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20110058301 | COMPRESSION SPRING-TENSIONED EMITTER ELECTRODES FOR ION WIND FAN - One or more emitter electrodes of an ion wind fan can be held in tension by using a slider mechanism in contact with a compression spring. In one embodiment, an ion wind fan has an isolator with a cavity, and the slider movably located in the cavity. The fan further includes a spring located in the cavity, so that the slider compresses the spring when the slider moves in the cavity. An emitter wire is then attached to the isolator and to the slider so that the emitter is in tension. | 03-10-2011 |
20130088830 | DUAL-ORIENTATION DOCKING APPARATUS - Embodiments of the present invention disclose a dual-orientation docking apparatus for a mobile computing device. According to one embodiment, the docking apparatus includes a main body having a first side and a second side perpendicular to the first side. A docking connector is disposed on the first side of the main body, and a locking member formed on the second side of the main body. Furthermore, the locking member is configured to automatically engage and maintain a mobile computing device in a docked state when the mobile device is moved from a first orientation to a second orientation. | 04-11-2013 |
20140083997 | COVER ASSEMBLY FOR A PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE - Embodiments of the present invention disclose a cover assembly for a portable electronic device. According to one embodiment, a first cover element includes a first attachment feature and is formed to cover a first part of a rear surface of a portable electronic device, while a second cover element is formed to cover a second part of the rear surface of the portable electronic device and includes a second attachment feature configured to mate with the first attachment feature. Furthermore, the first attachment feature of the first cover element and the second attachment feature of the second cover element are configured to engage along a common edge so as to form a secure attachment in which the first cover element and second cover element cover the entire rear surface of the portable electronic device. | 03-27-2014 |
20140375511 | MATERIAL INCLUDING SIGNAL PASSING AND SIGNAL BLOCKING STRANDS - An antenna and a material. The material can include signal blocking strands and signal passing strands. | 12-25-2014 |
20150220108 | LATCH FOR A COMPUTER CASE - A latch is disclosed. The latch has a hook that rotates to engage with a case for a computer. The hook has one side fabricated from a ferrous material. The hook is unlatched by placing a magnet near the ferrous material thereby causing the hook to rotate and disengage with the top case. | 08-06-2015 |
20150286249 | Magnets at Display Component and Base - A computing device with a hinge coupled to a display component and to a base for the display component to reposition relative to the base, a first set of magnets at first locations of the display component and the base, and a second set of magnets at second locations of the display component and the base. | 10-08-2015 |
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20100224402 | ELECTROMAGNETIC SHIELDING ARTICLE - A shielding article includes a polymeric conductive layer and a protective layer disposed adjacent the polymeric conductive layer. The polymeric conductive layer provides electromagnetic shielding characteristics so as to prevent receipt of data from a radio frequency information component by an external device when the component is located between the external device on one side and the polymeric conductive and protective layers on the other side. The shielding article may be shaped to substantially surround the radio frequency information component. | 09-09-2010 |
20100300744 | ELECTROMAGNETIC SHIELDING ARTICLE - A shielding article includes a first conductive layer and a second conductive layer spaced apart from the first conductive layer by a non-conductive polymeric layer defining a separation distance. The first conductive layer and the second conductive layer cooperatively provide a first shielding effectiveness. The first conductive layer, the second conductive layer, and the separation distance cooperatively provide a second shielding effectiveness that is greater than the first shielding effectiveness. | 12-02-2010 |
20120138357 | ELECTROMAGNETIC SHIELDING ARTICLE - A shielding article includes a polymeric conductive layer and a protective layer disposed adjacent the polymeric conductive layer. The polymeric conductive layer provides electromagnetic shielding characteristics so as to prevent receipt of data from a radio frequency information component by an external device when the component is located between the external device on one side and the polymeric conductive and protective layers on the other side. The shielding article may be shaped to substantially surround the radio frequency information component. | 06-07-2012 |
