Patents Assigned to ON! Systems
  • Dual seal deposition process chamber and process
    Patent number: 7737035
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for sealing and unsealing a chemical deposition apparatus in a chemical deposition process chamber includes a microvolume that has dual sealing elements at its periphery. One seal, the outer seal, is used to seal the inside of the microvolume from the main process chamber. The second (inner) seal is used to seal the inside of the microvolume from a vacuum source. The apparatus and process of the present invention has several advantages for enhanced chamber performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2010
    Assignee: Novellus Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Gary Lind, Colin F. Smith, William Johanson, Thomas M. Pratt, John Mazzocco
  • RNAi modulation of SCAP and therapeutics uses thereof
    Patent number: 7737266
    Abstract: The invention relates to a double-stranded ribonucleic acid (dsRNA) for inhibiting the expression of a SCAP gene (Human SCAP gene), comprising an antisense strand having a nucleotide sequence which is less that 30 nucleotides in length, generally 19-25 nucleotides in length, and which is substantially complementary to at least a part of a SCAP gene. The invention also relates to a pharmaceutical composition comprising the dsRNA together with a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier; methods for treating diseases caused by Human SCAP expression and the expression of a SCAP gene using the pharmaceutical composition; and methods for inhibiting the expression of a SCAP gene in a cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2010
    Assignees: Board of Regents, The University of Texas System, Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
    Inventors: Juergen Soutschek, Pamela Tan, Jay D. Horton, Michael S. Brown, Joseph L. Goldstein, Young-Ah Moon
  • Automated management of airport revenues
    Patent number: 7739167
    Abstract: A solution is described which provides an airport with the tools to accurately manage all sources of airside revenues, including operational revenues and capital programs. The system of the present invention relies on the acquisition of any and all data related to the operations, property, lease, and revenue management of an airport, including aircraft tracking data. This data is then stored in a central database where it is processed, sorted, and stored for later retrieval. The data may exist in a number of forms including real-time streams, tabular, or in the form of a database. From this data, airport revenue information can be accurately managed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2010
    Assignee: ERA Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas J. Breen, Alexander E. Smith
  • System and method for providing encryption in storage operations in a storage network, such as for use by application service providers that provide data storage services
    Patent number: 7739381
    Abstract: In accordance with embodiments of the invention, a method is provided for performing a storage operation in a pipeline storage system in which one or more data streams containing data to be stored are written into data chunks. The method includes generating an encryption key associated with a first archive file to be stored when encryption is requested for the storage operation, encrypting the archive data from the data stream using the encryption key to create an encrypted data chunk when a data stream containing the archive file is processed in the pipeline storage system, storing the encrypted data chunk on a storage medium, and storing the encryption key in a manner accessible during a restore operation of the encrypted data chunk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2010
    Assignee: CommVault Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul Ignatius, Anand Prahlad, Mahesh Tyagarajan, Manoj Vijayan Retnamma, Arun Amarendran, Rajiv Kottomtharayil
  • Data structure caching for PDU re-generation and transmission in a 3G wireless network
    Patent number: 7738369
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a transmitter (a) caches one or more MAC-d PDUs received from a network layer, (b) selects a subset of the MAC-d PDUs for combination into a MAC-e PDU, (c) generates the MAC-e PDU from the subset of selected MAC-d PDUs, (d) caches a data structure to allow re-generation of the MAC-e PDU, wherein the re-generation does not rely on any cached copy of the MAC-e PDU, (e) transmits the MAC-e PDU for receipt by a receiver; and (f) determines whether an ACK was received, wherein if an ACK was not received, then the MAC-e PDU is re-generated using the cached data structure and the subset of selected MAC-d PDUs, and steps (e) and (f) are repeated, and if an ACK was received, then the memories used to cache the data structure and the first subset of MAC-d PDUs are freed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2010
    Assignee: Agere Systems Inc.
