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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7567874 | System and method for detecting furniture cruising frequency to monitor gait decline A system and method for detecting furniture cruising frequency to monitor gait decline. Embodiments of the invention monitor the frequency of furniture cruising in one's home in such a way that it does not require daily user intervention to operate. Here, shock sens... | 07/28/2009 |
| 7549023 | Method and apparatus to update a cache for security records A method, apparatus, and article for caching security records for access by a hardware offloading device are disclosed. A method for updating security record entries in a hardware table is disclosed that includes marking every security record entry in the hardware t... | 06/16/2009 |
| 7512313 | System and method for automatically capturing user edits in a digital recording A method and system for automatically capturing user edits in a digital recording are described. The method involves determining a beginning time stamp for an edit segment in a digital recording and an ending time stamp for the edit segment in the digital recording.... | 03/31/2009 |
| 7502977 | Method and apparatus for reconfigurable memory A reconfigurable memory in an integrated circuit includes an array of memory cells and a memory controller. The array of memory cells in the reconfigurable memory are tested to determine if they are unusable and if so, their associated physical addresses correspondi... | 03/10/2009 |
| 7490260 | Method and apparatus for reconfigurable memory A reconfigurable memory in an integrated circuit includes an array of memory cells and a memory controller. The array of memory cells in the reconfigurable memory are tested to determine if they are unusable and if so, their associated physical addresses correspondi... | 02/10/2009 |
| 7490215 | Media memory system and method for providing concurrent memory access to a plurality of processors through separate translation table information A method and apparatus for matching parent processor address translations to media processors' address translations and providing concurrent memory access to a plurality of media processors through separate translation table information. In particular, a page direct... | 02/10/2009 |
| 7484210 | Apparatus and method for a generic, extensible and efficient data manager for virtual peripheral component interconnect devices (VPCIDs) An apparatus and method for a generic, extensible and efficient data manager for virtual peripheral component interconnect devices (VPCIDs). The apparatus includes a data manager and a data repository, where the data manager utilizes the data repository to maintain ... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7453469 | Slow dither display Embodiments of the invention provide an image display mode for displays, such as a television, that do not use the entire display field for displaying an image. A user selectable modification of the image display is provided, where the image may be stepped a predefi... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7421620 | Configuration proxy service for the extended firmware interface environment A method of abstracting information through object interfaces is described. The object interfaces are used to present platform device information in a pre-boot service environment. Firmware tables such as Advanced Configuration and Power Interface and System Managem... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7415027 | Processing frame bits In general, in one aspect, the disclosure describes a method of processing bits of a frame. The method includes accessing a subset of bits of a frame and based, at least in part, on the subset of bits, determining an address of an instruction within a set of instruc... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7414632 | Multi-pass 4:2:0 subpicture blending A circuit for blending video signals and subpicture signals is provided. The circuit includes a palette to output at least one subpicture value based on a palette index. The circuit also includes an alpha-blend unit coupled to the subpicture palette to blend a set o... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7409594 | System and method to detect errors and predict potential failures A system is disclosed that includes a component, a fault table configured to receive fault information associated with the component, and a diagnosis processor configured to read the fault information from the fault table and initiate corrective action as a function... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7401241 | Controlling standby power of low power devices Systems and methods of managing power provide for applying a voltage from a voltage regulator to a component of a computing system and reducing the voltage based on a power saving parameter that is dedicated to the component. The reduction can be in conjunction with... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7348975 | Applications of interval arithmetic for reduction of number of computations in ray tracing problems Embodiments provide for ray tracing traversal that relies on selected geometrical properties of the application to reduce the number of operations required during each traversal step. The traversal algorithm does not depend on the number of rays in the group. As a r... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7340677 | Methods and apparatuses of presenting categorical programs in progressive levels of content details Methods and apparatuses for presenting categorical programs. The method causes information of a plurality of programs fitting categories defined in a request to be retrieved from a database. The method then causes a first tabular layout to be generated. The first ta... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7340179 | Support of dual infrared remote signaling protocols A system and method for supporting two infrared signaling protocols in a single computing device is provided. The computing system operates in a default mode unless a priority signaling request is generated by an application program. Priority signaling requests are ... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7337362 | System and method to detect errors and predict potential failures A system is disclosed that includes a component, a fault table configured to receive fault information associated with the component, and a diagnosis processor configured to read the fault information from the fault table and initiate corrective action as a function... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7328455 | Apparatus and method for enabling secure content decryption within a set-top box An apparatus and method for enabling secure content decryption within a set-top box are described. The method includes performance of security authentication of a content driver by a content decryption component. Security authentication is performed in order to veri... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7325146 | Method and apparatus for generating SMI from ACPI ASL control code to execute complex tasks Embodiments of the present invention provide for generation of SMI from ACPI ASL control method code to execute complex tasks including, but not limited to, transferring or searching through large amounts of data dynamically. Instead of executing certain tasks using... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7324932 | Virtual test environment A method of and an apparatus for designing a test environment providing reliable test signal integrity, and of evaluating performance of the test environment and an electronic device during testing of the electronic device. A virtual test environment is created emul... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7302381 | Specifying arbitrary words in rule-based grammars A method and apparatus are described for specifying arbitrary words in a rule-based grammar, such as a context-free grammar. A wildcard identifier is used in a context-free grammar file in place of a predefined category of words. Artificial phoneme combinations that... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7295210 | Bin pointer and state caching apparatus and method A computer graphics system is provided that includes a memory to store image data, a bin pointer list to store information regarding a plurality of image subscenes, and a pointer cache system to maintain data regarding the plurality of image subscenes. The pointer c... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7286549 | Method, system, and program for processing data packets in packet buffers Provided are a method, system, and program for processing packets of data. An available packet buffer in memory is allocated to a received packet, wherein the received packet is stored in the allocated packet buffer. A determination is made as to whether a number of... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7225347 | Method and apparatus for enabling a low power mode for a processor In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, a triggering event is initiated to place a processor in a low power state. The processor may or may not flush a cache upon entering the low power state depending on a power status signal. The power status si... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7216154 | Apparatus and method for facilitating access to network resources For a client seeking network resources from a network site, such as a web page, audio, visual, or other data, where the network site's desired network resources are also provided by mirroring network hosts, measurements are made to determine a communication efficien... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7200156 | Modular broadband adapter system A system which allows modular expansion to provide additional services to high speed data. A high speed data line such as DSL or cable is input to a broadband expandable modem device. The modem device produces an output indicative of the data within the data stream.... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7139842 | Method and apparatus for intersystem cut/copy and paste An apparatus in accordance with the invention includes a switch-box, where the switch-box includes a memory buffer to which information is copied from a computing system selected via the switch-box from two or more computing systems coupled with the switch-box as a ... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7111190 | Method and apparatus for reconfigurable memory A reconfigurable memory in an integrated circuit includes an array of memory cells and a memory controller. The array of memory cells in the reconfigurable memory are tested to determine if they are unusable and if so, their associated physical addresses correspondi... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7080187 | Bug segment decoder Disclosed are a system and method of forwarding bus transactions from a source device to a target device in multiple data bus enviroment. A bridge is coupled between a first data bus and a second data bus while a target device is coupled to the first data bus at a d... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7042942 | Zigzag in-order for image/video encoder and decoder In an encoding or decoding process for compressible data, non-raster ordered bitstreams of transform data are rearranged in memory so later data access is contiguous, efficiently allowing processing in a single cache line. In an encoder, rearrangement can utilize a ... | 05/09/2006 |
| 6934670 | Virtual test environment A method of and an apparatus for designing a test environment and of evaluating performance of the test environment and an electronic device during testing of the electronic device. A virtual test environment is created emulating an actual test environment. A virtua... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6931461 | Bus optimization based on network device communication Embodiments of a method and apparatus for improving bus utilization, such as for transferring data to a modem, for example, are described. ... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6901534 | Configuration proxy service for the extended firmware interface environment A method of abstracting information through object interfaces is described. The object interfaces are used to present platform device information in a pre-boot service environment. Firmware tables such as Advanced Configuration and Power Interface and System Managem... | 05/31/2005 |
