| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| 7372816 |
Method and apparatus for optimizing routing through network nodes |
May 13, 2008 |
| A method for reducing the problem space associated with determining intra-network circuit provisioning paths within a large communications network by selecting only a sub-set of the total network nodes, including the start-node and end-node of a communication path by bounding, using |
| 7372805 |
Traffic grooming methods for undersea trunk and branch architectures |
May 13, 2008 |
| In a network architecture, selective grooming is performed. In selective grooming, a low traffic node is coupled (a) directly to an other low traffic node via a high capacity trunk, and (b) to a high traffic node via a high capacity trunk such that only a portion of the client signals |
| 7372607 |
Apparatus for reducing drops in a transmission spectrum due to inter-pixel gaps |
May 13, 2008 |
| The invention includes an apparatus for modulating an optical signal. The apparatus includes a spatial dispersion mechanism and a modulating mechanism. The spatial dispersion mechanism spatially disperses the optical signal. The spatially dispersed optical signal has a plurality of f |
| 7371982 |
MEMS safety and arming devices having launch and rotation interlocks and method of manufacturing |
May 13, 2008 |
| A device, a Micro-Electrical-Mechanical-Switch (MEMS) safety and arming (S&A) device and a method of manufacturing the MEMS S&A. In one embodiment, the device includes a body and a MEMS shuttle movably coupled to the body. In this embodiment, the shuttle is configured to close a swit |
| 7371605 |
Active organic semiconductor devices and methods for making the same |
May 13, 2008 |
| Techniques for disposing an organic semiconductor film on a receiver substrate, comprising the steps of: depositing an organic semiconductor film onto a donor substrate, the semiconductor film having a first surface facing the donor substrate and having an exposed second surface; bri |
| 7370510 |
Shock apparatus |
May 13, 2008 |
| One embodiment of a shock apparatus comprises a plurality of impact objects spatially ordered according to decreasing mass along a substantially linear path; a guide to guide movement of the impact objects along the path; and a plurality of spacers, one spacer between each adjacent p |
| 7370325 |
Eager evaluation of tasks in a workflow system |
May 6, 2008 |
| An object-focused workflow system for processing a received object in accordance with a declarative workflow specification. The specification includes modules and attributes, where module execution results in the evaluation of attributes, and may include the initiation of a side-effect |
| 7369778 |
Dispersion compensation method and apparatus |
May 6, 2008 |
| In one embodiment of the invention a dispersion compensator is provided for use in a dense wavelength division multiplexed optical communication system. The dispersion compensator comprises a periodic-group-delay dispersion compensation module which provides a portion of the dispersion |
| 7369719 |
Integrated tunable wavelength converter and variable optical delay |
May 6, 2008 |
| A monolithically integrated tunable wavelength converter and variable optical delay device(s) that is capable of providing optical delay(s) of any length. Advantageously, our devices are both compact and readily realized as a photonic integrated circuit (PIC) on a semiconductor subst |
| 7369494 |
Method and apparatus for managing data bursts |
May 6, 2008 |
| The invention operates to determine a measure of one or more input data parameters, such as input data rate and input data buffer fill at the beginning of a data burst. The invention then proceeds to the selection of an operating data rate for the data burst as a function of the input |
| 7369396 |
Composite electroactive material for electromechanical actuators |
May 6, 2008 |
| A composite electroactive material having a plurality of particle cores, each particle core surrounded by a polymer covering having one or more strands of an electroactive polymer. In one embodiment, the particle cores have a relatively small size, e.g., between about 10 and 50 nm, and |
| 7367214 |
Shock and launch apparatus |
May 6, 2008 |
| One embodiment of a shock and launch apparatus comprises a first carriage and a second carriage adapted to move along a carriage guide, wherein the first carriage has a mass M.sub.1 greater than a mass M.sub.2 of the second carriage; the carriage guide, associated with a substantially |
| 7367212 |
Rotational and linear shock apparatus |
May 6, 2008 |
| One embodiment of a shock apparatus comprises at least one linear impact object capable of movement along a first substantially linear path; a rotational impact object capable of rotation about an axis of rotation and movement along a second substantially linear path parallel to the |
