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  • Layout aware calculations
    Patent number: 7877348
    Abstract: A method for analyzing data from a database using an analytic database function includes receiving a selection of measured items from a user, receiving a placement item from the user, and determining a partitioning of the selection of measured items from the placement item. A placement item can be a column, a row, or an axis. A template associated with the analytic database function is adapted to define at least one partitioning relative to the placement item. The template is further adapted to define an ordering parameter for the analytic database function and optionally an aggregation level for the analytic database function. A database query is created with the partitioning. The database query can be an SQL statement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2011
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Henry Verschell, Raghuram Venkatasubramanian, Steve Cave, Martin Roth
  • Method and system for guided cluster based processing on prototypes
    Patent number: 7877388
    Abstract: A method (and system) for clustering a plurality of items. Each of the items includes information. The method includes inputting a plurality of items. Each of the items includes information. The items are provided into a clustering process. The method also inputs an initial organization structure into the clustering process. The initial organization structure includes one or more categories, at least one of the categories being associated with one of the items. The method processes the plurality of items based upon at least the initial organization structure and the information in each of the items; and determines a resulting organization structure based upon the processing. The resulting organization structure relates to the initial organization structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2011
    Assignee: Stratify, Inc.
    Inventors: John O. Lamping, Ramana Venkata, Shashidhar Thakur, Samdeer Siruguri
  • Storage device and method of setting configuration information of same
    Patent number: 7877520
    Abstract: Configuration information settings for a storage device are made highly reliable and facilitated. The storage device includes a service processor for setting storage device configuration information, and a terminal device connected to the service processor via a private line to send a command group, received from an operator and related to the storage device configuration information, to the service processor. The service processor also includes a device for determining approval or denial of execution of the command group prior to execution of the command group received from the terminal device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2011
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshimichi Kishimoto, Yoshinori Igarashi, Shuichi Yagi
  • Image displaying method, image displaying device, and contrast-adjusting circuit for use therewith
    Patent number: 7876301
    Abstract: A system provides an image displaying technique that provides stable high contrast even in an area having high brightness. Based on information about an average brightness level of a digital luminance signal, black-correction processing which decreases a brightness level by offsetting the brightness level to the minus side, and increase processing which increases a contrast gain within a dynamic range, are performed for an analog luminance signal or a digital luminance signal, enabling improvement in contrast even where brightness is intense.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2011
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Aoki, Ryo Hasegawa
  • Wall luminaire
    Patent number: 7874696
    Abstract: A wall luminaire is described having a housing intended for the reception of the electrical components and having at least one light permeable element mounted to the housing whose special feature consists of the fact that light generated by a plurality of LEDs with an associated optical system or by a fluorescent lamp arrangement is guided in bundled form between two surfaces which are disposed in the sidelight region of the light beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2011
    Inventor: Hartmut S. Engel
  • Highly reliable storage system and internal network thereof
    Patent number: 7877633
    Abstract: The disk controller has a plurality of channel control units, a plurality of cache memories, a plurality of disk control units, and a plurality of internal switch units. Each channel control unit or disk control unit sends to one of the cache memory units a request packet requesting execution of processing. The cache memory unit sends a response packet in response to the received request packet. Each internal switch unit monitors the request packet sent from the channel control unit or disk control unit, and judges whether or not the response packet to the request packet has passed through the internal switch unit within a first given time period since the passage of the request packet. In the case where the response packet has not passed through the internal switch unit within the first given time period, the internal switch unit sends a failure notification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2011
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shuji Nakamura, Akira Fujibayashi, Mutsumi Hosoya
  • Data access in a processor for virtual machines
    Patent number: 7877572
    Abstract: Apparatus and method are described for a data processing device. The data processor includes features suitable for executing a software virtual machine. The data processor provides an instruction set that supports object-level memory protection suitable for high speed operation. Memory control logic is provided to accommodate a configuration having relatively less random access memory (RAM) as compared to re-programmable, nonvolatile memory, and to improve access to the re-programmable, nonvolatile memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2011
    Assignee: Renesas Technology America, Inc.
