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  • Protocol for allocating upstream slots over a link in a point-to-multipoint communication system
    Patent number: 8274991
    Abstract: A system for controlling a contention state for a communication link between a base station controller and customer premises equipment in point-to-multipoint communication. The contention state is controlled using a state machine, which includes a grant pending absent state in which a unicast request slot is maintained open for use by the customer premises equipment. During the grant pending absent state, the customer premises equipment sends no upstream data to the base station controller but can use the unicast request slot to request a data slot for sending upstream data to the base station controller. In the grant pending state, the customer premises equipment preferably uses piggybacking to request grant of a next data slot while sending upstream data to the base station controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignee: Wi-LAN, Inc.
    Inventor: Subir Varma
  • System and methods for accessing web pages using natural language
    Patent number: 8275788
    Abstract: A system for accessing a webpage through natural language communication with a computer comprises a registry database configured to store at least one table the table configured to store associations between a concept in a text string and all natural language variations of the text string and associated concept identifiers, the concept in the text string an variations thereof relating to an object; and a parser interfaced with the database and configured to receive the text string or a variation thereof, the parser further configured to identify the concept represented by the text string or variation thereof and associate the identified concept with the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignee: Glace Holding LLC
    Inventors: John G. Gorman, John W. R. Gorman
  • Composite laminate structure
    Patent number: 8272188
    Abstract: A composite laminate structure includes a first skin; a second skin; and a plurality of distinct groupings of Z-axis fibers that extend from the first skin to the second skin, wherein the Z-axis fibers include opposite ends respectively terminating at and integrated into the first skin and the second skin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignee: Ebert Composites Corporation
    Inventors: David W. Johnson, Scott A. Garrett, Stephen G. Moyers, James M. Hook
  • System for providing data analysis services using a support vector machine for processing data received from a remote source
    Patent number: 8275723
    Abstract: A network-based system is provided for performing data analysis services using a support vector machine for analyzing data received from a remote user connected to the network. The user transmits a data set to be analyzed and along with an account identifier that allows the analysis service provider to collect payment for the processing services. Once payment has been confirmed, the service provider's server transmits the analysis results to the remote user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignee: Health Discovery Corporation
    Inventors: Stephen D. Barnhill, Isabelle Guyon, Jason Weston
  • Worldwide web registration information processing system
    Patent number: 8271467
    Abstract: A World Wide Web registration processing system is disclosed for assisting World Wide Web users in registering at World Wide Web web sites. For each such user, the registration processing system includes a long term repository for the user's web site registration information so that this information can be automatically transferred to a plurality of web sites to which the user may at time to time request to be registered. Further, the registration processing system provides the user with the capability to have a common user identification that may be used for accessing services at a plurality of web sites.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: Acacia Research Group LLC
    Inventors: John R. Klug, Thad D. Peterson
  • Systems and methods for natural language communication with a computer
    Patent number: 8271264
    Abstract: A system for natural language communication with a computer, comprising a database configures to store at least one table the table configured to store associations between concepts in a text string and associated concept identifiers; and a builder interfaced with the database, the builder configured to construct a concept defined by a text string by performing a process comprising the following steps: assigning a unique identifier to the concept, breaking the concept into sub-concepts, assigning a unique identifier to each sub-concept, using legal joins to join sub-concepts into higher order sub-concepts, assigning a unique identifier to the higher-order concepts, and repeating the steps until the higher order sub-concepts join to form the concept, and storing the concept, sub-concepts, higher order sub-concepts and unique identifiers in a table in the database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: Glace Holding LLC
    Inventors: John G. Gorman, John W. R. Gorman
  • Portable terminal, display control program, and display control method
    Patent number: 8269754
    Abstract: A mobile terminal controls a display unit to display a first image in a first display area at a first luminance and to display a second image in a second display area at the first luminance, under a first condition in which brightness measured by a optical sensor is lower than a first threshold, and controls the display unit to display a third image in the first display area at a second luminance that is higher than the first luminance and to set a luminance in the second display area to a third luminance that is lower than the first luminance, under a second condition in which the measured brightness is equal to or higher than the first threshold, a content of the third image being determined so as to include a content of the first image and a content of the second image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventor: Keizo Nagata
  • Low lift golf ball
    Patent number: 8267810
    Abstract: A golf ball having a plurality of dimples formed on its outer surface, the outer surface of the golf ball being divided into plural areas, a first group of areas containing a plurality of first dimples and a second group of areas containing a plurality of second dimples, each area of the second group abutting one or more areas of the first group, the first and second groups of areas and dimple shapes and dimensions being configured such that the golf ball is spherically symmetrical as defined by the United States Golf Association (USGA) Symmetry Rules, the plural areas configured such that the golf ball has a Drag Coefficient (CD) and a Lift Coefficient (CL) of less than about 0.330 and 0.270, respectively, at a Reynolds Number (Re) of about 80,000 and a spin rate of between about 2,900 rpm and about 3,000 rpm and a CD and CL of less than about 0.260 and 0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: Aero-X Golf, Inc.
