Patents Represented by Attorney Volp and Koenig, P.C.

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  • Incremental state updates
    Patent number: 8156314
    Abstract: A system and method are described that manage incremental state updates in such a way that multiple threads within a processor can each operate, in effect, on their own set of state data. The system and method are applicable to any processor in which multiple threads require access to sets of state information which differ from one another by a relatively small number of state changes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Assignee: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark M. Leather, Brian D. Emberling
  • Method, device, device arrangement and computer program for tracking a moving object
    Patent number: 8155871
    Abstract: The invention relates to a location method, a locating device, a locating arrangement and a computer program for tracking an object, such as a dog. The method utilises GPS locating, the event time of which may be controlled by the user. In addition, the user may define a data transmission network via which location data are primarily communicated to the tracker's device. By means of the frequency of measurements and the data transmission network used, the power consumption of the locating device of the object being tracked is minimised.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Assignee: Tracker Oy
    Inventors: Hannu Lohi, Samuli Vanhala, Harri Piltonen
  • Dual function voltage and current mode differential driver
    Patent number: 8149024
    Abstract: A dual function differential driver includes a voltage mode differential driver portion and a current mode differential driver portion. Control circuitry is connected to the voltage mode differential driver portion and the current mode differential driver portion. The control circuitry switches the dual function differential driver between operation as a voltage mode differential driver and operation as a current mode differential driver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Assignee: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
    Inventors: Xin Liu, Arvind Bomdica, Yikai Liang, Ming-Ju Edward Lee, Rohit Rathi, Jinyung Namkoong
  • Bi-directional handover method and apparatus
    Patent number: 8149790
    Abstract: Apparatus for bi-directional handover are disclosed. An apparatus configured to perform handover from a wireless code division multiple access (WCDMA) to a wireless broadband (WiBro) network is disclosed. An apparatus configured to perform handover from a WCDMA network to a WiFi (IEEE 802.11x) network is disclosed. An apparatus configured to perform handover from a WiFi network to a WCDMA network is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Assignees: InterDigital Technology Corporation, SK Telecom, Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Debashish Purkayastha, Shamim Akbar Rahman
  • Cladding-pumped evanescent gain optical fiber
    Patent number: 8149502
    Abstract: A cladding-pumped gain optical fiber is provided. The cladding-pumped gain optical fiber includes a core transmitting a signal light; a first cladding covering the core and having an optical-gain dopant; a second cladding covering the first cladding for transmitting a pumping light; and a third cladding covering the second cladding for reflecting the pumping light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Assignee: National United University
    Inventors: Nan-Kuang Chen, Yinchieh Lai, Jing-Shyang Horng, Hsi-Wen Yang
  • Coupling device of a switchable cam follower of a valve train of an internal combustion engine
    Patent number: 8146552
    Abstract: A coupling device (1) of a switchable cam follower (2), in which a borehole (9) extends above a contact (8) for a support element in an outer lever (3) of the cam follower (2), and this borehole has a first section (10) of large diameter that starts from an outer side (11) of a crosspiece (6) on the other end (7) to which connects to a second section (12) of accordingly smaller diameter up to directly before an inner side (13) of the crosspiece (6). A smooth cylindrical coupling slide (14) is guided in a sealing manner through the second section (12), and this coupling slide projects with a sub-region (15) into the first section (10). This sub-region (15) is encompassed by a compression spring (16) that acts, on one end, against an annular end (17) formed between the sections (10, 12) and, on the other end, against a catch element (19) arranged on the lateral surface (18) of the sub-region (15).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Joachim Seitz, Joachim Krause, Jens Lang
  • Ammunition chain for toy projectiles
    Patent number: 8146281
    Abstract: A link for a toy ammunition chain made up of a plurality of links hinged together side-by-side in articulated fashion includes a cylindrical body adapted to receive a soft projectile. A first hinge component extends laterally from the body and has a pair of hinge pins. A second hinge component extends laterally from the body at a position opposite the first hinge component and has a pair of recesses each for pivotally receiving a hinge pin of an adjacent link in the chain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Assignee: Buzz Bee Toys (H.K.) Co., Limited
    Inventor: Jeffrey C. Zimmerman
  • Start-up automatic frequency control (AFC) method and apparatus
    Patent number: 8149963
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for use in connection with wireless communication to adjust the frequency of an oscillator to synchronize with a received signal by correlating a synchronization code channel with training sequences to estimate relative offsets which are employed to estimate an error, which is then filtered. The filtered output preferably provides a voltage controlling a voltage controlled oscillator (VCO). The same technique may be employed to control a numeric controlled oscillator (NCO).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Assignee: InterDigital Technology Corporation
    Inventor: Alpaslan Demir
  • Method and apparatus for encoding and decoding high speed shared control channel
    Patent number: 8151164
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for encoding and decoding high speed shared control channel (HS-SCCH) data are disclosed. For part 1 data encoding, a mask may be generated using a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) identity (ID) and a generator matrix with a maximum minimum Hamming distance. For part 2 data encoding, cyclic redundancy check (CRC) bits are generated based on part 1 data and part 2 data. The number of CRC bits is less than the WTRU ID. The CRC bits and/or the part 2 data are masked with a mask. The mask may be a WTRU ID or a punctured WTRU ID of length equal to the CRC bits. The mask may be generated using the WTRU ID and a generator matrix with a maximum minimum Hamming distance. The masking may be performed after encoding or rate matching.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Assignee: InterDigital Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Philip J. Pietraski, Yongwen Yang
  • Human-bicycle interaction device
    Patent number: 8149098
    Abstract: A human-bicycle interaction device has an interface for a person to enter electronic commands and a display unit responding to the commands, wherein the interface has a directional button with a non-operating position and at least two operating positions. The use of the device is intuitive and requires few hardware connections and the display is tightly sealed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Assignee: Campagnolo S.R.L.
