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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8185614 | Systems, methods, and apparatus for identifying accessible dispersed digital storage vaults utilizing a centralized registry A centralized depository for storing information regarding a collection of servers and other hardware used to implement a plurality of virtual dispersed data storage containers is disclosed. The centralized depository describes each virtual dispersed data storage co... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184679 | RF transceiver having adaptive modulation A modulation control module for use in an RF transceiver, the modulation control module includes a processing module and memory. The memory is operably coupled to the processing module, wherein the memory stores operational instructions that causes the processing mo... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8180285 | Millimeter wave near field communication device A device includes a processing module, a millimeter wave (MMW) oscillation module, a MMW beamforming module, and a plurality of amplifiers. The processing module determines activation of the device and thereafter modulates data to produce modulated data, determines ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8175646 | Networking of multiple mode handheld computing unit A handheld computing unit includes a MMW transceiver, a hardware section, an operating system section, and an application section. When the handheld computing unit is in a extended mode: the hardware section is operably coupled to a hardware section of an extended c... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175108 | Wirelessly configurable memory device A configurable memory includes an interface section, a plurality of memory modules, and an internal configuration section. The interface section includes a millimeter wave (MMW) transceiver and interfaces with one or more external components. Each the plurality of m... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8171102 | Smart access to a dispersed data storage network A method for reading data from a dispersed data storage network that includes a plurality of slice servers. The method begins by accessing a list of slice servers of the plurality of slice servers, wherein each slice server on the list stores at least one data slice... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8171101 | Smart access to a dispersed data storage network An improved system for accessing data within a distributed data storage network (“DDSN”) is disclosed. In a system implementing the disclosed invention, traffic is routed to individual slice servers within the DDSN in accordance with objective criteria as well a... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170142 | Programmable hybrid transmit baseband module A programmable hybrid transmit baseband module includes a wireless protocol conversion module, a set of modules, and a mode select module. The wireless protocol conversion module is operable to convert outbound data into a complex signal having an in-phase (I) signa... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8145146 | RF transmitter front-end and applications thereof A radio frequency (RF) transmitter front-end includes a digital to analog conversion module and a power amplifier module. The digital to analog conversion module is coupled to convert amplitude information into analog amplitude adjust signals when a first mode is ac... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8140777 | Billing system for information dispersal system An apparatus includes a processing module and a network interface. The processing module is operably coupled to: access user level metadata based on account identifier to identify a plurality of files associated with a user and retrieve user level metadata for the p... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8115598 | Near field communication front-end A near field communication front-end includes an up conversion module, a plurality of coils, and a down conversion module. The up conversion module is coupled to convert an outbound symbol stream into a plurality of outbound signals based on a frequency-space encodi... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8107890 | Multiple frequency band multiple standard device with reduced blocker A device includes a transcevier and a processing module. The transceiver is operable to receive a wireless communication request from a requesting wireless communication device and to convert the wireless communication request into a baseband or near baseband reques... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8077810 | Apparatus for high data throughput reception in a WLAN An apparatus for high data throughput reception in a WLAN includes a receiving module, first and second determining modules, a generating module, and a producing module. The receiving module receives a symbol vector representing M streams of symbols transmitted via ... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8019960 | Metadata management system for an information dispersed storage system An apparatus includes a processing module and a network interface. The processing module is operably coupled to obtain; a data storage transaction request regarding a file; determine identity of a user based on the data storage transaction request; access file level... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8018375 | Radar system using a projected artificial magnetic mirror A projected artificial magnetic mirror (PAMM) radar device includes a transceiver module, a shaping module, and an antenna structure. The antenna structure includes a plurality of metal patches, a metal backing, a dielectric material, and one or more antennas. The m... | 09/13/2011 |
| 7995667 | Reduced latency concatenated reed solomon-convolutional coding for MIMO wireless LAN A wireless local area network (WLAN) transmitter includes a baseband processing module and a plurality of radio frequency (RF) transmitters. The baseband processing module operably coupled to scramble data in accordance with a pseudo random sequence to produce scram... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7991375 | RFIC with high power PA A radio frequency (RF) front-end includes a plurality of power amplifier modules and a plurality of impedance matching circuits. Each of the plurality of impedance matching circuits includes an input connection and an output connection, wherein outputs of the plural... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7978789 | Frequency shift keying modulator and applications thereof An FSK modulator and applications thereof are disclosed. The FSK modulator comprises a phase-locked loop, a frequency divider module, an image rejection mixer and a summing module. The phase-locked loop is operably coupled to generate a first oscillation from a refe... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7962641 | Streaming media software interface to a dispersed data storage network A client computer streams a digital media presentation from a dispersed data storage network including a plurality of slice servers. A dispersed data storage network access component streams data directly from the dispersed data storage network and passes data to a ... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7957457 | Voice data RF wireless network IC An integrated circuit (IC) includes at least one baseband processing module, an RF section, and an interface. The baseband processing module converts outbound voice signal into an outbound voice symbol stream; an inbound voice symbol stream into an inbound voice sig... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7953937 | Systems, methods, and apparatus for subdividing data for storage in a dispersed data storage grid An efficient method for breaking source data into smaller data subsets and storing those subsets along with coded information about some of the other data subsets on different storage nodes such that the original data can be recreated from a portion of those data su... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7953771 | Virtualized data storage vaults on a dispersed data storage network A dispersed data storage system includes a plurality of slice servers. In the system, a first set of the slice servers supports a first virtual digital data storage vault and a second set of the slice servers supports a second virtual digital data storage vault. A s... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7953377 | WCDMA transmit architecture Wideband-Code Division Multiple Access (W-CDMA) transmit architecture. A baseband digital processing module operates cooperatively with an analog signal processing module to effectuate highly adjustable and highly accurate gain adjustment in accordance with transmit... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7952962 | Directional microphone or microphones for position determination Directional microphone or microphones for position determination. One or multiple directional microphones are implemented in various locations to perform acoustic wave capture of acoustic waves associated with object (e.g., a player, a gaming object, a game controll... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7944398 | Integrated circuit having a low efficiency antenna An integrated circuit (IC) includes an RF transceiver, a die, a package substrate, an antenna element, and a transmission line circuit. The die supports the RF transceiver and the package substrate supports the die. The antenna element has a length less than approxi... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7933636 | Cell phone wireless speaker-microphone sleep modes A hand held radio host includes circuitry for selectively providing power to radiating transceiver elements and non-radiating application elements according to a plurality of power modes of operation to achieve desired effects and in a way that saves power and exten... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7933562 | RF transceiver with adjustable antenna assembly A radio frequency (RF) transceiver includes a baseband processing module, a configurable receiver section, a configurable transmitter section and a configurable antenna assembly. The baseband processing module converts outbound data into an outbound symbol stream, c... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7929939 | Multi-mode cellular IC memory management An RFIC includes first and second RF sections, first and second PHY processing modules, first and second upper layer processing modules, and memory. When the RFIC is in a first receive mode, the first RF section, the first PHY processing module, and the first upper ... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7904475 | Virtualized data storage vaults on a dispersed data storage network A system, method, and apparatus for implementing a plurality of dispersed data storage networks using a set of slice servers are disclosed. A plurality of information records are maintained, with each information record corresponding to a dispersed data storage netw... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7899410 | Adjustable antenna interface and applications thereof An adjustable antenna interface includes a single-ended to differential conversion circuit, an adjustable impedance matching circuit, an RF differential switch, and an input. The single-ended to differential conversion circuit converts inbound RF signals from single... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7885600 | RFID system with RF bus A radio frequency identification (RFID) system includes an RFID reader, an RFID tag, and a network connection module. The RFID reader includes a reader radio frequency (RF) bus transceiver. The network connection module includes a network connection RF bus transceiv... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7885320 | MGT/FPGA clock management system A device and a method for processing high data rate serial data includes circuitry for recovering a clock based on the high data rate input data stream and for providing the recovered clock to a circuit portion, for example, a portion of a field programmable gate ar... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7853234 | RFIC with high power PA A radio frequency (RF) front-end includes a plurality of power amplifier modules and a plurality of impedance matching circuits. Each of the plurality of impedance matching circuits includes an input connection and an output connection, wherein outputs of the plural... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7852970 | Programmable hybrid transmitter A programmable hybrid transmitter includes a baseband processing module, an up-conversion module, and a power amplifier circuit. The baseband processing module is coupled to convert outbound data into a complex signal when the programmable hybrid transmitter is in a... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7844242 | Wireless communication device with programmable antenna system A wireless communication device includes an integrated circuit (IC) and an antenna system. The IC includes a processing module and a transceiver section. The processing module establishes a wireless communication protocol, converts outbound data into an outbound sym... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7839334 | IC with a 55-64 GHz antenna An integrated circuit (IC) includes a package substrate, a die, and an antenna structure. The die includes a functional circuit module and a radio frequency (RF) transceiver that processes inbound and outbound RF signals. The antenna structure is coupled to the RF t... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7830985 | Analog front-end having built-in equalization and applications thereof An analog front-end having built-in equalization includes a control module and a tunable gain stage. The control module is operably coupled to provide a frequency response setting based on a channel response of a channel providing high-speed serial data to the analo... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7827430 | Integrated circuit with interpolation to avoid harmonic interference An integrated circuit (IC) includes a clock circuit, a processing module, and processing circuitry. The clock circuit is coupled to produce a digital clock signal. The processing module is coupled to determine whether a harmonic component of the digital clock signal... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7818518 | System for rebuilding dispersed data A digital data file storage system is disclosed in which original data files to be stored are dispersed using some form of information dispersal algorithm into a number of file “slices” or subsets in such a manner that the data in each file share is less usable ... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7809329 | Shared RF bus structure A device includes a plurality of ICs and an RF bus structure. Each IC includes a plurality of circuit modules, a switching module, an RF bus transceiver, an antenna interface, and an antenna structure. The switching module provides controlled access to the RF bus tr... | 10/05/2010 |
