| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| 7452741 |
Process for manufacturing an apparatus that protects features during the removal of sacrificial |
November 18, 2008 |
| The present invention provides a process for manufacturing an apparatus. The process, in one embodiment, includes providing a micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) device, the micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) device including an actuator coupled to a movable feature, sacrifici |
| 7451340 |
Connection set-up extension for restoration path establishment in mesh networks |
November 11, 2008 |
| An extension to a connection setup protocol for establishment of a restoration path for a service in a mesh network involves, at a transit node along the restoration path, the steps of (1) receiving a service data structure having an identification of each link and transit node in a |
| 7451241 |
Method and system for providing failure protection in a ring network that utilizes label switchi |
November 11, 2008 |
| A working label switched path (LSP) between neighbor label switched routers (LSRs) in a ring network that utilizes label switching is protected by an LSP that connects the neighbor LSRs of the working LSP in an opposite direction to the working LSP. If the working LSP fails, then pac |
| 7451195 |
Method and system for operating a PDA for use with an IP phone device |
November 11, 2008 |
| A personal digital assistant (PDA) stores a list of available phone features and policies and selects certain phone features and policies from the stored features and policies. When connected with an internet protocol (IP) phone device, the PDA downloads the selected phone features a |
| 7450863 |
Optical receiver for wavelength-division-multiplexed signals |
November 11, 2008 |
| A WDM receiver that includes a single, delay interferometer coupled to an N-channel wavelength-demultiplexing filter provides for the simultaneous conversion of a multiplex of N differential-phase-shift-keyed modulated optical signals of different wavelengths into N intensity-modulated |
| 7450801 |
Apparatus for free-space switching between planar lightwave circuits |
November 11, 2008 |
| A free-space optical switch for switching light beams between waveguides of planar lightwave circuits (PLCs). Switching is accomplished using a combination of lenses and micromirrors. The lenses and the controlled tilt of the micromirrors can establish a one-to-one interconnection path |
| 7450522 |
Power control system using acknowledgments |
November 11, 2008 |
| A power control system for a wireless communications system adjusts the transmit power of a wireless transmitter in relation to a number of acknowledgments expected for radio transmissions over a wireless link. For example, a wireless unit monitors the number of acknowledgments it re |
| 7450507 |
Hierarchal rate-limiting at a network node that utilizes an infinity rate-limit check |
November 11, 2008 |
| Rate-limiting a traffic stream using a rate-limit hierarchy involves subjecting a packet to a first rate-limit check, the first rate-limit check corresponding to a first-level traffic classification, subjecting the packet to a second rate-limit check and an infinity rate-limit cheek, |
| 7449649 |
Liquid switch |
November 11, 2008 |
| An apparatus comprising a liquid switch. The liquid switch comprises a substrate having a surface with first and second regions thereon and a fluid configured to contact both of the regions. The regions each comprise electrically connected fluid-support-structures, wherein each of th |
| 7444131 |
Method and apparatus for rerouting terminations for CALEA targets through a predetermined survei |
October 28, 2008 |
| A system and method is provided for surveilling call terminations to a roaming mobile in a wireless telecommunications network in which Location Request Queries (LRQs) for the target mobile can be sent from any MSC in the network. The system and method include forcing the path of the tar |
| 7443879 |
Communication between user agents through employment of codec format unsupported by one of the u |
October 28, 2008 |
| An apparatus in one example comprises one or more network controllers that serve to allow a second user agent to communicate with a first user agent through employment of a codec format unsupported by the first user agent. |
| 7443856 |
Managing processing utilization in a network node |
October 28, 2008 |
| A technique for managing the utilization of processing resources involves filtering packets that are sent to a CPU for learning before allowing the packets to reach the CPU. The filtering involves determining if related packets have already been allowed to reach the CPU for learning and |
| 7443819 |
Managing scrambling codes during serving radio network subsystem relocation |
October 28, 2008 |
| The present invention provides a method and an apparatus for managing relocation of one or more scrambling codes in a spread spectrum wireless communications system. The method comprises detecting an indication for a serving radio network subsystem relocation that causes a user equipment |
| 7443804 |
Method and apparatus of estimating available bandwidth on a packet network |
October 28, 2008 |
| By approximating a packet network, such as the Internet, by an M/M/1 queuing model, the available bandwidth of the network can determined from the variance of the distribution of the sojourn times of packets transmitted through the network. In order to determine the variance of the d |
| 7440760 |
Methods and apparatus for allocating bandwidth to communication devices based on signal conditio |
October 21, 2008 |
| Techniques and systems for allocating bandwidth in a communication channel to devices using the communication channel are described. A communication system includes a central device and one or more remote devices. The central device may transmit information to and receive information fro |
| 7440459 |
Methods of detecting protocol support in wireless communication systems |
October 21, 2008 |
| In a method of detecting whether a given node supports a given protocol version, a source node sends a request message to the destination mode based on a first protocol version. The source node receives an indication message in reply to the request, and may detect that the destination no |
| 7440404 |
