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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8145001 | Methods and systems for proxy medical image compression and transmission In accordance with one or more implementations of the present principles, digital medical images may be efficiently transmitted between industry protocol compliant stations. Proxies may be employed to intercept messages and data transmitted between the stations and ... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8135766 | Method, apparatus and system for resistance to side channel attacks on random number generators A random number generator (RNG) resistant to side channel attacks includes an activation pseudo random number generator (APRNG) having an activation output connected to an activation seed input to provide a next seed to the activation seed input. A second random num... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8004097 | Carrier wafer having alignment keys and supporting a chip Methods for manufacturing an integrated wafer scale package that reduces a potential misalignment between a chip and a pocket of a carrier substrate. According to one aspect of the present invention, a method for manufacturing a semiconductor device includes a photo... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7984007 | Proactive problem resolution system, method of proactive problem resolution and program product therefor A proactive problem resolution system, method of proactive problem resolution and program product therefor. User sensors extract data from user interaction with a computer terminal and pass extracted data to a sniffer agent. The sniffer agent checks for an indicatio... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7973549 | Method and apparatus for calibrating internal pulses in an integrated circuit A method and circuit for measuring internal pulses includes an enable circuit configured to receive a control signal from an on-chip built-in tester to enable measurement of internal circuits. A delay chain is configured to receive a pulse signal from an on-chip cir... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7968944 | Integrated circuit chip with FETs having mixed body thicknesses and method of manufacture thereof An Integrated Circuit (IC) chip that may be a bulk CMOS IC chip with silicon on insulator (SOI) Field Effect Transistors (FETs) and method of making the chip. The IC chip includes areas with pockets of buried insulator strata and FETs formed on the strata are SOI FE... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7962865 | System and method for employing patterning process statistics for ground rules waivers and optimization A system and method of employing patterning process statistics to evaluate layouts for intersect area analysis includes applying Optical Proximity Correction (OPC) to the layout, simulating images formed by the mask and applying patterning process variation distribu... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7961559 | Duty cycle measurement circuit for measuring and maintaining balanced clock duty cycle A circuit and method for measuring duty cycle uncertainty in an on-chip global clock. A global clock is provided to a delay line at a local clock buffer. Delay line taps (inverter outputs) are inputs to a register that is clocked by the local clock buffer. The regis... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7947566 | Method and apparatus for making coplanar isolated regions of different semiconductor materials on a substrate A semiconductor processing method includes providing a substrate, forming a plurality of semiconductor layers in the substrate, each of the semiconductor layers being distinct and selected from different groups of semiconductor element types. The semiconductor layer... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7944229 | Method and apparatus for calibrating internal pulses in an integrated circuit A method and circuit for measuring internal pulses includes an enable circuit configured to receive a control signal from an on-chip built-in tester to enable measurement of internal circuits. A delay chain is configured to receive a pulse signal from an on-chip cir... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7920680 | VoIP caller authentication by voice signature continuity There are provided methods and systems for authenticating a user. A method includes receiving a voice signature certificate corresponding to a setup portion of a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) call. The VoIP call further has a voice conversation portion. The vo... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7900182 | Method and system for designing an electronic circuit A method and system of designing an electronic circuit includes dividing a chip area of a design into a plurality of bins, identifying a candidate bin in the plurality of bins, and performing an area reduction on the candidate bin. ... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7899997 | Systems and methods for implementing key-based transactional memory conflict detection Transactional memory systems and methods are provided which employ key-based transactional memory conflict detection mechanisms for enabling low-overhead conflict detection at variable granularities using customizable conflict sets that are designated using key valu... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7890308 | System, method, and program product for re-parameterizing three dimensional models represented as catmull-clark subdivision surfaces A system, method, and program product for re-parameterizing one or more three-dimensional Catmull-Clark models is disclosed. Each of the models has one or more surfaces and one or more extraordinary vertices. One or more adjacent iso-parameter lines of the model hav... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7886172 | Method of virtualization and OS-level thermal management and multithreaded processor with virtualization and OS-level thermal management A program product and method of managing task execution on an integrated circuit chip such as a chip-level multiprocessor (CMP) with Simultaneous MultiThreading (SMT). Multiple chip operating units or cores have chip sensors (temperature sensors or counters) for mon... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7873891 | Programmable voltage divider A test circuit and programmable voltage divider that may be used in the test circuit. The programmable voltage divider develops a voltage difference signal that may be digitally selected. The test circuit may be used to test and characterize sense amplifiers. The pr... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7865457 | Knowledge management system automatically allocating expert resources A knowledge management system allocating expert resources, method of allocating expert resources and program product therefor. Information requests are provided over networked devices, e.g., over voice and data networks. Data on experts may be stored in an expert da... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7839175 | Local clock buffer (LCB) with asymmetric inductive peaking A Local Clock Buffer (LCB), an IC chip including registers, some of which may include master/slave latches, locally clocked by the LCB, e.g., providing a launch clock and a capture clock each with an identified critical edge. The LCB includes asymmetrically inductiv... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7814167 | System and method for obtaining remote instant messages A system and method for retrieving instant messages includes establishing a first instant message (IM) session an then, establishing a second instant message session using a same account as the first instant message session. The first IM session is rendered dormant ... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7787284 | Integrated circuit chip with improved array stability A multi-threshold integrated circuit (IC) that may be supplied by multiple supplies, with an array of latches such as an array static random access memory (SRAM) cells and a CMOS SRAM with improved stability and reduced subthreshold leakage. Selected devices (NFETs ... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7780347 | On chip temperature measuring and monitoring circuit and method A device temperature measurement circuit, an integrated circuit (IC) including a device temperature measurement circuit, a method of characterizing device temperature and a method of monitoring temperature. The circuit includes a constant current source and a clampi... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7762721 | On chip temperature measuring and monitoring method A device temperature measurement circuit, an integrated circuit (IC) including a device temperature measurement circuit, a method of characterizing device temperature and a method of monitoring temperature. The circuit includes a constant current source and a clampi... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7724759 | Method for the asynchronous arbitration of a high frequency bus in a long latency environment A method of transferring data over a plurality of optical channels. Bus access is requested. A bus grant is issued and received by the bus requester. The bus requester places data and a clock on an optical bus with the data synchronized to the clock. ... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7723207 | Three dimensional integrated circuit and method of design A three dimensional (3D) integrated circuit (IC), 3D IC chip and method of fabricating a 3D IC chip. The chip includes multiple layers of circuits, e.g., silicon insulator (SOI) CMOS IC layers, each including circuit elements. The layers may be formed in parallel an... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7685457 | Interlocked synchronous pipeline clock gating An integrated circuit including a pipeline and a method of operating the pipeline. Each stage of the pipeline is triggered by one or more triggering events and are individually, and selectively, stalled by a stall signal. For each stage a stall signal, delayed with ... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7659535 | High speed data channel including a CMOS VCSEL driver and a high performance photodetector and CMOS photoreceiver A high speed optical channel including an optical driver and a photodetector in a CMOS photoreceiver. The optical channel driver includes a FET driver circuit driving a passive element (e.g., an integrated loop inductor) and a vertical cavity surface emitting laser ... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7657546 | Knowledge management system, program product and method An ontology directory service tool, computer program product and method of automatically discovering ontology file categories. A web search unit searches a network (e.g., the Internet) for semantic data files, e.g., semantic web pages. A preprocessing unit generates... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7645071 | On chip temperature measuring and monitoring method A device temperature measurement circuit, an integrated circuit (IC) including a device temperature measurement circuit, a method of characterizing device temperature and a method of monitoring temperature. The circuit includes a constant current source and a clampi... | 01/12/2010 |
| 7577910 | Method and apparatus for providing a more powerful user-interface to device with a limited user-interface A method and apparatus for controlling a computer device with a limited user-interface via a remote computer device having a more powerful user interface. Both computer devices are interconnected via a wireless communication channel and both computer devices support... | 08/18/2009 |
| 7571410 | Resonant tree driven clock distribution grid An integrated circuit (IC), IC assembly and circuit for distributing a clock signal in an integrated circuit includes a capacitive clock distribution circuit having at least one conductor therein. At least one inductor is formed in a metal layer of the integrated ci... | 08/04/2009 |
| 7571278 | Content access memory (CAM) as an application hardware accelerator for servers There are provided a hardware accelerator and method for providing hardware acceleration for an application server and/or a layer 7 switch. The hardware accelerator includes a content access memory (CAM) configured to accelerate string comparison operations in the a... | 08/04/2009 |
| 7552412 | Integrated circuit (IC) chip design method, program product and system A circuit design method, computer program product and chip design system embodying the method. A gate selected for static timing analysis (STA) from a circuit design. Initial performance characteristics (e.g., load and transition slew) are determined for the selecte... | 06/23/2009 |
| 7552277 | Distributed buffer integrated cache memory organization and method for reducing energy consumption thereof A cache memory that may include a content addressable memory, random access memory (CAMRAM) cache and method for managing a cache to reduce cache energy consumption. A cache buffer receives incoming data and buffers a storage array. The cache buffer holds a number o... | 06/23/2009 |
| 7551453 | Optically connectable circuit board with optical component(s) mounted thereon An optically connectable circuit board and optical components mounted thereon. At least one component includes optical transceivers and provides an optical connection to the board. Electronic components may be directly connected to the board electrically or opticall... | 06/23/2009 |
| 7548431 | Optically connectable circuit board with optical component(s) mounted thereon An optically connectable circuit board and optical components mounted thereon. At least one component includes optical transceivers and provides an optical connection to the board. Electronic components may be directly connected to the board electrically or opticall... | 06/16/2009 |
| 7546230 | Electromagnetic response model with improved high frequency stability A model for modeling electromagnetic response in a conductor and in dielectric, a method of modeling the electromagnetic response in the conductor and dielectric and a program product therefor. Coupled supplies (delayed capacitive-current-controlled current sources ... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7539376 | Optically connectable circuit board with optical component(s) mounted thereon An optically connectable circuit board and optical components mounted thereon. At least one component includes optical transceivers and provides an optical connection to the board. Electronic components may be directly connected to the board electrically or opticall... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7536664 | Physical design system and method A design system for designing complex integrated circuits (ICs), a method of IC design and program product therefor. A layout unit receives a circuit description representing portions in a grid and glyph format. A checking unit checks grid and glyph portions of the ... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7521760 | Integrated circuit chip with FETs having mixed body thickness and method of manufacture thereof An Integrated Circuit (IC) chip that may be a bulk CMOS IC chip with silicon on insulator (SOI) Field Effect Transistors (FETs) and method of making the chip. The IC chip includes areas with pockets of buried insulator strata and FETs formed on the strata are SOI FE... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7512919 | System and method for incremental statistical timing analysis of digital circuits The present invention is a system and method for efficiently and incrementally updating the statistical timing of a digital circuit after a change has been made in the circuit. One or more changes in the circuit is/are followed by timing queries that are answered ef... | 03/31/2009 |