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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7941007 | Low level video detail tracking by intuitionistic fuzzy relationship calculus To interpolate a value for a pixel, multiple patterns are selected. Each pattern is used to determine a pixel angle. One of the determined pixel angles is then selected based on the reliability of the pixel angles. The selected pixel angle can be selected based on i... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7917120 | RF mixer with inductive degeneration An RF mixer provides extended dynamic range with reduced noise by utilizing degeneration inductors in the RF input section of a doubly balanced mixer. Degeneration inductors are also utilized in a mixer having a class AB input section. A current mirror in the class ... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7915956 | Vector modulator having attenuators with continuous input steering Variable attenuation systems having continuous input steering may be used to implement vector or quadrature modulators and vector multipliers. Discrete implementations of attenuators with continuous input steering may have two outputs which may be cross-connected to... | 03/29/2011 |
| D634276 | Electrical device | 03/15/2011 |
| 7904727 | Method to control access between network endpoints based on trust scores calculated from information system component analysis Signatures are generated for modules in a computer system. The signatures can be assembled into an integrity log. The signatures are compared with signatures in a database in an integrity validator. Once signatures are either validated or invalidated, a trust score ... | 03/08/2011 |
| D633289 | Upper for a boot | 03/01/2011 |
| 7885966 | Geometrization for pattern recognition, data analysis, data merging, and multiple criteria decision making An analyzer/classifier/synthesizer/prioritizing tool for data comprises use of an admissible geometrization process with data transformed and partitioned by an input process into one or more input matrices and one or more partition classes and one or more scale grou... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7865637 | System of hardware objects Elements of the inventive development system include hardware and software objects. These objects can be instanced, ordered, parameterized, and connected in a software environment to implement different functions. Once in software, the description defines the topolo... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7865041 | Artifacts measurement on video decomposable properties by dynamic fuzzy reasoning To determine if a pixel exhibits artifacts, statistics are generated for the pixel and its neighbors. These statistics are compared with thresholds. If the comparison of the statistics and the thresholds suggests that the pixel exhibits a pixel artifact, then recour... | 01/04/2011 |
| D630317 | ECG leads organizer | 01/04/2011 |
| 7855548 | Low labor enclosure assembly There is disclosed a base member for holding, without screws, a printed circuit board having conductive traces and electronic components and which can fit into an electric outlet box. The base member has walls which define a cavity where at least one wall of the cav... | 12/21/2010 |
| 7850312 | Keystone correction derived from the parameters of projectors A projector determines horizontal and vertical tilt angles. Using the tilt angles and the inherent properties of the projector, keystone correction corner points for the image can be computed. The keystone correction corner points can be used to perform keystone cor... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7844112 | Device and method for enhancing image contrast We describe a device that dynamically increases the contrast of the effective gray level based on the gray level distribution of serial images, performs soft-transfer of dynamic contrast adjustment curve when a scene switch occurs thereby realizing adaptive contrast... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7843682 | Blast venting for electrical device An electrical component may include a vent located in a mounting portion of a case to vent a blast from within the case. A chassis may have a mounting site for an electrical component, wherein the mounting site includes a passage to receive a blast from the electric... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7824949 | Structure and method for flexible sensor array A method of forming a sensor array. The method includes depositing a source/drain contact layer; depositing a semiconductor layer on the source/drain contact layer; and patterning the source/drain contact layer and the semiconductor layer substantially simultaneousl... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7817620 | Delayed call establishment A network device having delayed call establishment is disclosed. The network device includes a port to allow the device to communicate with a called endpoint and a processor. The processor sends a call request message associated with a call to the called endpoint an... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7800498 | Occupancy sensor powerbase The present invention discloses an apparatus and method for converting a low voltage occupancy sensor to a powered stand-alone unit. The invention uses a low voltage occupancy sensor mounted in an upper portion of a housing with its associated low voltage wiring ter... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7795948 | Super-symmetric multiplier A circuit includes a multi-tanh cell having a common-emitter node to receive a bias current, and an extra transistor coupled to the common-emitter node to dynamically divert a portion of the bias current from the multi-tanh cell. The circuit may be arranged as a mul... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7793018 | Personalized multimedia display/digital TV for multi-tasking A display, possibly in combination with a computer, is used to manage the shape and position of various inputs, so that the inputs can be presented in combination. Possible combinations include displaying a subset of one input with another input, either overlapping ... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7791638 | Rotating scan camera A scanning camera with a rotating drum has one or more sensors characterized by a non-radial optical axis. With two sensors on opposite sides of the drum and facing in substantially the same direction, stereoscopic recording of a panorama is accomplished as the drum... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7752459 | Pointguard: method and system for protecting programs against pointer corruption attacks To protect computer programs against security attacks that attempt to corrupt pointers within the address space of the program, the value of a pointer is encrypted each time the pointer is initialized or modified, and then the value is decrypted before use, i.e., ea... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7747682 | Multiple storage class distributed nametags for locating items in a distributed computing system Methods, signals, devices, and systems are provided for locating and retrieving files, objects, and other items in a network. Nametags are distributed through the network with the items. Each nametag may hold logical names identifying the item, names of the volatile... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7743388 | Computer directory system having an application integration driver infrastructure An application integration driver infrastructure for facilitating the use of a distributed directory running in a computer network is provided. The infrastructure can transform specific directory events into a vendor-neutral data identification system and then use v... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7730480 | System and method for creating a pattern installation by cloning software installed another computer A customized installation is created by allowing a user to select a pattern of software. Then software that is installed on another user's computer is identified. If the identified software belongs to the selected pattern, then an installation of the software is obt... | 06/01/2010 |
| D616054 | Playground apparatus | 05/18/2010 |
| 7707416 | Authentication cache and authentication on demand in a distributed network environment A computer receives a request for authentication from a client. The computer forwards the authentication request to an authentication source. Once the authentication source has validated the authentication request, the computer requests authentication and cache cont... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7703854 | Lounge chair with adjustable arm rests According to some embodiments of the invention, the convenience of lounge, pool, and patio furniture is increased by providing adjustable armrests that do not require cumbersome adjustments in order to reposition the armrest. According to some embodiments of the inv... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7700083 | Skin care composition for accelerated production of collagen proteins and method of fabricating same A liquid solution for topical application to the skin of an animal consists of solutes and a solvent, where the solutes include ascorbate, tropocollagen factors, copper, and zinc gluconate. The tropocollagen factors include L-proline, glycine and L-lysine. ... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7693891 | Apparatus for policy based storage of file data and meta-data changes over time A time domain server includes a version storage. The time domain server declares epochs for a source server, then requests events from the source server. As the time domain server receives events, it uses the events to update the version storage to store versions of... | 04/06/2010 |
| D611557 | Water sport device | 03/09/2010 |
| 7672952 | System and method of semantic correlation of rich content Content of interest to a user is identified. A first semantic abstract is generated for the content of interest using a state vector representation of the content of interest. The first semantic abstract is compared to a second semantic abstract representing another... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7657548 | Method for dynamically distributing items for changes based on group membership Membership in a group is defined, either manually or by rule. Items are distributed to the members of the group as the items are associated with the group. When a container hierarchy changes (by adding, removing, or changing the properties of an object), the object ... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7657517 | Server for synchronization of files A server stores files. Distributed clients access the server, to learn about changes made to the files on the server, and to push local changes of the files onto the server. A synchronization application is used to synchronize the clients and server, synchronizing m... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7653530 | Method and mechanism for the creation, maintenance, and comparison of semantic abstracts Codifying the “most prominent measurement points” of a document can be used to measure semantic distances given an area of study (e.g., white papers on some subject area). A semantic abstract is created for each document. The semantic abstract is a semantic meas... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7631193 | Tokenless identification system for authorization of electronic transactions and electronic transmissions The invention authorizes an individual's access to computer networks from a comparison of an individual's biometric sample gathered during a bid step with at least one biometric sample gathered during a registration step and stored at a host system data processing c... | 12/08/2009 |
| 7627235 | Spinning camera enclosure for environmental protection An environmental protection system features a clear spinning curved volumetric enclosure to shed and throw off environmental contaminants such as rain, fog and dust that would affect a sensor image. The described design is especially suitable for cameras with extrem... | 12/01/2009 |
| 7615821 | Charge trap memory with avalanche generation inducing layer The present invention discloses a charge trap flash memory cell with multi-doped layers at the active region, a memory array using of the memory cell, and an operating method of the same. The charge trap memory cell structure of the present invention is characterize... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7581839 | Keystone correction derived from the parameters of projectors A projector determines horizontal and vertical tilt angles. Using the tilt angles and the inherent properties of the projector, keystone correction corner points for the image can be computed. The keystone correction corner points can be used to perform keystone cor... | 09/01/2009 |
| 7577250 | Key derivation functions to enhance security Key derivation algorithms are disclosed. In one key derivation application, a segment of the master key is hashed. Two numbers of derived from another segment of the master key. A universal hash function, using the two numbers, is applied to the result of the hash, ... | 08/18/2009 |
| 7567518 | Modeling protocol transactions as formal languages with applications for workflow analysis A service grammar can be defined in Backus Naur Form for a protocol. The service grammar can be compiled into a service analyzer, which can identify services from a trace of messages sent using the protocol. Similarly, a workflow grammar can be defined for services ... | 07/28/2009 |
