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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7911467 | Method and system for displaying animation with an embedded system graphics API An animation file player can display animation files with an embedded system graphics application programming interface (graphics API). In an example implementation, an animation file comprises a Flash® animation file such as, a Shockwave Flash® animation file, an... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7805342 | Systems and methods for identifying and processing telecommunications billing exceptions Systems and methods for management and processing a plurality of types of telecommunication invoices at a user's site involving importiog the plurality of types of telecommunication invoices to identify and process telecommunications billing exceptions by performing... | 09/28/2010 |
| D618207 | Media device | 06/22/2010 |
| 7730257 | Method and computer program product to increase I/O write performance in a redundant array A method and related computer program product for achieving high performance I/O write rates in a redundant array using a fully recoverable communication queue stored in NVRAM on a RAID controller comprising, receiving an I/O write request from an application, deter... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7730228 | System for dual use of an I/O circuit A system provides dual use of a general purpose input/output (I/O) line. In an embodiment, the system comprises a controlling circuit having a dual purpose I/O line that is selectively operable in a serial transmit mode or an I/O mode. A first circuit that receives ... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7714747 | Data compression systems and methods Systems and methods for providing fast and efficient data compression using a combination of content independent data compression and content dependent data compression. In one aspect, a method for compressing data comprises the steps of: analyzing a data block of a... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7711934 | Processor core and method for managing branch misprediction in an out-of-order processor pipeline A processor core and method for managing branch misprediction in an out-of-order processor pipeline. In one embodiment, the pipeline of the processor core includes a front-end instruction fetch portion, a back-end instruction execution portion, and pipeline control ... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7625858 | Fabric conditioning compositions The concentrated liquid fabric softening composition of the present invention comprises an ester-linked triethanolamine (TEA) quaternary ammonium fabric softening material having an Iodine Value of between 0 and 60 and comprising a mixture of at mono-, di- and tri-e... | 12/01/2009 |
| 7590525 | Frame erasure concealment for predictive speech coding based on extrapolation of speech waveform A method and system are provided for synthesizing a number of corrupted frames output from a decoder including one or more predictive filters. The corrupted frames are representative of one segment of a decoded signal (sq(n)) output from the decoder. The method comp... | 09/15/2009 |
| 7579912 | Method and system for multiple tuner application using a low noise broadband distribution amplifier An active splitter circuit arrangement includes a first amplification module having a number of first input ports and first output ports. The first amplification module is configured to provide first stage amplification to a received input signal and produce from th... | 08/25/2009 |
| 7574377 | Systems, methods, and computer storage medium for vending products and services to purchasers having mobile communicators The present invention provides a vending system (1) for selling products or services to purchasers having mobile communicators (2) enabled to a wireless internet connection (7), and comprises:—means to permit a customer to communicate to an op... | 08/11/2009 |
| 6398373 | Pneumatic control system and method for shaping deformable mirrors in lithographic projection systems A system for adjusting a deformable mirror including a reaction plate, a plurality of pneumatic actuators coupled to the reaction plate, and a plurality of push-pull flexures coupled on a first end to the pneumatic actuators, and coupled on a second end t... | 06/04/2002 |
| 5809302 | System and method for enabling pointers to be passed from computer programs written using computer programming languages that do not support pointers Described herein is a system and method for enabling an application to pass a structure containing a pointer member to an external entity, wherein the application represents a computer program executing in a computer system, and the computer program is wr... | 09/15/1998 |
| 5781130 | M-ary (d,k) runlength limited coding for multi-level data A system for encoding digital data with an M-ary (d,k) code to provide multi-level coded data where M>2 comprises an M-ary (d,k) encoder for accepting digital input data. The M-ary (d,k) coder encodes the digital input data to produce a plurality of code ... | 07/14/1998 |
| 5737560 | Graphical method and system for accessing information on a communications network A system and computer-based method for permitting a computer system to access a network location using a browser application by activating a desktop icon. The system comprises a first computer readable program code means for causing the computer system to... | 04/07/1998 |
