Patents Represented by Attorney Volp and Koenig, P.C.
  • Patent number: 8072312
    Abstract: A non-contact state charging authentication device and a method thereof are disclosed. The authentication device includes: a power supply for receiving and transmitting power; a control unit for controlling a signal; a shunt and voltage divided circuit connecting to the said power supply and the said control unit for controlling the transmission of power; and an electromagnetic inductance element connecting to the said shunt current and voltage divided circuit for inducting and transmitting an electromagnetic signal which has an electromagnetic inductance frequency. While non-contact electromagnetic induction between the said authentication device and a charging device occurs, the said charging device begins to charging the said authentication device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2011
    Assignee: ID Enabler Corporation
    Inventor: Cyril Chiang
  • Patent number: 8072944
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for staggering forward and reverse channel time slot allocation in a wireless communication allows a wireless communication unit, such as a base station processor or a subscriber access unit, to transmit a return message in less than a full time slot interval. Forward and reverse channel allocation occurs as a cycle of time slots occurring at periodic timing intervals. Transmission of a wireless frame carrying a message payload occurs at the beginning of the time slot. Since the forward and reverse channel allocation cycles need not be concurrent, or in phase, these cycles may be staggered with respect to each other. By staggering the forward and reverse channel allocation timing interval, the return message is sent after only a portion of a full timing interval, rather than being delayed up to one complete timing interval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2011
    Assignee: IPR Licensing, Inc.
    Inventor: James A. Proctor, Jr.
  • Patent number: 8074137
    Abstract: A method and system for supporting multiple hybrid automatic repeat request (H-ARQ) processes per transmission time interval (TTI) are disclosed. A transmitter and a receiver include a plurality of H-ARQ processes to transmit and receive multiple transport blocks (TBs) simultaneously per TTI. The transmitter generates a plurality of TBs and assigns the TBs to multiple H-ARQ processes. The transmitter sends control information for the TBs and H-ARQ processes associated with the TBs to the receiver. The transmitter then sends the TBs using multiple H-ARQ processes simultaneously per TTI. After receiving the TBs, the receiver sends feedback to each of the TBs indicating successful or unsuccessful receipt of each of the TBs to the transmitter. The control information and the feedback may be sent via a layer 1 or layer 2/3 control part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2011
    Assignee: InterDigital Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Stephen E. Terry, Robert Lind Olesen, Jin Wang, Arty Chandra
  • Patent number: 8072924
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of assigning radio channels to a set of base stations (BS) in a wireless network, in which method one radio channel out of a determined set of radio channels is assigned to each base station (BS). In order for different networks not to interfere with each other, the available radio channels are assigned to the set of base stations (BS) upon manufacture of the base stations (BS) such that each radio channel appears substantially an equal number of times.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2011
    Assignee: Wi-LAN, Inc.
    Inventor: Paulus Carpelan
  • Patent number: 8071994
    Abstract: The present invention provides a semiconductor light-emitting device. The light-emitting device comprises a first conductive clad layer, an active layer, and a second conductive clad layer sequentially formed on a substrate. In the light-emitting device, the substrate has one or more side patterns formed on an upper surface thereof while being joined to one or more edges of the upper surface. The side patterns consist of protrusions or depressions so as to scatter or diffract light to an upper portion or a lower portion of the light-emitting device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2011
    Assignee: Samsung LED Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sun Woon Kim, Hyun Kyung Kim, Je Won Kim, In Seok Choi, Kyu Han Lee, Jeong Tak Oh
  • Patent number: 8072699
    Abstract: A solid immersion lens optics assembly, a test station for probing and testing of integrated circuits on a semiconductor wafer, and a method of landing a SIL on an object. The optics assembly comprises an objective lens housing for receiving an objective lens, and a solid immersion lens (SIL) housing for mounting an SIL and adapted for connection to the objective lens housing; wherein a peripheral wall of the SIL housing comprises an integrated spring section adapted to provide a biased support for the SIL.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2011
