Patents Represented by Attorney Kacvinsky LLC
  • Patent number: 7551667
    Abstract: Method and apparatus for a feed forward equalizer for a communication system are described wherein an equalizer may comprise a tapped filter having multiple filter multipliers, a correlator having multiple correlator multipliers, and a set of shared delay elements to connect to the filter multipliers and the correlator multipliers. Each delay element may include multiple delay stages. A first delay stage may receive an input data signal and output a first delay signal to one of the correlator multipliers, and a second delay stage may receive the first delay signal and output a second delay signal to one of the filter multipliers. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2009
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventor: Benny Christensen
  • Patent number: 7547993
    Abstract: A double pole single throw (DPST) switch circuit including a first circuit portion corresponding to a first input port, a second circuit portion corresponding to a second input port, and an output port, wherein each of the first and second circuit portions include at least one first transistor providing a portion of an isolation channel, at least one second transistor providing a portion of a transmit channel, and at least one third transistor for providing a control bias for selecting either the transmit channel or the isolation channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2009
    Assignee: Autoliv ASP, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert Ian Gresham
  • Patent number: 7548208
    Abstract: Various embodiments of an internal diversity antenna architecture are described. In one embodiment, a wireless device may include a housing enclosing a printed circuit board, a first diversity antenna, and a second diversity antenna internal to the housing. The second diversity antenna may be positioned substantially near the bottom of the housing or the bottom the printed circuit board. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2009
    Assignee: Palm, Inc.
    Inventors: Weiping Dou, Stephen Senatore, Arthur Zarnowitz
  • Patent number: 7548427
    Abstract: An apparatus with some embodiments is described having cooling capabilities for a computing device. In some embodiments, the apparatus may include a thermoelectric component (TEC) to transfer thermal energy with a first heat exchanger, through a heat attach and heat pipe, to or from the TEC, and then with a second heat exchanger. In some embodiments, the apparatus may include a second heat attach and a second heat pipe between the second heat exchanger and the TEC. Furthermore, in some embodiments, the apparatus may be at a docking station, where the docking station may connect with the computing device. Other embodiments are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2009
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventor: Rajiv K. Mongia
  • Patent number: 7546512
    Abstract: Method and apparatus to perform cyclic redundancy check computations for error detection are described wherein a first stage includes a first set of computation elements, a first multiplexer and a second multiplexer. A latch is connected to the first stage. A second stage is connected to the latch and the second stage includes a second set of computation elements and a third multiplexer. The first stage and the second stage perform cyclic redundancy check computations for a packet, with the first set of computation elements performing cyclic redundancy check computations for a first set of bytes of input data from the packet, and the second set of computation elements performing cyclic redundancy check computations for a second set of bytes of input data from the packet. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2009
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Prashant Ranjan, Jain Philip, Muralidharan S. Chilukoor
  • Patent number: 7542410
    Abstract: The present invention provides an improved method of generating blocks of data and partitioning the data into Columnar format N rows by M columns. The columnar format is generated by reading data into the format on a row-wise basis and reading data out of the columnar format on a column-wise basis. The interval between consecutively read columns is dynamically negotiated between transmitter and communicatively coupled receiver and greater than one (1). The invention further provides an improved apparatus and system comprising of an interleaver to partition data into the columnar format. The system comprises of one or more omnidirectional antenna(e), responsive to the interleaver, to facilitate transmission of a multicarrier symbol including the interleaved data to a remote device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2009
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventor: Miryam Berkovich
  • Patent number: 7538653
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a magnetic core, a ground node, and one or more vias to provide a connection between the magnetic core and the ground potential. The magnetic core includes a first magnetic layer and a second magnetic layer. In addition, the apparatus may include a conductive pattern. The conductive pattern may be at a third layer between the first and second magnetic layers. The apparatus may be included in inductors, transformers, transmission lines, and other components using ferromagnetic cores or shields. Such components may be integrated on a chip or die.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2009
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Gerhard Schrom, Donald Gardner, Peter Hazucha, Fabrice Paillet, Tanay Karnik
  • Patent number: 7538731
    Abstract: A removable antenna is configured for a computing platform. This configuring, for example, includes; mounting a bracket on the computing platform designed to accommodate a removable antenna and a removable signal compatible dome. The removable antenna is mounted on the bracket, and the removable signal compatible dome, configured at least in part on the removable antenna, is also mounted on the bracket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2009
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Hong W. Wong, Wah Yiu Kwong
  • Patent number: 7539123
    Abstract: A circuit and method provides subcarrier puncturing by placing no information in subcarriers that suffer from channel impairments where they cannot deliver information. If no energy is placed in these subcarriers, then the transmitted power may be re-allocated to the information carrying subcarriers to increase the Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR) at the target node. Or, energy may be place in subcarriers that suffer from channel impairments, but the PAPR of the OFDM symbol may be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2009
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventor: Valentine J. Rhodes
  • Patent number: 7539463
