| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| 7365749 |
Computer readable medium for modifying an animation wire frame |
April 29, 2008 |
| An animation wireframe is modified with three-dimensional (3D) range and color data having a corresponding shape surface. The animation wireframe is vertically scaled based on distances between consecutive features within the 3D range and color data and corresponding distances within the |
| 7362932 |
Method for fabricating optical devices by assembling multiple wafers containing planar optical w |
April 22, 2008 |
| An optical device comprises a first substrate wafer with at least one buried optical waveguide on an approximately flat planar surface of the substrate and a second substrate wafer with at least a second buried optical waveguide. The waveguides so formed may be straight or curved alo |
| 7362712 |
SONET network outage impact measurement |
April 22, 2008 |
| In accordance with the teachings of the present invention, a method and apparatus is presented for determining minutes of outage. Information associated with a facility hierarchy is acquired. In one embodiment, the facility hierarchy is a SONET facility hierarchy. Outage is determined |
| 7357301 |
Maintenance support for high priority customers |
April 15, 2008 |
| A method includes receiving a problem ticket, which contains a priority level indicator and a customer identifier, that describes a telecommunications network event such as a problem. The problem ticket is associated with and transmitted to a workcenter and a portion within the workc |
| 7356528 |
Phrase matching in documents having nested-structure arbitrary (document-specific) markup |
April 8, 2008 |
| A method of searching a document having nested-structure document-specific markup (such as Extensible Markup Language (XML)) involves 112 receiving a query that designates at least (A) a phrase to be matched in a phrase matching process, and (B) a selective designation of at least a tag |
| 7356462 |
Automatic clustering of tokens from a corpus for grammar acquisition |
April 8, 2008 |
| A method of grammar learning from a corpus comprises, for the other non-context words, generating frequency vectors for each non-context token in a corpus based upon counted occurrences of a predetermined relationship of the non-context tokens to identified context tokens. Clusters a |
| 7356376 |
Work when ready load balancing using critical dates |
April 8, 2008 |
| A method of balancing workload using critical dates and including the following steps: (a) assigning a promised delivery date to orders received from customers; (b) identifying one or more tasks associated with each of the orders; (c) assigning an expedited date or a customer request |
| 7356306 |
Method and apparatus for code division switching of communication signals by trunk coding |
April 8, 2008 |
| A method provides for trunk group satellite switching using a code division multiple access (CDMA) scheme. The method includes receiving inbound satellite beams carrying individually encoded user signals including a plurality of inbound trunk groups, processing and mapping the trunk |
| 7356081 |
Bidirectionally predicted pictures or video object planes for efficient and flexible video codin |
April 8, 2008 |
| A method is provided for decoding a bit stream representing an image that has been encoded. The method includes the steps of: performing an entropy decoding of the bit stream to form a plurality of transform coefficients and a plurality of motion vectors; performing an inverse transforma |
| 7353530 |
Method and apparatus for assigning communication nodes to CMTS cards |
April 1, 2008 |
| A method and apparatus for assigning nodes to CMTS cards in a communication system. In order to avoid bottlenecks and to efficiently use resources of the cards in a hybrid fiber-coax architecture, the nodes are assigned to the cards using linear programming techniques so as to distri |
| 7353447 |
System and method for representing compressed information |
April 1, 2008 |
| The present invention provides a system and method for storing re-synchronization, error correction and/or error detection data within an existing communication protocol, while still maintaining full compliance to a standard, such as the MPEG-2 AAC standard. By doing so, data informa |
| 7353411 |
Power efficiency in microprocessors using reduction of hamming distance between data value |
April 1, 2008 |
| A method of reducing the power consumption of microprocessor system is provided, wherein: said microprocessor system comprises a microprocessor (2) and a memory (4) connected by a bus (6); said memory (4) contains a plurality of data values, each represented by a number of bits, for |
| 7353231 |
Flip-flap mechanism for high availability, online analytical processing databases |
April 1, 2008 |
| A method for maintaining high availability for an on-line database which includes: creating a first user account having a plurality of first tables and first schema objects; creating a second user account having a plurality of second tables and second schema objects; creating a third |
| 7353177 |
System and method of providing conversational visual prosody for talking heads |
April 1, 2008 |
| A system and method of controlling the movement of a virtual agent while the agent is listening to a human user during a conversation is disclosed. The method comprises receiving speech data from the user, performing a prosodic analysis of the speech data and controlling the virtual |
| 7352966 |
Method and apparatus for capacity-efficient restoration in an optical communication system |
April 1, 2008 |
| A method and system provide capacity-efficient restoration within an optical fiber communication system. The system includes a plurality of nodes each interconnected by optical fibers. Each optical fiber connection between nodes includes at least three channel groups with different p |
| 7349852 |
System and method of providing conversational visual prosody for talking heads |
March 25, 2008 |
| A system and method of controlling the movement of a virtual agent while the agent is listening to a human user during a conversation is disclosed. The method comprises receiving speech data from the user, performing a prosodic analysis of the speech data and controlling the virtual |
| 7349375 |
CDMA to packet switching interface for code division switching in a terrestrial wireless system |
