Patents Represented by Attorney T
  • Patent number: 8176203
    Abstract: Techniques are provided for using the mobility support features of IPv6 to allow client and server nodes to communicate without the continuing intervention of a load-balancing node that selected the server node. A load-balancing node intercepts a TCP SYN packet addressed to a virtual IP address. The load-balancing node selects a server node from among multiple server nodes, and sends the packet toward the server node. The server node sends an IPv6 packet toward the client node. The packet contains a Binding Update option that specifies the virtual IP address as a Home Address. This information causes the client node to replace destination addresses in outgoing IP packets so that packets that the client node would have sent toward the virtual IP address are sent toward the selected server node's IP address instead. Consequently, the IP packets are routed toward the selected server node instead of the load-balancing node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2012
    Assignee: Akamai Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Zaide Liu, Richard David Day, Eric Sven-Johan Swildens
  • Patent number: 8174903
    Abstract: A method of operating a nonvolatile memory device, including a memory cell array, which further includes a drain select transistor, a memory cell string, and a source select transistor coupled between a bit line and a source line, where the method includes precharging the bit line, setting the memory cell string in a ground voltage state, coupling the memory cell string and the bit line together and supplying a read voltage or a verification voltage to a selected memory cell of the memory cell string, and coupling the memory cell string and the source line together in order to change a voltage level of the bit line in response to a threshold voltage of the selected memory cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2012
    Assignee: Hynix Semiconductor Inc.
    Inventors: Jung Chul Han, Seong Je Park
  • Patent number: 8175893
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a method for recommending a disposable incontinence device to be used by an incontinent person. The method comprises the steps of: (a) receiving information, from a user, about incontinence devices which are currently used by the incontinent person; (b) receiving information about the situation which is experienced by the user; and (c) selecting at least one device, based on the information received, among predetermined disposable incontinence devices. By this method, an appropriate disposable incontinence device(s) to be used are recommended depending on the user's situation. The present invention is also directed a method for evaluating the quality of life of a caregiver who takes care of an incontinent person.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2012
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Yukio Heki, Tsutomu Kato
  • Patent number: 8173221
    Abstract: Metal products having improved properties and processes for preparing the metal products are provided. In an embodiment, the present disclosure provides for a metal product comprising a metal surface, an oxide layer and a glass layer. The glass layer is provided by coating a stable aqueous silicate or borosilicate solution onto the metal surface and curing the aqueous solution to produce a glass layer. The metal products have surface characteristics that outperform current anodized metal surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2012
    Assignee: MCT Research & Development
    Inventors: Hamlin Jennings, Jeffrey J. Thomas, Ramille M. Capito
  • Patent number: 8174862
    Abstract: A fuse circuit or a redundancy circuit is capable of detecting a fuse with a crack. The fuse circuit includes a fuse block configured to drive an output node through a current path including a fuse in response to a fuse enable signal, and a voltage detection block configured to detect a voltage level of the output node based on a critical voltage adjusted according to a test mode signal, thereby generating a fuse condition signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2012
    Assignee: Hynix Semiconductor Inc.
    Inventors: Choung-Ki Song, Han-Sub Shin
  • Patent number: 8172088
    Abstract: Apparatus and method for separating lightweight waste from product with cyclic pulses of air. An air separator includes a blower duct directing air upward through product conveyed on a foraminous conveyor. A pair of counter-rotating vanes in the blower duct cyclically open and close to establish a pulsating air flow in the center of the duct across the width of the conveyor. The pulsating air flow lifts lightweight waste from the product and blows it through a vertical duct above the conveyor to waste separation chambers for separation and disposal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2012
    Assignee: Laitram, L.L.C.
