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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8181138 | Generation of an extracted timing model file A system, apparatus and method for generating extracted timing model files, such as macro library files, are disclosed. A user interface or data template is provided to an engineer that allows for the population of data within particular fields related to timing cha... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8181062 | Method to establish high level of redundancy, fault tolerance and performance in a raid system without using parity and mirroring An apparatus comprising a logically contiguous group of at least two drives, a loop and a compression/decompression circuit. Each of the drives comprises (i) a first region configured to store compressed data of a previous drive and (ii) a second region configured t... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8174050 | Structure of a pHEMT transistor capable of nanosecond switching A method for fabricating a transistor and the resulting transistor is disclosed. The method generally includes steps (A) to (E). Step (A) may form a high mobility layer. The high mobility layer is generally configured to carry a two-dimensional electron gas. Step (B... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8170107 | Flexible reduced bandwidth compressed video decoder A method of decoding a video bitstream is disclosed. The method generally includes the steps of (A) buffering the video bitstream in a main memory, the video bitstream comprising a first residual block based on a first motion compensated block, the first motion comp... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8169908 | Method for discarding corrupted data packets in a reliable transport fabric A method for discarding perpetually-rejected packets in a fabric-based interconnect having a reliable physical layer is disclosed. A transmitting component keeps a count of the number of negative acknowledgements (NAKs) it receives from the receiving component for p... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8164636 | Digital still camera with multiple frames combined into a single frame for digital anti-shake/anti-blur A method of capturing a still frame is disclosed. The method generally includes the steps of (A) generating a plurality of initial frames with a sensor in response to an optical signal and (B) generating the still frame by combining the initial frames using a noise ... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8162580 | Anti-theft fastener The anti-theft fastener has a shearing head, a shaft and a fastening element. The shearing head has at least one shearing tab. The shaft is threaded and connected the shearing head. The fastening element is mounted around the shearing head and has an outer surface h... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8161447 | Automation of tie cell insertion, optimization and replacement by scan flip-flops to increase fault coverage A method for designing an integrated circuit is disclosed. The method generally comprises the steps of (A) splitting a design layout of the integrated circuit into a plurality of tiles, (B) adding a plurality of tie-to cells to the design layout, wherein at least on... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8160242 | Efficient implementation of arithmetical secure hash techniques An apparatus including an initialization circuit and a hash computation circuit. The initialization circuit may be configured to present a number of initialization values. The hash computation circuit may be configured to generate hash values for the message in resp... | 04/17/2012 |
| RE43316 | Diabetes management system and method for controlling blood glucose A diabetes management system for predicting a future blood glucose value of a patient and for recommending a corrective action to the patient when the future blood glucose value lies outside of a target range. The system includes a patient-operated apparatus for mea... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8156391 | Data controlling in the MBIST chain architecture A memory collar including a first circuit and a second circuit. The first circuit may be configured to generate one or more data sequences in response to one or more test commands. The one or more data sequences may be presented to a memory during a test mode. The s... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8151121 | Secure data storage Securely storing data to an optical disc has been described, including generating write data that includes the data and overhead data that facilitates reading the data from the disc; and configuring the overhead data according to a key. ... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8138847 | Temperature and/or voltage independent voltage controlled oscillator with programmable gain and/or output frequency range An apparatus comprising a transconductance control circuit, a boost control circuit, a current computation circuit and an oscillator circuit. The transconductance control circuit may be configured to generate a current control signal in response to (i) a voltage con... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8125560 | System for topology based automatic focus A method for automatically focusing a camera including the steps of (A) recording a first topology and a second topology, where the second topology occurs temporally after the first topology, and (B) comparing the first topology with the second topology. A focus of ... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8121183 | System for an adaptive floating tap decision feedback equalizer A method for adaptive selection of floating taps in a decision feedback equalizer including the steps of (A) determining values for a predefined metric for tap positions within a range covered by a decision feedback equalizer (DFE) and (B) setting one or more floati... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8115644 | Water skiing training device an apparatus comprising a sensor system and a controller. The sensor system may be configured to provide information about an angle of a ski rope relative to a ski pylon. The controller may be configured to provide (i) a first indication if the sensor indicates the ... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8112734 | Optimization with adaptive body biasing A method incorporating adaptive body biasing into an integrated circuit design flow includes the steps of (A) adding adaptive body biasing input/outputs (I/Os) during a bonding layout stage of the integrated circuit design flow, (B) floorplanning the integrated circ... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8098834 | Distributed audio system An apparatus comprising a housing, a speaker, and an amplifier. The speaker may be mounted within the housing. A concave portion may be implemented in the housing and may be configured to hold a transformer. An amplifier may be implemented within the housing and may... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8098735 | Efficient 8×8 CABAC residual block decode A circuit generally having a first module, a second module and a third module is disclosed. The first module may be configured to (i) generate a plurality of parsed residual blocks by parsing an 8×8 CABAC (context-based adaptive binary arithmetic coding) residual b... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8098073 | System for terminating high speed input/output buffers in an automatic test equipment environment to enable external loopback testing An apparatus comprising a test termination card having a first set of connections and a second set of connections. The first set of connections may be configured to connect to a specific pinout of a device under test. The second set of connections may be configured ... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8095734 | Managing cache line allocations for multiple issue processors An apparatus having a cache configured as N-way associative and a controller circuit is disclosed. The controller circuit may be configured to (i) detect one of a cache hit and a cache miss in response to each of a plurality of access requests to the cache, (ii) det... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8095591 | System and method for modifying documents sent over a communications network On-line health education includes displaying composites of personalized health content and patient-selected entertainment. Suitable sources of entertainment include generally available web pages and television programs. Composites are spatial (for page displays) or ... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8095340 | Home power management system Systems and methods for managing power usage are provided. The system includes a programmable microprocessor, at least one input mechanism, a memory having instructions and/or other information, a display, at least one power consuming power device and a remote serve... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8046643 | Transport subsystem for an MBIST chain architecture An apparatus including a controller configured to present one or more commands and receive one or more responses, a plurality of transport circuits configured to receive one of the commands, present the responses, and generate one or more control signals, and a plur... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8045618 | Method and apparatus for MPEG-2 to VC-1 video transcoding A method for transcoding from an MPEG-2 format to a VC-1 format is disclosed. The method generally comprises the steps of (A) decoding an input video stream in the MPEG-2 format to generate a picture; (B) determining a mode indicator for the picture; and (C) coding ... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8037805 | Pistol with off-axis slide An apparatus having a frame, a slide assembly and a barrel is disclosed. The slide assembly may be slidably mounted to the frame along a sliding plane. The barrel may be disposed in the slide assembly. The barrel generally has a bore shaped to accept an ammunition r... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8037219 | System for handling parallel input/output threads with cache coherency in a multi-core based storage array A system comprising a scheduler, a first core, and a second core. The scheduler may be configured to prioritize a plurality of input/output (IO) requests. The first core may be configured to process one of the plurality of IO requests based on the prioritizing of th... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8032399 | Treatment regimen compliance and efficacy with feedback A method and system for interaction with a community of individuals, relating to compliance with and effectiveness of treatment regimens, including supply and use of pharmaceuticals, using a protocol or other intelligent message which acts in place of a service prov... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8030897 | Battery backup system with sleep mode The present invention concerns an apparatus comprising a charger circuit and a control circuit. The charger circuit may be configured to generate a first power down control signal and a second power down control signal in response to (i) a first charge signal, (ii) ... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8027809 | Home power management system Systems and methods for managing power usage are provided. The system includes a programmable microprocessor, at least one input mechanism, a memory having instructions and/or other information, a display, at least one power consuming power device and a remote serve... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8027383 | Mosquito noise reduction filter in digital decoders A method for processing a compressed signal of digital video is disclosed. The method generally includes the steps of (A) generating a decompressed signal by decompressing the compressed signal of digital video, (B) generating a filtered signal by spatial filtering ... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8024201 | Method and apparatus for remote health monitoring and providing health related information A health monitoring system includes a plurality of remote user sites, each remote user site comprising at least one health monitoring device for collection of user health monitoring data, an interactive video device, and a user interface apparatus; at least one remo... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8023041 | Detection of moving interlaced text for film mode decision A method for detecting moving interlaced text in a video sequence originating through telecine is disclosed. The method generally includes the steps of (A) checking a motion condition of a current block in a current field in the video sequence for motion both (i) fr... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8023013 | Fixed pattern noise correction with compressed gain and offset A method of pixel correction is disclosed. The method generally includes the steps of (A) calibrating a per-pixel correction model of a sensor at a plurality of different illumination levels, (B) generating a plurality of pixel values from the sensor in response to ... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8019618 | Report generation in a networked health-monitoring system A networked health-monitoring system configured to collect and process patient health-related data. A plurality of remote patient sites, includes at least one display; a data management unit configured to facilitate collection of patient health-related data; a memor... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8018805 | Media type detection using a lock indicator A method for detecting a media type of an optical disc system comprising the steps of (A) checking for a first wobble signal associated with a first media type, (B) if step (A) detects the first wobble signal, operating the optical disc system as the first media typ... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8015030 | User-based health monitoring A user-based monitoring system includes a remote user-based subsystem with at least one display and at least two microprocessor-based units in communication with each other. The microprocessor-based units are selected from a group consisting of a data management uni... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8015025 | Method and apparatus for remote health monitoring and providing health related information A health monitoring system includes a plurality of remote user sites, each remote user site comprising at least one health monitoring device for collection of user health monitoring data, an interactive video device, and a user interface apparatus; at least one remo... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8009734 | Method and/or apparatus for reducing the complexity of H.264 B-frame encoding using selective reconstruction A method for implementing B-frame prediction in video compression comprising the steps of (A) setting a prediction flag (i) “off” if B-frames are used for block prediction and (ii) “on” if B-frames are not used for block prediction, (B) if the prediction fla... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8001374 | Memory encryption for digital video A method for protecting data between a circuit and a memory is disclosed. The method generally includes the steps of (A) generating a particular address among a plurality of addresses for accessing a particular area among a plurality of areas in the memory, (B) dete... | 08/16/2011 |