March 25, 2008 |
| An access radio port is provided that includes means for spreading a payload data signal, extracted from an ATM packet, with a uniquely assigned orthogonal code, means for transmitting the spread payload data signal to one of a group of mobile subscriber terminals located within a mi |
| 7346783 |
Network security device and method |
March 18, 2008 |
| The invention describes a method for hardening a security mechanism against physical intrusion and substitution attacks. A user establishes a connection between a network peripheral device and a network via a security mechanism. The security mechanism includes read only memory (ROM) |
| 7346357 |
Frequency assignment for multi-cell IEEE 802.11 wireless networks |
March 18, 2008 |
| A frequency planning method for use in an IEEE 802.11 wireless network is described. The frequency planning method obtains traffic load information associated with access points belonging to a multi-cell wireless network and assigns channels to the access points based on the traffic load |
| 7346137 |
Nonuniform oversampled filter banks for audio signal processing |
March 18, 2008 |
| A non-uniform filter bank is created by joining sections of oversampled uniform filter bands that are based on complex exponential modulation (as opposed to cosine modulation). Each filter bank handles a given, non-overlapping frequency band. The bands are not of uniform bandwidth, a |
| 7346076 |
Network controller and method to support format negotiation between interfaces of a network |
March 18, 2008 |
| A controller of a communications network enables endpoints or multiple networks to intercommunicate using multiple types of bearer format (IP, TDM, ATM, Frame Relay, etc.), and enables a bearer format conversion when necessary to carry bearer channel information across an interface of th |
| 7343148 |
Modification of portable communications device operation in vehicles |
March 11, 2008 |
| Restrictions on use of a cellular telephone in a vehicle, such as an automobile, are imposed using a global position system (GPS) device to determine the location of a vehicle in relation to geographic regions in which legal or customer restrictions on cellular telephone use are to be |
| 7342925 |
Technique for automated MAC address cloning |
March 11, 2008 |
| In an arrangement where the device that is known to an ISP is communicating with the ISP through an interposed device that is not known to the ISP, the interposed device captures the known device's MAC address upon startup and clones the captured MAC address in all standard packets t |
| 7342714 |
Multi-band hybrid SOA-raman amplifier for CWDM |
March 11, 2008 |
| A multi-band hybrid amplifier is disclosed for use in optical fiber systems. The amplifier uses Raman laser pumps and semiconductor optical amplifiers in series to produce a relatively level gain across the frequency range of interest. Multiple Raman pumps are multiplexed before coup |
| 7340519 |
Reducing configuration errors for managed services in computer networks |
March 4, 2008 |
| A method of configuring a network element such that a Virtual Private Network (VPN) site can connect to the network element is disclosed. An interface on a Provider Edge (PE) router is configured in restricted mode. A request is received from the interface to authenticate a user asso |
| 7336902 |
Integrated electro-optic hybrid communication system |
February 26, 2008 |
| A system according to embodiments of the invention may comprise a first communication path that converts an optically-modulated source signal to a radio signal based on a detected degradation in a quality of a received optical signal, and a second communication path that converts a r |
| 7336656 |
Method for handling incoming calls directed to a virtual communication service subscriber via a |
February 26, 2008 |
| A method of handling incoming calls directed to a virtual communication subscriber is disclosed. An incoming call intended for the virtual communication subscriber is received at a communication device. A call is placed to the communication device using contact information provided by |
| 7334126 |
Method and apparatus for secure remote access to an internal web server |
February 19, 2008 |
| The present invention provides authorized users access to sensitive information on internal servers inside a firewall while protecting the information from others. A strong client authentication mechanism is layered on top of a secure communication protocol to allow legitimate users |
| 7333728 |
Methods and systems for polarization mode dispersion compensation |
February 19, 2008 |
| Methods and systems for higher-order PMD compensation are implemented by developing an effective mathematical model and applying economical design techniques to the model. By assuming a constant precession rate for a narrow band of frequencies in an optical signal, a simplified model of |
| 7333596 |
Casual usage alternate billing |
February 19, 2008 |
| The present invention relates generally to a casual usage alternate billing. More particularly, the invention encompasses a method and an apparatus for casual usage alternate billing. The invention intercepts a call, especially a dial-around call, to either verify the existence of in |
| 7330722 |
System and method for testing automated provisioning and maintenance of Operations Support Syste |
February 12, 2008 |
| The present invention provides a complete virtual multi-vendor EMS based network that behaves identical to the network elements of the EMS clients. A virtual network simulator is built that has the ability to faithfully simulate the behavior of any vendor's EMS to represent the data |
| 7330483 |
Session initiation protocol (SIP) message incorporating a multi-purpose internet mail extension |
February 12, 2008 |
| A system and method for processing a plurality of requests for multi-media services received at a call control element (CCE) defined on the system from a plurality of IP-communication devices. The system includes at least one Network Routing Element (NRE), a Service Broker (SB), a media |
| 7330468 |
Scalable, reconfigurable routers |
February 12, 2008 |
| A multi-path router includes an interface module (IM) having a time-sensitive logical processing path and a non-time-sensitive logical processing path and a special needs logical processing path and a filter for receiving a packet header and determining the needs of the packet header |
