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  • Updating usage conditions in lieu of download digital rights management protected content
    Patent number: 7110984
    Abstract: A method on an end user system for creating additional copies onto at least one computer readable medium such as CDs, DVDs, ZipDisks™, tape, Flash memory, and RAM. The method comprising the steps of: receiving encrypted content with associated usage conditions and a first hash value; receiving a selection from an end user to create at least one copy of the encrypted content onto at least one computer readable medium; sending a request to an online electronic store of the encrypted content selected to be copied; receiving from the electronic store a description of the content selected to be copied along with a second hash value; and determining if the first hash value received is identical to the second hash value and if the first hash and the second hash value is identical authorizing the creating additional copies onto at least one computer readable medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2006
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Richard L. Spagna, Marco M. Hurtado, Paul R. Rettig, Ting Zhao
  • Sun dial and method for determining average sunlight
    Patent number: 7106660
    Abstract: A sun dial including a housing, a light detector mounted on the housing exposed to detect ambient light, a logic circuit mounted in the housing for processing the detected light for determining over a preselected period of time the average light detected by the light detector, and an indicator to indicate upon demand, the average light detected during the preselected period of time. A method for determining average light detected over a period of time by detecting light above a preselected threshold indicative of darkness, while noting the time of darkness, adjusting the period of time by subtracting the time of darkness from the period of time, calculating the average light detected over the adjusted period of time, and giving a visual indication of the average light detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2006
    Assignee: New Ventions, Inc.
    Inventor: Nevin Jenkins
  • Diagnostic method for detection of multiple defects in a Level Sensitive Scan Design (LSSD)
    Patent number: 7107502
    Abstract: Examiner's permission under MPEP §608.01(q) and 37 CFR §1.125(b) is requested to submit a substitute specification and abstract. The substitute specification corrects typographical errors, grammar and formatting. No new matter has been added. The substitute specification and abstract contain no new matter to the specification of record. A marked-up version is attached along with a clean version in an appendix attached hereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2006
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Todd Michael Burdine
  • Variable gain low-pass filter
    Patent number: 7102434
    Abstract: A low-pass filter with a variable gain comprising a transconductance differential amplifier stage comprising a differential input and a differential output, the latter receiving a passive circuit, such as a first-order RC filter, in order to realize low-pass filtering of the amplifier stage. The filter is chosen so that the cut-off frequency is below the frequency range to be treated. The filter further comprises a control element controlling the differential amplifier stage's bias point to allow control of the gain associated to filtering. Thus, low-pass filtering associated to a variable gain can be realized in a very simple way. The circuit is perfectly adapted for incorporation into a semiconductor product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2006
    Assignee: STMicroelectronics SA
    Inventor: Lionel Grillo
  • Method for programming/parallel programming of onboard flash memory by multiple access bus
    Patent number: 7102383
    Abstract: A process of programming or reprogramming a reprogrammable onboard memory (5) comprises programming or reprogramming the onboard memory of several modules (M0, M1) in parallel through a multiple access bus (6) to which the modules are connected. In the case of blank flash memories, a process downloads code through the multiple access bus (6) and executes the code, eliminating all external constraints (such as frequency, binary throughput). The process is more particularly intended to apply to onboard flash type memories.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2006
    Assignee: STMicroelectronics SA
    Inventors: Andre Roger, Charles Aubenas, Julien Fabregues
  • Portable telescoping line-of-sight array antenna
    Patent number: 7102590
    Abstract: An antenna (100) includes an array of telescoping elements (402a–d) connected to and by a conductive disk (404) that feeds a signal to the elements (402a–d) from a matching circuit (506) within a body section (412). Each element (402a–d) has a joint (602, 604) making it individually angularly bendable. The body section (412) is attached to a swivel assembly (414) for adjusting the angle of the array (402a–d). A coaxial cable runs from the matching circuit (506), through the swivel assembly (412) and to a connector (502) within a connector assembly (422) for attachment to a radio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2006
