Patents Represented by Attorney Seed IP Law Group PLLC
  • Patent number: 8249013
    Abstract: Provided is a base station capable of suppressing increase of overhead of allocation result report in frequency scheduling in multi-carrier communication and obtaining a sufficient frequency diversity effect. In the base station, encoding units (101-1 to 101-n) encode data (#1 to #n) to mobile stations (#1 to #n), modulation units (102-1 to 102-n) modulate the encoded data so as to generate a data symbol, a scheduler (103) performs frequency scheduling according to a CQI from each mobile station so as to uniformly allocate data to the respective mobile stations for a part of RB extracted from a plurality of RB, and an SCCH generation unit (105) generates control information (SCCH information) to report the allocation result in the scheduler (103) to the respective mobile stations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Kenichi Kuri, Akihiko Nishio, Masaru Fukuoka, Kenichi Miyoshi
  • Patent number: 8249178
    Abstract: Provided are a multicarrier transmitter and a multicarrier receiver which accelerate cell search and reduce a circuit scale by reducing the operation quantity for cell search. The transmitter (100) has: a real number SCH series generation part (105) which generates a real number series consisting of only real number signals; an SCH multiplexing part (104) which maps the real number series as a P-SCH; and an IFFT part (106) which converts a frequency signal to a time signal. By doing like this, the transmitter (100) forms a time-synchronous P-SCH, and performs transmission. Thus, a correlation operation quantity about the P-SCH on a reception side is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventor: Yuta Seki
  • Patent number: 8246788
    Abstract: A biomass torrefaction system is provided which enables a continuous torrefaction process that involves the introduction of biomass particles into a rotating reactor drum having a low oxygen environment. The particles are conveyed through the drum by a heated gas stream and simultaneously torrefied thereby. Gas exiting the drum is recirculated back to a heat source for reheating the gas prior to reentering the drum. A method of biomass torrefaction is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: Teal Sales Incorporated
    Inventors: William B. Teal, Richard J. Gobel, Andrew Johnson
  • Patent number: 8250139
    Abstract: A demand driven process of collecting structured product and service information including the steps of: receiving a request for information from a requestor about a specific product or service, or attribute or class thereof, associating one or more potential responders with the request for information, providing the request to the potential responders, receiving and organizing one or more responses, and providing the organized responses to the requestor, all electronically. An arrangement for the same includes user computers for receiving requests for information, network communication devices for transmitting the requests to potential responders, memory for storing electronic responses and a controller for organizing, updating, and providing access to the electronic responses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: RichRelevance, Inc.
    Inventors: Sundeep Ahuja, David Selinger
  • Patent number: 8249037
    Abstract: The invention relates to the initiation of a service to a mobile terminal capable of communicating via at least a first and second access network. Further, the invention relates to a reduction of power consumption of mobile terminals supporting connectivity to at least two access networks. The invention also relates to mobile communication systems and in particular to mobile communications through heterogeneous access networks. In order to prove improved method for initiating services to mobile terminals and/or to reduce power consumption of mobile terminals, the invention introduces of a sleep state that can be entered by the terminal for an access system if same is not used. Upon requesting a service from/to the mobile terminal, the mobile terminal starts service initiation through a second access system and transits back to active state for the first access system for service provision.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Jens Bachmann, Killian Weniger, Rolf Hakenberg
  • Patent number: 8247799
    Abstract: An integrated circuit for quantum computing may include a superconducting shield to limit magnetic field interactions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: D-Wave Systems Inc.
    Inventors: Paul I. Bunyk, Mark W. Johnson, Jeremy P. Hilton
  • Patent number: 8245848
    Abstract: A fully compostable container is provided having an enclosed body with an opening through an interior surface and an exterior surface. The enclosed body having a plant fiber structural layer configured to biodegrade in ambient conditions into nontoxic residue and a fluid barrier layer formed on a first side of the structural layer to form the interior surface of the enclosed body, the fluid barrier layer configured to biodegrade in ambient conditions into nontoxic residue. The container is gradually biodegradable when exposed to a set of factors in a natural environment and has a shelf life of six months when stored under standard commercial conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: Sacred Green, Inc.
    Inventors: Cynthia Tolibas-Spurlock, Bambi Allred-Forsman, Darla Agnew-Von Moos
  • Patent number: 8242876
    Abstract: A trimmable resistor for use in an integrated circuit is trimmed using a heater. The heater is selectively coupled to a voltage source. The application of voltage to the heater causes the heater temperature to increase and produce heat. The heat permeates through a thermal separator to the trimmable resistor. The resistance of the trimmable resistor is permanently increased or decreased when the temperature of the resistor is increased to a value within a particular range of temperatures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignees: STMicroelectronics, Inc., STMicroelectronics (Grenoble) SAS
    Inventors: Olivier Le Neel, Pascale Dumont-Girard, Chengyu Niu, Fuchao Wang, Michel Arnoux
  • Patent number: 8241546
    Abstract: The invention relates to a continuous method for the direct production of multilayer mold bodies from a highly condensed polyester melt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: Lurgi Zimmer GmbH
    Inventors: Brigitta Otto, Stefan Deiss
  • Patent number: 8244564
    Abstract: Techniques are described for dynamically generating recommendations for users, such as for products and other items. In at least some situations, the techniques include using multiple recommendation strategies, such as by aggregating recommendation results from multiple different recommendation strategies. Such recommendation strategies may have various forms, and may be based at least in part on data regarding prior interactions of numerous users with numerous items. In addition, information about current selections of a particular user may be gathered based at least in part on providing a GUI (“graphical user interface”) for display to the user that includes selectable information about numerous recommended items, and dynamically updating the displayed GUI with newly generated recommendations of items as the user makes selections of particular displayed recommended items (e.g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: RichRelevance, Inc.
