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Decorative Jeweled Wheel Cover
An improved wheel is provided wherein decorative items such as gem stones are embedded in either the wheel surface, a special mounting section attached to the wheel surface, or to a spoke strap that wraps around each spoke and positions embedded gem stones on the outside surface of the spoke.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5489905 | Merged decoding circuit for analog-to-digital flash conversion A circuit for conversion of an analog input signal to a digital representation of the analog signal. The circuit is typically employed in flash technology, since it is able to produce the digital representation of the analog signal faster and more efficie... | 02/06/1996 |
| 5488715 | Process for integrated traffic data management and network surveillance in communications networks The dual operations of traffic data analysis and network surveillance in a telecommunications network are integrated to allow maintenance personnel to readily assess the impact of network element problems on the level of service. More specifically, the pr... | 01/30/1996 |
| 5488693 | Protocol with control bits and bytes for controlling the order of communications between a master processor and plural slave processors A protocol controls communications between a master unit and a plurality (M) of slave units connected thereto. The master unit sends a downlink message over a first communication path to the M slave units, the downlink message including a number N of info... | 01/30/1996 |
| 5488680 | Frequency routing device having a wide and substantially flat passband An optical apparatus is provided that includes a first frequency routing device having at least one input port and P output ports, where P>2. A second frequency routing device is also provided that has P input ports and at least one output port. P optical... | 01/30/1996 |
| 5488665 | Multi-channel perceptual audio compression system with encoding mode switching among matrixed channels A five-channel perceptual audio compression system which encodes five matrixed channels switches among a fourteen encoding modes each utilizing a respective different set of matrixed channels. Six of the modes are for encoding the three front channels and... | 01/30/1996 |
| 5488633 | Intersymbol interference channel coding scheme Intersymbol interference and precoding loss are minimized by combining the precoding and coding operations. An intersymbol interference coder uses a feedback loop to apply a dither sequence to a sequence of input signal points. The dither signal applied t... | 01/30/1996 |
| 5488569 | Application-oriented telecommunication system interface The present invention provides a method and apparatus for interfacing different service creation environments (SCEs) and execution environments (EEs) in a telecommunication system. A telecommunication system interface in accordance with the present invent... | 01/30/1996 |
| 5488500 | Tunable add drop optical filtering method and apparatus The present invention includes a tunable add/drop filter that utilizes the unique operational characteristics of a wavelength grating router. The filter comprises a 1×N switch, a wavelength grating router (WGR) having a plurality of inputs and outputs, a... | 01/30/1996 |
| 5488425 | Apparatus for storing video information by recognizing video frames Allowing the ability to specify a general frame format and to automatically recognize similar frames at later points in time. A user initially selects the type of frame by watching a particular program such as the weather portion of a newscast and selects... | 01/30/1996 |
| 5488412 | Customer premises equipment receives high-speed downstream data over a cable television system and transmits lower speed upstream signaling on a separate channel In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, a home controller receives signals from the cable television system and utilizes a cable demodulator tuned to the RF frequency of the channel which carries the data information. The cable demodula... | 01/30/1996 |
| 5488248 | Memory integrated circuit An integrated circuit, illustratively an SRAM, having a low resistance path between an access transistor and a pull down transistor is disclosed. Connection for the cell load to the node between the access transistor and pull down transistor is made outsi... | 01/30/1996 |
| 5487967 | Surface-imaging technique for lithographic processes for device fabrication A surface-imaging technique for lithographic processes is disclosed. The lithographic processes are used to manufacture integrated circuit devices. An image is produced on a resist that is applied onto a substrate. The image is produced by exposing select... | 01/30/1996 |
| 5487675 | Integrated protector and modular jack Disclosed is a network interface unit where the protectors are mounted within a pouch attached to an RJ11 modular jack. The modular jack includes a contact member which electrically contacts a grounding strip on the terminal chassis to provide the necessa... | 01/30/1996 |
| 5487125 | Method and apparatus for fusion splicing optical fibers We have discovered that the strength of arc fusion splices in optical fiber can be adversely affected by particles (e.g., SiO2 particles) from the electrodes. Disclosed is a method of arc fusion splicing that can substantially increase the prob... | 01/23/1996 |
| 5487104 | Arrangement for displaying menu screens on a telephone terminal An interactive display arrangement for easily moving between menu screens in a display device at a telephone terminal is provided. Ease of movement between the menu screens for certain logical functions is facilitated by a multipurpose screen prompt havin... | 01/23/1996 |
| 5486783 | Method and apparatus for providing clock de-skewing on an integrated circuit board The present invention relates to a circuit board having a plurality of integrated circuits provided thereon, wherein each integrated circuit (IC) receives a common clocked input reference signal and outputs a dam signal. Each integrated circuit is provide... | 01/23/1996 |
| 5487117 | Graphical system for automated segmentation and recognition for image recognition systems Apparatus and processes are described for the automatic recognition of alphanumeric images. A set of cuts are made to the image which include incorrect segmentations. The resulting "cells" comprising in their totality the created segments of the image are... | 01/23/1996 |
| 5485613 | Method for automatic memory reclamation for object-oriented systems with real-time constraints A method for memory reclamation for object-oriented program-controlled systems with real-time constraints. Resource reclamation, commonly called garbage collection, in object-oriented systems is segmented into discrete, real-time bounded segments. Schedul... | 01/16/1996 |
| 5485515 | Background noise compensation in a telephone network An automated method for modifying a speech signal in a telephone network by applying a gain factor which is a function of the level of background noise at a given destination, and transmitting the modified speech signal to the destination. The gain applie... | 01/16/1996 |
