Patents by Inventor Alexander Costa

Alexander Costa has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11960255
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for shaping compute load using virtual capacity. In one aspect, a method includes obtaining a load forecast that indicates forecasted future compute load for a cell, obtaining a power model that models a relationship between power usage and computational usage for the cell, obtaining a carbon intensity forecast that indicates a forecast of carbon intensity for a geographic area where the cell is located, determining a virtual capacity for the cell based on the load forecast, the power model, and the carbon intensity forecast, and providing the virtual capacity for the cell to the cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Ana Radovanovic, Alexandre Nobrega Duarte, Binayak Roy, Diyue Xiao, Walfredo da Costa Cirne Filho, Maya Haridasan, Ross Koningstein, Eric Alexander Mullen
  • Patent number: 9628264
    Abstract: A communication system has a host communication circuit and a client communication circuit, which are connected to each other by means of a single signal wire. The host communication circuit generates a voltage modulated signal on the signal wire based on a reference clock signal, which in each clock cycle has a first period with a significant voltage change based on a clock edge of the reference clock signal, and a second period with a basically constant voltage variation. The host communication circuit (HCC) further can demodulate a current modulated signal received via the signal wire from the client communication circuit. The client communication circuit is configured to detect the significant voltage change in order to generate respective sync pulses in a sync signal, which is used to generate a client clock signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: AMS AG
    Inventors: Helmut Theiler, Alexander Costa
  • Publication number: 20160080141
    Abstract: A communication system has a host communication circuit and a client communication circuit, which are connected to each other by means of a single signal wire. The host communication circuit generates a voltage modulated signal on the signal wire based on a reference clock signal, which in each clock cycle has a first period with a significant voltage change based on a clock edge of the reference clock signal, and a second period with a basically constant voltage variation. The host communication circuit (HCC) further can demodulate a current modulated signal received via the signal wire from the client communication circuit. The client communication circuit is configured to detect the significant voltage change in order to generate respective sync pulses in a sync signal, which is used to generate a client clock signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2014
    Publication date: March 17, 2016
    Inventors: Helmut THEILER, Alexander COSTA
  • Patent number: 9178995
    Abstract: Systems and methods for information and action management including managing and communicating critical and non-critical information relating to certain emergency services events or incidents as well as other applications. More specifically, systems and methods for information and action management including a plurality of mobile interface units that include one or more of a language translation sub-system, an action receipt sub-system, a voice-to-text conversion sub-system, a media management sub-system, a revision management sub-system that restricts the abilities of some users, and a report generation sub-system that creates reports operatively coupled to the language translation sub-system, the action receipt sub-system, the voice-to-text conversion sub-system, the media management sub-system, and the revision management sub-system to auto-populate report fields.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Inventors: Marc Alexander Costa, Robert Edward Clark, Jr., Akshay Ender Sura
  • Publication number: 20140058730
    Abstract: Systems and methods for information and action management including managing and communicating critical and non-critical information relating to certain emergency services events or incidents as well as other applications. More specifically, systems and methods for information and action management including a plurality of mobile interface units that include one or more of a language translation sub-system, an action receipt sub-system, a voice-to-text conversion sub-system, a media management sub-system, a revision management sub-system that restricts the abilities of some users, and a report generation sub-system that creates reports operatively coupled to the language translation sub-system, the action receipt sub-system, the voice-to-text conversion sub-system, the media management sub-system, and the revision management sub-system to auto-populate report fields.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2013
    Publication date: February 27, 2014
    Inventors: Marc Alexander Costa, Robert Edward Clark, Jr., Akshay Ender Sura
  • Publication number: 20130246041
    Abstract: Systems and methods for information and action management including managing and communicating critical and non-critical information relating to certain emergency services events or incidents as well as other applications. More specifically, systems and methods for information and action management including a plurality of mobile interface units that include one or more of a language translation sub-system, an action receipt sub-system, a voice-to-text conversion sub-system, a media management sub-system, a revision management sub-system that restricts the abilities of some users, and a report generation sub-system that creates reports operatively coupled to the language translation sub-system, the action receipt sub-system, the voice-to-text conversion sub-system, the media management sub-system, and the revision management sub-system to auto-populate report fields.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2012
    Publication date: September 19, 2013
    Inventors: Marc Alexander Costa, Robert Edward Clark,, JR., Akshay Ender Sura
  • Patent number: 7948258
    Abstract: A semiconductor arrangement has a semiconductor body (CP), comprising a semiconductor layer (HL) with a first (AB11, AB12) and at least one second (AB21, AB22) conducting terminal areas, respectively made in two parts, and with a first (TAB1) and a second (TAB2) test terminals; a first (KI1, KU1) and at least one second (KI2, KU2) contact areas, located on the semiconductor body (CP) and made of two parts, which are connected with the respective terminal areas (AB11, AB12; AB21, AB22), and a first (TK1) and a second (TK2) test contact areas that are connected with the respective test terminal areas (TAB1, TAB2); a first terminal (10) that can be arranged on the semiconductor body (CP) and that contacts both parts of the two-part first contact areas (KI1, KU1), and at least one second terminal (20) that can be placed on the semiconductor body (CP) and that contacts both parts of the at least one second two-part contact area (KI2, KU2), and a first (30) and a second (40) test terminals, which can be arranged on
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2011
    Assignee: austriamicrosystems AG
    Inventor: Alexander Costa
  • Publication number: 20090237105
    Abstract: A semiconductor arrangement has a semiconductor body (CP), comprising a semiconductor layer (HL) with a first (AB11, AB12) and at least one second (AB21, AB22) conducting terminal areas, respectively made in two parts, and with a first (TAB1) and a second (TAB2) test terminals; a first (KI1, KU1) and at least one second (KI2, KU2) contact areas, located on the semiconductor body (CP) and made of two parts, which are connected with the respective terminal areas (AB11, AB12; AB21, AB22), and a first (TK1) and a second (TK2) test contact areas that are connected with the respective test terminal areas (TAB1, TAB2); a first terminal (10) that can be arranged on the semiconductor body (CP) and that contacts both parts of the two-part first contact areas (KI1, KU1), and at least one second terminal (20) that can be placed on the semiconductor body (CP) and that contacts both parts of the at least one second two-part contact area (KI2, KU2), and a first (30) and a second (40) test terminals, which can be arranged on
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2009
    Publication date: September 24, 2009
    Applicant: austriamicrosystems AG
    Inventor: Alexander Costa