| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| 7143545 |
Security bar with multiple internal rolling bars and electronic monitoring |
December 5, 2006 |
| A security bar providing improved security from breach is obtained with the use of a plurality of free rolling inner bars. Illustratively, three inner rolling bars, arranged in a triangular relationship, are provided inside a cylindrically hollowed out outer bar, thereby ensuring that no |
| 7143438 |
Methods and apparatus for a computer network firewall with multiple domain support |
November 28, 2006 |
| The invention provides improved computer network firewalls which include one or more features for increased processing efficiency. A firewall in accordance with the invention can support multiple security policies, multiple users or both, by applying any one of several distinct sets of |
| 7143430 |
Method and apparatus for remote audiovisual signal recording service |
November 28, 2006 |
| A method and apparatus for receiving requests for the remote storage of time schedule media programs from a client over the Internet and the delivery of such media programs in a specified streaming video format to the client is disclosed. The client requests the recording of a media |
| 7143191 |
Protocol message compression in a wireless communications system |
November 28, 2006 |
| A method, apparatus, system, and computer software for compressing and decompressing a message for transmission. The method of compressing a text message for transmission may include parsing text strings and encoding numerical values with a binary representation and analyzing values |
| 7143166 |
Dynamic bandwidth allocation in a reservation system |
November 28, 2006 |
| In a reservation network designed to carry bursty traffic an improved dynamic bandwidth allocation method accounts for reservation latency. In one advantageous embodiment wherein the system is memoryless, a user will request its queue size divided by the reservation latency in the system |
| 7143163 |
System and method for exacting a system resource access cost |
November 28, 2006 |
| A system for, and method of, controlling access to a resource of a computer system. In one embodiment, the system includes: (1) a database of problems and corresponding precalculated solutions, (2) a problem retriever that responds to a request from a client for access to the resourc |
| 7143154 |
Internet protocol security framework utilizing predictive security association re-negotiation |
November 28, 2006 |
| The present invention is a methodology for predicting when current sets of encryption keys used in a high speed data network are about to expire. The invention allows network elements of a communication system to re-negotiate new sets of keys well in advance so as to prevent interrup |
| 7143083 |
Method and apparatus for retrieving multimedia data through spatio-temporal activity maps |
November 28, 2006 |
| Techniques for retrieval of multimedia data through visual representations are provided. Such visual representations, preferably in the form of visual activity maps or spatio-temporal activity maps, serve as an efficient and intuitive graphical user interface for multimedia retrieval |
| 7143046 |
System and method for compressing a data table using models |
November 28, 2006 |
| A system for, and method of compressing a data table using models and a database management system incorporating the system or the method. In one embodiment, the system includes: (1) a table modeller that discovers data mining models with guaranteed error bounds of at least one attribute |
| 7142878 |
Method of timing calibration |
November 28, 2006 |
| Disclosed is a method for deriving accurate global positioning satellite (GPS) timing by calibrating frame boundaries to GPS timing. Time calibration is achieved by determining a time difference .DELTA.t between a reference GPS time (or pulse) and an nth frame boundary. The time diff |
| 7142867 |
Method of determining transmission rate from a mobile station to a base station in a wireless co |
November 28, 2006 |
| A method is disclosed for determining when a request for a higher transmission rate should be granted to a mobile station that currently has access to a communication system to facilitate the maintenance of a performance target (quality of service level) of the reverse link. The meth |
| 7142862 |
Intra-service number portability in wireless network |
November 28, 2006 |
| A method of relating a dialed number to a new mobile station in a wireless network is provided. The dialed number is associated with a first mobile switching center, the new mobile station is associated with a second mobile switching center, and wireless service to the first and second |
| 7142857 |
Apparatus, method and system for maintaining call control at a gateway mobile switching center u |
November 28, 2006 |
| The apparatus, method and system embodiments of the present invention provide for maintaining call control at a gateway mobile switching center (MSC), for roaming mobile units, utilizing a packet network or link, such as an ATM link. The preferred system embodiment includes a gateway MSC |
| 7142839 |
Dynamic grouping of wireless terminal |
November 28, 2006 |
| A system and method of transmitting media to a plurality of wireless terminals. The method includes forming a group of wireless terminals, and transmitting a group-specific media message to each of the wireless terminals in the group. The method can include forming a location-based g |
| 7142523 |
Methods and apparatus for design, adjustment or operation of wireless networks using pre-frequen |
November 28, 2006 |
| Techniques for use in designing, adjusting or operating a wireless network so as to provide a desired level of performance for the network. An optimization process is applied to a set of information characterizing the network. The optimization process includes at least a pre-frequenc |
| 7142352 |
MEMS mirror with amplified motion |
November 28, 2006 |
| A MEMS device achieves a large angle of rotation of a plate about 2 independent axes by employing a handle portion of the plate which is isolated by respective springs coupling the handle portion to each of two actuators. A first actuator, which rotates the mirror about the same axis |
| 7142087 |
Micromechanical latching switch |
November 28, 2006 |