    Inventor: Federico Miglioranza
  • Feeder for a camshaft adjuster
    Patent number: 8146549
    Abstract: A feeder for a camshaft adjuster is provided, including a central screw, a camshaft, and at least one flow resistance element. The camshaft is provided with a bore for accommodating the central screw. A channel is located between the camshaft and the central screw, in which the flow resistance element is provided in order to affect a flow of a fluid in the channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Jens Hoppe, Ali Bayrakdar, Gerhard Scheidig
  • Nonvolatile memory cell
    Patent number: 8148766
    Abstract: A nonvolatile memory cell is provided. A semiconductor substrate is provided. A conducting layer and a spacer layer are sequentially disposed above the semiconductor substrate. At least a trench having a bottom and plural side surfaces is defined in the conducting layer and the spacer layer. A first oxide layer is formed at the bottom of the trench. A dielectric layer is formed on the first oxide layer, the spacer layer and the plural side surfaces of the trench. A first polysilicon layer is formed in the trench. And a first portion of the dielectric layer on the spacer layer is removed, so that a basic structure for the nonvolatile memory cell is formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Assignee: Nanya Technology Corp.
    Inventors: Shin-Bin Huang, Ching-Nan Hsiao, Chung-Lin Huang
  • Method and system for code reuse and capacity enhancement using null steering
    Patent number: 8149895
    Abstract: The number of users and data capacity of wireless systems are increased by employing apparatus and method for increasing the number of spreading codes available in the system by providing a mechanism to reuse the already allocated spreading code or use the codes that may correlate to those already being used within the same sector/cell. This, in return, provides capacity improvement proportional to the number of added base station (BS) antennas for each cell. An antenna null steering technique for code allocation maintains the cross correlation properties of the codes only for the desired user and to obtain a gain in capacity improvement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Assignee: InterDigital Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Nadar Bolourchi, Leonid Kazakevich, Rui Yang
  • Method and apparatus for supporting circuit switched interworking
    Patent number: 8149820
    Abstract: A wireless system performs interworking of a combined circuit switched (CS) session and an IP multimedia core network subsystem (IMS) session between two users having different content capabilities through an interworking circuit switched (CS) and IMS function (IMS CS IWF).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Assignee: InterDigital Technology Corporation
    Inventor: Kamel M. Shaheen
  • Method and apparatus for performing a serving HS-DSCH cell change
    Patent number: 8144664
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for performing a serving high speed downlink shared channel (HS-DSCH) cell change from a source cell to a target cell are disclosed. A radio network controller (RNC) may pre-load a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) with HS-DSCH configuration for the target cell. The WTRU receives and stores the pre-loaded HS-DSCH configuration. The WTRU may start monitoring a high speed shared control channel (HS-SCCH) on the target cell using the pre-loaded HS-DSCH configuration for the target cell on a condition that a measurement report is triggered by the event 1D. The WTRU may initiate a timer when the WTRU starts monitoring the HS-SCCH on the target cell and stop monitoring the HS-SCCH on the target cell upon expiry of the timer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2012
    Assignee: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Diana Pani, Christopher R. Cave, Paul Marinier
  • Electrostatic discharge protection circuit
    Patent number: 8143700
    Abstract: The present invention provides an electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection circuit with a silicon controlled rectifier (SCR) having a plurality of SCR fingers (SCRs) with the advantages to couple the different fingers or SCRs to decrease the multi-triggering problem and to increase the ESD-performance of the circuit. Additionally, a boost circuit can be introduced or additionally multiple SCRs can be coupled inherent through a common base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2012
    Assignee: Sofics BVBA
    Inventors: Pieter Vanysacker, Benjamin Van Camp, Olivier Marichal, Wybo Geert, Steven Thijs, Gerd Vermont
  • Method and apparatus for performing WTRU state transitions
    Patent number: 8145253
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for performing state transition of a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) which supports enhanced dedicated channel (E-DCH) in the CELL_FACH state is disclosed. Uplink data is transmitted via an E-DCH while operating in a CELL_FACH state. A radio resource control (RRC) signal, which includes a reconfiguration message, is received while the WTRU is assigned an E-DCH resource. A reconfiguration of the physical channels is performed according to the RRC reconfiguration message. A transition to a CELL_DCH state is performed and uplink data is transmitted in the CELL_DCH state via the E-DCH. In-synch and out-of-synch parameters are reported.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2012
    Assignee: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Diana Pani, Benoit Pelletier, Christopher R. Cave, Paul Marinier, Rocco DiGirolamo
  • Method for controlling or regulating a vacuum valve
    Patent number: 8141847
    Abstract: A method for controlling or regulating a vacuum valve that includes a valve body (1) with a valve opening (2), a closing member (3), an actuator (5) for moving the closing member (3), and a control device (9) by which the actuator (5) is triggered and by which the pressing force acting on the elastic seal (4) in the closed position of the closing member (3) is set. The setting of the pressing force acting on the elastic seal (4) is performed as a function of at least one parameter that can be input by a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2012
    Assignee: VAT Holding AG
    Inventor: Richard Fischer
  • Pen
    Patent number: D656989
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Assignee: Klio-Eterna Schreibgerate GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Hariolf Briggl
  • Pen
    Patent number: D656992
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Assignee: Klio-Eterna Schreibgerate GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Hariolf Briggl