20150161919 | ELECTROMAGNETIC SHIELDING LABEL - Provided is a shielding label comprising: a shield layer; a cover layer disposed on a first side of the shield layer, and a removable adhesive layer disposed on at least a portion of a second side of the shield layer, wherein the shield layer provides electro-magnetic shielding characteristics so as to prevent the exchange of data between an RFID article adjacent the shielding label and an external device when the component is located in the read range of the external device. | 06-11-2015 |
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20140159142 | Recessed Channel Insulated-Gate Field Effect Transistor with Self-Aligned Gate and Increased Channel Length - A metal-oxide-semiconductor transistor (MOS) and method of fabricating the same, in which the effective channel length is increased relative to the width of the gate electrode. A dummy gate electrode overlying dummy gate dielectric material is formed at the surface of the structure, with self-aligned source/drain regions, and dielectric spacers on the sidewalls of the dummy gate structure. The dummy gate dielectric underlies the sidewall spacers. Following removal of the dummy gate electrode and the underlying dummy gate dielectric material, including from under the spacers, a silicon etch is performed to form a recess in the underlying substrate. This etch is self-limiting on the undercut sides, due to the crystal orientation, relative to the etch of the bottom of the recess. The gate dielectric and gate electrode material are then deposited into the remaining void, for example to form a high-k metal gate MOS transistor. | 06-12-2014 |
20140183657 | Embedded Polysilicon Resistor in Integrated Circuits Formed by a Replacement Gate Process - An embedded resistor structure in an integrated circuit that can be formed in a replacement gate high-k metal gate metal-oxide-semiconductor (MOS) technology process flow. The structure is formed by etching a trench into the substrate, either by removing a shallow trench isolation structure or by silicon etch at the desired location. Deposition of the dummy gate polysilicon layer fills the trench with polysilicon; the resistor polysilicon portion is protected from dummy gate polysilicon removal by a hard mask layer. The resistor polysilicon can be doped during source/drain implant, and can have its contact locations silicide-clad without degrading the metal gate electrode. | 07-03-2014 |
20140183663 | Raised Source/Drain MOS Transistor and Method of Forming the Transistor with an Implant Spacer and an Epitaxial Spacer - A raised source/drain MOS transistor is formed in a process that utilizes a first sidewall spacer when implanting a semiconductor region to form the heavily-doped source region and the heavily-doped drain region of the transistor, and a second different sidewall spacer when epitaxially growing the raised source region and the raised drain region of the transistor. | 07-03-2014 |
20150037952 | RECESSED CHANNEL INSULATED-GATE FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTOR WITH SELF-ALIGNED GATE AND INCREASED CHANNEL LENGTH - A metal-oxide-semiconductor transistor (MOS) and method of fabricating the same, in which the effective channel length is increased relative to the width of the gate electrode. A dummy gate electrode overlying dummy gate dielectric material is formed at the surface of the structure, with self-aligned source/drain regions, and dielectric spacers on the sidewalls of the dummy gate structure. The dummy gate dielectric underlies the sidewall spacers. Following removal of the dummy gate electrode and the underlying dummy gate dielectric material, including from under the spacers, a silicon etch is performed to form a recess in the underlying substrate. This etch is self-limiting on the undercut sides, due to the crystal orientation, relative to the etch of the bottom of the recess. The gate dielectric and gate electrode material are then deposited into the remaining void, for example to form a high-k metal gate MOS transistor. | 02-05-2015 |
20150054084 | SILICIDE FORMATION DUE TO IMPROVED SiGe FACETING - An integrated circuit includes a PMOS gate structure and a gate structure on adjacent field oxide. An epitaxy hard mask is formed over the gate structure on the field oxide so that the epitaxy hard mask overlaps the semiconductor material in PMOS source/drain region. SiGe semiconductor material is epitaxially formed in the source/drain regions, so that that a top edge of the SiGe semiconductor material at the field oxide does not extend more than one third of a depth of the SiGe in the source/drain region abutting the field oxide. Dielectric spacers on lateral surfaces of the gate structure on the field oxide extend onto the SiGe; at least one third of the SiGe is exposed. Metal silicide covers at least one third of a top surface of the SiGe. A contact has at least half of a bottom of the contact directly contacts the metal silicide on the SiGe. | 02-26-2015 |
20150140769 | RAISED SOURCE/DRAIN MOS TRANSISTOR AND METHOD OF FORMING THE TRANSISTOR WITH AN IMPLANT SPACER AND AN EPITAXIAL SPACER - A raised source/drain MOS transistor is formed in a process that utilizes a first sidewall spacer when implanting a semiconductor region to form the heavily-doped source region and the heavily-doped drain region of the transistor, and a second different sidewall spacer when epitaxially growing the raised source region and the raised drain region of the transistor. | 05-21-2015 |
