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| 20110164917 | Apparatus and Related Methods for Applying Caulk, Sealant, Grout, or Similar Compounds. - An apparatus for use when applying a compound from a dispensing tube comprises: a receptacle; a plurality of retaining rings mechanically coupled to the receptacle for attaching the apparatus to the dispensing tube; an application blade secured within the receptacle for contacting the compound being dispensed during application; optionally, a handle mechanically coupled on an opposite side of the receptacle from the plurality of retaining rings; and, optionally, at least one retaining clip for securing at least one of the plurality of retaining rings around a nozzle tip of the dispensing tube. Such apparatus and related methods facilitate initial application of the compound in an evenly distributed and desired topographical manner without requiring subsequent smoothing and/or shaping steps after contact of the compound with a surface to which it is applied. | 07-07-2011 |
| 20110273870 | Method and Apparatus for Directing a Flashlight - A method and apparatus for directing a flashlight is provided. The apparatus comprises: a base; a receptacle mechanically coupled to the base; a clip mechanically coupled to the opposite side of the base capable of securing the apparatus to an article of clothing; and one or more hinges mechanically coupled to the base and receptacle, and optionally one or more straps mechanically coupled to the receptacle for attaching a flashlight to the receptacle. Such apparatus and related methods facilitate directing a flashlight's beam in front of a user while simultaneously securing the flashlight to a user's article of clothing. | 11-10-2011 |
| 20110297720 | Method and Apparatus for Attaching a Personal Electronic Device - A method and apparatus for supporting a personal electronic device are provided. The device incorporates a support frame structure comprised of three legs. A vertical leg is attached to a shoulder strap, while the horizontal legs are attached to a chest strap. A lower joint is located between the two horizontal legs and this lower joint is also attached to an electronic device support leg. The electronic device support leg is attached to the lower joint and also to a ball joint at the end opposite the lower joint. In use, the lower joint allows for the electronic device to be moved into a viewing position at a desired angle. The ball joint allows rotation of the device between portrait and landscape orientations. A case may also be attached to the electronic device support leg to contain the personal electronic device. | 12-08-2011 |
| 20110302693 | Tool Holding Glove - Methods and apparatus for securely holding a tool are provided. The apparatus includes a glove covering a user's palm and fingers. This flap has a piece of adhesive fabric attached. An additional piece of adhesive fabric is placed on the glove over the user's thumb pad. On the back of the user's hand, over the user's fingernails are located additional pieces of adhesive fabric. In use, the user grasps the tool normally and uses the flap and the adhesive fabric pieces to secure the adhesive fabric, forming a secure grip. | 12-15-2011 |
| 20110302808 | Walking Support - Methods and apparatus for walking support are provided. The walking support is comprised of a sole, a toe cover connected to the sole at the front of the sole, and a heel cup connected to the sole at the rear of the sole. The heel cup may have a vertical extension that extends upward to a cuff that wraps around the wearer's lower leg. The walking support may be worn over stockings with conventional shoes or boots, or may be incorporated into the footwear. A boot incorporating a walking support includes a lower leg cuff, which is closed in the same manner as the boot. A shoe incorporating a walking support does not incorporate a lower leg cuff. | 12-15-2011 |
| 20110303710 | Method and Apparatus for a Wrist Attachment for a Personal Electronic Device - A method and apparatus for supporting a personal electronic device on a user's wrist are provided. The device incorporates a wrist strap attached to a base attachment leg. The base attachment leg is also attached to a friction hinge. The friction hinge is in turn attached to an extension arm. The extension arm may be a telescoping arm. The extension arm is also attached to a ball joint, which may be a friction ball joint or a locking ball joint. A case support leg is also attached to the ball joint. A case is attached to the case support leg and may also serve as protection for the electronic device. In use, the friction hinge allows for the electronic device to be moved into a viewing position at a desired angle. The ball joint allows rotation of the device between portrait and landscape orientations. | 12-15-2011 |
| 20110305504 | Ball Joint - A friction ball joint and a method for using the friction ball joint are provided. A clam shell is formed from at least two segments and has a mechanical element extending from one of the clam shell segments. A cap that has a mechanical element extending from the rounded portion of the cap is also provided. This cap covers the joined clam shell segments opposite the mechanical element extending from the clam shell. The clam shell surrounds a spring that pushes the cap against the fixed outer clam shell, creating friction that retains the friction ball joint in the desired position. Further embodiments provide a locking assembly and an external spring or clamp. In these embodiments the spring or clamp is placed over the outside of the ball and clam shell. The ball has holes disposed over its surface to receive a locking assembly to hold the ball joint in the selected position. | 12-15-2011 |
| 20120063840 | Friction Ball Joint - A friction ball joint and a method for using the friction ball joint are provided. A clam shell is formed from at least two segments. The interior of the clam shell segment, where the ball is in contact, is roughened. The clam shell segments may be interlocked to retain a ball. The surface of the ball is roughened. When the friction ball joint is assembled, the rough surfaces of the ball and the clam shell segments are in contact and resist movement. | 03-15-2012 |
| 20120217852 | Platform for an electronic device with a screen - The present invention is a platform for an electronic device such as a tablet computer or personal video player. The platform for an electronic device with a screen preferably comprises a rectangular device case with a landscape position and a portrait position and a lockable entry port lid. The case has a view port for the screen and four attachment blade ports. One blade port is on each side of the device case. The platform has two adjustable support legs with an attachment blade, padded end and a string lock. The attachment blades are insertable into the blade ports and lock with a snap tab into the port. The platform further has a length of string with a sleeve of padding and an adjustment loop attached to each leg. The string can be adjusted so the platform has a deployed mode and a carrying mode. | 08-30-2012 |
| 20120242098 | Tool Holding Grip Assist - The present disclosure relates generally to tools and their use, and, in particular, to an apparatus and method for holding tools securely with a grip assist. A preferred grip assist preferably includes a wristband having a strap and buckle, a first strap attached to the wristband with a hinge. The first strap also has a ring attached to an end of the strap opposite the hinge. Behind the ring on the first strap, is a first segment of a two segment closure system. A second strap is also attached to the wristband with a second hinge. The second strap has a second segment of the two segment closure system attached to an end opposite the wristband. The two segment closure system is closed to form a grip assist position. The second strap can be held open by a secondary two segment closure system to form an open position. | 09-27-2012 |
| 20130214115 | PLATFORM FOR AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A platform for an electronic device with a display screen that includes an electronic device case including a plurality of interconnected sides configured to form a view port configured to allow a user to view the display screen of the electronic device; at least one leg connected to the electronic device case, the leg including a portion extending away from the electronic device, the portion configured to be positioned in between the electronic device and the user and further configured to be adjusted to position the electronic device at a desired distance from the user; and a string connected to the electronic device case and configured to be attached to the user to hang the electronic device case to the user, wherein the position of the leg and the string relative to the user can be adjusted to place the electronic device at a desired position. | 08-22-2013 |
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| 20090063173 | Subject Matter Management System 'SMMS' - An subject matter management system includes InFoDoc records adapted to be formed in a multitude of formats; a InFoDoc file to accept the InFoDoc records, Followup messages based on an InFoDoc record to be stored in a Followup file and a hierarchical system of access control to manage the integrity of the records. | 03-05-2009 |
| 20120291256 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DORSALLY CARRYING A DEVICE - Systems and methods for carrying an electronic device on a hand includes a base plate; a palm strap coupled to the base plate to secure the base plate to the hand; and a moveable plate coupled to the base plate through at least a horizontal hinge and a vertical hinge to position the mobile device in a horizontal landscape mode or a vertical portrait mode. | 11-22-2012 |
