Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080316830 | COMPENSATION METHOD TO ACHIEVE UNIFORM PROGRAMMING SPEED OF FLASH MEMORY DEVICES - Systems and methodologies are provided herein for increasing operation speed uniformity in a flash memory device. Due to the characteristics of a typical flash memory array, memory cells in a memory array may experience distributed substrate resistance that increases as the distance of the memory cell from an edge of the memory array increases. This difference in distributed substrate resistance can vary voltages supplied to different memory cells in the memory array depending on their location, which can in turn cause non-uniformity in the speed of high voltage operations on the memory array such as programming. The systems and methodologies provided herein reduce this non-uniformity in operation speed by providing compensated voltage levels to memory cells in a memory array based at least in part on the location of each respective memory cell. For example, a compensated operation voltage can be provided that is higher near the center of the memory array and lower near an edge of the memory array, thereby lessening the effect of distributed substrate resistance and providing increased operation speed uniformity throughout the memory array. | 12-25-2008 |
20090024923 | Embedded Video Player - A system, method and various user interfaces provide an embedded web-based video player for navigating video playlists and playing video content. A website publisher can create and store a video player with customized parameters (e.g., player type, appearance, advertising options, etc.) and can associate the player with a playlist of selected videos. The stored video player is associated with a player ID in a player database and can be embedded in a website using an embed code referencing the player ID. A user interface for the embedded player provides controls for controlling video playback and for controlling the selection of a video from the playlist. | 01-22-2009 |
20090024927 | Embedded Video Playlists - A system, method and various user interfaces provide an embedded web-based video player for navigating video playlists and playing video content. A website publisher can create and store a video player with customized parameters (e.g., player type, appearance, advertising options, etc.) and can associate the player with a playlist of selected videos. The stored video player is associated with a player ID in a player database and can be embedded in a website using an embed code referencing the player ID. A user interface for the embedded player provides controls for controlling video playback and for controlling the selection of a video from the playlist. | 01-22-2009 |
20090055375 | Bundle Generation - First topics related to a content page, such as a web page, are identified. Thereafter, second topics related to a first content element, such as advertisements, and a second content element, such as media files, are identified based on the first topics. Common topics are identified that are common to the first and second topics. Based on the common topics, first and second content elements are identified and combined in a bundle that is transmitted to a user requesting the content page. | 02-26-2009 |
20090094108 | Flexible Revenue Sharing and Referral Bounty System - An advertising system manager, a partner and one or more participating publishers may collectively agree on a revenue sharing arrangement, based on revenue generated from ad conversions, for revenue sharing between publishers and partners such as content providers distributing embedded content links to publishers through the advertising system manager. The advertising system manager may define various components of the revenue sharing arrangement including details of the revenue sharing arrangement and the criteria for offering the revenue sharing arrangement. The partner may separately negotiate with the publisher with respect to the terms of the revenue sharing arrangement. The terms may include a predetermined revenue sharing rate for the partner and the publisher based on the gross revenue received by the advertising system manager. | 04-09-2009 |
20090116289 | DECODING SYSTEM CAPABLE OF REDUCING SECTOR SELECT AREA OVERHEAD FOR FLASH MEMORY - Methods and apparatus are disclosed for erasing memory cells in a virtual ground memory core, wherein a row decoder apparatus employs a protective voltage to wordlines of a sector of cells while concurrently providing an erase voltage to selected wordlines of the same physical sector. Decoder circuitry and methods arc disclosed for selecting a memory cell sector to be erased and adjacent sectors to be protected, which may be used in single bit and dual bit memory devices, and which enable column decoder circuitry to reduce the number of sector select circuits. | 05-07-2009 |
20090119447 | CONTROLLED BIT LINE DISCHARGE FOR CHANNEL ERASES IN NONVOLATILE MEMORY - Systems and/or methods that facilitate discharging bit lines (BL) associated with memory arrays in nonvolatile memory at a controlled rate are presented. A discharge component facilitates discharging the BL at a desired rate thus preventing the “hot switching” phenomenon from occurring within a y-decoder component(s) associated with the nonvolatile memory. The discharge component can be comprised of, in part, a discharge transistor component that controls the rate of BL discharge wherein the gate voltage of the discharge transistor component can be controlled by a discharge controller component. The rate of BL discharge can be determined by the size of discharge transistor component used in the design, the strength and/or size of the y-decoder component, the number of erase errors that occur for a particular memory device, and/or other factors in order to facilitate preventing hot switching from occurring. | 05-07-2009 |
20100023397 | Video Promotion In A Video Sharing Site - A promoter wishing to promote video content on a video hosting website selects the video and associates it with an advertising creative. The promoter selects associated keywords and indicates financial terms for the promotion, for example by agreeing to a cost-per-click or cost-per-impression payment arrangement with the video hosting site. When a user of the video hosting site performs a search on the keywords (or similar words) associated with the promoted video, the video hosting website includes the creative for the promoted video with the other search results returned. The user can then select to view any of the search results or the promoted video identified by the creative. When the user clicks on the indicia for the promoted video, the video hosting site serves to the user a watch page on which the user views the promoted video. The promoter is charged according to the payment mechanism selected. | 01-28-2010 |
20150082120 | Selective In-Situ Retouching of Data in Nonvolatile Memory - In a charge-storage memory array, memory cells that are programmed to a particular threshold voltage range and have subsequently lost charge have their threshold voltages restored by selectively adding charge to the memory cells. Adding charge only to memory cells with high threshold voltage ranges may sufficiently increase threshold voltages of other memory cells so that they do not require separate addition of charge. | 03-19-2015 |