    Inventors: David Lee Selinger, Michael James DeCourcey, Randall Stuart Fish, Bradley Ross Cerenzia, Tyler David Kohn, Darren Erik Vengroff
  • Patent number: 8244662
    Abstract: Approaches to embedding source graphs into targets graphs in a computing system are disclosed. Such may be advantageously facilitate computation with computing systems that employ one or more analog processors, for example one or more quantum processors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: D-Wave Systems Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Coury, William G. Macready, David Grant
  • Patent number: 8242956
    Abstract: A mobile device includes a processor for generating a predicted orbital state vector using an initial satellite position and velocity and force model parameters received from a server, the predicted orbital state vector being used to generate satellite navigation data; and a GNSS receiver in communication with the processor for receiving the satellite navigation data; wherein the satellite navigation data is valid for a time period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: Rx Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: James W. LaMance, Maria Eagen, Guylain Roy-MacHabee
  • Patent number: 8244966
    Abstract: A self-adaptive control method for logical strips based on a multi-channel solid-state non-volatile storage device is provided. The method includes the following steps. Storage space of every channel is divided into a plurality of storage units of equal size. At least one logical strip is set by which the storage units with discrete physical addresses across the channels are organized into a continuous logical space, and a logical strip variable is set for determining the storage units organized by the logical strip. Historical operation information of the storage device is obtained statistically, and the logical strip variable is dynamically adjusted according to the obtained operation information. During data interaction, the data is divided according to the logical strip variable, the divided data is mapped to the storage units of every channel, and parallel reading and writing operations are performed among the channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: Memoright Memoritech (Wuhan) Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: He Huang
  • Patent number: 8244650
    Abstract: A recursive approach to quantum computing employs an initial solution, determines intermediate solutions, evaluates the intermediate solutions and repeats using the intermediate solution, if the intermediate solution does not satisfy solution criteria. A best one of the intermediate solutions may be employed in the recursion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: D-Wave Systems Inc.
    Inventor: Geordie Rose
  • Patent number: 8244965
    Abstract: A control method for logical strips based on a multi-channel solid-state non-volatile storage device is provided. The method includes the following processing steps. In Step 1, a storage space of every channel is partitioned into a plurality of storage units of equal size. In Step 2, at least one logical strip is set by which the storage units with discrete physical addresses across a plurality of channels are organized into a continuous logical space. In Step 3, during data reading/writing operation, the data is divided according to a size of each local strip, the divided data is mapped to the storage units of every channel, and a parallel reading/writing operation is performed across the channels. This method may increase the efficiency of reading and writing operations of the storage device and prolong the operating life span of the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: Memoright Memoritech (Wuhan) Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: He Huang
  • Patent number: 8237482
    Abstract: A circuit comprises a frequency divider coupled to receive an oscillating signal generated by an oscillator and a division ratio and configured to divide the oscillating signal by the division ratio into a clock signal; a temperature compensation circuit configured to measure a temperature of the oscillator and generate a division ratio to be provided to the frequency divider and a first value on the basis of the measured temperature; and a control system configured to control connection between a calibration element and the oscillator based on the first value and the oscillating signal of the oscillator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: STMicroelectronics (Shenzen) R&D Co. Ltd.
    Inventor: Henry Ge
  • Patent number: 8235402
    Abstract: A coupling device of a transport cart, through which the transport cart can be coupled to a structure of a supply panel for medical applications, wherein the supply panel can be positioned through a ceiling mount. The coupling device has a first and a second jaw that can be coupled to the structure of the supply panel, wherein, in order to couple the transport cart to the structure, the first jaw, via a first latching device, and the second jaw, via a second latching device, can be locked into a closed position (FIG. 6) from a stopped, uncoupled open position upon mechanical pressure contact with the structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: Ondal Holding GmbH
    Inventors: Stefan Knappe, Matthias Weller
  • Patent number: 8238403
    Abstract: Provided is a radio communication device which can make Acknowledgement (ACK) reception quality and Negative Acknowledgement (NACK) reception quality to be equal to each other. The device includes: a scrambling unit (214) which multiplies a response signal after modulated, by a scrambling code “1” or “e?j(?/2)” so as to rotate a constellation for each of response signals on a cyclic shift axis; a spread unit (215) which performs a primary spread of the response signal by using a Zero Auto Correlation (ZAC) sequence set by a control unit (209); and a spread unit (218) which performs a secondary spread of the response signal after subjected to the primary spread, by using a block-wise spread code sequence set by the control unit (209).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Seigo Nakao, Daichi Imamura
  • Patent number: D665222
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: Platinum Products, LLC
    Inventor: Anthony M. Cerasani
  • Patent number: D665379
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: Red Chip Company Ltd.
    Inventors: Ulrich Behringer, Costa Lakoumentas, David Czarnecki