| 20130240578 | WRIST-BASED SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO CARRY MOBILE DEVICE(S) - Systems and methods are disclosed to conveniently carry a mobile device, among others, on a wrist brace. The system includes a case to enclose the mobile device and a system to wear the apparatus on a wrist. The systems comprised of the case; a case tether coupled to the case; a base to couple with a wristband tether which in turn coupled to a wrist brace, a finger ring to loop around a finger and a case lock to secure the case in a closed position. Also presented, a method to carry and use the device while tether to a wrist. | 09-19-2013 |
| 20130240579 | WRIST-BASED SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO CARRY MOBILE DEVICE(S) - Systems and methods are disclosed to conveniently carry a mobile device, among others, on a wrist brace. The systems include a case to enclose the mobile device and a system to wear the apparatus on a wrist. The systems comprised of the case; a case tether coupled to the case; a wristband tether coupled to a wrist brace; an finger ring to loop around a finger and an case lock to secure the case in a closed position. Also presented, a method to carry and use the device while tethered to a wrist. | 09-19-2013 |
| 20130240580 | WRIST-BASED SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO CARRY MOBILE DEVICE(S) - Systems and methods are disclosed to conveniently carry a mobile device, among others, on a wrist brace. The systems include a case to enclose the mobile device and a system to wear the apparatus on a wrist. The systems comprised of the case; a case tether coupled to the case, a base with a case lock; a wristband tether coupled to a wrist brace, a flexible finger ring to loop around a finger. The flexible case lock secures the case in a closed position. Also presented, a method to carry and use the device while tether to a wrist. | 09-19-2013 |
| 20140091116 | HAND-BASED SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO CARRY MOBILE DEVICE(S) - Systems and methods are disclosed to conveniently carry a mobile device, among others, on a hand brace. The systems include a case to enclose the mobile device and a system to wear the apparatus on a hand. The systems comprise of a case; a case tether coupled to the case; a hand brace shaft coupled to a hand brace and a case lock to secure the case in a closed position. Also presented, a method to carry and use the device while tethered to a hand. | 04-03-2014 |
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| 20090146085 | Compact high-power pulsed terahertz source - A sub-mm wave source based on Cherenkov resonant radiation of a microbunched electron beam radiating coherently in a dielectric-loaded pipe. The microbunched electron beam is produced in a pulse photoinjector by illuminating a metal photocathode with sub-ps or multi-ps intensity-modulated laser beam with a beat wave or multiplexing at terahertz frequencies, the photoelectrons generated at the photocathode being accelerated by an electric field and sub-wavelength focused by magnetic field to propagate through a resonant radiator comprising a corrugated wall or smooth-wall metal capillary pipe internally coated with dielectric and attached to an antenna. | 06-11-2009 |
| 20110215717 | High voltage switch triggered by a laser-photocathode subsystem - A spark gap switch for controlling the output of a high voltage pulse from a high voltage source, for example, a capacitor bank or a pulse forming network, to an external load such as a high gradient electron gun, laser, pulsed power accelerator or wide band radar. The combination of a UV laser and a high vacuum quartz cell, in which a photocathode and an anode are installed, is utilized as triggering devices to switch the spark gap from a non-conducting state to a conducting state with low delay and low jitter. | 09-08-2011 |
| 20110215791 | Compensation schemes for the voltage droop of solid-state Marx modulators - A novel design scheme for the compensation circuitry of solid-state Marx modulators has been described for enhancing the compensation ability of the compensation cells of the Marx modulators and simplifying the entire circuitry. High-speed solid-state switches are adopted in the compensation circuitry for the control of the compensation actions. Inductive components and diodes are used in the design scheme to smooth voltage curve. | 09-08-2011 |
| 20120229053 | Ultra-high vacuum photoelectron linear accelerator - A photoelectron linear accelerator for producing a low emittance polarized electron beam. The linear accelerator includes a tube having a cylindrical wall, said wall being perforated to allow gas to flow to a pressure chamber containing ultra high vacuum pumps located outside the accelerator. The RF accelerator cavity comprises of two concentric cylindrical regions having different outside diameters and different lengths. | 09-13-2012 |
| 20120326528 | Compenstation scheme for the voltage droop of solid-state marx modulators - A novel design scheme for the compensation circuitry of solid-state Marx modulators has been described for enhancing the compensation ability of the compensation cells of solid-state Marx modulators and simplifying the entire circuitry of the modulator. High-speed solid-state switches are adopted in the new compensation cell for the control of the compensation actions. Inductive components and diodes are adopted in the design scheme to smooth the flattop of the voltage pulse output by the Marx modulator. | 12-27-2012 |
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| 20100150174 | Stateless Fibre Channel Sequence Acceleration for Fibre Channel Traffic Over Ethernet - A method for offloading Fibre Channel transmit data in an I/O operation. The transmit data includes Fibre Channel sequences, each Fibre Channel sequence includes multiple frames. The method includes generating a single transmit sequence request descriptor for transmitting all of the plurality of frames; creating an Ethernet header, a FCoE encapsulation header, and a Fibre Channel header for each frame in response to information in the transmit sequence request descriptor; creating start of frame and end of frame delimiters; inserting data into each frame; computing Fibre Channel CRC and Ethernet FCS for each frame; and transmitting the plurality of frames over a network. In each of the plurality of frames, the Ethernet header precedes the FCoE encapsulation header, which precedes the Fibre Channel header, which precedes the data. The data is followed by the Fibre Channel CRC, which is followed by the Ethernet FCS. | 06-17-2010 |
| 20150085661 | Stateless Fibre Channel Sequence Acceleration for Fibre Channel Traffic Over Ethernet - A method for offloading Fibre Channel transmit data in an I/O operation. The transmit data includes Fibre Channel sequences, each Fibre Channel sequence includes multiple frames. The method includes generating a single transmit sequence request descriptor for transmitting all of the plurality of frames; creating an Ethernet header, a FCoE encapsulation header, and a Fibre Channel header for each frame in response to information in the transmit sequence request descriptor; creating start of frame and end of frame delimiters; inserting data into each frame; computing Fibre Channel CRC and Ethernet FCS for each frame; and transmitting the plurality of frames over a network. In each of the plurality of frames, the Ethernet header precedes the FCoE encapsulation header, which precedes the Fibre Channel header, which precedes the data The data is followed by the Fibre Channel CRC, which is followed by the Ethernet FCS. | 03-26-2015 |
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| 20110159211 | SHADOW RING FOR MODIFYING WAFER EDGE AND BEVEL DEPOSITION - Embodiments of the invention contemplate a shadow ring that provides increased or decreased and more uniform deposition on the edge of a wafer. By removing material from the top and/or bottom surfaces of the shadow ring, increased edge deposition and bevel coverage can be realized. In one embodiment, the material on the bottom surface is reduced by providing a recessed slot on the bottom surface. By increasing the amount of material of the shadow ring, the edge deposition and bevel coverage is reduced. Another approach to adjusting the deposition at the edge of the wafer includes increasing or decreasing the inner diameter of the shadow ring. The material forming the shadow ring may also be varied to change the amount of deposition at the edge of the wafer. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20120015521 | AMORPHOUS CARBON DEPOSITION METHOD FOR IMPROVED STACK DEFECTIVITY - Embodiments described herein relate to materials and processes for patterning and etching features in a semiconductor substrate. In one embodiment, a method of forming a composite amorphous carbon layer for improved stack defectivity on a substrate is provided. The method comprises positioning a substrate in a process chamber, introducing a hydrocarbon source gas into the process chamber, introducing a diluent source gas into the process chamber, introducing a plasma-initiating gas into the process chamber, generating a plasma in the process chamber, forming an amorphous carbon initiation layer on the substrate, wherein the hydrocarbon source gas has a volumetric flow rate to diluent source gas flow rate ratio of 1:12 or less; and forming a bulk amorphous carbon layer on the amorphous carbon initiation layer, wherein a hydrocarbon source gas used to form the bulk amorphous carbon layer has a volumetric flow rate to a diluent source gas flow rate of 1:6 or greater to form the composite amorphous carbon layer. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120208374 | AMORPHOUS CARBON DEPOSITION METHOD FOR IMPROVED STACK DEFECTIVITY - Embodiments described herein relate to materials and processes for patterning and etching features in a semiconductor substrate. In one embodiment, a method of forming a composite amorphous carbon layer is provided. The method comprises positioning a substrate in a process chamber, introducing a hydrocarbon source gas into the process chamber, introducing a diluent source gas into the process chamber, introducing a plasma-initiating gas into the process chamber, generating a plasma in the process chamber, forming an amorphous carbon initiation layer on the substrate, wherein the hydrocarbon source gas has a volumetric flow rate to diluent source gas flow rate ratio of 1:12 or less, and forming a bulk amorphous carbon layer on the amorphous carbon initiation layer, wherein a hydrocarbon source gas used to form the bulk amorphous carbon layer has a volumetric flow rate to a diluent source gas flow rate of 1:6 or greater. | 08-16-2012 |
