| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| 7227235 |
Electrowetting battery having a nanostructured electrode surface |
June 5, 2007 |
| A method and apparatus are disclosed wherein a battery comprises an electrode having at least one nanostructured surface. The nanostructured surface is disposed in a way such that an electrolyte fluid of the battery is prevented from contacting the electrode, thus preventing discharg |
| 7225392 |
Error correction trellis coding with periodically inserted known symbols |
May 29, 2007 |
| The present invention discloses a system and method for channel coding data within a digital communication system. A data receiving circuit receives a digital input data sequence and periodically inserts known symbols, such as zeros, into the digital input data sequence as part of a |
| 7224993 |
Power control method with DTX frame detection for a communication channel |
May 29, 2007 |
| A method of detecting DTX frames in frames received over a communication channel and a power control method are described, where radio link protocol (RLP) information received over the channel may be received, and one or more frames associated with the RLP information may be determined |
| 7224983 |
Method and apparatus for geolocation estimates in wireless networks |
May 29, 2007 |
| A method and apparatus for increasing the accuracy and reliability of geolocation estimates for wireless communication networks devices includes calculating a geolocation estimate of a wireless communication device for a plurality of time periods, and selecting from the plurality of |
| 7224974 |
Network support for per user packet data throughput |
May 29, 2007 |
| One embodiment of the present method is for a method that provides packet data throughput information on a per user basis for at least one mobile terminal of a plurality of mobile terminals operatively connected to a communication network. In this embodiment the method may have the steps |
| 7224897 |
Method of preconfiguring optical protection trails in a mesh-connected agile photonic network |
May 29, 2007 |
| The method of pre-configuring the optical protect paths in an agile photonic network establishes a protection trail for each optical working path that may be set-up in the network. The pre-configuration is based on building an electrical layer (EXC) graph that takes into account all the |
| 7224687 |
Method and apparatus for voice over IP network address translation |
May 29, 2007 |
| An IP services switch that supports packetized voice traffic in the form of voice packets from a plurality of enterprises having a plurality of endpoints some of which can use the same IP addresses. The IP services switch includes a plurality of NAT tables, each of which corresponds to a |
| 7222214 |
Device-level address translation within a programmable non-volatile memory device |
May 22, 2007 |
| A programmable non-volatile memory device includes block switching logic that enables device-level translation rules to be changed. The device-level translation rules map the external addresses received by the flash memory device to the internal addresses of the programmable non-vola |
| 7221931 |
Network support for electronic passports |
May 22, 2007 |
| An apparatus in one example has: a telecommunications network having at least an image recognition and comparison module and an scanned image database; a mobile terminal having image scan functionality and image capture functionality, the mobile terminal operative coupled to the tele |
| 7221912 |
Telecommunications management interface system |
May 22, 2007 |
| This invention relates to a method and apparatus for centralized control of operations, administration, maintenance and provisioning (OAMP) for a system comprising sub network elements and sub-elements from a plurality of vendors having different OAMP interfaces. The messages to and from |
| 7221756 |
Constructions of variable input length cryptographic primitives for high efficiency and high sec |
May 22, 2007 |
| A hash function is applied to a prefix of a VIL input. The output is added to a suffix of the input. A block cipher is applied to results of the addition. An encryption function is performed on the prefix. The final output is the output of the block cipher and the encryption function. In |
| 7221682 |
Controller for allocation of processor resources and related methods |
May 22, 2007 |
| A controller 26 for a packet radio network 20 includes a processor 27 that, in turn, includes a plurality of processor resources 30A 30D for processing a plurality of packet classes. Each packet class has a different delay sensitivity associated therewith. The processor 27 allocates |
| 7221649 |
Method and apparatus for identifying delay causes in traffic traversing a network |
May 22, 2007 |
| A monitoring technique is provided for diagnosing delays in file transfers between a server and a client via a network, which monitoring technique operates to make measurements of ordinary network traffic on a link unique to a given client/server pair connection. In particular, the i |
| 7221648 |
Rate adaptation in a wireless communication system |
May 22, 2007 |
| Disclosed is a method of data rate adaptation based on channel conditions. Data is initially transmitted at a first data rate based on a measured first channel condition and subsequently re-transmitted at a second data rate based on a measured second channel condition, wherein the first |
| 7220388 |
Micro-channel chemical concentrator |
May 22, 2007 |
| Apparatus and method for increasing the concentration of a chemical substance in a fluid comprise a micro-fluidic elongated channel formed in a substrate, with the channel being in fluid-flow communication with an ambient region along its elongated dimension. In general, the fluid in |
| 7219254 |
Method and apparatus for high availability distributed processing across independent networked c |
May 15, 2007 |
| A plurality of local network groups of computers (102) are coupled together by a network (104). Independent processing systems that execute a single operating system are coupled together by a network (220) to form the local network groups. The independent processing systems may have |
| 7219228 |
Method and apparatus for defending against SYN packet bandwidth attacks on TCP servers |
May 15, 2007 |