    Inventors: David L. Felker, Douglas C. Winfield, Rocky Lee
  • Digital communications receiver and method of estimating residual carrier frequency offset in a received signal
    Patent number: 8265184
    Abstract: A carrier frequency offset can be present in a signal received by a communications receiver when the receiver has a local frequency oscillator that generates a carrier frequency different from a carrier frequency generated by a local frequency oscillator at a transmitter that transmitted the signal. A residual carrier frequency offset can remain after most of the carrier frequency offset has been removed from the received signal using conventional techniques. The residual carrier frequency offset is estimated using first and second channel impulse responses derived from first and second portions of the received signal. An estimated phase difference between the first and second channel impulse responses is computed. An estimate of the residual carrier frequency offset is computed using the estimated phase difference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: Wi-LAN, Inc.
    Inventors: Lingjie Li, Shiquan Wu
  • Psychophysiological touch screen stress analyzer
    Patent number: 8264364
    Abstract: The Psychophysiological Touch Screen Stress Analyzer is capable of capturing information on how a person emotionally reacts to a series of verbal, visual, or written stimulus when the person touches the touch screen computer monitor in response to the stimulus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Inventor: Phillip Roger Sprague
  • Low lift golf ball
    Patent number: 8262513
    Abstract: A golf ball having a plurality of dimples formed on its outer surface, the outer surface of the golf ball being divided into plural areas comprising at least first areas containing a plurality of first dimples and second areas containing a plurality of second dimples, the areas together forming a spherical polyhedron shape, wherein the first dimples are spherical dimples and the second dimples are truncated spherical dimples, the first dimples having a first radius and a first, spherical chord depth, and the second dimples having a second radius larger than the first radius and having a second, truncated chord depth less than half the spherical chord depth of the first dimples.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: Aero-X Golf, Inc.
    Inventors: David L. Felker, Douglas C. Winfield, Rocky Lee
  • Systems and methods for implementing an interaction between a laser shaped as line beam and a film deposited on a substrate
    Patent number: 8265109
    Abstract: A laser crystallization apparatus and method are disclosed for selectively melting a film such as amorphous silicon that is deposited on a substrate. The apparatus may comprise an optical system for producing stretched laser pulses for use in melting the film. In still another aspect of an embodiment of the present invention, a system and method are provided for stretching a laser pulse. In another aspect, a system is provided for maintaining a divergence of a pulsed laser beam (stretched or non-stretched) at a location along a beam path within a predetermined range. In another aspect, a system may be provided for maintaining the energy density at a film within a predetermined range during an interaction of the film with a shaped line beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: Cymer, Inc.
