Intel Corporation

Broadcom Corporation

Cricket Communications, Inc.

Qualcomm Incorporated

General Instrument Corporation

Leap Wireless International, Inc.

Daniel A Simon

Mark Westling

Phillip Wherry

Kelin J Kuhn

Seiyon Kim

Stephane Walter Rodgers

Xuemin Chen

Sandeep Bhatia

Nadia M Rahhal-Orabi

Frederick George Walls

Vijayanand Aralaguppe

Joshua Stults

Chul-Hyun Lim

Stephen Alton Sprigg

Eric J Sprunk

Xin Qiu

Lawrence W Tang

Curtis W Ward

Clarence C Wong

Lawrence R Cook

A nanowire transistor of the present description may be produced with internal spacers formed by using sacrificial spacers during the fabrication thereof. Once the nanowire transistor is formed, the sacrificial spacers, which are position between the transistor gate and the source and drains (respectively), may be removed. The sacrificial material between channel nanowires of the nanowire transistor may then be removed and a dielectric material may be deposited to fill the spaces between the channel nanowires. The dielectric material not between the channel nanowires may be removed to form the internal spacers. External spacers, which are position between the transistor gate and the source and drains (respectively), may then be formed adjacent the internal spacers and transistor channel nanowires.

Internal spacers for nanowire transistors and method of fabrication thereof

A nanowire device having a plurality of internal spacers and a method for forming said internal spacers are disclosed. In an embodiment, a semiconductor device comprises a nanowire stack disposed above a substrate, the nanowire stack having a plurality of vertically-stacked nanowires, a gate structure wrapped around each of the plurality of nanowires, defining a channel region of the device, the gate structure having gate sidewalls, a pair of source/drain regions on opposite sides of the channel region; and an internal spacer on a portion of the gate sidewall between two adjacent nanowires, internal to the nanowire stack. In an embodiment, the internal spacers are formed by depositing photo-definable spacer material in dimples etched adjacent to the channel region. Photo-definable material remains in the dimples by altering the etch characteristics of material outside of the dimples and selectively removing altered photo-definable material outside of the dimples.

Integration methods to fabricate internal spacers for nanowire devices

A system and method of creating affinity groups of portable communication device users, and distributing targeted content to said users is disclosed. The user affinity groups may be formed by comparing user profiles with each other or with a predefined affinity group profile definition.

Method and system to facilitate interaction between and content delivery to users of a wireless communications network

Presented herein are system(s) for demultiplexing, merging, and duplicating packetized elementary stream/program stream/elementary stream data. In one embodiment, there is presented a system for processing data. The system comprises a first circuit and a memory. The first circuit receives transport packets carrying the data. The memory stores data and comprises at least one context. The first circuit maps the data associated with at least one channel to the at least one context.

Method and apparatus for demultiplexing, merging, and duplicating packetized elementary stream/program stream/elementary stream data

Systems and method for processing v-chip data for an MPEG-2 decoder with personal video recording functionality are provided. In one example, a system that processes V-Chip data with personal video recording functionality may include a data transport engine and a video decoder. The video decoder may be coupled to the data transport engine and may be adapted to parse out V-Chip data.

V-chip data processing for decoder with personal video recording functionality

A method and system are provided for sharing AV/record resources in a programmable transport/demultiplexer and personal video recorder (PVR) engine. The method may involve utilizing hardware assist architecture to partially process incoming packets, retrieve information about the packets, and write the retrieved information to a memory. A processor programmed with firmware may then utilize the information in memory to perform further processing on the packet data. The processor programmed with firmware may then set up configuration parameters that may be used by the hardware assist architecture to further process the packet. The parameters may be configured such that they may be independent of the format of the packet, where the hardware assist architecture functions may be utilized for processing packets regardless of their format. The system may comprise the hardware assist architecture, the processor programmed with firmware, and a memory.

Method and system for sharing AV/record resources in a programmable transport demultiplexer and PVR engine

V-Chip data processing for decoder with personal video recording functionality

A cryptography circuit provides secure processing of data by utilizing countermeasures that combat timing and power attacks. Superfluous operations such as multiplication operations, modular reductions by an integer, storage of data to memory are available for use by a processor to disguise the amount of power usage and the amount of time required to perform a cryptographic operation. A cryptographic key is available for use in order to trigger when these emulated operations occur. The occurrences of the emulated operations is controlled by the user to provide the preferred tradeoff between security and use of resources.

Countermeasure to power attack and timing attack on cryptographic operations

A telephone ( ) includes a microphone ( ), earphone ( ), keypad ( ), and display unit ( ). The keypad ( ) is the preferred user interface for entry of a telephone number into the telephone so that the telephone may call it. However, a voice recognition device ( ) may be attached to the microphone with similar effect. The telephone includes a list ( ) of stored telephone numbers, which may be added onto the list in any convenient way. As digits are entered into the phone through the user interface ( ), a comparator ( ) compares the resulting partially entered number with the numbers on the list. When the comparison demonstrates some pre-established association between the numbers, then the stored number is displayed on the display unit ( ). If the user selects ( ) one of the displayed numbers (perhaps with scrolling), the number is called ( ). If not, the next digit is entered.

Telephone number lookup with reduced scrolling

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Hillsboro, OR, United States of America

Daniel A Simon