| 7366949 |
Distributed software application software component recovery in an ordered sequence |
April 29, 2008 |
| A distributed software application comprises a plurality of software components within a plurality of executables. A manager component for the distributed software application performs a recovery of two or more software components, of the plurality of software components, in an order |
| 7366911 |
Methods and apparatus for computationally-efficient generation of secure digital signatures |
April 29, 2008 |
| Methods and apparatus are disclosed for generation of secure and efficient digital signatures in an information processing system. The system includes one or more user devices, a signing aid or other intermediary device, and a verifier. A given user device has associated therewith key |
| 7366659 |
Methods and devices for selectively generating time-scaled sound signals |
April 29, 2008 |
| Time-scaled, sound signals (i.e. sounds output at differing speeds) are generated by mixing weighted time-and frequency-domain processed signals, the former signal generally representing speech-based signals while the latter representing music-based signals. The weights applied to each t |
| 7366548 |
Method for alerting a mobile unit of a missed call upon movement of the mobile unit |
April 29, 2008 |
| The present invention provides a method for alerting a mobile unit of a missed call. A mobile unit receives a call request. If the mobile unit does not answer the call request and the mobile unit is stationary, the mobile unit waits for the mobile unit to move. Upon movement, the mobile |
| 7366526 |
Method and apparatus for providing improved border paging in a wireless network |
April 29, 2008 |
| This technique is applied in the circumstances where an intersystem page message, e.g. an IS-41 ISPAGE2 message, is received in a first border switching module. The intersystem page message may originate from a second border switching module. In this case, the network determines whet |
| 7366518 |
Supplemental channel sharing algorithm |
April 29, 2008 |
| Disclosed is a method for utilizing SCH resources more efficiently for supplemental channels (SCH) by minimizing gaps between data bursts due to overhead delays. Such gaps are minimized using a supplemental channel sharing algorithm to prospectively assign SCH resources supporting ex |
| 7366514 |
Method of handing off a packet switched to a circuit switched call |
April 29, 2008 |
| By obtaining the address of a circuit switching controller in a network with which a mobile station is registered, a packet call controller instructs the circuit switching controller to send notification of when a handoff request is received for a mobile station by the circuit switching |
| 7366424 |
Methods and apparatus for producing transmission failure protected, bridged, and dispersion resi |
April 29, 2008 |
| Apparatus for creating a communication signal, comprising a modulator adapted to: modulate a first and a second beam of continuous wave electromagnetic radiation with a source signal, assemble modulated portions of the first and second beams into a first electromagnetic radiation sig |
| 7366296 |
Network support for voice path signal strength balancing |
April 29, 2008 |
| Embodiments of the method and system provide for automatic balancing of audio signal strength levels on voice paths between first and second parties in a telecommunication system. The method in an embodiment may have the steps of: checking for a subscription to audio signal strength |
| 7366198 |
Method and system for packet and circuit telephony in a distributed telecommunications switching |
April 29, 2008 |
| Methods and systems for interfacing packet and circuit telephony operations in a distributed telecommunications network. Initially, one or more digital circuit switches can be associated with the distributed telecommunications network. Thereafter, one or more network transmission ele |
| 7366196 |
Ranging arrangement and method for TDMA communications |
April 29, 2008 |
| An out-of-band ranging technique is automatically initiated at a customer premises equipment unit when the equipment is installed, when power is restored after a power failure or interruption, upon verification of the equipment, upon reconnection after a disconnection of the equipment or |
| 7366178 |
Method and apparatus for scheduling data packet transmission over a multihop wireless backhaul n |
April 29, 2008 |
| A method and apparatus for scheduling the transmission of data packets over a multihop wireless backhaul network in which delay guarantees through the network may be advantageously ensured. Illustratively, a novel packet scheduling scheme is provided which is advantageously based on |
