| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| RE39717 |
Reconfigurable service provision via a communication network |
July 3, 2007 |
| A services provision system provides information services over one or more communications networks and has a software infrastructure divided into domains. Each domain has an intelligent software agent and this community of agents sits in a computing environment represented in each domain |
| RE37857 |
Data processing system for communications network |
September 24, 2002 |
| An inter-network call accounting system for use in a communication network such as the public switched telephone network in Britain allows call records to be sorted according to the network operator to be charged in respect of the calls, prior to being priced and charged. A data analyzer |
| RE37856 |
Data correction system for communications network |
September 24, 2002 |
| An inter-network call accounting system for use in a communication network such as the public switched telephone network in Britain allows call records to be sorted according to the network operator to be charged in respect of the calls, prior to being priced and charged. A data analyzer |
| RE35057 |
Speech coding using sparse vector codebook and cyclic shift techniques |
October 10, 1995 |
| Speech is analyzed to derive the parameters of a synthesis filter and the parameters of a suitable excitation which is selected from a codebook of excitation frames. The selection of the codebook entry is facilitated by determining a single-pulse excitation (e.g., using conventional mult |
| RE34824 |
Video coder |
January 10, 1995 |
| A coder assembles bursts of blocks of image data (e.g. transform coded coefficients) and associated overhead data into a sequence of data which are then transmitted. Both the transform coded coefficients and the overhead data are initially stored in separate FIFO memory stores (21), |
| RE34520 |
Optical power limiter |
January 25, 1994 |
| An optical power limiter structure comprises an asymmetric waveguide showing a defocussing nonlinearity of the core region material. The structure comprises a cladding region layer (2) and a core region layer (3) grown on a substrate (1). The core region layer (3) upper surface is ex |
| RE34205 |
Adaptive recognizing device |
March 30, 1993 |
| An electronic adaptive recognizing device which includes an input store having a number of storage locations for receiving an input signal, and a number of addressable stores each having one or more address lines connected to a number of the input store locations in either a random way |
| D425903 |
Pedestal for mounting telephone |
May 30, 2000 |
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| D425725 |
Pedestal for mounting telephone |
May 30, 2000 |
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| D363285 |
Telephone base |
October 17, 1995 |
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| D359499 |
Video camera for a personal computer |
June 20, 1995 |
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| D356791 |
Videophone base |
March 28, 1995 |
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| D354057 |
Telephone base |
January 3, 1995 |
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| D340715 |
Telephone base |
October 26, 1993 |
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| D340053 |
Telephone base |
October 5, 1993 |
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| D339341 |
Payphone base |
September 14, 1993 |
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| D330702 |
Multiplexer |
November 3, 1992 |
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| D329426 |
Multiplexer |
September 15, 1992 |
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| D329425 |
Multiplexer |
September 15, 1992 |
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| D317612 |
Telephone handset |
June 18, 1991 |
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| D315664 |
Cleaving unit primarily for optical fibres |
March 26, 1991 |
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| D308668 |
Data communications terminal for deaf and/or deaf-blind persons |
June 19, 1990 |
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| D308059 |
Telephone base unit |
May 22, 1990 |
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| D307430 |
Telephone base unit |
April 24, 1990 |
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| D307272 |
Telephone handset |
April 17, 1990 |
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| D301233 |
Data communications terminal for deaf and/or deaf-blind persons |
May 23, 1989 |
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| 7620264 |
Image-size dependent facial caricaturing |
November 17, 2009 |
| Increased recognizance of caricatured images is provided for the level of caricaturing to be applied to an image to be set in dependence on the intended size of the caricature image. Preferably, the caricature level is set as a generally inverse function of the image size, such that the |
| 7620249 |
Analysis of patterns |
November 17, 2009 |
| A first pattern (A) is represented by a first ordered set of elements (x.sub.i) each having a value whilst a second pattern (B) is represented by a second ordered set of element (u.sub.i) each having a value. The patterns are analysed by iteratively performing the steps of: selecting |
| 7618676 |
Fibre coating method and apparatus |
November 17, 2009 |
| A fiber unit coating apparatus includes a chamber into which an uncured resin coated fiber unit is passed. Microspheres mixed with air are fed into the chamber via ducts and apertures. As a result rapid and even application of the microspheres can be achieved, and the system allows c |
| 7616582 |
System and method for selecting data providers |
November 10, 2009 |
| A preferred data provider is selected from a plurality of data providers by receiving a request for data from a client together with client identification data, identifying a plurality of data providers capable of providing data to the client, providing the client identification data to |
| 7599497 |
Key management protocol |
October 6, 2009 |
| A key distribution server maintains a tree of nodes. Members of a group who are allowed access to information are associated with respective leaf nodes of the tree. The information is encrypted with a key comprising a join key field and a leave field, and these are associated with the ro |
| 7596591 |
Method of managing resources |
September 29, 2009 |