20150187656 | LASER ANNEALS FOR REDUCED DIODE LEAKAGE - An integrated circuit with reduced gate induced drain leakage and with reduced reverse biased diode leakage is formed using a process that employs a first laser anneal, a rapid thermal anneal, and a second laser anneal after implanting the source and drain dopant to improve transistor performance. | 07-02-2015 |
20150287801 | SILICIDE FORMATION DUE TO IMPROVED SIGE FACETING - An integrated circuit includes a PMOS gate structure and a gate structure on adjacent field oxide. An epitaxy hard mask is formed over the gate structure on the field oxide so that the epitaxy hard mask overlaps the semiconductor material in PMOS source/drain region. SiGe semiconductor material is epitaxially formed in the source/drain regions, so that that a top edge of the SiGe semiconductor material at the field oxide does not extend more than one third of a depth of the SiGe in the source/drain region abutting the field oxide. Dielectric spacers on lateral surfaces of the gate structure on the field oxide extend onto the SiGe; at least one third of the SiGe is exposed. Metal silicide covers at least one third of a top surface of the SiGe. A contact has at least half of a bottom of the contact directly contacts the metal silicide on the SiGe. | 10-08-2015 |
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20150144752 | Multi-functional holders for bath and shower products - The present invention relates to a solution for shower organization products. In one embodiment, the shower piece has a holder with a platform that has a suction cup on the back, a retainer attached to the front of the holder, wherein the platform has a hole, wherein the holder is designed to hold bottles without flattops upside-down. In another embodiment, the shower piece has a holder with a platform that has a suction cup on the back, two tabs on the sides of the platform of the holder, a retainer attached to the front of the holder, wherein the platform has a hole in the center of the platform, wherein the shower piece is designed to hold both flattop bottles that stand on their heads and traditional round top bottles upside-down. In another embodiment, the shower piece has a holder with a platform that has a suction cup on the back, two tabs on the sides of the platform of the holder, a retainer attached to the front of the holder, wherein the platform has a hole in the center of the platform. In this embodiment, the shower piece is able to grasps bottles with a waist while holding them upside-down and locked in place. In another embodiment, the shower piece has a holder with a platform and two small suction cups on the back, wherein the platform has a hole in the center of the platform, wherein the holder is able to hold traditional round top bottles upside-down. | 05-28-2015 |
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20140136727 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR COMPLEXITY ADAPTIVE STREAMING - A method includes calculating a complexity value for each segment or version of multimedia content. The multimedia content has multiple versions associated with common content and different encoding parameters, and each version is divided into segments. The method also includes adaptively streaming the multimedia content to a client device based on at least some of the calculated complexity values. The complexity value for each segment or version is calculated by summing multiple operation complexity values defining complexities of operations for decoding the segment or version. The operation complexity values could include values for a bit parsing operation, a buffer initialization operation, an intra-prediction operation, an inverse quantization and transform operation, a reference block fetch operation, a fractional interpolation operation, and in-loop deblocking operation, a sample adaptive offset correction operation, an adaptive loop filtering operation, and a de-ringing filtering operation. | 05-15-2014 |
20140201368 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENFORCING BEHAVIOR OF DASH OR OTHER CLIENTS - A method for obtaining content includes determining that a playout of one or more other pieces of content is dependent upon a playout of a first piece of content. The method also includes obtaining the first piece of content and identifying a forced content token associated with the first piece of content. The method further includes obtaining an access token using the forced content token. In addition, the method includes using the access token to obtain the one or more other pieces of content. The forced content token could be identified as a hash of the first piece of content or as a watermark extracted from the first piece of content. The forced content token could also be identified by creating a thumbnail for each of one or more frames in the first piece of content and calculating a differential trace signature for each of the one or more frames. | 07-17-2014 |
