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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7307963 | Architecture and method for using IEEE 802.11-like wireless LAN system to emulate private land mobile radio system (PLMRS) radio service An architecture is described for providing IP push-to-talk (IPP2T) service using a wireless local area network (WLAN) serving a plurality of subscriber terminals (STs), having at least one broadband access network terminal (BANT), the BANT coupled to and interacting... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7216297 | Eliding web page content A method and system for providing click-once links is disclosed. Elision is used to automatically remove a URL and associated content from a web page as hyperlinks are selected, reducing previously visited material and providing visual feedback to a user. When a use... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7006810 | Method of selecting receive antennas for MIMO systems A method of performing receive antenna selection is presented. The method executes a determination operation for a set of receive antennas, determines a maximum result of the determination operation for two of the antennas, eliminates one of the two antennas from th... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6510152 | Coaxial cable/twisted pair fed, integrated residence gateway controlled, set-top box A twisted pair and/or coaxial cable fed, integrated residence gateway controlled set-top device provides a plurality of services. One service is lifeline service which may be provided over the coaxial cable via a cable modem of the integrated residence ga... | 01/21/2003 |
| 6493321 | Systems and methods for providing communications through an alternate communication network Systems and methods for providing communications path through a selected communications network in the event of a transmission failure on the initial, real-time, communications network are presented. The selected network operates in a non-real-time manner... | 12/10/2002 |
| 6483513 | Method for defining MPEP 4 animation parameters for an animation definition interface A process is defined for the rapid definition of new animation parameters for proprietary renderers. The process accommodates the peculiarities of proprietary models. In a first step, a proprietary model is animated in a standard modeler and the animated ... | 11/19/2002 |
| 6262978 | Call completion of video telephone/teleconference call as packet voice call A system and method for establishing a communication path for a call between a video telephone/teleconference call and a packet network telephone terminal through a packet network. The call is routed through a multimedia gateway which performs a conversio... | 07/17/2001 |
| 6212383 | Method and apparatus for updating network routing using integrated internet/two-way paging Managing, in a two-way paging communication system, paging menus containing paging-menu options, comprises receiving, from a subscriber, paging-menu options. A subscriber then sends information including a first set of callers and a second set of callers,... | 04/03/2001 |
| 6191806 | Demand-adaptive system and method for telephone requested cable programming A management system and method for use with on-demand cable programming, wherein a customer telephones a cable supplier and requests that a particular video program be played. The management system uses a plurality of video sources, wherein each of the vi... | 02/20/2001 |
| 6149115 | Mounting apparatus for components and assemblies An apparatus for mounting a component having a housing, the housing including a backplate. The apparatus includes a pair of mounting tabs disposed on the backplate. Each mounting tab includes a support member attached to the backplate and a flange member ... | 11/21/2000 |
| 6134454 | System and method for maintaining personal communications information in a mobile communications system The invention is an apparatus and method for updating a communications network from one or more user communications devices. The invention uses the electronic scheduling or other time-based features within a communications device to control and/or initiat... | 10/17/2000 |
| 6122288 | Apparatus for utilizing spare T1 DSO channels in E1 inverse-multiplexed channels In situations where 2.048 megabit E1 (32 channels) access to the customer premise is not available, the only option other than provisioning a 45 megabit T3 line to the customer premise is to provision two 1.544 megabit T1 (24 channels) lines, and inverse ... | 09/19/2000 |
| 6098082 | Method for automatically providing a compressed rendition of a video program in a format suitable for electronic searching and retrieval A compressed rendition of a video program is provided in a format suitable for electronic searching and retrieval. An electronic pictorial transcript representation of the video program is initially received. The video program has a video component and a ... | 08/01/2000 |
| 6073130 | Method for improving the results of a search in a structured database A method enhances the presentation of search results from a structured database. In accordance with the method, a search query including two or more attribute/value pairs is presented to a system. The system then identifies a plurality of records which ea... | 06/06/2000 |
| 6069941 | Method for controlling subscriber access to a fee-based service Access by a subscriber (12) to a fee-based service is managed so that the subscriber, when qualified, receives the service. If the subscriber is found unqualified, then the subscriber is prompted to enter qualifying information, either in the form of the ... | 05/30/2000 |
| 6058187 | Secure telecommunications data transmission Secure data transmission apparatus comprises a data translator for translating an input string of signals, each signal having incomplete information for identifying an alphanumeric character, into a first encryption key. A data encrypter receives a first ... | 05/02/2000 |
| 6026151 | Network based determination of cost effective access A system and method to access an information or electronic service uses a single access telephone number. The telephone number is used to access a particular service provider no matter where the subscriber is located, and may be, for example, 950-DATA, 1-... | 02/15/2000 |
| 6023681 | Method and apparatus for predicting queuing delays Apparatus and method for predicting wait times for queuing customers. Upon arrival of a new customer to the queue, or at any other desired time, a system classifies each customer in service according to one or more attributes. The system generates a proba... | 02/08/2000 |
| 6020815 | Utility right-of-way safety monitor A system (18 ) for warning workers in the vicinity of a transportation pathway (10 ), such as a railroad track, of the presence of an oncoming vehicle, includes a detector/transmitter assembly (20 ) for detecting the presence of an oncoming vehicle by sen... | 02/01/2000 |
