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20090098807 | Composite slurries of nano silicon carbide and alumina - Improved slurry compositions comprising silicon carbide particles and alumina particles dispersed within an aqueous medium. Slurry compositions in the form of abrasive slurry compositions for use chemical mechanical planarization (CMP) processes, particularly abrasive slurry compositions for polishing of sapphire, and methods of use. | 04-16-2009 |
20090101625 | Silicon carbide particles, methods of fabrication, and methods using same - Improved silicon carbide particles, improved silicon carbide abrasive particles, and abrasive slurry compositions for use chemical mechanical planarization (CMP) processes. The particles can comprise nano-sized silicon carbide particles, particularly silicon carbide particles having a surface chemistry similar to silica. | 04-23-2009 |
20090104851 | Polishing of sapphire with composite slurries - Improved slurry compositions comprising a mixture of a first type of particles and a second type of abrasive particles dispersed within an aqueous medium, and abrasive slurry compositions for use chemical mechanical planarization (CMP) processes, particularly abrasive slurry compositions for polishing of sapphire. These abrasive slurry compositions comprise a mixture of a first type of abrasive particles having a hardness that is harder than the surface being polished and a second type of abrasive particles have a hardness that is softer than the surface being polished, particularly mixtures of silicon carbide abrasive particles and silica abrasive particles, dispersed within an aqueous medium. | 04-23-2009 |
20150226527 | ARMOR COMPONENTS AND METHOD OF FORMING SAME - An armor component including a body including a material component configured to undergo a phase change upon a projectile impact. The material component may also have a ready state defining a first lattice structure configured to change from the ready state to an absorbed state defining a second lattice structure different from the first lattice structure. The material component may also have a ready state defining a first density and configured to change from the ready state to an absorbed state defining a second density, wherein the first density is less than the second density. In a particular aspect, the material component, in combination with a first component on or adjacent to the material component, can be configured to prevent pentration of a projectile having an energy of 4,000 J upon impact with a strikeface of the material component. | 08-13-2015 |
20150226528 | ARMOR COMPONENTS COMPRISING HEXAGONAL BORON NITRIDE AND METHOD OF FORMING SAME - An armor component including a body including a ceramic component comprising hBN. In one aspect, the hBN is configured to undergo a phase change upon a projectile impact. In another aspect, the ceramic component may also have a ready state defining a hexagonal lattice structure configured to change from the ready state to an absorbed state defining a cubic lattice structure. The ceramic component may also have a ready state defining a first density and configured to change from the ready state to an absorbed state defining a second density, wherein the first density is less than the second density. In a particular aspect, the ceramic component can be configured to prevent penetration of a projectile having an energy of at least 1500 J upon impact with a strikeface of the ceramic component. | 08-13-2015 |
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20100126488 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CUTTING WAFERS BY WIRE SAWING - A method and apparatus of cutting wafers by wire sawing is disclosed. In one embodiment, a wire sawing apparatus includes a horizontal ingot feeding wire slicing apparatus which includes a vertical wire web, in which sawing wires of the vertical wire web are located substantially in a vertical plane and move in a substantially vertical direction, a top outlet located in top position with respect to a work piece for applying fluid during sawing, and a chute located substantially below the work piece for receiving the fluid, wherein the work piece is impelled against the vertical wire web by horizontal movement and the fluid moves in a vertical direction against and into the work piece. The wire sawing apparatus further includes a frame for holding the horizontal ingot feeding wire slicing apparatus, and a control panel for operating the wire sawing apparatus. | 05-27-2010 |
20100126489 | IN-SITU WAFER PROCESSING SYSTEM AND METHOD - An integrated wafer processing system and a method thereof is disclosed. In one embodiment, a wafer stack of sliced wafers includes a base, and a plurality of sliced wafers extending outwardly from the base, where the plurality of sliced wafers are obtained by slicing a portion of a work piece, where the base is an uncut portion which is the remaining portion of the work piece or a plate attached by welding to the plurality of sliced wafers and where the work piece is mono-crystalline or multi-crystalline silicon. Further, the wafer stack of sliced wafers are treated in-situ in cleaning and wet chemical tanks for processes such as damage etching, texturization and oxide etching and also treated in-situ in high temperature furnaces for processes such as diffusion and anti-reflection coating. | 05-27-2010 |
20100126490 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CUTTING AND CLEANING WAFERS IN A WIRE SAW - A method and apparatus of cutting and cleaning wafers in a wire saw is disclosed. In one embodiment, a wire sawing apparatus includes a horizontal ingot feeding wire slicing apparatus which includes a vertical wire web, in which sawing wires of the vertical wire web are located substantially in a vertical plane and move in a substantially vertical direction, a first top outlet and a second top outlet located in a top position with respect to a work piece for applying fluids during sawing, and at least one chute located substantially below the work piece for receiving the fluids, wherein the work piece is impelled against the vertical wire web by horizontal movement and the fluids flow in a vertical direction against and into the work piece for slicing and cleaning wafers. | 05-27-2010 |