20140298157 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PRESENTING HTML PAGE - A method for presenting a HTML page comprises determining whether a HTML file contains a reference to a CI document, fetching and processing the CI document describing a behavior of at least one HTML element, and presenting the HTML page by decoding the HTML file, based on the CI document. An apparatus for presenting a HTML page, comprises a processing circuitry configured to determine whether a HTML file contains a reference to a CI document, fetch and process the CI document describing a behavior of at least one HTML element, present the HTML page by decoding the HTML file, based on the CI document. | 10-02-2014 |
20150029394 | DISPLAY POWER REDUCTION USING HISTOGRAM METADATA - A method includes identifying an optimal backlight value for at least one quality level of a first video segment. The method also includes transmitting data for the first video segment. The transmitted data for the first video segment includes a message containing a first set of display adaptation information. The first set of display adaptation information includes the optimal backlight value for the at least one quality level of the first video segment. The method further includes identifying a backlight value for the at least one quality level of a second video segment. The method also includes determining a maximum backlight value change threshold between successive video segments. In addition, the method includes applying temporal smoothing between the optimal backlight value and the backlight value based on the maximum backlight value change threshold. | 01-29-2015 |
20150032845 | PACKET TRANSMISSION PROTOCOL SUPPORTING DOWNLOADING AND STREAMING - A method and apparatus generate and process transport packets. A method of processing a transport packet at receiving entity includes identifying, in response to receiving the transport packet, a payload type based on a field indicating the payload type in a packet header for the transport packet. The method also includes identifying, in response to identifying that the payload type is a streaming mode payload type, a delivery data unit type of DU data in the transport packet based on a field indicating the delivery data unit type in a streaming mode payload header for the DU data. Additionally, the method includes processing the DU data according to the identified delivery data unit type. | 01-29-2015 |
20150100996 | PRACTICAL DELIVERY OF HIGH QUALITY VIDEO USING DYNAMIC ADAPTIVE HYPERTEXT TRANSPORT PROTOCOL (HTTP) STREAMING (DASH) WITHOUT USING HTTP IN A BROADCAST NETWORK - A method for content delivery using dynamic adaptive hypertext transport protocol (HTTP) streaming (DASH) without using HTTP. The method includes receiving a media presentation description (MPD) file and one or more DASH segments by a client device. Information in the MPD file is used to filter the one or more DASH segments. The filtered DASH segments are stored in a segments buffer. Particular DASH segments are requested from the segments buffer by the client device based on the information. | 04-09-2015 |
20150120956 | CONTENT PRESENTATION FOR MPEG MEDIA TRANSPORT - A method for simplified MPEG Media Transport (MMT) content presentation is provided. Two or more assets of an MMT package Processing Unit (MPU) are identified. The method also includes defining at least one of the two or more assets as a default asset and a remaining one or more assets as enriched assets. The at least one default asset does not include a composition function. The method further includes configuring the at least one default asset for independent presentation from the one or more enriched assets. The method includes transmitting the MPU including the at least one default asset and the one or more enriched assets. | 04-30-2015 |
20150127703 | NAME BASED MEDIA DELIVERY AND PRESENTATION SYSTEM - An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a media communication system. The media communication system is configured to receive presentation information identifying a multimedia name. The media communication system is also configured to receive one or more multimedia data units associated with the multimedia name. The media communication system is further configured to configure the one or more multimedia data units associated with the multimedia name for a presentation. | 05-07-2015 |
20150195327 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR STREAMING DASH CONTENT OVER BROADCAST CHANNELS - A user equipment is provided for providing content. The user equipment comprising at least one memory and at least one processing device. The at least one process is configured to receive a data stream over a network, the data stream comprising un-segmented media data for the content. The at least one process is also configured to identify segment boundaries in the un-segmented media data to identify segments and determine a segment number for each of the identified segments from a media presentation description (MPD) based on the segment boundaries. The at least one process is also configured to retrieve a uniform resource locator (URL) associated with each of a plurality of dynamic adaptive streaming over hypertext transfer protocol (DASH) segments based on the segment number for each of the plurality of DASH segments and provide the URL associated with each of the plurality of DASH segments to a client player. | 07-09-2015 |
