| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| RE40056 |
Methods of controlling communication parameters of wireless systems |
February 12, 2008 |
| The present invention provides a method for controlling a communication parameter in a channel through which data is transmitted between a transmit unit with M transmit antennas and a receive unit with N receive antennas by selecting from among proposed mapping schemes an applied map |
| RE39955 |
Multiple encoder output buffer apparatus for differential coding of video information |
December 25, 2007 |
| Feedback is introduced between a video CODEC and the intended communications channel such that the characteristics of the channel are used to drive multiple video output buffers. These multiple output buffers share an original temporal video reference, but have different subsequent t |
| RE39855 |
Power management strategy to support hot swapping of system blades during run time |
September 25, 2007 |
| A hot swappable system is described. It included software controlled hot swapping operations which provided a graceful booting or power-down of the system. In the even of force insertion or extraction of the system blades, a set of hardware features (such as using different pin lengths |
| RE39837 |
Method and apparatus for adjusting a power consumption level based on the amount of time a proce |
September 11, 2007 |
| A power management mechanism for use in a computer system having a bus, a memory for storing data and instructions, and a central processing unit (CPU). The CPU runs an operating system having a power management virtual device driver (PMV.times.D) responsible for performing idle detectio |
| RE39540 |
Cellular telephony searcher |
April 3, 2007 |
| A searcher for a mobile station of a cellular telephony network. Pilot signal from nearby base stations are correlated with a pseudonoise sequence inside a search window, using a bank of correlators. Each correlator is assigned a different delay, from among a sequence of delays in th |
| RE39284 |
Method and apparatus for reducing power consumption in a system using power management software |
September 12, 2006 |
| A power management mechanism for use in a computer system having a bus, a memory for storing data and instructions, and a central processing unit (CPU). The CPU runs an operating system having a power management virtual device driver (PMV.times.D) responsible for performing idle detectio |
| RE39252 |
Instruction dependent clock scheme |
August 29, 2006 |
| A method and apparatus including a first circuit configured to receive multiple instructions including a first instruction having a first execution time, and to generate a first signal having a state dependent on the first execution time; a second circuit configured to receive the fi |
| RE39214 |
Blending text and graphics for display |
August 1, 2006 |
| Text and graphics elements may be alpha blended in a way to reduce flicker when the text or graphics are display by a processor-based television receiver. The alpha values are used to intelligently smooth pixels adjacent the element to create television text and graphics. |
| RE39058 |
Preventing processor domination during background data transfer in multipoint conferencing |
April 4, 2006 |
| Preventing processor domination of a CPU by background transfers of teleconference object data during an electronic conference is accomplished by monitoring an external time spent by a CPU executing outside a background transfer manager. Transfers of data packets of teleconference ob |
| RE38927 |
System management memory for system management interrupt handler independent of BIOS and operati |
December 27, 2005 |
| A memory controller with an integrated system management memory region is disclosed. The memory controller receives an SMI acknowledge signal from a processor. The processor then delivers a system management memory address to the memory controller. Instead of fetching SMI handler instruc |
| RE38674 |
Process for forming a thin oxide layer |
December 21, 2004 |
| A novel process for forming a robust, sub-100 .ANG. oxide is disclosed. Native oxide growth is tightly controlled by flowing pure nitrogen during wafer push and nitrogen with a small amount of oxygen during temperature ramp and stabilization. First, a dry oxidation is performed in oxygen |
| RE38457 |
Deferred sychronization of distributed objects |
March 9, 2004 |
| A method and apparatus is disclosed for .Iadd.data .Iaddend.communication between agents.Iadd., such as those .Iaddend.in an electronic conferencing system. In .[.an electronic conferencing.]. .Iadd.a .Iaddend.system wherein data is shared between a plurality of .[.participants during an |
| RE38388 |
Method and apparatus for performing deferred transactions |
January 13, 2004 |
