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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7941618 | Fully buffered DIMM read data substitution for write acknowledgement A memory controller uses a scheme to retire two entries from a replay queue due to a single non-error response. Advantageously, entries in a replay queue may be retired earlier than conventional systems, minimizing the size of the replay queue. ... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7941512 | Use of IPv6 in access networks An embodiment method may comprise establishing a link layer connection to an access server, obtaining a management address, wherein the management address is at least one of an IPv6 and an IPv4 address, obtaining a TFTP server address, wherein the server address is ... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7934815 | External fluid manifold with polymer compliant wall A fluid dispensing assembly having a fluid dispensing subassembly to deliver fluid to a substrate, an external manifold to supply fluid having a first wall arranged adjacent to the fluid dispensing subassembly, and a compliant wall attached to a second wall arranged... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7933397 | Telephone system that notifies caller of called party's state A telephone system that has the ability to provide a caller with additional information (beyond a busy signal or a ring tone) concerning the called party when the called party's line is busy: The called party can control the amount and type of additional information... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7929441 | Resource reservation method and system A method and system of assigning DSP resources in a voice gateway which first seeks to assign the calls to DSPs on a best fit basis using information in a best fit (BF) pool. If a call can not be assigned on a BF basis, the call is assigned to a DSP based on informa... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7926898 | Faster warm-up, lower energy, and quieter modes for solid ink printers A method of operating a printer turns off a support structure heater when the printer enters standby mode. The print head is then moved away from an intermediate transfer surface supported by a support structure. Heat settings used to heat a print head are then vari... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7921726 | Fluid sensor with mechanical positional feedback A fluid detection device is herein disclosed as including a sensor mount, a flexible deflection sensor rigidly connected to the sensor mount and a stiffener. The stiffener is arranged together with the flexible deflection sensor such that the flexible deflection sen... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7921210 | Policy system throttling and load balancing A method and system to control call admissions into data networks is disclosed. A network device has a port to receive a pre-authentication request associated with a call and a status memory to store system status information. A processor in the device is configured... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7921141 | Mechanism for supporting indexed tagged content in a general purpose data store A schema identifies a field in a document as a key field. Using an XML schema, the key field can be identified by attaching a property to the element or attribute to be used as a key field (if the XML schema standard is modified to support properties). Otherwise, at... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7914774 | Skin care composition for accelerated production of collagen proteins and method of fabricating the 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. ... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7914165 | Beverage bottle with accessories A configurable beverage container comprises a container body defining a central axis and bounded by non-opaque sides, an openable top, and a bottom defining a cavity in which a liquid can be retained. The container body includes a connector, such as a set of female ... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7913237 | Compile-time code validation based on configurable virtual machine The current invention describes a virtual machine designed to run on a variety of platforms of varied capabilities, and in particular describes support in the coding and development environment for assessing and managing the variation in capability and performance a... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7912037 | Integrating mobility agents for short messaging services A method of providing messaging services for GSM or 3G mobile stations is provided. A gateway detects a mobile network registration from a mobile station, and performs a location area update procedure with previous support nodes from its home public land mobile netw... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7911668 | Ultra-short pulse scanning optical system A scanning optical system including an optical source configured to generate an ultra-short light pulse, a dispersion compensation system disposed such that the ultra-short light pulse travels through the dispersion compensation system, an optical deflector configur... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7910210 | Method of producing a layer arrangement, method of producing an electrical component, layer arrangement, and electrical component In a method of producing a layer arrangement, a substantially carbon-comprising, electrically conductive carbon layer is formed. A protective layer is formed on the carbon layer. An electrically insulating layer is formed on the protective layer, the protective laye... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7901485 | Radial counterflow carbon capture and flue gas scrubbing Vortex gas separation is forced in radial counterflow between counter-rotating coaxial centrifugal impellers. Feed is at the axis of rotation. Axial extraction of nitrogen and water vapor is driven by an axial pump and by back pressure from the tank while radially o... | 03/08/2011 |
| D633894 | Ear muff | 03/08/2011 |
| D633741 | Leash anchor | 03/08/2011 |
| 7898705 | Color status detection in color binary domain A method to determine the color status of a scanned original segments a binary halftone image into a predetermined number of local windows and converts each local window to a device-independent color space. The method then determines a color space parameter for each... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7894597 | Categorization of telephone calls The present invention provides a mechanism for categorizing telephone calls and for providing special information about calls that appear on call lists maintained in a telephone. The invention provides for both providing an indication and for providing an action. Wh... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7894519 | Wireless event authentication system A wireless data acquisition and recording (DAR) system includes acquisition circuitry including a video camera and/or a microphone carried by an operator for capturing video and audio events viewed and/or heard by the operator. A wireless transmitter wirelessly tran... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7894435 | Indicator packets for process/forward decision A first interconnect agent may append indicator packets to a normal packet depending on the destination of the normal packet. A second interconnect agent may receive packets from the first agent over a first point-to-point link. Logic in the second agent may interpr... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7893943 | Systems and methods for converting a pixel rate of an incoming digital image frame A system and method for converting a pixel rate of a digital image frame is provided. The system includes a display controller with an embedded buffer and programmable input and output buffers. The input buffer writes lines of the frame at a source pixel rate while ... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7892125 | Simplified and adaptable flexible drive tensioner A device for tensioning a flexible drive member includes a pair of opposing contact elements adapted to simultaneously engage upper and lower spans of the flexible drive member. The device further includes a connecting member to draw the contact elements together an... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7890639 | Method and apparatus for controlling access to portal content from outside the portal To display content controlled by a portal outside of the portal itself, a user is authenticated to the portal and then permission to access the content authorized. After authentication and authorization, the requested content is returned to the requesting program. T... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7886662 | Digital printing plate and system with electrostatically latched deformable membranes A printing surface includes a substrate having latching electrodes on a first surface, a spacer layer on the first surface of the substrate, the spacer layer patterned to form wells such that the latching electrodes reside in the wells, a deformable membrane, the me... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7886344 | Secure fallback network device A network device may provide secure fallback operations. The device includes a port allowing the device to communicate with a network and a processor to generate a security credential, provide the security credential to a call manager during initialization, and prov... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7886051 | On-line web traffic sampling A method for tracking and reporting traffic activity on a web site first comprises storing a web page on a first server coupled to a network. When the web page is requested from a visitor computer, the visitor computer is selected (or not selected) for inclusion wit... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7885396 | Multiple simultaneously active telephone calls A method and system for providing a user who places a telephone call on hold with a partial hold option. When a user places a first call on partial hold and picks up a second call, the user can still hear conversation and activity that occurs on the first call. For ... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7881092 | Increased switching cycle resistive memory element An integrated circuit including a resistive memory element and a method of manufacturing the integrated circuit are described. The method of manufacturing the integrated circuit includes depositing a switching layer material and intentionally forming inhomogeneously... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7880818 | Device and method for correcting kinescope scan distortion We describe a device and an associated method that includes an EHT signal processing module to generate a compensated gain signal responsive to a first EHT signal. A field fly-back processing module generates a first correcting signal responsive to a first VFB signa... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7848350 | Record boundary preservation protocol enhancement In one embodiment, a method to exchange Q-bit data packets between TCP/IP and X.25 devices includes receiving an incoming packet sequence and translating the incoming packet sequence into at least one outgoing packet. A Q-bit indicator in the first packet of the inc... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7845820 | Multipurpose lighting device with electronic glow stick A multipurpose lighting device comprises a module including a first light source for a flashlight function and a second light source for a lantern or omni-directional glow stick function. A button on the module is operative to selectively alternating between the fir... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7875826 | Variable width conductive lines having substantially constant impedance A method of fabricating a conductive line provides a substrate having a blanket layer of conductive material disposed thereon, a removing of a first portion of the blanket layer of conductive material to form one or more gaps that define a first line, the gaps adjac... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7872272 | Nitride semiconductor ultraviolet LEDs with tunnel junctions and reflective contact A structure and method for improving UV LED efficiency is described. The structure utilizes a tunnel junction to separate a P-doped layer of the LED from a n-doped contact layer. The n-doped contact layer allows the use of a highly reflective, low work function meta... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7865915 | Content discovery and differential advertising in video distribution networks A method and apparatus for monitoring use patterns or services available information in video distribution networks. A network termination unit receives the video content through a port, demodulates and decodes the signals to produce display signals. The display sig... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7862160 | Hybrid manifold for an ink jet printhead A print head has an array of jets to dispense ink onto a printing surface, an array of actuators to cause the jets to dispense ink and an ink manifold to route ink to the array of jets, the ink manifold being formed of at least one polymer layers. A print manifold h... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7858521 | Fabrication for electroplating thick metal pads A method of electroplating includes forming a seed region to be electroplated on a first portion of a substrate, forming a ground plane on a second portion of a substrate, electrically isolating the ground plane from the seed region, electroplating the region, where... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7852579 | Camera module A camera module includes a lens unit which constitutes an optical system of the camera module; a holder which houses the lens unit and is displaceable along an optical axis direction of the lens unit, and the coil having a hollow cylindrical portion; a coil having a... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7840731 | Accelerated data switching on symmetric multiprocessor systems using port affinity A router that includes a plurality of processors (SMPs) where there is “affinity” between particular processors and particular interfaces: Each of the router's interfaces are assigned to one of the processors. A packet arriving at a particular interface will be ... | 11/23/2010 |