| A micro-electrical-mechanical-switch (MEMS) device comprises a semiconductor wafer, a first semiconductor layer formed on the semiconductor wafer, and a second semiconductor layer formed on the first layer. A first latching movable shuttle is formed in the second layer and has the fi |
| 7141450 |
Flip-chip alignment method |
November 28, 2006 |
| Flip-chips are aligned by making a fiducial in the "top" chip that is translucent/transparent to light of a wavelength shorter than infrared, and at least one corresponding fiducial in the "bottom" chip. The top-chip fiducial may be made of a transparent or translucent material, its |
| 7139926 |
Stateful failover protection among routers that provide load sharing using network address trans |
November 21, 2006 |
| Failure protection is provided between two routers that are actively implementing load sharing using network address translation. Failure protection is achieved by generating state information at the two routers and then exchanging the state information between the two routers so that |
| 7139578 |
Method for managing wireless assets in a coverage area |
November 21, 2006 |
| A method for managing wireless assets in a first coverage area based upon call activity in at least one second coverage area substantially adjacent with the first coverage area includes the steps of: (a) in no particular order: (1) selecting a parameter relating to the call activity; and |
| 7139475 |
Ring type fiber optic protection |
November 21, 2006 |
| An optical receiver is provided with inputs for receiving two fiber optic lines. The two fiber optic lines carry redundant data. An optical interface passes the respective signals therein to a comparison unit. The comparison unit compares the signals and determines which has the better |
| 7139287 |
Telecommunications signalling using the internet protocol |
November 21, 2006 |
| When a telecommunications network involves use of the Internet Protocol, signalling information is passed by providing between a user and the Internet Protocol an interface protocol (56) which interfaces with one or both of the Transport Control Protocol and the User Datagram Protocol. |
| 7139270 |
Systems and method for transporting multiple protocol formats in a lightwave communication netwo |
November 21, 2006 |
| A heterogeneous mix of traffic having one or more protocol formats and supplied by one or more users or sub-networks is transported in a communication network by using digital containers that are routed and processed in network nodes interconnecting the users or sub-networks. A digit |
| 7137002 |
Differential authentication entity validation scheme for international emergency telephone servi |
November 14, 2006 |
| A network entry switch based statistical authenticating entity validation scheme wherein the level of IEPS call validation by authenticating entity is dependent on network load and the level of failed validations for a given authenticating entity. |
| 7136679 |
Call category for a call that terminates at announcement server component |
November 14, 2006 |
| An apparatus in one example comprises a call control component that sets a call category for a call to indicate that the call terminates at an announcement server component prior to connection with a called communication device. Upon receipt of an answer message from the announcement |
| 7136666 |
Control of the transmission power of a CDMA based system |
November 14, 2006 |
| A new and significantly improved approach for controlling the transmission power in the uplink direction of a CDMA-based radio system is disclosed, which provides a transmission power control even with regard to an overall link quality substantially involving a real time reaction on |
| 7136661 |
Weather alert notification to mobile station upon weather alert occurrence during a time period |
November 14, 2006 |
| A short message service request to receive one or more notifications of any one or more weather alerts that occur during a time period in one example is received from a mobile station. A notification of a weather alert, of the one or more notifications of the any one or more weather |
| 7136653 |
Wireless base station supporting multiple hyperbands |
November 14, 2006 |
| A cellular communications network providing multi-hyperband capability comprises a mobile switching center acting as a data administration and call control center for a plurality of cells, each cell divided into one or more sectors. A plurality of communications links connect the mobile |
| 7136462 |
Network speech-to-text conversion and store |
November 14, 2006 |
| A telecommunications system (100) includes network access devices (104) that couple user devices (102) to a telecommunications network (106). The user devices (102) include at least voice and preferably text display and text generation capability. A voicemail server (114) is coupled to t |
| 7136437 |
Method and apparatus for receiving digital wireless transmissions using multiple-antenna communi |
November 14, 2006 |
| A signal detection technique for multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communications systems embodied in a method and apparatus for detecting a plurality of transmitted signals with use of a plurality of receiving antennas. An iterative procedure decodes one of a plurality of transm |
| 7136362 |
Method of operating a mobile telecommunications network |
November 14, 2006 |
| In a third generation mobile telecommunications network, when a mobile is in a foreign network, packets are addressed to it by a home agent which changes the header so that the source address is the home agent address and the destination address is the Care of Address of the mobile. |
| 7136352 |
Method and apparatus for processing of regulated connections in a communication network |
November 14, 2006 |
| Techniques are disclosed for controlling the transmission of packets over a communication link in a network. The invention in accordance with one aspect thereof determines a number of packet transmission connections supportable for a given buffer size in a node of the network while m |
| 7136350 |
Efficient support for VP/VC groups |
November 14, 2006 |
| A method for supporting VP/VC groups in asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) switching systems that implement ATM automatic protection switching (APS). A source (SA) transmits traffic substantially continuously on two paths and a destination (SB), or sink, selects at any time one of the |