    Inventors: Lars Vedsted, Søren Vedsted
  • Patent number: 8168005
    Abstract: A stable liquid detergent composition having a pH comprised between 7.5 and 8.4 and comprising an alkyl ethoxy sulfate surfactant, an amine oxide surfactant and a polyethyleneimine polymer to provide improved grease cleaning and sudsing and to reduce solution slipperiness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2012
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventor: Johanna Borne
  • Patent number: 8169837
    Abstract: A bit line equalizing signal generator of a semiconductor memory device uses a supply voltage and a pumping voltage in stages during a period where a bit line equalizing signal is enabled, thereby enhancing an equalizing speed and an active speed while minimizing power consumption. The semiconductor memory device includes a bit line equalizing signal generating unit configured to drive an output terminal with the supply voltage during a first activation period at the beginning of the period where the bit line equalizing signal is enabled, and to drive the output terminal with the pumping voltage higher than the supply voltage during a second activation period following the first activation period, thereby outputting the bit line equalizing signal, and a bit line equalizing unit configured to equalize a bit line pair in response to the bit line equalizing signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2012
    Assignee: Hynix Semiconductor Inc.
    Inventor: Chang-Ho Do
  • Patent number: 8169270
    Abstract: A VCO (for example, in an FM receiver) includes an LC resonant tank. The LC resonant tank includes a coarse tuning capacitor bank and a fine tuning capacitor bank. The coarse tuning capacitor bank contains a plurality of digitally controlled coarse tuning capacitor elements, each providing a first capacitance value when active. The fine tuning capacitor bank contains a plurality of digitally controlled fine tuning capacitor elements, each providing a second capacitance value when active. To address the practical problem of capacitor mismatch, capacitance overlap throughout the VCO tuning range is created by selecting the first and second capacitance values such that the capacitance value of the fine capacitor bank is greater than the first capacitance value when all of the digitally controlled fine tuning capacitor elements of the fine capacitor bank are active.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2012
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Yi Zeng, Tzu-wang Pan, I-Hsiang Lin
  • Patent number: 8170863
    Abstract: Under the present invention, the portlets of a portal page are individually configured for translation of the web content therein. In configuring a portlet, a set of specifications is designated. Once such specification is a translation paradigm that dictates whether translation of the web content within the portlet will be automatic, or viewer initiated. By individually configuring the portlets, the entire portal page is not translated as a whole, but rather the web content is translated on a portlet-by-portlet basis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Pralhad M. Khatri, Marshall A. Lamb, Richard Redpath, Robert S. Sielken
  • Patent number: 8170482
    Abstract: An embodiment of the invention may include a method of receiving a transmission at a receiver. The method may include setting a receive window duration for receiving the transmission based on an elapsed time since last receiving a good transmission. The receive window duration may be a nonlinear function of the elapsed time. The method may further include opening a receive window to listen for the transmission for an amount of time equal to the set receive window duration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2012
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventor: Joel Benjamin Linsky
  • Patent number: 8169366
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus are provided for operatively enabling at least a first receiver path to receive a first signal associated with a first satellite positioning system (SPS), operatively enabling at least a second receiver path to receive a signal associated with at least one other SPS, and subsequently operatively enabling at least the second receiver path to receive a second signal associated with the first SPS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2012
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Cormac S. Conroy, Leonid Sheynblat
  • Patent number: 8170027
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for communicating IP datagrams efficiently within communication links employing variable frame sizes bundles IP datagrams into data payloads. The number of datagrams that can fit within a current frame size is determined, a bundle header indicating that the bundle header is associated with a bundled IP datagram is generated that includes information for unpacking bundled IP datagrams. The bundle header is joined to one or more IP datagrams to form a data payload that is communicated as a frame payload without indicating in a frame header that the frame includes bundled IP datagrams. Information in the bundle header enables a receiver processor to extract the IP datagrams from the frame payload without requiring modifications to the frame header. A bundle header may precede each IP datagram, or one bundle header may include a map IP datagrams in the frame payload.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2012
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Marcello Lioy, Vanitha Kumar
  • Patent number: 8171358
    Abstract: A semiconductor device and a method for driving the same rapidly detect failure of a through-semiconductor-chip via and effectively repairing the failure using a latching unit assigned to each through-semiconductor-chip via. The semiconductor device includes a plurality of semiconductor chips that are stacked, and a plurality of through-semiconductor-chip vias to commonly transfer a signal to the plurality of semiconductor chips, wherein each of the semiconductor chips includes a multiplicity of latching units assigned to the through-semiconductor-chip vias and the multiplicity of latching units of each of the semiconductor chips constructs a boundary scan path including the plurality of through-semiconductor-chip vias to sequentially transfer test data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2012
    Assignee: Hynix Semiconductor Inc.