| 7366174 |
Adaptive classification of network traffic |
April 29, 2008 |
| Rules for classifying traffic in a communications network are set by collecting traffic data related to traffic that is input into a network node, processing the traffic data that is collected, and setting classification rules in response to the processed traffic data, wherein the se |
| 7366100 |
Method and apparatus for multipath processing |
April 29, 2008 |
| A multipath processing architecture that allows multipath packets to be distributed across multiple paths using a hash function and a modulo-arithmetic-based mapping function is disclosed. In one embodiment, the multipath processing architecture is implemented as part of a packet cla |
| 7363528 |
Brink of failure and breach of security detection and recovery system |
April 22, 2008 |
| A method and apparatus for managing a network includes detecting occurrence of a network event associated with a new network condition including unplanned and planned macro-events associated with network elements and communication links of the network. The network event is classified |
| 7362980 |
Duobinary transmission system and method |
April 22, 2008 |
| An optical duobinary transmission system and method are provided for transmitting optical duobinary signals across an optical transmission link having residual dispersion. The system includes a transmitter having a low bandwidth modulator, adapted to provide filtering for low pass fi |
| 7362979 |
Apparatus and method for duobinary transmission |
April 22, 2008 |
| An apparatus and method are provided for transmitting an optical duobinary signal using a low bandwidth modulator having a bandwidth of less than about 60% of the transmission bit rate of the transmitter. The modulator is adapted to provide low pass filtering for low pass filtered duobin |
| 7362977 |
Method for reduction of non-linear intra-channel distortions |
April 22, 2008 |
| A method for reducing intra-channel, non-linear distortions of an optical signal resulting from non-linear fiber propagation includes applying a polarization mode dispersion (PMD) pre-distortion to an optical signal such that the PMD pre-distortion produces two replica signals of the |
| 7362969 |
Camera model and calibration procedure for omnidirectional paraboloidal catadioptric cameras |
April 22, 2008 |
| A paraboloidal catadioptric camera is calibrated by relaxing the assumption of an ideal system to account for perspective projection, radial distortion, and mirror misalignment occurring within the camera system. Calibration points, which are small and visually distinct objects, are |
| 7362819 |
Device and method for reducing peaks of a composite signal |
April 22, 2008 |
| A method of limiting at least one peak of a composite signal having multiple carriers signals involves placing energy in at least one bandwidth gap located between respective frequency bandwidths of carrier signals. |
| 7362787 |
Self-mode-locked semiconductor laser |
April 22, 2008 |
| An interband self-mode-locked (SML) semiconductor laser utilizes an active waveguide structure that includes an active waveguide section and one or more passive waveguide sections that together enhances self-mode-locking. The SML laser operation is based on enhanced Kerr lens mode-lockin |
| 7362734 |
Time-slot partitioning in a TDMA system |
April 22, 2008 |
| According to the present invention there is provided a method of transmitting user data in a TDMA system in which the number of channels is increased by partitioning at least one time-slot in a TDMA frame into at least two sub-time-slots. Each sub time-slot may be allocated to a diff |
| 7362710 |
Organization and maintenance loopback cell processing in ATM networks |
April 22, 2008 |
| A communication system comprising a plurality of sources, a plurality of destinations, and a plurality of switches forming an asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) network connecting the sources to the destinations. Each switch in the plurality of switches includes a plurality of line car |
| 7361929 |
Field-effect transistors with weakly coupled layered inorganic semiconductors |
April 22, 2008 |
| A field-effect transistor includes source, drain, and gate electrodes; a crystalline or polycrystalline layer of inorganic semiconductor; and a dielectric layer. The layer of inorganic semiconductor has an active channel portion physically extending from the source electrode to the d |
| 7360153 |
Method and apparatus for importing digital switching system data into a spreadsheet program |
April 15, 2008 |
