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| 20080319036 | METHOD FOR TREATING OBESITY - The present invention relates, in general, to obesity, and, in particular, to a method of treating obesity and minimizing metabolic risk factors associated therewith using, for example, zonisamide or other weight-loss promoting anticonvulsant either alone or in combination with bupropion or other compound that enhances the activity of norepinephrine and/or dopamine via uptake inhibition or other mechanism. | 12-25-2008 |
| 20090018115 | COMPOSITIONS OF AN ANTICONVULSANT AND AN ANTIPSYCHOTIC DRUG AND METHODS OF USING THE SAME FOR AFFECTING WEIGHT LOSS - Disclosed are compositions for affecting weight loss comprising a first compound and a second compound, where the first compound is a psychotherapeutic agent and the second compound is a anticonvulsant. Also disclosed are methods of affecting weight loss, increasing energy expenditure, increasing satiety in an individual, or suppressing the appetite of an individual, comprising identifying an individual in need thereof and treating that individual with a psychotherapeutic agent and an anticonvulsant. | 01-15-2009 |
| 20090076108 | METHOD FOR TREATING OBESITY - The present invention relates generally to methods of treating obesity and minimizing metabolic risk factors associated therewith using, for example, zonisamide or other weight loss-promoting anti-convulsant either alone or in combination with bupropion or metabolites thereof or other compound that enhances the activity of norepinephrine and/or dopamine via uptake inhibition or other mechanism. | 03-19-2009 |
| 20100179129 | COMPOSITIONS OF AN ANTICONVULSANT AND MIRTAZAPINE TO PREVENT WEIGHT GAIN - Disclosed are pharmaceutical compositions comprising mirtazapine and an anticonvulsant drug. Also disclosed are methods of preventing weight gain associated with the administration of mirtazapine comprising identifying a patient to whom mirtazapine is to be administered and administering to said patient a pharmaceutical composition comprising mirtazapine and an anticonvulsant drug. Further disclosed are methods of increasing the efficacy of mirtazapine comprising identifying a patient to whom mirtazapine is to be administered and administering to said patient a pharmaceutical composition comprising mirtazapine and an anticonvulsant drug. | 07-15-2010 |
| 20110098289 | METHOD FOR TREATING OBESITY - The present invention relates generally to methods of treating obesity and minimizing metabolic risk factors associated therewith using, for example, zonisamide or other weight loss-promoting anti-convulsant either alone or in combination with bupropion or metabolites thereof or other compound that enhances the activity of norepinephrine and/or dopamine via uptake inhibition or other mechanism. | 04-28-2011 |
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| 20090024567 | PROFILE BASED SET OF PLANS FOR A DATABASE - A method for selecting a plan for a query is disclosed. The steps of the method include using a current plan when a query is invoked, where the current plan has a corresponding current profile. Determining when the current profile is changed into a new profile. When the current profile has changed, comparing the new profile to a set of stored profiles. When the new profile matches one of a set of stored profiles, then set the new profile as the current profile. And set one of a set of stored plans that corresponds to the first stored profile, as the current plan. When the new profile does not match one of the set of stored profiles, then invoke an optimizer to determine a new plan for the new profile. Set the new profile as the current profile, set the new plan as the current plan, save the new plan into the set of stored plans, and save the new profile into the set of stored profiles. | 01-22-2009 |
| 20090287883 | Least recently used ADC - During the last 75 years Analog to Digital converters revolutionized the signal processing industry. As transistor sizes reduced, higher resolution of bits is achieved. But FLASH and other full blown faster ADC implementations always consumed relatively higher power. As the analog signal comes into ADC frontend, conversion is initiated from the beginning. ADC conversion process is a highly mathematical number system problem, especially FLASH ADCs are. With faster, low power, and partitioned ADCS, better solutions can be built in so many vast expanding signal processing fields. It is time to come up with logical ADCS instead of brute force, start from the beginning conversion for every sample of analog signal. When the signal does not change abruptly, there is room for applying CACHE principles as it is done in this invention! The approach is to use a smaller ADC for full blown start from the beginning conversions and store it in upfront signal path as CACHED value. Then start using that Cached value set. There must be a balance between number of Cache entries, consumed power, and backend full blown ADC. It is obvious, backend ADC is rarely engaged in conversion when there are too many cache hits, which is desirable. | 11-19-2009 |
