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20090300068 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING STRUCTURED DOCUMENTS - Embodiments of the invention disclose a capture device, and a portal service for the processing of structured documents in the form of the receipts, and business cards. In one embodiment, the capture device such as a camera-enabled mobile phone passes images of proof of expense (receipts) to the portal service via an intermediate network. The portal service recognizes and classifies the image content into a central repository for later access by an individual or company. | 12-03-2009 |
20090304305 | COPYING SYSTEM AND METHOD - Embodiments of the present invention disclose a copying method that combines optical character recognition (OCR) technology and a search in order to improve the quality of a copy despite the presence of degrading factors. In one embodiment, the search comprises an Internet search and is used to reconstruct/enhance the copy digitally before outputting the copy to print or some other digital medium. Advantageously, a copy produced using the techniques of the present invention may be at least equal to if not better than the original document copied. | 12-10-2009 |
20090313006 | TRANSLATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - In accordance with a first aspect of the invention, there is provided a method comprising receiving an input as part of a translation request from a requestor, performing a first translation of the input; wherein the first translation is a machine translation, returning the first translation to the requestor; and based on feedback on the first translation from the requestor performing the following (a) fragmenting the input into multiple translation jobs, (b) distributing the multiple translation jobs to a plurality of human translators; (c) generating a second translation of the input based on translations of the multiple jobs by the human translators; and (d) returning the second translation to the requestor. | 12-17-2009 |
20110313915 | COLLECTING AND SHARING REVENUE ASSOCIATED WITH PERSONAL DATA ASSETS - A personal data asset portal or service is provided to collect personal data assets associated with a user. Personal data assets, such as data associated with or generated by interaction a user, may be of interest to third parties such as marketers. Personal data assets may be generated through normal use of personal data generation devices such as mobile phones, navigation systems, personal computers, payment transponders, etc. and through interacting with buildings, vehicles and other elements of a user's environment. Personal data assets may include physical locations visited by the user, virtual locations (Web sites) visited by the user, telephone numbers dialed by the user, payment transactions for the user, etc. Access to personal data assets is selectively provided by the user to the third parties for a fee. Personal data assets may be bundled or aggregated by one or more services; users may be bundled into a group. Advantageously, at least a part of the fee or some benefit or advantage is shared with the user, group or user and group. | 12-22-2011 |
20120131520 | Gesture-based Text Identification and Selection in Images - A device with a touch-sensitive screen supports tapping gestures for identifying, selecting or working with initially unrecognized text. A single tap gesture can cause a portion of a character string to be selected. A double tap gesture can cause the entire character string to be selected. A tap and hold gesture can cause the device to enter a cursor mode wherein a placement of a cursor relative to the characters in a character string can be adjusted. In a text selection mode, a finger can be used to move the cursor from a cursor start position to a cursor end position and to select text between the positions. Selected or identified text can populate fields, control the device, etc. Recognition of text can be performed upon access of an image or upon the device detecting a tapping gesture in association with display of the image on the screen. | 05-24-2012 |
20120288190 | Image Reflow at Word Boundaries - Described is a method for identifying text or other information in one or more images and reflowing images of individual elements of text at a word boundary or character boundary on devices of different sizes. The text may be rescaled while retaining the look and feel of the original text. The size may be scaled according to one or more parameters. Text may be captured in a plurality of images and merged together to form a single document or document-like collection. Text may be fully recognized, indexed, sorted and/or be made searchable. Text may be wrapped around objects and features identified as non-text or non-informational elements in an image. Borders or edges between successive elements of text may be smoothed, combined, overlapped and/or blended. Backgrounds of text may be adjusted to make the appearance of successive elements aesthetically pleasing or as close to the original as possible. Fonts may be automatically generated for display of the text on any device in its original form—with breaks in the text at a word or other natural language boundary not found in the original representation of the text. | 11-15-2012 |
