method and apparatus for software-assisted thermal management for electronic systems In a computer system, a device for measuring power dissipation (e.g., using on-die thermal sensors) is linked to both a hardware-based thermal management solution and with a means for causing a notification event to software, so that, initially, the operating system... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6922809 | Method and apparatus providing capitalization recovery for text A method for capitalizing text in a document includes processing a reference corpus to construct a plurality of dictionaries of capitalized terms, where the plurality of dictionaries include a singleton dictionary and a phrase dictionary. Each record in the singleto... | 07/26/2005 |
