Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Blakey, Sokoloff, Taylor & Zafman LLP
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Patent number: 8255911Abstract: According to one embodiment, parallel processing optimization method for an apparatus configured to assign dynamically a part of some of basic modules, into which a program is divided and which comprise a execution rule which defines a executing order of the basic modules and are executable asynchronously with another modules, to threads includes identifiers based on the execution rule wherein the some of the basic modules are assignable to the threads, and configured to execute in parallel the threads by execution modules, the method includes managing the part of some of the basic modules and the identifiers of the threads assigned the part of some of the basic modules, managing an executable set includes the some of the basic modules, calculating transfer costs of the some of the basic modules when data, and selecting one of the basic module with a minimum transfer cost in the transfer costs.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2010Date of Patent: August 28, 2012Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventor: Ryuji Sakai
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Patent number: 8102237Abstract: A low profile coil-wound bobbin is disclosed. A low profile coil-wound bobbin includes a spool and a terminal. The spool is configured to have a coil-wire arrangement wound around the spool. The terminals are to be coupled to the coil-wire arrangement and a first side of a circuit board. The terminal is configured to mechanically and/or electrically couple the low profile coil-wound bobbin to the first side of the circuit board such that the low profile bobbin extends through the circuit board to another side of the circuit board.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2008Date of Patent: January 24, 2012Assignee: Power Integrations, Inc.Inventor: Marvin C. Espino
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Patent number: 8094633Abstract: Techniques for determining a paging area of a paging group in a wireless communications network based on a value of one or more dynamically changing communication characteristics. In various embodiments, a paging area may be determined to reduce resource use in a wireless communication network supporting an idle mode of a mobile station. In one embodiment, the paging area may be determined based on a speed of a mobile station.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2008Date of Patent: January 10, 2012Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Shantidev Mohanty, Muthaiah Venkatachalam
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Patent number: 7966939Abstract: An embodiment of the present invention is a rotating structure. An outer ring is placed on a first surface of a trench in a foundation having a ground surface. An inner ring is positioned inside the outer ring on the first surface. A bar assembly is positioned between the outer ring and the inner ring. A plurality of rollers supports the bar assembly. A plurality of motors engages to the bar assembly to cause the bar assembly to rotate when activated.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2007Date of Patent: June 28, 2011Inventor: Eric Holt
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Patent number: 7949250Abstract: A method in a camera device having an image sensor and an electro-mechanical shutter mechanism is as follows. A constant drive current is applied to the shutter mechanism to close shutter at the end of a first exposure. Then, a decaying drive current is applied to the shutter mechanism during a readout interval for the first exposure. Other embodiments are also described and claimed. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2009Date of Patent: May 24, 2011Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventor: Richard Tsai
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Patent number: 7936348Abstract: A control indication assembly. A first control mounted on a surface of a computer is coupled to a first sensor, to a first sensing circuit to send an electrical signal to the first control when a user-touch occurs to the first sensor, and to a first indicator to indicate an occurrence of said user-touch. A second control mounted on a surface of a display which is coupled to the computer is coupled to a second sensor, to a second sensing circuit to send an electrical signal to said second control when said user-touch occurs to the display, and to a second indicator to indicate an occurrence of the user-touch. The first and second control are configured such that the first and second indicator are synchronized to exhibit identical behaviors when the user-touch occurs to either the first control or the second control.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2006Date of Patent: May 3, 2011Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Andrew Gong, Brian Q. Huppi, Christoph H. Krah, Richard D. Cappels, Duncan R. Kerr, Michael Culbert
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Patent number: 7937091Abstract: A mechanism and supporting apparatus to enable resource sharing among groups of users over mobile terminals. The system presented leverages the carrier infrastructure to simplify the requirements at the terminals, and describes a graphical user interface binding mechanism that allows developing generic graphical users interfaces that can be customized to heterogeneous devices at run-time.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2004Date of Patent: May 3, 2011Assignee: NTT Docomo, Inc.Inventors: Manuel Roman, Nayeem Islam
