Vu H NguyenWestminster, CO

6546472, Apr 8, 2003

Dec 29, 2000

09/751165

Lee W. Atkinson - Houston TX
Vu T. Nguyen - San Jose CA
Mark W. Peters - Santa Clara CA

Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. - Houston TX

G06F 1206

711156, 711162, 713320

A computer system supports a fast hibernation operation to save power, while minimizing the amount of time it takes to enter the hibernation mode, and to resume normal operations. The system periodically stores data from system memory to non-volatile memory, such as a hard disk drive, during normal operations when the system is idle. The system includes activity monitors that detect when the data in memory pages is changed. The system periodically sweeps the monitors, and performs save operations to the non-volatile memory. When the system enters hibernation mode, the system determines which memory pages have been changed since the last save operation, and then saves those pages to memory. As an alternative, the system immediately can enter hibernation by supplying power to the memory pages that have not been saved since the last save operation. To implement this, independent switches under the control of the CPU of memory controller selectively turn off power to unsaved memory pages. The system can also implement a fast resume procedure by restoring the memory pages that have the highest priority, and saving the other pages in the background, or as need by the system devices.

6647472, Nov 11, 2003

Feb 14, 2003

10/366925

Lee W. Atkinson - Houston TX
Vu T. Nguyen - San Jose CA
Mark W. Peters - Santa Clara CA

Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. - Houston TX

G06F 1216

711158, 711162

A computer system supports a fast hibernation operation to save power, while minimizing the amount of time it takes to enter the hibernation mode, and to resume normal operations. The system periodically stores data from system memory to non-volatile memory, such as a hard disk drive, during normal operations when the system is idle. The system includes activity monitors that detect when the data in memory pages is changed. The system periodically sweeps the monitors, and performs save operations to the non-volatile memory. When the system enters hibernation mode, the system determines which memory pages have been changed since the last save operation, and then saves those pages to memory. As an alternative, the system immediately can enter hibernation by supplying power to the memory pages that have not been saved since the last save operation. To implement this, independent switches under the control of the CPU of memory controller selectively turn off power to unsaved memory pages. The system can also implement a fast resume procedure by restoring the memory pages that have the highest priority, and saving the other pages in the background, or as need by the system devices.

7161930, Jan 9, 2007

Jun 30, 1999

09/346110

Eugene T. Wang - Fremont CA, US
Nang Tran - San Jose CA, US
Norman Tang - San Jose CA, US
Vu Nguyen - Milpitas CA, US

Cisco Technology, Inc. - San Jose CA

H04L 12/66

370352, 370419

A backplane having a switch card interface and an adapter card interface where the switch card interface has input/outputs in an arrangement that functionally mate to a networking layer system switch card and a physical layer system switch card. The adapter card interface is coupled to the switch card interface. The adapter card interface has input/outputs in an arrangement that functionally mates to a networking layer system adapter card and a physical layer system adapter card. A method that involves forming a first and second backplane according to a manufacturing process, integrating the first backplane into a networking layer system switch, and integrating the second backplane into a physical layer system switch.

7715369, May 11, 2010

Feb 2, 2006

11/346885

Eugene T. Wang - Fremont CA, US
Nang Tran - San Jose CA, US
Norman Tang - San Jose CA, US
Vu Nguyen - Milpitas CA, US

Cisco Technology, Inc. - San Jose CA

H04L 12/66

370352

A backplane having a switch card interface and an adapter card interface where the switch card interface has input/outputs in an arrangement that functionally mate to a networking layer system switch card and a physical layer system switch card. The adapter card interface is coupled to the switch card interface. The adapter card interface has input/outputs in an arrangement that functionally mates to a networking layer system adapter card and a physical layer system adapter card. A method that involves forming a first and second backplane according to a manufacturing process, integrating the first backplane into a networking layer system switch, and integrating the second backplane into a physical layer system switch.

8521611, Aug 27, 2013

Mar 6, 2007

11/682635

Vu Nguyen - Hillsborough CA, US
Anselm P. Baird-Smith - San Jose CA, US
William A. Alvarado - Menlo Park CA, US
John P. Cogan - Houston TX, US
Carole K. Alvarado - Menlo Park CA, US

Apple Inc. - Cupertino CA

G06Q 30/00

705 264, 705 2635, 705 37

Articles such as compact discs or electronic files are traded among a plurality of members who are registered in a common community. Each member has an account including a trading credit balance and a mailing address. A user interface is provided that allows a member to enter articles that the member owns and is willing to trade and articles that the member wants to own. The user interface also receives article trading instruction messages. An administration computer hosts the plurality of members and facilitates article trades among the members. The administration computer identifies matches between owned and wanted articles. A priority algorithm is used to select the member who will receive the article if there is more than one member who wants an article that another member owns and is willing to trade. The priority algorithm is based in part on a member score that is a function of the relative value of the articles that a member owns and sends to another member compared to the relative value of the articles that the member wants and receives from another member, the relative value of the articles being determined by a demand for the article compared to a supply for the article among the members.

