Wei Dominic Huang

6614804, Sep 2, 2003

Mar 22, 1999

09/273697

Andrew T. McFadden - Cupertino CA
Mark Wagner - San Mateo CA
Wei Huang - Mountain View CA
Dean J. Blackketter - San Francisco CA
Michael A. Killianey - San Mateo CA
Alan G. Bishop - Campbell CA

WEBTV Networks, Inc. - Mountain View CA

H04J 316

370468, 370316, 709226

The invention involves transmission download of data to plural, mass storage medium-based remote users of content or software upgrades or multiple versions. Optionally provided are pre-download scheduling of one or more future download sessions and post-download remote scripted software execution by the remote clients. For purposes of more efficient use of the transmission link, low-volume scheduling information or content are transmitted within designated narrow-bandwidth sub-channels or trickle streams allocated within the broad bandwidth of the transmission channel and such allocation may be dynamic to vary the allocation based upon relative high-volume, high-speed and low-volume, low-speed demands. The invention is implemented in software residing primarily in the server computer connected with the transmission provider. The software schedules allotted bandwidth within the broadcast band of the transmission link and formats high-volume data for transmission within sub-allocation channels logically devised therein.

6768142, Jul 27, 2004

May 8, 2002

10/140965

Anwar Ali - San Jose CA
Tauman T. Lau - San Jose CA
Max M. Yeung - San Jose CA
Ken Nguyen - San Jose CA
Wei Huang - San Jose CA

LSI Logic Corporation - Milpitas CA

H01L 2710

257203, 257786, 257782, 257459, 257202, 257207, 257208, 257211, 257784, 257779, 257780, 257773, 257775, 257776, 257691, 438128, 438129, 438612, 438666

A method for designing an input output cell of an integrated circuit. The input output cell has a required area, a width, and a height. The bonding pad pitch length between adjacent bonding pads of the integrated circuit is measured. The width of the input output cell is specified to be substantially equal to the bonding pad pitch length. The required area is divided by the width to determine a first value, and the height of the input output cell is specified to be substantially equal to the first value. In this manner, the width of the input output cells is no greater than the distance between two adjacent bonding pads, and thus the input output cells can be placed very close together, facilitating their use in input output limited integrated circuit designs. However, the height of the input output cells is no greater than is necessary to enclose the required area of the input output cell, thus facilitating their use in core limited integrated circuit designs. In various preferred embodiments, the bonding pads for the input output cells are disposed within their surface areas, thereby further reducing the surface area of the integrated circuit that is required for the input output functions of the integrated circuit.

6925626, Aug 2, 2005

Aug 13, 2003

10/640738

Ken Nguyen - San Jose CA, US
Wei Huang - Fremont CA, US

LSI Logic Corporation - Milpitas CA

G06F017/50

716 12

A method of routing a metal layer trace in an integrated circuit die includes steps of: (a) receiving as input a netlist of an integrated circuit die; (b) selecting a redistribution layer trace from the netlist for routing the redistribution layer trace between an I/O pad of the integrated circuit die and a termination point; (c) comparing a trace width of the redistribution layer trace with a maximum trace width limit; and (d) if the trace width of the redistribution layer trace exceeds the maximum trace width limit, then routing the redistribution layer trace as a plurality of separate parallel traces each having a trace width that is less than the selected maximum trace width limit.

7070921, Jul 4, 2006

Apr 27, 2001

09/844655

Wei Huang - Santa Clara CA, US
Merl F. Hoekstra - Cardiff By The Sea CA, US
J. Richard Sportsman - Palo Alto CA, US
Ewald A. Terpetschnig - Austin TX, US

Molecular Devices Corporation - Sunnyvale CA

G01N 21/75

435 4, 435 6, 435 71, 435 911, 435 912, 4352831, 4352852, 4352872, 436164, 436171, 436172, 436800, 436805

Assays for detecting molecular modifications such as phosphate modifications and the presence and/or activity of enzymes and other agents involved in facilitating or otherwise regulating such modifications.

7107561, Sep 12, 2006

Aug 9, 2004

10/914657

Anwar Ali - San Jose CA, US
Wei Huang - San Jose CA, US

LSI Logic Corporation - Milpitas CA

G06F 17/50
G06F 9/45

716 10, 716 13

A method and computer program are disclosed for reducing routing congestion in an integrated circuit design that include steps of: (a) receiving as input a design for an integrated circuit die having an inner metal layer and a top metal layer wherein the design includes electrical constraints of each of a plurality of I/O circuits in the integrated circuit die; (b) selecting a number of vias for a via array to form an electrical connection between the inner metal layer and the top metal layer of the integrated circuit die that connects a solder bump formed on the top metal layer to a corresponding one of the plurality of I/O circuits wherein the number of vias is selected to satisfy the electrical constraints of the corresponding one of the plurality of I/O circuits; and (c) generating as output the number of vias determined for the via array.

7242871, Jul 10, 2007

Jul 29, 2003

10/630535

Wei Huang - San Jose CA, US
Yuriy Shkelev - San Francisco CA, US

Harmonic Inc. - Sunnyvale CA

H04B 10/06

398210, 398202

An optical receiver, for use for instance in an analog optical communications system such as a return path in cable television, operates over a wide range of input power to its photodetector. This is accomplished by providing in the optical receiver a series of RF amplifier stages where at least one of the stages includes a fixed attenuator and a parallel amplifier with switches suitably connected so that, at any one time, only one of the fixed attenuator or the amplifier is in the signal path. The switches are controlled so that the dynamic range of the optical receiver is improved in order to make gain reduction more accurate. Hence by redirecting the RF signal path to either the attenuator or amplifier of the amplifier stage, excessive noise and distortion by the amplifier stage are eliminated or reduced.

7370132, May 6, 2008

Nov 16, 2005

11/281718

Wei Je Huang - Fremont CA, US
Luc R. Bisson - San Jose CA, US
Oren Rubinstein - Sunnyvale CA, US
Michael B. Diamond - Los Gatos CA, US
William B. Simms - San Jose CA, US

Nvidia Corporation - Santa Clara CA

G06F 13/40

710307, 710305, 710310

A bus permits the number of active serial data lanes of a data link to be re-negotiated in response to changes in bus bandwidth requirements. In one embodiment, clock buffers not required to drive active data lanes are placed in an inactive state to reduce clock power dissipation.

7745142, Jun 29, 2010

Dec 23, 2003

10/746797

Annegret Boge - San Jose CA, US
Luke D. Lavis - Madison WI, US
J. Richard Sportsman - Palo Alto CA, US
Merl F. Hoekstra - Monroe WA, US
Wei Huang - Sunnyvale CA, US

Molecular Devices Corporation - Sunnyvale CA

G01N 33/53

435 71, 435 6, 435 795, 436172, 436524, 436525, 436546

Assays for detecting molecular modifications such as phosphate modifications and the presence and/or activity of enzymes and other agents involved in facilitating or otherwise regulating such modifications.