20150201253 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR UNIVERSAL PRESENTATION TIMELINE ALIGNMENT - A user equipment is provided for providing content. The user equipment comprising at least one memory configured to store a plurality of media content and at least one processing device. The at least one process is configured to receive a data stream over a network, the data stream comprising the plurality of media content. The at least one process is also configured to identify a mapping of a timeline for each of the plurality of media content to a universal presentation timeline. The at least one process is also configured to adjust timestamp values for each of the plurality of media content based on the universal presentation timeline. | 07-16-2015 |
20150279265 | STORAGE AND CARRIAGE OF GREEN METADATA FOR DISPLAY ADAPTATION - A method for providing display adaptation metadata (DAM) to a user equipment (UE) at a system level is provided. The method includes configuring DAM for storage in an ISO Base Media File Format (ISOBMFF). The method also includes transmitting the DAM to a UE to control an energy consumption of a presentation on a display of the UE. A method for providing display adaptation metadata (DAM) to a user equipment (UE) at a system level is provided. The method includes configuring DAM for carriage in an MPEG-2 transport system (M2TS). The method also includes transmitting the DAM to a UE to control an energy consumption of a presentation on a display of the UE. | 10-01-2015 |
20150280874 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SIGNALING AND OPERATION OF LOW DELAY CONSUMPTION OF MEDIA DATA IN MMT - Methods and apparatuses for wireless communication between at least one base station and user equipment, the user equipment including a transceiver and processing circuitry. The transceiver is configured to receive a packet comprising a control message with a header and a payload related to fragments of multimedia content. The header includes a message identifier indicating whether the control message is a low delay consumption message, a length of the controller message, and a version of the control message. The processing circuitry is configured to determine whether the control message is the low delay consumption message based on the message identifier. The processing circuitry is also configured to, responsive to the control message being the low delay consumption message, configure the packet based on the payload and the control message before receiving headers of the fragments of the multimedia content. | 10-01-2015 |
20150281770 | SIGNALING AND OPERATION OF AN MMTP DE-CAPSULATION BUFFER - Methods and apparatuses for managing received data by a client device and indicating data removal management by a server. A method for managing received data by a client device includes receiving a message including information about a number of modes for removal of the data from a buffer at the client. The method also includes selecting a mode for removal of the data from the buffer with a maximum required buffer size among the modes indicated by the information about the modes in the received message and removing the data from the buffer based on the identified mode. A method for indicating data removal management by a server includes generating and sending a message including information about a number of modes for removal of received data from a buffer at a client device. The information indicates, for each of the modes, a type of mode for removal of the data. | 10-01-2015 |
20150281799 | BROADCAST AND BROADBAND HYBRID SERVICE WITH MMT AND DASH - Method and apparatuses for broadcasting and receiving media data over a heterogeneous network. A method for receiving media data includes receiving and processing media data broadcast using MMTP packets via a broadcast network. The method also includes, in response to receiving a signaling message associated with the broadcast media data, determining whether broadband media data associated with the broadcast media data is available via a broadband network based on the signaling message. The method includes receiving the broadband media data using DASH via the broadband network. Additionally, the method includes providing the broadband media data in association with the broadcast media data for presentation via a display device. | 10-01-2015 |
20150286623 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MARKING RELEVANT UPDATES TO HTML 5 - A method for annotating instructions of Composition Information (CI) files to update a hypertext markup language (HTML) document is provided. The method includes receiving a CI file including a set of instructions. The method also includes determining the current presentation time. The method further includes determining for each instruction or the set of instructions of the CI file if the instruction or the set of instructions is obsolete at the determined presentation time. The method includes parsing the remaining instructions that are determined not to be obsolete to update the HTML document. | 10-08-2015 |