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| 20080277695 | MOSFET Having a JFET Embedded as a Body Diode - A field effect transistor, in accordance with one embodiment, includes a metal-oxide-semiconductor field effect transistor (MOSFET) having a junction field effect transistor (JFET) embedded as a body diode. | 11-13-2008 |
| 20100090775 | Method and Apparatus for Dynamic Modulation - Circuits and methods of dynamic modulation are disclosed. A dynamic modulator is used to reduce measurable conducted and/or radiated electromagnetic interference (EMI). The dynamic modulator is configured to generate either a set of optimal frequency modulation depths or discrete frequencies or both, and dynamically selects them to use over a series of programmable time durations (dwell time). Together with the utilization of Peak, Average or Quasi-Peak (QP) method of measurement, the dynamic modulator can reduce the spectral amplitude of EMI components, in particular the lower harmonics, to effectively pass regulatory requirements. In alternative embodiments, the dynamic modulator is used in a closed loop system to continuously adjust the frequency and the duty cycle of a PWM signal to reduce conducted and/or radiated EMI. | 04-15-2010 |
| 20100109550 | LED Dimming Techniques Using Spread Spectrum Modulation - Circuits and methods of LED dimming are disclosed. Frequency modulation using controlled modulation depth generates deterministic sidebands of both the fundamental frequency and its harmonics. Various filters including low-pass, band-pass, high-pass and combinations of those are used to selectively filter the deterministic frequency components generated by the frequency modulation to achieve LED dimming. | 05-06-2010 |
| 20100283082 | Bipolar Transistor with Depleted Emitter - This invention discloses a novel apparatus of fully depleted emitter so that the built-in potential between emitter and the base becomes lower and the charge storage between the emitter and base becomes small. This concept also applies to the diodes or rectifiers. With depleted junction, this results in very fast switching of the diodes and transistors. Another novel structure utilizes the strip base structure to achieve lower on resistance of the bipolar transistor. The emitter region of the strip base can be a normal emitter or depleted emitter. | 11-11-2010 |
| 20110076840 | Method of Manufacturing a Fast Recovery Rectifier - A fast recovery rectifier structure with the combination of Schottky structure to relieve the minority carriers during the forward bias condition for the further reduction of the reverse recovery time during switching in addition to the lifetime killer such as Pt, Au, and/or irradiation. This fast recovery rectifier uses unpolished substrates and thick impurity diffusion for low cost production. A reduced p-n junction structure with a heavily doped film is provided to terminate and shorten the p-n junction space charge region. This reduced p-n junction with less total charge in the p-n junction to further improve the reverse recovery time. This reduced p-n junction can be used alone, with the traditional lifetime killer method, with the Schottky structure and/or with the epitaxial substrate. | 03-31-2011 |
| 20110298016 | MOSFET having a JFET embedded as a body diode - A field effect transistor, in accordance with one embodiment, includes a metal-oxide-semiconductor field effect transistor (MOSFET) having a junction field effect transistor (JFET) embedded as a body diode. | 12-08-2011 |
| 20120104456 | Fast Recovery Reduced P-N Junction Rectifier - A fast recovery rectifier structure with the combination of Schottky structure to relieve the minority carriers during the forward bias condition for the further reduction of the reverse recovery time during switching in addition to the lifetime killer such as Pt, Au, and/or irradiation. This fast recovery rectifier uses unpolished substrates and thick impurity diffusion for low cost production. A reduced p-n junction structure with a heavily p-type doped thin film is provided to terminate and shorten the p-n junction space charge region. This reduced p-n junction with less total charge in the p-n junction to further improve the reverse recovery time. This reduced p-n junction can be used alone, with the traditional lifetime killer method, with the Schottky structure and/or with the epitaxial substrate. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20130228912 | Apparatus for Chip Thermal Stress Relief - Various stress relief structures are provided for effectively reducing thermal stress on a semiconductor chip in a chip package. Trenches on a metal substrate are created in groups in two-dimension, where each trench is opened from top or bottom surface of the metal substrate and in various shapes. The metal substrate is partitioned into many smaller substrates depending on the number of trench groups and partitions, and is attached to a semiconductor chip for stress relief. In an alternative embodiment, a plurality of cylindrical metal structures are used together with a metal substrate in a chip package for the purpose of heat removal and thermal stress relief on a semiconductor chip. In another alternative embodiment, a metal foam is used together with a semiconductor chip to create a chip package. In another alternative embodiment, a semiconductor chip is sandwiched between a heat sink and a circuit board by solder bumps directly with underfill on the circuit board. | 09-05-2013 |
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| 20110140696 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR QUANTITATIVE SPECIES SIGNAL SEPARATION USING MR IMAGING - A system and method for quantitative species signal separation in MR imaging is disclosed. An MR imaging apparatus includes an MRI system and a computer programmed to cause the MRI system to apply a pulse sequence and acquire multi-echo source data for the pulse sequence that includes a phase component and a magnitude component. The computer is further programmed to determine a first estimate of a first species content and a first estimate of a second species content based on the multi-echo source data, and determine a second estimate of the first species content and a second estimate of the second species content based on the multi-echo source data. | 06-16-2011 |
| 20110254547 | METHOD FOR SEPARATING MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING SIGNALS USING SPECTRAL DISTINCTION OF SPECIES - A method for producing an image of a subject with a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system in which a signal contribution of a chemical species is depicted and a signal contribution of another chemical species is substantially separated is provided. For example, the provided method is applicable for water-fat separation. Spectral differences between at least two different chemical species are exploited to produce a weighting map that depicts the likelihood that one chemical species being depicted as another. A weighting map that characterizes the smoothness of a field map variation is also produced. These weighting maps are utilized to produce a correct field map estimate, such that a robust separation of the signal contributions of the at least two chemical species can be performed. | 10-20-2011 |
| 20120176131 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FAT SUPPRESSION IN CHEMICAL SHIFT BASED WATER-FAT SEPARATED MR IMAGING - An apparatus and method for separating the NMR signal contributions from a plurality of different species having different chemical shifts is disclosed. The apparatus acquires MR image data sets including a first species signal and a second species signal, generates a first species image from the acquired MR image data, and generates a second species image from the acquired MR image data. The apparatus also identifies voxels in the second species image representative of only the second species and, for voxels identified as being representative of only the second species, calculates a fraction of the second species signal appearing in the first species image. The apparatus generates a modified first species image based on the fraction of the second species signal appearing in the first species image, with the modified first species image having a different fraction of the second species as compared to the first species image. | 07-12-2012 |
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| 20080231486 | Method and system for increasing resolution and accuracy of an analog to digital converter - According to one embodiment, a method for increasing resolution and accuracy of an analog to digital converter receiving an input voltage includes dithering a number of digital output values from the analog to digital converter to generate a number of dithered values. The analog to digital converter can be an 8-bit analog to digital converter, for example. The dithered values are then averaged to generate an average dithered value. For example, the dithered values can be averaged using a moving average technique. The average dithered value is then scaled down to generate a scaled value. Thereafter, the scaled value is mapped to a, for example, 10-bit digital output having higher resolution and higher accuracy than the raw 8-bit output of the analog to digital converter. In this example, the resolution of the analog to digital converter is increased by a factor of four. | 09-25-2008 |