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20090022145 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, APPARATUS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR NETWORKING TRADING TURRET SYSTEMS USING SIP - Systems, methods, apparatus and computer program products are provided for sharing a resource including a subscription engine configured to subscribe to a first turret system to share the resource, a state change engine configured to receive a state change notification corresponding to the resource, from the turret system, and a failover engine configured to invite the turret system to initiate a connection to the resource. | 01-22-2009 |
20090022299 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, APPARATUS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR SHARING RESOURCES BETWEEN TURRET SYSTEMS AND PBXS USING SIP - Systems, methods, apparatus and computer program products are provided for sharing one or more resources across a turret system and a telephone exchange including an agent. The agent is configured to register into the telephone exchange as a predetermined device and to receive a state change notification of a resource from at least one of the telephone exchange and the turret system. Receipt of the state change notification causes the agent to change a state of a corresponding resource. | 01-22-2009 |
20090304168 | SOFTWARE BASED TRADING TURRET - A communications system including a turret switching system constructed to communicate to a Web server, a turret device, and to a remote communications device via a first communications network, the Web server being constructed to communicate to a client device via a second communications network, and the client device constructed to control switching across a plurality of lines. | 12-10-2009 |
20100110004 | CONVERGED DESKTOP BETWEEN A PC AND A TRADING TURRET - A personal computer and a telephony device are integrated using an input director and an input receiver. The input director is configured to receive an instruction from a user interface device, the instruction corresponding to a function of the telephony device. The input receiver is configured to receive the instruction from the input director and control the telephony device based on the instruction. | 05-06-2010 |
20130179917 | Multi-Component Advertising Campaigns - A computerized method, system and computer program product for implementing a multi-component advertising campaign, respectively comprising steps, structure and instructions for defining data representing a multi-component advertising campaign, the data specifying one or more campaign instructions, each of the campaign instructions identifying a multi-component advertisement and targeted digital media having a plurality of advertising opportunities, each advertising component of the multi-component advertisement corresponding to a respective one of the plurality of advertising opportunities; receiving an advertising request from a requesting device during presentation of the targeted digital media; selecting one of the campaign instructions from the multi-component advertising campaign corresponding to the targeted digital media; and transmitting information for inserting the multi-component advertisement identified in the selected campaign instruction into the plurality of advertising opportunities of the targeted digital media. | 07-11-2013 |
20150181310 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PRESENTING ADVERTISEMENT PLAYOUT SUMMARIES IN AN INTERACTIVE DISPLAY - Systems, methods, computer program products and apparatus are described for presenting an advertisement playout summary in an interactive display, that involve collecting individual playout statistics corresponding to playout of advertisements from at least one advertising insertion computer system; organizing the individual playout statistics into groups, each group having a group identifier; calculating aggregated playout statistics for each group, the aggregated playout statistics comprising a first statistic calculated for the group; generating display information for a displayable grid of blocks, each block displays the group identifier and at least one of the aggregated playout statistics for a respective group, wherein the size and position of the block in the grid depends on the first statistic; and transmitting the display information to a client device to display the grid. The color of a block corresponding to a respective group can depends on a second statistic. | 06-25-2015 |
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20130211711 | Indoor Navigation Techniques to Calibrate/Recalibrate Inertial Sensors and Navigation Processing - A computer-implemented method for determining geographic locations of a device includes receiving with a GPS receiver within the device, satellite signals from a plurality of GPS satellites, determining with the device, an approximate geographic location in response to the satellite signals, determining in the device, a potential GPS signal reduction condition in response to the satellite signals and to a GPS signal threshold, determining with physical perturbation sensors in the device, physical perturbations, determining with the device, an augmented geographic location in response to the approximate geographic location, the physical perturbations, and a weighting factor, determining with the device, a user display in response to the augmented geographic location, and outputting on a display of the device, the user display. | 08-15-2013 |
