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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8185710 | Hardware memory locks Methods, systems and computer program products to implement hardware memory locks are described herein. A system to implement hardware memory locks is provided. The system comprises an off-chip memory coupled to a SOC unit that includes a controller and an on-chip m... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185689 | Processor with compare operations based on any of multiple compare data segments A method may include, in response to a single command and an N-bit segment value, generating a search key comprising M segments for at least one of a plurality of different databases, the N-bit segment value forming different ones of the M search key segments accord... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185075 | System and method for channel bonding in multiple antenna communication systems Systems and methods that provide channel bonding in multiple antenna communication systems are provided. In one embodiment, a method for signal transmission over a plurality of antennas of a transmitter may include, for example, one or more of the following: demulti... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184921 | Matching pursuits basis selection A method, apparatus, and computer-readable medium for basis selection is described. A plurality of sub-bands of digital data is generated and a basis function for the digital data in one of the plurality of sub-bands is determined at a rate that provides a substanti... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8183905 | Configurable clock signal generator A method to provide a low-power clock signal or a low-noise clock signal is described herein. It is determined whether a low-power mode or a low-noise mode is in use. A voltage reference input of a low-dropout voltage regulator (LDO) is switched to a low-power volta... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8181000 | Method and apparatus for binding shadow registers to vectored interrupts A method and apparatus within a processing system is provided for associating shadow register sets with interrupt routines. The invention includes a vector generator that receives interrupts, and generates exception vectors to call interrupt routines that correspond... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180834 | System, method, and computer program product for filtering messages and training a classification module The present invention provides systems, methods, computer program products, and combinations and subcombinations thereof for filtering received messages. The invention includes a client system having filtering logic, a statistical classifier module, and a classifier... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180696 | Stock purchase indices A method and system for determining investor participation driven stock purchase indices. Raw customer trading data is received from an accounting system. The raw customer trading data is then aggregated to generate daily transaction total counts for all stocks (tha... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180615 | System and method for simulation, modeling and scheduling of equipment preparation in batch process manufacturing facilities A method and system for simulating, modeling and scheduling equipment preparation procedures in the biopharmaceutical production process is described herein. The use of process vessels in batch process manufacturing is optimized through the use of peak load scheduli... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8177724 | System and method for snore detection and confirmation The invention provides a method for determining when a person is snoring by determining a candidate snore event by detecting the occurrence of a person's breath, and detecting the occurrence of a sound event. The method further includes confirming that the candidate... | 05/15/2012 |
| D659853 | Building exterior | 05/15/2012 |
| D659712 | Media device | 05/15/2012 |
| D659671 | Electronic device | 05/15/2012 |
| D659530 | Packaging | 05/15/2012 |
| 8176334 | Document security system that permits external users to gain access to secured files An improved system and approaches for exchanging secured files (e.g., documents) between internal users of an organization and external users are disclosed. A file security system of the organization operates to protect the files of the organization and thus prevent... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8176320 | System and method for data access and control The present invention provides techniques for granting access to secured data. An access candidate may access some or all of the secured data by gaining access to two sequential levels of security. The first security level secures access to the resources used to man... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175563 | Programmable baseband filters supporting auto-calibration for a mobile digital cellular television environment A method for processing wireless information is disclosed and may include performing by one or more circuits within a single-chip multi-band RF receiver, the one or more circuits comprising a filter, generating at least one control signal based on a signal strength ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175420 | System and method for in-browser photo editing An in-browser photo-editing application method and system. The method may typically include retrieving an image for manipulation along with a set of image manipulation instructions at a client computer and engaging a manipulation to the image from the client compute... | 05/08/2012 |
| D659163 | Display module for an electronic device | 05/08/2012 |
| D659143 | Docking station | 05/08/2012 |
| D659135 | Handheld portable computing device | 05/08/2012 |