| 7328146 |
Spoken language understanding that incorporates prior knowledge into boosting |
February 5, 2008 |
| A system for understanding entries, such as speech, develops a classifier by employing prior knowledge with which a given corpus of training entries is enlarged threefold. A rule is created for each of the labels employed in the classifier, and the created rules are applied to the gi |
| 7327837 |
Call routing method |
February 5, 2008 |
| A call processing method is disclosed. A first station initiates a call to a second station. Call information associated with the initiated call is evaluated by comparing the call information with information in a fraud database. Completion of the call is prevented if the evaluation resu |
| 7327731 |
Point-to-multipoint connections for data delivery |
February 5, 2008 |
| The present invention provides a technique for achieving reliable delivery of bulk data from a single origin to multiple destinations such that the origin only sends the data once to the network, without waiting for the destinations to be connected to the network. The data is delivered f |
| 7327675 |
Fairness of capacity allocation for an MPLS-based VPN |
February 5, 2008 |
| A method and system for providing fairness of capacity allocation in a network is presented. The method includes intercepting RSVP messages at a PE router, counting capacity requests for reservable classes of service for each VPN on each LSP, and rejecting requests when a VPN has ina |
| 7324918 |
Forecasting outcomes based on analysis of text strings |
January 29, 2008 |
| A method and a processing device are provided for forecasting whether a record of data for an individual is associated with an outcome. Whether an n-gram associated with one of a group of predictors matches an n-gram included in the record of data is determined. When the n-gram included |
| 7324823 |
System and method for selectively transferring wireless caller location information |
January 29, 2008 |
| A system and method for providing for a wireless calling party to configure his or her wireless service on a call-by-call or on a permanent basis so that only those calls where the caller wants his or her location to be available carry location information. To enable the capability of |
| 7320143 |
Method of gaining secure access to intranet resources |
January 15, 2008 |
| Method of gaining secure access from a host (13) to Intranet resources provided by at least a content server (18) in a data transmission system wherein the host is connected to the content server through a gateway (17). Such a method consists in generating and sending at predetermined |
| 7320027 |
System having generalized client-server computing |
January 15, 2008 |
| A protocol provides generalized client-server computing by providing a server program that can utilize standard and non-standard ports for applications. |
| 7319964 |
Method and apparatus for segmenting a multi-media program based upon audio events |
January 15, 2008 |
| The present invention provides for a method and apparatus for segmenting a multi-media program based upon audio events. In an embodiment a method of classifying an audio stream is provided. This method includes receiving an audio stream. Sampling the audio stream at a predetermined rate |
| 7319817 |
System for transparent node for WDM shared "virtual ring" networks |
January 15, 2008 |
| A system and method for a transparent WDM metro ring architecture in which optics enables simultaneous provisioning of dedicated wavelengths for high-end user terminals, while low-end user terminals share wavelengths on "virtual rings". All wavelengths are sourced by the network and |
| 7319413 |
Method and system to calculate an approximate location of a mobile station in a recurrent route |
January 15, 2008 |
| A method and system for calculating the approximate location of a mobile station along a recurrent route is disclosed. In an embodiment for the method in accordance with the principles of the present invention, the method for storing reference data includes decoding a first unique id |
| 7318103 |
XML in the MASP client-server protocol |
January 8, 2008 |
| A method and system for using XML for both a protocol layer and application data are described. The method comprises the steps of initiating a connection by a client to a server to form a session, responding by said server to said client indicating that said connection has been succe |
| 7315181 |
Method for automatically identifying component failure in a communication network |
January 1, 2008 |
| Systems and methods for detecting errors in communication networks are described. When an interface component is potentially defective, a rules engine performs diagnostic testing to determine if the interface component is defective. During diagnostics, the rules engine tests a protec |
| 7313607 |
Method and apparatus of hierarchical node partitioning for address planning in PNNI networks |
December 25, 2007 |
| Method and apparatus for hierarchical node partitioning for address planning in networks, e.g., PNNI ATM networks to perform judicious definition of peer groups to create a logical partitioning of the ATM switches that increases PNNI routing efficiency and performance. |
| 7313605 |
Externally controlled reachability in virtual private networks |
December 25, 2007 |
| A network that supports VPNs is enhanced to allow users in one VPN to communicate with users in another VPN in the course of executing a predefined application, such as VoIP. This capability is achieved dynamically by enabling a device that can communicate with the network elements t |
| 7313324 |
SONET outage impact measurement technique |
December 25, 2007 |
| An accurate method of reporting "minutes of outage" for a SONET facility applies a set of business rules and hierarchical definitions to delete certain minutes that would otherwise be counted as "outages". In particular, any outage minutes reported for a network element taken out of |
| 7310811 |
Interaction modalities for multimedia delivery and presentation |
December 18, 2007 |
| A method and apparatus for displaying received data, analyze the quality of the displayed data formulating a media-parameter suggestion for the encoder to alter the characteristics of data to be sent to the receiver, and sending from the receiver, the formulated suggestion. |