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Patent number: 7923139Abstract: A secondary battery provided with a safety element (16) comprising a conductive current interrupter (161) and an insulation holder (162) at thereof bottom. By safety element provided at the bottom of the battery, either sealed formation technology or open-formation technology is allowed in battery formation processing, and any other sealing method is selectable as well as pressing sealing.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2006Date of Patent: April 12, 2011Assignee: BYD Company LimitedInventors: Xi Shen, Lei Han
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Patent number: 7626251Abstract: A microelectronic die assembly. The die assembly includes a microelectronic die, and a thermally conductive element attached to the backside of the die with a thermal interface material. The thermally conductive element has lateral dimensions smaller than, substantially equal to, or larger than lateral dimensions of the die by up to a maximum amount, wherein the maximum amount is adapted to allow a mounting of the die assembly to a package substrate.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2006Date of Patent: December 1, 2009Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Daoqiang Lu, Chuan Hu, Dongming He
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Patent number: 7454101Abstract: A tunable optical dispersion compensator includes an optical input port, an input variable optical coupler, at least two optical dispersion paths, an output variable optical coupler, and an optical output port. The input variable optical coupler is coupled to selectively split portions of the optical signal received from the optical input port into each of its output ports. The optical dispersion paths are each coupled to one of the output ports of the input variable optical coupler to impart dispersion compensation to each of the split portions of the optical signal. An output variable optical coupler selectively combines the split portions of the optical signal received on its input ports from the optical dispersion paths. The optical output port is coupled to the output variable optical coupler to output a dispersion compensated optical signal.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2006Date of Patent: November 18, 2008Assignee: Intel CorporationInventor: Richard Jones
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Patent number: 7384405Abstract: Disclosed is an apparatus including a handle capable of manipulation by a human hand, and one or more head portions to mate to various types of treatment attachments, which may be moved over an area of skin and/or body part by a motion generator moving the head portions, and/or by a user manipulating the handle. Various suitable attachments include applicator attachments having abrasive surfaces, oxygenating attachments having pores through which oxygen may travel, brush attachments for cleaning and polishing, thermal attachments for heating and cooling, and light radiating attachments. The motion generator may move the attachments by vibrating, spinning, oscillating, or propagating sonic waves through the head portions. Thus, attachments may be attached and removed from the head portions to treating skin and/or body parts by abrasion, cleaning, polishing, lighting, or oxygenation.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2004Date of Patent: June 10, 2008Inventor: Dean L. Rhoades
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Patent number: 7129182Abstract: A method for etching a metal layer is described. That method comprises forming a metal layer on a substrate, then exposing part of the metal layer to a wet etch chemistry that comprises an active ingredient with a diameter that exceeds the thickness of the metal layer.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2003Date of Patent: October 31, 2006Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Justin K. Brask, Mark L. Doczy, Jack Kavalieros, Uday Shah, Matthew V. Metz, Robert S. Chau, Robert B. Turkot, Jr.
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Patent number: 7099360Abstract: An optical transmitter includes an external cavity laser array formed in a PLC, a trench-based detector array and an AWG. The external cavity laser is formed using an array of substantially similar laser gain blocks and an array of gratings formed in waveguides connected to the gain blocks. Each grating defines the output wavelength for its corresponding external cavity laser. Each detector of the detector array includes a coupler to cause a portion of a corresponding laser output signal of the laser array to propagate through a first sidewall of a trench and reflect off a second sidewall of the trench to a photodetector. In one embodiment, the photodetector outputs a signal indicative of the power level of the reflected signal, which a controller uses to control the laser array to equalize the power of the laser output signals.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2003Date of Patent: August 29, 2006Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Achintya K. Bhowmik, Nagesh K. Vodrahalli, Gennady Farber, Hai-Feng Liu, Hamid Eslampour, Ut Tran, William B. Wong, Ruolin Li, Jesper Jayaswal-Arentoff
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Patent number: 7091610Abstract: The present invention describes methods, apparatus, and systems related to polysilicon gate contact openings over active regions formed by a separate mask to provide enough control of dielectric removal to produce a contact opening at least down to the gate layer but not down to the junction layers. Embodiments include, self-aligned polysilicon contacts done by timed contact etch, by a two layer dielectric, by adding a dielectric etch stop layer, and by partially planarizing a dielectric or etch stop layer over the gate layer. Thus, even if mis-aligned, the gate contact openings will be deep enough to reach active region gates, but not deep enough to reach junctions. As a result, by using a separate mask and by selecting a period of time for etching to active gates, gate contact openings can be formed during manufacture of ICs, semiconductors, MOS memory cells, SRAM, flash memory, and various other memory cells.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2003Date of Patent: August 15, 2006Assignee: Intel CorporationInventor: Mark Bohr