| A SYN packet bandwidth Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack is defended against by intercepting and identifying SYN packets in a "DDoS gateway" advantageously positioned at the edge of the network to be protected (e.g., one hop upstream from the protected link), and by queuing |
| 7219157 |
Application programming interface for network applications |
May 15, 2007 |
| An application programming interface (API) is described that allows creating or destroying one or more pairs of data structures for asynchronously passing between the operating system and a network application pointers to packet buffers mapped to both parties. |
| 7219059 |
Automatic pronunciation scoring for language learning |
May 15, 2007 |
| A method and apparatus for generating a pronunciation score by receiving a user phrase intended to conform to a reference phrase and processing the user phrase in accordance with at least one of an articulation-scoring engine, a duration scoring engine and an intonation-scoring engine to |
| 7218947 |
Telecommunications network comprising a base station and a mobile station, and a method of trans |
May 15, 2007 |
| A telecommunications network comprises a base station and a mobile station in use in call connection on at least one uplink channel for communicating user data. The base station is operative such that on receipt of a command to transfer to and/or add at least one other uplink channel |
| 7218922 |
Administrator designation of one or more tones and/or one or more announcements that are playabl |
May 15, 2007 |
| A control component of an apparatus in one example comprises an interface usable by an administrator to designate one or more tones and/or one or more announcements that are playable in a communication session as interruptible. |
| 7218859 |
System and method for an optical signal monitor |
May 15, 2007 |
| Techniques and systems for monitoring of optical signals are described. Each of a plurality of optical signals is supplied to an optical port. A port signal is generated based on each of the optical signals and each of the port signals is subjected to a time delay to create a time delaye |
| 7218850 |
Apparatus and method for monitoring signal-to-noise ratio in optical transmission systems |
May 15, 2007 |
| A high-sensitivity signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) determining apparatus measures the in-band SNR of an optical data signal by detecting and demodulating the optical signal and analyzing a narrow bandwidth of the resulting electrical data spectrum at half the data clock frequency, or mor |
| 7218630 |
Data session setup system for wireless network |
May 15, 2007 |
| A wireless communication system uses a circuit switched link between a wireless unit and a base station to establish a data session with a network device in a packet data network. After the data session is established, the data session can proceed using a packet switched link between |
| 7218193 |
MEMS-based inertial switch |
May 15, 2007 |
| In one embodiment, an inertial switch of the invention includes a MEMS device manufactured using a layered wafer. The MEMS device has a movable electrode supported on a substrate layer of the wafer and a stationary electrode attached to that substrate layer. The movable electrode is |
| 7217922 |
Planar micro-miniature ion trap devices |
May 15, 2007 |
| A micro-miniature ion trap device comprises a wafer (or substrate) having a major surface, a multiplicity of electrodes forming a micro-miniature ion trap in a region adjacent the major surface when voltage is applied to the electrodes, characterized in that the multiplicity includes a |
| 7216589 |
Fuse for projected ordnance |
May 15, 2007 |
| An ordnance fuse apparatus is described that uses electrical and mechanical, and optical devices. The ordnance fuse apparatus includes a controller to control an optical switch and a laser to detonate an explosive charge of the ordnance. Other embodiments include an accelerometer and |
| 7215969 |
Method for RF dead zone data collection using mobile station |
May 8, 2007 |
| A method for collecting data to identify an RF dead zone in a cell of a wireless network using a mobile station is provided. The method includes: a) receiving position data from the mobile station at a base station when the mobile station is powered up and located within the cell, b) |
| 7215960 |
Hand-off technique for a wireless network |
May 8, 2007 |
| A technique that relates to use of a known messaging sequence, e.g., ISANSWER messaging in the IS-41 protocol, in a heretofore unknown manner to improve hand-off procedures that may be established between a serving (anchor or intermediate) mobile switching center and a target (or border) |
| 7215860 |
Optical transmission fiber with a glass guiding cladding |
May 8, 2007 |
| The present invention provides an apparatus comprising a passive optical transmission fiber. The passive optical transmission fiber comprises a passive glass fiber core, a glass optical inner cladding surrounding the core and a glass optical outer cladding surrounding the inner cladding. |
| 7215852 |
Method and apparatus for mode conversion |
May 8, 2007 |
| Spot-size conversion for interfacing a first optical element having a higher refractive index to a second optical element having a lower refractive index is achieved through the use of two optical star couplers coupled to each other through a plurality of optical paths embedded in a |
| 7215294 |
Antenna with reflector |
May 8, 2007 |
| An antenna which includes a monoconical antenna feed assembly, where the feed assembly has a base and an apex, a ground plane adjacent to the monoconical antenna feed assembly near the apex, and an antenna reflector coupled to the ground plane, where the antenna reflector at least pa |
| 7213068 |
Policy management system |
May 1, 2007 |
| A policy management system implements a programmable policy-based approach for managing network elements in a telecommunication network. The policy management system includes one or more policy proxies associated with the network elements and a central policy processing point in communic |
| 7213063 |
Method, apparatus and system for maintaining connections between computers using connection-orie |
May 1, 2007 |
| The present invention provides a system, method and apparatus for maintaining a connection between a server and a client by receiving a message, determining whether to store one or more elements of the message, storing the one or more elements of the message when the one or more elem |