    Inventors: Rafael Carmon, Ido Gazit, Simon Issakov, Vladimir Kopilevitch
  • Water turbine system and method of operation
    Patent number: 7737570
    Abstract: A system for providing electrical power from a current turbine is provided. The system includes a floatation device and a mooring. A water turbine structure is provided having an upper and lower portion wherein the lower portion includes a water fillable chamber. A plurality of cables are used to couple the system where a first cable couples the water turbine to the mooring and a second cable couples the floatation device to the first cable. The system is arranged to allow the turbine structure to be deployed and retrieved for service, repair, maintenance and redeployment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2010
    Assignee: Northern Power Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Daniel P. Costin
  • Methods, systems, and computer program products for grid-morphing techniques in placement, floorplanning, and legalization
    Patent number: 7739644
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods, systems, and computer program products for performing grid morphing technique for computing a spreading of objects over an area such that the final locations of the objects are distributed over the area and such that the final locations of the objects are minimally perturbed from their initial starting locations and the density of objects meets certain constraints. The minimization of perturbation, or stability, of the approaches disclosed, is the key feature which is the principal benefit of the techniques disclosed. The methods described herein may be used as part of a tool for placement or floorplanning of logic gates or larger macroblocks for the design of an integrated circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2010
    Assignee: Candence Design Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Philip Chong, Christian Szegedy
  • Connector with restricting means
    Patent number: 7736197
    Abstract: A restriction (30) is provided for preventing a second housing (20) from being fit in an incorrect oblique posture into a receptacle (12). The restriction includes restricting ribs (31) projecting from an inner surface of the receptacle (12) and restricting grooves (32) formed by recessing an outer surface of the second housing (20). Each restricting rib (31) includes a first rib (31A) extending in a connecting direction and second ribs (31B) located behind the front end of the first rib (31A) in the connecting direction. Each restricting groove (32) includes a first groove (32A) extending in the connecting direction and second grooves (32B) located before the rear end of the first groove (32A) in the connecting direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2010
    Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.
    Inventor: Kazuaki Takeda
  • Portable electronic display device with automatic lockout of message selection switches to prevent tampering with selected message
    Patent number: 7737912
    Abstract: A portable electronic display device includes an electronic display surface having at least one display panel that displays a graphical and/or textual message, memory that stores a plurality of the messages, and one or more switches on the device that allow user selection of one of the messages. The device further includes a controller that disables the one or more switches if none of the switches are selected after a predetermined period of time after power is turned on to the display device, or if none of the switches are selected after a predetermined period of time subsequent to the last switch selection occurrence. In this manner, a person is prevented from subsequently changing the message via the one or more switches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2010
    Assignee: Intuitive Control Systems, LLC
    Inventors: John T. Graef, Eric Kline, Philip R. Hall
  • Web server for remote user devices service and web page generation
    Patent number: 7739658
    Abstract: A web server (1) responds to a request message from a remote user device (2) by dynamically generating web page code capable of being interpreted by the user device. A device type identifier (45) is extracted from the request message and is input to a code generating engine (21) which interprets stored instructions for generating the web page code with reference to selected device dependent information corresponding to the device type identifier. The web page information is stored as a content document comprising a set of instructions written in a script language. The web server generates web pages in an appropriate form for each user device without the need to convert web pages from one form to another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2010
    Assignee: Volantis Systems Limited
    Inventors: Mark Alexander Watson, Jonathan Rhys Tyack Lewis
  • Systems and methods for operational power management
    Patent number: 7739533
    Abstract: Various systems and methods for power management are disclosed herein. For example, a synchronous semiconductor circuit is disclosed that includes two or more clock sources and a power management controller. The power management controller is operable to apply power to one of the clock sources and to select another of the clock sources for synchronization of the circuit. Then, upon stabilization of the first clock source, it is selected by the power management controller to synchronize the circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2010
    Assignee: Agere Systems Inc.
    Inventors: Richard Rauschmayer, Steven E. Strauss, Tatsuya Sakai
  • Method of setting alternate style assignments to menu elements of an application
    Patent number: 7739620
    Abstract: A method, apparatus and computer program product for setting alternate style assignments to menu elements of an application are presented. At least one menu element of an application is selected. An alternate style is assigned to the at least one menu element. The at least one menu elements of the application is displayed, wherein the at least one menu element is presented in the alternate style assigned to the element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2010
    Assignee: Adobe Systems Inc.