| 7135438 |
Method of making cuprate superconducting material |
November 14, 2006 |
| A class of superconductive materials containing copper-oxygen bonding and with mixed cation-occupancy designed with a view to size and valence consideration yield useful values of critical temperature and other properties. Uses entail all applications which involves superconducting m |
| 7134056 |
High-speed chip-to-chip communication interface with signal trace routing and phase offset detec |
November 7, 2006 |
| A high-speed parallel interface for communicating data between integrated circuits is disclosed. In one embodiment, the transmitter controller accepts 40-bit wide data every 167 Mhz clock cycle, the receiver controller delivers 40-bit wide data every 167 Mhz clock cycle, and the inte |
| 7134046 |
Method and apparatus for high availability distributed processing across independent networked c |
November 7, 2006 |
| 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 |
| 7133927 |
Method and apparatus for supporting real-time multi-user distributed applications |
November 7, 2006 |
| The present invention provides a network support mechanism, called Sync-VPN, that is transparent to real-time, multi-user distributed applications, such as online multi-player games in which the order of player actions is critical to the outcome. The invention uses a client/server ap |
| 7133700 |
Wireless visual alerting method and system |
November 7, 2006 |
| A method and system in a telecommunications network for visually alerting a user of an incoming call are disclosed herein. A call can be transmitted to a mobile device associated with a user of the telecommunications network. An alert can also be transmitted to one or more visual ale |
| 7133688 |
Method for improving uplink control channel efficiency in a wireless communication system |
November 7, 2006 |
| A method of using a generated pilot signal inserted in a CQF slot of an uplink signaling channel to control the transmission power of data information independently of the transmission power of voice information regardless of whether the voice and data information are transmitted sim |
| 7133677 |
System and method for establishing and/or maintaining a data session across packet data networks |
November 7, 2006 |
| A communication system selection algorithm (SSA) implemented by a mobile station chooses between available systems to select a system to serve the mobile station. During initialization, the SSA causes the mobile station to scan the environment and compare available communication systems |
| 7133622 |
Return-to-zero (RZ) optical data modulator |
November 7, 2006 |
| A method and apparatus for variable duty cycle generation of optical RZ data signals uses a single, NRZ-driven phase modulator followed by a optical delay-line interferometer. If desired, a differential encoder precodes an NRZ data signal before being applied to the data input of a p |
| 7133616 |
Wavelength-selective routing using an optical add/drop architecture |
November 7, 2006 |
| A wavelength-selective routing capability is provided in a single network element by configuring the network element using a combination of add/drop network elements to route individual optical channels of WDM signals among a plurality of optical transmission paths coupled to the net |
| 7133503 |
Incoming call control by the called party |
November 7, 2006 |
| A telephony communication device is capable, upon an election by a user, of transmitting a defer answer signal in response to receiving notification of an incoming call. The defer answer signal causes the telephony infrastructure equipment to place the calling party on hold and play |
| 7133191 |
Optical equalization |
November 7, 2006 |
| A device and method for processing a signal e.g. equalizing a signal, is disclosed. Such processing involves dividing a signal into two portions that each traverses a wavepath and then are combined. The respective wavepaths impose a non-linear frequency-versus-phase dependency on a s |
| 7133135 |
Method and apparatus for the direct characterization of the phase of an optical signal |
November 7, 2006 |
| A method and apparatus for the direct characterization of the phase of an optical signal includes measuring the interference between the optical signal and a sequence of optical pulses and processing the measured interference. The method and apparatus split and combine the optical si |
| 7132973 |
Universal soft remote control |
November 7, 2006 |
| A universal remote control (10) is provided for wireless remote control of one or more devices (D1 . . . Dn) equipped for remote control by respective original remote controls having visual appearances different from one another. The universal remote control (10) includes: a memory ( |
| 7131132 |
Automatic access denial |
October 31, 2006 |
| A method for limiting access to a device to a particular authorized user. The method includes; obtaining visual data related to the appearance of a user of the device; processing the visual data to determine when the particular authorized user is present; allowing initial access to the |
| 7131023 |
Programmable clock management component reconfiguration upon receipt of one or more control sign |
October 31, 2006 |
| One or more programmable clock management components of an apparatus in one example are coupled with a backplane. The one or more programmable clock management components comprise a reconfigurable clock management component. Upon receipt of one or more control signals, the reconfigur |
| 7130660 |
Method and system for receiving and transmitting signals in a cellular radio network |
October 31, 2006 |
| A method for receiving and transmitting signals in a cellular radio network. The method comprising receiving a plurality of radio signals at different frequencies using a single radio receiver at the base station, scanning the incoming signals and saving the signals to a buffer with a |
| 7130657 |
Methods and systems for improving frame selection in wireless communications networks |
October 31, 2006 |
| Methods and systems are provided for improving frame selection in wireless communications networks. During decoding of a frame, a base station generates an error burst representation associated with error bursts and stores the representation within the frame, thus forming an enhanced |
