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A wireless device, such as a remote control unit, may include an internal fingerprint identification unit. The fingerprint identification unit may be arranged to capture the user's fingerprint when the user's...

A system and method for a virtualization aware hard drive. A method may include issuing a context command and an input/output (I/O) command by a virtual machine to either a hardware controller or a virtual...

Embodiments of the invention includes a heat dissipating device. The heat dissipating device includes a main body having a surface, wherein the surface is plated or coated with at least two different metals to...

Embodiments of the present invention provide devices and methods for monitoring the waste output of one or more individuals. Embodiments provide a waste receptacle equipped with one or more cameras capable of...

A method and apparatus for efficient register checkpointing is herein described. A transaction is detected in program code. A recovery block is inserted in the program code to perform recovery operations in...

Apparatuses, systems, and a method for providing a digital phase-locked loop (PLL) are described. In one embodiment, an apparatus includes an integration-mode phase frequency detector (PFD) that compares a...

In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method of determining a relative priority between a first agent and a second agent, and assigning the first agent to a first channel and the second agent to a...

A laser is placed inside the Mach-Zehnder interferometer and the output from opposite ends of the laser are fed directly into the opposite arms of the Mach-Zehnder interferometer. If the output from opposite...

Firmware updates are performed in a digital device that includes a secure flash that secures each block of stored data with a digital signature. In at least one embodiment, the update package that is received...

Data intended to be displayed on a higher resolution display such as a non-interlaced display used as a computer monitor may be converted for display on a lower resolution display such as an interlaced display....

A first message is transmitted over a communication channel to initiate a transaction. The first message contains a random number and a public key of a device. Continuing the transaction, a second message is...

A process for fabricating an Integrated Circuit (IC) and the IC formed thereby is disclosed. The process comprises providing a substrate. The process further comprises forming a plurality of longitudinal...

A buried dual taper waveguide has a flat surface after taper processing thus facilitating further processing with more complex photonic integrated circuits. This allows for light coupling between a large core...

An embodiment of the invention relates to a device for detecting an analyte in a sample. The device comprises a fluidic network and an integrated circuitry component. The fluidic network comprises a sample...

Various embodiments of the invention may use bitmaps to communicate channel quality index (CQI) information for multiple sub-channels in an orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) wireless...

A method and apparatus for saving and restoring architectural states utilizing hardware is described. A first portion of an architectural state of a processing element, such as a core, is concurrently saved...

A programming guide for streaming video files may be automatically compiled in response to a user request. The user may provide keywords for categories of streaming video files that are of interest. A graphical...

An apparatus and method for fairly accessing a shared cache with multiple resources, such as multiple cores, multiple threads, or both are herein described. A resource within a microprocessor sharing access to...

Embodiments of a method and apparatus for a high performance worldwide interoperability for microwave access quality of service condition scheduling mechanism are generally described herein. Other embodiments...

In some embodiments, the invention involves a system and method relating to a framework to build a new class of network control (policy) and (state) management services. The framework may be used to build a...

A multithreaded clustered microarchitecture with dynamic back-end assignment is presented. A processing system may include a plurality of instruction caches and front-end units each to process an individual...

Various embodiments for switching programs streams using a variable speed program stream buffer coupled to a variable speed decoder are described. In one or more embodiments, the variable speed program stream...

In a wireless network, a base station is configured to transmit downlink reference signals to allow a mobile device to derive a MIMO channel estimate.

Some embodiments of the invention include an interconnect structure to transfer data among a plurality of devices. The interconnect structure includes a crossbar and a number of interconnect branches coupled to...

Stationary wireless network stations are woken up using Wake-on-WLAN functionality. Wake-on-WLAN is provided by paging stations in a wireless network. Paging may support mobile stations across multiple access...

Provided are techniques for static load balancing implemented in a filter driver. The filter driver determines a data quota for each of multiple data paths. The filter driver identifies a maximum number of...

An article includes a top electrode that is embedded in a solder mask. An article includes a top electrode that is on a core structure. A process of forming the top electrode includes reducing the solder mask...

An integrated circuit includes current mode drivers that provide equalized outputs. A parallel-to-serial converter circuit receives data at less than one fourth the output data rate, and provides main data and...

In an embodiment, the method provides receiving a memory access request for a demanded cache line from a processor of a plurality of processors; accessing coherency information associated with the demanded...

A processor includes a processor control register with a control flag that determines an operating mode of the processor. A pointer to a guest virtual machine context in a portion of a random access memory...

Method and apparatus for arbitrating prioritized cycle streams in a manner that prevents starvation. High priority and low priority arbitration pools are employed for arbitrating multiple input cycle streams....

A shorter and a longer text string may be compared. Instead of simply comparing the characters only one character at a time, more than one character can be compared at a time. In addition, a null terminated...

A Group III-V Semiconductor device and method of fabrication is described. A high-k dielectric is interfaced to a confinement region by a chalcogenide region.

In an integrated circuit (IC) may have several functional blocks adapted to be inactivated independently from each other. At least one firewall cell may be embedded independently of other firewall cells in the...

An apparatus for removably retaining an IC package in engagement with a socket such that the contacts of both the IC package and the socket are properly engaged is disclosed. Specifically, a universal retention...

A technique for using memory attributes to relay information to a program or other agent. More particularly, embodiments of the invention relate to using memory attribute bits to check various memory properties...

A digital imaging device such as a digital camera or a video camera may include the capability to store audio files. These audio files may be generated under user control when the user wishes to take a picture...

A cache architecture to increase communication throughput and reduce stalls due to coherence protocol dependencies. More particularly, embodiments of the invention include multiple cache agents that each...

Embodiments include systems and methods for recovery of data from an incoming digital data stream. Embodiments comprise a fine tracking loop to track the data when the phase between the incoming data and the...

A system, device, and method are disclosed. In one embodiment the system includes an optical link and a peripheral device optically coupled to the optical link. The system also includes a host controller, such...

Apparatuses, systems, and methods to monitor core performance and integrated circuit chip temperatures in order to alternatively partition cores and core resources are disclosed. Embodiments generally comprise...

Inductors using bulk metallic glass (BMG) material and associated methods are generally described. In one example, an apparatus includes an electrically conductive core material, an electrically insulative...

Methods for removing random or uncontrolled surface defects from a work piece surface are provided, by applying a plurality of induced controlled defects over the random defects to alter the surface texture.

System, apparatus, and method to manage data communication rates in a wireless network are described. In an embodiment, a system may include multiple antennas, multiple transceivers to connect to the multiple...

A method for distributing data includes selecting for transmission to a client a plurality of data items from a data set. The selected data items are encapsulated in multiple CNAME-type resource records, each...

A phase change memory may include self-aligned polysilicon vertical bipolar junction transistors used as select devices. The bipolar junction transistors may be formed with double shallow trench isolation. For...

Two novel subchannelization methods are disclosed, for use in a 802.16m system. A downlink subchannelization method supports both localized and distributed sub-carriers, different modulation modes, and supports...

A management console in support of RMCP with RSP is provided with an enhanced management session create function that determines whether the creation of a management session with a managed remote client is...

The subject mater herein relates to data processing and, more particularly, to encryption acceleration. Various embodiments herein provide devices and systems including a standardized encryption application...

A method of forming collapse chip connection bumps on a semiconductor substrate is provided. The method includes providing a semiconductor substrate having a plurality of bump vias on a top surface of the...