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| 20080228858 | INCREMENTALLY SYCHRONIZING OCCASIONALLY-CONNECTED MOBILE DATABASES, PRESERVING HORIZONTAL FILTER SCOPE CONSISTENCY BY USING CLIENT PRE-IMAGE - A system for synchronizing data on a first device with data at a second device, includes: determining a pre-image of the data on the first device according to a filter after a previous synchronization with the data at the second device; determining a current image of the data at the second device according to the filter; determining a delta of the current image, where the delta comprises data that exists in the current image and has changed since the previous synchronization; instructing the first device to delete data that exists in the pre-image but not in the current image; and instructing the first device to UPSERT a union of the data that exists in the delta and the data that exists in the current image but not the pre-image. This is efficient in time and bandwidth resources while also providing consistent data integrity. | 09-18-2008 |
| 20080235653 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DEFINING AND DYNAMICALLY INVOKING POLYMORPHIC CALL FLOWS - A system and method for defining and dynamically invoking polymorphic call flows in a call flow system. Call flows are defined that include a publisher call flow and subscriber call flows. A first trigger point in a publisher call flow is defined. Triggers specifying late-binding references to trigger points are defined in the subscriber call flows. Subsequent to the call flows being published in a repository, the publisher call flow is executed, the first trigger point is located, and the publisher call flow is executed. Without changing any other call flow and without terminating and restarting the publisher call flow, a call flow is added to the call flow system and invoked or a call flow is removed. | 09-25-2008 |
| 20080306907 | REDUNDANT VERSION INFORMATION IN HISTORY TABLE THAT ENABLES EFFICIENT SNAPSHOT QUERYING - A system for efficient snapshot querying include: providing a first version value for each data in a history table, where the first version value indicates a beginning of a period in which the data is valid; providing at least a second version value for each data in the history table, where the second version value indicates an end of the period in which the data is valid; receiving a request for a version of a database; and retrieving the data with the first version value less than or equal to the requested version and the second version value greater than or equal to the requested version. By maintaining a history table with redundant version information, the system is able to provide efficient snapshot querying while also avoiding the overhead burden of conventional approaches. No aggregates, joins, or sub-queries are required to retrieve a snapshot. | 12-11-2008 |
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| 20090286761 | Anti-Proliferative and Anti-Inflammatory Agent Combination for Treatment of Vascular Disorders with an Implantable Medical Device - A drug-delivery system is provided including at least 100 μg of everolimus and clobetasol, such that the ratio of everolimus to clobetasol is at least 10:1 (w/w) or the amount of everolimus by weight is at least 10 times more than clobetasol. The system can be a stent. Also provided a method of treating restenosis or vulnerable plaque of a blood vessel, the method includes locally administering to a patient a first drug selected from a group consisting of rapamycin (sirolimus), Biolimus A9, deforolimus, AP23572, tacrolimus, temsirolimus, pimecrolimus, zotarolimus (ABT-578), 40-O-(2-hydroxy)ethylrapamycin (everolimus), 40-O-(3-hydroxy)propylrapamycin, 40-O-[2-(2-hydroxy)ethoxy]ethylrapamycin, 40-O-tetrazolylrapamycin and 40-epi-(N1-tetrazolyl)rapamycin, and locally administering to a patient a second drug consisting of clobetasol, wherein the minimum amount of the first drug that is locally administered is 100 μg, and wherein the ratio of the first drug to the second drug is, for example, 10:1 to 100:1 (w/w). | 11-19-2009 |
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| 20100002675 | Method and apparatus of data transmission over guard sub-carriers in multi-carrier OFDM systems - A method of data transmission over guard sub-carriers is provided in a multi-carrier OFDM system. Adjacent radio frequency (RF) carriers are used to carry radio signals transmitted through adjacent frequency channels. A plurality of guard sub-carriers between adjacent frequency channels are aligned and identified for data transmission in a pre-defined physical resource unit. The identified guard sub-carriers do not overlap with normal data sub-carriers of the radio signals transmitted through the adjacent frequency channels. At least one of the identified guard sub-carriers is reserved as NULL sub-carrier. A flexible multi-carrier transceiver architecture is also provided in a multi-carrier OFDM system. Different multi-carrier and/or MIMO/SISO data transmission schemes are implemented by adaptively reconfigure same hardware modules including common MAC layer module, physical layer entities, and RF entities. Furthermore, the flexible multi-carrier transceiver architecture can be used to support data transmission over guard sub-carriers. | 01-07-2010 |
| 20100166093 | METHOD FOR ESTIMATING PHASE ERROR IN MIMO OFDM COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM - A method for estimating a phase error existing in a receiver of a MIMO OFDM communications system is disclosed. The method includes executing Hermitian transpose on channel coefficient matrix of the MIMO OFDM communications system for generating Hermitian-transposed channel coefficient matrix, multiplying received signal matrix of the receiver with the Hermitian-transposed channel coefficient matrix for generating converted signals, summing products of the converted signals and complex conjugates of pilot signals corresponding to the converted signals for generating a sum result, and generating the phase error according to the sum result, the converted signals, and the complex conjugates of the pilot signals. The pilot signals are extracted from the received signal matrix. | 07-01-2010 |
| 20100202570 | Method for estimating phase error in MIMO OFDM communications system - A method for estimating a phase error existing in a receiver of a MIMO OFDM communications system is disclosed. The method includes executing Hermitian transpose on channel coefficient matrix of the MIMO OFDM communications system for generating Hermitian-transposed channel coefficient matrix, multiplying received signal matrix of the receiver with the Hermitian-transposed channel coefficient matrix for generating converted signals, summing products of the converted signals and complex conjugates of pilot signals corresponding to the converted signals for generating a sum result, and generating the phase error according to the sum result, the converted signals, and the complex conjugates of the pilot signals. The pilot signals are extracted from the received signal matrix. | 08-12-2010 |