| A method and apparatus of performing bus transactions on the bus of the computer system. The present invention includes a method and apparatus for permitting out-of-order replies in a pipelined bus system. The out-of-order responses include the sending of tokens between both the requ |
| RE38371 |
DC-to-DC controller having a multi-phase synchronous buck regulator |
December 30, 2003 |
| A DC-to-DC regulator that includes a multi-phase synchronous buck regulator having a pulse width modulator to generate a plurality of switching signals, a plurality of drivers, each coupled to receive one of the switching signals, and a plurality of switching voltage converters, each |
| RE37476 |
Alpha blending palettized image data |
December 18, 2001 |
| Palettized image data for two or more images, represented by color lookup table (CLUT) indices, are mapped to an index space. Blended pixels are generated from the pixels in the index space using alpha blending. The blended pixels are mapped back to CLUT indices to generate palettized |
| RE36766 |
Microprocessor breakpoint apparatus |
July 4, 2000 |
| A breakpoint apparatus incorporated in a single chip microprocessor. The apparatus permits breakpoints on specific references to either program instructions or data. The width of the breakpoint address can be varied, the apparatus includes a logic circuit for determining if the reference |
| RE36191 |
Configuration data loopback in a bus bridge circuit |
April 20, 1999 |
| A method and apparatus for reducing cost and complexity of devices in a bus bridge circuit by dividing address and data paths between separate devices to reduce pin count, and by looping back "bridged" configuration data to access configuration registers. The host bridge circuit "bridges |
| RE36182 |
Apparatus and method for switching ethernet media type |
April 6, 1999 |
| A computer system having two ports for connecting the computer system to a computer network by means of different transmission media types. Electronic switching is implemented to select between these two ports. The electronic switching is controlled by software. Depending upon which of |
| RE35353 |
Process for manufacturing a multi-layer lead frame |
October 22, 1996 |
| A process for manufacturing a multi-layer lead frame for a semiconductor device comprises two metal plains being adhered to each other via an insulation piece. An insulation strip is punched to cut the insulation piece, which is preliminary adhered to a metal strip. The metal strip is |
| RE33629 |
Numeric data processor |
July 2, 1991 |
| A floating point, integrated, arithmetic circuit is organized around a file format having a floating point numeric domain exceeding that of any single or double precision floating point numbers, long or short integer words or BCD data upon which it must operate. As a result the circuit h |
| D534545 |
Media device |
January 2, 2007 |
|
| D534184 |
Media device |
December 26, 2006 |
|
| D534183 |
Media device |
December 26, 2006 |
|
| D534182 |
Media device |
December 26, 2006 |
|
| D515557 |
Remote control |
February 21, 2006 |
|
| D503710 |
Keyboard |
April 5, 2005 |
|
| D502465 |
Communications module |
March 1, 2005 |
|
| D495327 |
Processor-based system |
August 31, 2004 |
|
| D482025 |
Communications module |
November 11, 2003 |
|
| D481372 |
Portable MP3 music player |
October 28, 2003 |
|
| D474782 |
Icon for a computer screen |
May 20, 2003 |
|
| D473220 |
Digital subscriber line gateway |
April 15, 2003 |
|
| D472581 |
Small footprint kiosk |
April 1, 2003 |
|
| D471578 |
Digital camera stand |
March 11, 2003 |
|
| D469776 |
Communications module |
February 4, 2003 |
|
| D464941 |
MP3 audio player |
October 29, 2002 |
|
| D462955 |
Wireless processor-based system |
September 17, 2002 |
|
| D462079 |
Microscope slide clip |
August 27, 2002 |
|
| D462075 |
Server face plate |
August 27, 2002 |
|
| D461822 |
Icon for a computer screen |
August 20, 2002 |
|
| D461816 |
Server appliance bezel |
August 20, 2002 |
|
| D461787 |
Portable MP3 music player |
August 20, 2002 |
|
| D461183 |
Small foot-print server chassis |
August 6, 2002 |
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| D461180 |
Network communication housing |
August 6, 2002 |
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| D460457 |
Server appliance bezel |
July 16, 2002 |
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| D460432 |
Portable MP3 music player |
July 16, 2002 |
|
| D458905 |
Rack-mount stackable hub and switch |
June 18, 2002 |
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| D458252 |
Internet appliance |
June 4, 2002 |
|
| D458241 |
Digital audio player charging station |
June 4, 2002 |
|
| D456249 |
Plastic package with pull tab |
April 30, 2002 |
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