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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7319817 | System for transparent node for WDM shared “virtual ring” networks A system and method for a transparent WDM metro ring architecture in which optics enables simultaneous provisioning of dedicated wavelengths for high-end user terminals, while low-end user terminals share wavelengths on “virtual rings”. All wavelengths are sourc... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7319413 | Method and system to calculate an approximate location of a mobile station in a recurrent route A method and system for calculating the approximate location of a mobile station along a recurrent route is disclosed. In an embodiment for the method in accordance with the principles of the present invention, the method for storing reference data includes decoding... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7320143 | Method of gaining secure access to intranet resources Method of gaining secure access from a host (13) to Intranet resources provided by at least a content server (18) in a data transmission system wherein the host is connected to the content server through a gateway (17). Such a method consists in... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7320027 | System having generalized client-server computing A protocol provides generalized client-server computing by providing a server program that can utilize standard and non-standard ports for applications. ... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7319964 | Method and apparatus for segmenting a multi-media program based upon audio events The present invention provides for a method and apparatus for segmenting a multi-media program based upon audio events. In an embodiment a method of classifying an audio stream is provided. This method includes receiving an audio stream. Sampling the audio stream at... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7318103 | XML in the MASP client-server protocol A method and system for using XML for both a protocol layer and application data are described. The method comprises the steps of initiating a connection by a client to a server to form a session, responding by said server to said client indicating that said connect... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7315181 | Method for automatically identifying component failure in a communication network Systems and methods for detecting errors in communication networks are described. When an interface component is potentially defective, a rules engine performs diagnostic testing to determine if the interface component is defective. During diagnostics, the rules eng... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7313607 | Method and apparatus of hierarchical node partitioning for address planning in PNNI networks Method and apparatus for hierarchical node partitioning for address planning in networks, e.g., PNNI ATM networks to perform judicious definition of peer groups to create a logical partitioning of the ATM switches that increases PNNI routing efficiency and performan... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7313324 | SONET outage impact measurement technique An accurate method of reporting “minutes of outage” for a SONET facility applies a set of business rules and hierarchical definitions to delete certain minutes that would otherwise be counted as “outages”. In particular, any outage minutes reported for a net... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7313605 | Externally controlled reachability in virtual private networks A network that supports VPNs is enhanced to allow users in one VPN to communicate with users in another VPN in the course of executing a predefined application, such as VoIP. This capability is achieved dynamically by enabling a device that can communicate with the ... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7310811 | Interaction modalities for multimedia delivery and presentation A method and apparatus for displaying received data, analyze the quality of the displayed data formulating a media-parameter suggestion for the encoder to alter the characteristics of data to be sent to the receiver, and sending from the receiver, the formulated sug... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7310652 | Method and apparatus for managing hierarchical collections of data A method and system provide for management of a collection of data records. The data records have associated therewith an identifier or code that indicates the most coarse level of granularity with which the data record is associated in a hierarchy of sampling subse... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7310414 | Prepaid phone card service using speech recognition A method for placing a telephone call from a caller using a prepaid phone card includes the steps of connecting a caller with a caller interface having a speech recognition application, receiving voice input from the caller in the form of phone card information spok... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7310391 | De-modulation of MOK(M-ary orthogonal modulation) Apparatus for iterative detection and demodulation of M-ary orthogonal signals (MOK) and signals using Complementary Code Keying (CCK). The apparatus comprises a non-coherent detector that is used during the first iteration and in subsequent iterations uses a cohere... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7310302 | Method for estimating time and frequency offset in an OFDM system A synchronization technique computes, in the frequency domain, a differential-in-frequency function across a large number of OFDM tones, to develop robust estimates of time and frequency offset. The technique allows the system designer to directly trade performance ... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7310419 | Virtual work environment for remote users An arrangement provides a work environment to a remote user who is logged-in as a member of an enterprise, which work environment includes both a telecommunication capability and a data processing capability, and both are concurrently associated with the logged-in u... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7307639 | Texture replacement in video sequences and images Systems and methods for reducing bit rates by replacing original texture in a video sequence with synthesized texture. Reducing the bit rate of the video sequence begins by identifying and removing selected texture from frames in a video sequence. The removed textur... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7305081 | Method for exchanging signaling messages in two phases Signaling messages are exchanged for a call between a calling party to a called party. A setup message for the call is exchanged through at least one gate controller. Network resources are reserved for the call based on the exchanged setup messages. An end-to-end me... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7305051 | Optimum training sequences for wireless systems In various embodiments, techniques are provided to determine channel characteristics of various communication systems such as OFDM systems or systems using a plurality of transmit antennas by using various sets of training symbols that produce zero cross-correlation... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7305004 | Interference suppression methods for 802.11 An 802.11 source station transmits a signal with the duration field other than that required for the transmission to prevent transmission by other stations during known sequences. Thus, the source station uses the duration field to spoof the actual time the medium w... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7305340 | System and method for configuring voice synthesis Systems and methods for providing synthesized speech in a manner that may take into account the environment where the speech is presented. In certain cases, the manner in which speech is presented can take into consideration ambient noise and/or can seek to optimize... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7301965 | Packet shaping for mixed rate 802.11 wireless networks A method of shaping data packet transmissions by nodes in a wireless network is presented. Each node sets a maximum limit for MAC service data unit size based on data rate so that maximum transmission times for data packet transmissions by all of the nodes are appro... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7301964 | Method for bandwidth management by resizing pipes Signaling messages are exchanged for a call between a calling party to a called party. A setup message for the call is exchanged through at least one gate controller. Network resources are reserved for the call based on the exchanged setup messages. An end-to-end me... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7302597 | Microprocessors with improved efficiency processing a variant signed magnitude format A microprocessor is arranged to process instructions at least some of which contain at least one immediate value which forms an operand of the function, wherein said immediate value is represented in a format which achieves a greater power efficiency than two's comp... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7298724 | In-band QoS signaling reference model for QoS-driven wireless LANs A station, such as a point coordinator (PC) or a non-PC station, in a basic service set (BSS) in a wireless local area network (WLAN) is disclosed. The station includes a frame classification entity (FCE), a frame scheduling entity (FSE) and a QoS management entity ... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7298710 | Communication network apparatus and method A communication network apparatus and method for routing communication signals from a source device to a receiving device. The apparatus performs only local processing on communication signals to thereby increase the speed of processing the signals. A plurality of t... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7298700 | Method for unidirectional and bidirectional label switched path setup in a label switched network Label contention in a label switched network is resolved by applying a contention resolution scheme that reconciles policies for handling unidirectional and bidirectional label switched path setup. ... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7298695 | Method and apparatus for delaying start of restoration of low priority services The present invention relates generally to restoration of low priority services in a network. More particularly, the invention encompasses a method and an apparatus for delaying the start of the restoration of low priority services in a communication network. The in... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7299369 | Power reduction in microprocessor systems method of preventing an electronic file containing a computer virus from infecting a computer system using the Symbian™ operating system, the method comprising the steps of scanning files using an anti-virus application, and if an infected file is identified, main... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7299353 | Firewall system for interconnecting two IP networks managed by two different administrative entities Firewall system for interconnecting a first IP network (10) to a second IP network (16), these networks belonging to two different entities having each a different administration wherein any data packet transmitted/received by the first IP network is f... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7299283 | Apparatus for size-dependent sampling for managing a data network The present invention provides apparatus for sampling data flows in a data network in order to estimate a total data volume in the network. Sampling the data flows in the data network reduces the network resources that must be expended by the network to support the ... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7298794 | Method and apparatus for data transmission using multiple transmit antennas A method and apparatus for increasing the data rate and providing antenna diversity using multiple transmit antennas is disclosed. A set of bits of a digital signal are used to generate a codeword. Codewords are provided according to a channel code. Delay elements m... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7298736 | Method of providing voice over IP at predefined QoS levels The present invention is a technique for provisioning and assessment of voice quality in Internet Protocol (IP) voice applications. A predetermined quality of service (QoS) is received from a user in the form of an acceptable packet loss. The technique measures curr... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7296089 | Method for improving web performance by adapting servers based on client cluster characterization The present invention is a method for improving delivery of content to a client communicating with a server on the Web. Groups or clusters of clients are formed by processing the IP addresses of the clients according to a network-aware, radix-encoded trie classifica... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7296030 | Method and apparatus for windowing in entropy encoding The present invention provides efficient window partitioning algorithms for entropy-encoding. The present invention enhances compression performance of entropy encoding based on the approach of modeling a dataset with the frequencies of its n-grams. The present inve... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7296014 | Method and apparatus for using wavelets to produce data summaries A system and method are provided for summarizing dynamic data from distributed sources through the use of wavelets. The method comprises receiving a first data signal at a first location, where the first data signal is dynamic, determining a first array sketch of th... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7295982 | System and method for automatic verification of the understandability of speech The present invention relates to a system and method for automatically verifying that a message received from a user is intelligible. In an exemplary embodiment, a message is received from the user. A speech level of the user's message may be measured and compared t... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7295981 | Method for building a natural language understanding model for a spoken dialog system A method of generating a natural language model for use in a spoken dialog system is disclosed. The method comprises using sample utterances and creating a number of hand crafted rules for each call-type defined in a labeling guide. A first NLU model is generated an... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7295975 | Systems and methods for extracting meaning from multimodal inputs using finite-state devices Multimodal utterances contain a number of different modes. These modes can include speech, gestures, and pen, haptic, and gaze inputs, and the like. This invention use recognition results from one or more of these modes to provide compensation to the recognition pro... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7295777 | Optical/radio local access network A communication system includes a plurality of nodes and a plurality of point-to-point links that interconnect the plurality of nodes into a network. Each node includes an optical switch to controllably route a plurality of in-ports of the optical switch into a plur... | 11/13/2007 |
