| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| RE36707 |
Video telephony dialing |
May 23, 2000 |
| In a video telephony system, a coaxial cable network, which is preferably a part of an existing cable television system, provides a local link for the transmission of the video telephone signals between each originating and destination location and a respective "head end" located on the |
| RE35119 |
Textured metallic compression bonding |
December 12, 1995 |
| Integrated circuit chip-to-chip interconnections are made via gold pads on each chip that are bonded to corresponding gold pads on a silicon wafer chip carrier. The pads on the chips and/or the pads on the carrier are characterized by texturing (roughening) with a feature size of the ord |
| RE35050 |
Personal computer-as an interface between a telephone station set and a business communication s |
October 3, 1995 |
| This invention is an interface arrangement which interconnects a business communication system with a telephone station set. This interface is implemented in a personal computer which serves to control the operation of the associated telephone station set and also provide business co |
| H2075 |
Restorable architectures for fiber-based broadband local access networks |
August 5, 2003 |
| The present invention provides a local access network, having a switching node, a passive remote node connected to an optical network unit, a first optical fiber that provides a dedicated connection between the switching node and the passive remote node, and a second optical fiber that p |
| H1794 |
Secure money transfer techniques using hierarchical arrangement of smart cards |
April 6, 1999 |
| Systems and methods for providing secure smart card transactions are disclosed. Smart cards are arranged in a smart card hierarchy, the hierarchy including a first smart card at a first hierarchical level and a second smart card at a second hierarchical level higher than the first hi |
| D462336 |
Wrist communicator |
September 3, 2002 |
|
| D447477 |
Closed travel guide |
September 4, 2001 |
|
| D447476 |
Open travel guide |
September 4, 2001 |
|
| D381332 |
Telephone module |
July 22, 1997 |
|
| D379993 |
Telephone module |
June 17, 1997 |
|
| D379975 |
Combined portable memory card reader and player |
June 17, 1997 |
|
| D372707 |
Packaging for memory device |
August 13, 1996 |
|
| D372245 |
Hand-held remote control unit |
July 30, 1996 |
|
| D370486 |
Portable telephone handset |
June 4, 1996 |
|
| D370481 |
Decoder box for interactive television set |
June 4, 1996 |
|
| D370239 |
Video controller |
May 28, 1996 |
|
| D370207 |
Pen-based personal communicator |
May 28, 1996 |
|
| D369796 |
Adjustable telephone handset |
May 14, 1996 |
|
| D369358 |
Portable telephone handset |
April 30, 1996 |
|
| D368068 |
Plug-in power conversion unit housing |
March 19, 1996 |
|
| D366205 |
Face plate including icon display unit(s) |
January 16, 1996 |
|
| D365824 |
Cradle for a telephone handset |
January 2, 1996 |
|
| D365821 |
Personal information center telephone set |
January 2, 1996 |
|
| D365808 |
Video circuit board housing associated with a multi-media terminal |
January 2, 1996 |
|
| D364621 |
Telephone stand |
November 28, 1995 |
|
| D362855 |
Telephone security device |
October 3, 1995 |
|
| D355921 |
Camera module for a personal computer |
February 28, 1995 |
|
| D355917 |
Telephone handset |
February 28, 1995 |
|
| D355659 |
Telephone handset |
February 21, 1995 |
|
| D355652 |
Telephone stand |
February 21, 1995 |
|
| D355651 |
Telephone stand |
February 21, 1995 |
|
| D355190 |
Cordless telephone base |
February 7, 1995 |
|
| D355189 |
Telephone set |
February 7, 1995 |
|
| D355188 |
Telephone handset |
February 7, 1995 |
|
| D355187 |
Telephone answering machine |
February 7, 1995 |
|
| D355186 |
Telephone answering machine |
February 7, 1995 |
|
| D355137 |
Optical splice verification unit |
February 7, 1995 |
|
| D354500 |
Modem housing |
January 17, 1995 |
|
| 7415464 |
System, method and computer-readable medium for providing pattern matching |
August 19, 2008 |
| A system, method and computer-readable medium are disclosed for identifying representative data using sketches. The method embodiment comprises generating a plurality of vectors from a data set, modifying each of the vectors of the plurality of vectors and selecting one of the plural |
| 7415461 |
Apparatus and method for merging results of approximate matching operations |
August 19, 2008 |
| A device and a method are provided. Approximate match operations are performed for each of a group of attributes for each of a group of tuples with respect to a query to create a respective ranking for each of the group of attributes. The rankings of the group of attributes are combined |
| 7415240 |
Systems and methods for delivering a stored message to a subscriber |
August 19, 2008 |
| A method for delivering a stored message to a satellite radio receiver is disclosed. The method includes receiving a request to retrieve the message, receiving the message, encoding the message for satellite transmission, and transmitting the message for delivery to the satellite rad |
| 7415206 |
Arrangement for characterizing and reducing multi-path interference (MPI) and/or optical return |
August 19, 2008 |
| In an optical transmission link having discrete optical reflection sources that cause multi path interference (MPI) and optical return loss (ORL), a method determines how to reduce to beneath a predetermined threshold, a predetermined phenomenon (MPI or ORL or a composite of the two). Th |
| 7415010 |
Method and apparatus for providing customer specified service logic |
August 19, 2008 |
| A method and apparatus for enabling the creation of customer specified service logic are disclosed. The method enables a service provider to define a plurality of pre-built blocks of service logic for constructing basic and advanced telephone services, to enable the customer to use the |
| 7414711 |
Estimating optical transmission system penalties induced by polarization mode dispersion (PMD) |
August 19, 2008 |
| Polarization mode dispersion (PMD) induced system penalty .epsilon. is determined from optical characteristics of an optical wavelength division multiplexed (WDM) signal that is carried on a network. The method involves tapping the optical WDM signal, separating an optical channel fr |
| 7412410 |
Automated sales support device |
August 12, 2008 |
| A system and method for notifying salespersons of customer communications including a target item is provided. Individual customers are mapped to one or more salespersons. Target items of interest to a salesperson are defined and a salesperson is associated with a customer. For each |
| 7412393 |
Method for developing a dialog manager using modular spoken-dialog components |
August 12, 2008 |
| A method of developing a dialog manager for a spoken dialog service is disclosed. The method comprises selecting a top level flow controller based on application type, selecting available reusable subdialogs for each application part, developing a subdialog for each application part |
| 7412383 |
Reducing time for annotating speech data to develop a dialog application |
August 12, 2008 |
| Systems and methods for annotating speech data. The present invention reduces the time required to annotate speech data by selecting utterances for annotation that will be of greatest benefit. A selection module uses speech models, including speech recognition models and spoken language |
| 7412171 |
Optical ring network architecture |
August 12, 2008 |
| An optical ring network architecture including a number (N) of multi-add/drop filters, such as filters formed using symmetrical pairs of frequency routers. Each multi-add/drop filter is coupled to two other multi-add/drop filters using N-2 transmission media, such as optical fibers, |
| 7411943 |
System and method for processing a plurality of requests for a plurality of multi-media services |
August 12, 2008 |
| A system and method for processing a plurality of requests for a plurality of multi-media services received at a Private Service Exchange (PSX) from a plurality of IP-communication devices. The system includes an IP Segmentation Directory (IP-SD) coupled to the PSX and to a plurality of |
| 7411942 |
Method and apparatus for automated calendar selections |
August 12, 2008 |
| A method and apparatus for reserving an appointment in a communications network is described. In one embodiment, a request is received from a caller to schedule an appointment with an enterprise customer, wherein the request is processed in accordance with a media server in the commu |