20130047271 | Author Authorization of Electronic Works - Described is a system, device and method for granting rights or authorizing access to or delivery of a second, subsequent or other electronic copy of an author's work to consumers and others who have previously purchased a copy of the same or other author's work. The second copy of the work is for use on or through a consumer device such as a second consumer device that is also owned by the consumer who purchased or leased a first copy of the first work. An authentication credential or proof of purchase provides the system a means to determine if authorization may be granted for an electronic copy of an author's work. | 02-21-2013 |
20130054636 | Document Journaling - A method, device and system for acquiring information related to annotations and the content of a document. Annotations are isolated from document content and are associated with portions of the content of the document. Annotations and content are used as a basis for a semantic search of a corpus of other documents. From the corpus, related information is extracted and presented or made available along side of or with the original content and annotations of the document. Each version of a document is stored and made accessible. Any of the versions of a document, with or without a current set of annotations, may be distributed to others for further review and annotation. Annotations are protected and associated with a level of privilege or rights. Annotations are trackable over time and location and are associated with a particular annotator. | 02-28-2013 |
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20150215803 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND DEVICES FOR IMPROVED INTER-FREQUENCY MEASUREMENT - Systems and methods for improved inter-frequency measurement are disclosed herein. User equipment (UE) may be configured to communicatively couple to an Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Network (E-UTRAN) Node B (eNB). The eNB may determine a measurement pattern indicating when the UE should perform inter-frequency measurements. The measurement pattern may be selected such that the UE performs measurements more often than once per measurement cycle. The measurement pattern may be selected to balance timing requirements for the UE with increased power consumption that may result from more frequent measurements. The eNB may determine the measurement pattern based on an estimate of UE speed and a number of frequencies to be monitored. A default pattern may be used if the UE speed and/or number of frequencies do not exceed predetermined thresholds. | 07-30-2015 |
20150215837 | MEASUREMENT GAP REPETITION PATTERNS FOR INTER-FREQUENCY OFFLOADING IN HETEROGENEOUS WIRELESS NETWORKS - An embodiment for user equipment that receives a plurality of measurement gap repetition patterns from a network. Each measurement gap repetition pattern may be assigned to a different frequency of the network. The plurality of measurement gap repetition patterns may include skipping measurement patterns. Further embodiments may include the user equipment receiving a repetition period in a measurement object frame or receiving a plurality of measurement gap repetition patterns in which the measurement gaps are non-colliding with measurement gaps of other repetition patterns assigned to the user equipment. | 07-30-2015 |
20150245235 | MEASUREMENT GAP PATTERNS - Technology for configuring measurement gap patterns is disclosed. An evolved node B (eNB) can generate multiple measurement gap patterns for a user equipment (UE), wherein each measurement gap pattern indicates at least one set of consecutive subframes within a defined time period during which the UE is to perform inter-frequency measurements for a selected cell. The eNB can configure the multiple measurement gap patterns from the eNB to the UE, the UE being configured to perform the inter-frequency measurements for selected cells within a group of cells according to the multiple measurement gap patterns. | 08-27-2015 |
20150270936 | REFERENCE SIGNAL ENHANCEMENT FOR SHARED CELL - In embodiments, apparatuses, methods, and storage media may be described for distinguishing, by a user equipment (UE), a reference signal (RS) transmitted by a cell that may have a same identifier (ID) as another cell in a network. In embodiments, a muting pattern, a time offset, or a virtual cell identifier (VCID) may be used to generate an RS sequence or RS resource allocation. | 09-24-2015 |