| 20090109074 | Increased resolution analog to digital converter - According to one embodiment, a method for increasing resolution and accuracy of an analog to digital converter receiving an input voltage includes dithering a number of digital output values from the analog to digital converter to generate a number of dithered values. The analog to digital converter can be an 8-bit analog to digital converter, for example. The dithered values are then averaged to generate an average dithered value. For example, the dithered values can be averaged using a moving average technique. The average dithered value is then scaled down to generate a scaled value. Thereafter, the scaled value is mapped to a, for example, 10-bit digital output having higher resolution and higher accuracy than the raw 8-bit output of the analog to digital converter. In this example, the resolution of the analog to digital converter is increased by a factor of four. | 04-30-2009 |
| 20100138175 | Method for accurate battery run time estimation utilizing load-condition voltage - One disclosed embodiment is a method for accurately estimating a run time of a battery utilized by an electronic device. The method comprises determining a starting battery capacity utilizing an open-circuit voltage of the battery, determining a battery capacity decline rate utilizing a load-condition voltage of the battery, and determining a low-voltage-alarm battery capacity during an active operation of the electronic device. The method further comprises utilizing the starting battery capacity, the battery capacity decline rate, and the low-voltage-alarm battery capacity to estimate the run time of the battery. The run time estimate is determined, in one embodiment, by dividing the difference of the starting battery capacity and the low-voltage-alarm battery capacity by the battery capacity decline rate. One embodiment utilizes an open-circuit voltage lookup table, a load-condition voltage lookup table, and a low-voltage-alarm lookup table that are configured for use with a certain type of battery. | 06-03-2010 |
| 20100138177 | Method for accurate battery run time estimation utilizing adaptive offset values - A disclosed method comprises adaptive offset values in an open-circuit voltage lookup table, a temperature lookup table, and an age lookup table, and then determining a present charge of the battery utilizing an open-circuit voltage of the battery and a temperature of the battery, determining a low-voltage-alarm charge of the battery utilizing a discharge current of the battery and an age of the battery, and utilizing the present charge and the low-voltage-alarm charge to estimate the run time of the battery. Utilizing the open-circuit voltage, temperature, and age comprises looking up a present battery capacity, temperature coefficient, and ageing coefficient in lookup tables, and adjusting the present battery capacity, temperature coefficient, and ageing coefficient by the respective offset values adaptive to the battery. Estimating the run time of the battery comprises, in one embodiment, dividing the difference of the present charge and the low-voltage-alarm charge by the discharge current. | 06-03-2010 |
| 20110105061 | Apparatus and method for accurate and efficient transmit power control - A technique to provide accurate and efficient transmit power control by providing offset values to modify a base input gain value for a gain control circuit used to set a transmit power gain in a mobile phone. The modified gain value compensates for a ripple offset and power level offset caused by a difference in operating temperature and operating frequency from values obtained during calibration at a calibration frequency and temperature. | 05-05-2011 |
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| 20100308463 | INTERFACIAL CAPPING LAYERS FOR INTERCONNECTS - Adhesive layers residing at an interface between metal lines and dielectric diffusion barrier (or etch stop) layers are used to improve electromigration performance of interconnects. Adhesion layers are formed by depositing a precursor layer of metal-containing material (e.g., material containing Al, Ti, Ca, Mg, etc.) over an exposed copper line, and converting the precursor layer to a passivated layer (e.g., nitridized layer). For example, a substrate containing exposed copper line having exposed Cu—O bonds is contacted with trimethylaluminum to form a precursor layer having Al—O bonds and Al—C bonds on copper surface. The precursor layer is then treated to remove residual organic substituents and to form Al—N, Al—H bonds or both. The treatment can include direct plasma treatment, remote plasma treatment, UV-treatment, and thermal treatment with a gas such as NH | 12-09-2010 |
| 20130143401 | METAL AND SILICON CONTAINING CAPPING LAYERS FOR INTERCONNECTS - Disclosed methods cap exposed surfaces of copper lines with a layer of metal or metal-containing compound combined with silicon. In some cases, the metal or metal-containing compound forms an atomic layer. In certain embodiments, the methods involve exposing the copper surface first to a metal containing precursor to form an atomic layer of adsorbed precursor or metal atoms, which may optionally be converted to an oxide, nitride, carbide, or the like by, e.g., a pinning treatment. Subsequent exposure to a silicon-containing precursor may proceed with or without metallic atoms being converted. | 06-06-2013 |
| 20140216336 | METAL AND SILICON CONTAINING CAPPING LAYERS FOR INTERCONNECTS - Disclosed methods cap exposed surfaces of copper lines with a layer of metal or metal-containing compound combined with silicon. In some cases, the metal or metal-containing compound forms an atomic layer. In certain embodiments, the methods involve exposing the copper surface first to a metal containing precursor to form an atomic layer of adsorbed precursor or metal atoms, which may optionally be converted to an oxide, nitride, carbide, or the like by, e.g., a pinning treatment. Subsequent exposure to a silicon-containing precursor may proceed with or without metallic atoms being converted. | 08-07-2014 |
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| 20110136493 | METHODS FOR GEOGRAPHIC OPTIMIZATION OF CELLULAR TELEPHONE TRANSMIT POWER SETTINGS - Portable user devices are provided that communicate wirelessly with base stations. A user device may include a transceiver, a power amplifier, a voltage supply, and a global positioning system (GPS) unit. The device may transmit signals at a certain transmit power to a neighboring base station. The device may log the time spent transmitting at each power level. Each data point may be tagged with the current location of the device. The logs of each device may be aggregated by a power optimization server. The power optimization server may calculate optimum power settings for each region and for each type of device. A region may be any desirable size ranging from the size of a single cell to an entire continent. Device users may download updated optimum settings. A device may automatically detect and select the optimum transmit power setting during operation depending on its current location. | 06-09-2011 |
| 20110151860 | CELLULAR TELEPHONES WITH CONFIGURABLE MULTIPLEXER CIRCUITRY AND LOCAL BUS POWER FOR FIELD TESTING - A field testing system is provided that uses a personal computer tethered to an interface board. A cellular telephone plugs into the interface board during wireless field testing. The cellular telephone may include configurable multiplexer circuitry and power supply circuitry. During normal operation, the cellular telephone is configured so that its application processor is linked to its application processor and to an external bus. During field testing, the cellular telephone is configured to link the baseband unit to the external bus and the interface board. The baseband unit may support advanced communications busses (e.g., USB). To avoid consuming too many pins in the external bus between the interface board and the cellular telephone, power for the USB bus during field testing may be derived from a power management unit in the cellular telephone. | 06-23-2011 |
| 20130045744 | METHOD FOR OPTIMIZING POWER CONSUMPTION IN WIRELESS DEVICES USING DATA RATE EFFICIENCY FACTOR - An electronic device has wireless communications circuitry that supports communications using multiple radio access technologies. The electronic device may gather information such as data rate values, power consumption values, and other data for a currently active radio access technology and an alternative radio access technology. The electronic device may automatically switch between the currently active radio access technology and the alternative radio access technology based on a value of a data rate efficiency metric. The data rate efficiency metric may represent how efficiently each radio access technology is capable of using power to convey a given amount of data per unit time. The data rate efficiency metric may be evaluated using measured power consumption data, measured data rate values, and operating parameters such as signal strength and transmitted power parameters. | 02-21-2013 |
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| 20080275849 | Method and apparatus for targeting messages to users in a social network - A method and apparatus for targeting messages to users in a social network, for example by first identifying topics in the social network is provided. One embodiment of a method for discovering topics in a social network includes collecting information from the social network, the information including at least one of: interactions between users of the social network or profile information for the users, determining a global topic model including at least one topic, based on the collected information, and locally refining the global topic model in accordance with the collected information. | 11-06-2008 |
| 20090265321 | INTERNET BOOK MARKING AND SEARCH RESULTS DELIVERY - A method of enhancing search results provided over the Internet may include providing a service over the Internet to members of a group of service users, the service resulting in multiple selections of each of a plurality of web pages by different members of the group, maintaining a first database of web pages selected by members of the group, maintaining a first index of web pages from the first database excluding identification of members of the group, maintaining a global index of web pages, searching the first index and the global index in response to a query string provided by a search engine user and providing a search results set to the search engine user including search results from both the first index and the global index. | 10-22-2009 |
