Patents Represented by Attorney Fernandez & Associate LLP
  • Patent number: 8130194
    Abstract: Method and system for generating and processing multiple independent input data streams based on a high priority OS message framework such as an OS provided framework for processing mouse-messages. Multiple input devices generate motion that is sensed by motion sensors located on one or more motion sources, quantify the sensed motion, and provide resulting input data to a computer via one or more communication ports. One or more software subroutines process the provided data, separating them into multiple independent input streams according to their sources, and sending the streams to listening applications. The subroutines are preferably integrated at a low level of the OS architecture, thereby enabling low-latency, fully-functional high priority processing of the input data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2012
    Assignee: IMI Innovations, Inc.
    Inventors: James R. Fairs, Lee A. Mitchell, Vlad Zarney, Michael J. Borch
  • Patent number: 8116895
    Abstract: Computer-aided design and manufacture software and hardware automate garment and fashion definition and production. Configurable garment includes ornamental element, pattern display, and personal identifier and wireless sensor electronics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2012
    Inventor: Dennis Sunga Fernandez
  • Patent number: 8110419
    Abstract: An inline process for manufacturing a photovoltaic device on a removable substrate is disclosed. The process discloses two semiconductor layers forming an active region; at least one of the semiconductor layers is formed by a high-purity plasma spray process; optional layers include a release layer, one or more barrier layers, a cap layer, a conductive support layer, a mechanical support layer, an anti-reflection layer, and distributed Bragg reflector. The process may also be used to form multiple active regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2012
    Assignee: Integrated Photovoltaic, Inc.
    Inventors: Sharone Zehavi, Jerome S. Culik
  • Patent number: 8106381
    Abstract: The present invention discloses structures to increase carrier mobility using engineered substrate technologies for a solid state device. Structures employing rare-earth compounds enable heteroepitaxy of different semiconductor materials of different orientations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2012
    Assignee: Translucent, Inc.
    Inventor: Petar B. Atanackovic
  • Patent number: 8099703
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide methods and systems for verifying functional equivalence of a power optimized design and its original, unoptimized design (referred to as the golden design) using combinational equivalency checking. Due to some inherent limitations which make combinational equivalency checkers unable to prove equivalency of the two designs in a single step, a series of intermediate design transformations is introduced. These transformations are dependent on the techniques used in generating the power optimized design from the golden design, and may be generically described in a transformation language that provides the necessary constructs to specify an entire set of valid structural modifications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2012
    Assignee: Xilinx, Inc.
    Inventors: Chaiyasit Manovit, Sridhar Narayanan, Sridhar Subramanian
  • Patent number: 8096675
    Abstract: The instant invention discloses a device and method to mix and match LED die at a LED emitter or array level in an array to obtain a consistent average weighted wavelength, and/or desired flux, reducing the spread of a color range and therefore reducing the observed LED color range. The mixing of different wavelength and flux LED's expands the color gamut of the LEDs available to be used in a particular luminaire with a given color specification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2012
    Assignee: Bridgelux Inc.
    Inventor: Jason L. Posselt
  • Patent number: 8072480
    Abstract: Digital television system overlays subscriber two-way communication during broadcast program delivery to create virtual audience community. Individual or group billing and advertisement is personalized per DTV receiver program viewing and/or conferencing activity. Subscriber receiver includes camera and other media I/O device for multi-way video conferencing. Participants may be added or removed dynamically during programming or conferencing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2011
    Inventors: Dennis S. Fernandez, Irene Hu
  • Patent number: 8071872
    Abstract: The present invention relates to semiconductor devices suitable for electronic, optoelectronic and energy conversion applications. In a particular form, the present invention relates to the fabrication of a thin film solar cells and thin film transistors through the advantageous combination of semiconductors, insulators, rare-earth based compounds and amorphous and/or ceramic and/or glass substrates. Crystalline or polycrystalline thin film semiconductor-on-glass formation using alkali ion impurity barrier layer(s) are disclosed. Example embodiment of crystalline or polycrystalline thin film semiconductor-on-glass formation using rare-earth based material as impurity barrier layer(s) is disclosed. In particular, thin film silicon-on-glass substrate is disclosed as the alternate embodiment, with impurity barrier designed to inhibit transport of deleterious alkali species from the glass into the semiconductor thin film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2011
    Assignee: Translucent Inc.
    Inventor: Petar Atanackovic
  • Patent number: 8065333
    Abstract: A host website, method and system for digitally labelling websites or subscribers with digital labels which represent characteristics or qualities of the website is disclosed. Digital labels are stored on host websites, each of which is directed to a specific subject or activity. The host website can also provide digital labels for storage in other host websites. The host website is provided with artificial intelligence capabilities. Methods and systems for asymmetric access in a host website database are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2011
    Inventor: Emmanuel C. Gonzalez
  • Patent number: 8065029
    Abstract: Computer-aided design and manufacture software and hardware automate garment and fashion definition and production. Configurable garment includes ornamental element, pattern display, and personal identifier and wireless sensor electronics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2011
    Inventor: Dennis Sunga Fernandez
  • Patent number: 8065731
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for containing propagation of a malware in a communication network having a plurality of communication nodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2011
    Assignee: Narus, Inc.
