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20080267571 | Electro-optic Polymer Devices with Semiconducting Oligomer Clads - An electro-optic waveguide device comprising an electro-optic polymer core and at least one crosslinked polymer clad, wherein the crosslinked polymer clad is comprised of a first constitutional unit derived from a compound having the formula | 10-30-2008 |
20080290066 | Method of Fabricating Polymer Modulators With Etch Stop Clads - A process that comprises dry etching a trench into a side clad polymer layer using an underlying passive polymer layer as an etch stop, and then back filling the trench with an electro-optic polymer. | 11-27-2008 |
20090093067 | METHODS FOR MAKING AND USING SPR MICROARRAYS - An article, process, and method for surface plasmon resonance plates are described. A substrate is covered with a thin metal film onto which a second thin metal film is deposited. The surface of the second thin metal film is converted to the metal oxide which is used to covalently bond organosilanes to the surface. Reactive organosilanes containing terminal bonding groups are arranged in a plurality of spots that are surrounded by inert organosilanes. Biomolecule attachment to the binding group is detected or measured from surface plasmon signals from the first thin metal film. | 04-09-2009 |
20100040322 | INTEGRATED ELECTRO-OPTIC DEVICE AND METHOD OF MAKING - An electro-optic polymer semiconductor integrated circuit includes one or more doped regions configured to drive one or more electrodes, and the electrodes are configured to drive a juxtaposed electro-optic core. The assembly may include a planarization layer disposed at least partially coplanar with the electrodes. The circuit may include an integrated multiplexer, driver configured to receive a signal from the multiplexer, at least one high speed electrode configured to be driven by the driver and modulate light energy passed through a hyperpolarizable poled chromophore regions disposed near the high speed electrode. The circuit may include a calibration storage circuit. The circuit may include, during fabrication, structures to provide voltage to a buried electrode and a shield to prevent damage from the poling field. | 02-18-2010 |
20100074584 | ELECTRO-OPTIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MAKING LOW RESISTIVITY HYBRID POLYMER CLADS FOR AN ELECTRO-OPTIC DEVICE - A low resistivity hybrid optical cladding may be formed from a sol-gel doped with an inorganic salt such as lithium perchlorate. An electro-optic device may be formed by poling an organic chromophore-loaded modulation layer through at least one layer of the low resistivity hybrid optical cladding. | 03-25-2010 |
20100111465 | INTRINSICALLY LOW RESISTIVITY HYBRID SOL-GEL POLYMER CLADS AND ELECTRO-OPTIC DEVICES MADE THEREFROM - A low resistivity hybrid organic-inorganic material may include a proportion of charge traps including a trap element indirectly covalently bonded to a donor or acceptor element. The trap element may include tin. The donor or acceptor element may include indium and/or antimony. Bonding includes cross-linking via oxygen bonds and via organic cross-linkers. The material may be formed as a hybrid sol-gel. The material may have optical transmission and refractive index characteristics. The material may be formed as optical cladding proximal to a non-linear optical layer, and may form a portion of a second order nonlinear optical device. The second order nonlinear optical device may include and electro-optic device including an organic chromophore-loaded modulation layer. | 05-06-2010 |
20100121016 | LOW REFRACTIVE INDEX HYBRID OPTICAL CLADDING AND ELECTRO-OPTIC DEVICES MADE THEREFROM - A low index of refraction hybrid optical cladding may be formed from a fluorinated sol-gel. An electro-optic device may include a poled organic chromophore-loaded modulation layer and at least one adjacent fluorinated hybrid sol-gel clad. | 05-13-2010 |
20120157584 | STABILIZED ELECTRO-OPTIC MATERIALS AND ELECTRO-OPTIC DEVICES MADE THEREFROM - According to an embodiment, an electro-optic polymer comprises a host polymer and a guest nonlinear optical chromophore having the structure D-π-A, wherein: D is a donor, π is a π-bridge, and A is an acceptor; a bulky substituent group is covalently attached to at least one of D, π, or A; and the bulky substituent group has at least one non-covalent interaction with part of the host polymer that impedes chromophore depoling. | 06-21-2012 |
20120163749 | INTEGRATED CIRCUIT WITH OPTICAL DATA COMMUNICATION - An integrated circuit is configured for optical communication via an optical polymer stack located on top of the integrated circuit. The optical polymer stack may include one or more electro-optic polymer devices including an electro-optic polymer. The electro-optic polymer may include a host polymer and a second order nonlinear chromomophore, the host polymer and the chromophore both including aryl groups configured to interact with one another to provide enhanced thermal and/or temporal stability. | 06-28-2012 |
20130004137 | FLUORINATED SOL-GEL LOW REFRACTIVE INDEX HYBRID OPTICAL CLADDING AND ELECTRO-OPTIC DEVICES MADE THEREFROM - A low index of refraction hybrid optical cladding may be formed from a fluorinated sol-gel. An electro-optic device may include a poled organic chromophore-loaded modulation layer (electro-optic polymer) and at least one adjacent fluorinated hybrid sol-gel cladding layer. | 01-03-2013 |
20130100704 | LIGHT GUIDE WITH A PRINTED FILM - A method for making a light guide includes transferring ink onto a master tool having a three-dimensional feature pattern formed thereon and then transferring ink from the master tool to a transparent light guide. The method also includes curing the ink on the light guide. Alternatively, the ink may be printed onto a substrate (e.g., a film) and then laminated to the light guide. | 04-25-2013 |
