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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5539821 | Power outlet mount for a portable telephone An apparatus (10) mounts a telephone, particularly the handset (15) of a portable telephone, to a wall A.C. power outlet (11) and supplies power from the power outlet to the telephone. The apparatus comprises a chassis (12), at least one A.C. power plug (... | 07/23/1996 |
| 5539815 | Network call routing controlled by a management node A network management node (10) collects trunk loading data and switch congestion data from switches in a telecommunication system. Path loading vectors (52, 56,) constraint vector (66), and switch congestion vector (76) are calculated and compared to yiel... | 07/23/1996 |
| 5539809 | Location specific messaging in a telecommunications network When one party places a long distance call to another party through a telephone network, there is a delay in completing the call after the calling party enters the telephone number of the called party. During this holding time, a message specific to the g... | 07/23/1996 |
| 5539806 | Method for customer selection of telephone sound enhancement Methods and apparatus are disclosed for improving the clarity and intelligibility of incoming speech in a telephone connection. Improved sound quality is provided by automatically selecting, or enabling the selection of, an appropriate sound enhancement f... | 07/23/1996 |
| 5539803 | Wireless test mode for a cordless telephone A cordless telephone set advantageously includes a wireless test mode accessible by a user for evaluating performance levels of operating parameters in the cordless telephone set in diverse geographical locations. When configured in a normal operating mod... | 07/23/1996 |
| 5539784 | Refined timing recovery circuit Briefly, in accordance with the embodiment of the invention, a refined timing recovery circuit for retiming a colored data signal comprises a data pulse edge detector. The recovered data signal is derived from a received data pulse. The data pulse edge de... | 07/23/1996 |
| 5537547 | Automatic network element identity information distribution apparatus and method In a telecommunications management network including a network element provisioned as a so-called Directory Services Network Element (DSNE) and at least one sub-network intended to include one or more network elements, the DSNE automatically distributes t... | 07/16/1996 |
| 5537489 | Method of normalizing handwritten symbols A handwritten test symbol, such as an alphabetic character, a word or a signature, written on a digitizing tablet is normalized by comparison with a model symbol to determine the transformation necessary to best fit the test symbol to the model symbol. Su... | 07/16/1996 |
| 5537472 | Portable telephone with flip stand or hinged doors and having speaker therein A portable telephone includes a telephone body having a lower recess at the rear side thereof; a flip stand pivotally mounted by a pivot pin to the telephone body for pivotal movement between a first position within the lower recess and a second position ... | 07/16/1996 |
| 5537470 | Method and apparatus for handling in-bound telemarketing calls A method and apparatus for handling incoming calls to a service provider facility having a number of agent terminals. The method includes the steps of routing an initial call to an original agent at one of the agent terminals; storing for a predetermined ... | 07/16/1996 |
| 5537461 | Information services platform A facility is provided in a telecommunications network which transforms a particular type of telephone call connection, e.g., a connection carrying a call placed to a source of information at the point that it enters the network into a digital network con... | 07/16/1996 |
| 5537654 | System for PCMCIA peripheral to execute instructions from shared memory where the system reset signal causes switching between modes of operation by alerting the starting address A "Personal Computer Memory Card International Association" (PCMCIA) peripheral, e.g., a modem, incorporates a shared memory interface to a personal computer. This shared memory interface provides the capability to easily program the PCMCIA peripheral eit... | 07/16/1996 |
| 5537445 | Variable length tracebacks A digital communication system including Viterbi decoder for tracing a path through a trellis of individual state information and method of operation are disclosed. The traceback determines a decoded symbol. The trellis of surviving branch data is stored ... | 07/16/1996 |
| 5537444 | Extended list output and soft symbol output viterbi algorithms A family of extended Generalized Viterbi Algorithm (GVA) and Soft Output Viterbi Algorithm (SOVA) decoders is disclosed. In one embodiment structural aspects of a SOVA are used to develop a new implementation for a serial GVA. Another aspect of the invent... | 07/16/1996 |
| 5537441 | Controlled simultaneous analog and digital communication A method and apparatus for control of concurrent communication of analog information and digital information. In general terms, when the communication channel is viewed as a multi-dimensional space, the digital information signal is divided into symbols, ... | 07/16/1996 |
| 5537436 | Simultaneous analog and digital communication applications A number of arrangements and methods that achieve concurrent communication of analog information and digital information. In general terms, when the communication channel is viewed as a multi-dimensional space, the digital information signal is divided in... | 07/16/1996 |
| 5537403 | Terabit per second packet switch having distributed out-of-band control of circuit and packet switching communications A telecommunications switch which has a central switch fabric made up of multiple crossbars that can be used to switch either circuit switched or packet switch communications as long as appropriate input and output interfaces and controllers are provided.... | 07/16/1996 |
| 5537329 | Apparatus and method for analyzing circuits A circuit analyzer and method are disclosed for generating and outputting a Pade via Lanczos (PVL) approximation of a frequency response of a circuit from input circuit parameters. A processing unit having a processor, memory, and stored programs processe... | 07/16/1996 |
| 5537243 | All-optical flip-flop An all-optical flip-flop device is achieved by employing two optical amplifiers arranged so that they together operate in only one of two stable states at a given time. In a first stable state of operation, the first optical amplifier behaves as a laser h... | 07/16/1996 |
| 5535385 | Dealing with side effects of transactions in data base systems using a multi-set algebra Apparatus and methods for reducing the amount of computation required to determine the consequences of a side effect resulting from a transaction on a relation in a data base system. The apparatus and methods use equational reasoning based on a bag algebr... | 07/09/1996 |
