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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7929011 | Method and system for handling video signals of conference A system and method particularly useful in handling the video of a “large” conference is disclosed. The system and method initially defines certain conferees as panel members, which can provide input video signals to the multipoint control unit and can receive o... | 04/19/2011 |
| D635955 | Speakerphone | 04/12/2011 |
| 7920925 | Optimizing pitch and other speech stimuli allocation in a cochlear implant Errors in pitch (frequency) allocation within a cochlear implant are corrected in order to provide a significant and profound improvement in the quality of sound perceived by the cochlear implant user. In one embodiment, the user is stimulated with a reference signa... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7920924 | Estimating flap thickness for cochlear implants A flap thickness measurement system includes a reference cochlear stimulation system. The reference cochlear stimulation system includes a sound processor, a transmitter that transmits a telemetric signal, and a cochlear stimulator having a receiver that receives th... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7915673 | Recessed channel negative differential resistance-based memory cell Disclosed herein is an improved recessed thyristor-based memory cell. The disclosed cell comprises in one embodiment a conductive plug recessed into the bulk of the substrate, which is coupled to or comprises the enable gate of the cell. Vertically disposed around t... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7907146 | Resolution independent user interface design Graphical user interface material map objects are specified by a collection of attribute-value pairs, the collection of which comprises a complete description of the material map and may be used by a rendering engine to create a visual representation of the material... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7904456 | Security monitoring tool for computer network A security monitoring tool and method for a computer network receives data and determines whether the data is associated with a host already stored in a database. Based on the determination, the tool stores the data as a new host or associates it with an existing ho... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7899201 | Speaker with acoustic damped port Systems, methods, and devices for improving speaker performance with an acoustic damped port are disclosed. In accordance with various embodiments of the present invention, a damping material is placed around a vented frame of a speaker driver, and substantially cov... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7894302 | Drilling system comprising a plurality of borehole telemetry systems A drilling system utilizing a plurality of independent telemetry systems. The drilling system uses a drill collar as a pressure housing for downhole components of the system. One or more sensors are disposed within the pressure housing. These sensors can be MWD sens... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7893975 | System and method for processing images using predetermined tone reproduction curves An automated RAW image processing method and system are disclosed. A RAW image and metadata related to the RAW image are obtained from a digital camera or other source. The RAW image and the related metadata are automatically processed using an Operating System serv... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7886819 | Shunt tube connector lock A locking mechanism for securing a jumper tube to a shunt tube in a well screen assembly for use in gravel packing is disclosed. The jumper tube features a telescoping connector that extends to engage the shunt tube and a locking mechanism that extends the connector... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7884844 | System for conducting videoconferencing session over television network A videoconferencing system includes a camera, a microphone, and an interface module. The module is coupled a modem connected to a television network and is coupled to a television set and a set-top box. The module decodes encoded audio video signals received from th... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7847800 | System for emulating graphics operations Disclosed is a system for producing images including emulation techniques. The system provides for emulation of graphics processing resources such that a central processing unit may provide graphics support. Disclosed embodiments include emulation of selected graphi... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7878252 | Dual control line system and method for operating surface controlled sub-surface safety valve in a well A control system for a surface controlled sub-surface safety valve has first and second control lines. The first control line communicates control fluid to the sub-surface safety valve and preferably has a sump and in-line filters. Hydraulic pressure applied to the ... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7877512 | Isolation switch for fibre channel fabrics in storage area networks An isolation switch blade Fiber Channel switch presents F_ports to form a first Fiber Channel fabric and N_ports to a second Fiber Channel fabric to appear as node devices. The isolation switch blade may be used to connect a plurality of blade servers to a Fiber Cha... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7874446 | Trash container with compacting lid A trash container has a flexible, corrugated baffle attached to or integrated into the lid of the container. The baffle may have a handle and a compacting plate attached to it, and it allows a user to compact trash inside the trash container. Specifically, the flexi... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7873175 | Multiplexed microphone signals with multiple signal processing paths A multiplexed microphone signal with multiple signal processing paths is disclosed. Each signal processing path has it own priority and other characteristics. A signal path is selected based on the application of the processed signal. Similar processes within differ... | 01/18/2011 |
| RE42030 | Critical velocity reduction in a gas well Disclosed herein is a system for enhancing the recovery of gas in a perforated interval of a gas well. The system features a tubing string having a dead string attached for reducing the flow area of the annulus in the perforated interval, thereby reducing the critic... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7865884 | Typed-data translation for platform independence A method, computer program and device for the translation of typed data objects in a heterogeneous computational environment is described. The operating system (or installed shared code libraries) translates typed data objects from a first format (e.g., big-endian) ... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7865627 | Fibre channel fabric snapshot server The snapshot capability moving into the SAN fabric and being provided as a snapshot service. A well-known address is utilized to receive snapshot commands. Each switch in the fabric connected to a host contains a front end or service interface to receive the snapsho... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7865504 | Native file to shared resource locator naming File and folder names are converted between their native format and a shared resource locator format. To send information on a file or folder, the file or folder name is parsed into various components and those components are converted to components in the shared re... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7864968 | Auditory front end customization A method and system for implementing an acoustical front end customization are disclosed. The customization is implemented to optimize the sound level for each individual cochlear implant user. A known audio signal is generated using a sound source and captured by a... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7860826 | Method and system for using global equivalency sets to identify data during peer-to-peer synchronization Systems and methods for synchronization including the use of a global equivalency identification datum or set of datum. A universally unique identification datum may be associated with each independently created associated data set. In some embodiments, a synchroniz... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7860337 | Blur computation algorithm Disclosed herein is an improved blur computation algorithm. The proposed algorithm accomplishes a blur of an image using fragment programs on a GPU. Alternatively, the blur may be computed on a CPU through emulation or directly programmed. Modifications of the progr... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7835569 | System and method for raw image processing using conversion matrix interpolated from predetermined camera characterization matrices An automated RAW image processing method and system are disclosed. A computer receives a RAW image and metadata from a camera and interpolates an interpolated image from the RAW image so that the interpolated image is in a first color space. Predefined characterizat... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7828702 | Weight plate A weight plate have integrally formed handles is provided. The weight plate has a weight plate body having an outer periphery, a first side, and a second side that is substantially flat. The weight plate also has a central bore extending through the body, a raised f... | 11/09/2010 |
| RE41922 | Method and apparatus for providing translucent images on a computer display A method and apparatus is described for producing a translucent image over a base image created on the display screen of a computer system by a selected first application program, and conducting image operations either on the base image created by the selected appli... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7818755 | Window server event taps Methods, devices and an associated application programming interface are described that permits a user to register event tap routines (“ETRs”) with an application such as, for example, a window server application. Event tap routines permit events such as human i... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7805198 | Optimizing pitch and other speech stimuli allocation in a cochlear implant Errors in pitch (frequency) allocation within a cochlear implant are corrected in order to provide a significant and profound improvement in the quality of sound perceived by the cochlear implant user. In one embodiment, the user is stimulated with a reference signa... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7797634 | Method and apparatus for displaying network fabric data The invention relates to methods and associated systems for displaying network fabric data for managing electronic networks, such as computer networks, storage area networks (SANs), and the like. In one aspect, the invention provides a method for displaying paramete... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7797288 | Use of server instances and processing elements to define a server A server instance, which is a collection of LUNs, containing an operating system, any applications and data storage. A processing element is the physical hardware. The combination is a server as normally understood. Templates are used to define server instances and ... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7796565 | Mixed voice and spread spectrum data signaling with multiplexing multiple users with CDMA Systems, methods, and devices for mixed voice and spread spectrum data signaling with spread spectrum data hiding with CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) for three or more users. The disclosed systems, methods, and devices may be implemented in audio conferencing ... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7788656 | System for reducing the number of programs necessary to render an image Disclosed is as system for reducing memory and computational requirements of graphics operations. The system provides techniques for combining otherwise individual operations to apply filters to images. The combined filter emerging from the combination spares the pr... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7782337 | Multi-conic gradient generation Disclosed herein is a technique for computing a complex gradient using multiple conics. In connection with a computer system having a graphics processing unit (GPU) in addition to the normal central processing unit (CPU), gradients can be computed in real time. The ... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7775567 | Magnetic latching mechanism A magnetic latch for a display of a laptop computer uses magnetic attraction to maintain the display closed and uses magnetic repelling forces to pop-up the display when opened. The latch includes one or more magnetic elements in the body of the laptop and at least ... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7775291 | Retrievable surface controlled subsurface safety valve A safety valve apparatus has a housing with a bore and a projection disposed in the bore. A locking dog disposed on the housing is movable to engage an inner conduit wall surrounding the housing, and a flapper rotatably disposed on the housing is movable between ope... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7774458 | System and method of enterprise systems and business impact management A system architecture and a method for managing using a cellular architecture to allow multi-tier management of events such as the managing of the actual impact or the potential impact of IT infrastructure situations on business services. A preferred embodiment incl... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7773622 | Deferred queuing in a buffered switch A method and apparatus is disclosed for temporarily deferring transmission of frames to a destination in a data switch. When a request for transmission of a frame to the destination port is received, the congestion status of that destination is determined. If the de... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7770115 | System and method for controlling presentations and videoconferences using hand motions A system and method are disclosed for controlling presentations and videoconference using hand motions. A camera captures video of an area relative to content displayed on a display device from a content source. A control unit is communicatively coupled to the conte... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7769718 | Unobtrusive point-in-time consistent copies Techniques to create physically and transactionally consistent copies of one or more database objects without impacting the availability of the target database objects are described. In one technique, a consistent copy is created as of the time a copy utility is exe... | 08/03/2010 |
