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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8178901 | Integrated circuit assembly with passive integration substrate for power and ground line routing on top of an integrated circuit chip An integrated circuit assembly (ICA) comprises: a digital and/or analog integrated circuit (S1) having a core with input and/or output pins and at least one power supply connection pad (PP) and one ground connection pad (GP) connected to a chosen one of the i... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8098721 | Reception of a signal transmitted over a transmission link comprising coded channels A method to receive a signal transmitted over a transmission link comprising coded channels, the method comprising: —equalization operations (110-116) to compensate for signal distortion introduced by the transmission link in a signal burst, and—bl... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8081939 | Correlation-driven adaptation of frequency control for a RF receiver device A frequency-control unit is used for controlling an external controllable reference-frequency source. The frequency-control unit includes a filter unit with a controllable filter parameter, which is configured to derive, using the filter parameter, from a frequency-... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8081500 | Method for mitigating imprint in a ferroelectric memory An array of ferroelectric memory cells that allows imprint mitigation includes ferroelectric memory cells respectively coupled to word lines, plate lines, and bit lines; a word line driver for driving the word lines; a plate line driver for driving the plate lines; ... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8073045 | Method and a system for generating an adaptive slicer threshold An adaptive slicer threshold is derived from averages of maximum and minimum values of the received signal, the method comprising the steps of: —averaging (86) several detected maximum values and averaging several detected minimum values, and —calculating... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8055973 | Channel constrained code aware interleaver An interleaver is constructed based on the joint constraints imposed in the channel and the code domains. A sequentially optimal algorithm is used for mapping bits in the inter-symbol interference (ISI) domain to the code domain by taking into account the ISI memory... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8054055 | Fully integrated on-chip low dropout voltage regulator A low dropout voltage regulator (LDO) includes a bias voltage generator, a differential error amplifier, an output driver, a controlled active load, a Double Ended Cascode Miller compensation block. The bias voltage generator produces a plurality of bias voltages. T... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8048000 | Patient weight and ankle displacement correlation device A device for correlating trend data with respect to a patient's weight ankle displacement can identify conditions indicative of congestive heart failure. A weight scale or similar device coupled with imaging mechanism operable to measure ankle displacement collects ... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8045993 | Fair channel use in a wireless area network Fair usage of working channels in a wireless network is disclosed. A base station associated with a cell within a wireless community monitors the congestion of the working channel of neighboring communities. Upon determining that the congestion of the working channe... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8045986 | Cell selection device for wireless communication equipment A cell selection device (D) is dedicated to a piece of wireless communication equipment (MS) arranged to establish radio communications with a radio communication network comprising radio communication cells and to receive data representative of the cell environment... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8045219 | Printed media products including data files provided in multiple layers of encoded, colored dots A printed media product, such as a trading card, that has a substrate and an encoded data element applied to a surface of the substrate containing information. The encoded data element includes first, second, and third data layers with first, second, and third patte... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8044756 | Programmable inductor The present invention provides a programmable integrated inductor having a compact design, having a dual turn and a parallel programmable impedance. In particular, the impedance value of the programmable changes, like a variable, programmable, as its range may be se... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8044684 | Input and output buffer including a dynamic driver reference generator A system having an input and output buffer includes a dynamic driver reference generator to generate dynamic driver reference signals based on a data signal and an IO buffer supply voltage, a level shifter to generate level shifted signals based, in part, on the dyn... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8040172 | Logic level converter A logic level converter includes two first electronic switches coupled in a bi-stable flip-flop arrangement having at least one output line, and a forcing circuitry including two second electronic switches to force switching of the first electronic switches in the f... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8031681 | Communication between overlapping WRAN cells working in different channels A common control channel for base station (“BS”)/consumer premise equipment (“CPE”) communication in areas of overlapping coverage by wireless regional area network (“WRAN”) cells operating on different working channels is disclosed. A common control cha... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8031618 | Methods of RF sensing control and dynamic frequency selection control for cognitive radio based dynamic spectrum access network systems-cognitive dynamic frequency hopping This invention relates to cognitive radio based wireless communications of dynamic spectrum access networks, and more particularly to a method of addressing radio frequency sensing control and dynamic frequency selection control. A method called Cognitive Dynamic Fr... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8023956 | Scheduling methods for connection-based, over-the-air, inter-system communications for wireless networks A method for communications between neighboring wireless cells such as wireless regional area networks operating according to IEEE 802.22 specifications. The method involves scheduling inter-base station communications for over-the-air connections to allow neighbori... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8019985 | Data-processing arrangement for updating code in an auxiliary processor memory A data-processing arrangement includes a main processor and an auxiliary processor. A system-program code causes the main processor to write an application-program code into a shared memory. The system-program code further causes the main processor to write an addre... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8015562 | Process for managing virtual machines in a physical processing machine, corresponding processor system and computer program product therefor A process for managing virtual machines in a physical machine includes the generation of virtual machines and executing operating systems in the virtual machines on top of the physical machine. A virtual machine monitoring function includes the operations of running... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8014112 | Integrated circuit with device for protection against electrostatic discharges An integrated circuit includes a substrate of semiconductive material, a first circuit environment made from the substrate which includes an output terminal and a first pair of power supply terminals for receiving a first power supply voltage applicable between the ... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8005159 | Methods for channel estimation in the presence of transmit beamforming The present invention relates to a method for estimating a propagation channel in the presence of transmit beam-forming within a receiver, accounting for the structure of two logical channels referred as to a common channel and a dedicated physical channel (CPICH, D... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8000051 | Method for recovering a position and clock period from an input digital signal A method for recovering a position and clock period from an input bi-phase encoded digital signal such as an SPDIF signal counts the intervals between phase changes of the input digital signal to derive the longest interval between the phase changes. The longest int... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7999597 | Circuit adjustable after packaging having a voltage limiter and method of adjusting same A circuit adjustable after packaging includes a functional circuit supplied with a power potential and a reference potential and has at least one parameter adjustable by programming at least one programmable element and a circuit to program the programmable element ... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7998356 | Optical integrated device manufacturing process The invention relates to a process for manufacturing an integrated optical device. The method involves forming a silicon dioxide multilayer structure on a silicon substrate containing, in a first region a core layer of a waveguide of the optical device. The core inc... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7984365 | Turbo decoder with stake heritage for data block redundant version decoding An iterative decoding device for a communication receiver includes a decoder for decoding received encoded data blocks by a next iteration initialization, a controller to choose one of the first and second hard decision bits in order for the validity of a CRC field,... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7983703 | Prioritized common subframe to provide better service to the overlapping areas in a community A subframe structure for a wireless community uses a master common subframe and second master common subframe method to give BSs different priorities to serve overlapping areas in common subframes. The subframe structure and corresponding method can increase overlap... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7983634 | Radio telecommunication terminal and a method of decreasing perturbations within this terminal The radio telecommunication terminal (2) comprises a data burst scheduler able to schedule the continuous transmission of consecutive data bursts which generate noise of similar energy on the radio-frequency channel as long as a specific radio-frequency chann... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7983625 | Notch filter and apparatus for receiving and transmitting radio-frequency signals incorporating same A notch filter suitable for attenuating certain frequencies of a radio-frequency signal includes an input for receiving the radio-frequency signal and an output for the output of a portion of the radio-frequency signal, first and second capacitive means, at least on... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7982723 | Multiple touch location in a three dimensional touch screen sensor A touch screen capable of correctly identifying multiple touches employs multiple active line arrays oriented to provide multi-dimensional data. Three arrays of capacitance based active lines are each distinctly oriented to form a plurality of intersections. A first... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7978644 | Method of fair scheduling channel access in a wireless network A method of fair scheduling for channel access in a wireless network comprising a plurality of nodes including a first node and at least one second node is described, the method comprising the steps of: arranging (RICP) a packet to... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7966432 | Data processing device adaptable to variable external memory size and endianess A data processing device (D) comprises an external memory (EM) for storing data defining at least part of a program in an Endian form, and an integrated circuit (IC), connected to the external memory (EM), via a memory bus (MB) having an N-bit width, and comprising ... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7965786 | Clean sensing for dynamic frequency hopping in dynamic spectrum access networks Clean and reliable channel sensing during dynamic frequency hopping over a plurality of overlapping wireless regional area network (WRAN) cells is conducted using a minimum number of channels. By coordinating a phase-shift of the operation periods of each WRAN cell ... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7962837 | Technique for reducing parity bit-widths for check bit and syndrome generation for data blocks through the use of additional check bits to increase the number of minimum weighted codes in the hamming code H-matrix A technique for reducing parity bit-widths for check bit and syndrome generation through the use of additional check bits to increase the number of minimum weighted codes in the Hamming Code H-Matrix. The technique of the present invention may be implemented while a... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7961693 | Tunneled direct link setup collision resolution in a wireless local area network Collisions between tunneled direct link setup (“TDLS”) requests are resolved by associating each request with a priority value. Upon issuing a TDLS request the encapsulated frame is associated with a priority value. When a station, which is waiting for a respons... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7953994 | Architecture incorporating configurable controller for reducing on chip power leakage The present invention provides a method and system for controlling leakage power consumption at a System on Chip (SoC) level during a normal run or a boot-up mode. The leakage power reduction is achieved by incorporating a central programmable controller in the SoC ... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7949313 | Direct conversion device with compensation means for a transmission path of a wireless communication equipment A conversion device (CD) is dedicated to conversion of baseband analog I/Q input signals into RF signals in a transmitting path of a wireless communication equipment. This device (CD) comprises i) first (PP1) and second (PP2) processing paths each comp... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7944241 | Circuit for glitchless switching between asynchronous clocks A circuit for glitchless switching between asynchronous clocks includes a select circuit and enable circuits. The select circuit receives a selection signal for selecting one of the clock input signals and to generate enabling signals for activating the correspondin... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7928719 | Zero current detector for a DC-DC converter A zero current detector for a DC-DC converter includes a first transistor having a drain, a gate, and a source for sensing the voltage of a first terminal of a power transistor; a second transistor having a drain, a gate, and a source for sensing the voltage of a se... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7925286 | Method, a program and a module to estimate a doppler maximum frequency and an oscillator frequency offset, receiver including the module A method of estimating a Doppler maximum frequency fd and/or a local oscillator frequency offset f0, the method comprising the steps of: computing a power density spectrum of a received radio signal over a whole frequency range, scanning the co... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7920251 | Integrated still image, motion video and speed measurement system Devices capable of capturing still and motion imagery are integrated with an accurate distance and speed measuring apparatus. By measuring the changing distance of the target over that time, a target's speed can be determined. At substantially the same time as the t... | 04/05/2011 |
