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| 20120150642 | ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE-BASED RECOMMENDER AND SELF-PROVISIONER - A method including providing at least one of a phone service, an Internet access service, or a television service to customers; identifying a customer when the customer uses the at least one of the phone service, the Internet access service, or the television service; selecting products or services for which the customer qualifies based on the identifying; gathering customer-specific data for the customer; generating recommendations that pertain to the at least one of the phone service, the Internet access service, or the television service for the customer based on the products or the services for which the customer qualifies, the customer-specific data, and other factors, wherein the other factors include at least one of a location of the customer or a time in which the recommendations is to be provided to the customer; and providing the recommendations to the customer via the at least service. | 06-14-2012 |
| 20120151514 | INTELLIGENT OFFER GENERATION - A method may include receiving a user request to view a channel to which the user does not currently subscribe. Customer information regarding the user and marketing rules regarding a plurality of combination offers that include the channel may be obtained. A number of combination offers from the plurality of combination offers may be determined based on the customer information and the marketing rules. One or more of the determined combination offers may be provided to the user. A user request to purchase a selected one of the provided combination offers may be received. The channels included within the selected combination offer may be provisioned based on the user request. | 06-14-2012 |
| 20120246676 | TARGETING ADS IN CONJUNCTION WITH SET-TOP BOX WIDGETS - A network device receives selection of a widget, for execution at a set-top box (STB) associated with a customer, from multiple widgets stored at a server, where each of the multiple widgets includes a software application that the STB can execute to render graphics or images on a screen or to perform other functions associated with the STB. The network device analyzes information associated with the customer and the widget, and selects an ad for the customer based on the analysis, where the ad relates to a product or service available for purchase. The network device causes the selected widget and the selected ad to be delivered to the STB. | 09-27-2012 |
| 20130036443 | INTERACTIVE AND PROGRAM HALF-SCREEN - A method and system that provides a television service via a customer device; receives a customer input to invoke an interactive mode pertaining to the television service; retrieves a graphical user interface that includes an interactive and program half-screen comprising an interactive half-screen and a program half-screen, wherein the interactive half-screen is substantially a same size as a program half-screen, and the interactive half-screen and the program half-screen occupy an entire size of the graphical user interface; and displays the graphical user interface via the customer device, wherein the interactive half-screen includes one or more interactive graphical elements and the program half-screen includes a program window to display a program. | 02-07-2013 |
| 20130042269 | INTERACTIVE MASTHEAD - A method and system that provides a television service; receives a customer input to access a graphical user interface that includes a main menu pertaining to the television service; retrieves the graphical user interface; and displays the graphical user interface via the customer device, wherein the graphical user interface includes a main menu body and an interactive masthead having an interactive element that permits a customer to access content via the interactive element. | 02-14-2013 |
| 20130042284 | PAY-PER-VIEW PORTAL - A method and system that provides customers a pay-per-view portal, accessible via a television service, a mobile service, or an Internet service. The pay-per-view portal permits customers to search for pay-per-view programs and provide search results that include related content to pay-per-view programs including related videos, articles, biographical summaries, stats on players or fighters, and images. The pay-per-view portal provides personalized pay-per-view program recommendations, pay-per-view calendars, and sub-portals directed to categories or sub-categories of pay-per-view programs. The pay-per-view portal also provides the ordering and purchasing of pay-per-view programs days, weeks, or months in advance of the airing of the pay-per-view programs. | 02-14-2013 |
