| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| 7324532 |
System for implementing simulated facility groups on a GR303-type interface |
January 29, 2008 |
| The Simulated Facility Group System manages a plurality of IP Centrex Groups within a GR303 interface, where each IP Centrex Group is assigned to a unique Simulated Facility Group. A Centrex Feature Gateway interconnects the IP Centrex Access Facilities that serve each IP Centrex Gro |
| 7324443 |
Binary protocol for session initiation in a wireless communications system |
January 29, 2008 |
| A method, template, protocol, apparatus, system, and computer software for implementing a binary protocol for session initiation in a wireless communications system. The method for creating, modifying or terminating an IP multimedia session among one or more binary session initiation |
| 7324323 |
Photo-sensitive MEMS structure |
January 29, 2008 |
| A heat-sensitive apparatus includes a substrate with a top surface, one or more bars being rotatably joined to the surface and having bimorph portions, and a plate rotatably joined to the surface and substantially rigidly joined to the one or more bars. Each bimorph portion bends in |
| 7323033 |
Nanostructured surfaces having variable permeability |
January 29, 2008 |
| A nanostructured substrate is disclosed having a plurality of substrate openings disposed between the nanostructures on the substrate. When a desired fluid comes into contact with the substrate, at least a portion of the fluid is allowed to pass through at least one of the openings. In |
| 7321645 |
Method and arrangement for detecting a random access channel preamble using multiple antenna rec |
January 22, 2008 |
| In a method and arrangement for detecting a random access channel preamble in a received uplink signal, the uplink signal is received at one or more receive antennas and contains data related to a random access channel preamble. The received uplink signal is subjected to spatial processi |
| 7321559 |
System and method of noise reduction in receiving wireless transmission of packetized audio sign |
January 22, 2008 |
| A receiver for receiving wireless packetized audio signals having packet headers, and packet payloads including encoded audio signals is provided. The receiver includes an audio decoder for decoding the encoded audio signals into digital audio signals, an audio error detector for detecti |
| 7321557 |
Dynamic latency assignment methodology for bandwidth optimization of packet flows |
January 22, 2008 |
| A method and apparatus for transmitting delay sensitive information (DSI) and non-delay sensitive information (NDSI) over a communication link where initial DSI packets are delayed to reduce the number of conflicts between DSI and NDSI. The delay applied to the DSI is based on parameters |
| 7321551 |
Propagation of a plurality of copies of an internet protocol packet |
January 22, 2008 |
| An apparatus in one example comprises a router for one or more packets that comprise an Internet Protocol ("IP") packet. The router comprises one or more packet replication components that employ the IP packet to propagate a plurality of copies of the IP packet. |
| 7321454 |
Apparatus for modulating one or both of spectral phase and amplitude of an optical signal |
January 22, 2008 |
| The invention includes a method and apparatus for modulating one or both of spectral phase and amplitude of a received optical signal. The apparatus includes a spatial dispersion mechanism for spatially dispersing the received optical signal to enable optical communication of the rec |
| 7319871 |
Method and apparatus for repeatable handback attempt after inter-MSC handoff |
January 15, 2008 |
| A method and apparatus providing a handback process in a wireless telecommunication system after an inter-MSC handoff from a first MSC to a second MSC during an active call to an MS are provided. In one embodiment, the method includes: a) initiating an inter-MSC handback attempt from |
| 7319865 |
Wireless portable information storage and retrieval device |
January 15, 2008 |
| In a cellular telephone terminal having increased storage capability, ease of entry and access for data stored therein is provided through utilization of a computer equipped with a modem, a wired telephone network and the cellular telephone network. A user utilizes the ease of data e |
| 7319861 |
Network initiated auto-redial |
January 15, 2008 |
| Network initiated auto redialing is based on an auto redial duration selected or entered by a calling party. An auto redial interval or retry rate may also be selected or entered by the calling party. If the calling party is unavailable when a connection is established with a called |
| 7317921 |
Responding to changes in measurement of system load in spread spectrum communication systems |
January 8, 2008 |