| 5535300 | Perceptual coding of audio signals using entropy coding and/or multiple power spectra A technique for the masking of quantizing noise in the coding of audio signals is usable with the types of channel coding known as "noiseless" or Huffman coding and with variable radix packing. In a multichannel environment, noise masking thresholds may b... | 07/09/1996 |
| 5535222 | Method and apparatus for controlling a plurality of systems via a boundary-scan port during testing A plurality of individual systems (12o -12n) are controlled during testing via a test value present on a four-wire Boundary-Scan port (17). To accomplish such control, the test value present at the Boundary-Scan port is shifted throu... | 07/09/1996 |
| 5535198 | ISDN basic rate interface central office station terminal emulator for customer premises equipment Full channel service is obtained over a modified ISDN BRI interface by emulating at least one central office (CO) station terminal which provides access to a voice channel over a single DSL for user station terminals whether or not they are ISDN BRI compa... | 07/09/1996 |
| 5535051 | WDM optical fiber system using crystal optical amplifier Rare-earth doped single-crystal amplifiers serve to simultaneously amplify member channels of an optical fiber WDM system. A tailored amplification bandwidth sufficient for this purpose is the result of a variety of "defects" which after the local crystal... | 07/09/1996 |
| 5535002 | Band matching system and method for enabling accurate determination of a disparity between two surfaces using an interferometer A band matching system and method (213a) enables accurate determination of a disparity between two surfaces using an interferometer. The band matching system and method (213a) can be implemented in an automatic inspection system (90) for contactlessly mea... | 07/09/1996 |
| 5534913 | Apparatus and method for integrating downstream data transfer over a cable television channel with upstream data carrier by other media A split channel bridging unit includes a router that operates under the control of a control processor to route packets of information destined for a user to a modulator which is connected to the cable distribution head-end of the cable television system ... | 07/09/1996 |
| 5534862 | Resistor string with equal resistance resistors There is disclosed an integrated circuit including a resistive material runner resistor string comprising a series of resistors in which each resistor includes at least one runner direction change feature. Each resistor includes first and second contiguou... | 07/09/1996 |
| 5534826 | Oscillator with increased reliability start up Oscillation is easily and reliably initiated in an oscillator by increasing the gain of the circuit at startup time. For example, the gain of an oscillator circuit may be increased at startup by reducing the value of a user controlled impedance until osci... | 07/09/1996 |
| 5534797 | Compact and fast row driver/decoder for semiconductor memory The integrated circuit includes a plurality of row decoder-driver circuits, each for raising the voltage of a respective row line. Each of the plurality of row decoder-driver circuits includes an address decoder capable of receiving a plurality of address... | 07/09/1996 |
| 5534721 | Area-efficient layout for high voltage lateral devices A lateral semiconductor device is disclosed having a semiconductor body of a first conductivity type, and a drift region having a second conductivity type opposite that of the first conductivity type and formed on a surface of the semiconductor body. A dr... | 07/09/1996 |
| 5534465 | Method for making multichip circuits using active semiconductor substrates In accordance with the invention, a multichip circuit is fabricated by providing an active semiconductor substrate comprising a set of isolated components including active components such as transistors, forming on a surface of the substrate a plurality o... | 07/09/1996 |
| 5533663 | Solder wave measurement device In a wave solder manufacturing process, a test device is used to measure the contact-area between a solder wave and a printed wiring board. In particular, the test device is a printed wiring board (PWB) that includes at least two arrays of electrical cont... | 07/09/1996 |
| 5533264 | Apparatus for stripping cable A cable stripper is provided for removing metallic or non-metallic cable sheathing. The cable stripper includes a cutter which is adjustable for making circular or radial cuts in the cable sheathing. The cable stripper is adjustable to accommodate a wide ... | 07/09/1996 |
| 5534802 | Sample and hold circuitry in bipolar transistor technology using a bootstrapping technique A sample-and-hold circuit is formed in bipolar transistor technology with the aid of clocked and complementary-clocked bipolar transistors in combination with a holding capacitor whose output terminal, in going from sample to hold phases of the clock, und... | 07/09/1996 |
| 5533155 | Evanescent field coupler An evanescent field coupler comprising a coupler holder, a first optical fiber mounted in a first substrate block, and a second optical fiber mounted in a second substrate block. The first substrate block is compliantly mounted to the holder. Means are in... | 07/02/1996 |
| 5533111 | System for originating and receiving telephone calls over a virtual piped connection, and specialized customer premise equipment for use in the system Access (or egress) charges payable by an IXC to a LEC, and payable by the subscriber to the LEC for originating or terminating calls and for associated vertical call control features, are reduced or eliminated by providing a virtual piped collection that ... | 07/02/1996 |
| 5533108 | Method and system for routing phone calls based on voice and data transport capability A method and system for routing phone calls from a caller to a selected destination based on voiceband (voice) and digital services (data) transport capabilities is disclosed. The selected destination is one of a plurality of destinations identified by a ... | 07/02/1996 |
| 5533100 | Communications system call complete arrangement A facility is disposed in a telecommunications network to provide an alternative to retrying the placing of a call to a telephone station when a busy signal is encountered. More particularly, if a subscriber places a telephone call to a called station set... | 07/02/1996 |
| 5533096 | Send-all-calls feature for a wireless handset A telephone terminal for implementing a send-all-calls feature by immediately transferring all incoming calls to call coverage but maintaining ongoing call control of calls from selected individuals. The telephone terminal maybe a wireless mobile unit. In... | 07/02/1996 |
| 5533065 | Decreasing length tracebacks A communication system including a Viterbi decoder for tracing a path through a trellis of individual state information and method of operation are disclosed. The traceback determines a decoded symbol. A matrix of surviving branch data is stored in an arr... | 07/02/1996 |
