Abstract: The present invention relates to novel phosphorus-containing compounds with polymeric chains, and methods of making and using the same. In part, subject compositions containing phosphorus-containing compounds with polymeric chains and a therapeutic agent, and methods of making and using the same, are described. Certain of the subject compositions exhibit reverse thermal gelation.

Abstract: A method of registering a multi mode communications device for service can include registering a multi-mode communications device by receiving and transmitting registration information over separate communications networks.

Abstract: The invention discloses a method (600) for use in a wireless communications system (100) in which there is at least one node (110-115) which controls the traffic to and from all user terminals (130) in a cell (120) within the system. In the system (100), use is made of the TDD principle for communication between said controlling node (110-115) and its user terminals (130), and according to the method (600), the controlling node transmits (610) a beacon signal for use as a signal quality indicator by the user terminals, said beacon signal being transmitted in a first TDD time slot (232). The user terminals (130) measure (620) the signal quality of the beacon signal and the signal quality in at least a second TDD time slot (234), and report (630) measurements of the signal qualities in both said first and second time slots to the controlling node.

Abstract: Methods and devices treat treating non-stuttering pathologies having impaired or decreased communication skills by administering a frequency altered auditory feedback signal to a subject having a non-stuttering pathology while the subject is speaking or talking to thereby improve the subject's communication skills.

Abstract: A method, a mobile station and a computer program for controlling uplink transmit power of a mobile station capable of operating with scheduled uplink data transmissions. Uplink transmit power level for the mobile station is updated (304) based on received (303) uplink power control commands. Upon detecting a change (301) in uplink scheduled status for the mobile station, the process of updating (304) the uplink transmit power level is adjusted to account for the detected change in uplink scheduled status.

Abstract: A non-volatile memory device includes an array of flash memory cells therein and a voltage generator. The voltage generator is configured to generate a program voltage (Vpgm), a pass voltage (Vpass), a blocking voltage (Vblock) and a decoupling voltage (Vdcp) during a flash memory programming operation. The blocking voltage is generated at a level that inhibits inadvertent programming of an unselected memory cell(s). This voltage level of the blocking voltage is set so that Vdcp<Vblock?Vpass<Vpgm. The decoupling voltage (Vdcp) has a magnitude that is greater than a maximum threshold voltage of an erased memory cell in the array and less than a minimum threshold voltage of a programmed memory cell in the array. A row selection circuit is also provided. This row selection circuit is electrically coupled to word lines in the array and to the voltage generator.

Abstract: Custom food product methods and apparatus are provided that allow customers to participate in the preparation of food products as a part of the dining experience. A method of preparing a custom food product under the direction of a customer includes placing a customer-selected substrate on a scale of custom food product preparation table, placing customer-selected ingredients on the substrate in customer-selected amounts and customer-selected areas, and calculating and displaying the cost of the custom food product to the customer as the customer-selected ingredients are placed on the substrate. Each ingredient is assigned a cost per unit of weight and, as the ingredients are utilized, the cost of the food product is calculated and displayed via a display associated with the table. A customer may be provided with a record of the ingredients of the custom food product and may include an image and/or name of the custom food product.

Abstract: Provided is a charge trapping nonvolatile memory device. The charge trapping nonvolatile memory device includes: an active pattern and a gate electrode, spaced apart from each other; a charge storage layer between the active pattern and the gate electrode; a tunnel insulation layer between the active pattern and the charge storage layer; and a blocking insulation layer disposed between the charge storage layer and the gate electrode and including a high-k layer with a higher dielectric constant than the tunnel insulation layer and a barrier insulation layer with a higher band gap than the high-k layer. A physical thickness of the high-k layer is less than or identical to that of the barrier insulation layer.

Abstract: Recommending a security policy to a firewall, includes receiving a request from a firewall for a recommendation as to whether the firewall should allow or block a detected present communication for which the firewall does not have an existing security policy. Information about past blocked and allowed communications at other firewalls on a network is searched to identify past communications that are similar to the present communication. The identified past communications are assigned a respective positive or negative vote. A positive vote indicates a past communication was allowed and a negative vote indicates a past communication was not allowed. A positive recommendation is sent to the requesting firewall to allow the present communication if the positive votes outnumber the negative votes, and a negative recommendation is sent to the requesting firewall to block the present communication if the negative votes outnumber the positive votes.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus for qualifying and quantifying excitation-dependent physiological information extracted from wearable sensors in the midst of interference from unwanted sources are provided. An organism is interrogated with at least one excitation energy, energy response signals from two or more distinct physiological regions are sensed, and these signals are processed to generate an extracted signal. The extracted signal is compared with a physiological model to qualify and/or quantify a physiological property. Additionally, important physiological information can be qualified and quantified by comparing the excitation wavelength-dependent response, measured via wearable sensors, with a physiological model.