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| 20080211536 | Driver calibration methods and circuits - Described are amplifiers that facilitate high-speed communication with calibrated drive strength and termination impedance. Drivers and termination elements can be divided into a number N of parallel portions, one or more of which can be disabled and updated without interfering with signal (e.g., clock or data) transmission. Some embodiments identify inactive elements by examining incoming signals. | 09-04-2008 |
| 20090034344 | Methods and apparatus for strobe signaling and edge detection thereof - A data system component having a state machine circuit and receivers that utilize high and low threshold signals permits accurate detection of strobe signal pattern edges such as those for preamble, burst and post-amble conditions in the strobe signal. The state machine circuit may then be configured to set conditions associated with further circuit elements such as for power saving, data reception, on-die termination, etc. based on the conditions detected in the strobe signal to improve data or memory system performance. The components may be implemented as part of memory controllers and/or memory such as a dynamic random access memory and used in memory read and write operations. | 02-05-2009 |
| 20090278565 | Calibration Methods and Circuits to Calibrate Drive Current and Termination Impedance - Described are on-die termination (ODT) systems and methods that facilitate high-speed communication between a driver die and a receiver die interconnected via one or more signal transmission lines. An ODT control system in accordance with one embodiment calibrates and maintains termination resistances and drive currents to produce optimal output swing voltages. Comparison circuitry employed to calibrate the reference resistance is also used to calibrate the drive current. Termination elements in some embodiments are divided into two adjustable resistive portions, both of which are designed to minimize capacitive loading. One portion is optimized to produce a relatively high range of adjustment, while the other is optimized for fine-tuning and glitch-free switching. | 11-12-2009 |
| 20100202227 | REFERENCE VOLTAGE AND IMPEDANCE CALIBRATION IN A MULTI-MODE INTERFACE - A memory controller includes a transmit circuit coupled to an output node and a receive circuit coupled to an input node. The transmit circuit transmits first data to a memory device through the output node and the receive circuit is configured to receive second data from the memory device through the input node. The memory controller includes a calibration circuit and control logic coupled to the calibration circuit, where the calibration circuit and the control logic are configured to select a first reference voltage and a driver impedance for the transmit circuit and are configured to select a second reference voltage and a termination impedance for the receive circuit. The first reference voltage, the second reference voltage, the driver impedance and the termination impedance are selected from a set of pre-determined values, which are associated with different signaling modes for communication of the first data and the second data. | 08-12-2010 |
| 20100259295 | Calibration Methods and Circuits to Calibrate Drive Current and Termination Impedance - Described are on-die termination (ODT) systems and methods that facilitate high-speed communication between a driver die and a receiver die interconnected via one or more signal transmission lines. An ODT control system in accordance with one embodiment calibrates and maintains termination resistances and drive currents to produce optimal output swing voltages. Comparison circuitry employed to calibrate the reference resistance is also used to calibrate the drive current. Termination elements in some embodiments are divided into two adjustable resistive portions, both of which are designed to minimize capacitive loading. One portion is optimized to produce a relatively high range of adjustment, while the other is optimized for fine-tuning and glitch-free switching. | 10-14-2010 |
| 20100318311 | Driver Calibration Methods and Circuits - Described are amplifiers that facilitate high-speed communication with calibrated drive strength and termination impedance. Drivers and termination elements can be divided into a number N of parallel portions, one or more of which can be disabled and updated without interfering with signal (e.g., clock or data) transmission. Some embodiments identify inactive elements by examining incoming signals. | 12-16-2010 |