| D658880 | Case | 05/08/2012 |
| 8170592 | Method and system for frame timing acquisition in evolved universal terrestrial radio access (EUTRA) Aspects of a method and system for frame timing acquisition in evolved universal terrestrial radio access (EUTRA) may include determining a received secondary synchronization sequence (SSS) based on a selected cyclic prefix length and on synchronization of a primary... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170204 | Method and system for extending advanced encryption standard (AES) operations for enhanced security In a wireless communication system, a method and system for extending Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) operations for enhanced security are provided. In an AES encryption operation, an initial state may be modified by XORing with an initial modifier before a first... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170125 | Subdimensional single-carrier modulation A method for modulating a sequence of data symbols such that the transmit signal exhibits spectral redundancy. Null symbols are inserted in the sequence of data symbols such that a specified pattern of K data symbols and N−K null symbols is formed in every period ... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170086 | Method and apparatus for performing signal correlation A method of computing a correlation between a pseudorandom reference code and a satellite signal is provided. The method comprises receiving a satellite signal having a repeating code modulated thereon, wherein the satellite signal comprises a pseudorange; correlati... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8169999 | Method and system for preserving content timing across femtocell interfaces via timestamp insertion Aspects of a method and system for preserving content timing across femtocell interfaces via timestamp insertion are provided. In this regard, a femtocell may receive a first time-stamped packet via a first interface and transcode the time-stamped packet. The femtoc... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8169519 | System and method for reducing motion blur using CCD charge shifting A method and system is disclosed for reducing motion blur using CCD charge shifting. In one embodiment, photodiode wells are exposed for a set of successive exposures with each exposure duration being a fraction of a total exposure time. After each successive exposu... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8169441 | Method and system for minimizing an amount of data needed to test data against subarea boundaries in spatially composited digital video A method and system for minimizing an amount of data needed to test data against subarea boundaries in spatially composited digital video is provided. Graphics data for a frame is composed of geometry chunks. Each geometry chunk is defined by its own bounding region... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8169370 | Method and system for antenna geometry for multiple antenna handsets Certain embodiments for antenna geometry for multiple antenna handsets may include receiving RF signals via a patch antenna coupled to a signal processing circuitry within a mobile terminal. The signal processing circuitry may process the RF signals, comprising at l... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8169344 | 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... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8168566 | 4-biphenyl-substituted pyrazolidin-3,5-dione derivatives The present invention relates to novel 4-biphenyl-substituted pyrazolidine-3,5-dione derivatives of the formula (I) in which A, D, G, W, X, Y and Z are as defined above, to a plurality of processes for t... | 05/01/2012 |
| D658679 | Graphical user interface for a display screen or portion thereof | 05/01/2012 |
| D658665 | USB device | 05/01/2012 |
| 8166296 | User authentication system Techniques are provided for users to authenticate themselves to components in a system. The users may securely and efficiently enter credentials into the components. These credentials may be provided to a server in the system with strong authentication that the cred... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165354 | Face recognition with discriminative face alignment The present invention relates to systems and methods for face recognition. In an embodiment, a system for face recognition includes a face alignment module, a signature extractor and a recognizer. In another embodiment, a method for face recognition is provided. The... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165127 | Distributing packets more evenly over trunked network links Routing nodes in communications networks use policies and certain fields, called selection fields, in packet headers to make routing decisions. When routing over a trunk, a specific trunked link over which to forward a packet must be selected. Policies and selection... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165008 | High-data-rate communication link using multiple lower rate modems A method for communication includes receiving a composite signal, which carries data at a first data rate and includes multiple sub-signals that are interleaved in a time domain and are separated by boundary indicators. The received composite signal is demultiplexed... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8164518 | Method and system for a GNSS receiver with self-assisted ephemeris extensions A GNSS enabled mobile device receives GNSS signals from visible GNSS satellites. Broadcast ephemeris is extracted from the received GNSS signals for generating ephemeris extension (future ephemeris) in the next several days for each of the visible GNSS satellites. T... | 04/24/2012 |
| D658195 | Display screen or portion thereof with animated graphical user interface | 04/24/2012 |