20150312817 | USER EQUIPMENT AND METHODS FOR MEASUREMENT OF REFERENCE SIGNAL RECEIVED QUALITY - Embodiments of UE and methods for measurement of Reference Signal Received Quality (RSRQ) are generally described herein. The UE may be configured to determine an RSRQ of a serving cell and an RSRQ of a target cell based on an indicated RSRQ measurement type. The measurement type may be received as part of a measurement configuration Information Element (IE) that indicates a first or second RSRQ measurement type. For the first RSRQ measurement type, the RSRQ may be determined based on a Received Signal Strength Indicator (RSSI) over common reference signals (CRS). For the second RSRQ measurement type, the RSRQ may be determined based on an RSSI that is based on a received power of one or more Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) symbols received at the UE. | 10-29-2015 |
20150327103 | TECHNIQUES TO MANAGE RADIO FREQUENCY CHAINS - Various embodiments may be generally directed to techniques for configuring a secondary RF chain of a mobile device—in particular, a secondary receiver chain—to perform wireless network measurements when the secondary RF chain is not used for data communications. Various embodiments provide for a primary RF chain to provide data communications with a wireless network and for the secondary RF chain to be capable of providing aggregated data communications with the wireless network. Various embodiments provide for the mobile device to determine that the wireless network does not support carrier aggregation and to reconfigure the secondary receiver chain, which would otherwise be left unused or inactive, to perform wireless network measurements. System throughout can be improved in comparison to using the primary RF chain for performing the wireless network measurements. | 11-12-2015 |
20150327104 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND DEVICES FOR CONFIGURING MEASUREMENT GAPS FOR DUAL CONNECTIVITY - Systems and methods for configuring measurement gaps for dual connectivity are disclosed herein. User equipment (UE) may be configured to communicatively couple to a plurality of Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Network (E-UTRAN) Node Bs (eNBs). For example, the UE may include a plurality of transceivers, and each transceiver may be coupled to a different cell group. A measurement gap may need to be configured for each transceiver. However, the transceivers may interfere with each other's measurement gaps. In an embodiment, a duration of a measurement gap may be increased over a default value to reduce the number of interruptions per measurement gap. Alternatively, or in addition, measurement gaps may begin and/or end at the same. The measurement gaps may have a same repetition period and be aligned each period. Or, the measurement gaps may have different repetition periods and may or may not align periodically. | 11-12-2015 |
20150327286 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND DEVICES FOR PRIORITIZING INTER-FREQUENCY MEASUREMENTS - Systems and methods for prioritizing inter-frequency measurement are disclosed herein. User equipment (UE) may be configured to communicatively couple to an Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Network (E-UTRAN) Node B (eNB). The eNB may determine a priority for performing each of a plurality of inter-frequency measurement. The eNB may indicate the priority of each measurement to the UE. The eNB may transmit lists of higher priority and lower priority measurement objects. The lists may be separate and/or concatenated. Alternatively, or in addition, each measurement object may include a priority indicator, or the priority may be determined from the type of measurement object. In some embodiments, the eNB may provide indications of normal priority and low priority measurement objects and/or indications of normal priority and high priority measurement objects. The UE may perform measurements according to the indicated priorities. | 11-12-2015 |
20150327322 | SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHODS FOR ALIGNMENT PROCEDURES IN DUAL-CONNECTIVITY NETWORKS - Embodiments of the present disclosure describe systems, devices, and methods for alignment procedures in dual-connectivity networks. Various embodiments may include determining system frame number and subframe number differences, and aligning discontinuous reception (DRX) or measurement gaps of a secondary cell group with a master cell group. Other embodiments may be described or claimed. | 11-12-2015 |
