Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Fish and Richardson P.C.
  • Distributed processing when editing an image in a browser
    Patent number: 8161368
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, computer program products and systems are provided for editing an image. In one method a selection of an image for editing is received at a server, the image being presented in a browser of a client device. Edit data is received at the server to allow the server to create an edited image. A modified image is transferred from the server having a uniform resource locator (URL) and being modified in accordance with the edit data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2012
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Hertzfeld, Justin Rosenstein, Lilly Christine Irani
  • Binder resin composition
    Patent number: 8158715
    Abstract: A binder resin composition is provided which retains satisfactory low-temperature flowability and coating film performances and has a lower cost. A binder resin solution composition including: (a) a resin obtained by mixing a chlorinated polyolefin (I) obtained by chlorinating to a chlorine content of 10 to 40% by weight an isotactic polypropylene polymer produced in the presence of a metallocene catalyst, the isotactic polypropylene polymer having a molecular weight distribution of 3 or lower and a melting point as measured with a differential scanning calorimeter of 110 to 140° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2012
    Assignee: Toyo Boseki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Tetsuji Nishioka
  • Providing local storage service to applications that run in an application execution environment
    Patent number: 8160247
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including medium-encoded computer program products, for providing local storage service to applications that run in an application execution environment. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a request from one of the applications, wherein the request triggers local storage of information; obtaining an encryption key based on identifiers including a first identifier corresponding to the application execution environment, a second identifier corresponding to the one application, and a third identifier corresponding to the computing apparatus; encrypting the information using the encryption key; and storing the encrypted information in the computing apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2012
    Assignee: Adobe Systems Incorporated
    Inventors: Sunil C. Agrawal, William Ie, Jason Boyer
  • Display device and electronic device using the same
    Patent number: 8159478
    Abstract: According to the invention, a compact and inexpensive with low power consumption memory and low access speed can be used for a panel controller and a deterioration compensation circuit of a display device. In a display device of a digital gray scale method, a plurality of pixels of a display panel are divided into first to n-th pixel regions (n is 2 or more) and a format converter portion of a panel controller converts the format of only video data corresponding to one of first to n-th pixel regions and writes the data to one of first and second video memories in each frame period. A display control portion reads out video data that is converted in format and corresponds to one of first to n-th pixel regions in which video data is written to the other of the first and second video memories in the preceding frame period, and transmits the data to the display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2012
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tadafumi Ozaki, Masami Endo
  • Network configuration with smart edge servers
    Patent number: 8161159
    Abstract: A collaboration network is defined by creating a virtual meeting room on a central server. The central server negotiates with one or more edge servers for remote management of selected collaboration parameters, which control such things as shared objects, group connections, streaming video, and video on-demand. Using the selected collaboration parameters, the edge servers manage the meeting participation of the network clients connected to the virtual meeting room through the individual edge servers. When management of the meeting participation requires either parameters that the edge server does not have or when the parameters of the edge server are out of date, the management responsibility is transferred to the central server for that request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2012
    Assignee: Adobe Systems Incorporated
    Inventors: Pritham Shetty, Srinivas Manapragada
  • Power supply circuit and semiconductor device for use therein
    Patent number: 8159089
    Abstract: A power supply circuit has: a DC/DC converter (M11, M12, L11, C11) which steps down an input voltage Vin to generate an output voltage Vout1 by rectifying and smoothing a pulsing switched voltage Vsw generated by turning on and off output switches (M11 and M12); and a charge pump (M11-M14, C12, C13) which steps up the input voltage Vin to generate an output voltage Vout2 by repeating charging and discharging of a charge accumulation capacitor (C12) by turning on and off charge transfer switches (M11-M14). First end of the charge accumulation capacitor is connected to a terminal from which the switched voltage Vsw is outputted. The output switches are also used as part of the charge transfer switches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2012
    Assignee: Rohm Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tadashi Akaho
  • Cache management
    Patent number: 8161240
    Abstract: Systems, methods and computer readable media for cache management. Cache management can operate to organize pages into files and score the respective files stored in a cache memory. The organized pages can be stored to an optical storage media based upon the organization of the files and based upon the score associated with the files.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2012
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Wenguang Wang
  • Radio network control
    Patent number: 8160020
    Abstract: In connection with a mobile wireless subnetwork having multiple radio network controllers and multiple radio nodes, a session established for an access terminal is associated with a serving radio network controller. The association is maintained as the access terminal moves from the coverage area of one radio node to the coverage area of another radio node within the same subnetwork. Access channel packets are routed from an access terminal having an existing session to the serving radio network controller by determining the IP address of the serving radio network controller using a session identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2012
    Assignee: Airvana Network Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: M. Vedat Eyuboglu, Arthur J. Barabell, Sanjay Cherian
  • Presenting images as mosaics
    Patent number: 8159550
    Abstract: Apparatus, methods and systems for creating mosaics are described. A method is provided that includes identifying an image for presentation as a mosaic; dividing the identified image into a plurality of tiles; scoring each tile; identifying a matching image from an image dataset using the score for each tile; and rendering the mosaic using the matching images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2012
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Mallory Jackson Paine, Devang Kalidas Naik, Steve Ko, Joshua Matthew Williams, John William Scalo, Kim E. A. Silverman
  • Tower reinforcement apparatus and method
    Patent number: 8156712
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for creating a reinforced vertical multi-sided monopole tower for supporting equipment including a multi-sided monopole, a plurality of holes on three equally spaced sides of the multi-sided monopole tower and tower reinforcement apparatus mounted to the holes. The tower reinforcement apparatus includes bolts supporting a first flat bar and a second flat bar on each side of the tower. The upper end of the first flat bar abuts a lower end of the second bar and a plate is bolted over adjacent ends connecting the first and second flat bar such that the first and second flat bars are sandwiched between the plate and a side of the perimeter of the monopole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2012
    Assignee: Tower Reinforcement, Inc.
