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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6848016 | System and method for efficiently implementing an electronic device architecture A system and method for efficiently implementing an electronic device architecture preferably includes a primary device that is configured to perform core operating functions in the electronic architecture, an auxiliary device that is configured to perform selected ... | 01/25/2005 |
| 6826528 | Weighted frequency-channel background noise suppressor A method for implementing a noise suppressor in a speech recognition system comprises a filter bank for separating source speech data into discrete frequency sub-bands to generate filtered channel energy, and a noise suppressor for weighting the frequency sub-bands ... | 11/30/2004 |
| 6813139 | Electrochemical double layer capacitor having carbon powder electrodes A method of making a double layer capacitor, in accordance with one embodiment, includes coupling a top collector disk to a proximal end of a double layer capacitor electrode assembly; electrically coupling a bottom collector disk to a distal end; heating a can; ins... | 11/02/2004 |
| 6799205 | Distributed help system for consumer electronic devices Methods and systems consistent with the present invention provide help and configuration information for a plurality of consumer electronic devices in an audio/video network. More specifically, each network device provides help information, identifying the device an... | 09/28/2004 |
| 6798687 | System and method for effectively implementing a high speed DRAM device A system and method for effectively implementing a high-speed DRAM device may include memory cells that each have a bitline for transferring storage data, a wordline for enabling an accelerated-write operation in the memory cell, and a data storage node with a corre... | 09/28/2004 |
| 6788813 | System and method for effectively performing a white balance operation A system and method for effectively performing a white balance operation preferably includes an electronic camera device that captures image data using a image sensor device. A color manager may then analyze the image data to selectively locate one or more neutral a... | 09/07/2004 |
| 6788350 | Apparatus and method for implementing a unified clock recovery system An apparatus and method for effectively implementing a unified clock-recovery system includes an analog frontend module that is configured to generate an analog-source timing reference signal that is based upon analog-source data. Similarly, a digital frontend modul... | 09/07/2004 |
| 6788099 | System and method for effectively implementing an active termination circuit in an electronic device A system and method for effectively transferring electronic information in an electronic device may include a transmission line that connects a source device and a destination device. The foregoing transmission line may be implemented to include a conductor A and a ... | 09/07/2004 |
| 6785648 | System and method for performing speech recognition in cyclostationary noise environments A system and method for performing speech recognition in cyclostationary noise environments includes a characterization module that may access original cyclostationary noise from an intended operating environment of a speech recognition device. The characterization ... | 08/31/2004 |
| 6778959 | System and method for speech verification using out-of-vocabulary models A system and method for speech verification using out-of-vocabulary models includes a speech recognizer that has a model bank with system vocabulary word models, a garbage model, and one or more noise models. The model bank may reject an utterance or other sound as ... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6775730 | System and method for implementing a flexible interrupt mechanism A system and method for implementing a flexible interrupt mechanism in an electronic system includes a processor that may initially execute an initialization routine for performing an interrupt configuration procedure. The foregoing interrupt configuration procedure... | 08/10/2004 |
| 6772147 | System and method for effectively implementing a personal channel for interactive television A system and method for effectively implementing a personal channel for interactive television comprises a personal channel manager that may include a configuration module, a search module, and a content packaging module. A system user may utilize the configuration ... | 08/03/2004 |
| 6768979 | Apparatus and method for noise attenuation in a speech recognition system The noise suppressor utilizes statistical characteristics of the noise signal to attenuate amplitude values of the noisy speech signal that have a probability of containing noise. In one embodiment, the noise suppressor utilizes an attenuation function having a shap... | 07/27/2004 |
| 6753856 | System and method for dynamic correction of display characteristics A system and method for dynamically correcting display characteristics to compensate for non-uniformities is disclosed. In the preferred embodiment, the display screen is divided into logical tiles, and then the initial correction parameters of the characteristics u... | 06/22/2004 |
| 6751588 | Method for performing microphone conversions in a speech recognition system A method for performing microphone conversions in a speech recognition system comprises a speech module that simultaneously captures an identical input signal using both an original microphone and a final microphone. The original microphone is also used to record an... | 06/15/2004 |
| 6741794 | System and method for flexibly blending multiple image planes in a video device A system and method for flexibly blending multiple image planes in a video device comprises a timing controller configured to generate adjusted synchronization signals for pretiming multiple video image planes. The timing controller preferably generates the adjusted... | 05/25/2004 |
| 6734579 | System and method for activating a first device from a second device A signaling circuit may be implemented with a connection comprised of signal lines having predefined signals and/or functions. The predefined signals and/or functions may be defined by an individual entity or standards organization. The signaling circuit transmits i... | 05/11/2004 |
| 6728834 | System and method for effectively implementing isochronous processor cache A system and method for effectively implementing isochronous processor cache comprises a memory device for storing high-priority isochronous information, an isochronous cache coupled to the memory device for locally caching the isochronous information from the memor... | 04/27/2004 |
| 6718302 | Method for utilizing validity constraints in a speech endpoint detector A method for utilizing validity constraints in a speech endpoint detector comprises a validity manager that may utilize a pulse width module to validate utterances that include a plurality of energy pulses during a certain time period. The validity manager also may ... | 04/06/2004 |
| 6686925 | System and method for generating high-luminance windows on a computer display device A system and method for generating high-luminance windows on a computer display device includes a video amplifier which provides video signals to a cathode ray tube, a window generator which provides a window signal to the video amplifier to generate the ... | 02/03/2004 |