    Inventors: Sang-Hoon Shin, Hyung-Dong Lee, Jeong-Woo Lee, Hyang-Hwa Choi
  • Patent number: 8169842
    Abstract: A skew detection circuit includes a data sensing block configured to sense a first data that is transferred earliest and a last data that is transferred latest among a plurality of data which are transferred through different transfer paths, and generate a sensing result signal; and a detection signal generation block configured to compare an output signal of the data sensing block with a certain time, and generate a skew detection signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2012
    Assignee: Hynix Semiconductor Inc.
    Inventor: Seong-Jun Lee
  • Patent number: 8170609
    Abstract: A personal virtual assistant is provided. The personal virtual assistant includes a medical device and remote station that is connectable via a wireless network to a server containing a control processor and rules engine. The medical device is used to provide physiological information to the remote station. The remote station communicates the physiological information and other related information to the server that monitors the information for a number of reasons, including determining whether the physiological information has a trend. Based on the detrimental trend, the server communicates back to the remote station virtual assistance in the form of advice regarding tips to help facilitate halting or reversing the trend.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2012
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Paul Hedtke, Jack Steenstra, Kirk S Taylor, Liren Chen, Richard J Lobovsky
  • Patent number: 8167119
    Abstract: A low-pressure accumulation system and a conveyor belt in an accumulation conveyor for the use with the system. The belt, which is flanked on opposite sides by lines of gravity rollers, has a longitudinal lane of article-supporting belt rollers arranged in groups along the length of the conveyor belt. The groups are spaced apart from each at regular intervals. Trays sit atop the gravity rollers until they are lifted slightly higher by one of the slightly elevated groups of article-supporting belt rollers, which engage the bottom of the tray and convey it along toward a discharge end. Retractable stops selectively block the trays from advancing on the accumulation conveyor. The freely rotatable article-supporting belt rollers roll along the bottoms of any blocked and accumulated trays and provide low back pressure. The belt may also include low-friction rollers that ride on bearing surfaces below the belt to help lower friction between the belt and the conveyor structure while the belt is running.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2012
    Assignee: Laitram, L.L.C.
    Inventors: Stephen G. Wargo, Robert M. Poma, Matthew L. Fourney
  • Patent number: 8169020
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a substrate having trenches, buried bit lines formed in the substrate, and including a metal silicide layer and a metallic layer, wherein the metal silicide layer contacts sidewalls of the trenches and the metallic layer is formed over the sidewalls of the trenches and contacts the metal silicide layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2012
    Assignee: Hynix Semiconductor Inc.
    Inventor: Yun-Seok Cho
  • Patent number: 8167118
    Abstract: A conveyor, a conveyor belt used in the conveyor, and a belt module used to construct the conveyor belt, in which the module includes belt rollers that extend outward of a conveyor surface of the modules to support conveyed articles. The belt rollers are mounted in cavities in the modules that open onto the conveying surface and a recessed surface recessed inward of an outermost surface opposite the conveying surface through the thickness of the modules. Bearing surfaces, such as the peripheries of conveyor rollers underlying the conveyor belt along a carryway run, extend into the conveyor belt past the outer surface to contact the belt rollers. As the belt advances, the belt rollers rotate on the bearing surfaces to push conveyed articles along or across the belt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2012
    Assignee: Laitram, L.L.C.
    Inventor: Matthew L. Fourney
  • Patent number: D659009
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2012
    Assignee: PUR Water Purification Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Clancy Gerald Boyer, Frank Delmar Macaulay