Patents Represented by Attorney Volp and Koenig, P.C.
  • Patent number: 8102823
    Abstract: Method and apparatus for enabling a wireless terminal to communicate the dual-mode capabilities and reporting the interworking capabilities of the two networks with which the wireless terminal have the added capability of obtaining services from either one of the interworking networks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2012
    Assignee: InterDigital Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Debashish Purkayastha, Kamel M. Shaheen
  • Patent number: 8102632
    Abstract: Embodiments of an IC protection circuit that protects low voltage supply transistors and circuits within the IC from excessive power supply levels and ESD events are described. A protection circuit situated between the IO pins of the IC and the internal circuitry of the IC includes a voltage drop network and a plurality of shunt circuits to protect the IC against excessive supply voltages and ESD voltages. Each shunt circuit includes an RC trigger stage and an NMOS shunt stage that are made using low-voltage devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2012
    Assignee: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
    Inventors: Yikai Liang, Arvind Bomdica, Samudyatha Suryanarayana, Gayatri Gopalan, Min Xu, Xin Liu, Ming-Ju Edward Lee
  • Patent number: 8101076
    Abstract: A filter cartridge for jugs is provided. The cartridge includes a first chamber in which there is provided filtering material which is able to filter water or liquids in general and in which there are defined an inlet and an outlet to allow the passage of water through the first chamber in contact with the filtering material. The cartridge also includes a second chamber which communicates with the first chamber in order to collect the water being discharged from the first chamber. The second chamber includes an opening for discharging the water from the cartridge. The discharge opening is open in the second chamber at a level that is higher than a base of the second chamber, in which the water being discharged from the first chamber is collected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2012
    Assignee: Laica S.p.A
    Inventor: Maurizio Moretto
  • Patent number: 8102788
    Abstract: A wireless communication method and system for supporting an enhanced uplink dedicated channel (EU-DCH) inter-Node-B serving cell change. The system includes at least one wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) for transmitting data blocks, a target Node-B, a source Node-B and a serving radio network controller (S-RNC). The S-RNC includes a re-ordering buffer which stores data blocks correctly received from the WTRU. The S-RNC informs the target Node-B of a need for an EU-DCH inter-Node-B serving cell change from the source Node-B to the target Node-B. A medium access control (MAC) entity that handles EU-DCH functionalities is set up in the target Node-B. Hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) processes and transmission sequence numbers (TSNs) are not reset at the WTRU. Using a new data indicator, the WTRU transmits a data block to the target Node-B that was previously transmitted to the source Node-B, but was not correctly received by the source Node-B.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2012
    Assignee: InterDigital Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Guodong Zhang, Stephen E. Terry, Stephen G. Dick
  • Patent number: 8100250
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods and systems for receiving and distributing currency. In particular, the present invention provides a novel apparatus for the inflow and outflow of a variety of currency. The systems of the present invention are capable of recycling a variety of currency from multiple countries and multiple denominations. The systems of the present invention have the added advantage of compact size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2012
    Assignee: Scan Coin AB
    Inventors: Per Christian Aas, John Haakon Lippert
  • Patent number: 8101290
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are several organic compounds having electron-transporting and/or hole-blocking performance and their preparation method and use and the OLEDs comprising the organic compound. The organic compounds exhibit high ionization potential (IP), electron affinity (Ea), glass transition temperature (Tg) and high electron mobility, and are a kind of good electron-transporting material with good hole-blocking ability. The devices comprising these compounds as one of the emitting layer, electron-transporting layer (ETL) and hole-blocking layer (HBL) show improved efficiency and better color purity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2012
    Assignee: Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry of Chinese Academy of Sciences
    Inventors: PengFei Wang, Na Li, Weimin Liu, Shuit-Tong Lee, Chun-Sing Lee
  • Patent number: 8102633
    Abstract: Embodiments of an IC protection circuit that protects low voltage supply transistors and circuits within the IC from excessive power supply levels and ESD events are described. A protection circuit situated between the IO pins of the IC and the internal circuitry of the IC includes a voltage drop network and a plurality of shunt circuits to protect the IC against excessive supply voltages and ESD voltages, or other excessive current conditions. Each shunt circuit includes an RC trigger stage and an NMOS shunt stage that are made using low-voltage devices. A protection circuit of the embodiments includes a high voltage IO pin, a voltage drop network to drop a high voltage on the IO pin to a low voltage level on a floating voltage rail, a first shunt circuit coupled between the floating supply rail and ground, an equalizer circuit coupled between the floating supply rail and a low voltage supply rail, and a second shunt circuit coupled to the equalizer circuit through the low voltage supply rail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2012
    Assignee: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
    Inventors: Yikai Liang, Arvind Bomdica, Samudyatha Suryanarayana, Gayatri Gopalan, Min Xu, Xin Liu, Ming-Ju Edward Lee
  • Patent number: 8100429
    Abstract: A three-dimensional folding stroller featuring movable infant carrier mounts for securing an infant carrier to the stroller. The infant carrier mounts move between a first position, where the infant carrier may be secured to the stroller, and a second position that facilitates folding. The stroller also features a reclinable seatback support that is operable by one hand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2012
    Assignee: Artsana USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael L. Longenecker, Jeff G. Greger
  • Patent number: 8102801
    Abstract: A user equipment for physical layer automatic repeat request is disclosed. The user equipment comprises a higher layer automatic repeat request (ARQ) mechanism, a physical layer transmitter, a physical layer receiver, an acknowledgment (ACK) transmitter and an adaptive modulation and control unit (AMC). A higher layer ARQ mechanism generates data for transmission. A physical layer transmitter receives the data for transmission from the higher layer ARQ mechanism, to format the received data into packets for transmission. A physical layer receiver receives and demodulates received packets and retransmission statistics. An ACK transmitter transmits a corresponding acknowledgment for a given packet at the physical layer receiver. An AMC unit adjusts a particular encoding/data modulation of each packet using collected retransmission statistics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2012