    Inventors: Toshiyasu Morita, Shumpei Kawasaki
  • Communication between an accessory and a media player with multiple lingoes and lingo version information
    Patent number: 7877532
    Abstract: An interface and protocol allow a media player to communicate with external accessories over a transport link. The protocol includes a core protocol functionality and a number of accessory lingoes. Examples of accessory lingoes include a microphone lingo, a simple remote lingo, a display remote lingo, an RF transmitter lingo, and an extended interface lingo.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2011
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Emily Clark Schubert, Wang Chun Leung, Gregory T. Lydon, Scott Krueger, Paul Phillip Holden, John Archibald, Lawrence G. Bolton, Donald J. Novotney, John Benjamin Filson, David Tupman
  • Methods and devices for visualization and ablation of tissue
    Patent number: 7874986
    Abstract: Delivery systems, and methods using the same, having an ultrasound viewing window for improved imaging and a needle for ablation treatment of target tissues. In an embodiment, the target tissue is a fibroid within a female's uterus. In an embodiment the delivery system includes a rigid shaft having a proximal end, and a distal end, and an axial passage extending through the rigid shaft. In an embodiment, the axial passage is configured for removably receiving the ultrasound imaging insert having an ultrasound array disposed on a distal portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2011
    Assignee: Gynesonics, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert K. Deckman, Craig Gerbi, Michael Munrow, Jessica Grossman
  • Intelligent rendering of information in a limited display environment
    Patent number: 7877703
    Abstract: Methods for the intelligent rendering of information in a limited display environment are provided. Display environments, especially in mobile devices, are limited with regard to physical space and technical capability. The present invention provides for the scaling of information in the display in light of those limitations. Additional methods for intelligently determining information to be or not to be displayed in the environment are further provided. Determinations of information to be displayed may be a result of a user-determination or automatic determinations made by a user device. Zooming and ‘quick look’ features are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2011
    Assignee: Seven Networks, Inc.
    Inventor: Michael Fleming
  • Mini monitor on shared peripheral bus
    Patent number: 7876287
    Abstract: A system with a main monitor for a host computer and a second, mini monitor for displaying a portion of the display normally intended for the main monitor. In one embodiment, the mini monitor is connected to the computer over a shared, peripheral bus, such as the universal serial bus (USB). The smaller size of the mini monitor and either compression or slower refresh rates allow it to be connected to the USB just like other peripheral devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2011
    Assignee: Logitech Europe S.A.
    Inventors: Hugh J. McLarty, Guy Tiphane, David Wegmuller
  • Defining tooth-moving appliances computationally
    Patent number: 7874837
    Abstract: Methods and corresponding apparatus for segmenting an orthodontic treatment path into clinically appropriate substeps for repositioning the teeth of a patient include providing a digital finite element model of the shape and material of each of a sequence of appliances to be applied to a patient; providing a digital finite element model of the teeth and related mouth tissue of the patient; computing the actual effect of the appliances on the teeth by analyzing the finite elements models computationally; and evaluating the effect against clinical constraints. The appliances can be braces, polymeric shells, or other forms of orthodontic appliance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2011
    Assignee: Align Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Muhammad Chishti, Elena I. Pavlovskaia, Gregory P. Bala, Brian Freyburger
  • Data transmission method and apparatus using networked receivers having spatial diversity
    Patent number: 7876849
    Abstract: A data transmission method and apparatus are disclosed using receivers having spatial diversity, with the receivers communicating with a common client via network communication. Improved systems and methods for data transmission according to the disclosed method and apparatus include at least: a transmission source for transmitting a data signal; a first receiver for receiving the data signal; a second receiver for receiving the data signal, wherein the second receiver is spaced apart from the first receiver thereby providing spatial diversity; and a communication network for facilitating communication between a client and at least the first receiver and the second receiver, as needed, wherein the client is capable of analyzing individual data signals received by the first and second receivers and forming a composite signal of a higher quality than the quality of the individual data signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2011
    Assignee: Viasat, Inc.