    Inventors: Palash P. Das, Thomas Hofmann, Jesse D. Davis, Richard L. Sandstrom
  • Multilayer circuit board
    Patent number: 8263874
    Abstract: A multilayer circuit board comprising low inductance through-conductors is disclosed. The multilayer circuit board comprises first ceramic substrate means, first layered section means, and second ceramic substrate means that allow insulation layers to be substantially thin, a length of through-conductors to be substantially short, and low relative permittivity of the insulation layers compared to resin insulation layers. Thus, increases in operation frequency of the multilayer circuit board are possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventor: Toshihiro Hashimoto
  • Laryngoscope and method of use
    Patent number: 8257250
    Abstract: A laryngoscope for use in viewing the vocal cords of a patient in performance of an endotracheal intubation. The laryngoscope includes a handle to be gripped by a medical professional in performing the endotracheal intubation; a blade portion extending from the handle to lift the patient's tongue and mandible for viewing the vocal cords and aid in the insertion of an endotracheal tube; a power source; and a black light source powered by the power source and carried by the blade portion to prompt the visible effects of fluorescence and phosphorescence with respect to the patient's vocal cords for viewing the vocal cords and passing of the endotracheal tube there between during endotracheal intubation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: Intubrite, LLC
    Inventors: James P. Tenger, Leslie A. Tenger, John R. Hicks
  • Electronic device
    Patent number: 8259452
    Abstract: An electronic device according to the present invention comprises a pair of housings coupled to each other openably and closably by a hinge mechanism, and each of the housings comprises a front cabinet and a back cabinet joined to each other. The back cabinet of at least one of the housings is formed from a material having a greater expansion coefficient than that of a material forming the front cabinet, and the back cabinet of at least one of the housings has a cutting part extending in the width direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction thereof and longitudinally cutting at least a part of the back cabinet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Katsushige Kori, Masaki Ikari
  • Acceleration sensor with surface protection
    Patent number: 8256292
    Abstract: An acceleration sensor has a pair of main surface protection members arranged at one end of both main surfaces of a piezoelectric oscillation element, and spaced from the main surfaces through a pair of main surface spacer members. An end surface protection member is arranged on an end surface at the other end of the main surface protection members by having an interval between the end surface protection member and the piezoelectric oscillation element, through a pair of end surface spacer members. A pair of side surface protection members is arranged at one end of the both side surfaces of the piezoelectric vibration element, the pair of main surface protection members, the end surface protection member, the pair of main surface spacer members, and a pair of side surface spacer members arranged on both side surfaces of the end surface spacer members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventor: Kaoru Matsuo
  • Method and device for less invasive surgical procedures on animals
    Patent number: 8251993
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a method and system for less invasive surgical procedures on animals. In accordance with various embodiments, electromagnetic energy is applied in a controlled application and projected into the tissue of an animal. The controlled application of the electromagnetic energy heats the targeted tissue causing cell necrosis, collagen shrinkage or scar tissue production, often without requiring a surgical incision.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Inventor: Edward Luttich
  • Method and system for detecting and mapping hydrocarbon reservoirs using electromagnetic fields
    Patent number: 8253418
    Abstract: The system and method provided modify a conventional seafloor long-wire electromagnetic (LEM) receiver by increasing the number of discrete antennae placed on the long wire. Two dipoles of electric field data are positioned exactly adjacent to each other, providing input to the same data logger system located within a seafloor survey unit to which the long wire is connected. Highly precise electric field gradients can be obtained by taking the difference of the measurements of the two electrodes, both for amplitude and phase. Any common-mode source of noise, such as magnetotelluric signals and receiver instrument noise will be rejected when the signals from the two electrodes are differenced. An acoustic navigation system utilizes a plurality of transponders to permit triangulation for accurate source-receiver ranging.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: Steven C. Constable, Kerry W. Key
  • System and method for generating a target language markup language text template
    Patent number: RE43621
    Abstract: A system and method of generating a target language markup language (ML) text template comprise translating one or more words in a source language ML text template to one or more words in the target language so as to generate a target language ML text template, and defining a target language localized template for the target language ML text template using the translated words. The method may also include adding and modifying metadata for variant text associated with a source language text string according to attributes of a target language, wherein the target language localized template is defined using the modified metadata in addition to the translated words.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Online Entertainment LLC
    Inventors: Robert A. McEntee, William M. Mauer, Steven J. Riley
  • Suspended utensil storage system
    Patent number: D667278
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Inventor: Michael P. Murphy