    Assignee: Semicaps Pte Ltd
    Inventors: Lian Ser Koh, Choon Meng Chua, Wah Pheng Chua, Chee Hong Jacob Phang, Soon Huat Tan
  • Patent number: 8074055
    Abstract: A computer. A processor pipeline alternately executes instructions coded for first and second different computer architectures or coded to implement first and second different processing conventions. A memory stores instructions for execution by the processor pipeline, the memory being divided into pages for management by a virtual memory manager, a single address space of the memory having first and second pages. A memory unit fetches instructions from the memory for execution by the pipeline, and fetches stored indicator elements associated with respective memory pages of the single address space from which the instructions are to be fetched. Each indicator element is designed to store an indication of which of two different computer architectures and/or execution conventions under which instruction data of the associated page are to be executed by the processor pipeline.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2011
    Assignee: ATI Technologies ULC
    Inventors: John S. Yates, Jr., David L. Reese, Korbin S. Van Dyke, Tiruvur R. Ramesh, Paul H. Hohensee
  • Patent number: 8074143
    Abstract: Detecting, avoiding and/or correcting problematic puncturing patterns in parity bit streams used when implementing punctured Turbo codes is achieved without having to avoid desirable code rates. This enables identification/avoidance of regions of relatively poor Turbo code performance. Forward error correction comprising Turbo coding and puncturing achieves a smooth functional relationship between any measure of performance and the effective coding rate resulting from combining the lower rate code generated by the Turbo encoder with puncturing of the parity bits. In one embodiment, methods to correct/avoid degradations due to Turbo coding are implemented by puncturing interactions when two or more stages of rate matching are employed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2011
    Assignee: InterDigital Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Philip J. Pietraski, Gregory S. Sternberg
  • Patent number: 8072936
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for handover of a dual mode wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) from an LTE system to a GERAN system uses measurements of the LTE and GERAN frequencies and a decision by a source evolved Node B to perform the handover. A GERAN access procedure includes PS attach messages exchanged between the WTRU and the target base station controller and a target SGSN. Alternatively, the GERAN access procedure uses RAN mobility information messages exchanged by the WTRU and the target base station controller and a relocation detect message by the source evolved Node B.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2011
    Assignee: InterDigital Technology Corporation
    Inventor: Kamel M. Shaheen
  • Patent number: 8072953
    Abstract: A method and a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU), including a universal subscriber identity module (USIM), for identifying a closed subscriber group (CSG) cell are disclosed. The WTRU receives a broadcast from a cell including a cell identifier (ID). If the cell ID is associated with a CSG cell, the WTRU determines whether the CSG ID is programmed in the USIM. The cell broadcast may include a single bit information element (IE) indicating that the cell is a CSG cell. If the cell ID is a CSG ID, the cell ID may further include a plurality of fields which indicate at least one of a country, a region, an operator, and a home evolved Node-B (HeNB) number. The cell broadcast may further include a bit indicating whether the CSG cell is public or private. The cell broadcast may further include a bit indicating that emergency calls are allowed from all users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2011
    Assignee: InterDigital Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Rajat P. Mukherjee, Mohammed Sammour, Shankar Somasundaram, James M. Miller, Jin Wang
  • Patent number: 8071917
    Abstract: A cooking oven for foods is described, comprising a cooking chamber, a variable speed electric fan arranged for generating forced ventilation of the air inside the chamber, a regulating system for regulating the speed of the motor of the electric fan including at least one resistive electric element in the electrical supply circuit of the motor, in order to obtain the variation of the speed of the fan as a result of the electrical supply of the resistive element, wherein the resistive element is provided inside the cooking chamber of the oven, so that the heat generated by the resistive element is recovered and maintained within the cooking chamber in the thermal balance of the chamber, during the cooking of the foods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2011
    Assignee: Unox S.p.A.