Load balancing method and apparatus for ethernet over SONET and other types of networks |
October 21, 2008 |
| A load-balanced network architecture is disclosed in which a traffic flow at a given network node is split into a plurality of parts, and the parts are distributed to respective ones of the plurality of nodes that are designated as participating in a load balancing process for the traffi |
| 7440170 |
Method and apparatus for monitoring optical signal-to-noise ratio |
October 21, 2008 |
| Optical signal-to-noise ratio (OSNR) monitoring methods and apparatus are described. A tunable optical filter filters an optical channel containing an optical signal and noise. The total signal and noise power at the output of the filter is measured as the transmittance passband of the |
| 7440158 |
Direct optical image projectors |
October 21, 2008 |
| An apparatus includes a reconfigurable spatial light modulator, a light source, and a transmission filter. The reconfigurable spatial light modulator is capable of producing spatially varying amplitude and/or phase modulations of an incident light wavefront. The light source is confi |
| 7439096 |
Semiconductor device encapsulation |
October 21, 2008 |
| An encapsulated semiconductor device and method wherein an encapsulant material is deposited on the device in an environment that enhances device performance. Illustrative encapsulant materials are organic polymers, silicon polymers and metal/polymer-layered encapsulants. Encapsulant |
| 7437657 |
High speed add-compare-select processing |
October 14, 2008 |
| A method and apparatus for performing add-compare-select processing using carry-save arithmetic. Data compressors that operate based upon carry-save principles are utilized to render the correct result without requiring intermediate results to be resolved. Intermediate results are tr |
| 7437654 |
Sub-packet adaptation in a wireless communication system |
October 14, 2008 |
| Disclosed is a method of sub-packet adaptation based on data rate. Specifically, the size of a sub-packet is adapted to a data rate at which the sub-packet is to be transmitted. In one embodiment, the sub-packet is size adapted to the data rate in a format that would allow such size |
| 7437165 |
Method of applying hashing algorithms in a wireless communication system |
October 14, 2008 |
| A method of wireless communication. The method includes the step of broadcasting a message, such as channel list message, for example. The broadcasting message lists each available carrier for each available frequency band in the wireless communication spectrum--e.g., 400 MHz and abo |
| 7437161 |
Method of fast data transmission of mobile stations via the same base station |
October 14, 2008 |
| In the method of packet transmission, data packet fragments received from a first mobile station are sent to a second mobile station without assembling and re-fragmenting the received data packet fragments if the first and second mobile stations are in a same cell. |
| 7437075 |
Integrated reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexer |
October 14, 2008 |
| An integrated reconfigurable planar lightwave add-drop (RPLAD) multiplexer for use in a WDM optical communication system is arranged such that each drop port can receive any wavelength channel and each add port can transmit on any wavelength channel. Drop port reconfigurability is ac |
| 7436900 |
Intermodulation distortion identification and quantization circuit for a linear amplifier system |
October 14, 2008 |
| A method and multiple carrier linear amplifier circuit reduces intermodulation distortion by sampling the multiple carrier linear amplifier radio frequency signal and detecting the sampled signal at frequency increments and quantizing and nulling the intermodulation distortion. The s |
| 7436851 |
Destination call routing apparatus and method |
October 14, 2008 |
| A Destination Call Router network element is provided for Internet Protocol dial-up congestion relief, providing Public Switched Telephone Network off-load. The network element, a combination of an Asynchronous Transfer Mode switch and a Broadband Interworking Call Router with applic |
| 7436835 |
Forced bearer routing for packet-mode interception |
October 14, 2008 |
| A method of intercepting call content in a packet-based Internet Protocol (IP) network. The method includes targeting bearer packets containing the call content via a Softswitch controlling the redirection of the targeted bearer packets through a specified Intercept Router using alias IP |
| 7436822 |
Method and apparatus for the estimation of total transmission delay by statistical analysis of c |
October 14, 2008 |
| A method and apparatus for estimating transmission delay across a telecommunications network by performing a statistical analysis of conversational, behavior in the network. Certain characteristic events associated with conversational behavior (such as, for example, alternative silen |
| 7436820 |
Method and apparatus for providing fault tolerance to intelligent voice-over-IP endpoint termina |
October 14, 2008 |
| When an intelligent VoIP endpoint terminal on a VoIP network becomes inoperative for any reason and can't respond to a service request that it had been programmed for, rather than leaving that service request unfulfilled, a VoIP network-hosted instance of that primarily endpoint term |
| 7436808 |
Method and apparatus for bandwidth reservations |
October 14, 2008 |
| A transmitting unit for use in sending data in packets in timeslots within time frames, each packet being sent in a timeslot, the unit comprising means to reserve for uplink transmission in the next uplink time frame a number of timeslots (X), the number of timeslots (X) being determined |
| 7436799 |
Method for minimizing expenditures associated with optimized backhaul networks |
October 14, 2008 |
| The invention includes a method for determining an expenditure associated with a network. A method includes obtaining network information associated with a portion of a network, categorizing each of a respective plurality of cells as one of an aggregated cell and a non-aggregated cel |
| 7436769 |
Method of throttling data flow through a router |
October 14, 2008 |
| In the method of throttling data flow through a router, a load parameter, which represents allowable load on the router, is determined and a state of overload control determined based on the load parameter. Overload control mechanisms associated with the determined state are then imp |