| The present invention provides a method and an apparatus for responding to changes in measurement of a system load in a spread spectrum communication system. Using a load control algorithm, for example, the spread spectrum communication system may handle sudden changes or variations, |
| 7317845 |
Optical modulator having reduced bandwidth requirements and method of operation thereof |
January 8, 2008 |
| An optical modulator is overdriven to increase its nonlinearity and therefore improve its response as it pertains to differential phase shift keyed (DPSK) transmission and a method of operating the same. In one embodiment, the MZM includes an MZM drive circuit coupled to the electrod |
| 7317764 |
Method of signal transmission to multiple users from a multi-element array |
January 8, 2008 |
| A communication method is provided, in which a data vector u which contains respective signal data destined for each of a plurality of users is transmitted from multiple antennas or other transmitting elements. Prior to transmission, a perturbation vector .tau.l is added to the data |
| 7317728 |
System and method for increasing provisionable bandwidth in time-division multiplexed communicat |
January 8, 2008 |
| A system for and method of, increasing provisionable bandwidth in a multiplexed communication link and a network management system incorporating the system or the method. In one embodiment, the system includes: (1) a defragmentation calculator that calculates a defragmentation of the |
| 7317707 |
Method for seamless session transfer of a mobile station |
January 8, 2008 |
| In the method, a source base station sends first information to a target base station. The first information indicates a sequence number of a first data unit in a sequence of data units undelivered to the mobile station by the source base station. The source base station also sends t |
| 7317702 |
Method and apparatus for enhancing performance of channel quality indicator (CQI) channel in wir |
January 8, 2008 |
| The channel quality indicator (CQI) transmitted by a mobile terminal to a base station is indicative of the E.sub.c/N.sub.t pilot SNR of the pilot signal transmitted by the base station and measured by the mobile terminal. The base station uses the CQI for purposes such as determining |
| 7317686 |
Fair sharing of multi-access channels |
January 8, 2008 |
| A network node computes a fair share data rate for the sharing of a shared communication channel in a local area network. The network node determines the required information for computing the fair share by snooping the network, by receiving the required information from other networ |
| 7317428 |
Forming an antenna beam using an array of antennas to provide a wireless communication |
January 8, 2008 |
| The present invention provides a method and an apparatus for forming an antenna beam from an array antenna having a rear facing side, an aperture, and including a first and a second radiating element. The method comprises injecting a synchronization signal wirelessly from a common so |
| 7315737 |
Switching to voice mail in the event of a dropped call |
January 1, 2008 |
| A method and apparatus for enabling a party using a telephony device who is in communication with a mobile device of a wireless network user to leave a voice mail for the mobile device user in the event that the user's mobile device is dropped during a call between said party and said |
| 7315734 |
Method for performing a predetermined action on wireless calls based on caller's location |
January 1, 2008 |
| In the method of performing a predetermined action on wireless calls, a determination of whether a received wireless call falls within a defined area is made. If the received wireless call falls within the defined area, then the predetermined action, such as screening, is performed on |
| 7315699 |
Optical device for extracting a sideband signal from a composite signal including orthogonally m |
January 1, 2008 |
| An optical device extracts an information bearing sideband such as an FSK or SCM signal (label) from a composite signal that includes the sideband and an orthogonally modulated signal such as an intensity modulated signal (payload) by splicing the composite signal into a polarization |
| 7315555 |
Sub-network and related methods for routing signaling messages |
January 1, 2008 |
| An IP sub-network includes a gateway and a plurality of sub-network processors in communication with the gateway. An IP address is associated with each sub-network processor, the IP address having a sub-network address portion corresponding to the sub-network and a host address porti |
| 7315303 |
Hybrid meshes |
January 1, 2008 |
| A method of forming a hybrid mesh representation of an object surface is provided, along with the hybrid mesh representation and data structures corresponding to various polygons in the hybrid mesh representation. The hybrid mesh representation comprises a base mesh and one or more highe |