| 20130297714 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TARGETING MESSAGES TO USERS IN A SOCIAL NETWORK - A method and apparatus for targeting messages to users in a social network, for example by first identifying topics in the social network is provided. One embodiment of a method for discovering topics in a social network includes collecting information from the social network, the information including at least one of: interactions between users of the social network or profile information for the users, determining a global topic model including at least one topic, based on the collected information, and locally refining the global topic model in accordance with the collected information. | 11-07-2013 |
| 20140129590 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING MESSAGES IN A SOCIAL NETWORK - In one embodiment, the present invention is a method and apparatus for knowledge generation and deployment in a distributed network. In one embodiment, a method for processing messages in a social network includes receiving a new message from a first node in the network, the new message including a query, providing the first node with an answer to the query, if the answer is located in a repository, and initiating generation of the answer, if the answer is not located in the repository. | 05-08-2014 |
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| 20100136042 | GLOBO H AND RELATED ANTI-CANCER VACCINES WITH NOVEL GLYCOLIPID ADJUVANTS - Immunogenic compositions, cancer vaccines and methods for treating cancer are provided. Compositions comprising: (a) a glycan such as Globo H or an immunogenic fragment thereof, wherein the glycan is conjugated with a carrier protein by a linker such as para-nitrophenyl; and (b) an adjuvant comprising glycolipid capable of binding CD1d on a dendritic cell, such as an α-galactosyl-ceramide derivative, wherein the immunogenic composition induces an immune response that induces a higher relative level of IgG isotype antibodies as compared to IgM isotype antibodies, are provided. Immunogenic compositions comprising the carrier protein diphtheria toxin cross-reacting material 197 (DT-CRM197) and the adjuvant C34 are provided. Antibodies generated by immunogenic compositions disclosed herein further neutralize at least one of the antigens Globo H, stage-specific embryonic antigen-3 (SSEA-3) and stage-specific embryonic antigen-4 (SSEA-4). Therapeutics against breast cancer stem cells comprising immunogenic compositions comprising Globo H, SSEA-3 or SSEA-4 conjugated with DT-CRM197. | 06-03-2010 |
| 20130202678 | PUF-A AND RELATED COMPOUNDS FOR TREATMENT OF RETINOPATHIES AND SIGHT-THREATENING OPHTHALMOLOGIC DISORDERS - Methods and compositions for treating retinal diseases comprising therapeutic amounts of a compound selected from a normal Puf-A gene product, an active polypeptide fragment thereof, an analog thereof or a peptidomimetic thereof. Vectors, including AAV vectors comprising the therapeutic compound are provided. Puf-A compositions suitable for subretinal, intravitreal, topical, subconjunctival, retrobulbar, periocular, suprachoroidal, or intraocular administration are provided. Methods for screening siRNA, RNAi and shRNA, small molecules and monoclonal antibodies that inhibit Puf-A target activity and reduce apoptosis are provided. | 08-08-2013 |
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| 20100157400 | Holographic Substrate-Guided Wave-Based See-Through Display - A holographic substrate-guided wave-based see-through display can has a microdisplay, capable of emitting light in the form of an image. The microdisplay directs its output to a holographic lens, capable of accepting the light in the form of an image from the microdisplay, and capable of transmitting the accepted light in the form of an image. The holographic lens couples its output to an elongate transparent substrate, capable of accepting the light in the form of an image from the holographic lens at a first location, and transmitting the light in the form of an image along a length of the substrate by total internal reflection to a second location spaced from the first location, the elongate substrate being capable of transmitting the accepted light in the form of an image at the second location. The substrate couples out what it receives to a transparent holographic grating, capable of accepting the light transmitted from the elongate substrate and transmitting it to a location outside of the holographic grating as a viewable image. | 06-24-2010 |
| 20120170090 | Apparatus and method for collimating diffused light using a compound holographic optical element - A collimator can be made of a compound holographic optical element made of three holographic optical elements. The first reflection holographic optical element will have recorded within it continuous lens configured to receive light from a diffuse light beam and diffract the received light as a first collimated light beam. The second reflection holographic optical element will have recorded within it a regular hologram that is configured to permit the light from the diffuse light source to transmit through it to reach the first reflection holographic element, the second reflection holographic element having within it a second holographically reflective structure configured to receive the first collimated light beam and diffract the first collimated light beam as a second collimated light beam. The third transmission holographic optical element is configured to receive the second collimated light beam and diffract it as a third holographic light beam. | 07-05-2012 |
| 20120188791 | SUBSTRATE-GUIDED HOLOGRAPHIC DIFFUSER - A substrate-guided holographic diffuser has a light-guide section configured to in-couple light and transmit the light within itself via total internal reflection. It can also have a brightness enhancement section that recycles non-diffracted light within the light-guide section. A hologram section that receives light from the light-guide section has a holographic structure defining acceptance conditions and is positioned relative to the internally reflected light such that the internally reflected light meets the acceptance conditions of the holographic structure. The internally reflected light is out-coupled by the holographic structure as a projected image of light scattered from a diffuser. | 07-26-2012 |
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| 20110053999 | 4-METHYLPYRAZOLE FORMULATIONS FOR INHIBITING ETHANOL INTOLERANCE - Provided herein are methods, compositions and formulations to prevent or ameliorate ethanol intolerance, reduce or ameliorate symptoms associated with acetaldehyde accumulation accompanying ethanol consumption, or reduce the risk of diseases or disorders caused by acetaldehyde accumulation, comprising administering 4-MP, or physiologically acceptable salts thereof, to subjects with reduced or absent aldehyde dehydrogenase subtype 2 (ALDH2) activity. | 03-03-2011 |
| 20120252857 | GENOTYPE SPECIFIC METHODS FOR TREATING HUMAN SUBJECTS USING 4-METHYLPYRAZOLE - Provided herein are methods of administering 4-methylpyrazole (4-MP), or physiologically acceptable salts thereof, to subjects of genetic subpopulations expressing specific polymorphisms of the alcohol dehydrogenase and aldehyde dehydrogenase genes. Also provided herein are methods to prevent or ameliorate ethanol intolerance, reduce or ameliorate symptoms associated with acetaldehyde accumulation accompanying ethanol consumption, or reduce the risk of diseases or disorders caused by consumption of ethanol, comprising administering 4-MP, or physiologically acceptable salts thereof, to subjects of these subpopulations. | 10-04-2012 |
| 20120322843 | GENOTYPE SPECIFIC METHODS FOR TREATING HUMAN SUBJECTS USING 4-METHYLPYRAZOLE - Provided herein are methods of administering 4-methylpyrazole (4-MP), or physiologically acceptable salts thereof, to subjects of genetic subpopulations expressing specific polymorphisms of the alcohol dehydrogenase and aldehyde dehydrogenase genes. Also provided herein are methods to prevent or ameliorate ethanol intolerance, reduce or ameliorate symptoms associated with acetaldehyde accumulation accompanying ethanol consumption, or reduce the risk of diseases or disorders caused by consumption of ethanol, comprising administering 4-MP, or physiologically acceptable salts thereof, to subjects of these subpopulations. | 12-20-2012 |
| 20130150419 | 4-METHYLPYRAZOLE FORMULATIONS FOR INHIBITING ETHANOL INTOLERANCE - Provided herein are methods, compositions and formulations to prevent or ameliorate ethanol intolerance, reduce or ameliorate symptoms associated with acetaldehyde accumulation accompanying ethanol consumption, or reduce the risk of diseases or disorders caused by acetaldehyde accumulation, comprising administering 4-MP, or physiologically acceptable salts thereof, to subjects with reduced or absent aldehyde dehydrogenase subtype 2 (ALDH2) activity. | 06-13-2013 |
| 20140057941 | Methods For Increasing Mean Corpuscular Volume - The invention relates to methods and compounds useful for treating deficiencies in hemoglobin production. Methods and compounds useful for increasing mean corpuscular volume are provided. Methods and compounds for treating microcytosis and methods and compounds for treating microcytic anemia are also provided. | 02-27-2014 |
| 20140155450 | 4-Methylpyrazole Formulations for Inhibiting Ethanol Intolerance - Provided herein are methods, compositions and formulations to prevent or ameliorate ethanol intolerance, reduce or ameliorate symptoms associated with acetaldehyde accumulation accompanying ethanol consumption, or reduce the risk of diseases or disorders caused by acetaldehyde accumulation, comprising administering 4-MP, or physiologically acceptable salts thereof, to subjects with reduced or absent aldehyde dehydrogenase subtype 2 (ALDH2) activity. | 06-05-2014 |
| 20140171465 | Methods For Increasing Reticulocyte Hemoglobin Content - The invention relates to methods and compounds useful for treating deficiencies in hemoglobin production. Methods and compounds useful for increasing reticulocyte hemoglobin content are provided. | 06-19-2014 |
