Abstract: A method for communication includes running a navigation application on a mobile navigation device, so as to present to a user navigation instructions from a navigation server on the display of the mobile navigation device. A widget chosen by the user is activated to run on the mobile navigation device in conjunction with the navigation application. Responsively to activating the widget, an interactive user interface element is overlaid on the navigation instructions on the display, indicating an availability of a location-based service at a location specified by the navigation instructions. Upon receiving an input from the user via the interactive user interface element invoking the service, the service is provided to the user at the specified location via the mobile navigation device.

Abstract: A color image sensor includes an array of pixels arranged in a plurality of pixel groups, each pixel group including a floating diffusion that is shared by four pixels disposed in a 2×2 arrangement. Each of said four pixels includes a photodetector and a color filter superposed over the photodetector, wherein a first pair of said four pixels include green color, and a second pair of said four pixels includes either red or blue color filters. A control circuit controls the pixel groups such that discrete image information is generated from each pixel in normal light situations, and such that summed image information is generated from each pixel group in low light situations by simultaneously connecting the green pixels to the floating diffusion during a first time period, and simultaneously connecting the red/blue pixels to said floating diffusion during a second time period.

Abstract: Methods and systems for accessing data from a previous point in time, including receiving data stored in a storage system of addressable memory, the storage system including a plurality of addresses, receiving a journal history of write transactions for the storage, each write transaction including (i) a plurality of designated memory addresses, (ii) a corresponding plurality of current data to write in the designated memory addresses for storage, and (iii) a time indicator, generating a data structure that represents a virtual interface to the storage at a specified point in time, based on the write transactions in the journal history having a time subsequent to the specified point in time, and enabling a user to process the data from the specified point in time, via the virtual interface and the journal history.

Abstract: Certain aspects of a method and system for transparent transmission control protocol (TCP) offload with best effort direct placement of incoming traffic are disclosed. Aspects of a method may include collecting TCP segments in a network interface card (NIC) processor without transferring state information to a host processor every time a TCP segment is received. When an event occurs that terminates the collection of TCP segments, the NIC processor may generate a new aggregated TCP segment based on the collected TCP segments. If a placement sequence number corresponding to the generated new TCP segment for the particular network flow is received before the TCP segment is received, the generated new TCP segment may be transferred directly from the memory to the user buffer instead of transferring the data to a kernel buffer, which would require further copy by the host stack from kernel buffer to user buffer.

Abstract: Techniques for explicit feedback delay measurement are described. An apparatus may comprise a processor to generate a steering matrix for transmit spatial processing over a channel, determine a delay time associated with explicit feedback information for the channel, and determine whether to modify the steering matrix with the explicit feedback information based on the delay time. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for integrating intercepted information with information obtained from an at least one data retention source, the method comprising receiving intercepted information from an interception source, receiving information from a data retention source, and analyzing the information received from the data retention source, in association with the intercepted information. The intercepted information can comprise meta data related to the intercepted communications, and/or the contents of the communication themselves. This enables a user such as a law enforcement agency to reveal possibly indirect connections between target entities s wherein the connections involve non-target entities. The method and apparatus combine interception and content analysis methodologies with traffic analysis techniques.

Abstract: A subject of a file's content which is stored on a physical storage medium at a logical address in a networked system may be determined and used to identify the file to facilitate retrieval and/or the provision of information about the file, for example via forums or messages.

Abstract: Implied prices and their quantities are computed. Markets are characterized by exhaustively computing one or more combinations of other related markets. Each combination when summed in a particular way results in the market under consideration. In a described embodiment, the number of market combinations found is an exhaustive list of market combinations such that the market under consideration can be fully and completely characterized, such that each combination provides implied market information about the market under consideration. Implied market information can include implied prices and their quantities, which are computed for each combination and used accordingly in displays or used by automated or semi-automated trading tools.

Abstract: A capacitor for a single-poly floating gate device is fabricated on a semiconductor substrate along with low and high voltage transistors. Each transistor has a gate width greater than or equal to a minimum gate width of the associated process. A dielectric layer is formed over the substrate, and a patterned polysilicon structure is formed over the dielectric layer. The patterned polysilicon structure includes one or more narrow polysilicon lines, each having a width less than the minimum gate width. The LDD implants for low and high voltage transistors of the same conductivity type are allowed to enter the substrate, using the patterned polysilicon structure as a mask. A thermal drive-in cycle results in a continuous diffusion region that merges under the narrow polysilicon lines. Contacts formed adjacent to the narrow polysilicon lines and a metal-1 trace connected to the contacts may increase the resulting capacitance.

