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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8135492 | Method of making a surgical template used for a computer-guided dental implant surgery A method of making a surgical template used for a computer-guided dental implant surgery includes the steps of: establishing implant planning data of a patient's jaw, producing a digital plaster model of the patient's jaw, allowing the digital plaster model to have ... | 03/13/2012 |
| 7990328 | Conductor having two frequency-selective surfaces An antenna having two frequency-selective surfaces is disclosed. The antenna includes a first frequency-selective surface (FSS) having multiple holes to form a mesh, a second FSS having a multiple holes to form a mesh, and a perfect electric conductor located betwee... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7924712 | Processing platform selection method for data packet filter installation In a data packet system (100) comprised of a plurality of processing platforms that are each at least potentially in-line with respect to a flow of data packets, upon receiving (401) an installation of a data packet filter, automatically selecting (... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7877103 | Wireless mobile image messaging Non-verbal communications between users of wireless mobile devices are facilitated using image messages. An image message may e.g. convey information about the sender user, in particular, current information about the sender user. In one aspect, a user may select an... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7870017 | Method and apparatus for position bidding A method and system for determining a bidding strategy for on-line query answer set or contextual advertisement positions for marketing options is described herein. ... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7853724 | Automatic identification, negotiation, synchronization, and update of system interfaces Methods, apparatuses, and articles for exchanging by a first computing device with a second computing device indicia of one or more interfacing definitions supported by at least one of the first computing device and the second computing device are described herein. ... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7840678 | Host-level policies for global server load balancing In a network, a user can configure host-level policies usable for load balancing traffic to servers of a domain. A global server load balancing (GSLB) switch provides load balancing to the servers, and is configured with the GSLB host-level policies. Users can defin... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7839805 | System and method for wireless communication in a frequency division duplexing region A method and system for using half-duplex base stations and half-duplex nodes in a Frequency Division Duplexing region to provide wireless connectivity between the half-duplex base stations and customers in multiple sectors of a cell. The method and system can use t... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7839719 | Fluid erosion protection washer for rotating shaft in MWD tool A shaft protection washer to protect a rotating shaft in a “measurement while drilling” (MWD) tool. Use of the shaft protection washer renders the rotating shaft less susceptible to erosion from the drilling fluid flowing between the rotating component and the s... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7831208 | Wireless mobile phone having encoded data entry facilities A wireless mobile phone is provided with one or more buttons and complementary logic to facilitate entry of encoded representations of a variable length encoding scheme of alphanumeric data. As a result, a user may use the provided facilities to engage in non-verbal... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7826827 | Mobile electronic communication device with lights to indicate received messages A mobile electronic communication device includes a processor unit, a transceiver, a keypad and a light unit. Each key of the keypad is associated with a contact of a contact list. The light unit can perform light functions to notify a user of the reception and/or s... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7810144 | File transfer system for direct transfer between computers A file authentication requesting device that stores a computer program for requesting authentication of files in digital systems, the device comprises a confirmation request system that generates a request for a confirmation receipt from a third party authenticator ... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7792799 | Backing up a wireless computing device A method and apparatus are provided to backup and restore data (410) from/to wireless computing devices, utilizing strongly collision free deterministic identifiers. ... | 09/07/2010 |
| RE41655 | System and method of automatically calibrating the gain for a distributed wireless communication system A system and method providing a wireless broadband connection between base stations and customer sites. The system includes indoor units, within the base stations and customer sites, that communicate across cables to outdoor units. The indoor units link to routers, ... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7756965 | Configurable geographic prefixes for global server load balancing In a load balancing system, user-configurable geographic prefixes are provided. IP address prefix allocations provided by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) and associated geographic locations are stored in a first, static database in a load balancing sw... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7756687 | Method for predicting contributions of silicon interstitials to n-type dopant transient enhanced diffusion during a pn junction formation A method for predicting the contribution of silicon interstitials to n-type dopant transient enhanced diffusion during a pn junction formation is disclosed. Initially, fundamental data for a set of microscopic processes that can occur during one or more material pro... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7738857 | Wireless mobile phone with authenticated mode of operation including photo based authentication A wireless mobile phone is equipped to operate in an unauthenticated and an authenticated mode of operation, depending on whether a user has been authenticated against an authentication reference. In one embodiment, the authentication is performed against an authent... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7733681 | Ferroelectric memory with amplification between sub bit-line and main bit-line A memory capable of suppressing increase of the chip area thereof while increasing a read voltage is obtained. This memory comprises a memory cell array including a plurality of subarrays, a sub bit line arranged on each subarray and provided to be connectable to a ... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7730160 | Accessing deep web information associated with hospitality services using a search engine Methods, apparatuses, and articles for receiving a search request associated with a hospitality service from a client device, the search request including a plurality of search criteria, are described herein. Additionally, the methods, apparatuses, and articles furt... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7725102 | Method and apparatus for associating a received command with a control for performing actions with a mobile telecommunication device The invention is directed to associating a received command with a control such as a push button on a mobile telecommunication device, and enabling an action associated with the command to be performed when the control is later activated. The command may be received... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7716370 | Redundancy support for network address translation (NAT) Stateful failover redundancy support is provided for network address translation (NAT). A master NAT device is backed-up with at least one back-up NAT device. Existing sessions are synchronized between the two NAT devices, such as via a dedicated link between them. ... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7711391 | Multiple processor communication circuit cards and communication devices that employ such cards Multiprocessor circuit cards and communication devices that employ such cards are described herein. In some instances, the multiprocessor circuit cards may be subscriber identity module (SIM) cards and the communication devices may be wireless mobile telephones that... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7702315 | Unified communication thread for wireless mobile communication devices A mobile communication device, such as a wireless mobile phone, is provided with a unified message function equipped to facilitate a user in interacting with a communication partner including messages of different message types supported by the mobile communication ... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7698653 | Graphical user interface including zoom control box representing image and magnification of displayed image A graphical user interface (GUI) graphically corresponds to an image display window through which a single image or a stream of images or video frames are displayed. The GUI includes a zoom control box having an inner region positioned within an outer region. The si... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7679398 | Reprogrammable instruction DSP A software programmable DSP with a field programmable instruction set is described where customized instructions can be created, or certain existing instructions can be modified, at the user's location after taking delivery of the processor. The FPGA fabric used to ... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7676576 | Method and system to clear counters used for statistical tracking for global server load balancing Server load-balancing operation-related data, such as data associated with a system configured for global server load balancing (GSLB) that orders IP addresses into a list based on a set of performance metrics, is tracked. Such operation-related data includes inboun... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7676007 | System and method for interpolation based transmit beamforming for MIMO-OFDM with partial feedback Transmit beamforming with receive combining uses the significant diversity provided by multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems, and the use of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) enables low complexity implementation of this scheme over frequency... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7660582 | Method and apparatus to facilitate broadcast packet handling A first network element determines (11) that a given mobile node using mobile Internet Protocol should receive subsequent broadcast packets as may be sourced by a corresponding Home Agent. This first network element can then determine (12) whether to s... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7620493 | System, method and apparatus for providing navigational assistance The present invention provides a system, method and apparatus to assist a user navigate from a current location to a second location within an environment by determining a distance traveled by the user or from the user to one or more objects. The current location is... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7613446 | Wireless mobile phone with authenticated mode of operation including finger print based authentication A wireless mobile phone is equipped to operate in an unauthenticated and an authenticated mode of operation, depending on whether a user has been authenticated. In one embodiment, the wireless mobile phone includes a finger print reader to enable a user's finger pri... | 11/03/2009 |
| 7609119 | Reference voltage generator for logic elements providing stable and predefined gate propagation time A reference voltage generator and a method for generating a reference voltage for a logic device using the reference voltage generator is provided. The voltage reference generator includes a ring oscillator having a plurality of logic gates and a phase/frequency det... | 10/27/2009 |
| 7599992 | Autonomous rendering of email attachments An enhanced email agent generates a self-contained representation of a binary file attachment for transmission to one or more designated recipients. Each recipient may view the content of the binary file using only a generic web browser and otherwise independent of ... | 10/06/2009 |
| 7580273 | Digital memory with controllable input/output terminals Methods and apparatus for controlling an input/output (I/O) driver of an I/O terminal based at least in part on the values being provided to the I/O terminal is disclosed. In various embodiments, a detector is employed. The detector shuts off power to the I/O driver... | 08/25/2009 |
| 7570650 | Optical networking module including protocol processing and unified software control An optical networking module is formed with an integrated module including optical, optical-electrical and protocol processing components, and complementary software. In one embodiment, the integral protocol processing component is a single ASIC and supports multipl... | 08/04/2009 |
| 7568136 | Reconfigurable system and method with corruption detection and recovery Reconfigurable circuits and systems having a recovery module coupled to the reconfigurable circuit and configured to access the configuration memory to retrieve configuration data stored in the configuration memory. The recovery module analyzes the retrieved configu... | 07/28/2009 |
| 7568064 | Packet-oriented communication in reconfigurable circuit(s) A reconfigurable circuit having communication resources configured to facilitate selective packet-oriented communications among reconfigurable resources is described herein. ... | 07/28/2009 |
| 7543026 | System and method for address correction of electronic messages A method for providing a corrected e-mail address, whereby the domain portion of the e-mail address is parsed and, referring to a domain format rule database, a format rule or requirement corresponding to the domain is identified. A user is informed of the format ru... | 06/02/2009 |
| RE40684 | Fast cyclic redundancy check (CRC) generation A CRC generation unit includes a number of CRC calculation assemblies to be selectively employed to incrementally calculate a CRC value for a first sequence of N data bytes. The calculation is iteratively performed, one iteration at a time. Further, the selection of... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7498840 | Reconfigurable integrated circuits with scalable architecture including one or more adders An integrated circuit (IC) includes a number of function blocks (FB), of which at least one is re-configurable. Each of the FBs may be a reconfigurable function or a non-reconfigurable function or recursively expanded with additional “nested” function blocks. Th... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7478261 | Reconfigurable circuit with redundant reconfigurable cluster(s) A reconfigurable circuit having redundant reconfigurable clusters is described herein. ... | 01/13/2009 |
