| Patent application number | Description | Published |
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| 20110011930 | PARKING METER WITH EV RECHARGING CAPABILITY - A parking meter includes a credit or debit reader to capture financial information; a printer to print parking slips; and a controller coupled to a power receptacle, the controller receiving financial information from the card reader and upon receiving authorization for a credit or debit transaction, printing a parking slip and applying power to the power receptacle to recharge a vehicle battery. | 01-20-2011 |
| 20110015814 | CHARGING STATION WITH SOLAR PANELS - A parking meter includes a solar panel; a power regulator coupled to the solar panel; a battery coupled to the power regulator; and a parking meter coupled to the power regulator and the battery and having a power receptacle adapted to recharge a vehicle battery. | 01-20-2011 |
| 20110015821 | ELECTRIC VEHICLE RECHARGING STATION - A parking meter includes an access control device to uniquely identify a vehicle based on wireless communication with the vehicle; and a plurality of power connections to distribute electricity to charge in parallel a plurality of battery sets in the vehicle. The battery sets may form an exterior body of the vehicle. | 01-20-2011 |
| 20110110141 | RESISTIVE MEMORY - A memory device includes an array of memory structures disposed in rows and columns and constructed over a substrate, each memory structure comprising a first signal electrode, a second signal electrode, and a resistive layer coupled to the first signal electrode and the second signal electrode; a plurality of word lines connected to the first signal electrodes of a row of memory cells; and a plurality of bit lines connected to the second signal electrodes of a column of memory cells. | 05-12-2011 |
| 20110115624 | MESH NETWORK PERSONAL EMERGENCY RESPONSE APPLIANCE - A monitoring system includes one or more wireless nodes forming a wireless mesh network; a user activity sensor including a wireless mesh transceiver adapted to communicate with the one or more wireless nodes using the wireless mesh network; and a digital monitoring agent coupled to the wireless transceiver through the wireless mesh network to request assistance from a third party based on the user activity sensor. | 05-19-2011 |
| 20110140656 | CHARGING STATION WITH PROTECTIVE DOOR - An electric vehicle charging station includes a parking meter; a main display coupled to the parking meter to display information; a fast charge port and a regular charge port coupled to the parking meter to dispense electricity upon authorization; a payment reader coupled to the parking meter to accept a financial card and to enable one or more ports after card authorization; a door coupled to the charge ports, the door allowing access to the ports after authorization and closing access to the ports after charging completes, the door securing the port from unauthorized charging and to secure the ports from tampering; and an outer casing to enclose the parking meter. | 06-16-2011 |
| 20110173470 | MINIMIZING POWER CONSUMPTION IN COMPUTERS - A computer is disclosed with an operating system including a kernel and a task scheduler to schedule execution of one or more processes on the computer; a power estimator coupled to the task scheduler to determine a required system power based on number or type of processes scheduled for execution; and a variable load power supply including a plurality of power generators each having a predetermined power output and a power manager receiving instructions from the power estimator in the kernel, the power manager enabling a sufficient number of power generators to match the required power generated by the power estimator. | 07-14-2011 |
| 20110211036 | HIGH DEFINITION PERSONAL COMPUTER (PC) CAM - A video system includes a central processing unit (CPU) and a graphic processing unit (GPU) including a plurality of processors therein. The system also includes a high definition (HD) imager; a serial bus controller coupled to the imager, the CPU and the GPU to communicate data between the HD imager and the CPU or the GPU over a serial bus having a transmit differential signal pair, a receive differential pair and a compatibility differential signal pair for interoperability with another serial bus version; and computer code executable by the processors in the GPU to encode in parallel the video transmitted over the serial bus controller and to minimize high definition encoding workload on the CPU. | 09-01-2011 |
