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| 7947633 | Polycationic viscoelastic compositions Viscoelastic compositions are disclosed herein containing an effective amount of one or more random or structurally defined polycationic quaternary ammonium compounds for controlling the viscoelasticity of the composition. In at least one aspect, the present technol... | 05/24/2011 |
| D638268 | Smart gel tool handle | 05/24/2011 |
| 7945387 | Method and apparatus for distribution of satellite navigation data A method and apparatus for distributing satellite navigation data is described. In one example, satellite signals are processed at each of a plurality of reference stations to receive a respective plurality of satellite navigation data streams. Packets are formed in... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7941649 | SIMD processor executing min/max instructions A SIMD processor responds to a single min/max instruction to find the minimum or maximum valued data unit in an array of data units. The determined minimum/maximum value and an associated index value thereto may be output. Alternatively, the value of a data unit in ... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7941179 | System and method providing concurrent multimode communication A system and method providing concurrent multimode communication through multimode signal multiplexing. Various aspects of the present invention may comprise, during a first time period, transmitting a first portion of a first communication in a first communication ... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7941040 | Systems and methods for smart deicers Certain embodiments of the present invention provide a deicer system for heating water within a fluid receptacle to prevent ice from forming, the system including a main body configured to be positioned within the fluid receptacle, a heating element adapted to heat ... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7940871 | Reduced-complexity antenna system using multiplexed receive chain processing A method for processing signals is disclosed and may include performing using one or more circuits, orthogonally multiplexing, on to a single processing chain, a plurality of replicas of a signal received via a corresponding plurality of spatially distinct antennas.... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7940593 | Method and apparatus for verification of a gate oxide fuse element The present invention relates to a method and circuit for verifying the state of a gated fuse element used with a one-time programmable CMOS memory device. A first expected state is set and a state of a first gate-ox fuse is sensed. The state of the first gate-ox fu... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7940337 | Method and system for an integrated VSB/QAM/NTSC/OOB plug-and-play DTV receiver Systems and methods for processing signals in a communication system are disclosed and may include demodulating a wirelessly received inband signal and a wirelessly received out-of-band signal via a DTV receiver. One or more TV channels may be generated based on the... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7940319 | Image sensor pixel without addressing transistor and method of addressing same The invention describes in detail a solid-state CMOS image sensor, specifically the CMOS image sensor pixel that has only two row lines per pixel, pinned photodiode for sensing light, and one or two column lines. The pixel does not have an address transistor and the... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7940214 | Method and apparatus for determining absolute time-of-day in a mobile-assisted satellite positioning system A method and apparatus for determining time-of-day in a mobile receiver is described. In one example, expected pseudoranges to a plurality of satellites are obtained. The expected pseudoranges are based on an initial position of the mobile receiver and an initial ti... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7939386 | Image sensor applied with device isolation technique for reducing dark signals and fabrication method thereof The present invention relates to an image sensor applied with a device isolation technique for reducing dark signals and a fabrication method thereof. The image sensor includes: a logic unit; and a light collection unit in which a plurality of photodiodes is formed,... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7938316 | Online purchasing system supporting sellers with 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... | 05/10/2011 |
| RE42351 | Multiple credit meter A gaming machine (10) has a display (14) and a game controller (36) arranged to control images displayed on the display (14). The game controller (36) is arranged to play a game (16) wherein one or more random events are cau... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7937628 | Method and system for a non-volatile memory with multiple bits error correction and detection for improving production yield A method and system for a non-volatile memory (NVM) with multiple bits error correction are provided and may include detecting bit errors in a memory element, of a NVM array integrated within a chip, which remain uncorrected after forward error correction. A redunda... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7937593 | Storage device content authentication Systems and methods that storage device content authentication are provided. A system that verfies storage device content received from a storage device may comprise, for exmple, a security processor coupled to the storage device. The security processor may be adapt... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7937585 | Systems and methods for providing security to different functions Methods and systems are provided that use smartcards, such as subscriber identity module (SIM) cards to provide secure functions for a mobile client. One embodiment of the invention provides a mobile communication network system that includes a mobile network, a mob... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7937554 | System and method for managing memory Systems and methods that manage memory are provided. In one embodiment, a system for communications may include, for example, a memory management system that may handle a first application employing a virtual address based tagged offset and a second application empl... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7937107 | Method and system for Bluetooth, near field communication and simultaneous FM transmission and reception functions Methods and systems for wireless communication are disclosed and may comprise generating a first signal to enable transmission and/or reception of Bluetooth signals, and clocking direct digital frequency synthesizers (DDFSs) via the first signal to enable simultaneo... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7936850 | Method and apparatus for providing a digital automatic gain control (AGC) A method and apparatus for providing a digital automatic gain control (AGC) for a radio-frequency (RF) receiver. The receiver comprises a logarithmic analog-to-digital converter for sampling the analog RF signals, a FIR filter for filtering the digitized signals, a ... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7936840 | Demodulator for a multi-pair gigabit transceiver A feedforward equalizer for equalizing a sequence of signal samples received by a receiver from a remote transmitter. The feedforward equalizer has a gain and is included in the receiver which includes a timing recovery module for setting a sampling phase and a deco... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7936833 | Method and system for efficient transmission and reception of RF energy in MIMO systems using polar modulation and direct digital frequency synthesis Aspects of a method and system for efficient transmission and reception of RF energy in MIMO systems using polar modulation and direct digital frequency synthesis are provided. A plurality of carrier signals in a MIMO system may be polar modulated utilizing polar mo... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7936808 | Channel quantization for multiuser diversity A method and system for channel quantization for multiuser diversity are provided. A quantizer may utilize quantization levels determined based on an objective function J that corresponds to a performance metric for a finite-rate feedback multiuser downlink communic... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7936778 | Method and system for 10GBASE-T start-up Certain aspects for the start-up procedure of transceivers supporting higher data rates over twisted-pair copper cabling are provided for 10 Gbit/sec Ethernet links (10GBASE-T). During a PMA (physical medium attachment) training period of the start-up procedure, lon... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7936288 | Method and system for audio CODEC voice ADC processing Methods and systems for audio CODEC voice ADC processing are disclosed. Aspects of one method may include using a decimating filter that may be enabled to generate 13 MHz, 9-level digital output signal from a 26 MHz, 3-level digital input signal. The 13 MHz, 9-level... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7934021 | System and method for network interfacing Systems and methods for network interfacing may include a communication data center with a first tier, a second tier and a third tier. The first tier may include a first server with a first single integrated convergent network controller chip. The second server may ... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7933640 | Interchangeable localizing devices for use with tracking systems A system for tracking the position of an instrument relative to an area of interest includes a first fixator configured to carry first and second localizing devices. A second fixator is configured to carry the first localizing device. A third localizing device commu... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7933574 | Method and system for LNA adjustment to compensate for dynamic impedance matching Aspects of a method and system for LNA adjustment to compensate for dynamic impedance matching are provided. In this regard, an antenna matching network may be configured to maximize received signal strength for a determined frequency and an amplifier gain may be ad... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7933568 | Method and system for mitigating receiver saturation during simultaneous FM transmission and reception Aspects of a method and system for mitigating receiver saturation during simultaneous FM transmission and reception may include detecting a power of an RF signal received at an antenna. A power of one or more baseband signal components corresponding to the RF signal... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7933556 | Remote video access capability for a wireless video monitoring/cordless phone system A multimode cordless telephone system that can be used for remote video monitoring. The system includes a base station, at least one camera that is in wireless communication, at least periodically, with the base station, and a cordless handset, having a viewing scre... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7933555 | System and method for reducing phase noise Systems and methods that reduce phase noise are provided. In one embodiment, a method may include one or more of the following: generating a signal at a particular frequency in which the signal may be associated with a harmonic frequency signal disposed at a harmoni... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7933341 | System and method for high speed communications using digital signal processing Various systems and methods related to equalization precoding in a communications channel are disclosed. In one implementation preceding is performed on signals transmitted over an optical channel. In one implementation preceding and decoding operations are performe... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7933328 | Rate control for digital video compression processing A video compression algorithm for converting a digital video stream having video content into a compressed video bitstream, includes rate control to control the size of the compressed video bitstream. The rate control takes into account two or more of (1) detected s... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7933323 | Method and system for performing timing recovery in a digital communication system Processing signals in a digital communication may include equalizing a signal in a timing-recovery system using a frequency domain equalizer. The frequency domain equalizer may be a frequency domain adaptive filter that adapts using a least-mean-square algorithm whe... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7933312 | Method and system for reconfigurable SFBC/STBC in a diversity transmission system Aspects of a method and system for reconfigurable SFBC/STBC in a diversity transmission system are presented. Exemplary aspects of the system may include one or more circuits that enable generation of a plurality of codeword sequences based on a data sequence. In a ... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7933295 | Cable modem with voice processing capability A network gateway is configured to facilitate on line and off line bi-directional communication between a number of near end data and telephony devices with far end data termination devices via a hybrid fiber coaxial network and a cable modem termination system. The... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7932959 | Parallel television docking adapter A docking adapter that interacts with an entertainment system and a parallel television device. The docking adapter may comprise a housing shaped for removable insertion of the parallel television device. The docking adapter may deliver power to the parallel televis... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7932955 | Method and system for content adaptive analog video noise detection A method and system for content adaptive analog video noise detection are provided. A motion metric (MM) value, an edge detection value, and a content detection value may be determined for pixels in a video image. The MM values of pixels with edge detection values s... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7932604 | Configuration for multi-layer ball grid array Disclosed herein is a method and circuit arrangement for a multi-layer ball grid array configuration. In one embodiment, there is presented a board comprising a first surface, a second surface, and a plurality of vias. The second surface is connected to the first su... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7932546 | Image sensor having microlenses and high photosensitivity The method for manufacturing a CMOS image sensor is employed to prevent bridge phenomenon between adjacent microlenses by employing openings between the microlenses. The method includes the steps of: preparing a semiconductor substrate including isolation regions an... | 04/26/2011 |