    Inventor: Steven H. Gardner
  • Hearing aid microphone protective barrier
    Patent number: 7876919
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide microphone assemblies for hearing aids which are resistant to moisture and debris. An embodiment provides a microphone assembly for a CIC hearing aid comprising a microphone housing including a housing surface having a microphone port, a fluidic barrier structure coupled to the housing surface, a protective mesh coupled to the barrier structure and a microphone disposed within the housing. The microphone housing can be sized to be positioned in close proximity to another component surface such as a hearing battery assembly surface. At least a portion of the housing surface and/or the barrier structure are hydrophobic. The barrier structure surrounds the microphone port and is configured to channel liquid and debris away from entry into the microphone port including matter constrained between the housing surface and another surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2011
    Assignee: InSound Medical, Inc.
    Inventors: Sunder Ram, Dean Johnson, Richard Gable, Michael Ipsen, Ian M. Day
  • Disk array device
    Patent number: 7876557
    Abstract: A disk array device comprises: a hard disk drive module including a disk for recording information thereon and having one side that has a length substantially equal to the diameter of the disk; a battery nodule; an operation module; a fan module having at least one cooling fan; a controller module having a controller; a power supply module provided for supplying power to the modules; a circuit board to which the above-mentioned modules are connected via electrical connectors; and a substantially box-shaped chassis in which the modules and the circuit board are housed. A front surface and a rear surface of the chassis are opened in a rectangular shape. A length of one side of the opened front surface of the chassis is substantially the same length as the one side of the hard disk drive module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2011
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Katsuyoshi Suzuki, Masahiko Sato, Kenichi Tateyama, Naoto Matsunami, Koichi Kimura, Hidehiko Iwasaki, Kenichi Takamoto, Kenji Muraoka, Takamasa Ishikawa, Nobuhiro Yokoyama, Kiyotaka Takahashi, Yoshinori Nagaiwa
  • Chip module for complete power train
    Patent number: 7875498
    Abstract: A chip module is disclosed. It includes a circuit substrate, a semiconductor die comprising a power transistor mounted on the circuit substrate, and a passive electronic component. The passive electronic component is in electrical communication with the semiconductor die, and is in thermal communication with the semiconductor die.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2011
    Assignee: Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation
    Inventors: Alan Elbanhawy, Benny Tjia
  • Business object search method process and presentation
    Patent number: 7877386
    Abstract: A user uses a graphical user interface to configure a search process. One or more set up pages may be output to the user to allow the search process to be configured. Once the search process is defined, a graphical user interface is generated that provides the search process. A searcher can then use the interface to perform searches. A search page is provided that includes fields that were defined. When a search term is received, a search is performed according to a search definition. The search results are then returned according to how the search results were configured. For example, the search results may be returned in a stepped fashion. Additionally, a quick create option is provided on the search result page. This allows a user to create an entry that is classified according to the search definition for the field that was searched.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2011
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Mark Shurtleff, Milind Madhusudan Sawant, Michael P. Sverdlov, Chuaoyuan Wang
  • System and method for a flyable and roadable vehicle
    Patent number: 7874512
    Abstract: System and method for a flyable and roadable vehicle. According to an embodiment, the present invention provides a vehicle capable of air and road travel. The vehicle is adaptable to a flying configuration and a road configuration. The vehicle includes a fuselage having a front end, a rear end, a top side, a bottom side. The vehicle also includes a wing component having a plurality of planes. The plurality of planes includes a first plane and a second plane. The vehicle additionally includes a connecting component for coupling the planes of the wing and the fuselage. The connecting component is able to accommodate a substantial relative rotation between the first plane and the fuselage. The vehicle further includes a plurality of wheels coupled to the bottom side of the fuselage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2011
    Inventor: Junfeng Xu
  • TV stand
    Patent number: D631265
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2011
    Assignee: Z-Line Designs, Inc.
    Inventor: James S. Sexton
  • Paper bag with a transparent vertical windows for salad ingredients
    Patent number: D631369
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2011
    Assignee: Fresh Express Incorporated
    Inventors: Andrew McClelland, Toby Wingfield, Jacqueline Sue Aberegg