Citigroup Patent Applications

Citigroup patent applications that are pending before the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20090103489
    Abstract: An arrangement and method for discontinuous software FDD monitoring during TDD call allows removal of a conventional external notch filter in a dual mode WCDMA and PCS/DCS handset. The WCDMA RX frame is allowed to have a few slots corrupted by the PCS/DCS transmitter noise during DCS transmission, and a scheme is used to recover the required information by not considering the corrupted slots. Due to the fact that during WCDMA FDD RX monitoring, the processing required is performed in stages, and since the information that is measured during a WCDMA frame is repeated in every frame, the scheme of the invention is based on the idea that if a given slot is corrupted in a WCDMA frame, in the next WCDMA frame the slot will be no more corrupted due to the difference in timing between the PCS/DCS transmitter protocol and the WCDMA timing protocol.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2004
    Publication date: April 23, 2009
    Applicant: CITIBANK, N.A.
    Inventors: Nadim Khlat, David Myara
  • Publication number: 20090106487
    Abstract: An electronic device comprises a processing unit operably coupled to a buffer random access memory, in turn operably coupled to a non-volatile memory configured to emulate an electrically erasable programmable read only memory. The processing unit is arranged to transfer data between the buffer RAM and the non-volatile memory at a first clock frequency. A second RAM is operably coupled between the processing unit and the non-volatile memory and the processing unit sets a Tag bit in the second RAM to identify an address in the buffer RAM that is being written to or read from by the processing unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2006
    Publication date: April 23, 2009
    Applicant: CITIBANK, N.A.
    Inventor: Joachim Kruecken
  • Publication number: 20080113471
    Abstract: A multi-chip package includes a package substrate. First and second semiconductor die are formed on the package substrate. The first and the second semiconductor die are configured to communicate with each other via a high-speed serial communications protocol.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2008
    Publication date: May 15, 2008
    Applicant: Citicorp North America, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Kelly, Paul Chenard, Revathi Polisetti, Patrick McKinley
  • Publication number: 20070288372
    Abstract: A method and system for awarding rebates based on credit card usage to a consumer credit card holder is provided. A rebate tally is accrued based on a percentage of eligible purchases made by the consumer card holder. The rebate is earned when the consumer card holder makes a qualifying purchase, which may be, for example, an automobile sold by any manufacturer. The rebate program disclosed does not associate the rebate earned with any particular manufacturer. The rebate is paid directly by the credit card issuer to the credit card holder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2007
    Publication date: December 13, 2007
    Applicant: CITIBANK, N.A.
    Inventors: Sheryl Behar, Carol Lewbell-Gray, Cheryl Cunha
  • Publication number: 20070240037
    Abstract: Computer-implemented methods and systems for creating and managing website content involve, for example, providing a user at a computer terminal a data capture template for a user-selected content type, providing the user at the computer terminal presentation pages using content management tags, allowing the user at the computer terminal to author content using the data capture template, and allowing the user at the computer terminal to deploy the content to a server. Other aspects of the methods and systems for creating and managing website content include, for example, allowing the user to personalize content, allowing the user to embed dynamic content in the middle of static content, allowing the user to refresh the deployed content in real-time without impacting current existing user sessions on the server where content is being deployed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2007
    Publication date: October 11, 2007
    Applicant: CITICORP DEVELOPMENT CENTER, INC.
    Inventors: France Law-How-Hung, Sam Shahdousti, Patrick Law, Anna Putnam, Peter Lomenzo
  • Publication number: 20030135358
    Abstract: A method and system is provided for making a database stored upon a computer readable medium for use as a computerized multilingual phrase database in a runtime application environment. A database of all application phrases is created in one language with variable place holders reserved in the application phrases for each variable in the phrases. Translations of the created application phrases are created and stored in at least a second phrase database. The first and second phrase databases are exported in a form that can be used in a runtime environment by an application for which the first database and the second database were created.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2002
    Publication date: July 17, 2003
    Applicant: Citicorp Development Center, Inc.
    Inventors: George Lissauer, Victor Che Kwong, Jack Hsiung, Reid Kneeland, Dilip Parekh