| A method and apparatus for importing digital switching system data into a spreadsheet program. Via the switch data examiner of the present invention, raw data from a digital switch/switching system such as the 5ESS.RTM. is converted by the switch data examiner to a format compatible |
| 7359710 |
Satellite TV derivative programming via mobile phone |
April 15, 2008 |
| A wireless telephony network provides satellite TV derivative program information and content, in addition to conventional wireless telephony services, to eligible mobile stations of the wireless telephony network. The wireless telephony network receives satellite TV programming from a |
| 7359466 |
Signal detection by a receiver in a multiple antenna time-dispersive system |
April 15, 2008 |
| In a MIMO system the bit error rate floor caused by time dispersion is reduced by employing a joint minimum mean square error (MMSE) equalizer for all of the respective transmit antenna--receive antenna pairings that are possible in the MIMO system. The resulting joint equalization c |
| 7359446 |
Methods and devices for decoding signals containing noise and distortion |
April 15, 2008 |
| "Reliability-related" values are assigned to received signal samples containing noise and distortion. The samples are then sent to a Viterbi decoder in order to regenerate originally transmitted messages. |
| 7359384 |
Scheduling of guaranteed-bandwidth low-jitter traffic in input-buffered switches |
April 15, 2008 |
| A switch schedules guaranteed-bandwidth, low-jitter-traffic characterized by a guaranteed rate table (GRT) method. A rate matrix generated from collected provisioning information is decomposed into schedule tables by a low jitter (LJ) decomposition method. The LJ decomposition method |
| 7359312 |
Method and apparatus for identifying an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) terres |
April 15, 2008 |
| A terrestrial repeater is disclosed for use in a satellite transmission system that may also include a plurality of satellites. The terrestrial repeaters are implemented as OFDM transmitters to minimize the channel impairments caused by multi-path propagation. The OFDM terrestrial re |
| 7358833 |
Method and apparatus for signal processing using electrowetting |
April 15, 2008 |
| An apparatus comprising a tuning device having at least one control electrode and a ground electrode located over a substrate and an electrically conductive fluid in contact with the control and ground electrodes. The tuning device also has at least one electrical transmission line e |
| 7356845 |
Method and apparatus for identification tagging documents in a computer system |
April 8, 2008 |
| A method and apparatus for tracing of computer documents is disclosed. A computer processor stores a processor identifier that is unique to the particular processor. Documents created by a computer system are tagged with an identification tag that is a value which results from performing |
| 7356749 |
Method and apparatus for detecting a three-state signal in a base station in a wireless communic |
April 8, 2008 |
| A decision as to whether a mobile terminal has transmitted an ACK, a NACK or a NULL from a received signal at a base station is made by successively eliminating one of the three possible transmitted symbols by sequentially applying decision rules that maximize network throughput by m |
| 7356729 |
Restoration of network element through employment of bootable image |
April 8, 2008 |
| A failure of a network element is detected automatically. A bootable image of the network element is electronically retrieved upon detection of the failure of the network element. The bootable image is employed to restore the network element. |
| 7356696 |
Proofs of work and bread pudding protocols |
April 8, 2008 |
| The bread pudding protocol of the present invention represents a novel use of proofs of work and is based upon the same principle as the dish from which it takes its name, namely, that of reuse to minimize waste. Whereas the traditional bread pudding recipe recycles stale bread, our brea |
| 7356689 |
Method and apparatus for tracing packets in a communications network |
April 8, 2008 |
| A method for tracing packets in a communications network directed to tracing a stream of anonymous packets received at a given target host, in order to identify their source, in response, for example, to a Denial-of-Service ("DoS") attack on the target host. Advantageously, the traci |
| 7356561 |
Adaptive sleeping and awakening protocol for an energy-efficient adhoc network |
April 8, 2008 |
| In a multiple node network, the method includes waking up at least one node from a sleep mode during at least one associated slot of a time-slotted frame, the sleep mode being a low power consumption mode. Also, in at least one node of a multiple node network, the period of time a no |
