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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7949785 | Secure virtual community network system A private virtual dynamic network is provided for computing devices coupled to public networks or private networks. This enables computing devices anywhere in the world to join into private enterprise intranets and communicate with each other. In one embodiment, the... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7949493 | Energy efficient achievement of integrated circuit performance goals A system and method for meeting performance goals in an electronic system in an energy efficient manner. Various aspects of the present invention may comprise operating an electrical circuit at a current level of performance and a current level of energy efficiency ... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7949419 | Method and system for controlling gain during multipath multi-rate audio processing Methods and systems for processing audio signals are disclosed herein. Aspects of the method may comprise controlling gain during multipath, multi-rate audio processing by generating via a digital gain circuit, a digital signal that is a product of an input digital ... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7949336 | Access control in a cellular system Controlling use of a mobile network element is disclosed. An indication is received that a mobile station associated with a mobile network is attempting to access the mobile network via a base transceiver station that (1) the mobile station is not authorized to use ... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7949297 | Method and system for mobile receiver antenna architecture for handling various digital video broadcast channels A method for an antenna architecture for handling various Digital Video Broadcast (DVB) channels may be provided. The method may comprise receiving, at a first circuit, a first signal within a 850 MHz band, a 1900 MHz band and/or a 2100 MHz band, wherein the first c... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7948544 | CMOS image sensor Disclosed herein is a CMOS image sensor for improving an image quality by removing an offset noise occurred in a path difference. The CMOS image sensor includes a pixel array including a plurality of a first pixel and a second pixel; a first analog data bus and a se... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7948325 | Apparatus and method for phase lock loop gain control using unit current sources A gain compensator compensates for the gain variation of a varactor-tuned voltage tuned oscillator (VCO) in a phase lock loop (PLL). The VCO includes a parallel LC circuit having multiple fixed capacitors that can be switched-in or switched-out of the LC circuit acc... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7947847 | Stabilized vegetable oils and methods of making same A method for modifying ethylenic unsaturation in a triglyceride. One or more unsaturated fatty acyl moieties present in the triglyceride are substituted with a lactone or ketone moiety via an electron acceptor mediated reaction. The resulting reaction products are u... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7944394 | Method and apparatus for validating a position in a satellite positioning system using range-rate measurements Method and apparatus for validating an initial position in a satellite positioning system using range-rate measurements is described. In one example, range-rate measurements are obtained at the remote receiver with respect to a plurality of satellites. Expected rang... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7944322 | Method and system for flip chip configurable RF front end with an off-chip balun Methods and systems for a flip chip configurable RF front end with an off-chip balun may include bonding a balun package to a single integrated circuit (IC) comprising an integrated transmitter and a receiver. The balun package may comprise one or more layers and ma... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7942316 | Online purchasing system supporting buyer affordability screening An online system uses, in various embodiments of the invention, credit report information, loan affordability screening and credit approval and management functionality to facilitate the purchase and finance of products online. The online system may include both sel... | 05/17/2011 |
| D638135 | Portion of a vial | 05/17/2011 |
| 7533327 | Method and system for bluetooth decoding A system and method for Bluetooth® decoding is disclosed and may include calculating a remainder value based on a received bit sequence and a generator polynomial for a corresponding transmitted Bluetooth bit sequence. Remainders may be generated from known error v... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7533273 | Method and system for controlling an encryption/decryption engine using descriptors Controlling an encryption/decryption device using descriptors may include formatting a first block of memory to contain a generic data template used to control the encryption/decryption device. The first memory block may be configured with actual data values corresp... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7532893 | Automatic quality of service based resource allocation A system and method for providing quality-of-service based network resource allocation and utilization in a dynamic network environment. For example, a wireless communication network may comprise a first system and a second system. The first system may provide a cur... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7532639 | System and method for message queue management in a power-save network A method and apparatus for communicating information between networked devices. Various aspects of the present invention may comprise, for example, a first networked device communicating information over a wireless communication network to a second networked device ... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7532031 | Hardware and software programmable fuses for memory repair The present invention relates to a system and method for increasing the manufacturing yield of a plurality of memory cells used in cell arrays. A programmable fuse, having both hardware and software elements, is used with the plurality of memory cells to indicate th... | 05/12/2009 |
| D592119 | Vehicle wheel | 05/12/2009 |
| D592057 | Closure | 05/12/2009 |