    Assignee: InterDigital Technology Corporation
    Inventor: Joseph A Kwak
  • Patent number: 8103131
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for processing data. The systems and methods include multiple processors that each couple to receive commands and data, where the commands and/or data correspond to frames of video that include multiple pixels. Additionally, an interlink module is coupled to receive processed data corresponding to the frames from each of the multiple processors. The interlink module selects pixels of the frames from the processed data of one of the processors based on a predetermined pixel characteristic and outputs the frames that include the selected pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2012
    Assignee: ATI Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: James Hunkins, Raja Koduri
  • Patent number: 8099136
    Abstract: A portable terminal displays on a selection screen not only contents stored in the portable terminal but also contents stored in a contents server communicatable via a network with the portable terminal. The selection screen displays information regarding the size and location of each of the contents, as well as estimated time and cost required to obtain each of the corresponding contents based on information regarding communication speed and communication path such as communicatable areas. The portable terminal is also equipped with a function to search another communication path that becomes available when moving the portable terminal to another location, and a function to suggest to obtain the contents using such a communication path if the new communication path provides faster and/or more inexpensive connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2012
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinichiro Kawasaki, Yoshiaki Morimoto, Jun Maeoka
  • Patent number: 8098824
    Abstract: Provided is a storage system that includes a first storage apparatus and a second storage apparatus each connected to a host computer. The first and second storage apparatuses each include a controller and a disk drive. The controller manages an encryption status and an encryption key for each of a data volume and a journal volume in the disk drive. The controller in the first storage apparatus receives a write request from the host computer, creates a journal based on write data, encrypts the journal, and stores in an order the journal in a storage area in the journal volume. The controller in the order the encrypted journal stored in the journal volume, decrypts the journal, and transmits the decrypted journal to the second storage apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2012
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kyoko Mikami, Nobuyuki Osaki
  • Patent number: 8097867
    Abstract: Radiation apparatus for technical use, with a large number of stretched-out radiation sources emitting in or between the UV and IR ranges and a large number of main reflector segments that are bent and/or folded out of metal sheet in a shape adapted to that of the radiation sources, while the main reflector segments are formed as separate main reflectors and are held, singly replaceable and independently of the radiation sources, in a radiation source housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2012
    Assignee: KHS Corpoplast GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Kai K. O. Bar, Rolf Wirth
  • Patent number: 8099569
    Abstract: Proposed are a storage system and a data migration method capable of effectively performing data migration between storage apparatuses. This storage system includes a host apparatus equipped with a function for copying data stored in a first volume of a first storage apparatus in file units to a corresponding second volume of a second storage apparatus, and a controller equipped with a function for controlling the first and second storage apparatuses to copy data stored in the first volume to the second volume in volume units. Necessary control processing is executed to decide whether to migrate data stored in the first volume in volume units or file units according to the status of data stored in the first volume to be subject to data migration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2012
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoko Sugiura
  • Patent number: 8096273
    Abstract: A magneto-rheological fluid controlled camshaft phaser is provided having a stator with inwardly directed projections which define working spaces therebetween. The stator is adapted to be connected to the crankshaft via a timing gear and chain. A rotor is located radially inside the stator and is connected to the camshaft. Rotor lugs extend radially outwardly from the rotor into the working spaces, dividing them into first and second chambers on each side of the rotor lugs. A magneto-rheological fluid is located in the chambers, and the chambers on each side of each rotor lug are connected via a clearance space between the radially outer surface of the lugs and the inner surface of the stator located between the projections. The rotor is connected to the camshaft. An electromagnetic assembly is mounted adjacent to the stator and includes at least one electromagnet along with at least one ferrous focusing piece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2012
    Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Jesse Myers, Roger Meyer
  • Patent number: 8098325
    Abstract: A digital camera of the present invention has: an optical housing having a bending optical system for reflecting photographic object light entering along a first optical axis to a second optical axis direction perpendicular to the first optical axis to form an image on an image pickup device; a camera main body having a containing portion for containing the optical housing slidably only in the second optical axis direction and having support portions for supporting the optical housing provided on each of both sides surfaces of the containing portion across the second optical axis of the bending optical system; and a shock absorbing unit provided between an inner surface of the containing portion of the camera main body in which the support portions are not provided and an outer surface of the optical housing facing thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2012
    Assignees: Olympus Imaging Corp., Olympus Corporation
    Inventors: Shuhei Kaneko, Daisuke Shiraishi
  • Patent number: 8099094
    Abstract: A method for neighbor scanning in a wireless local area network having a station, a first access point (AP) to which the station is associated, and a second AP begins by generating timing information regarding a beacon signal sent by the second AP. The timing information is reported from the first AP to the station. The station schedules a time, based on the timing information, to listen for the beacon signal transmitted by the second AP.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2012
    Assignee: InterDigital Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Paul Marinier, Vincent Roy, Christopher Cave, Frank LaSita, Angelo Cuffaro, Athmane Touag, Marian Rudolf
  • Patent number: D652792
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2012
    Assignee: Hot Doc, Inc.
    Inventor: Lothar Budike, Jr.
  • Patent number: D652896
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2012
    Assignee: Neoperl GmbH
    Inventor: Hermann Grether
  • Patent number: D652999
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2012
    Assignee: Vermont Juvenile Furniture Mfg., Inc.
    Inventors: Todd M. Jakubowski, Chris Jakubowski, Liang Tai Ming