20130257788 | SELECTIVE ACCELEROMETER DATA PROCESSING METHODS AND APPARATUS - A computer-implemented method for reducing extraneous input in a portable device programmed to perform the method includes displaying with the portable device a text entry interface via a display to a user of the portable device, receiving with the portable device one or more taps on a portion of the portable device other than the display, wherein the one or more taps is associated with a first action, while displaying with the portable device, an interface other than a text entry interface via the display to the user, the method includes performing with the portable device the first action in response to the one or more taps, and while displaying with the portable device, a text entry interface via the display to the user, the method includes inhibiting with the portable device the first action in response to the one or more taps. | 10-03-2013 |
20140035842 | Selective Accelerometer Data Processing Methods and Apparatus - A computer-implemented method for reducing extraneous input in a portable device programmed to perform the method includes displaying with the portable device, a text entry interface via a display to a user of the portable device, receiving with the portable device, one or more taps on a portion of the portable device other than the display, wherein the one or more taps is associated with a first action, while displaying with the portable device, an interface other than a text entry interface via the display to the user, the method includes performing with the portable device, the first action in response to the one or more taps, and while displaying with the portable device, a text entry interface via the display to the user, the method includes inhibiting with the portable device, the first action in response to the one or more taps. | 02-06-2014 |
20150149085 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATICALLY GENERATING LOCATION SIGNATURES FOR POSITIONING USING INERTIAL SENSORS - A device, method and computer readable medium is disclosed for generating a plurality of location signature is disclosed. The method includes seeding a device with an initial position and utilizing an inertial positioning system to propagate user position, and generating location signatures. | 05-28-2015 |
20150341756 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING POSITION USING A GEOFEATURE - Systems and methods are disclosed for refining a coarse location determination by detecting patterns of motion sensor data that may be associated with predetermined locations. One or more geofeatures may be identified that cause a mobile device associated with a user to detect a distinguishable pattern of sensor data when the user interacts with the object. Accordingly, a coarse location may be refined using information associated with the geofeature, such as the location of the geofeature. | 11-26-2015 |
20150362315 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING POSITION INFORMATION USING ENVIRONMENTAL SENSING - Systems and methods are disclosed for determining position information for a mobile device by correlating patterns of data obtained with environmental sensors. A pattern of sensor data associated with an environmental condition may be detected at known location and then matched with a pattern of sensor data detected by the mobile device to determine position information. | 12-17-2015 |
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20110147451 | NEAR FIELD COMMUNICATION SECURE TRANSACTIONS - According to some embodiments, a method and system are provided to determine, at a portable personal computer associated with a user, a transaction between the user and a vendor to be completed via a web page, determine that a connection between the personal portable computer and a contactless payment card associated with the user has been established, and automatically facilitate a transfer of payment information from the contactless payment card to the vendor. | 06-23-2011 |
20110246373 | PAYMENT MANAGEMENT ON MOBILE DEVICES - Embodiments of techniques and systems for asynchronous offline bill review and payment are described. A bill payment management module, operated on a manageability engine on a mobile device, communicates with an online bill payment service. The bill payment management module may receive information about bill payments, including bills which are due, and presents selective information to a bill payment client application. A bill payer can then access the information on the mobile device through the bill payment client application and review or change the payment amounts. The review and the modifications may be performed when the mobile device is offline and the modifications may be stored until a later time when the mobile device can connect to a network. Once a network is available, the bill payment management module may send payment instructions to the online bill payment service. Other embodiments may be described and claimed. | 10-06-2011 |
20120166335 | TRANSACTION INTEGRITY - In one embodiment a secure controller comprises a memory module, and logic to receive one or more information components pertaining to a transaction initiated by a user on a controller separate from the secure controller, present, on a display device, a Turing test in combination with one or more information components associated with the transaction, receive a user input in response to the Turing test, authenticate the transaction when the user input corresponds to the answer to the Turing test and the personal identifier matches a personal identifier associated with the user. Other embodiments may be described. | 06-28-2012 |
20120167194 | CLIENT HARDWARE AUTHENTICATED TRANSACTIONS - In one embodiment a controller comprises logic to receive a request for a credential to authenticate a user for a transaction, in response to a determination that a credential which satisfies the request resides on a memory module, execute an authentication routine to authenticate a user of the controller, in response to a successful authentication, retrieve the credential from the memory module, and provide a token to certify the credential in response to the request. Other embodiments may be described. | 06-28-2012 |