    Assignee: FPR Enterprises, LLC
    Inventor: Florenio Pinili Regala
  • Plastically deformable implant
    Patent number: 7101564
    Abstract: The invention relates to a plastically deformable implant for inserting into bodily orifices of the human or animal body. Implants of this type are used, for example, in ophthalmology, in particular, as vitreous body or lens replacements and in dentistry, for example, for filling extraction cavities in jaw-bones. Known implants, however, are not suitable for long-term use. The invention aims to provide a deformable plastic implant which also has a long-term application. This is achieved by the fact that the implant consists of a gel which is not sealed, containing fluorocarbon and which is directly introduced into the natural, or artificially created bodily orifice.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2006
    Assignee: Pharm Pur GmbH
    Inventors: Dirk-Henning Menz, Joachim Dresp
  • Device for mounting a telescopic sight on a weapon
    Patent number: 7096620
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for mounting a telescopic sight onto a weapon. The device is equipped with two mounting feet, which are positioned at a distance from one another and provided with mounting elements for engaging in corresponding receiving openings on the weapon. The aim of the invention is to enable the sight to be positioned accurately without the need for a complex adjustment and fitting process. To achieve this, the mounting elements are configured by clamping bolts, which comprise laterally protruding lugs, are contained in the corresponding mounting feet and can be rotated through a release and locking position. The lugs can be inserted into recesses between inward-facing projecting shoulders of the receiving openings in the release position of the clamping bolts and engage with the underside of the projecting shoulders in the locked position of the bolts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2006
    Assignee: S.A.T. Swiss Arms Technology AG
    Inventor: Meinrad Zeh
  • Amplified analog information reading device with linear DB mode gain control, in particular for an image sensor
    Patent number: 7098838
    Abstract: An amplified reading device includes an adjustable gain amplifier AMP receiving analog information and of which 2j successive gain values, respectively adjustable by 2j successive values of a first control word of j bits, follow a geometric progression of ratio a; an analog/digital converter CAN connected to the output of the amplifier, having an adjustable input full scale, of which 2k different values, respectively adjustable, for each gain value, from 2k successive values of a second control word of k bits, follow a geometric progression of ratio a1/2 k, the converter delivering a digital code corresponding to the analog information amplified by an overall gain, the value of which depends on the gain value of the amplifier and on that of the full scale, and a controller MCM designed to deliver the first and second control words.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2006
    Assignee: STMicroelectronics SA
    Inventor: Laurent Simony
  • Single connector dual band antenna with embedded diplexer
    Patent number: 7098862
    Abstract: An antenna assembly (700) includes a first element (100) and a second element (300). Each element (100, 300) transmits and receives in a particular band of frequencies. Integrated on one of the elements is a diplexer (702) that allows all frequencies to be fed into the antenna assembly (700) via a single connector (600) and each element (100, 300) receives only the frequency band that that element is designed to operate in.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2006
    Assignee: FPR Enterprises, LLC
    Inventor: Florenio Pinili Regala
  • Method and system for simultaneous management of multiple tokens on a communication ring
    Patent number: 7099922
    Abstract: A method, an apparatus and computer readable medium for simultaneous communication over a bus in a master/slave agent network topology. Each communication agent on the network is either a master agent or slave agent with an input and an output. In one embodiment, the input and the output are latches. The method permits the number of tokens on the ring to be equal to up to one less than the total number of agents on the ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2006
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Kirk D. Pospesel, Thomas F. Dubois, Dean A. Liberty
  • Method and device for interference cancellation in a CDMA wireless communication system
    Patent number: 7099377
    Abstract: The method of interference cancellation in a CDMA wireless communication system comprises receiving an incident digital signal containing a user signal transmitted on a CDMA user physical channel and an interfering signal, projecting said incident digital signal onto a projection space orthogonal to the space containing said interfering signal, filtering said projected signal with a filter matched to the CDMA user physical channel for detecting the data contained in said user signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2006
    Assignee: STMicroelectronics N.V.