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| 20090126616 | Offshore floating production, storage, and off-loading vessel for use in ice-covered and clear water applications - An offshore floating production, storage, and off-loading vessel has a monolithic non ship-shaped hull of polygonal configuration surrounding a central double tapered conical moon pool and contains water ballast and oil storage compartments. The exterior side walls of the hull have flat surfaces and sharp corners to cut ice sheets, resist and break ice, and move ice pressure ridges away from the structure. An adjustable water ballast system induces heave, roll, pitch and surge motions of the vessel to dynamically position and maneuver the vessel to accomplish ice cutting, breaking and moving operations. The moon pool shape and other devices on the vessel provide added virtual mass capable of increasing the natural period of the roll and heave modes, reducing dynamic amplification and resonance due to waves and vessel motion, and facilitate maneuvering the vessel. The vessel may be moored by a disconnectable turret buoy received in a support frame at the bottom of the moon pool and to which flexible well risers and mooring lines are connected. | 05-21-2009 |
| 20110120126 | OFFSHORE FLOATING PLATFORM WITH OCEAN THERMAL ENERGY CONVERSION SYSTEM - An offshore floating platform having at least one buoyant column with an upper end extending above a sea surface, a lower end submerged below the sea surface, and at least one keel tank disposed at the lower end. A deck is supported at the upper end the column. An ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC) system is integrated with the platform in which heat is extracted from warm sea surface waters to vaporize a liquid working fluid and heat is rejected to cold water from lower depths of the sea to condense the vaporized working fluid. At least one turbine and power generator is disposed on the deck, at least one evaporator is disposed on the platform beneath the deck, and at least one condenser is disposed on the seabed or platform or keel tank a distance beneath the evaporator. | 05-26-2011 |
| 20120298027 | OFFSHORE FLOATING PRODUCTION, STORAGE, AND OFF-LOADING VESSEL FOR USE IN ICE-COVERED AND CLEAR WATER APPLICATIONS - An offshore floating production, storage, and off-loading vessel has a hull of generally cylindrical or polygonal configuration surrounding a central double tapered conical moon pool and contains water ballast and oil and/or liquefied gas storage compartments. An adjustable water ballast system induces heave, roll, pitch and surge motions of the vessel to dynamically position and maneuver the vessel. The moon pool shape and other devices on the vessel provide added virtual mass for increasing the natural period of the roll and heave modes, reducing dynamic amplification and resonance due to waves and vessel motion, and facilitate maneuvering the vessel. A disconnectable turret buoy at the bottom of the moon pool connects risers and mooring lines. | 11-29-2012 |
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| 20090251164 | PROCESS AND TEMPERATURE INSENSITIVE FLICKER NOISE MONITOR CIRCUIT - In an apparatus and method for monitoring defects in wafers, a monitoring circuit is fabricated on an area of each one of the wafers. The monitoring circuit includes representative devices that replicate similar devices located in a die area of the wafers. Defects if present in the representative devices contribute to a generation of a noise, thereby causing an imbalance in a differential signal measurable across selected ones of the representative devices. A digitizing circuit that uses a common mode voltage as a reference to measure the imbalance digitizes the differential signal to a digital signal, the digital signal being indicative of the noise generated by the defects. The digital signal is stored over a configurable time interval to form a digital bit stream. The digital bit stream is compared to a reference to determine whether the defects are within an allowable range. | 10-08-2009 |
| 20100197053 | PROCESS AND TEMPERATURE INSENSITIVE FLICKER NOISE MONITOR CIRCUIT - In an apparatus and method for monitoring defects in wafers, a monitoring circuit is fabricated on an area of each one of the wafers. The monitoring circuit includes representative devices that replicate similar devices located in a die area of the wafers. Defects if present in the representative devices contribute to a generation of a noise, thereby causing an imbalance in a differential signal measurable across selected ones of the representative devices. A digitizing circuit that uses a common mode voltage as a reference to measure the imbalance digitizes the differential signal to a digital signal, the digital signal being indicative of the noise generated by the defects. The digital signal is stored over a configurable time interval to form a digital bit stream. The digital bit stream is compared to a reference to determine whether the defeats are within an allowable range. | 08-05-2010 |
| 20120086589 | PIPELINED CONTINUOUS-TIME SIGMA DELTA MODULATOR - Traditionally, pipelined continuous-time (CT) sigma-delta modulators (SDM) have been difficult to build due at least in part to the difficulties in calibrating the pipeline. Here, however, a pipelined CT SDM is provided that has an architecture that is conducing to being calibrated. Namely, the system includes a digital filter and other features that can be adjusted to account for input imbalance errors and well as quantization leakage noise. | 04-12-2012 |
| 20120086590 | METHOD FOR CALBRATING A PIPELINED CONTINUOUS-TIME SIGMA DELTA MODULATOR - Traditionally, pipelined continuous-time (CT) sigma-delta modulators (SDM) have been difficult to build due at least in part to the difficulties in calibrating the pipeline. Here, however, a pipelined CT SDM is provided that has an architecture that is conducing to being calibrated. Namely, the system includes a digital filter and other features that can be adjusted to account for input imbalance errors and well as quantization leakage noise. | 04-12-2012 |
