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US-8,138,724 |
Battery pulse charging method and apparatus Disclosed herein are some embodiments for safely charging a mobile system battery pack, even when the power source (e.g., adapter) voltage is at a relatively... |
US-8,138,599 |
Wireless communication device integrated into a single package A method, apparatus and system with an autonomic, self-healing polymer capable of slowing crack propagation within the polymer and slowing delamination at a... |
US-8,138,239 |
Polymer thermal interface materials In some embodiments, polymer thermal interface materials are presented. In this regard, a thermal interface material is introduced comprising a polymer matrix,... |
US-8,138,084 |
Electroless Cu plating for enhanced self-forming barrier layers Methods and an apparatus are described for an integrated circuit within which an electroless Cu plated layer having an oxygen content is formed on the top of a... |
US-8,138,042 |
Capacitor, method of increasing a capacitance area of same, and system
containing same A capacitor includes a substrate (110, 210), a first electrically insulating layer (120, 220) over the substrate, and a fin (130, 231) including a... |
US-8,136,987 |
Ratio meter for temperature sensor In some embodiments, a new DTS implementation, which employs the conventional Vbe/.DELTA.Vbe temperature dependent principles but substitutes a... |
US-8,136,244 |
Integrated heat spreader and method of fabrication An integrated heat spreader is disclosed in which grooves are formed in a recess of the heat spreader to enhance the stiffness and strength of the integrated... |
US-8,136,112 |
Thread synchronization via selective modification of stored states of
pending optimistically balanced lock... Thread synchronization methods and apparatus for managed run-time environments are disclosed. An example method to maintain state information for optimistically... |
US-8,135,999 |
Disabling outbound drivers for a last memory buffer on a memory channel Memory apparatus and methods utilizing multiple bit lanes may redirect one or more signals on the bit lanes. A memory agent may include a redrive circuit having... |
US-8,135,936 |
Adaptive address mapping with dynamic runtime memory mapping selection A system monitors and dynamically changes memory mapping in a runtime of a computing system. The computing system has various memory resources, and multiple... |
US-8,135,869 |
Task scheduling to devices with same connection address Methods of scheduling tasks in computer systems architectures are disclosed. In one aspect, a method may include comparing a connection address of a first node... |
US-8,135,566 |
Determining a node path through a node graph Determining a node path through a node graph includes modifying the node graph in accordance with a predetermined platform performance, performing a path... |
US-8,135,559 |
Extended thermal management A method for managing thermal condition of a thermal zone that includes multiple thermally controllable components include determining thermal relationship... |
US-8,135,436 |
Mobile radio communication devices and methods for controlling a mobile
radio communication device In an embodiment, a mobile radio communication device is provided. The mobile radio communication device may include a receiver configured to receive radio... |
US-8,134,912 |
Apparatus, systems and methods adapted for opportunistic forwarding of
uplink short messages in wireless... An embodiment of the present invention provides an apparatus, comprising a subscriber station (SS) operable to communicate with a base station (BS) and at least... |
US-8,134,860 |
Shunted phase change memory By using a resistive film as a shunt, the snapback exhibited when transitioning from the reset state or amorphous phase of a phase change material, may be... |
US-8,134,684 |
Immersion lithography using hafnium-based nanoparticles Method, apparatus, and composition of matter suited for use with, for example, immersion lithography. The composition of matter includes hafnium dioxide... |
US-8,134,341 |
Energy harvesting based on user-interface of mobile computing device Embodiments of the invention relate to a mobile computing device with ambient energy harvesting capability. Embodiments of the invention, when manually operated... |
US-8,133,585 |
Thermally and electrically conductive structure comprising a carbon
nanotube and a carbon coating, and method... A thermally and electrically conductive structure comprises a carbon nanotube (110) having an outer surface (111) and a carbon coating (120) covering at least a... |
US-8,132,267 |
Apparatus and method to harden computer system In some embodiments, a processor-based system may include a processor, the processor having a processor identification, one or more electronic components... |
US-8,132,255 |
Generating a challenge response image including a recognizable image Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture for generating a challenge response image including a recognizable image. A challenge image is... |
US-8,132,172 |
Thread scheduling on multiprocessor systems A thread scheduler may be used in a chip multiprocessor or symmetric multiprocessor system to schedule threads to processors. The scheduler may determine the... |
US-8,132,087 |
Forward error correction mapping and de-mapping techniques Briefly, techniques to provide varying levels of enhanced forward error correction without modifying a line rate of a frame. |
US-8,132,085 |
Method and apparatus for frame control header decoding using cyclic
shifting of bits A method and apparatus for decoding a frame control header message in a wireless communication transmission are disclosed. The method comprises assuming at... |
US-8,132,074 |
Reliability, availability, and serviceability solutions for memory
technology Embodiments of the invention are generally directed to systems, methods, and apparatuses for reliability, availability, and serviceability solutions for memory... |