Abstract: Methods, systems and computer program products are provided through which a wireless terminal participating in a packet-switched communications session may temporarily suspend the session, for example, upon receipt of an incoming circuit-switched call. The wireless terminal may notify a server associated with the packet-switched session of receipt of the incoming circuit-switched call, and may also notify the server when the packet-switched session may be resumed. In embodiments of the present invention implemented in GSM networks, one or more of the notification messages may be transmitted to the server over the SMS data bearer.

Abstract: An electronic device may include a touch sensitive user interface and a contact detector configured to detect a location of contact on a surface of the touch sensitive user interface. A force detector may be configured to detect a force/deflection on/of the surface of the touch sensitive user interface using electromagnetic radiation. A controller may be coupled to the touch sensitive user interface. The controller may be configured to provide a first response to the contact on the surface of the touch sensitive user interface when the detected force/deflection is less than a threshold. The controller may be further configured to provide a second response to the contact on the surface of the touch sensitive user interface when the detected force/deflection is greater that the threshold with the first and second responses being different. Related methods are also discussed.

Abstract: Provided is a method for manufacturing a MOS transistor.

Abstract: A nonvolatile memory device includes a first address decoder and a second address decoder. The first address decoder includes a plurality of transistors disposed in a first well, and the second address decoder includes a plurality of transistors disposed in a second well that is electrically isolated from the first well. The first and second address decoders are associated with first and second memory blocks, respectively. A switch circuit is configured to provide a negative voltage to one of the first address decoder and the second address decoder on the basis of block address information that specifies an address included in one of the first memory block and the second memory block. Related methods of operation are also discussed.

Abstract: A method of fabricating an integrated circuit device includes forming first and second preliminary mask structures on a hard mask layer in respective first and second regions of the substrate. Spacers are formed on opposing sidewalls of the first and second preliminary mask structures, and the first preliminary mask structure is selectively removed from between the spacers in the first region. The hard mask layer is etched using the spacers and the second preliminary mask structure as a mask to define a first mask pattern including the opposing sidewall spacers with a void therebetween in the first region and a second mask pattern including the opposing sidewall spacers and the second preliminary mask structure therebetween in the second region.

Abstract: Methods and systems for generating custom implants by programmatically analyzing a patient's image data to electronically obtain shapes and dimensions of relevant anatomical features of a target region of the patient; and fabricating a patient-specific replacement implant for the patient using the analyzed patient image data. Related patient-specific spinal implants are also described.

Abstract: Compounds of the formula: are described wherein: A1 is ascorbic acid, dehydroascorbic acid, ascorbyl-2-phosphate, an analog thereof, or a salt thereof; L is a linking group coupled to A1 at the C5 or C6 position thereof; and B1 is an active agent such as an imaging agent or therapeutic agent (e.g. a bisphosphonate), along with pharmaceutically acceptable salts and prodrugs thereof. The compounds are useful for, among other things, improving cartilage uptake of active agents administered for joint diseases such as osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis, and for improving gastrointestinal absorption of bisphosphonates.

Abstract: Various embodiments provide an electronic device that includes video storage memory, a video signal receiver, and a video storage controller. The video signal receiver is configured to receive a video stream containing advertising content and program/movie content from a broadcast source. The video storage controller is configured to identify locations of advertising content interspersed among program/movie content in the received video stream, and to record addressable chapter marks for the identified locations of the advertising content and a video stream that is based on the received video stream into the memory. The addressable chapter marks may be displayed on a display and used by a viewer to jump playback of the video stream between the chapter marks.

Abstract: An enhanced-range beacon signal transmitted from a wireless terminal in a frequency band used by the wireless OFDM communications system for OFDM communications. The beacon may be received at each of a plurality of base stations of the wireless OFDM communications system. A location of the wireless terminal may be determined responsive to reception of the beacon signal at the plurality of base stations. In some embodiments, the beacon signal includes a narrowband beacon signal, which may be centered at a frequency offset with respect to a set of subcarriers used in the wireless OFDM communications system, for example, between adjacent subcarriers of the wireless OFDM system and/or in a guard band of the OFDM frequency band.