| 20140309256 | Therapeutic Method - The present invention provides a method of treatment for anemia, or of increasing the hemoglobin level, in a subject without significantly increasing the platelet count during the course of treatment, by administering a compound that inhibits HIF prolyl hydroxylase. | 10-16-2014 |
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| 20080314447 | Single P-N Junction Tandem Photovoltaic Device - A single P-N junction solar cell is provided having two depletion regions for charge separation while allowing the electrons and holes to recombine such that the voltages associated with both depletion regions of the solar cell will add together. The single p-n junction solar cell includes an alloy of either InGaN or InAlN formed on one side of the P-N junction with Si formed on the other side in order to produce characteristics of a two junction (2J) tandem solar cell through only a single P-N junction. A single P-N junction solar cell having tandem solar cell characteristics will achieve power conversion efficiencies exceeding 30%. | 12-25-2008 |
| 20090173373 | Group III-Nitride Solar Cell with Graded Compositions - A compositionally graded Group III-nitride alloy is provided for use in a solar cell. In one or more embodiment, an alloy of either InGaN or InAlN formed in which the In composition is graded between two areas of the alloy. The compositionally graded Group III-nitride alloy can be utilized in a variety of types of solar cell configurations, including a single P-N junction solar cell having tandem solar cell characteristics, a multijunction tandem solar cell, a tandem solar cell having a low resistance tunnel junction and other solar cell configurations. The compositionally graded Group III-nitride alloy possesses direct band gaps having a very large tuning range, for example extending from about 0.7 to 3.4 eV for InGaN and from about 0.7 to 6.2 eV for InAlN. | 07-09-2009 |
| 20100095998 | LOW RESISTANCE TUNNEL JUNCTIONS FOR HIGH EFFICIENCY TANDEN SOLAR CELLS - A semiconductor structure comprises a first photovoltaic cell comprising a first material, and a second photovoltaic cell comprising a second material and connected in series to the first photovoltaic cell. The conduction band edge of the first material adjacent the second material is at most 0.1 eV higher than a valence band edge of the second material adjacent the material. Preferably, the first material of the first photovoltaic cell comprises ln].χAlχN or lnt_yGayN and the second material of the second photovoltaic cell comprises silicon or germanium. Alternatively, the first material of the first photovoltaic cell comprises InAs or InAsSb and the second material of the second photovoltaic cell comprises GaSb or GaAsSb. | 04-22-2010 |
| 20100175751 | Dilute Group III-V Nitride Intermediate Band Solar Cells with Contact Blocking Layers - An intermediate band solar cell (IBSC) is provided including a p-n junction based on dilute III-V nitride materials and a pair of contact blocking layers positioned on opposite surfaces of the p-n junction for electrically isolating the intermediate band of the p-n junction by blocking the charge transport in the intermediate band without affecting the electron and hole collection efficiency of the p-n junction, thereby increasing open circuit voltage (V | 07-15-2010 |
| 20120031491 | Single P-N Junction Tandem Photovoltaic Device - A single P-N junction solar cell is provided having two depletion regions for charge separation while allowing the electrons and holes to recombine such that the voltages associated with both depletion regions of the solar cell will add together. The single p-n junction solar cell includes an alloy of either InGaN or InAlN formed on one side of the P-N junction with Si formed on the other side in order to produce characteristics of a two junction (2J) tandem solar cell through only a single P-N junction. A single P-N junction solar cell having tandem solar cell characteristics will achieve power conversion efficiencies exceeding 30%. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120273037 | DILUTE GROUP III-V NITRIDE INTERMEDIATE BAND SOLAR CELLS WITH CONTACT BLOCKING LAYERS - An intermediate band solar cell (IBSC) is provided including a p-n junction based on dilute III-V nitride materials and a pair of contact blocking layers positioned on opposite surfaces of the p-n junction for electrically isolating the intermediate band of the p-n junction by blocking the charge transport in the intermediate band without affecting the electron and hole collection efficiency of the p-n junction, thereby increasing open circuit voltage (V | 11-01-2012 |
| 20130126892 | P-Type Amorphous GaNAs Alloy as Low Resistant Ohmic Contact to P-Type Group III-Nitride Semiconductors - A new composition of matter is described, amorphous GaN | 05-23-2013 |
| 20140261690 | INTERMEDIATE BAND SOLAR CELLS WITH DILUTE GROUP III-V NITRIDES - A single junction solar cell may be manufactured with a material having multiple bands. That is, a single semiconductor with several absorption edges that absorb photons from different parts of the solar spectrum may be constructed. The different absorption edges may be created by splitting a conduction band of the solar cell material into multiple intermediate sub-bands. The solar cell may include a photovoltaic material deposited on a substrate, in which the photovoltaic material is a III-V semiconductor alloy, such as AlGaNAs, AlGaAsNSb, or AlInGaNAsBi. | 09-18-2014 |
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| 20110178157 | MODULATION OF HSP47 EXPRESSION - Provided herein are compositions, methods and kits for modulating expression of target genes, particularly heat shock protein 47 (hsp47). The compositions, methods and kits may include nucleic acid molecules (for example, short interfering nucleic acid (siNA), short interfering RNA (siRNA), double-stranded RNA (dsRNA), micro-RNA (miRNA) or short hairpin RNA (shRNA)) that modulate a gene encoding hsp47, for example, the gene encoding human hsp47. The composition and methods disclosed herein may also be used in treating conditions and disorders associated with hsp47 such as liver fibrosis, pulmonary fibrosis, peritoneal fibrosis and kidney fibrosis. | 07-21-2011 |
| 20140235695 | MODULATION OF HSP47 EXPRESSION - Provided herein are compositions, methods and kits for modulating expression of target genes, particularly heat shock protein 47 (hsp47). The compositions, methods and kits may include nucleic acid molecules (for example, short interfering nucleic acid (siNA), short interfering RNA (siRNA), double-stranded RNA (dsRNA), micro-RNA (miRNA) or short hairpin RNA (shRNA)) that modulate a gene encoding hsp47, for example, the gene encoding human hsp47. The composition and methods disclosed herein may also be used in treating conditions and disorders associated with hsp47 such as liver fibrosis, pulmonary fibrosis, peritoneal fibrosis and kidney fibrosis. | 08-21-2014 |
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| 20090072858 | HETEROGENEOUS CONFIGURABLE INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - A system including a plurality of programmable logic blocks, a plurality of special-purpose blocks, and a configurable high-speed mesh interconnect fabric operatively connecting the plurality of programmable logic blocks and the plurality of special-purpose blocks, where the configurable high-speed mesh interconnect fabric is configured to implement a plurality of interconnect pipeline buses spanning across the system. | 03-19-2009 |
| 20090077308 | RECONFIGURABLE CONTENT-ADDRESSABLE MEMORY - A system for determining memory addresses including a first content-addressable memory (CAM) configured to generate a first matchvector based on a first key; a first inverse-mask-reverse (IMR) module operatively connected to the first CAM, where the first IMR module is configured to generate a first auxiliary matchvector based on the first matchvector; and a first priority encoder (PE) operatively connected to the first IMR module, where the first PE is configured to output a first encoded memory address based on the first auxiliary matchvector, where the first CAM, the first IMR module, and the first PE are associated with a first reconfigurable content-addressable memory (RCAM). | 03-19-2009 |
| 20140025347 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EVALUATING THE ENERGY USE OF MULTIPLE DIFFERENT BUILDING MASSING CONFIGURATIONS - Computer based methods and systems for characterizing the energy use of multiple different building massing configurations are disclosed. In one embodiment, a computer based method involves specifying a set of parameters for a building massing configuration, calculating a normalized energy use index for multiple different building massing configurations that meet the specified set of parameters, wherein the normalized energy use index for each of the multiple different building massing configurations is normalized against a reference energy use index of a reference building, ranking the multiple different building massing configurations by the respective normalized energy use indexes, and selecting at least one of the different massing configurations for display on a graphical user interface according to the ranking. | 01-23-2014 |
| 20140052416 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REALIZING A BUILDING USING AUTOMATED BUILDING MASSING CONFIGURATION GENERATION - Computer based methods and systems for evaluating different building designs are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method involves generating a first set of different building massing configurations using a shape grammar, storing the generated first set of different building massing configurations in a building massing library, reducing the first set of different building massing configurations according to a parameter search to form a second set of different building massing configurations, the second set being a subset of the first set, and using the second set of different building massing configurations to evaluate an aspect of a building system. | 02-20-2014 |