| 7436766 |
Telecommunication network support for service based policy in roaming configurations |
October 14, 2008 |
| An apparatus in one example may have a functionality of a policy decision function divided into two parts; one part representing a home network application function and the other part representing visited network bearer resources and local policies. The one part of the policy decision |
| 7436580 |
Optical buffer employing four-wave mixing |
October 14, 2008 |
| An optical buffer employing Bragg scattering (BS), in which two pump signals are combined with an input (data) signal in a four-wave mixing (FWM) medium to frequency convert the input signal into an idler signal, which is applied to a dispersive medium, in which the idler signal prop |
| 7436310 |
Patch panel cover mounted antenna grid for use in the automatic determination of network cable c |
October 14, 2008 |
| An RF antenna grid design in which the antenna array is installed on a patch panel cover allows for the retrofitting of an RF antenna grid on existing patch panel based systems without disrupting network operation. An apparatus for determining connectivity between device ports on a patch |
| 7435961 |
Imaging sensor |
October 14, 2008 |
| A sensor that is responsive to at least two distinct spectral bands, e.g., infrared radiation and ultraviolet or infrared and visible light makes use of the junction of a diode-based bolometer as a photocell in addition to its temperature dependence for detecting infrared radiation. More |
| 7435391 |
Light-mediated micro-chemical reactors |
October 14, 2008 |
| A chemical reactor includes two substrates that are joined along a surface and a chemical reaction chamber formed between the substrates. The chemical reaction chamber has a hollow interior and one or more light reflectors located along walls of the hollow interior. The chemical reac |
| 7433870 |
Method and apparatus for secure processing of XML-based documents |
October 7, 2008 |
| Method for providing controlled access to an XML document includes defining at least one access control policy for a user of the XML document, deriving a security view of the XML document for the user based upon said access control policy and schema level processing of the XML docume |
| 7433836 |
Enterprise information and communication system having a transaction management engine for manag |
October 7, 2008 |
| An information and communication system uses an web page like environment or "Personal Space" to integrate a plurality of communication and monitoring functions. Home or enterprise automation components are linked together via wired or unwired network links and accessed via the Personal |
| 7433703 |
Method for allocating resources in a wireless communication system |
October 7, 2008 |
| The present invention provides a method for allocating resources in a wireless communication system. The method may include selecting at least one resource control bit that is not to be transmitted. The at least one resource control bit is selected based on at least one priority asso |
| 7433668 |
Controlling Q-factor of filters |
October 7, 2008 |
| The present invention provides a method and an apparatus for controlling a Q-factor for a filter. The method comprises stabilizing an active feedback to provide a variable feedback in a filter, varying the active feedback based on an input signal to the filter, and producing a desired |
| 7433661 |
Method for improved performance and reduced bandwidth channel state information feedback in comm |
October 7, 2008 |
| A method of transmitting information over a feed back channel of a communication system that has multiple antenna systems is provided. Long term channel condition information is obtained from received measured and/or calculated channel parameter values. The obtained long term channel |
| 7433560 |
Rectangular-passband multiplexer |
October 7, 2008 |
| A low-loss rectangular-passband multiplexer including a three-arm interferometer coherently connected to a waveguide grating router (WGR), resulting in a passband substantially of type N=3, without intrinsic loss. The three-arm interferometer has a free-spectral range (FSR) substanti |
| 7433549 |
Optical modulator |
October 7, 2008 |
| A high-speed optical modulator constructed from a number of lower speed intensity modulators integrated onto a single optical chip. |
| 7433460 |
Methods of controlling link quality and transmit power in communication networks |
October 7, 2008 |
| A method of controlling link transmission parameters of a communication flow in a network caches one or more network parameters at the end of a first communication flow for an elapsed time, and adjusts the network parameters for controlling link quality and transmit power of a next c |
| 7433335 |
Method for selecting an access channel or a traffic channel for data transmission |
October 7, 2008 |
| The present invention may provide a method of communication that includes selecting at least one access channel for transmission of data based on a channel condition. The present invention may also provide a method of communication that includes receiving data over at least one access |
| 7433315 |
Method for fast network re-optimization |
October 7, 2008 |
| A fast and efficient method for network re-optimization is described. In one embodiment, the technique uses an algorithm that requires limited aggregate information to continually monitor the network for re-optimization opportunities. The re-optimization of the present invention enab |
| 7433118 |
Bridged polysesquioxane host matrices containing lanthanides chelated by organic guest ligands, |
October 7, 2008 |
| Bridged polysesquioxane compositions comprising: a bridged polysesquioxane host matrix comprising sesquioxane moieties and organic moieties, the sesquioxane moieties comprising a metallic element, the organic moieties interposed between sesquioxane moieties; and a guest molecule comprisi |
| 7433117 |
Polarization-diverse optical amplification |
October 7, 2008 |
| A polarization-diverse optical amplifier includes a polarization-sensitive optically active medium and a polarization splitter. The polarization splitter is configured to receive input light, to direct a first polarization component of the received input light to a first optical path |
