Patents Represented by Attorney Turocy & Watson, LLP
  • Patent number: 8261091
    Abstract: An architecture is presented that facilitates secure token generation and transmission capabilities in a mobile device. The system comprises at least one software application that includes a secure token assigned to a specific user and a memory module that communicates with an external processor. A security processor, non-volatile memory component and volatile memory component are integrated to form the memory module that communicates with the external processor. The memory module creates a secure execution environment for the execution of application agents associated with the software application and the secure token. The security processor of the system communicates with the software application and external processor to manage generation, authentication, confidentiality, and transmission of the secure token. And, the non-volatile memory allows the introduction of new tokens and the removal of old tokens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: Spansion LLC
    Inventors: Russell Barck, Jeremy Werner
  • Patent number: 8257270
    Abstract: A pulse wave measuring apparatus includes a pulse wave measuring unit measuring a pulse wave; a first detection unit detecting first maximum and minimum values; a second detection unit detecting second maximum and minimum values; an update unit updating the first maximum and minimum values with the second maximum and minimum values after time periods; an initialization unit initializing the second maximum and minimum values after updating the first maximum and minimum values; a timing detection unit detecting a time determined by the first maximum and minimum values; and an interval calculation unit calculating a pulse wave interval using the timing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Kazushige Ouchi, Takuji Suzuki, Kenichi Kameyama
  • Patent number: 8260388
    Abstract: A current terminal structure of a superconductor has a former, and a superconducting wire wound around the former in one or more layers and including a substrate and a superconducting layer formed on the substrate. A first layer superconducting wire wound around immediately above the former is arranged so that a substrate side thereof becomes outside and a superconducting layer side thereof becomes inside. A surface of the superconducting layer at an end of the first layer superconducting wire, which is directed toward the inside, and part of a surface of the superconducting layer of a connection superconducting wire, which is directed toward the outside, are faced and connected to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignees: International Superconductivity Technology Center, Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Masashi Yagi, Hirao Hirata, Mitsuo Suzuki, Shinichi Mukoyama, Yuh Shiohara
  • Patent number: 8260948
    Abstract: A radio frequency identification (RFID) component receives a data stream from at least one RFID tag. A controller can integrate and/or embed at least one of the following, 1) middleware that filters the data stream associated with the RFID component, 2) RFID software that provides RFID component software functionality, and 3) a smart component that connects to the RFID component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Sujeet Chand, Vivek R. Bapat, Kenwood H. Hall, Richard A. Morse, Joseph P. Owen, Jr., Arthur P. Pietrzyk, Andreas Somogyi, Kenneth A. Tinnell
  • Patent number: 8261124
    Abstract: Systems and/or methods that facilitate that facilitate error correction of data stored in memory components, such as flash memory devices are presented. An optimized correction component can be used to break data into two or more data blocks. The optimized correction component can facilitated creating one or two redundancy blocks that can be associated with the data blocks, wherein data blocks and the redundancy blocks can be assembled into a data stripe that can be stored in three or more of the memory components. Upon retrieval of the data stripe, the optimal correction component, an error correction code (ECC) component or a combination thereof can correct data blocks that contain errors wherein the decision whether the optimized correction component or the error correction code (ECC) component corrects the errors can be based in part on a predetermined criteria.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: Spansion LLC
    Inventor: Richard Carmichael
  • Patent number: 8261006
    Abstract: Systems and methods for improving the performance and reliability of flash memory solid state drive devices are described herein. A flash memory array component stores data. A memory hierarchy component transfers data between the host and the flash memory array component. The memory hierarchy component includes a level one (“L1”) cache coupled to a merge buffer, the flash memory array component, and the host. The merge buffer is coupled to the flash memory array component. The L1 cache and merge buffer include volatile memory, and the host is coupled to the merge buffer and flash memory array component. The memory hierarchy component includes a write component and a read component. The write component writes data to at least one of the L1 cache, merge buffer, or flash memory array component. The read component reads data from at least one of the L1 cache, merge buffer, or flash memory array component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: Spansion LLC
    Inventors: Richard Chen, Ping Hou, Chih Hsueh
  • Patent number: 8256759