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| 20090220245 | Circuit topologies for high speed, low cost optical transceiver components - A topology for optical transceiver components comprises an electrical signal interface stage, a data timing and signal reformatting stage, and an optical fiber interface stage. Unlike transceiver components known in the art, functions having signals with the most jitter are partitioned into the electrical signal interface stage. Data timing functions, for example retiming or clock and data recovery, are included in the data timing and reformatting stage. Output jitter from the data timing and signal reformatting stage is approximately equal to jitter in a clock signal, enabling use of semiconductor components having jitter greater than SONET limits and thereby increasing a value of production yield. Embodiments of the invention are well suited for 40 G transmitters and receivers in nonconnectorized surface mount packages. 40 G transceivers built in accord with the invention are expected to have lower cost, smaller size, and higher production yield than 40G transceivers known in the art. | 09-03-2009 |
| 20100178059 | SYSTEM FOR DYNAMICALLY OPTIMIZING A DECISION THRESHOLD VOLTAGE IN AN OPTICAL TRANSPONDER - A transponder having a dynamic remapping circuit remaps a value of decision threshold voltage Vdtc and a value of optical power RXP to a reference voltage Vref to minimize the bit error rate BER of a communication system. The dynamic remapping circuit implements a bilinear mapping of Vdtc and RXP to Vref with three bilinear remapping constants “a”, “b”, and “c” selected to align a remapped value of Vdtc_opt to a selected Vdtc normalization value, Vdtc_norm. A transponder in accord with an embodiment of the invention prevents BER from exceeding a threshold value of BER whether RXP or OSNR, or both, remain constant, change continuously, or change intermittently. Constants “a”, “b”, and “c” are related to parameters resulting from mathematically fitting a line to data comprising Vdtc_opt versus RXP. Another embodiment comprises a method for dynamically optimizing Vdtc and RXP to Vref in a transponder with a bilinear remapping circuit. | 07-15-2010 |
| 20120093503 | DYNAMICALLY OPTIMIZING A DECISION THRESHOLD VOLTAGE IN AN OPTICAL TRANSPONDER - A transponder having a dynamic remapping circuit remaps a value of decision threshold voltage Vdtc and a value of optical power RXP to a reference voltage Vref to minimize the bit error rate BER of a communication system. The dynamic remapping circuit implements a bilinear mapping of Vdtc and RXP to Vref with three bilinear remapping constants “a”, “b”, and “c” selected to align a remapped value of Vdtc_opt to a selected Vdtc normalization value, Vdtc_norm. A transponder in accord with an embodiment of the invention prevents BER from exceeding a threshold value of BER whether RXP or OSNR, or both, remain constant, change continuously, or change intermittently. Constants “a”, “b”, and “c” are related to parameters resulting from mathematically fitting a line to data comprising Vdtc_opt versus RXP. Another embodiment comprises a method for dynamically optimizing Vdtc and RXP to Vref in a transponder with a bilinear remapping circuit. | 04-19-2012 |
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| 20110002784 | FAN WITH CONCEALED OSCILLATING MECHANISM - A fan with concealed oscillating mechanism includes a main housing, a first driving motor, a second driving motor and a curved link gear all located inside the main housing, and a set of blades located outside the main housing and connected to a rotating shaft of the first driving motor. The first driving motor has a connecting rod rotatably received in a receiving tube provided in the main housing. The second driving motor is located behind and connected to the first driving motor, and has a rotating shaft being perpendicular to that of the first driving motor. The curved link gear is connected at an end to the second rotating shaft and at another end to the main housing, such that when the second driving motor operates, the first driving motor is brought to oscillate while the set of blades stably rotates to thereby change the direction of produced airflow. | 01-06-2011 |
| 20110064577 | FAN WITH CONCEALED 360-DEGREE OSCILLATING MECHANISM - A fan with concealed 360-degree oscillating mechanism includes a main housing; a pivot member vertically, pivotally and turnably mounted in the housing; a first driving motor having a forward first rotary shaft and horizontally, pivotally and turnably mounted in the pivot member; an oscillating mechanism assembled between the first driving motor and a rear end face of the main housing, and having a first end driving an opposing second end to rotate eccentrically; and a set of blades fixedly connected to the first rotary shaft to locate in front of the main housing. With the first driving motor pivotally connected to the pivot member and eccentrically connected to the oscillating mechanism, the set of blades can be oscillated 360 degrees while being rotated by the first driving motor; and parts inside the main housing undertake force evenly to enable stable operation of the fan and reduced stress fatigue of the oscillating mechanism. | 03-17-2011 |
| 20130315754 | OSCILLATING FAN WITH BUILT-IN PULL-TYPE CONTROL SWITCH - An oscillating fan with built-in pull-type control switch includes a housing defining a receiving space having a front open end; a driving motor mounted to the front open end of the receiving space and having a first rotary shaft; a blade assembly mounted to the first rotary shaft; at least one pull switch having a selector mounted in the housing and an actuator extended through and located outside the housing; and a control box provided in the receiving space to electrically connect to the driving motor and every pull switch. The actuator includes a pull string having an end connected to the selector and another end hung from the housing by a predetermined length, allowing a user to control the oscillation of the fan via the pull string. Since most fan components are integrated in the housing, the fan occupies only reduced space and is more practical for use. | 11-28-2013 |
| 20140306636 | FAN CONTROL SYSTEM - A fan control system includes a fan and a portable mobile device. The fan includes a housing member; a driving motor mounted in the housing member and having a rotary shaft; a fan blade assembly assembled to the rotary shaft of the driving motor; and a command receiving control unit mounted in the housing member and electrically connected to the driving motor. The portable mobile device includes a touch panel forming an operation control interface, and internally has a transmission unit and a processor electrically connected to the touch panel and the transmission unit. When the operation control interface is touched, the processor receives an operation control signal and correspondingly generates a control command that is wirelessly transmitted to the command receiving control unit in the fan via the transmission unit, so that the fan is directly controllable via the portable mobile device and has largely increased practicality and usability. | 10-16-2014 |
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| 20100005149 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ANALYZING EMAIL MESSAGES - Multiple modules are provided, each one of which is configured to analyze email messages in a different manner than other ones of the modules. For a received email message, a plurality of the modules are used to determine one or more module outputs indicative of a level of sameness of the received email message with one or more prior email messages. At least two of the modules being used are each assigned a non-zero weight indicative of the performance level of the module. An overall level of sameness of the received email message with one or more prior email messages is determined by combining the module outputs of at least two of the plurality of modules using the non-zero weights assigned to the modules. | 01-07-2010 |
| 20100057876 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SUPPRESSING UNDESIREABLE EMAIL MESSAGES - A system for suppressing delivery of undesirable messages through vulnerable systems. The system includes an emulator that emulates one or more of the vulnerable systems. A module associated with the emulator intercepts undesirable messages, which were originally intended to be sent through a vulnerable system. One embodiment includes plural emulators, which include one or more servers that are part of a network of servers. A controller communicates with one or more servers. In this embodiment, the controller includes a database capable of storing statistics pertaining to undesirable messages blocked by one or more of the servers. The statistics may include information pertaining to the sender(s) of the undesirable messages. Undesirable messages intercepted by the network of servers include email spam. | 03-04-2010 |
| 20100106677 | EMAIL ANALYSIS USING FUZZY MATCHING OF TEXT - Translation of text or messages provides a message that is more reliably or efficiently analyzed for purposes as, for example, to detect spam in email messages. One translation process takes into account statistics of erroneous and intentional misspellings. Another process identifies and removes characters or character codes that do not generate visible symbols in a message displayed to a user. Another process detects symbols such as periods, commas, dashes, etc., interspersed in text such that the symbols do not unduly interfere with, or prevent, a user from perceiving a spam message. Another process can detect use of foreign language symbols and terms. Still other processes and techniques are presented to counter obfuscating spammer tactics and to provide for efficient and accurate analysis of message content. Groups of similar content items (e.g., words, phrases, images, ASCII text, etc.) are correlated and analysis can proceed after substitution of items in the group with other items in the group so that a more accurate detection of “sameness” of content can be achieved. Dictionaries are used for spam or ham words or phrases. Other features are described. | 04-29-2010 |