| 6678749 | System and method for efficiently performing data transfer operations An apparatus and method for efficiently performing data transfer operations in an electronic system preferably includes a plurality of buffers that may store data and commands during execution of data transfer operations. Initially, at least a portion of ... | 01/13/2004 |
| 6678362 | System and method for effectively managing telephone functionality by utilizing a settop box A system and method for effectively managing telephone functionality by utilizing a settop box may preferably include a television coupled to the settop box for displaying television programming from a television programming source, and a telephone couple... | 01/13/2004 |
| 6667988 | System and method for multi-level context switching in an electronic network A system and method for multi-level context switching in an electronic network comprises a control state machine configured to implement a data priority scheme, a return address generator configured to hold and release return addresses for interrupted ins... | 12/23/2003 |
| 6621423 | System and method for effectively implementing an electronic visual map device A system and method for effectively implementing an electronic visual map device comprises a visual map application that provides selected route images for display upon a display device in an initial route mode. The visual map application may also provide... | 09/16/2003 |
| 6618051 | System and method for creating and displaying representations of holographic images A system and method for creating and displaying representations of holographic images comprises a display device, digital image data, a simulation module configured to create a representation of a holographic image and display the representation on the di... | 09/09/2003 |
| 6614437 | Apparatus and method for efficient memory utilization in an electronic system An apparatus and method for efficient memory utilization in an electronic system comprises a memory divided into memory units of equal size, a data source, and an interface between the memory and the data source, which manages storage and retrieval of dat... | 09/02/2003 |
| 6584550 | System and method for updating a head entry from read-only to read-write and allowing a list to expand in a cache-coherence sharing list In a multi-processor system having cache-coherent sharing list, initiating a request to obtain a read-write copy updates a head of a cache sharing list from read-only status to read-write status. If another cache joins the list before the updating transac... | 06/24/2003 |
| 6584496 | Distributed help system for consumer electronic devices Methods and systems consistent with the present invention provide help and configuration information for a plurality of consumer electronic devices in an audio/video network. More specifically, each network device provides help information, identifying th... | 06/24/2003 |
| 6578109 | System and method for effectively implementing isochronous processor cache A system and method for effectively implementing isochronous processor cache comprises a memory device for storing high-priority isochronous information, an isochronous cache coupled to the memory device for locally caching the isochronous information fro... | 06/10/2003 |
| 6560635 | System and method for locally caching remote query replies in an electronic network A system and method for locally caching remote query replies in an electronic network comprises a local registry that performs a local query for a local software module to locate a target software element for a network messaging process. If the local quer... | 05/06/2003 |
| 6557067 | System and method to effectively compensate for delays in an electronic interconnect A system and method to effectively compensate for delays in an electronic interconnect comprises a controller that initially schedules a first transmission from a first talker device to several listener devices. The controller then schedules a second talk... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6542474 | System and method for incrementally updating remote element lists in an electronic network A system and method for incrementally updating remote element lists in an electronic network comprises a communication media manager that notifies an event manager whenever the electronic network is altered by a network event that adds or removes devices.... | 04/01/2003 |
| 6535940 | System and method for fast data transfers in an electronic network A system and method for fast data transfers in an electronic network comprises a data transfer engine configured to independently execute data transfer instructions and a processor configured to forward the data transfer instructions to the data transfer ... | 03/18/2003 |
| 6532075 | System and method for utilizing a topology detector to capture visual information A system and method for utilizing a topology detector to capture visual information comprises a topology detector that propagates a detection pulse towards a target object using a transmitter module, and then senses wave segments of the detection pulse wi... | 03/11/2003 |
| 6519265 | System and method for context switching in an electronic network A system and method for context switching in an electronic network comprises a memory configured to store instruction modules, each instruction module corresponding to a context, a processor that executes the instruction modules, and a control state machi... | 02/11/2003 |
| 6477573 | System and method for performing a hierarchical remote query in an electronic network A system and method for performing a hierarchical remote query in an electronic network comprises a local registry that classifies remote registries into discrete categories based upon the relative capability of their host devices. The local registry then... | 11/05/2002 |
| 6473735 | System and method for speech verification using a confidence measure The present invention comprises a system and method for speech verification using a confidence measure that includes a speech verifier which compares a differential score for a recognized word to a predetermined threshold value, where a recognized word is... | 10/29/2002 |
| 6472922 | System and method for flexibly distributing timing signals The present invention comprises a system and method for flexibly distributing timing signals. Timing signals may require varying delays when connected, via circuit paths of varying propagation delays, to multiple circuit elements in order to preserve circ... | 10/29/2002 |
| 6463489 | System and method for effectively performing isochronous data transfers A system and method for effectively performing isochronous data transfers comprises a network device including an input/output (I/O) bus that is coupled to an input/output (I/O) node and an isochronous-capable network interface. The network interface and ... | 10/08/2002 |
| 6457072 | System and method for effectively performing physical direct memory access operations A system and method for effectively performing physical direct memory access operations comprises a target device with a direct memory access engine that analyzes headers of transfer packets to determine how to successfully perform the physical direct mem... | 09/24/2002 |