20120303952 | Dynamic Platform Reconfiguration By Multi-Tenant Service Providers - A manageability engine or adjunct processor on a computer platform may receive a request for activation and use of features embedded within that platform from a service provider authorized by the manageability engine's manufacturer. The manageability engine may initiate a request for authority through the service provider to a permit server. The permit server may provide, through the service provider, proof of the service provider's authority, together with a certificate identifying the service provider. Then the manageability engine may enable activation of the features on the platform coupled to the manageability engine, but only by the one particular service provider who has been authorized. | 11-29-2012 |
20130340091 | METHOD OF CREATING UI LAYOUTS WITH DESIRED LEVEL OF ENTROPY - A machine-controlled method can include visually presenting to a first user a first user interface for a first transaction involving user-sensitive information, the first user interface having a first user interface layout, and performing processing based on user-sensitive information received by way of user interaction by the first user with the first user interface. The method can also include visually presenting to a second user a second user interface for receiving a second transaction involving user-sensitive information, the second user interface having a second user interface layout that is visually distinct from the first user interface layout and has a desired level of entropy. | 12-19-2013 |
20140013116 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING OVER-THE-AIR IDENTITY PROVISIONING - A method for controlling access to information includes sending a request from an identity requester to an identity provider through an over-the-air (OTA) link. Data received from the identity provider in response to the request includes information used to establish a first identity of a user for a first service. The first identity information is received during a Sigma session, and a second identity of the user is established for a second service based on the received first identity information. The user may be a user of a mobile communication terminal or other device, which is to receive the first and second services. | 01-09-2014 |
20140201030 | DYNAMIC PAYMENT SERVICE - Systems and methods may provide for implementing a dynamic payment service. In one example, the method may generate a request communication including purchase detail information relating to an item to request credit from a vendor to conduct a transaction relating to the item, determine a scope of credit to be issued to conduct the transaction relating to the item based on the purchase detail information, and generate a payment communication including the transaction information to complete the transaction relating to the item. | 07-17-2014 |
20140208103 | FILE ENCRYPTION, DECRYPTION AND ACCESSVIA NEAR FIELD COMMUNICATION - Methods and devices for NFC-tap file encryption, decryption and access via Near Field Communication (NFC) are disclosed. A user can select an unencrypted file stored in a computing device for encryption. Upon encryption, the file name of the selected file and the encryption key used to encrypt the selected file are transmitted to an NFC-enabled wireless device for storage. The user can select an encrypted file stored in the computing device for access. As the user taps the computing device with the wireless device, the file name of the selected file is transmitted to the wireless device, which in turn transmits a decryption key for decrypting the selected file to the computing device. The computing device decrypts the selected file with the decryption key. The user can now access the decrypted file. | 07-24-2014 |
20140215602 | RANGE BASED USER IDENTIFICATION AND PROFILE DETERMINATION - An embodiment includes a main compute node that detects the physical presence of a first user and subsequently loads a profile for the first user. The main compute node may detect the first user's presence based on detecting a first compute node corresponding to the first user. For example, the main compute node may be a desktop computer that detects the presence of the first user's Smart phone, which is nearby the first user. The main compute node may unload the first user's profile when the main compute node no longer detects the first user's presence. Upon detecting a second user's presence, the main computer may load a profile for the second user. The profile may include cookies and/or other identifiers for the second user. The profile may facilitate the second user's navigation of a computing environment (e.g. web pages). Other embodiments are addressed herein. | 07-31-2014 |
20140220886 | CONNECTION AND SYNCHRONIZATION WITH A DEVICE IN A NON-ACTIVE STATE BASED ON NEAR FIELD COMMUNICATION - Technologies for one-tap connection and synchronization with a device in a non-active state are disclosed. When a user brings a first device enabled for Near Field Communication (NFC) to close proximity of a second NFC-enabled device when the second device is in a non-active state, the second device may be awakened, or placed in an active state, for a period of time to perform one or more operations before returning to the non-active state. These operations include, for example, allowing the first device to access data stored in the second device and synchronizing one or more applications installed on the second device with remote servers. | 08-07-2014 |
