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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7353471 | Method and apparatus for using full-chip thermal analysis of semiconductor chip designs to compute thermal conductance A method and apparatus for using full-chip thermal analysis of semiconductor chip designs to compute thermal conductivity is disclosed. One embodiment of a novel method for analyzing the conductivity of a semiconductor chip design that comprises a plurality of physi... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7342876 | Interference mitigation and adaptive routing in wireless ad-hoc packet-switched networks Described are an apparatus and method for routing packets through a multiple-hop wireless communications network. Interference with packet switched communications carried by radio frequency (RF) over the multiple-hop wireless communications network is detected. In r... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7333676 | Method and apparatus for recognizing text in an image sequence of scene imagery An apparatus and a concomitant method for detecting and recognizing text information in a captured imagery. The present method transforms the image of the text to a normalized coordinate system before performing OCR, thereby yielding more robust recognition performa... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7329361 | Method and apparatus for fabricating or altering microstructures using local chemical alterations A method and apparatus for fabricating or altering a microstructure use means for heating to facilitate a local chemical reaction that forms or alters the submicrostructure. ... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7327683 | Method and apparatus for disseminating topology information and for discovering new neighboring nodes A proactive link-state routing protocol designed for mobile ad-hoc networks is disclosed, which provides hop-by-hop routing along shortest paths to each destination. Each node running the present protocol will compute a source tree (providing paths to all reachable ... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7324945 | Method of dynamically altering grammars in a memory efficient speech recognition system A method of speech recognition that uses hierarchical data structures that include a top level grammar and various related subgrammars, such as word, phone, and state subgrammars. A speech signal is acquired, and a probabilistic search is performed using the speech ... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7308363 | Modeling and evaluation metabolic reaction pathways and culturing cells Biological and chemical systems are represented as a symbolic model. Minimal sets of elements of the system are identified from the model, for example, by automatic inference. The model can be constructed from Boolean propositions that are mapped to a binary decisio... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7308404 | Method and apparatus for speech recognition using a dynamic vocabulary A method and apparatus are provided for performing speech recognition using a dynamic vocabulary. Results from a preliminary speech recognition pass can be used to update or refine a language model in order to improve the accuracy of search results and to simplify s... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7288840 | Structure for cooling a surface An apparatus for cooling a surface having a metal structure made of a material with high thermal conductivity, and designed to provide efficient cooling of the surface while minimizing mechanical stress between the metal structure and the surface. ... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7286718 | Method and apparatus for determination of text orientation The present invention relates to a method for determining the orientation of text, so that the text can be correctly read. In one embodiment, the method analyzes the “open” portions of text characters to determine in which direction the open portions face. By de... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7284158 | Processor bus for performance monitoring with digests A method for monitoring event occurrences from a plurality of processor units at a centralized location via a dedicated bus coupled between the plurality of processor units and the centralized location. In particular, the method comprises receiving, at the centraliz... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7272707 | Methods and apparatus for automatic system parameter configuration for performance improvement In one embodiment, the present invention is a method and apparatus for automatic system parameter configuration for performance improvement. One embodiment of the inventive method involves formulating a black box optimization problem, and solving the optimization pr... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7268871 | Measuring head for planar measurement of a sample A measuring head of the present invention conveys light from an external source through at least one optical fiber to at least one respective plane mirror inside the measuring head, where the light reflects through and is collimated by at least one collimating lens ... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7265977 | Active liquid metal thermal spreader The present invention is a method and apparatus for cooling a semiconductor heat source. In one embodiment a thermal spreader is provided and includes a substrate for supporting the semiconductor heat source and a heat sink coupled to the substrate. A channel is dis... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7263063 | Per hop behavior for differentiated services in mobile ad hoc wireless networks Described are a system and method of providing quality of service assurances for transmitting packets over a channel capable of transmission at a nominal bandwidth. A plurality of classes is defined. Each class represents an aggregate behavior of packets and is allo... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7253431 | Method and apparatus for solution processed doping of carbon nanotube A method is provided for doping a carbon nanotube. The method comprises exposing the nanotube to a one-electron oxidant in a solution phase. A method is also provided for forming a carbon nanotube FET device. ... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7249019 | Method and apparatus for providing an integrated speech recognition and natural language understanding for a dialog system An apparatus and a concomitant method for natural language understanding. In one embodiment, the present invention provides a new architecture that employs a sophisticated natural language understanding parser in conjunction with a speech recognition component and a... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7245765 | Method and apparatus for capturing paper-based information on a mobile computing device A method and apparatus are provided for capturing paper-based information on a mobile computing device. In one embodiment, the inventive method includes capturing a digital image of the paper-based information, where the digital image comprises text (and in some cas... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7236881 | Method and apparatus for end-to-end travel time estimation using dynamic traffic data The present invention is a method and an apparatus for end-to-end travel time estimation using dynamic traffic data. In one embodiment, a method for estimating a fastest route between a first point in a transportation network and a second point in the transportation... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7230707 | Spectrophotometer with digital camera Systems, methodologies, media, and other embodiments associated with color measuring are described. One exemplary system embodiment includes a spectrophotometer, one or more light sources for illuminating an interior of the spectrophotometer, and a digital camera co... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7228042 | Method and apparatus for resonant coupling in photonic crystal circuits The present invention is a method and an apparatus for resonant coupling in photonic crystal circuits. In one embodiment, a photonic crystal device comprises a substrate having a plurality of apertures formed therethrough, a photonic crystal circuit (e.g., formed by... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7219713 | Heterogeneous thermal interface for cooling The present invention is a thermal interface for coupling a heat source to a heat sink. One embodiment of the invention comprises a mesh and a liquid, e.g., a thermally conductive liquid, disposed in the mesh. The mesh and the thermally conductive liquid are adapted... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7203920 | Method and apparatus for retrofitting semiconductor chip performance analysis tools with full-chip thermal analysis capabilities A method and apparatus for retrofitting semiconductor chip performance analysis tools with full-chip thermal analysis capabilities is provided. One embodiment of a novel method for performing performance analysis of a semiconductor chip design includes receiving at ... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7200005 | Method and apparatus for generating electricity using recycled air from a computer server In one embodiment, the invention is a method and apparatus for recycling exhaust air expelled from a computer server (e.g., a unit including microprocessors such as a standard server or a mainframe). In one embodiment, at least one windmill (e.g., a standard windmil... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7194711 | Method and apparatus for full-chip thermal analysis of semiconductor chip designs A method and apparatus for full-chip thermal analysis of semiconductor chip designs is provided. One embodiment of a novel method for performing thermal analysis of a semiconductor chip design comprises receiving at least one input relating to a semiconductor chip d... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7191413 | Method and apparatus for thermal testing of semiconductor chip designs A method and apparatus for thermal testing of semiconductor chip designs is provided. One embodiment of a novel method for performing thermal testing of a semiconductor chip design includes calculating full-chip temperatures over the semiconductor chip design (e.g.,... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7183182 | Method and apparatus for fabricating CMOS field effect transistors A method of fabricating complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) field effect transistors which includes selective doping and full silicidation of a polysilicon material comprising the gate electrode of the transistor. In one embodiment, prior to silicidation,... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7180107 | Method of fabricating a tunneling nanotube field effect transistor A method of fabricating a tunneling nanotube field effect transistor includes forming in a nanotube an n-doped region and a p-doped region which are separated by an undoped channel region of the transistor. Electrical contacts are provided for the doped regions and ... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7177867 | Method and apparatus for providing scalable resource discovery A scalable method and architecture for efficiently locating desired resources within a network containing a plurality of server nodes, each of which hosts or otherwise provides access to a subset of a global resource set. In one aspect of the invention, each of the ... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7177810 | Method and apparatus for performing prosody-based endpointing of a speech signal A method and apparatus for finding endpoints in speech by utilizing information contained in speech prosody. Prosody denotes the way speakers modulate the timing, pitch and loudness of phones, words, and phrases to convey certain aspects of meaning; informally, pros... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7171046 | Method and apparatus for portably recognizing text in an image sequence of scene imagery An apparatus and a concomitant method for portably detecting and recognizing text information in a captured imagery. The present invention is a portable device that is capable of capturing imagery and is also capable of detecting and extracting text information from... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7141727 | Method and apparatus for fabricating a carbon nanotube transistor having unipolar characteristics A method of fabricating a nanotube field-effect transistor having unipolar characteristics and a small inverse sub-threshold slope includes forming a local gate electrode beneath the nanotube between drain and source electrodes of the transistor and doping portions ... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7143444 | Application-layer anomaly and misuse detection A method includes passing a request for data received by a first server process executing in a first server to a detection process that includes packing a subset of the data into an analysis format and passing the subset to an analysis process. ... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7133781 | Biopolymer sequence comparison Disclosed are methods, software, and systems for comparing biopolymer sequences. The model includes at least two different characterizations of states of matching between segments of sequences at defined positions. Examples of states of matching include: similarity ... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7133133 | Colorimeter A colorimeter for measuring a color of light includes a color sensing device, a hanging means, and a means for reducing color distortion. The hanging means hangs the color sensing device in an operative relationship relative to a color producing device. The means fo... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7120580 | Method and apparatus for recognizing speech in a noisy environment An apparatus and a concomitant method for speech recognition. In one embodiment, the present method is referred to as a “Dynamic Noise Compensation” (DNC) method where the method estimates the models for noisy speech using models for clean speech and a noise mod... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7116661 | Combining multi-hop and multicast wireless networking in classroom-like settings Described are a system and method of transmitting packets over a network having a plurality of nodes. A multicast packet is received by one of the nodes. For a period of time, that one node counts the number of retransmissions of the multicast packet that the node r... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7117363 | System and method using information-based indicia for securing and authenticating transactions A method, system, and apparatus for authenticating transactions and records is disclosed. A nonce stamp is a physical article that is relatively difficult to copy illicitly, and that bears a “nonce” number. The “nonce” is a relatively unique identifier, in t... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7095444 | Method and apparatus for generating, distributing and reconstructing deconstructed video A method and apparatus for deconstructing video into a hierarchical structure, distributing the deconstructed video and reconstructing the deconstructed video to form a video signal having characteristics that match the capabilities of a user device. The video strea... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7096075 | Apparatus, method and program for physical state controller For determination as to whether there is a possibility that temperature control satisfying conditions according to an upper limit LH_i and a lower limit LL_i of the annealing control temperatures of annealing object steel sections i will be realized under restrictio... | 08/22/2006 |