    Inventors: Friedbert Berens, Timo Roman
  • Method for allowing simple interoperation between backend database systems
    Patent number: 7099891
    Abstract: According to a preferred embodiment of the present invention, a bridging system (100) and method provides a way of linking two independent data systems by receiving a dataset from a source data system. The bridging system (100) translates the dataset from a source schema to a target schema according to a set of mapping rules, and queues the translated data in persistent storage, and then sends the translated dataset to a destination data system. The system (100) includes an XML bridge (114), multiple application specific gateways (116,118), and a web admin interface (210), all in communication via a wide area network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2006
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Clifford Vernon Harris, Jeffrey Thomas Kreulen, Vikas Krishna, Kevin Snow McCurley, Sami Nicole Rollins, Hovey Raymond Strong, Jr., Neelakantan Sundaresan
  • Display system and method for the display of images
    Patent number: 7098929
    Abstract: A display system and method for the display of images wherein there is a selection of a partitioning of an image display area from a predefined set of partitionings and display of a representation of the partitioning of the image display area in an image selection area. Then, representations of images of a set of images are displayed in the image selection area. Next, an assignment is made of a selected representation of an image to be displayed to an area of the representation of the partitioning via a graphical user interface. Then, the image is displayed in a part of the image display area that corresponds to the area of the representation of the partitioning.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2006
    Assignee: Mevis Breastcare GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Anke Bödicker, Dietmar Dechow
  • Method for aligning two or more independent printing systems with a single control unit and intelligent print controllers
    Patent number: 7099029
    Abstract: A method and system receives a print job from a host device, parses the print job into individual print data for at least two separate printing devices, generates a random set of marks for identification of the print job, embeds the identification marks into the individual print data for a first printing device; and sends the individual print data and the marks to each printing device. Simultaneously, each printing device in the system receives its individual dataset for printing and the set of identification marks from the control unit and starts its print engine at a high speed. The first printing device prints its dataset and the identification marks on at least a first page of the printed dataset. The remaining printing devices then scan the roll of print media until they recognize the matching identification marks and begin printing their individual dataset on the roll of print media.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2006
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Samuel N. Hopper
  • Automobile vehicle seat adaptable to accommodate a child
    Patent number: 7093897
    Abstract: A seat for an automobile vehicle comprises a seat pan (2) and a seat back (3), the seat pan (2) featuring a seating surface that is approximately horizontal extending from the seat back (3) to a forward limit (43), the seating surface comprising a fixed seating surface (4) and a mobile front section (5) spanning at least part of the width of the forward limit (43). The front section (5) can move between a raised position in which it is aligned with the fixed seating surface (4), and a tilted position in which the front section (5) is tilted down below the fixed seating surface (4) forming ridge (44) with it that is more or less parallel with the forward limit (43), this position being suitable to accommodate a seated child.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2006
    Assignee: Faurecia Sieges D'Automobile, S.A.
    Inventors: Nicolas Terrand, Alain Laporte, Guillaume Huguet, Yves Heranney
  • Knockdown corrugated box for temperature control and method of making
    Patent number: 7094192
    Abstract: A box for shipping temperature sensitive or perishable goods made from a double walled combined web having an inside barrier layer, a first paper liner bonded to the inside barrier layer, a first paper flute medium bonded to the first paper liner, an outside barrier layer, a second paper liner bonded to the outside barrier layer, a second paper flute medium bonded to the second paper liner, and a sandwich of a barrier layer bonded between third and fourth paper liners. The flute mediums are bonded, respectively, to the third and fourth paper liners.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2006
    Inventors: Kenneth Schoenberger, Joseph Scheer, Drayton Miller
  • Dynamic CPU usage profiling and function call tracing
    Patent number: 7093234
    Abstract: A method, and computer readable medium for the dynamic CPU (Central Processing Unit) usage and function call tracing on a target application. The setup of the tracing uses a -pg like solution, and is implemented using the DPCL (Dynamic Probe Class Library). The output is presented in a gmon.out format, which allows the use of popular analysis tools. The program being traced need not be recompiled or re-linked. This is particularly important if the source code is not available. The dynamic feature allows for different choices of profiling and the choice can even be changed once the target application is running.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2006
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Jason D. Hibbeler, Jhy-Chun Wang
  • Mould and method for injection-compression moulding
    Patent number: 7090800
    Abstract: A mold, a molding machine and a method of molding a plastics material in a mold cavity is described which relies primarily on movement of a part of the mold to provide the pressure necessary to force the plastics material melt to fill all the parts of the mold cavity. The method comprises the steps of applying a light pressure to close the mold, injecting a predetermined quantity of molten plastics material into the mold cavity at a pressure which is such that the injection of the plastics material can cause the cavity to expand in volume against the resistance of the light closing pressure, and applying a high pressure to close the mold fully after completion of the injection step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2006
    Assignee: Im-Pak Technologies Limited
    Inventor: Peter Reginald Clarke
  • System and method for dynamically extending a DRM system using authenticated external DPR modules
    Patent number: 7093296
    Abstract: A rights management module controls access to a data set by processing requests for flexibly defined types of access to the data set and determines if the requested access may be granted. The requester's right for the requested type of access is verified by a verification module that may be part of the rights management core or verified through expansion rights verification modules. Extension verification modules may be contained within the data set itself or obtained from a separate store. Extension verification modules are authenticated by the rights management core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2006
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Stefan Nusser, Eckhart Koeppen, James C. Mahlbacher, David Medina, Luca Contessa