    Inventors: Antonio Nucci, Supranamaya Ranjan
  • Patent number: 8049100
    Abstract: Examples of device structures utilizing layers of rare earth oxides to perform the tasks of strain engineering in transitioning between semiconductor layers of different composition and/or lattice orientation and size are given. A structure comprising a plurality of semiconductor layers separated by transition layer(s) comprising two or more rare earth compounds operable as a sink for structural defects is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2011
    Assignee: Translucent, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Clark, Robin Smith, Richard Sewell, Scott Semans, F. Erdem Arkun, Michael Lebby
  • Patent number: 8045464
    Abstract: With the widespread adoption of SIP-based VoIP, understanding the characteristics of SIP traffic behavior is critical to problem diagnosis and security protection of VoIP services. A general methodology is provided for profiling SIP-based VoIP traffic behavior at several levels: SIP server host, server entity (e.g., registrar and call proxy) and individual user levels. Using SIP traffic traces captured in a production VoIP network, the characteristics of SIP-based VoIP traffic behavior in an operational environment is illustrated and the effectiveness of the general profiling methodology is demonstrated. In particular, the profiling methodology identifies anomalies due to performance problems and/or implementation flaws through a case study. The efficacy of the methodology in detecting potential VoIP attacks is also demonstrated through a test bed experimentation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2011
    Assignee: Narus, Inc.
    Inventors: Antonio Nucci, Supranamaya Ranjan, Zhi-Li Zhang
  • Patent number: 8046496
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of compressing data in a network, the data comprising a plurality of packets each having a header and a payload, the header comprising a plurality of header fields, the method comprising generating a classification tree based on at least a portion of the plurality of header fields, determining a inter-packet compression plan based on the classification tree, and performing inter-packet compression in real time for each payload of at least a first portion of the plurality of packets, the inter-packet compression being performed according to at least a portion of the inter-packet compression plan.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2011
    Assignee: Narus, Inc.
    Inventors: Antonio Nucci, Supranamaya Ranjan, Su Chen
  • Patent number: 8039738
    Abstract: The use of rare-earth (RE and O, N, P) based materials to transition between two different semiconductor materials and enable up and/or down conversion of incident radiation is disclosed. Rare earth based oxides, nitrides and phosphides provide a wide range of lattice spacing enabling, compressive, tensile or stress-free lattice matching with Group IV, III-V, and Group II-VI compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2011
    Assignee: Translucent, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Clark, Robin Smith, Richard Sewell, Scott Semans, F. Erdem Arkun, Michael Lebby
  • Patent number: 8039737
    Abstract: The use of rare-earth (RE+O, N, P) based materials to transition between two semiconductor materials is disclosed. Rare earth based oxides, nitrides and phosphides provide a wide range of lattice spacings enabling, compressive, tensile or stress-free lattice matching with Group IV, III-V, and Group II-VI compounds. Disclosed embodiments include tandem solar cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2011
    Assignee: Translucent, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Clark, Robin Smith, Richard Sewell, Scott Semans, F. Erdem Arkun, Michael Lebby
  • Patent number: 8039736
    Abstract: The use of rare-earth (REO, N, P) based materials to covert long wavelength photons to shorter wavelength photons that can be absorbed in a photovoltaic device (up-conversion) and (REO, N, P) materials which can absorb a short wavelength photon and re-emit one (downshifting) or more longer wavelength photons is disclosed. The wide spectral range of sunlight overlaps with a multitude of energy transitions in rare-earth materials, thus offering multiple up-conversion pathways. The refractive index contrast of rare-earth materials with silicon enables a DBR with >90% peak reflectivity and a stop band greater than 150 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2011
    Inventors: Andrew Clark, Robin Smith, Scott Semans, Richard Sewell
  • Patent number: 8032620
    Abstract: A system and a method for leveraging human knowledge held by system administrators to support improved or optimal management of an information technology network. The present invention monitors and records the states and values key management indicators related to actions taken by a human system administrator in improving a perceived sub-optimal state of the information technology network. The present invention predicts the effect of command in situations later occurring, and optionally suggests actions to a system administrator. The method of the present invention optionally enables embodiments of the present invention to automatically select one or more preferred system commands and execute the selected command or commands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2011
    Inventors: Marlin Scott, Ron Britton, Roger Hand, Stephen Meyer
  • Patent number: 8032324
    Abstract: A method and system for an interactive controller device comprising a two axis sensor in combination with one or more other sensors for hand-held devices operated in mid-air. A time sequence of measurements in three linearly independent directions is used to extract the angles of rotation around one or more distinct axes. A method is disclosed to approximately determine a transformation matrix, T, of a device orientation from a sequence of single vector measurements as a combination of rotations about specified axes. Calculated rotation angles can then be used to calculate changes in a controller or pointer position and a rate change thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2011
    Assignee: PNI Corporation
    Inventors: Tyler M Bryant, Andrew T. Taylor, Davy J. Figaro
  • Patent number: 8032915
    Abstract: Digital television system overlays subscriber two-way communication during broadcast program delivery to create virtual audience community. Individual or group billing and advertisement is personalized per DTV receiver program viewing and/or conferencing activity. Subscriber receiver includes camera and other media I/O device for multi-way video conferencing. Participants may be added or removed dynamically during programming or conferencing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2011
    Inventors: Dennis Sunga Fernandez, Irene Y. Hu