US-8,132,061 |
Repair bits for a low voltage cache A method and apparatus for repairing cache memories/arrays is described herein. A cache includes a plurality of lines and logically viewable in columns. A... |
US-8,132,018 |
Techniques for password attack mitigation Apparatus, system, and method having a first counter to record a number of invalid authentication requests, a first timer to set a first time period based on a... |
US-8,132,003 |
Secure platform voucher service for software components within an
execution environment Embodiments of apparatus, articles, methods, and systems for secure platform voucher service for software components within an execution environment are... |
US-8,131,989 |
Method and apparatus for establishing safe processor operating points A system and method is provided for establishing safe processor operating points. Some embodiments may include a tamper resistant storage element that stores... |
US-8,131,944 |
Using criticality information to route cache coherency communications In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method for receiving a cache coherency message in an interconnect router from a caching agent, mapping the... |
US-8,131,940 |
Methods and apparatuses to support memory transactions using partial
physical addresses Methods and apparatuses to support memory transactions using partial physical addresses are disclosed. Method embodiments generally comprise home agents... |
US-8,131,921 |
Command suspension in response, at least in part, to detected acceleration
and/or orientation change In an embodiment, an apparatus is provided that may include circuitry to, in response at least in part to detected change in at least one of acceleration and... |
US-8,131,534 |
Emulating a host architecture in guest firmware Systems and methods provide for emulating a host architecture in guest firmware. One aspect of the systems and methods comprises determining whether an emulated... |
US-8,131,306 |
Wireless access network and method for allocating data subcarriers within
a downlink subframe based on grouping... Embodiments of a wireless access network and method for allocation time and frequency resources are generally described herein. Other embodiments may be... |
US-8,131,065 |
Method and apparatus for obtaining and processing image features Machine-readable media, methods, apparatus and system for obtaining and processing image features are described. In some embodiments, groups of training... |
US-8,130,960 |
Method and apparatus for providing seamless file system encryption from a
pre-boot environment into a firmware... Methods and apparatus for providing seamless functionality in a computer are disclosed. For example, an encrypted file system manager is included to layer an... |
US-8,130,939 |
Maintaining convergence of a receiver during changing conditions In one embodiment, the present invention includes an apparatus having an automatic gain control (AGC) stage to receive an input signal from a communication... |
US-8,130,702 |
OFDMA based communication system In an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access communication system, the location of one- and two-dimensional bursts may be specified by specifying the... |
US-8,130,576 |
Memory throughput increase via fine granularity of precharge management Methods and apparatus to improve throughput in memory devices are described. In one embodiment, memory throughput is increased via fine granularity of precharge... |
US-8,130,496 |
Device and method for mitigating radio frequency interference Embodiments of the present invention describe a device and method of mitigating radio frequency interference (REI) in an electronic device. The electronic... |
US-8,129,971 |
Multi-cell voltage regulator In some embodiments, the number of active cells in a multi-cell voltage regulator is controlled so that the current-per-active-cell approaches a predefined... |
US-8,129,823 |
Materials, structures and methods for microelectronic packaging Highly reliable interconnections for microelectronic packaging. In one embodiment, dielectric layers in a build-up interconnect have a gradation in glass... |
US-8,129,795 |
Inducing strain in the channels of metal gate transistors In a metal gate replacement process, strain may be selectively induced in the channels of NMOS and PMOS transistors. For example, a material having a higher... |
US-8,129,767 |
Ferroelectric polymer memory module Ferroelectric polymer memory modules are described. In an example, a module has a first set of layers including a first ILD layer defining trenches therein, a... |
US-8,129,749 |
Double quantum well structures for transistors Double quantum well structures for transistors are generally described. In one example, an apparatus includes a semiconductor substrate, one or more buffer... |
US-8,129,223 |
Nanotube modified solder thermal intermediate structure, systems, and
methods An apparatus and system, as well as fabrication methods therefor, may include a thermal intermediate structure with metal decorated carbon nanotubes... |
US-8,127,979 |
Electrolytic depositon and via filling in coreless substrate processing Electronic assemblies including coreless substrates and their manufacture using electrolytic plating, are described. One method includes providing a core... |
US-8,127,363 |
Method and apparatus for booting a processing system Machine-readable media, methods, apparatus and system for booting a processing system are described. In an embodiment, whether to launch an open operating... |
US-8,127,312 |
BIOS runtime services interface A method and article of manufacture for accessing at least one unexposed runtime service. |
US-8,127,303 |
Fair scalable reader-writer mutual exclusion Implementing fair scalable reader writer mutual exclusion for access to a critical section by a plurality of processing threads in a processing system is... |