20160095080 | DEVICE-TO-DEVICE ASSISTED POSITIONING IN WIRELESS CELLULAR TECHNOLOGIES - The position of User Equipment (UE) may be determined based on information communicated through direct UE-to-UE communications to obtain additional measurements of position metrics that can be used to determine relative or absolute positions of the UE. In one implementation, a UE may receive, via a direct connection with a second UE, a positioning reference signal from which timing information, relating to distance between the UE and second UE, is derivable; determine, based on the positioning reference signal, a first position metric that relates to a position of the UE with respect to the second UE; and determine, based at least on position metric, a location of the UE. | 03-31-2016 |
20160095092 | RESOURCE ALLOCATION AND USE FOR DEVICE-TO-DEVICE ASSISTED POSITIONING IN WIRELESS CELLULAR TECHNOLOGIES - Techniques described herein may provide for the determination of the position of mobile devices based on information obtained through device-to-device (D2D) discovery or communications. Resource allocation schemes are described that allow efficient communication of signal location parameters, via D2D discovery, communications or newly defined physical channels, that may be used to estimate the position (or improve position estimation) of the mobile device. | 03-31-2016 |
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20120111826 | DAMASCENE PROCESS USING PVD SPUTTER CARBON FILM AS CMP STOP LAYER FOR FORMING A MAGNETIC RECORDING HEAD - Damascene processes using physical vapor deposition (PVD) sputter carbon film as a chemical mechanical planarization (CMP) stop layer for forming a magnetic recording head are provided. In one embodiment, one such process includes providing an insulator, removing a portion of the insulator to form a trench within the insulator, depositing a carbon material on first portions of the insulator using a physical vapor deposition process, disposing at least one ferromagnetic material on second portions of the insulator to form a pole including a portion of the ferromagnetic material within the trench, and performing a chemical mechanical planarization on the at least one ferromagnetic material using at least a portion of the carbon material as a stop for the chemical mechanical planarization. | 05-10-2012 |
20120119861 | Permanent Magnets Array for Planar Magnetron - Permanent magnets array for use in a planar magnetron in which magnets in a magnet-segment is arranged in a Halbach array with their magnetization directions alternating in directions perpendicular with each other. The magnet-segments are closely packed to form different shapes, such as heart, square, circular . . . , in a Halbach Array style, which leads to minimum magnetic flux loss. Such arrangement of permanent magnets will also reinforce the magnetic field on one side of the array while cancel the field to near zero on the other side. The reinforced field strength is twice as large on the side on which the flux is confined. The permanent magnets arrangement and the resulting stationary and/or rotating planar magnetron, provides the high magnetic flux density and uniform flux distribution need to penetrate thick sputtering target, and increased not only the target usage, but also the usable the target life time. | 05-17-2012 |
20120312233 | Magnetically Enhanced Thin Film Coating Method and Apparatus - Methods and apparatuses for implementing magnetic field to assist PECVD to locally or globally coat the internal surface of the work piece are presented. Several permanent magnet assembly designs have been presented to provide efficient and effective magnetic field inside the work piece, which acts partially as the working chamber. The magnet assembly generates magnetic flux inside the working chamber, which increases the efficiency of PECVD process, enable PECVD process under higher gas pressure and to improve the uniformity, deposition rate, better adhesion and reduce the process temperature. | 12-13-2012 |
20130114334 | Magnetoresistive random access memory cell with independently operating read and write components - A new class of the memory cell is proposed. There are two separated pulse data writing and sensing current paths. The in-plane pulse current is used to flip the magnetization direction of the perpendicular-anisotropy data storage layer sandwiched between a heavy metal writing current-carrying layer and a dielectric layer. The magnetization state within data storage layer is detected by the patterned perpendicular-anisotropy tunneling magnetoresistive (TMR) stack via the output potential of the stack. Two detailed memory cells are proposed: in one proposed cell, the data storage layer is independent from but kept close to the sensing TMR stack, whose magnetization orientation affects magnetization configuration within the free layer of the TMR stack, therefor ultimately affects the output potential of the stack; in the other proposed cell, the perpendicular-anisotropy data storage layer is the free layer of the sensing TMR stack, whose magnetization state will directly affect the output potential of the stack when sensing current passes through. | 05-09-2013 |