    Inventor: Michael J. Kopshever, Sr.
  • Generalized object recognition for portable reading machine
    Patent number: 8160880
    Abstract: Techniques for operating a reading machine are disclosed. The techniques include forming an N-dimensional features vector based on features of an image, the features corresponding to characteristics of at least one object depicted in the image, representing the features vector as a point in n-dimensional space, where n corresponds to N, the number of features in the features vector and comparing the point in n-dimensional space to a centroid that represents a cluster of points in the n-dimensional space corresponding to a class of objects to determine whether the point belongs in the class of objects corresponding to the centroid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2012
    Assignee: K-NFB Reading Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul Albrecht, Rafael Maya Zetune, Lucy Gibson, Raymond C. Kurzweil
  • Plasma display panel comprising noise reducing barrier rib structure
    Patent number: 8159133
    Abstract: A plasma display panel is disclosed. The plasma display panel includes a front substrate, a rear substrate positioned opposite the front substrate, and a barrier rib that is positioned between the front substrate and the rear substrate to partition discharge cells. The barrier rib includes a transverse barrier rib and a longitudinal barrier rib crossing each other. Depressions are positioned to be spaced apart from each other at a barrier crossing of the transverse barrier rib and the longitudinal barrier rib.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2012
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Jaeyoung Oh, Jiwon Woo
  • Controlling reverse link interference in private access points for wireless networking
    Patent number: 8160629
    Abstract: In a radio access network in which a first access terminal uses a first access point to access the network and a second access terminal uses a second access point to access the network, interference is reduced in communications between the first access terminal and the first access point by adjusting signal power levels of the second access terminal without requiring coordination between the first and second access points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2012
    Assignee: Airvana, Corp.
    Inventors: Amit Mate, Paul D'Arcy, Satish Ananthaiyer
  • Document-based synonym generation
    Patent number: 8161041
    Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that automatically generates synonyms for words from documents. During operation, this system determines co-occurrence frequencies for pairs of words in the documents. The system also determines closeness scores for pairs of words in the documents, wherein a closeness score indicates whether a pair of words are located so close to each other that the words are likely to occur in the same sentence or phrase. Finally, the system determines whether pairs of words are synonyms based on the determined co-occurrence frequencies and the determined closeness scores. While making this determination, the system can additionally consider correlations between words in a title or an anchor of a document and words in the document as well as word-form scores for pairs of words in the documents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2012
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Oleksandr Grushetskyy, Steven D. Baker
  • Interpolation of video compression frames
    Patent number: 8160142
    Abstract: Coding techniques for a video image compression system involve improving an image quality of a sequence of two or more bi-directionally predicted intermediate frames, where each of the frames includes multiple pixels. One method involves determining a brightness value of at least one pixel of each bi-directionally predicted intermediate frame in the sequence as an equal average of brightness values of pixels in non-bidirectionally predicted frames bracketing the sequence of bi-directionally predicted intermediate frames. The brightness values of the pixels in at least one of the non-bidirectionally predicted frames is converted from a non-linear representation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2012
    Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventor: Gary A. Demos
  • Resistance exercise and physical therapy apparatus
    Patent number: 8157712
    Abstract: A resistance exercise and physical therapy apparatus is provided. The resistance exercise and physical therapy apparatus includes: an elongate resilient member having a proximal end and a distal end, wherein the elongate resilient member includes an elastic material with a first enlargement at the proximal end, a second enlargement at the distal end, and one or more spaced-apart third enlargements along the length of the elongate resilient member, wherein the first enlargement is grasped by a first foot of a human user or by one or more floor or wall mounted sockets. A method of resistance exercise and a kit including the resistance exercise and physical therapy apparatus are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2012
    Inventor: Nicholas R. Musachio
  • Technique for producing constructed fares
    Patent number: 8160973
    Abstract: A technique for producing constructed fares that include an arbitrary added to a published fare is described. The techniques determine interior cities that appear with gateway cities in arbitraries for the airline and searches for gateway cities corresponding to the determined interior cities appearing in the arbitraries. The technique applies an arbitrary corresponding to one of the interior cities to a published fare involving one of the gateway cities to produce the constructed fare.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2012
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventor: David M. Baggett
  • Configuring media player
    Patent number: 8161275
    Abstract: A media player is executed on an electronic device by implementing a runtime of a media player in a modular framework on the electronic device. The modular framework is configured to have each of multiple types of media player runtimes implemented therein and to host modules that configure any of the types of media player runtimes for respective device types. The runtime is configured for the electronic device using a module hosted by the modular framework. The module abstracts at least one resource in the electronic device available to the media player. The electronic device is prepared for execution of the media player on the electronic device, and the media player uses the resource during the execution based on configuration according to the module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2012
    Assignee: Adobe Systems Incorporated
    Inventor: Don Woodward
  • Semiconductor device, display device, and electronic device
    Patent number: 8159267
    Abstract: To provide a semiconductor device which operates stably with few malfunctions due to noise, with low power consumption, and little variation in characteristics; a display device including the semiconductor device; and an electronic device including the display device. An output terminal is connected to a power supply line, thereby reducing variation in electric potential of the output terminal. In addition, a gate electrode potential which turns ON a transistor is maintained due to the capacitance of the transistor. Further, change in characteristics of the transistor is reduced by a signal line for reverse bias.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2012
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yasunori Yoshida
  • Playing surface for dice games
    Patent number: D657825
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2012
    Assignee: David Brodrick Enterprises, LLC
    Inventor: David Brodrick