| 20120098572 | LATCHED COMPARATOR HAVING ISOLATION INDUCTORS - Traditionally, latched comparators have suffered from performance problems related to exposure of the latch to load capacitances. Even attempts to isolate the latch from the load capacitances by way of resistors has resulted in performance problems (namely, voltage swing degradation). Here, however, a latched comparator is provided that employs inductors to generally provide isolation from load capacitances, which generally improves performance. Moreover, the latch has been modified to accommodate the inductors during a track period (namely, provision of grounding paths). | 04-26-2012 |
| 20120262138 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LOAD CURRENT DEPENDENT OUTPUT BUFFER COMPENSATION - A load current compensating output buffer circuit and method are disclosed. The circuit includes a buffer amplifier coupled to a supply voltage and the inverting input receives an input voltage and the non-inverting input couples to an output capacitive load. A feedback impedance with a variable resistance circuit and a Miller capacitance in series is coupled to an output of the buffer amplifier and the capacitive load. A pass transistor couples to the supply voltage and the output capacitive load, the pass transistor having a gate terminal coupled to the output of the output buffer amplifier and the feedback impedance, a load current passing through the pass transistor. A sense circuit is configured to sense the load current and apply a control voltage to the variable resistance circuit to vary the resistance of the variable resistance circuit based on the load current. | 10-18-2012 |
| 20120262319 | METHOD FOR CALBRATING A PIPELINED CONTINUOUS-TIME SIGMA DELTA MODULATOR - Traditionally, pipelined continuous-time (CT) sigma-delta modulators (SDM) have been difficult to build due at least in part to the difficulties in calibrating the pipeline. Here, however, a pipelined CT SDM is provided that has an architecture that is conducing to being calibrated. Namely, the system includes a digital filter and other features that can be adjusted to account for input imbalance errors and well as quantization leakage noise. | 10-18-2012 |
| 20120286981 | COMPRESSIVE SENSING ANALOG-TO-DIGITAL CONVERTERS - Compressive sensing is an emerging field that attempts to prevent the losses associated with data compression and improve efficiency overall, and compressive sensing looks to perform the compression before or during capture, before energy is wasted. Here, several analog-to-digital converter (ADC) architectures are provided to perform compressive sensing. Each of these new architectures selects resolutions for each sample substantially at random and adjusts the sampling rate as a function of these selected resolutions. | 11-15-2012 |
| 20120322400 | CURRENT MODE BLIXER WITH NOISE CANCELLATION - Blixers, which are a relatively recent development, have not be studied as extensively as many older circuit designs. Here, a blixer is provided that improves linearity and reduces noise over other conventional blixer designs. To accomplish this, the blixer provided here uses a differential amplifier and/or a dummy path within its mixing circuit to perform noise reduction (and improve linearity). | 12-20-2012 |
| 20120326906 | PIPELINED CONTINUOUS-TIME SIGMA DELTA MODULATOR - Traditionally, pipelined continuous-time (CT) sigma-delta modulators (SDM) have been difficult to build due at least in part to the difficulties in calibrating the pipeline. Here, however, a pipelined CT SDM is provided that has an architecture that is conducing to being calibrated. Namely, the system includes a digital filter and other features that can be adjusted to account for input imbalance errors and well as quantization leakage noise. | 12-27-2012 |
| 20130015918 | HIGH SPEED AMPLIFIERAANM Wang Limketkai; Victoria L.AACI DallasAAST TXAACO USAAGP Wang Limketkai; Victoria L. Dallas TX USAANM Srinivasan; VenkateshAACI DallasAAST TXAACO USAAGP Srinivasan; Venkatesh Dallas TX US - For high speed amplifiers, the parasitic capacitances between a differential input pairs and a cascoded bias network can introduce a pole that can affect performance. Here, a feedforward network has been provided that compensates for this pole by introducing a zero that effectively cancels the pole, moving the next parasitic without any additional power. This is generally accomplished by using a pair of feedforward capacitors coupled across the transistors of the cascoded bias network, which reduced power consumption. | 01-17-2013 |
| 20130063210 | HIGH SPEED AMPLIFIER - For high speed amplifiers, the parasitic capacitances from the differential input pair introduce a zero that can affect performance. Here, a neutralization network has been provided that compensates for this zero by shifting its position. This is generally accomplished by using a pair of capacitors that are cross-coupled across the differential input pair of the amplifier. | 03-14-2013 |