| 7212746 |
Short haul optical communications |
May 1, 2007 |
| Short haul optical communication networks using multi longitudinal mode lasers are susceptible to significant degradation from mode partition noise. Losses from such noise in short haul networks are substantially reducible by employing an additional fiber with specific properties. This |
| 7212695 |
Variable optical delay line with a large continuous tuning range |
May 1, 2007 |
| In accordance with the invention, a variable optical delay line with a large continuous tuning range comprises an incremental variable delay line to provide delay selected from a sequence of incrementally differing delays and a continuous variable delay line to provide a continuously |
| 7212693 |
Optical substance analyzer |
May 1, 2007 |
| A portable waveguide sensor having one or more gratings. In one embodiment, the sensor has a waveguide, wherein a plurality of grooves imprinted onto the waveguide form a Bragg grating. The surface of the grooves has a functional layer adapted to bind a substance of interest, e.g., a |
| 7212579 |
Radio telecommunications receiver operative to receive digital data symbols or bits by iterative |
May 1, 2007 |
| A radio telecommunications receiver operates to receive digital data symbols or bits by iterative determination of soft estimates of symbols or bits followed by a hard decision as to what symbol or bit was intended. The receiver comprises a first processor operative to provide first |
| 7212517 |
Method and apparatus for jitter and frame erasure correction in packetized voice communication s |
May 1, 2007 |
| The invention comprises a system and method for correcting jitter and frame erasure in packet voice communication systems with out severely affecting the voice quality of the signal to be easily noticed by a listener. A packet is retrieved from a buffer, a pitch of the packet is dete |
| 7212506 |
System for the secure distribution of priority call access codes to provide guaranteed wireless |
May 1, 2007 |
| The priority communication system provides the capability to restrict access to wireless communications services to emergency service personnel, such that their access to wireless communication services is not interruptible. This is accomplished by provisioning the cell sites of a wi |
| 7210069 |
Failure recovery in a multiprocessor configuration |
April 24, 2007 |
| A multiprocessor configuration includes a plurality of processing groups connected to form both a first and second communication path, and an interpath connection connecting the first and second communication paths. The first and second communication paths and the interpath connection |
| 7209947 |
Data network-assisted conference establishment |
April 24, 2007 |
| A system and method for providing data network-assisted conference service to a wireless terminal. Conference-related information is received from a conference originator and stored. Prior to conference establishment time, a conference notification message is sent to the wireless termina |
| 7209760 |
Methods and apparatus for mitigating the effects of solar noise and the like on a wireless commu |
April 24, 2007 |
| Techniques for reducing or eliminating effects of noise on a wireless communication system are provided. In one aspect of the invention, the technique comprises monitoring noise attributable to an interference source that may affect one or more components of the wireless communicatio |
| 7209669 |
Method and apparatus for synchronizing a pulse carver and a data modulator for optical telecommu |
April 24, 2007 |
| Method and apparatus for synchronizing two different types of modulators in an optical transmission system includes a first modulator generating an optical pulse train, a second modulator encoding data onto the optical pulse train, an optical filter resolving upper and lower modulation |
| 7207062 |
Method and apparatus for protecting web sites from distributed denial-of-service attacks |
April 17, 2007 |
| An Internet Service Provider (ISP), in consideration of being remunerated in some manner by a site, determines whether packets destined to that site conform to a profile provided to the ISP by that site. The profile, indicates, for example, what protocols are allowed by the server, and, |
| 7206888 |
Backplane configuration with shortest-path-relative-shift routing |
April 17, 2007 |
| A novel backplane routing and configuration (200) supports a full mesh architecture. In this novel configuration, a circuit pack determines which backplane signals to use for a transmission based on the relative distance across the backplane between the board sending the communication |
| 7206584 |
Methods of determining cells for deletion in network design |
April 17, 2007 |
| A method of determining cells for deletion in a network design, in which the network is simulated to generate statistics for each cell of a given group of cells. The statistics of each cell are evaluated based on a given ranking criteria. Based on the evaluation, the cells of the grouped |
| 7206574 |
Automated exchange of broadband communication addresses over a non-broadband channel in a wirele |
April 17, 2007 |
| A broadband address of a first subscriber is identified and communicated to a second subscriber in a first communication system using an SMS data enabled cellular system or call origination set up messaging. If authorization is given by the second subscriber, the broadband address of |
| 7206557 |
Method and apparatus for suppressing local oscillator leakage in a wireless transmitter |
April 17, 2007 |
| A direct conversion transmitter comprising two local oscillators, an in-phase and quadrature modulating signal and in-phase and quadrature modulators, adds a leakage detector and corrective algorithm with one or more digital to analog converters to generate a corrective signal. The c |
| 7206522 |
Dynamic measurement of and compensation for impairments to optical data communication pulses |
April 17, 2007 |
| A photomultiplier module (PMT), preferably a PMT with a gallium arsenide (GaAs) photocathode, is used as a N-photon detector (N is an integer .gtoreq.2). The PMT detects the N-photon absorption rate of an optical signal having a wavelength range extending from 1.0 .mu.m to an upper w |