20130252375 | Magnet Assisted Alignment Method for Wafer Bonding and Wafer Level Chip Scale Packaging - A high-precision alignment method with high throughput is proposed, which can be used for wafer-to-wafer, chip-to-wafer or chip-to-chip bonding. The scheme implements pairing patterned magnets predetermined designed and made using wafer level process on two components (wafer or chip). The magnetization in patterned magnet can be set at predetermined configuration before bonding starts. When, the two components are bought to close proximity after a coarse alignment, the magnetic force will bring the magnet pairs together and aligned the patterned magnet on one component with its mirrored or complimentary patterned magnets on the other component to minimize the overall the magnetic energy of the pairing magnet. A few patterned magnet structures and materials, with their unique merits are proposed as examples for magnet pair for the self-alignment purpose. This method enables solid contact at the bonding interface via patterned magnets under the magnetic force, which avoid the wafer drafting due to the formation of the liquid phases. | 09-26-2013 |
20130270661 | Magnetoresistive random access memory cell design - A new magnetic memory cell comprises a perpendicular-anisotropy tunneling magnetic junction (TMJ) and a fixed in-plane spin-polarizing layer, which is separated from the perpendicular-anisotropy data storage layer of tunneling magnetic junction by a non-magnetic layer. The non-magnetic layer can be made of metallic or dielectric materials. | 10-17-2013 |
20130307097 | Magnetoresistive random access memory cell design - A magnetic memory cell comprises in-plane anisotropy tunneling magnetic junction (TMJ) and two fixed in-plane storage-stabilized layers, which splits on the both side of the data storage layer of the TMJ. The magnetizations of the said fixed in-plane storage-stabilized layers are all normal to that of the reference layer of TMJ but point to opposite direction. The existing of the storage-stabilized layers not only enhances the stability of the data storage, but also can reduce the critical current needed to flip the data storage layer via some specially added features. | 11-21-2013 |
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20090268958 | DUAL-PURPOSE PERTURBATION ENGINE FOR AUTOMATICALLY PROCESSING PATTERN-CLIP-BASED MANUFACTURING HOTSPOTS - One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that automatically processes manufacturing hotspot information. During operation, the system receives a pattern clip associated with a manufacturing hotspot in a layout, wherein the pattern clip comprises a set of polygons in proximity to the manufacturing hotspot's location. Next, the system determines if the pattern clip matches a known manufacturing hotspot configuration. If the pattern clip does not match a known manufacturing hotspot configuration, the system then performs a perturbation process on the pattern clip to determine a set of correction recommendations to eliminate the manufacturing hotspot. By performing the perturbation process, the system additionally determines ranges of perturbation to the set of polygons wherein the perturbed pattern clip does not eliminate the manufacturing hotspot. Subsequently, the system stores the set of correction recommendations and the ranges of perturbation into a manufacturing hotspot database. | 10-29-2009 |
20090271749 | PATTERN-CLIP-BASED HOTSPOT DATABASE SYSTEM FOR LAYOUT VERIFICATION - One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that generates a pattern-clip-based hotspot database for performing automatic pattern-clip-based layout verification. During operation, the system receives a list of pattern clips which specify manufacturing hotspots to be avoided in a layout, wherein each pattern clip comprises a set of geometries in proximity to each other. Next, for each pattern clip, the system perturbs the pattern clip to determine a first range of variations for the constituent set of geometries wherein the perturbed pattern clip no longer causes a manufacturing hotspot. The system then extracts a set of correction guidance descriptions from the first range of variations for correcting the pattern clip. Subsequently, the system stores the pattern clip and the set of correction guidance descriptions in the pattern-clip-based hotspot database. | 10-29-2009 |