| 7313375 |
Follow-me broadcast reception method and system |
December 25, 2007 |
| Methods and systems for seamlessly broadcasting data to a user moving among a plurality of broadcast coverage areas. A first signal containing desired data may be received by a receiving device at a user location, wherein the first signal is broadcast from a first transmitting station |
| 7313285 |
Method and apparatus for compressing and decompressing images captured from viewpoints throughou |
December 25, 2007 |
| Techniques for compressing and decompressing images captured from viewpoints throughout an n-dimensional space. As opposed to conventional approaches, these techniques exploit image coherence over the entire n-dimensional space, providing quick access to images along arbitrary contig |
| 7313227 |
Animated/digitally depicted interactive voice session services over an IP network |
December 25, 2007 |
| A telecommunications service application. The application includes associating, each of a plurality of subscribers with at least one respective avatar, where the at least one avatar includes at least one of a visual avatar and an audible avatar. In response to a first subscriber atte |
| 7313092 |
Apparatus and method for an overload control procedure against denial of service attack |
December 25, 2007 |
| The present invention is a methodology to prioritize packets based on the conditional probability that given the values of attributes carried by packet, the packet is a legitimate one. We will call this the conditional legitimate probability of a packet from here onward. The conditional |
| 7312910 |
Dispersion-managed soliton transmission system with guiding filters |
December 25, 2007 |
| A new dispersion managed soliton transmission system where the D map period is the same as the amplifier period and the pulse breathing the in the +D sections of the D maps is approximately symmetrical. Pulse breathing symmetry by one or both of two techniques. In one technique a gui |
| 7310518 |
Serving roaming mobiles with incorrectly programmed identifiers |
December 18, 2007 |
| A method is provided for supplying service to mobile stations (MS) (20) utilizing a wireless telecommunications network (A). Each of the MS has a home country and a home network and is programmed with an identifier comprising a number including a set of digits. Each identifier is one of |
| 7309876 |
Organic semiconductor having polymeric and nonpolymeric constituents |
December 18, 2007 |
| A composition, comprising organic polymer molecules, and organic nonpolymeric molecules, wherein the composition is a semiconducting solid. The composition includes a distribution of crystal domains of the polymer molecules and inter-domain regions between the crystal domains, a conc |
| 7308403 |
Compensation for utterance dependent articulation for speech quality assessment |
December 11, 2007 |
| A method for objective speech quality assessment that accounts for phonetic contents, speaking styles or individual speaker differences by distorting speech signals under speech quality assessment. By using a distorted version of a speech signal, it is possible to compensate for diff |
| 7308248 |
Connection of one or more toll-free calls with one or more mobile phones associated with one or |
December 11, 2007 |
| One or more control components of an apparatus that connect with one or more mobile phones one or more toll-free calls placed by one or more users of one or more communication devices to one or more toll-free numbers associated with the one or more mobile phones. |
| 7308232 |
Method and apparatus for estimating a channel based on channel statistics |
December 11, 2007 |
| A method and apparatus are disclosed for equalizing a channel using improved channel estimates. The present invention assumes that fading will follow a statistical model and obtains an improved channel estimate using one or more basis functions to describe the channel based on known |
| 7308169 |
Optical equalizer for intersymbol interference mitigation |
December 11, 2007 |
| A multi-channel optical equalizer for intersymbol interference mitigation compensates for single- or multi-wavelength channels simultaneously and requires few adjustable parameters. The optical equalizer also compensates for overshoots and signal transition degradations in semiconduc |
| 7308160 |
High speed semiconductor waveguide phase-shifter |
December 11, 2007 |
| A semiconductor waveguide includes a section containing free charge, either electrons or holes, which can be steered into or removed from the path of the beam under the control of electrical signals. The mobile charges come from a potential well which may be either filled or depleted |
| 7308006 |
Propagation and detection of faults in a multiplexed communication system |
December 11, 2007 |