| 20130063289 | CORRECTING FOR NON-LINEARITIES IN A CONTINUOUS-TIME SIGMA-DELTA MODULATOR - In higher order sigma-delta modulators (SDMs), there are oftentimes errors introduced by the digital-to-analog (DAC) switches. Namely, parasitic capacitances associated with switches can introduce second harmonic spurs. Here, however, compensation circuits and buffers are provided. The buffers bias the switches in saturation, and the compensation circuits provide a “ground boost” for the buffers. The combination of the buffer and compensation circuit reduces the second harmonic spur, while also improving the Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR) and Signal-to-Noise-plus-Distortion Ratio (SNDR). | 03-14-2013 |
| 20130063291 | EXCESS LOOP DELAY COMPENSATION FOR A CONTINUOUS TIME SIGMA DELTA MODULATOR - A method and corresponding apparatus are provided. In operation, an analog signal is integrated with an integrator to generate an integrated analog signal. The integrated analog signal is compared, in synchronization with a first clock signal and a second clock signal, to a reference voltage with a plurality of comparators to generate a comparator output signal. A feedback current is then generated, in synchronization with the second clock signal, from the comparator output signal. The feedback current is fed back to at least one of the comparators, and the comparator output signal is latched in synchronization with the first clock signal to generate a latched output signal. This latched output signal is converted to a feedback analog signal, and a difference between the analog signal and the feedback analog signal is determined. | 03-14-2013 |
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| 20090243727 | Compensating for non-linear capacitance effects in a power amplifier - In one implementation, a power amplifier may include a gain device to receive an input signal and to output an amplified signal, and a compensation device coupled to the gain device to compensate for a change in a capacitance of the gain device occurring due to a change in the input signal. The power amplifier may be formed using a complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) process. | 10-01-2009 |
| 20090256631 | Providing pre-distortion to an input signal - In one implementation, the present invention includes a diode device to receive an incoming radio frequency (RF) signal to be amplified in a gain device of an amplifier and to provide a pre-distorted signal. Based on this pre-distorted signal, the gain device can output an amplified RF signal having substantial linearity to the incoming RF signal. | 10-15-2009 |
| 20090273397 | Controlling power with an output network - In one embodiment, the present invention includes multiple gain stages and an output network coupled to the gain stages. Each of the gain stages can be independently controlled to amplify a radio frequency (RF) signal to an output power level for transmission from a mobile wireless device. When controlled to be inactive, at least one of the gain stages can be placed into a low impedance state. | 11-05-2009 |
| 20090278609 | Supply control for multiple power modes of a power amplifier - In one embodiment, the present invention includes an apparatus having at least two gain stages to receive incoming signals and to output amplified signals, along with multiple regulators. More specifically, a linear regulator can be coupled to the first gain stage to provide a first regulated voltage to the first gain stage, and a switching regulator coupled to the second gain stage to provide a second regulated voltage to the second gain stage. | 11-12-2009 |
| 20100085119 | Generating A Process And Temperature Tracking Bias Voltage - In one embodiment, a method includes generating a current that is proportional to a mobility and an oxide capacitance of a tracking device and independent of a threshold voltage variation of the tracking device, generating a voltage from the current, and providing the voltage as at least part of a bias voltage for another device. In one embodiment, this other device may be a compensation circuit coupled to a main device to compensate for capacitance non-linearity of the main device. | 04-08-2010 |
| 20100164621 | OUTPUT GAIN STAGE FOR A POWER AMPLIFIER - In one embodiment, the present invention includes multiple gain stages to receive and amplify a differential input signal at different common mode voltages. The stages each may include a pair of linear NMOS gain transistors coupled to a primary coil of a given output transformer. One of the stages may include commonly coupled terminals coupled to a center tap of the primary coil of an output transformer of another stage, and a supply current provided to one of the stages is re-used for the other stage(s). | 07-01-2010 |
| 20110074509 | NON-LINEAR CAPACITANCE COMPENSATION - Embodiments are directed to capacitance compensation via a compensation device coupled to a gain device to compensate for a capacitance change occurring due to an input signal change, along with a controller coupled to the compensation device to receive the input signal and to control an amount of compensation based on the input signal. In some embodiments, banks may be formed of multiple compensation devices, where each of the banks has a different size and is coupled to receive a different set of bias voltages. | 03-31-2011 |