| A method for retrieving information in respect of subject matter of interest to a user involves retrieving information and organizing the retrieved information in accordance with predetermined criteria, at least one of which includes a state of the user. The method further involves s |
| 7573824 |
Fault management system for a communications network |
August 11, 2009 |
| A fault management system for an access network of a communications network performs a series of tests on each of the lines which extend from a local switch through a series of nodes to user terminal equipment. The results of the tests are analyzed with respect to a set of parameters to |
| 7565149 |
Channel selection |
July 21, 2009 |
| Wireless devices in (10, 20, 30 etc) in an ad hoc network each select a channel on which to operate such that conflicts with neighbouring devices are avoided. Each device (20) has a normal power output, giving it a normal range (31) and an enhanced power output, giving it an extended |
| 7561522 |
Communications network having mechanism for removal of time-expired packets from the network |
July 14, 2009 |
| In a communications network, expired packets are recognized and removed by comparing a phase value received with the packet and a phase value previously received via the network on a master node. The packet is discarded when the difference between the value exceeds a predetermined am |
| 7546236 |
Anomaly recognition method for data streams |
June 9, 2009 |
| This invention identifies anomalies in a data stream, without prior training, by measuring the difficulty in finding similarities between neighborhoods in the ordered sequence of elements. Data elements in an area that is similar to much of the rest of the scene score low mismatches. |
| 7535853 |
Communications network |
May 19, 2009 |
| In a communications network, which may be a federated network such as the Internet, a tariff is distributed via the network to customer terminals. At each terminal a charge for use of the network is calculated by using the tariff. Different tariffs may be communicated for different servi |
| 7526523 |
Timer-based feedback in multicast communication |
April 28, 2009 |
| A multicast system is described in which a mechanism for suppressing feedback involves the receivers using an optimized timer function for selecting a backoff delay time before sending feedback, and canceling their feedback if in the meantime they detect that another receiver has sen |
| 7512678 |
Information provider |
March 31, 2009 |
| Information sources are selected in accordance with a subject matter of interest to a user, where the subject matter of interest is identifiable by a plurality of sets of subject-related data, and each set has an indication of at least one context in which the set is of interest to the |
| 7507030 |
Slim profile telecommunications connection apparatus |
March 24, 2009 |
| A wall plug is suitable for connecting an item of telecommunications equipment to a telecommunications network. The equipment and the network are separated by a wall, the wall including a bore communicating through the wall. The device includes a hollow body in the form of a tube eng |
| 7493372 |
Method of updating interests |
February 17, 2009 |
| A method of changing a user profile involves the system suggesting a change which includes one or more selection choices representative of the suggested change. The user makes one or more selections which results in temporal modification of the user profile. The method further involves |
| 7484098 |
Data non repudiation |
January 27, 2009 |
| Non-repudiation of two-party data is provided by operating a terminal to provide non-repudiation in respect of data exchanged between the terminal and at least one other terminal. The data is exchanged via a link operable to provide a first link mode in which at least a portion of the |
| 7478162 |
Communications network |
January 13, 2009 |
| An emergent network is autonomous at the service level. Network nodes have policies that enable them to process different types of service requests, with the processing earning the nodes `rewards`. Successful nodes can pass some or all of their policies to other nodes using the evolution |
| 7464402 |
Authentication of network users |
December 9, 2008 |
| A network includes a server and a number of clients, which will in operation of the network require authentication by the server. The server distributes authentication information to other clients when a session is initialized. When the server needs to authenticate a client, it hands out |
| 7447791 |
Transmission and reception of audio and/or video material |
November 4, 2008 |
| Delivery of recorded audio or video material over a telecommunications link from a server is accomplished by dividing the material into a sequence of sub-files each of which is independently requested by the terminal, which thereby has control of the rate of delivery. Provision may b |
| 7447623 |
Machine translation |
November 4, 2008 |
| A computer language translation development system, for developing data for use in translation, comprising: means for utilising corresponding source and target example texts to generate translation units each comprising, in the source and/or target language, a first language item and |
| 7444423 |
Communication system and method for data web session transfer |
October 28, 2008 |
| A method of operating a communications system such that connections supporting a communications session being run on a first terminal (1) may be diverted to a second terminal (2) such that the session may be continued on the second terminal comprises the steps of creating a user prof |
| 7441232 |
Task management |
October 21, 2008 |
| Customised process plans are generated by weaving customising process aspects into generic process plans. The aspects as stored contain markers and the system selects a generic process plan and searches it for the marker(s). If the marker is located, content from the relevant aspect is |
| 7441231 |
Task management |
October 21, 2008 |
| Customized process plans are generated by weaving customizing process aspects into generic process plans. The aspects as stored contain markers and the system selects a generic process plan and searches it for the marker(s). If the marker is located, content from the relevant aspect is |
| 7441002 |
Establishing data connections |
October 21, 2008 |
| A method wherein a first user obtains an identifier for a desired destination user, makes a request to a server for a data communication with that desired destination user, retrieves a computer network address from a directory entry for that desired destination user, retrieves the so |
