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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8085817 | Automatic clock synchronization and distribution circuit for counter clock flow pipelined systems A clock synchronization buffer for a counter clock flow pipelined circuit including a cascade of processing modules that receive data from a previous module and provide output results to a following module. The clock synchronization buffer receives a clock input sig... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8064541 | Hyper phase shift keying modulation A communications system and method for transmitting digital information includes arranging a modulator to have an input bit stream of binary data and arranging a signal generator to generate four orthonormal hyper phase shift keying (HPSK) basis functions that are p... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8050849 | Mixed-mode fuel minimization A mixed-mode method for operating a vehicle's propulsion plant to travel at a selected average speed using the minimum amount of fuel. The method involves travelling in one mode at high speed part of the time, and in a different mode at low speed part of the time, i... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8019090 | Active feedforward disturbance control system Noise effects in a signal for driving a plant are reduced by generating a reference signal from the error signal. A signal generator generates a reference signal for input to a finite impulse response (FIR) filter. The error signal is produced by differencing the tr... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8018096 | Inductive pulse forming network for high-current, high-power applications An inductive pulse forming network stores electrical energy delivered from an outside prime power supply in the electric field of a low-voltage, high-energy density network capacitor. Through timed actuation of a series of one or more switches, the energy stored in ... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8006937 | Spacecraft docking interface mechanism A demountable docking interface mechanism and method for docking and undocking two spacecraft utilizing the demountable docking interface mechanism. ... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7811918 | Electric current induced liquid metal flow and metallic conformal coating of conductive templates A conformal metallic layer is applied to a selected region of a substrate by forming a pattern of electrically conductive lines on the substrate, placing a bead of a selected metal on the substrate at an edge of the region selected for coating, and passing an electr... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7725595 | Embedded communications system and method A method and system for steganography and steganalytic techniques are provided for effecting embedded communications in a variety of communication environments. One aspect may include an embedded transmitter for inserting embedded data into a packet and an embedded ... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7675198 | Inductive pulse forming network for high-current, high-power applications An inductive pulse forming network stores electrical energy delivered from an outside prime power supply in the electric field of a low-voltage, high-energy density network capacitor. Through timed actuation of a series of one or more switches, the energy stored in ... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7661271 | Integrated electric gas turbine An integrated electric gas turbine comprises a compressor that includes a plurality of airfoils. An electric motor is arranged to drive the compressor, and a combustor is arranged to receive compressed air from the compressor and further arranged to receive a fuel i... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7627003 | Automatic clock synchronization and distribution circuit for counter clock flow pipelined systems A clock synchronization buffer for a counter clock flow pipelined circuit including a cascade of processing modules that receive data from a previous module and provide output results to a following module. The clock synchronization buffer receives a clock input sig... | 12/01/2009 |
| 7328456 | Method and system to detect dangerous file name extensions A file system event including a file name having at least a last file name extension is intercepted and stalled. The file name is parsed to obtain at least the last file name extension and a next to last file name extension, when present. A determination is made whe... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7328303 | Method and system for remote execution of code on a distributed data storage system In accordance with the invention, a data storage system for storing and retrieving fixed data content includes: a storage system network; one or more peer node computer systems interconnected by the storage system network; and at least one disklet stored on at least... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7325185 | Host-based detection and prevention of malicious code propagation Requests issuing on a host computer are intercepted and stalled prior to sending to target computer systems. The requests are analyzed to determine whether they are suspicious. Requests determined to be suspicious are added as request entries to a request database. ... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7325251 | Method and system to prevent peer-to-peer (P2P) worms A call to a file system function is intercepted in the context of a caller, and stalled. A determination is made whether malicious code, such as a peer-to peer (P2P) computer worm, is detected based upon the call. Upon a determination that malicious code is detected... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7299325 | Method of garbage collection on a data storage system A method includes determining a garbage collection list for a data storage structure of a node in a data storage system, the garbage collection list including one or more layout map identifiers (IDs) for garbage collection. A data fragment stored on the data storage... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7296138 | Method and apparatus to hook shared libraries across all processes on windows A process page table entry (PTE) associated with a process is located, and a determination is made whether the process PTE is prototype PTE. If the process PTE is a prototype PTE, the location of the actual PTE is determined. A copy-on-write functionality associated... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7296180 | Method for recovery of data A method for recovery of data objects on a data storage system includes determining a list of layout map IDs that place data objects on a node of a data storage system. For each layout map ID, a list of object IDs associated with each of the data objects assigned th... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7272748 | Method and apparatus to detect and recover from a stack frame corruption A prologue and an epilogue of a function are hooked. Completion of the prologue is stalled in a first state of a stack frame, and a copy of the first state of the stack frame is saved. Completion of the prologue is initiated, permitting execution of the function. Co... | 09/18/2007 |
| H2196 | Method for intercepting specific system calls in a specific application from applications space for security One or more specified system calls of a running process are trapped in kernel space from user space. While the process is stopped, information associated with the process is read and a security analysis is performed on the information to determine whether malicious ... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7216367 | Safe memory scanning A kernel mode memory scanning driver for use in safely scanning loaded drivers in the memory of computer systems utilizing Windows® NT based operating systems, such as Windows® 2000, Windows® XP, and other operating systems utilizing the Windows® NT kernel base,... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7149745 | Method for accessing database table columns The data type of requested data stored in a column of a database table is determined and the data accessed in the data type in which the data is stored. The data type can then be converted to a second data type before outputting the data. ... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7146562 | Method and computer system for displaying a table with column header inscriptions having a reduced horizontal size The header inscription of one or more columns in a data table is reduced in horizontal width. A user having input to a first view of a data table can select a desired column at any location in the column to reduce the horizontal width of the header inscription. The ... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7143304 | Method and apparatus for enhancing the speed of a synchronous bus An apparatus for enhancing the speed of a synchronous bus includes a two register based FIFO with software control bits and a second clock signal. According to the invention, the second clock signal rd_clk is supplied by the same PLL that provides the main clock sig... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7111186 | Method and apparatus for static phase offset correction A CPU clock signal generated from a phase lock loop (PLL) circuit and a feedback signal of the PLL circuit are used in generating a JBUS clock signal. The CPU clock signal and the feedback signal include the same amount of static phase offset introduced by the PLL c... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7099902 | Checkout and replace script Designated files are automatically scanned for instances of a first string pattern. When a text file containing an instance of the first string pattern is found, each instance of the first string pattern in the text file is automatically replaced with a second strin... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7010734 | Method for microprocessor test insertion reduction Methods for reducing the requirement for multiple test vector sub-set insertions of a test vector set on test equipment having a limited memory size. In one embodiment, a single, selective test vector sub-set is utilized in the pre-burn-in test phase of microprocess... | 03/07/2006 |
| 7003750 | Topology based wire shielding generation A topology based approach to shielding wire generation for an integrated circuit design. The present invention generates various templates by sizing one or more signal wire geometries. The various templates are then geometrically added to and/or subtracted from to g... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6842182 | Perceptual-based color selection for text highlighting The present invention varies the highlight color of a highlighted display area such that the salience of the highlighted display area remains constant to a user as the highlighted display area varies. A perceptual highlight color is determined based upon the total a... | 01/11/2005 |
| 6819138 | Dividing and distributing the drive strength of a single clock buffer Devices, methods, and networks that divide and proportionally distribute the drive strength of a clock buffer such that the output drive strength of the clock buffer is divided proportionally among a plurality of outputs from the clock buffer. In one embodiment, the... | 11/16/2004 |
| 6789245 | Use of coupling capacitance to balance skew in a network Coupling capacitance is used to balance skew in a network. In one embodiment, the coupling capacitance exerted by shielding wires oppositely adjacent one or more signal wires in a network is utilized to vary the speed of a signal carried on the one or more signal wi... | 09/07/2004 |
| 6759768 | Repeater methods for constrained pitch wire buses on integrated circuits Methods and devices for implementing repeaters in integrated circuit wire buses having a pre-determined wire pitch, such as a minimum wire pitch, are described. In one embodiment, a parameterized bus repeater circuit cell of variable length having a width of three t... | 07/06/2004 |
| 6741469 | Refrigeration cooling assisted MEMS-based micro-channel cooling system A refrigeration cooling assisted MEMS-based micro-channel cooling system that removes high heat densities generated by microelectronic components using a primary cooling system thermally coupled with a secondary chip embedded cooling system. ... | 05/25/2004 |