    Abstract: A system, apparatus, method and article to manage diversity for a wireless multicarrier communication system are described. An apparatus may include a diversity agent to couple to a transmitter, the diversity agent to convert a determined number of input bits into symbols, interleave the symbols across multiple spatial streams, and map the symbols to tones for each spatial stream. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2009
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Nageen Himayat, Sumeet Sandhu
  • Patent number: 7535478
    Abstract: A method and apparatus to communicate graphics information are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2009
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Randy R. Dunton, Eric Auzas, Nicholas J. Stasik
  • Patent number: 7529423
    Abstract: According to some embodiments, a Single-Instruction/Multiple-Data (SIMD) averaging instruction is used to process pixels of image data. The averaging instruction generates a set of four-pixel averages, where each average is generated from two pixels in a first source register and two pixels in a second source register. The first source register contains a plurality of pixels from a first row of pixels and the second source register contains a plurality of pixels from a second row. In one embodiment, the first and second rows are adjacent rows in an image and the averaging instruction is used, for example, to down-scale an image, perform color conversion, and the like. In another embodiment, the first and second rows are from different images and the averaging instruction is used, for example, in motion estimation for video encoding, in motion compensation for video decoding, and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2009
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Bradley C. Aldrich, Nigel C. Paver, Jianwei Liu
  • Patent number: 7526661
    Abstract: Systems and methods of managing threads provide for selecting a thread for execution and identifying a target performance state of a processor core based on the thread. Identifying the target performance state may include applying a priority of the thread to a mapping policy to obtain the target performance state. In one embodiment, a transition of the selected core to the target performance state can be initiated and the thread can be scheduled for execution by the processor core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2009
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Jun Nakajima, Devadatta V. Bodas
  • Patent number: 7525494
    Abstract: Various embodiments of an internal antenna and motherboard architecture are described. In one embodiment, a wireless device may include a housing enclosing a first motherboard and a second motherboard. The ground plane of the first motherboard may be coupled to the ground plane of the second motherboard within the housing. The first motherboard and the second motherboard may act as an internal antenna system for the wireless device. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2009
    Assignee: Palm, Inc.
    Inventors: Jerome C Tu, Weiping Dou
  • Patent number: 7526124
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus and computer readable medium are described that compress and/or decompress a digital image in a lossless or a lossy manner. In some embodiments, a display controller may compress a digital image by generating a symbol for each pel of the digital image. In particular, the symbol may represent a pel via a match vector and a channel error vector. The match vector may indicate which quantized channels of the pel matched quantized channels of a previous pel. Further, the channel error vector may comprise a lossless or lossy channel for each quantized channel of the pel that did not match a corresponding quantized channel of the previous pel. The channel error may also comprise a lossless or lossy channel error for each quantized channel of the pel that matched a corresponding quantized channel of the previous pel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2009
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Michael K. Dwyer, Thomas A. Piazza
  • Patent number: 7526303
    Abstract: Method and apparatus to manage power for a communication device having multiple radios are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2009
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventor: Ram V. Chary
  • Patent number: 7522555
    Abstract: A system, apparatus, method and article to manage channel prediction for a wireless communication system are described. The apparatus may include a media access control processor to perform channel prediction, and a transceiver to communicate information using the channel prediction. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2009
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Qinghua Li, Xintian E. Lin
  • Patent number: 7519615
    Abstract: Streaming broadcast information over a network is associated with metadata indicative of the broadcast information. The metadata describes the structure of the package as well as the content. The metadata may be bound to the content, and any of the number of clients may receive this metadata and filter it according to prestored criteria. Desired content can be obtained based on the thus filtered information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2009
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Jonathan H. Cooper, Jason C. Hallford
  • Patent number: 7517140
    Abstract: Techniques for precision testing of thermal interface materials are described. An apparatus may include multiple anvils each having multiple sensors disposed along its axis. A thermal interface material may be disposed between the anvils. A control module may be communicatively coupled to said sensors and arranged to receive temperature readings from the multiple sensors to form a temperature gradient, determine a surface temperature for each anvil based on the temperature gradient, determine a heat flux through the thermal interface material based on the surface temperature, and determine a resistance value for the thermal interface material based on the heat flux. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2009
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Joseph A. Cervantes, Sridhar V. Machiroutu, Shawn McEuen, Joshua T. Linden-Levy, Robert W. Wolcott
  • Patent number: 7518481
    Abstract: An embodiment is an inductor that may include a slotted magnetic material to decrease eddy currents therein that may limit the operation of the inductor at high frequency. An embodiment may employ electro- or electroless plating techniques to form a layer or layers of magnetic material within the slotted magnetic material structure, and in particular those magnetic material layers adjacent to insulator layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2009
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Donald S. Gardner, Gerhard Schrom, Peter Hazucha, Fabrice Paillet, Tanay Karnik