20130286687 | LIGHT GUIDE WITH A PRINTED FILM - A method for making a light guide includes transferring ink onto a master tool having a three-dimensional feature pattern formed thereon and then transferring ink from the master tool to a transparent light guide. The method also includes curing the ink on the light guide. Alternatively, the ink may be printed onto a substrate (e.g., a film) and then laminated to the light guide. | 10-31-2013 |
20140302250 | ELECTRO-OPTIC POLYMER AND ELECTRO-OPTIC DEVICES MADE THEREFROM - According to an embodiment, an electro-optic polymer comprises a host polymer and a guest nonlinear optical chromophore having the structure D-π-A, wherein: D is a donor, π is a π-bridge, and A is an acceptor; a bulky substituent group is covalently attached to at least one of D, π, or A; and the bulky substituent group has at least one non-covalent interaction with part of the host polymer that impedes chromophore depoling. | 10-09-2014 |
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20090019159 | TRANSPARENTLY EXTERNALIZING PLUG-IN COMPUTATION TO CLUSTER - External processing of a request directed to an external software program from an invocation source to a cluster of computing devices. A wrapper tool is provided for processing the request from the invocation source. The request includes operations to be performed by the external software program on the host computer. The wrapper tool intercepted the request and extracts information included in the intercepted request. The extracted information is transmitted to a cluster scheduler. The cluster scheduler identifies a set of computing devices in the cluster of computing devices for processing the request. The identified set of computing devices processes the intercepted request as a function of the intercepted request, the information and the invocation source. A result is provided in response to the processed request from the identified set of computing devices to the invocation source. | 01-15-2009 |
20090025004 | Scheduling by Growing and Shrinking Resource Allocation - A scheduler for computing resources may periodically analyze running jobs to determine if additional resources may be allocated to the job to help the job finish quicker and may also check if a minimum amount of resources is available to start a waiting job. A job may consist of many tasks that may be defined with parallel or serial relationships between the tasks. At various points during execution, the resource allocation of active jobs may be adjusted to add or remove resources in response to a priority system. A job may be started with a minimum amount of resources and the resources may be increased and decreased over the life of the job. | 01-22-2009 |
20110302555 | ASSIGNING TYPE PARAMETERS - The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for assigning type parameters. Embodiments of the invention permit using a visual editor to edit arbitrary object instances in a graphical fashion. Instances of generic types can be manipulated to change the type parameters for that generic (to be able to change a List to a List, for instance). Values are preserved and data can be patched to other dependent nodes in an object hierarchy, | 12-08-2011 |
20120227028 | GRAPHICAL PROGRAMMING OBJECT POPULATION USER INTERFACE AUTOGENERATION - Automatically generated user interfaces are provided to aid data population of object instances in graphical programming environments. A selection gesture identifies an instance of an object type. The public fields defined for the instance are automatically determined, and a user interface is automatically generated with the name of each defined field and a currently assigned value for each field that has one. Fields which have no currently assigned value are optionally displayed with a hint. The user interface can be placed in an application under development, such as a sequential workflow application, as a class initializer and/or as an object configurator. When the object to be populated has another object as a field, the fields of that nested object are similarly displayed. Data can be entered into a container object through the user interface without replacing prior value(s) of the container object. | 09-06-2012 |
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20140015713 | Reduced Sampling Low Power GPS - Some implementations provide low power reduced sampling of global positioning system (GPS) locations. A server may be configured to assist a mobile device in determining a location from a plurality of GPS signal samples and corresponding time stamps provided by the mobile device, such as by identifying a set of possible reference locations, which may be used to calculate a location of the mobile device. In another example, the mobile device may sample GPS signals using a GPS receiver, compress the samples, and provide the compressed samples to the server for processing. | 01-16-2014 |
20140244550 | POSTERIOR PROBABILITY PURSUIT FOR ENTITY DISAMBIGUATION - Various technologies described herein pertain to disambiguation of a mention of an ambiguous entity in a document. A set of candidate entities can be retrieved from an entity knowledge base based upon the mention of the ambiguous entity, where each of the candidate entities has a respective entity feature representation. Moreover, a document feature representation can be generated based upon features of the document and the respective entity feature representations of the candidate entities. A processor can be caused to select a subset of features from the document feature representation based upon a measure of how discriminative the features from the document feature representation are for disambiguating the mention of the ambiguous entity. A disambiguated result for the mention of the ambiguous entity can be determined based upon the subset of the features. The disambiguated result can be an unknown entity or one of the candidate entities. | 08-28-2014 |