2003019, Oct 23, 2003

Dec 18, 2002

10/324154

Liang Dong - Sunnyvale CA, US
Patrick Wong - Burlingame CA, US
Vu Nguyen - San Jose CA, US
Si-Hong Yum - Belmont CA, US
Anthony Chao - Cupertino CA, US
Peter Daddona - Menlo Park CA, US

A61K038/28
A61K038/21
A61K038/43
A61K031/715
A61K038/13

424/085700, 424/094100, 514/012000, 514/003000, 514/054000, 514/011000

The present invention includes a formulation and dosage form for enhancing the bioavailability of orally administered hydrophilic macromolecules. The formulation of the present invention includes a permeation enhancer, a hydrophilic macromolecule, and a carrier that exhibits in-situ gelling properties, such as a nonionic surfactant. The formulation of the present invention is delivered within the GI tract as a liquid having at least some affinity for the surface of the GI mucosal membrane. Once released, it is believed that the liquid formulation spreads across one or more areas of the surface of the GI mucosal membrane, where the carrier of the formulation then transitions into a bioadhesive gel in-situ. As a bioadhesive gel, the formulation of the present invention presents the hydrophilic macromolecule and the permeation enhancer at the surface of the GI mucosal membrane at concentrations sufficient to increase absorption of the hydrophilic macromolecule through the GI mucosal membrane over a period of time. The dosage form of the present invention incorporates the formulation of the present invention and may be designed to provide the controlled release of the formulation within the GI tract over a desired period of time.

2003023, Dec 18, 2003

Dec 19, 2002

10/324239

Liang Dong - Sunnyvale CA, US
Patrick Wong - Burlingame CA, US
Steve Espinal - Mountain View CA, US
Vu Nguyen - San Jose CA, US

A61K031/522
A61K031/198
A61K009/22
A61K031/155

424/468000, 514/263360, 514/567000, 514/635000

The present invention includes a formulation and controlled release dosage form that enable the controlled release of therapeutic agents showing reduced absorption in the lower gastrointestinal tract. The formulation of the present invention includes a therapeutic agent that exhibits greater absorption in the upper GI tract than in the lower GI tract and a permeation enhancer, which serves to increase absorption of the therapeutic agent in the lower GI tract. The formulation of the present invention further includes a carrier that allows the formulation to transition to a bioadhesive gel in-situ after the formulation is dispensed within the GI tract and has had some opportunity to reach the surface of the GI mucosal membrane. The bioadhesive gel formed by the formulation of the present invention works to present effective concentrations of both the therapeutic agent and the permeation enhancer at the surface of the GI mucosal membrane over a period. The controlled release dosage form of the present invention is designed to deliver the formulation of the present invention at a desired release rate or release rate profile over a desired period of time.

2005028, Dec 22, 2005

Jun 21, 2004

10/873811

Vu Ngoc Nguyen - Santa Clara CA, US
Bok Kim - San Jose CA, US
Kang Yim - Santa Clara CA, US

APPLIED MATERIALS, INC., A Delaware corporation - Santa Clara CA

H01L021/31
H01L021/469

438788000, 438758000

A method of forming a cap layer over a dielectric layer on a substrate including forming a plasma from a process gas including oxygen and tetraethoxysilane, and depositing the cap layer on the dielectric layer, where the cap layer comprises a thickness of about 600 Å or less, and a compressive stress of about 200 MPa or more. Also, a method of forming a cap layer over a dielectric layer on a substrate including forming a process gas by flowing together about 200 mgm to about 8000 mgm of tetraethoxysilane, about 2000 to about 20000 sccm of oxygen (O), and about 2000 sccm to about 20000 sccm of carrier gas, generating a plasma from the process gas, where one or more RF generators supply about 50 watts to about 100 watts of low frequency RF power to the plasma, and about 100 watts to about 600 watts of high frequency RF power to the plasma, and depositing the cap layer on the dielectric layer.