    Inventor: Enrico Franzolin
  • Patent number: 8072948
    Abstract: A wireless communication system and method of implementing an evolved system attachment procedure are disclosed. The system includes a first core network and a second core network which is evolved from the first core network. A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) sends an attach request message to the second core network. The second core network activates a packet data protocol (PDP) context and sends an attach accept message to the WTRU. The attach accept message includes information regarding the PDP context. The second core network constructs a session and mobility management (SMM) context for session management (SM) and mobility management (MM) for the WTRU.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2011
    Assignee: InterDigital Technology Corporation
    Inventor: Kamel M. Shaheen
  • Patent number: 8072899
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for measuring and reporting a rank and/or a precoding matrix for multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication are disclosed. A metric indicating a channel condition is measured and a rank is selected based on the metric. The metric may be a signal-to-interference and noise ratio (SINR), throughput, a block error rate (BLER), system capacity, a sum rate, or the like. An SINR for each radio block group (RBG) for each rank is calculated. A data rate is calculated for each RBG based on the SINR for each rank. An overall rate for all RBGs is calculated for each rank. At least one rank is selected based on the overall rate. At least one precoding matrix may be selected jointly with or separately from the at least one rank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2011
    Assignee: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Kyle Jung-Lin Pan, Donald M. Grieco, Robert L. Olesen
  • Patent number: 8067043
    Abstract: A pharmaceutical or medicinal herbal composition and method of making the composition comprised of a mixture of the following herbal ingredients: Glycine max, Plumbago zeylanica, Terminalia arjuna, Trigonella-foenum-graceum, Coleus forskohlii, Commiphora mukul, Camellia sinensis, and Azadirachta indica.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2011
    Assignee: Sahajanand Biotech Pvt. Ltd.
    Inventor: Nandkishor Bapurao Managoli
  • Patent number: 8068511
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for sending a signal on a contentious feedback channel for a downlink shared service and for estimating a number of wireless transmit/receive units (WTRUs) are disclosed. When a transmission criterion associated with a physical random access feedback channel (P-RAFCH) is satisfied, a physical resource is randomly selected among a plurality of physical resources assigned for the P-RAFCH and a pre-configured signal is sent using the selected physical resource. A Node-B receives the pre-configured signal from a plurality of WTRUs and calculates a number of the WTRUs based on a number of used physical resources. The transmission criterion is at least one of successful reception of a data packet on a downlink physical channel, successful reception of a data block on a data service, reception of a signaling command, occurrence of a measurement event, and failure to receive a transmission after a specified number of times.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2011
    Assignee: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Alexander Reznik, Eldad M. Zeira, Christopher R. Cave, Paul Mariner
  • Patent number: 8068474
    Abstract: A protocol for optimizing the use of coded transmissions such as over wireless links. In this technique, interframes are split into segments selected to be an optimum size according to transmission characteristics of the radio channel. The inverse process is applied at the receiver. Using this scheme, segments containing erroneous data may be resent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2011
    Assignee: IPR Licensing, Inc.
    Inventors: Dennis D. Ferguson, James A. Proctor, Jr.
  • Patent number: 8068324
    Abstract: A protection circuit including an energy-storage device, a fusible element, and an overvoltage modulation unit is provided. The energy-storage device stores a first energy and supplies the first energy. The fusible element connected in series with the energy-storage device for constituting a branch circuit. The overvoltage modulation unit is connected in parallel with the branch circuit, wherein when the branch circuit begins to have an overvoltage, an absolute value of a modulating current flowing through the overvoltage modulation unit is increased instantaneously, so that a second energy instantaneously released from the energy-storage device is applied to cut off the fusible element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2011
    Assignee: Delta Electronics, Inc.
    Inventor: Chin-Tsai Chiang
  • Patent number: 8068886
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for providing an electronic device having adaptively responsive displaying of information is disclosed. The electronic device is adaptively responsive to display information based on in part to bending, motion, rotation, and/or any sensor based feedback.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2011
    Assignee: HJ Laboratories, LLC
    Inventor: Harry Vartanian
  • Patent number: D649341
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2011
    Assignee: Henry Troemner LLC
    Inventors: Thomas A. Long, Jr., Joy Lynn Cottrill
  • Patent number: D650051
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2011
    Assignee: Neoperl GmbH
    Inventor: Holger Schurle