20090300561 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR POST-ROUTING LITHOGRAPHY-HOTSPOT CORRECTION OF A LAYOUT - One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that verifies an integrated circuit (IC) chip layout. During operation, the system receives a layout of an IC chip after the layout has gone through a place-and-route operation. Next, the system performs a lithography compliance checking (LCC) operation on the layout to detect lithography hotspots within the layout, wherein each lithography hotspot is associated with a local routing pattern around the lithography hotspot. Next, for each detected lithography hotspot, the system compares the associated local routing pattern against a hotspot database to determine if the local routing pattern matches an entry in the hotspot database, which stores a set of known hotspot configurations. If so, the system corrects the lithography hotspot using correction guidance information associated with the hotspot configuration stored in the hotspot database. Otherwise, the system corrects the lithography hotspot by performing a local rip-up and reroute on the local routing pattern, iteratively, until achieving convergence or given number of iterations. | 12-03-2009 |
20100014199 | ELECTROSTATIC-DISCHARGE PROTECTION USING A MICRO-ELECTROMECHANICAL-SYSTEM SWITCH - Embodiments of an interface circuit are described. This interface circuit includes an input pad, a control node and a transistor, which has three terminals. A first terminal is electrically coupled to the input pad and a second terminal is electrically coupled to the control node. Moreover, the interface circuit includes a micro-electromechanical system (MEMS) switch, which is electrically coupled to the input pad and the control node, where the MEMS switch is in parallel with the transistor. In the absence of a voltage applied to a control terminal of the MEMS switch, the MEMS switch is closed, thereby electrically coupling the input pad and the control node. Furthermore, when the voltage is applied to the control terminal of the MEMS switch, the MEMS switch is open, thereby electrically decoupling the input pad and the control node. | 01-21-2010 |
20110095367 | ESD/ANTENNA DIODES FOR THROUGH-SILICON VIAS - Roughly described, an antenna diode is formed at least partially within the exclusion zone around a TSV, and is connected to the TSV by way of a metal 1 layer conductor at the same time that the TSV is connected to either the gate poly or a diffusion region of one or more transistors placed outside the exclusion zone. | 04-28-2011 |
20110138157 | CONVOLUTION COMPUTATION FOR MANY-CORE PROCESSOR ARCHITECTURES - A convolution of the kernel over a layout in a multi-core processor system includes identifying a sector, called a dynamic band, of the layout including a plurality of evaluation points. Layout data specifying the sector of the layout is loaded in shared memory, which is shared by a plurality of processor cores. A convolution operation of the kernel and the evaluation points in the sector is executed. The convolution operation includes iteratively loading parts of the basis data set, called a stride, into space available in shared memory given the size of the layout data specifying the sector. A plurality of threads is executed concurrently using the layout data for the sector and the currently loaded part of the basis data set. The iteration for the loading basis data set proceeds through the entire data set until the convolution operation is completed. | 06-09-2011 |
20120295433 | ESD/ANTENNA DIODES FOR THROUGH-SILICON VIAS - Roughly described, an antenna diode is formed at least partially within the exclusion zone around a TSV, and is connected to the TSV by way of a metal 1 layer conductor at the same time that the TSV is connected to either the gate poly or a diffusion region of one or more transistors placed outside the exclusion zone. | 11-22-2012 |
20130263076 | BANDED COMPUTATION ARCHITECTURES - A convolution of the kernel over a layout in a multi-core processor system includes identifying a sector, called a dynamic band, of the layout including a plurality of evaluation points. Layout data specifying the sector of the layout is loaded in shared memory, which is shared by a plurality of processor cores. A convolution operation of the kernel and the evaluation points in the sector is executed. The convolution operation includes iteratively loading parts of the basis data set, called a stride, into space available in shared memory given the size of the layout data specifying the sector. A plurality of threads is executed concurrently using the layout data for the sector and the currently loaded part of the basis data set. The iteration for the loading basis data set proceeds through the entire data set until the convolution operation is completed. | 10-03-2013 |
20140109027 | ESD/ANTENNA DIODES FOR THROUGH-SILICON VIAS - Roughly described, an antenna diode is formed at least partially within the exclusion zone around a TSV, and is connected to the TSV by way of a metal 1 layer conductor at the same time that the TSV is connected to either the gate poly or a diffusion region of one or more transistors placed outside the exclusion zone. | 04-17-2014 |