Abstract: A backhaul network for a mobile wireless network including a plurality of nodes forming links, the links utilizing a 1:n frequency re-use scheme in backhaul communication, where n equals 2 to about 16, wherein each link communicates over a different portion of an entire bandwidth of the network.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a method for processing data packets having a payload and a checksum, wherein the payload has a first portion of interest. If a received data packet fails a CRC check, then it is determined whether the first portion has a valid relationship with one or more previous first portions of one or more corresponding previous payloads of one or more corresponding previous data packets. If the relationship is valid, then the first portion is output. The method enables recovery of first portions of interest from corrupted data packets having transmission errors in other parts of the data packets, thereby potentially decreasing retransmissions and increasing throughput.

Abstract: Certain aspects of a method and system for transparent transmission control protocol (TCP) offload are disclosed. Aspects of a method may include collecting TCP segments in a network interface card (NIC) processor without transferring state information to a host system. The collected TCP segments may be buffered in a coalescer. The coalescer may verify that the network flow associated with the collected TCP segments has an entry in a flow lookup table (FLT). When the FLT is full, the coalescer may close a current entry and assign the network flow to the available entry. The coalescer may also update information in the FLT. When an event occurs that terminates the collection of TCP segments, the coalescer may generate a single aggregated TCP segment based on the collected TCP segments. The aggregated TCP segment and state information may be communicated to the host system for processing.

Abstract: Various techniques are disclosed for delivering contextual advertising information to end users of a data network via a mobile device. At least one operation may be initiated to determine the features, capabilities and/or services supported at an identified mobile device. A first contextual advertising delivery technique may be implemented in response to a determination that a first type of functionality is supported at the identified mobile device. A second contextual advertising delivery technique may be implemented in response to a determination that the first type of functionality is not supported at the identified mobile device.

Abstract: A method for creating a non-volatile memory array includes implanting pocket implants in a substrate at least between mask columns of a given width and at least through an ONO layer covering the substrate, generating increased-width polysilicon columns from the mask columns, generating bit lines in the substrate at least between the increased-width polysilicon columns and depositing oxide at least between the polysilicon columns.

Abstract: A CMOS image sensor includes a pinned photodiode and a transfer gate that are formed using a thick mask that is self-aligned to at least one edge of the polysilicon gate structure to facilitate both the formation of a deep implant and to provide proper alignment between the photodiode implant and the gate. In one embodiment a drain side implant is formed concurrently with the deep n-type implant of the photodiode. After the deep implant, the mask is removed and a shallow p+ implant is formed to complete the photodiode. In another embodiment, the polysilicon is etched to define only a drain side edge, a shallow drain side implant is performed, and then a thick mask is provided and used to complete the gate structure, and is retained during the subsequent high energy implant. Alternatively, the high energy implant is performed prior to the shallow drain side implant.

Abstract: Cardiac catheters, including a lasso catheter, are provided for use in a system for electrical mapping of the heart has an array of raised, perforated electrodes, which are in fluid communication with an irrigating lumen. There are position sensors on a distal loop section and on a proximal base section of the catheter. The electrodes are sensing electrodes that may be adapted for pacing or ablation. The raised electrodes securely contact cardiac tissue, forming electrical connections having little resistance.

Abstract: Method for allowing a user of a mobile terminal device having predetermined computational resources to remotely develop and operate upgraded content delivery applications. A client-side application and a corresponding remote application are installed on the terminal device and on a server connected to the terminal device. The remote application dynamically splits the tasks to be performed by the content delivery application between the client-side application and remote application, according to its computational resources and processes, in real-time, the content and its associated logic and input data to be delivered to the terminal device. The processed content is then transmitted to the terminal device over the data network and the content is rendered by the client-side application. The client-side application responds to inputs from the user and/or to messages from the server or further connected devices.

Abstract: A method for displaying information includes receiving a measurement with respect to an invasive probe inside a body of a subject of at least one probe parameter, selected from a group of parameters consisting of a bend angle of the probe and a pressure on the probe. Responsively to the measurement, an icon is displayed on a display screen representing the at least one probe parameter for viewing by an operator of the probe.

Abstract: A wireless telecommunication system and method including at least two transmit antennae and means for implementing a downlink switched sub-channels diversity scheme during transmission. The method includes splitting a total bandwidth allocated for transmission of a transmitted signal to individual sub-channels or groups of sub-channels; boosting each of the sub-channels or groups of sub-channels; and routing each of the sub-channels or groups of sub-channels to a different transmit antenna.

Abstract: An apparatus having a memory and a controller is disclosed. The memory may be configured to (i) store a plurality of cache lines, each of the cache line comprising a plurality of locations including a respective end location and (ii) accessing a particular one of the cache lines identified by a cache address signal. The controller may be configured to (i) buffer a plurality of line pointers, each of the line pointers identifying a respective boundary one of the locations in one of the cache lines and (ii) generate the cache address signal in response to a processor address signal hitting a given one of the locations residing between the respective boundary location and the respective end location.