20140259115 | AUTHENTICATION FOR NETWORK ACCESS RELATED APPLICATIONS - In one embodiment a controller comprises logic to receive, via a near field communication link, an identification packet generated by a remote authentication provider, associate an electronic signature with the identification packet, transmit the identification packet to a remote authentication provider, receive an authorization from the remote authentication provider, receive login information associated with the identification packet, and initiate a login procedure using the login information. Other embodiments may be described. | 09-11-2014 |
20140310113 | CLOUD BASED CREDIT CARD EMULATION - In some embodiments, an electronic device comprises an input interface, a communication interface, a processor, and logic to initiate, in the electronic device, a secure communication session with a credit server, select at least one credit source, receive, in the electronic device, a payment credential associated with the at least one credit source, receive, from a point of sale device, a request for payment information for a purchase transaction, wherein the request specifies a predetermined format for the payment information, format, in the electronic device, payment information comprising the payment credentials in the predetermined format, and transmit the payment information from the phone to the point of sale device. Other embodiments may be described. | 10-16-2014 |
20140317708 | LOGIN VIA NEAR FIELD COMMUNICATION WITH AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED LOGIN INFORMATION - Methods and devices for NFC tap login with automatically-generated login information are disclosed. A user can launch a browser application and log in a desired website without having to enter the user's username and password. The user can achieve this by tapping a Near Field Communication-enabled computing device with an NFC-enabled wireless device. The wireless device generates and stores the user's usernames and passwords corresponding to a number of websites, and provides the username and password for the desired website to the computing device via an NFC-based communication link. Through a browser application running on the computing device, the user can sign up an account at and log in the desired website. | 10-23-2014 |
20140337960 | TRUSTED SERVICE INTERACTION - In one embodiment a controller comprises logic configured to receive, from an application executing on an untrusted execution complex of the electronic device, a request for a secure communication session with a remote service, verify a security credential received from the remote service, establish a secure communication connection between the secure controller and the remote service, establish a secure user interface, collect one or more authentication credentials from a user via the secure user interface, forward the one or more authentication credentials to the remote service, and conduct a secure communication session with the remote service. Other embodiments may be described. | 11-13-2014 |
20150012746 | DETECTING USER PRESENCE ON SECURE IN-BAND CHANNELS - A method for detecting a human user includes establishing a protected audio video path (PAVP) session between a client device and a server device. The method also includes encrypting the user presence object with keys associated with the PAVP session. The method further includes sending an encrypted user presence object to the client device via the PAVP session. Additionally, the method includes determining whether the human user is in proximity with the client device based on a response associated with the user presence object. | 01-08-2015 |
20150081461 | METHODS AND ARRANGEMENTS FOR A PERSONAL POINT OF SALE DEVICE - Logic to register a personal point of sale (POS) device. Logic may communicate with the registration processor to establish a secure communication channel. Logic may access a basic input output system to obtain platform information. Logic may transmit the platform information to the registration processor to identify a certification associated with the device. Logic may communicate with a payment instrument via a card reader. Logic may transmit an encrypted message from the card reader to the registration processor to bind the payment instrument to the device. Logic may receive a communication from the device comprising platform information. Logic may perform a security protocol to establish a secure communication channel with the device. Logic may determine an existence of the certification for the device in the database based upon the platform information. And logic may register the platform in response to locating the certification of the platform. | 03-19-2015 |
20150135258 | MECHANISM FOR FACILITATING DYNAMIC CONTEXT-BASED ACCESS CONTROL OF RESOURCES - A mechanism is described for facilitating context-based access control of resources for according to one embodiment. A method of embodiments, as described herein, includes receiving a first request to access a resource of a plurality of resources. The first request may be associated with one or more contexts corresponding to a user placing the first request at a computing device. The method may further include evaluating the one or more contexts. The evaluation of the one or more contexts may include matching the one or more contexts with one or more access policies associated with the requested resource. The method may further include accepting the first request if the one or more contexts satisfy at least one of the access policies. | 05-14-2015 |
20150143543 | SCALABLE SECURE EXECUTION - In one embodiment a controller comprises logic configured to establish a pairing with a remote processor in a second electronic device, create a first secure communication channel with the remote processor, transmit a first portion of a processing task to the remote processor via the first secure channel, receive, via a second communication channel, an input from the first portion of the processing task, and complete at least a second portion of the processing task using the input. Other embodiments may be described. | 05-21-2015 |