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Patent number: 7037295Abstract: An apparatus and method for providing a co-extruded, tapered multi-layer shaft. A co-extruded, tapered multi-layer shaft may be fabricated by selecting a first material for the inner layer of the shaft and a second material for the outer layer of the shaft. The first and second materials are then co-extruded by a co-extrusion system including a puller with programmable tapering capabilities. The system forms a hollow tubing having an inner layer and an outer layer, wherein the tubing has the desired tapered characteristics. The result is a tapered tubular shaft having an inner layer and an outer layer.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2003Date of Patent: May 2, 2006Assignee: Advanced Cardiovascular Systems, Inc.Inventors: Stephen J. Tiernan, Jeong S. Lee, Mina W. B. Chow, Stephen G. Schaible
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Patent number: 6965859Abstract: A method and apparatus for audio compression receives an audio signal. Transform coding is applied to the audio signal to generate a sequence of transform frequency coefficients. The sequence of transform frequency coefficients is partitioned into a plurality of non-uniform width frequency ranges and then zero value frequency coefficients are inserted at the boundaries of the non-uniform width frequency ranges. As a result, certain of the transform frequency coefficients that represent high frequencies are dropped.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2003Date of Patent: November 15, 2005Assignee: XVD CorporationInventors: Victor D. Kolesnik, Boris D. Kudryashov, Sergey Petrov, Evgeny Ovsyannikov, Boris Trojanovsky, Andrey Trofimov
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Patent number: 6957358Abstract: A system and method are disclosed for dividing a network into clock partitions to limit the overhead created by transmitting clock sources. A clock partition can be implemented through several methods. A first method turns off the clock topology exchange on ports connected to the nodes outside the partition. A second method appends a four-byte partition identifier to network clock distribution protocol (NCDP) messages. A third method uses private network-network interface (PNNI) peer group identification to determine the clock partition group.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2002Date of Patent: October 18, 2005Assignee: Cisco Systems, Inc.Inventors: Krishna Sundaresan, Chandrasekar Krishnamurthy, Mahesh Chellappa
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Patent number: 6802038Abstract: A receiving device receives a stream of information and appended thereto a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) value for the information stream. A new CRC value is computed for the information stream and compared to the CRC value. If the CRC value and the new CRC value differ, then a segment of the information stream is altered, and a pointer based on the altered information stream is obtained. The pointer points to a table from which a value is obtained that is used in revising the new CRC value. The CRC value is compared to the new CRC value as revised, and if they still differ, again the information stream is altered, the new CRC value revised in connection therewith, and the CRC value again compared to the new CRC as revised. This process repeats until such time as any data integrity error in the information stream is corrected, or some other appropriate action is taken to end the process.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2000Date of Patent: October 5, 2004Assignee: ArrayComm, Inc.Inventor: Xiaoming Yu
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Patent number: 6643425Abstract: An optical switch having switch mirror arrays controlled by scanning beams that reduce the amount of electrical connections required and reduce the complexity for constructing large optical switches. Movement of the switch mirror arrays is controlled by one or more scanning beams. The optical switch includes one or more arrays of optical switch inputs and outputs and one or more arrays of movable mirrors to direct light beams from the optical switch inputs to the optical switch outputs. The optical switch also includes one or more control elements to control the movable mirrors based on scanning beams directed to the one or more control elements.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2000Date of Patent: November 4, 2003Assignee: Calient Networks, Inc.Inventors: John Bowers, Chandrasekhar Pusarla, Kevin White, Dan Blumenthal, Roger Helkey, John Chong, David Welsh
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Patent number: 6204855Abstract: According to one approach, the present invention is embodied in a computer system and a computer implemented method for interpolating a color value for a pixel that is represented by a pair binary coordinates in a texture map. Each binary coordinate has an integer and a fractional portion. First, the fractional portions of the binary coordinates are multiplied together to generate a first sigma value. A known color value for a first of the four nearest texels is multiplied by the first sigma value to determine the first texel's contribution to the weighted average of the four nearest texels. Next, each bit of the first sigma value is inverted to generate an inverted first sigma value. Then, the fractional portion of one of the binary coordinates is added to the inverted first sigma value to generate a second sigma value. A known color value for a second of the four nearest texels is multiplied by the second sigma value to determine the second texel's contribution to the weighted average.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 1998Date of Patent: March 20, 2001Assignee: Intel CorporationInventor: Sanzib Khaund