| 20110258274 | SUPPRESSION OF UNDESIRABLE EMAIL MESSAGES BY EMULATING VULNERABLE SYSTEMS - Provided herein are systems and methods for suppressing delivery of undesirable messages through vulnerable systems. In an embodiment, a system include an emulator emulates one or more vulnerable systems that can be used by spammers to relay, forward or otherwise send undesirable email messages to target systems. The system also includes one or more modules associated with the emulator and configured to automatically identifying, as being undesirable, email messages that are to be relayed, forwarded or otherwise sent to target systems via at least one of the one or more vulnerable systems emulated by the emulator. | 10-20-2011 |
| 20120016945 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ANALYZING EMAIL MESSAGES - Methods and systems for analyzing email messages are provided. In an embodiment, a method includes determining whether a received email message is considered to be the same as one or more prior email messages already classified into one of a plurality of different categories. If the received message is not considered to be the same as one of the prior email messages already classified into one of the categories, then the received message is classified into one of the categories by performing a set of computations. If the received message is considered to be the same as one of the prior email messages already classified into one of the categories, then the received message is classified into one of the categories without performing the computations, by classifying the received message into the same category as a prior email message that the received message is considered to be the same as. | 01-19-2012 |
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| 20080219349 | Parallel processing apparatus for video compression - A method of and an apparatus for parallel processing video compression is described herein. A picture is divided into N zones vertically, and Vertical Split Parallelism (VSP) deploys N+1 processes: N M-coding processes for general macroblock coding in N zones and one E-coding process for entropy coding. By dividing a macroblock encoding process into M-coding and E-coding processes, multiple M-coding threads and one E-coding thread are able to progress simultaneously with proper synchronization between threads. Since the workload of M-coding processes is greater than E-coding for each macroblock coding process, two cores are able to be designated to the two M-coding processes. Either of the cores are able to be designated to the E-coding process since the workload of E-coding is light. Therefore, VSP utilizes parallel processing computing power efficiently. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20120177119 | FASTER MOTION ESTIMATION IN AN AVC SOFTWARE ENCODER USING GENERAL PURPOSE GRAPHIC PROCESS UNITS (GPGPU) - Systems and methods consistent with the invention relate to performing faster motion estimation through efficient use of the General Purpose Graphic Processing Unit (GPGPU) as the compute co-processor in a multi-processor architecture. Integer pel motion estimation and fractional pel motion estimation algorithms for large block sizes may be performed on the GPU, while motion estimation for smaller block sizes is performed on the central processing unit (CPU). In embodiments described herein, GPU-based integer pel motion estimation and fractional pel motion estimation algorithms are performed using kernels which are designed so that multiple thread blocks can run concurrently on a multiprocessor. | 07-12-2012 |
| 20120230391 | High Performance AVC Encoder on a Multi-Core Platform - A method and system for encoding a digital video signal using a plurality of parallel processors. A digital picture is received that is composed of one or more GOPs. The CPU then determines the number of GOPs that need to be encoded and divides them into groups. The number of GOPs in a group may equal the number of parallel processors in the multi-core platform available to encode. The CPU transfers in a single batch to the multi-core platform, a frame of equal rank from each GOP contained in the first group. The multi-core platform encodes the frames in parallel, rearranges the encoded byte stream chunk into normal display order sequence and stores the encoded byte stream. The process may repeat until all the GOPs in the first group have been encoded. Upon completion the multi-core platform outputs the encoded byte stream in normal display order sequence. | 09-13-2012 |
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| 20080235124 | Global method and system for providing enhanced transactional functionality through a customer terminal - A global customer activated terminal (CAT) that primarily serves traveling customers who require access to their accounts when they are away from their home financial institution and beyond their local regional financial area is provided. The system provides applications that permit users to access their accounts and utilize account profiles and transaction journals within a generic global system approach, and each transaction set provides access to the user's full account profile. The traveling customer is also provided with access to all their accounts linked (as they would locally) to a specific card. The hardware employed in the system supports encryption key downloading, personal identification number (PIN) unscrambling and PIN encryption, so that security is instituted at the hardware level. To provide the maximum flexibility at each regional level for product and services offered, regional front end processors (FEPs) and Hosts (small financial systems) are the arbitrators of each transaction . . . acceptance and fulfillment, rather than the CAT. | 09-25-2008 |
| 20100114770 | Global Method and System For Providing Enhanced Transactional Functionality Through a Customer Terminal - A global customer activated terminal (CAT) that primarily serves traveling customers who require access to their accounts when they are away from their home financial institution and beyond their local regional financial area is provided. The system provides applications that permit users to access their accounts and utilize account profiles and transaction journals within a generic global system approach, and each transaction set provides access to the user's full account profile. The traveling customer is also provided with access to all their accounts linked (as they would locally) to a specific card. The hardware employed in the system supports encryption key downloading, personal identification number (PIN) unscrambling and PIN encryption, so that security is instituted at the hardware level. To provide the maximum flexibility at each regional level for product and services offered, regional front end processors (FEPs) and Hosts (small financial systems) are the arbitrators of each transaction . . . acceptance and fulfillment, rather than the CAT. | 05-06-2010 |
| 20110213708 | GLOBAL METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING ENHANCED TRANSACTIONAL FUNCTIONALITY THROUGH A CUSTOMER TERMINAL - A global customer activated terminal (CAT) primarily serves traveling customers who require access to their accounts when they are away from their home financial institution and beyond their local regional financial area. The system provides applications that permit users to access their accounts and utilize account profiles and transaction journals within a generic global system approach, and each transaction set provides access to the user's full account profile. The traveling customer is also provided with access to all their accounts linked (as they would locally) to a specific card. The hardware employed in the system supports encryption key downloading, unscrambling and PIN encryption, so that security is instituted at the hardware level. To provide the maximum flexibility at each regional level for product and services offered, regional front end processors and Hosts are the arbitrators of each transaction acceptance and fulfillment, rather than the CAT. | 09-01-2011 |
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| 20110002573 | OPTICAL ISOLATION CREATED BY INDIRECT INTERBAND PHOTONIC TRANSITIONS - The refractive index of the at least one photonic structure having two separate photonic bands is modulated, so that light supplied to the at least one photonic structure and initially in one of the two photonic bands of the traveling along a forward direction in the at least one photonic structure is converted to light in a second one of the photonic bands, and light in the one photonic band traveling along a backward direction opposite to the forward direction in the at least one photonic structure is not converted and remains in the one photonic band, achieving non-reciprocity. An interferometer comprises a first and a second photonic structure coupled at two coupler regions. The first photonic structure has two separate photonic bands. The refractive index of the first photonic structure is modulated, so that light supplied to the first photonic structure and initially in a first one of the photonic bands traveling along a forward direction in the at least first photonic structure is converted to light in a second one of the photonic bands, and light in the first photonic band traveling along a backward direction opposite to the forward direction in the at least first photonic structure is not converted and remains in the first photonic band. Light supplied to a first end of the first photonic structure and initially in the first photonic band traveling along a forward direction in the photonic structures will pass to a second end of the first photonic structure, and light supplied to the second end of the first photonic structure and traveling along a backward direction in the photonic structures will pass to an end of the second photonic structure. | 01-06-2011 |
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