    Inventors: Sarah Kong, Scott Byer
  • Systems and methods to facilitate selling of products and services
    Patent number: 7739149
    Abstract: A method of gathering sales information is provided. The method may involve linking, based on a matching score, a sales associate to a customer for assisting in an online sales transaction, and providing the sales associate with best practices information to use during the transaction. The best practices information may have been gathered by monitoring online sales transactions between sales associates and customers, indexing information and sales techniques used by the sales associates during the online sales transactions, and ranking and dynamically re-ranking the information and sales techniques based at least in part on the outcome of the corresponding online sales transaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2010
    Assignee: Proficient Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Gregg Freishtat, Steve Hufford, Dodge McFall, Jackson Wilson, Tanya Hyman, Vikas Rijsinghani, Paul Kaib
  • RF communication of data between currency canister and automated banking machine
    Patent number: 7735723
    Abstract: An automated canister reloading machine is able to reload a currency canister removed from an ATM. The reloading machine includes a supply of currency notes. The reloading machine can transfer currency notes from the supply into a storage area of the canister. The canister includes a memory that can store data representative of information concerning the canister, such as data representative of the type and number of currency notes held in the canister. The reloading machine is able to update the canister memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2010
    Assignee: Diebold Self-Service Systems division of Diebold Incorporated
    Inventors: Matthew V. Force, H. Thomas Graef, Robert A. Bowser, Jeffrey M. Eastman, Michael J. Harty, Andrew Junkins, Michael E. Lindroos, Mark J. Owens, Mike R. Ryan, Alan Looney, Roy Shirah
  • Emulation system with time-multiplexed interconnect
    Patent number: 7739097
    Abstract: A hardware emulation system is disclosed which reduces hardware cost by time multiplexing multiple design signals onto physical logic chip pins and printed circuit board. The hardware emulation system comprises a plurality of reprogrammable logic devices, and a plurality of reprogrammable interconnect devices. The logic devices and interconnect devices are interconnected together such that multiple design signals share common I/O pins and circuit board traces through the use of multiplexing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2010
    Assignee: Quickturn Design Systems Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen P. Sample, Mikhail Bershteyn, Michael R. Butts, Jerry R. Bauer
  • Very high frequency line of sight winglet antenna
    Patent number: 7737898
    Abstract: A line of sight antenna supported in an upturned terminal winglet or similar vertical member of an aircraft is disclosed. An aperture is formed in the conductive winglet or vertical member, and the antenna is supported within the aperture by a support mechanism such that the antenna is exposed to the line of sight transmissions. A non-conductive covering may also be used for the aperture. Using the cover, the antenna within the winglet can be configured so that it does not alter the appearance or aerodynamic characteristics of the aircraft. Alternatively, the antenna can be coupled to the outside of the winglet or vertical member if cosmetics are not a concern. The frequency range of the antenna can be tuned to cover desired frequency ranges. The antenna position at the winglet maintains a large physical separation from fuselage-mounted antennas thereby reducing interference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2010
    Assignee: L-3 Communications Integrated Systems, L.P.
    Inventors: John H. Hanusa, Claude W. Tignor, III, Vincent A. May, Wesley D. Redus, SueAnn Stuart, Paul W. Hein
  • Optimizing integrated circuit design through balanced combinational slack plus sequential slack
    Patent number: 7739642
    Abstract: A method is provided that includes: determining a minimum clock cycle that can be used to propagate a signal about the critical cycle in a circuit design; wherein the critical cycle is a cycle in the design that has a highest proportionality of delay to number of registers; determining for a circuit element in the circuit design, sequential slack associated with the circuit element; wherein the sequential slack represents a minimum delay from among respective maximum delays that can be added to respective structural cycles of which the circuit element is a constituent, based upon the determined limit upon clock cycle duration; using the sequential slack to ascertain sequential optimization based design flexibility throughout multiple stages of a design flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2010
    Assignee: Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Christoph Albrecht
  • Method and mechanism for implementing electronic designs having power information specifications background
    Patent number: 7739629
    Abstract: A method of adding power control circuitry to a circuit design at each of an RTL and a netlist level comprising: demarcating multiple power domains within the circuit design; specifying multiple power modes each power mode corresponding to a different combination of on/off states of the multiple demarcated power domains; and defining isolation behavior relative to respective power domains.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2010
    Assignee: Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Qi Wang, Ankur Gupta, Pinhong Chen, Christina Chu, Manish Pandey, Huan-Chih Tsai, Sandeep Bhatia, Yonghao Chen, Steven Sharp, Vivek Chickermane, Patrick Gallagher
  • Multi-threshold charging of a rechargeable battery
    Patent number: 7737665
    Abstract: In a preferred embodiment, a battery charging system in the form of an integrated circuit (IC), incorporated in a consumer electronic device, has a charging controller, a charging current generator, a junction temperature sensor, and a device current monitor. The junction temperature sensor provides to the charging controller a measured junction temperature of the IC. The charging current generator utilizes fractional synthesis, which involves regulating the duty cycles of multiple current sources, to achieve increased current resolution. The charging controller regulates the charging current provided by the charging current generator based on the relation of the measured junction temperature to three or more threshold temperatures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2010
    Assignee: Agere Systems Inc.
    Inventors: Anthony J. Grewe, Parag Parikh
  • Systems and methods for digital volumetric laminar tomography
    Patent number: 7737972
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for implementing an analytical approach to digital volumetric laminar tomography. The volumetric data visualizations generally take the form of volumetric images which approximate the spatial distribution of an x-ray attenuation coefficient throughout the region of interest in the object, such as a person, under examination. These visualizations are produced from a set of basic two dimensional data. One numerical technique employed in this regard takes the form of a process of convolution and back projection, where the convolution function is determined through the use of various analytic and empirical techniques.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2010
    Assignee: Varian Medical Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Edward J. Seppi