| 7529869 | Mixed-signal single-chip integrated system electronics for data storage devices An integrated data storage control system provides, in a single integrated circuit, RDC, servo logic, ATA interface, microprocessor, and other formerly discrete components in one highly integrated system design. The integrated circuit is rendered using a single inte... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7529426 | Correlation function for signal detection, match filters, and 3:2 pulldown detection A system and method that computes correlation between a first signal and a second signal. The correlation is computed as a ratio of a numerator and a denominator. The numerator may be computed similar to computing the numerator of the Pearson correlation. The denomi... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7529330 | Closed loop sub-carrier synchronization system A system and method for synchronizing sub-carriers in a signal processing system. Various aspects of the present invention may comprise method steps and structure that receive a sampled signal. Various aspects may produce a synchronization signal based on the sample... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7529325 | Voice and data exchange over a packet based network with timing recovery A signal processing system which discriminates between voice signals and data signals modulated by a voiceband carrier. The signal processing system includes a voice exchange, a data exchange and a call discriminator. The voice exchange is capable of exchanging voic... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7528889 | System, method, and apparatus for displaying streams with dynamically changing formats A system and method for displaying frames with dynamically changing display parameters is described herein. The display engine stores new display parameters detected by the decoder in one buffer of a ping pong buffer, while continuing to use another set of display p... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7528887 | System and method for performing inverse telecine deinterlacing of video by bypassing data present in vertical blanking intervals A system and method that determine a portion of video data with relevant information about that video to be used in statistical calculations associated with the video. The method may comprise determining the starting line and ending line of the portion of video data... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7528666 | Apparatus and method for phase lock loop gain control using unit current sources A gain compensator compensates for the gain variation of a varactor-tuned voltage tuned oscillator (VCO) in a phase lock loop (PLL). The VCO includes a parallel LC circuit having multiple fixed capacitors that can be switched-in or switched-out of the LC circuit acc... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7527933 | Genetic products differentially expressed in tumors and the use thereof The invention relates to the identification of genetic products expressed in association with tumors and to coding nucleic acids for the expressed products. An embodiment of the invention also relates to the therapy and diagnosis of disease in which the genetic prod... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7527482 | Method and apparatus for compressing a gas to a high pressure A method is provided for compressing a gas in a single cycle and in a single cylinder to a pressure of at least 17.2 Mpa with a compression ratio of at least about five to one. The method further comprises dissipating heat from the cylinder during the compression st... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7527041 | Fuel injection valve A fuel injection valve introduces a fuel into an engine and controlling fuel flow to reduce variability between injection events. The fuel injection valve employs an arrangement for a valve nozzle that cooperates with a valve needle to provide a range of needle move... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7526312 | Communication system and method in a hybrid wired/wireless local area network Aspects of the invention provide a system and method for communicating in a hybrid wired/wireless local area network. A method for communicating in a hybrid wired/wireless local area network may include communicating at least a first messaging protocol message betwe... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7526245 | Method and system for single chip satellite set-top box system Certain embodiments of the invention may be found in an single chip satellite set-top box solution that comprises demodulation, decoding and audio/video display functions integrated within a single chip. The single chip solution for the satellite set-top box is adap... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7526016 | Bluetooth access code assisted initial DC estimation and frame synchronization A system for calculating DC offset and achieving frame detection is described. In one embodiment, the present invention includes an electronic device with an integrated receiver module. The receiver module can take advantage of a known synchronization pattern such a... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7525600 | Single integrated high definition television (HDTV) chip for analog and digital reception Methods and systems for processing television signals are disclosed herein, and may comprise decoding a first analog video signal via an integrated circuit comprising circuitry for decoding and processing digital video signals. A second analog video signal may be si... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7525599 | System and method for blending of spatial interpolation and weaving A method for processing video information may include calculating a plurality of motion indicators for a plurality of pixels in a current field and at least one corresponding plurality of pixels in at least one adjacent field. At least one of the plurality of motion... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7525554 | Content based hanging protocols facilitated by rules based system The present invention provides a computer-readable storage medium including a set of instructions for a computer. The instructions include an access routine, a tracking routine, and a modifying routine. The access routine is configured to communicate a default hangi... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7525485 | Method and system for antenna geometry for multiple antenna handsets Certain embodiments for antenna geometry for multiple antenna handsets may include receiving RF signals via a patch antenna coupled to a signal processing circuitry within a mobile terminal. The signal processing circuitry may process the RF signals, comprising at l... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7523324 | Method and apparatus for improving bus master performance A method and apparatus are disclosed for performing dynamic arbitration of memory accesses by a CPU and at least one bus master interface module based on, at least in part, monitoring a CPU throttle control signal and monitoring CPU power and performance states, and... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7523299 | Method and system for modifying operation of ROM based boot code of a network adapter chip Certain embodiments for modifying operation of ROM based boot code may include modifying a bootup sequence for boot code resident in a ROM within a network adapter chip (NAC). The bootup sequence may be modified during booting of the NAC using code patches in memory... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7522941 | Method and apparatus for reducing standby power consumption of a handheld communication system Method and apparatus for managing power consumption within a handheld multistandard communication system are disclosed and may comprise receiving a power setting signal from a control device within the handheld multistandard communication system. The power setting s... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7522740 | Multi-coil coupling system for hearing aid applications A hearing improvement device using a multi-coil coupling system and methods for operating such a device are disclosed. An embodiment of the present invention may use an array microphone to provide highly directional reception. The received audio signal may be filter... | 04/21/2009 |
