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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8185440 | Data processing system for pricing, costing and billing of financial transactions The present invention provides methods and systems for pricing financial transactions by defining product rules, providing links to appropriate price tables, and calculating a price for a financial transaction. A data processing system in accordance with one embodim... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8168705 | Polymer membranes The invention relates to novel organic/inorganic hybrid membranes which have the following composition: a polymer acid containing —SO3H, PO3H2, —COOH or B(OH)2 groups, a polymeric ease (optional), which contains primar... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8136081 | Method and apparatus to optimize adaptive radio-frequency systems A performance optimizing circuit is provided for a signal processing system which is parameterized by a set of coefficients that vary the operational characteristics of the signal processing system. The performance optimizing circuit receives as input a reference si... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8136065 | Integrated prototyping system for validating an electronic system design An integrated prototyping system (IPS) is proposed for verifying and validating an electronic system design (ESD) with hierarchical design elements (HDEs). The IPS has: a) A reprogrammable logic device (RPLD) having an emulation timing base and an RPLD-interface for... | 03/13/2012 |
| 7995398 | Structures and methods for reading out non-volatile memories Non-differential sense amplifier circuitry for reading out Non-Volatile Memories (NVMs) and its operating methods are disclosed. Such non-differential amplifier circuitry requires exceptionally low power and achieves moderate sensing speed, as compared to a conventi... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7987441 | Method and architecture for power gate switch placement A design method places power gates or switch cells using unoccupied locations of logic cell rows. Two types of such switch cells, filler switches and sealer switches, may be provided using the unoccupied locations. In one embodiment, virtual ground voltage reference... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7983458 | In vivo autonomous camera with on-board data storage or digital wireless transmission in regulatory approved band A capsule camera apparatus includes a swallowable housing, a light source within the housing, a camera within the housing for capturing a first digital image and a second digital image of a view of the camera illuminated by the light source, a a motion detector that... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7983087 | Methods and structures for reading out non-volatile memory using NVM cells as a load element A Non-Volatile Memory (NVM) cell in an NVM array is read out using other NVM cells in the array as a load element. Conventional load elements such as MOS transistors or resistors used to vary the bitline potential for the NVM cell readout in conventional NVM arrays ... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7966231 | System and method for calculating taxes and multi-currency pricing A method and a system for determining taxes attributable to a financial transaction create a tax rate table, link an entity of the financial transaction to the tax rate table through a product rule, and calculate taxes based on the tax rate table according to one co... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7964932 | Semiconductor device with depletion region A rectenna capable of power conversion from electromagnetic (EM) waves of high frequencies is provided. In one embodiment, a rectenna element generates currents from two sources—based upon the power of the incident EM wave and from an n-type semiconductor, or anot... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7959333 | Enclosure for housing a plurality of pixels of a graphical display An enclosure is provided for housing pixels of a graphical display. The enclosure provides one or more laminar structures at a first surface of the enclosure. The laminar structure may be made up of a first material of a predetermined thickness at the first surface ... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7958192 | Method for information gathering and dissemination in a social network A method automatically and efficiently propagates information using previously established social methods of communication (e.g., email, instant messaging (IM), social network message posting, and short message services). In conjunction with the method, a system col... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7917483 | Search engine and method with improved relevancy, scope, and timeliness A search engine and a method achieve timeliness of documents returned in a search result by a relevancy feedback mechanism driven by the frequency in which a URL is returned in recent searches. The relevancy feedback mechanism includes one or more random processes w... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7908576 | Method of progressively prototyping and validating a customer's electronic system design A method for prototyping and validating a customer's electronic system design (ESD) with design data is proposed. The design data is partitioned into hierarchical design elements (HDEs) plus their respective test benches. The ESD couples with customer's customer per... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7827064 | Data processing system for pricing, costing and billing of financial transactions The present invention provides methods and systems for pricing financial transactions by defining product rules, providing links to appropriate price tables, and calculating a price for a financial transaction. A data processing system in accordance with one embodim... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7825623 | Electric vehicle drive apparatus In an electric vehicle drive apparatus having an electric motor and a motor drive device, the electric motor having a stator, a rotor and a moving mechanism capable of changing a relative distance between the stator and the rotor to vary an effective magnetic flux o... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7809136 | Enhanced ANSI X9.17 and FIPS 186 pseudorandom number generators with forward security Disclosed herein are apparatuses and methods for generating pseudorandom numbers by making the existing ANSI and FIPS PRNGs forward secure and eliminating the need for re-keying them. A forward secure ANSI PRNG is created which includes an enhanced block cipher that... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7792527 | Wireless network handoff key A handoff key is provided for facilitating a hand off of a wireless terminal from a first access point to a second access point. The handoff key may be generated by a server and communicated to the first and second access points. Alternatively, the handoff key may b... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7783458 | Discrete principal component analysis (DPCA) An optical system employs filtered broad band light for determining the specific components in a material sample. The system forms an r by n matrix C representing r principal components of the measurement to be analyzed at n different frequencies. Each sample contai... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7679745 | Time-resolved fluorescence spectrometer for multiple-species analysis A time-resolved, fluorescence spectrometer makes use of a RadiaLight® optical switch and no dispersive optical elements (DOE) like gratings. The structure is unique in its compactness and simplicity of operation. In one embodiment, the spectrometer makes use of onl... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7210116 | Method and apparatus for synthesizing a hardware system from a software description A method and an apparatus take software source code to synthesize a hardware platform for running the software. The method determines which processor is suitable for running the code and meeting the performance parameters determined by the user. The method also dete... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7132496 | Step-by-step alkylation of polymeric amines The invention relates to the following: a method for step-by-step alkylation of primary polymeric amines by step-by-step deprotonation with a metallo-organic base and a subsequent reaction with an alkyl halide; a method for modifying tertiary polymeric amines with o... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7049020 | Composites and composite membranes The invention relates to a composite or a composite membrane consisting of an ionomer and of an inorganic optionally functionalized phyllosilicate. The isomer can be: (a) a cation exchange polymer; (b) an anion exchange polymer; (c) a polymer containing both anion e... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7495993 | Onboard data storage and method A semiconductor memory device and an associated method suitable for use in specific applications with predictable memory access pattern, such as in a capsule camera. The memory device takes advantage of the memory access pattern to simplify address processing circui... | 02/24/2009 |
| 7495337 | Dual-gate device and method A dual-gate device is formed over and insulated from a semiconductor substrate which may include additional functional circuits that can be interconnected to the dual-gate device. The dual-gate device includes two semiconductor devices formed on opposite surfaces of... | 02/24/2009 |
| 7486359 | Color filter panel having microlenses in transmission areas and method of manufacturing the same, and transflective liquid crystal display using such a color filter panel A color filter panel for a transflective type LCD with transmission areas and reflection areas includes a substrate, a plurality of color filters formed on the substrate, an overcoat layer formed on the color filters and including lens parts that are individually pl... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7462521 | Dual-gate device and method A dual-gate device is formed over and insulated from a semiconductor substrate which may include additional functional circuits that can be interconnected to the dual-gate device. The dual-gate device includes two semiconductor devices formed on opposite surfaces of... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7459789 | Bonding method of flexible film and display bonded thereby A bonding method of a flexible film is provided, which includes: positioning an anisotropic conductive film on a plurality of first signal lines formed on the flexible film to be bonded to a thin film transistor (TFT) panel; arranging the anisotropic conductive film... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7459755 | Dual-gate semiconductor devices with enhanced scalability A scalable semiconductor device is formed using control gates formed on opposite sides of a semiconductor layer. A first control gate is formed electrically isolated from a first surface of the semiconductor layer by a first dielectric layer, such that, when a first... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7449744 | Non-volatile electrically alterable memory cell and use thereof in multi-function memory array A multi-function memory array that includes a DRAM distributed in several DRAM sectors, a Flash EEPROM distributed in several Flash EEPROM sectors, a data bus interconnecting the DRAM sectors and the Flash EEPROM sectors, and a plurality of memory access control cir... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7447148 | Method for supporting scalable and reliable multicast in TDMA/TDD systems using feedback suppression techniques A method supports scalable and reliable multicast in a wireless network with a large bandwidth-delay product. In this method, acknowledgement packets from different receivers experiencing the same number of data packets lost are assigned the same time slots. This me... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7410845 | Dual-gate device and method A memory circuit having dual-gate memory cells and a method for fabricating such a memory circuit are disclosed. The dual-gate memory cells each include a memory device and an access device sharing a semiconductor layer, with their respective channel regions provide... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7399357 | Atomic layer deposition using multilayers A method for the controlled growth of thin films by atomic layer deposition by making use of multilayers and using energetic radicals to facilitate the process is described in this invention. In this method, a first reactant is admitted into the reaction chamber vol... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7397805 | Systems and methods for goodput guarantee through adaptive fair queuing Disclosed herein are systems and methods for communicating a number of data flows on a single communications channel. In one embodiment, a method of communicating a number of data flows on a shared communications channel includes the acts of (1) calculating a set of... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7395073 | Method and apparatus for location estimation using region of confidence filtering A method for location estimation employs filtering in both the radio signal domain and the space domain separately. The method filters raw values of the run-time radio signal measurements to reject distorted inputs. A region of confidence (RoC) is formed according t... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7387942 | Substrate isolation in integrated circuits Substrate isolation trench (224) are formed in a semiconductor substrate (120). Dopant (e.g. boron) is implanted into the trench sidewalls by ion implantation to suppress the current leakage along the sidewalls. During the ion implantation, the transis... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7387732 | Organic-inorganic membranes The invention relates to organic/inorganic hybrid polymer blends and hybrid polymer blend membranes that are composed of: one polymer acid halide containing SO2X, POX2 or COX groups (X═, Cl, Br, I); one elemental or metallic oxide or hydroxid... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7376097 | Method of associating an IP address with a plurality of link layer addresses in a wireless communication network This invention relates generally to a method of associating an IP address with a link layer address in a wireless communication network. The method comprises the steps of assigning an IP address to a plurality of link layer addresses; establishing a link layer conne... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7366524 | Using subnet relations for paging, authentication, association and to activate network interfaces in heterogeneous access networks A system and method for using subnet relations to determine paging areas, for performing authentication and association, and to activate access network interfaces in wireless communication devices in a heterogeneous access network. Paging areas are generated using s... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7363496 | Authenticated ID-based cryptosystem with no key escrow A method and system are provided for determining a shared secret between two entities in a cryptosystem. A first random secret is selected that is known to the first entity and unknown to the second entity. A first intermediate shared secret component is determined ... | 04/22/2008 |