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| 20090098902 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROCESSING MULTI-RATE AUDIO FROM A PLURALITY OF AUDIO PROCESSING SOURCES - One or more circuits in a mobile phone may be utilized for up sampling two or more audio signals to a same data sampling rate. Each audio signal, such as digital audio, voice, and polyringer, for example, may be received at one of a plurality of data sampling rates and one or more of the following wireless standards: WCDMA, HSDPA, GSM, GPRS, EDGE, and/or Bluetooth. Audio signals may be equalized and/or compensated with an FIR filter before up sampling or with an IIR filter to reduce overall processing latency. Multiple half-band interpolation operations may perform the up sampling. The first half-band filter may be replaced by an IIR filter to reduce overall processing latency. A gain of the up-sampled data may be adjusted to reduce noise effects. The channels of the up-sampled audio signals may be mixed and later further up sampled for subsequent communication to an output device. | 04-16-2009 |
| 20090319260 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUDIO TRANSMIT PROCESSING IN AN AUDIO CODEC - Methods and systems for audio transmit processing in an audio CODEC are disclosed and may comprise receiving one or more analog and/or digital audio signals, and simultaneously processing the received one or more analog audio and/or digital audio signals via a plurality of processing paths of the audio CODEC. The digital audio signals may be generated via a digital microphone, which may comprise a microelectromechanical (MEMS) microphone, and may be utilized for audio beamforming. The received analog and digital signals may be processed at one or more sampling rates, and may be filtered via decimation filters. The received analog signals may be converted to digital signals. The processing may comprise converting a sampling rate of the received digital signals and the converted analog signals. The processing may comprises filtering of the received digital signals and the converted analog signals via infinite impulse response (IIR) filters. | 12-24-2009 |
| 20100056050 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUDIO FEEDBACK PROCESSING IN AN AUDIO CODEC - Aspects of a method and system for audio feedback processing in an audio CODEC are provided. In this regard, in a hardware audio CODEC for a wireless device, voice content from a first audio source may be mixed with audio content from one or more second audio sources to generate a composite audio signal. The composite audio may be transmitted to one or more far-end communication partners via a wireless communication channel. The wireless communication channel may be a channel of a cellular network. The composite audio signal may also be mixed with audio content received from a far-end communication partner and output to a local user via one or more audio output devices. The audio content from the second audio sources may comprise music played from a digital storage medium within the wireless device and/or music extracted from a signal received by the wireless device. | 03-04-2010 |
| 20100057471 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROCESSING AUDIO SIGNALS VIA SEPARATE INPUT AND OUTPUT PROCESSING PATHS - Aspects of a method and system for processing audio signals via separate input and output processing paths are provided. In this regard, a hardware audio CODEC comprising one or more audio inputs and one or more audio outputs and may be enabled to route, via one or more switching elements, audio signals from any of the inputs to any of the outputs. The CODEC may be enabled to simultaneously process a plurality of audio signals based on a configuration of the switching elements. Upstream from the switching elements, received audio signals may be processed independent of an output to which the may be communicated. Downstream from said switching elements audio signals may be processed independent of an input via which the signals were received. | 03-04-2010 |
| 20100057472 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR FREQUENCY COMPENSATION IN AN AUDIO CODEC - In a method and system for frequency compensation in an audio CODEC, a filter in a hardware audio CODEC may be configured based on power consumption and based on a frequency response of an active output device to which the filter is communicatively coupled. The filter may comprise a plurality of filter stages, which may be, for example, biquads, and the filter may be configured by enabling or disabling one or more of the stages. In this manner, power consumption of the filter may be managed by enabling and/or disabling one or more stages. Configuration of the filter may be performed dynamically depending on whether one or more audio output devices may be active. In this regard, which output device is active and its frequency response may be determined and filter coefficients may be reconfigured upon a change in which output device may be active. | 03-04-2010 |
| 20100057477 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MULTI-BAND AMPLITUDE ESTIMATION AND GAIN CONTROL IN AN AUDIO CODEC - Aspects of a method and system for multi-band amplitude estimation and gain control in an audio CODEC are provided. In this regard, an audio signal may be filtered and delayed to generate one or more sub-band signals, a gain may be applied to each sub-band signal to generate one or more level adjusted sub-band signals, and the one or more level adjusted signals may be added to a delayed version of the audio signal. The gain applied to a particular one of the one or more sub-band signals may be controlled based on a detected amplitude of a summed signal derived by summing the particular one of the one or more sub-band signals and a corresponding one of the one or more level-adjusted sub-band signals. | 03-04-2010 |
| 20110013851 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PIPELINED PROCESSING IN AN INTEGRATED EMBEDDED IMAGE AND VIDEO ACCELERATOR - A method and system for pipelined processing in an integrated embedded image and video accelerator is described. Aspects of a system for pipelined processing in an integrated embedded image and video accelerator may include circuitry that enables pipeline processing of video data within a single chip, wherein the pipeline processing may further include decoding of a block of video data while simultaneously inverse transforming a previously decoded block of video data. Aspects of the system may also include circuitry that enables transformation, within the single chip, of a block of said video data while simultaneously encoding, within said single chip, a previously transformed block of video data | 01-20-2011 |