    Abstract: A sheet post-processing apparatus of the invention includes a sheet guiding unit configured to have plural components including paper carrying components be attached thereto, a tray onto which a sheet of paper is discharged, and a protection cover attached to the sheet guiding unit at a portion in close proximity to the tray side. A protection cover has a cover main body, a screw attachment portion, a screw cover that covers the screw attached to the screw attachment portion, and a slit used for the tip end of the screw cover to be inserted into the cover main body to be fixed thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Shouichi Dobashi
  • Patent number: 8252692
    Abstract: A semiconductor device according to one embodiment includes: a substrate having an element region where a semiconductor element is formed; a via hole formed in a portion of the substrate adjacent to the element region; a conducting portion provided in the via hole via an insulating layer; and a buffer layer provided between the substrate and the insulating layer, wherein the buffer layer is made of a material in which a difference in thermal expansion coefficient between the substrate and the buffer layer is smaller than that between the substrate and the insulating layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Masahiro Inohara
  • Patent number: 8255869
    Abstract: The invention relates to a system and/or methodology for the customization and transclusion of design templates/patterns for use in industrial automation. The system provides for the de-abstraction of one or more design templates, and generating engineering specifications via customization of the de-abstracted design templates. Additionally, the invention provides a user interface for modification of the template de-abstraction and/or customization process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: N. Andrew Weatherhead
  • Patent number: 8254368
    Abstract: A system and methodology that significantly reduces traffic in a backhaul pipe of a femto access point (AP) and organizes content delivery is provided. Specifically, an aggregator/routing platform is employed to connect multiple femto APs in a femto enterprise to a single backhaul network. The aggregator/routing platform collects and analyzes information from the multiple femtos and directly route communication packets to between femto APs within the enterprise when possible, without employing the backhaul network. Content and/or tasks can be internally organized between devices connected to the multiple femtos, without accessing the core network. During internal communication, a control link can preserved and sent to the core network to facilitate billing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: AT&T Mobility II LLC
    Inventors: Kurt Donald Huber, William Gordon Mansfield, Judson John Flynn
  • Patent number: 8253561
    Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus, system and method for managing medication. In particular, the invention relates to adaptable pill organizer. The adaptable pill organizer comprises of at least one or more rectangular units for containing pills. Individual units and/or rows of seven units, wherein one unit corresponds to the days of the week, attach and detach from one another in order to create a custom pill organizer. The adaptable pill organizer further employs electronic capabilities which: allow user to input, store and display information on the pill organizer; provide lighting means for the device; provide various automatic and/or commanded physical responses to usage of the device such as the lighting of a unit, or the opening and closing of a unit; provide programmed alarms; communicate data messages and usage information with third party devices; and store and provide access to user medication and medication schedule information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Inventor: Betty L Bowers
  • Patent number: 8254959
    Abstract: Systems and techniques for determining the location of user equipment (UE) in a wireless network are disclosed. These techniques leverage geometric calculations for an overlaid bin grid framework mapping the wireless network area to store differential values for each frame of the bin grid framework for each pair of relevant NodeBs. A timing offset can be determined, such that when a time value from a target UE is accessed, the location can be quickly determined with minimal real time computation. In an aspect, the time value from an idle-state target UE can be accessed. The target UE time value can be searched among pre-computed differential value data sets indexed by relevant NodeB site pairs to return sets of frames that can facilitate converging on a location for the target UE. Intersecting frames can represent the geographic location of the UE in the wireless network. Further, the data can be leveraged to correct timing in the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: AT&T Mobility II LLC
    Inventors: Jeremy Fix, Mark Austin, Sheldon Meredith
  • Patent number: 8253398
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes: a high-side switching element having a first switching element connected between an input voltage line and an inductive load; and a low-side switching element having a second switching element and a third switching element that are connected in parallel between the inductive load and a reference voltage line. A surge current is discharged through the third switching element to the reference voltage line when a surge is applied to a terminal connected to the inductive load in the low-side switching element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Kazutoshi Nakamura, Norio Yasuhara
  • Patent number: 8253713
