Patents Represented by Attorney Caven & Aghevli LLC
  • Patent number: 7974746
    Abstract: Techniques for providing singularity escape and avoidance are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method for providing control moment gyroscope (CMG) attitude control singularity escape includes calculating a Jacobian A of a set of control equations, calculating a measure of closeness to a singularity, and comparing the calculated closeness to a threshold value, when the calculated closeness is less than or equal to the threshold value, recalculating the Jacobian A. Recalculating may include determining a new direction of virtual misalignment of ? and ?, recalculating the Jacobian inputting the new direction of the virtual misalignment, recalculating the measure of closeness to a singularity, and comparing the measure of closeness to the threshold value. Further, the method may include calculating a gimbal rate command if the of closeness is greater than the threshold value and generating a torque from the gimbal rate command to control the attitude of a satellite.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2011
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventor: Christopher J. Heiberg
  • Patent number: 7973675
    Abstract: A system includes a plurality of sensors that provide information regarding instantaneous traffic conditions incident to an intersection. An inference engine of the system receives the sensor information and processes user-defined traffic control algorithms and weighted management parameters. Control signals are derived in accordance with the processing. Multi-state signaling devices are driven in accordance with the control signals so as to manage vehicular and pedestrian traffic flow at the intersection. Playback of historic traffic information permits analysis and verification of the traffic management strategies implemented by the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2011
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventor: John W. Glatfelter
  • Patent number: 7968831
    Abstract: Methods and systems are disclosed that automatically display an optimized aimpoint on a target image in received seeker data. In one embodiment, a method receives missile seeker target data. A seeker mode data is extracted from the received missile seeker target data. The location of a most vulnerable spot on a target is identified based on a comparison of target library data with seeker image data. A marker is generated at the location of the optimized aimpoint and output to a display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2011
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Richard E. Meyer, William J. Ebert, James V. Leonard
  • Patent number: 7971221
    Abstract: An overhead video system for an aircraft is disclosed. The overhead video system comprises a wireless overhead video unit; and at least one mounting rail detachably coupled to the wireless overhead video unit. The mounting rail provides structural support and electrical power to the wireless overhead video unit. A system in one embodiment may use mounting rails that double as power rails supplying power to the wireless overhead video unit. Video control and content streaming is accomplished over a wireless link. The power rail control may be accomplished remotely via a standard or solid state relay. Normal rail power for the rail mounted video system may come from the utility bus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2011
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Donald B. Lee, Trevor M. Laib, Kevin S. Callahan, Bradley J. Mitchell
  • Patent number: 7971074
    Abstract: A system and method to provide source controlled dynamic power management. An activity detector in a source determines expected future resource usage. Based on that expected usage, the source generates a power management command and sends that command to a destination. The destination then adjusts the power level of the resource based in the command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2011
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Yen-Cheng Liu, Steven R. Hutsell, Krishnakanth Sistla
  • Patent number: 7971084
    Abstract: In one embodiment, an electronic apparatus comprises at least one processor and a computer readable medium coupled to the processor and comprising logic instructions encoded in the computer readable medium, wherein the instructions, when executed in a processing system, cause the processing system to perform operations comprising initializing a direct memory access profiler in an electronic system, wherein the direct memory access is coupled to a policy manager in the electronic system, measuring at least one memory consumption characteristic of the electronic system, communicating the at least one memory consumption characteristic to a policy manager of the electronic system, and using the at least one memory consumption characteristic to adjust a power state of the electronic system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2011
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Bryan C. Morgan, Priya N. Vaidya, Premanand Sakarda, Marlon A. Moncrieffe
  • Patent number: 7965396
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods for calibrating a laser projection system that is used for marking and guidance of components during manufacturing are disclosed. The apparatus includes a structural frame. One or more positioning stages are coupled to the structural frame. Each of the positioning stages is provided with a movable reflective target that is configured to reflect a corresponding laser beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2011
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Curtis M. Ashford, Richard L. Blankenship
  • Patent number: 7962771
    Abstract: A method, system, and apparatus may route an interrupt to a first core of a plurality of cores of a multi-core system. If the first core is in an idle or low power state, or operating in a power state at or below a threshold power state, a core in a least idle state may be found. The interrupt may be rerouted to and processed by the core in the least idle state. Cores in a multi-core system may be rated based on for example, power states or other characteristics, and interrupts may be assigned based on these ratings. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2011
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Justin Song, Devadatta V. Bodas, Ohad Falik, Alon Naveh, Ilan Pardo, Anil Aggarwal, Sridhar Muthrasanallur, James B. Crossland
  • Patent number: 7962694
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a method is provided. The method of this embodiment provides receiving a request for data from a processor of a plurality of processors, determining a cache entry location based, at least in part, on the request, storing the data in a cache corresponding to the processor at the cache entry location, and storing a coherency record corresponding to the data in a snoop filter in accordance with one of the following, if there is a cache miss: at the cache entry location of a corresponding affinity in the snoop filter if the cache entry location is found in the corresponding affinity, or at a derived cache entry location of the corresponding affinity if the cache entry location is not found in the corresponding affinity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2011
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Meenakshisundaram R. Chinthamani, Kai Cheng, Malcolm Mandviwalla, Bahaa Fahim, Keith R. Pflederer
  • Patent number: 7958284