| 5485512 | Mnemonic and synonymic addressing in a telecommunications system Symbol sequences of varying lengths and having logical meanings other than as network addresses (e.g., subscriber names), are assigned and used as actual telecommunications network addresses, without imposition of predefined fixed lengths, formats, or ord... | 01/16/1996 |
| 5485510 | Secure credit/debit card authorization This invention relates to methods for making a credit/debit card purchase without revealing the card number to the vendor of services or goods. The card holder is connected to a data base and provides the card number, plus holder identity verification, to... | 01/16/1996 |
| 5485298 | Optical packet synchronization circuit A packet synchronization technique, in a synchronous optical packet switch, which delays received packets to ensure that there is only one packet per local time slot. The packets are of a time duration ͌ which is equal to or less than one-half the durati... | 01/16/1996 |
| 5484966 | Sensing stylus position using single 1-D image sensor An apparatus and method for determining the location of an object in an active area of a first plane. The apparatus includes a first reflecting device, disposed substantially perpendicular to the first plane at a periphery of the active area. The first re... | 01/16/1996 |
| 5483884 | Method and apparatus for setting up a stencil printer A sensor system (56) for measuring various parameters of a stench printer (10) includes a test fixture (58) having a plurality of sensors (64--64 and 68--68) arranged therein. The test fixture (58) is adapted for substitution with a conventional PWB (16) ... | 01/16/1996 |
| 5483375 | Optical ratio amplifier An apparatus for amplifying the optical power ratio includes first and second input electro-absorption modulators coupled together in series that each receive an optical input beam. First and second output electro-absorption modulators are coupled togethe... | 01/09/1996 |
| 5483470 | Timing verification by successive approximation Apparatus for developing and verifying systems. The disclosed apparatus employs a computationally-tractable technique for verifying whether a system made up of a set of processes, each of which has at least one delay constraint associated with it, satisfi... | 01/09/1996 |
| 5483590 | Processing of operational data in telecommunication system A data analysis processor receives data collected from switch is and applies a plurality of stored rules to yield corresponding test results. If a test result exceeds stored boundary conditions corresponding to the test, an exception condition is determin... | 01/09/1996 |
| 5483551 | Crosstalk suppression technique To reduce near-end crosstalk (NEXT) in systems possessing excess bandwidth, a signal is transmitted from a first to a second location. At the second location, the received signal is examined and a characteristic of this signal is determined while the dela... | 01/09/1996 |
| 5483542 | Byte error rate test arrangement An arrangement is disclosed for determining a byte error rate (ByER) of a received digital signal. In particular, a local byte clock signal is generated and a complement of the received signal (or clock signal) is compared to the clock signal (or received... | 01/09/1996 |
| 5483201 | Synchronization circuit using a high speed digital slip counter Simplifying measurement equipment so that any two frequency sources can be accurately and quantitatively compared to each other. With this simplified measurement equipment, calibration can be performed on an oscillator using an external reference signal, ... | 01/09/1996 |
| 5483207 | Adiabatic MOS oscillators High-frequency, low-power CMOS oscillators having electrically-tunable tank circuits are disclosed. Electrically-tunable inductors assure highly efficient oscillator operation and can be adjusted after manufacture to assure high yields of high-precision o... | 01/09/1996 |
| 5483235 | Stylus-based keyboard key arrangement A small, stylus-based keyboard in which the arrangement of the keys is a function of predetermined estimated probabilities of the occurrence of various possible sequences of keystrokes. Sequences of keystrokes which are estimated to have a high likelihood... | 01/09/1996 |
| 5483236 | Method and apparatus for a reduced iteration decoder The present invention is a reduced iteration decoder circuit and method to compute error-locator sequence values for use in the correction of bit errors in Reed-Solomon or BCH coded information. By utilizing special properties of Reed-Solomon code and BCH... | 01/09/1996 |
| 5483237 | Method and apparatus for testing a CODEC The testing of an n-bit encoder (14) and an n-bit decoder that collectively comprise a CODEC is performed by an apparatus including an n+1 bit counter (18) for generating a count, for generating an overflow signal once the counter has counted one beyond 2... | 01/09/1996 |
| 5483251 | Abridgment of text-based display information The general problem of conveying a particular meaning in a message so that the meaning is most understandable when an abridged version of the message is displayed is solved by supplying as the message a "tagged" string in which all characters in the unabr... | 01/09/1996 |
| 5483369 | Communication systems using passive RF routing Communication between an upstream point, such as a TV-source headend followed by a fiber optic line, and a number of downstream points, such as coaxial cable connected subscriber locations, is achieved by wavelength or frequency demultiplexing a spectrum ... | 01/09/1996 |
| 5483613 | Optical device with substrate and waveguide structure having thermal matching interfaces The present invention provides polarization-independent optical devices by reducing or eliminating strain-induced birefrigence associated with prior device structures. In a first embodiment, an optical device is produced comprising a doped silica substrat... | 01/09/1996 |
| 5483611 | Apparatus for aligning optical fibers in an X-Y matrix configuration Apparatus for holding optical fibers in a matrix configuration comprises a holder member (20) and a pair of parallel alignment members (25) extending in an X direction and attached to the holder member. A plurality of fiber support members (11), each cont... | 01/09/1996 |
| 5483527 | Terminal adapter for interfacing an ATM network with a STM network An Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) network comprising a plurality of ATM switches may be arranged so that it may receive for routing telephone calls originating at Synchronous Transfer Mode (STM) switches. This may be done in the ATM network by accumulat... | 01/09/1996 |
| 5482802 | Material removal with focused particle beams The present invention provides a process for locally removing at least a portion of a material layer structure in which first and second materials are provided, the second material having a higher etch rate by an activated reaction gas than the first mate... | 01/09/1996 |