| A data transmission system that detects fiber faults receives a plurality of data packets carried on a plurality of Gigabit Ethernet links at a plurality of Gigabit Ethernet input/output ports. The system then multiplexes, on a bit by bit basis, the data packets onto an optical link. |
| 7307945 |
Methods for providing a reliable server architecture using a multicast topology in a communicati |
December 11, 2007 |
| Multi cast techniques are employed to provide host computer elements access to multiple redundant servers of a communication network in such a way that the hosts need not know which of the servers is active. In one embodiment, the servers provide a gateway function between an Ethernet |
| 7307615 |
Method and apparatus for voice-controlled graphical user interface pointing device |
December 11, 2007 |
| A pointing device is provided for use in computing devices comprising a printed circuit board, a tracking device adapted to generate a tracking signal in response to a user vocal input and relay the tracking signal to the printed circuit board, and a selection device adapted to generate |
| 7305623 |
Method and apparatus for managing and representing elements in a network |
December 4, 2007 |
| A method for managing a communications network comprising a plurality of nodes by representing the network as a plurality of areas comprising respective portions of the plurality of nodes, each of the areas coupled to at least one other area via a bridge comprising at least one commu |
| 7305341 |
Method of reflecting time/language distortion in objective speech quality assessment |
December 4, 2007 |
| Disclosed is an objective speech quality assessment technique that reflects the impact of distortions which can dominate overall speech quality assessment by modeling the impact of such distortions on subjective speech quality assessment, thereby, accounting for language effects in o |
| 7304971 |
Flexible transmission method for wireless communications |
December 4, 2007 |
| In the method, information from a user is transmitted over one or more communication channels of a wireless communication system by code multiplexing transmissions in the code domain. The method may include code multiplexing a first information from the user over a first channel with |
| 7304944 |
Unified scheduling and queueing architecture for a multiservice switch |
December 4, 2007 |
| The present invention provides hierarchical structures of queues and schedulers for switches and routers with, preferably fully-connected, mesh fabrics, for efficiently and properly handling the quality or service requirements of multiple network services, such as ATM and IP, in swit |
| 7304788 |
Translation of individual and entangled states of light by four-wave mixing in fibers |
December 4, 2007 |
| Optical frequency conversion by four-wave mixing in a fiber is considered. If the frequencies and polarizations of the waves are chosen judiciously, four-wave mixing enables the translation of individual and entangled states, without the noise pollution associated with parametric amp |
| 7304736 |
Method and apparatus for measuring polarization |
December 4, 2007 |
| A method of nonlinear polarimetry for measuring higher order moments of the E field of an optical signal is provided. The method includes imposing a phase delay on a first polarization of a received optical signal with respect to a second polarization of the optical signal to produce |
| 7302389 |
Automatic assessment of phonological processes |
November 27, 2007 |
| A computer-based system generates alternative phonetic transcriptions for a target word or phrase corresponding to specific phonological processes that replace individual phonemes or clusters of two or more phonemes with replacement phonemes. The system compares a user's speech with a li |
| 7302250 |
Method of recognizing fraudulent wireless emergency service calls |
November 27, 2007 |
| In the method of recognizing fraudulent emergency calls from a mobile station, a mobile station originating an emergency call is identified based on a mobile equipment identity received from the mobile station. A count of emergency calls received from the identified mobile station is |
| 7302229 |
Enabling desired wireless connectivity in a high frequency wireless local area network |
November 27, 2007 |
| The present invention provides a method and an apparatus to enable desired wireless connectivity in a high frequency and/or high speed wireless local area network for providing mobile communications to a user of a wireless communication device which may be otherwise unable to connect to |
| 7302137 |
Optical coupler apparatus and method |
November 27, 2007 |
| A planar lightwave circuit coupler including first and second waveguides with curved coupling portions having radii of curvature selected such that the coupler has a splitting ratio that is substantially wavelength and polarization insensitive. |