20150061934 | CLOUD-OFFLOADED GLOBAL SATELLITE POSITIONING - Some implementations provide low power reduced sampling of global positioning system (GPS) locations. A server may be configured to assist a mobile device in determining a location from a plurality of small GPS signal chunks and corresponding time stamps. For instance, the server may identify a set of satellites from each of the GPS signal chunks and by comparing the set of satellites for each of the GPS signal chunks to each other to determine a second set of satellites. The server may then estimate a location of the mobile based on the second set of satellites. | 03-05-2015 |
20150116151 | HIGH-SENSITIVITY GPS DEVICE WITH DIRECTIONAL ANTENNA - The effective use of weak GPS signals that are present in various environments enables an electronic device to pinpoint its location in such environments. The electronic device uses an antenna to perform sequential scanning in multiple directions for global positioning system (GPS) signals. The electronic device further analyzes GPS signals obtained from scanning the multiple directions to determine a number of acquired GPS satellites that provided the GPS signals. The GPS signals include code phases of the acquired GPS satellites. The electronic device then computes a location of the electronic device based on the code phases of the acquired GPS satellites when the number of acquired GPS satellites meets a threshold. | 04-30-2015 |
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20090177730 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING DEVICE LOCATION IN AN IP-BASED WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK - A system and method determines a geographic position of a mobile device in communication with an IP-based wireless telecommunications network. A wireless connection between the mobile device and the IP-based wireless telecommunications network is established when the mobile device registers with a network controller (NC) through an access point (AP). When a geographical position is needed for the mobile device (e.g., a 911 call), messages are exchanged between the NC and the SMLC, where the SMLC retrieves information from a database that is used to identify the geographic position of the mobile device. The database can store a variety of information related to mobile devices such as: last known position, IP address, MAC address, device or subscriber identifier, last CGI, etc. The geographical position is communicated back to the NC, which can then forward the position information to a switch for processing such as for 911 calls. | 07-09-2009 |
20110051658 | TWO STAGE MOBILE DEVICE GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION DETERMINATION - A system and method for mitigating the delay associated with using GPS technologies to determine the location of a mobile device. The system utilizes a two-stage location determination process. During the first stage, an estimated position of the mobile device is immediately provided based on the most accurate stored location information that is available to the system. If greater accuracy is still required, during the second stage a more accurate position of the mobile device is provided using GPS-based technologies. | 03-03-2011 |
20120246074 | Service Enhancements Using Near Field Communication - A near field communication (NFC) mobile device may obtain location information from a NFC terminal device that is communicating with the NFC mobile device. A data transfer link may be established between the NFC mobile device and a mobile telecommunication network. The mobile telecommunication network may prompt the NFC mobile device to obtain location information from the NFC terminal device. The mobile telecommunication network may then receive the location information from the NFC mobile device via the data transfer link, and may subsequently determine a location of the NFC mobile device using the location information. | 09-27-2012 |
20130150085 | TWO STAGE MOBILE DEVICE GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION DETERMINATION - A system and method for mitigating the delay associated with using GPS technologies to determine the location of a mobile device. The system utilizes a two-stage location determination process. During the first stage, an estimated position of the mobile device is immediately provided based on the most accurate stored location information that is available to the system. If greater accuracy is still required, during the second stage a more accurate position of the mobile device is provided using GPS-based technologies. | 06-13-2013 |
20130237250 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING DEVICE LOCATION IN AN IP-BASED WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK - A system and method determines a geographic position of a mobile device in communication with an IP-based wireless telecommunications network. A wireless connection between the mobile device and the IP-based wireless telecommunications network is established when the mobile device registers with a network controller (NC) through an access point (AP). When a geographical position is needed for the mobile device (e.g., a 911 call), messages are exchanged between the NC and the SMLC where the SMLC retrieves information from a database that is used to identify the geographic position of the mobile device. The database can store a variety of information related to mobile devices such as: last known position, IP address, MAC address, device or subscriber identifier, last CGI, etc. The geographical position is communicated back to the NC, which can then forward the position information to a switch for processing such as for 911 calls. | 09-12-2013 |