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus to transfer data between one or more clock domains are described. In one embodiment, a plurality of signals corresponding to write pointers of a buffer and a read pointer of the buffer are generated. The signals corresponding to the write pointers of the buffer are to be generated based on different data patterns for transmission over different channels. Other embodiments are also claimed and described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2011
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Subramaniam Maiyuran, Christopher Gianos
  • Patent number: 7957428
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide an algorithm for dividing a link into one or more reduced-width links. For one embodiment of the invention, a multiplexing scheme is employed to effect a bit transmission order required by a particular cyclic redundancy check. The multiplexed output bits are then swizzled on-chip to reduce on-board routing congestion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2011
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Maurice B. Steinman, Rahul R. Shah, Naveen Cherukuri, Aaron T. Spink, Allen J. Baum, Sanjay Dabral, Tim Frodsham, David S. Dunning, Theodore Z. Schoenborn
  • Patent number: 7957131
    Abstract: An electronic device comprises a housing, at least one heat generating component in the housing, and at least one thermal management device in thermal communication with the at least one heat generating component, wherein the at least one thermal management device selectively allocates heat flow to one or more portions of the housing. Other embodiments may be described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2011
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Rajiv K. Mongia, Mark MacDonald, Eduardo Hernandez-Pacheco, Jered H. Wikander
  • Patent number: 7958510
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a resource management mechanism to monitor the availability of resources, detect the cause of a rejection, distinguish between different types of rejections, and manage the different types accordingly. For example, a queue manager in accordance with embodiments of the invention may be able to classify rejected requests, for example, as either a “long reject” or a “short reject” based on the cause of the rejection and the amount of time the rejection conditions are expected to remain valid. A short reject request may be rescheduled in an appropriate service queue, while a long reject request may be suspended in a reject queue. Other features are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2011
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Abraham Mendelson, Julius Mandelblat, Larisa Novakovsky
  • Patent number: 7954038
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus to efficiently detect faults are described. In an embodiment, an encoded value may be generated based on a portion of an instruction address and a portion of a corresponding result value. The encoded value may be used to determine whether an entry corresponding to the encoded value is absent from a screening storage unit. Other embodiments are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2011
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Paul Racunas, Srilatha Manne, Kypros Constantinides, Shubhendu S. Mukherjee
  • Patent number: 7945786
    Abstract: A processing system features random access memory (RAM), a processor, and a trusted platform module (TPM). When the processing system enters a sleep mode during which the RAM is to stay powered, the processing system may measuring a VMM and one or more secure VMs in the processing system. However, the processing system may not measure or encrypt all of system memory. Upon resuming from sleep, the processing system may verify the measurements, to ensure that the VMM and secure VMs have not been tampered with. Other steps may include sealing encryption keys to the TPM, while preserving the blobs in memory. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2011
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Alok Kumar, Minal B. Patel, Kuo-Lang Tseng, Ramesh M. Thomas, Madhukar Tallam, Aneet Chopra, Ned M. Smith, David W. Grawrock, David Champagne
  • Patent number: 7945793
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention are generally directed to systems, methods, and apparatuses for using interface frequency modulation to allow non-terminated operation and power reduction. In some embodiments, an apparatus includes an interface having a termination mode and a power management controller coupled with the interface. The apparatus may also include a power management controller coupled with the interface. In some embodiments, the power management controller is capable of dynamically reducing the operating frequency of the interface and disabling the termination mode to reduce the power consumed by the interface. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2011
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventor: Jeffrey R. Wilcox
  • Patent number: 7941860
    Abstract: Method and apparatus for content protection using one-way buffers. In one embodiment, the method includes storage of content decrypted by a host processor within a reserved range of memory. In one embodiment, a peripheral device requires the host processor to decrypt the received content for playback by the peripheral device. The decrypted content is stored within a reserved range of memory that is not accessible by malicious software. Hence, content is transferred from the reserved range of memory to a device driver of the peripheral device. In one embodiment, access to the reserved range of memory consists of write-only access by the host processor and read-only access by the peripheral device. In one embodiment, prior to storage of the content within the reserved range of memory, the content is re-encrypted prior to storage and decryption prior to transfer to the peripheral device. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2011
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventor: David I. Poisner
  • Patent number: 7940778
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus relating to a cross-layer approach for virtualized overlay on ad hoc networks are described. In one embodiment, a virtual address is used to search for a (key,value) pair in a virtual overlay. In an embodiment, a route request for a virtual address, corresponding to a key, is transmitted via a wireless network to one or more of a plurality of computing nodes forming a virtual search overlay and route reply for the virtual address is generated in response to the route request. Other embodiments are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2011
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Gang Ding, Sanjay Rungta, John Vicente, Winson Chan, Dilip Krishnaswamy
  • Patent number: 7941692
    Abstract: Techniques to recover data from an indirected non-volatile memory system after unexpected power failure, as, e.g., NAND memory in electronic devices are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2011
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Robert Royer, Sanjeev N. Trika, Rick Coulson, Robert W. Faber
  • Patent number: 7940840
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus relating to dual barrel receiver equalization architectures are described. In an embodiment, a receiver logic may include an amplifier and two comparators to equalize frequency components of a received signal. The receiver logic may further include offset adjustment (or cancelation) logic to generate an offset adjustment (or cancelation) signal coupled to the amplifier. Other embodiments are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2011
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Kathy Tian, Marlene P. Chan, Harry Muljono