    Abstract: The claimed subject matter relates to an architecture that can utilize photo-sensors embedded in a substantially transparent layer of a UI display for tracking objects that approach or hover over the UI display. The photo-sensors can be configured to detect light of certain wavelengths (e.g., visible light, infrared light) that are propagated toward the UI display, while ignoring light emanating from the UI display when displaying content. Accordingly, by examining various characteristics of the incoming light such as intensity, the architecture can identify a location of a shadow incident upon the display caused by an approaching or hovering selector object blocking portions of incoming light. Additionally or alternatively, the architecture can identify a location of higher intensity for light emanating from the selector object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Armstrong Soo, Jeffrey Brandt, Bernard Ku
  • Patent number: 8255275
    Abstract: System(s) and method(s) to incentivize adoption of time-dependent customized insurance benefit(s) are provided. A provider of insurance benefit(s) incentivizes adoption of the insurance benefit(s) in exchange for knowledge of operation characteristics of an insured entity. Knowledge is cumulative and collected from the insured entity and environment in which the entity operates. Incentivation is accomplished at least in part through generation of incentive offer(s) based on available knowledge, which is associated with an operator of the insured entity rather than with the entity itself. The operator can regulate the scope of exchanged knowledge, and received incentive offer(s) and related content. Incentive offer(s) can be directed to provision of insurance benefit coverage that is adequate to current or nearly current operation condition(s); discounted real-time or nearly real-time insurance benefits; or subsidized service(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Inventors: Fred Collopy, Craig Allen Nard, Himanshu S. Amin, Gregory Turocy, Seyed Vahid Sharifi Takieh, Ronald Charles Krosky, David Noonan, Gustavo Arnaldo Narvaez, Brian Asquith
  • Patent number: 8254949
    Abstract: System(s), method(s), and device(s) that enable release of backhaul capacity associated with base stations are presented. During soft handover, a communication device can have its connection maintained with more than one base station. A link controller component can identify a radio link having the highest quality and can determine the relative backhaul load of each base station communicating with the communication device. The link controller component determines whether the base station having the highest radio link quality is experiencing the heaviest backhaul load relative to the other base stations. If the base station with the highest link quality does not also have the heaviest backhaul load, the link controller component identifies the base station having the heaviest backhaul load and the identified base station can have its status modified with respect to the communication device for a desired period of time, in accordance with predefined status modification criteria.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventor: Fereidoun Tafreshi
  • Patent number: 8254309
    Abstract: A wireless communication equipment system which performs wireless communication among one master station and more than one slave station is configured so that each of the slave stations requests the master station to reply acknowledgement frames so as to perform transmission acknowledgement to broadcast frames or multicast frames transmitted from the master station. The master station is configured to decide order of replies of the acknowledgement frames of the slave stations which have requested the replies of the acknowledgement frames and to notify the order of the replies of the acknowledgement frames.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Kiyotaka Matsue, Noriyasu Kato, Youichirou Shiba
  • Patent number: 8254815
    Abstract: A toner cartridge in a bottle shape for storing toner is composed of a first cylindrical portion having a blocked bottom wall at one end and an opening at the other end and a second cylindrical portion in which one end thereof is connected to the opening, and an opening for ejecting toner is formed at the other end, and the outside diameter thereof is smaller than the first cylindrical portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Noriyuki Takuwa
  • Patent number: 8255090
    Abstract: The invention generally concerns systems and methods for monitoring and controlling the power consumption of a power-consuming device. The system and method may connect to a power source and a power-consuming device, connecting the power-consuming device to the power source. The power usage of the power-consuming device may then be measured and monitored. This monitoring data may then be stored and optionally sent to a controlling device on a data network. The location of the power-consuming device may also be determined, recorded, and sent to a controlling device. The system may also control the power usage of the power-consuming device. In some cases, a remote server may connect multiple energy monitoring systems in order to gain additional efficiencies and foster a community-based social network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: Energyhub
    Inventors: Seth Frader-Thompson, Stephan Von Muehlen, Thomas Kennedy
  • Patent number: 8255293
    Abstract: Systems and methods for media-oriented product catalog creation are disclosed herein. Media content displayed or otherwise selected by a content consumer can be identified. Accordingly, products or services depicted by the media content can be compiled into a dynamic product catalog. The catalog can include a description of the products or services as well as associated contextual references to the media content, such as a screen capture or video clip that depicts one or more portions of the media content in which the product or service was featured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventor: Benedict John Davies