| 6018528 | System and method for optimizing spectral efficiency using time-frequency-code slicing A system and method for optimizing usage of a communications transmission medium. The transmission medium may be sliced into time and frequency domains so as to create time-frequency slices for assignment to users having varying access rates and user-appl... | 01/25/2000 |
| 6014477 | Article comprising a photostrictive switching element A switching element according to this invention comprises a photostrictive member. Exposing the member to control light results in a dimensional change in the material. This change is utilized for changing the relative position between an optical fiber an... | 01/11/2000 |
| 6005944 | System and method for constructing block ciphers An efficient block cipher that operates on blocks of arbitrarily large size. A block is permuted by recursively using relatively small random functions in an N-round Feistel construction, where N is an integer. The security of the invention is closely rel... | 12/21/1999 |
| 5995041 | Communication system with direct link to satellite A communication system includes satellites and satellite phones communicating through the satellites directly. The satellite phone forms a highly directed beam toward a satellite of the communications system and adaptively maintains a beam to track the sa... | 11/30/1999 |
| 5995618 | Method for redirecting traffic on a communications network for conservation of network resources A method of operating a switched communications network redirects certain types of messages away from the switch to free up switch resources for other messages, thereby decreasing the size of switch needed or delaying necessary switch size upgrading. Mess... | 11/30/1999 |
| 5987452 | Query translation system A technique is provided for translating database queries used to perform database functions on a first database management system so that a user can perform the database functions on one or more second database management systems using the translated data... | 11/16/1999 |
| 5974398 | Method and apparatus enabling valuation of user access of advertising carried by interactive information and entertainment services Interactive information and entertainment service customers see advertisers' bids for their attention which are displayed on their display screens and choose which advertisements to view. For each advertisement viewed, the advertisers' bid amount would pa... | 10/26/1999 |
| 5974028 | System and method for improving transport protocol performance in communication networks having lossy links Providing transport protocol within a communication network having a lossy link. The receiver distinguishes between packets received with non-congestion bit errors and packets having been not at all received due to congestion. When packets are received wi... | 10/26/1999 |
| 5974459 | Telecommunications network devoid of a distinct network management layer A telecommunication network without a network management layer meets operational objectives by providing at least one hot standby system which replaces a malfunctioning element of a service-providing node in the event of any disruption in services. Each s... | 10/26/1999 |
| 5970489 | Method for using region-sets to focus searches in hierarchical structures A method improves a search in a hierarchical structure by focusing the search to selected regions within the structure. The method defines one or more region-sets and uses the region-set(s) as either a filter for the results of a key-word search or an int... | 10/19/1999 |
| 5964839 | System and method for monitoring information flow and performing data collection A system and method for the monitoring and collection of all inbound/outbound information activity and communications activity at a particular user location, for example, a household equipped with a variety of devices having communication capabilities. Th... | 10/12/1999 |
| 5961645 | Filtering for public databases with naming ambiguities Multiple approaches are used with a filter to handle naming ambiguities when requesting access to a plurality of network resources through a public network such as the Internet. One approach is to consider responses from the public network as well as requ... | 10/05/1999 |
| 5963570 | Current control for an analog optical link A control circuit for an injection laser provides a pre-bias current which prevents clipping induced errors in the laser output. An analog modulating signal is provided directly to the laser which receives the sum of a feedback current (Ifb) and a current... | 10/05/1999 |
| 5963844 | Hybrid fiber-coax system having at least one digital fiber node and increased upstream bandwidth Increased upstream bandwidth and reduced ingress noise in a shared hybrid fiber-coax transmission system (100) are obtained by modulating at least a portion of upstream signals received from subscribers to a high frequency band (e.g., 750-1000 MHz), there... | 10/05/1999 |
| 5960111 | Method and apparatus for segmenting images prior to coding To segment moving foreground from background, where the moving foreground is of most interest to the viewer, this method uses three detection algorithms as the input to a neural network. The multiple cues used are focus, intensity, and motion. The neural ... | 09/28/1999 |
| 5960064 | Call screening method and apparatus for use in completing telephone calls A system and method for providing personal communications services are disclosed. A bridging and signaling unit implements a bridge for connecting telephone calls between a caller, a called party, and an alternate destination. A caller who calls the perso... | 09/28/1999 |
| 5959839 | Apparatus for heat removal using a flexible backplane An apparatus and method are provided for removing heat generated by the operation of electronic devices to allow for a more densely packed arrangement of the electronic devices on a parent board. The apparatus comprises a metallic housing that encloses a ... | 09/28/1999 |
| 5958052 | Method and apparatus for restricting access to private information in domain name systems by filtering information A device and method filter information to restrict access to private information of a domain in a domain name system. The device includes a filtering device. The filtering device filters information received from devices external to the domain by removing... | 09/28/1999 |
| 5958053 | Communications protocol with improved security The protocol of the present invention includes two new first level protocols and several embodiments of a second level protocol. The two new first level protocols of the present invention include the TCP2B protocol and the TCP2E protocol. In the TCP2B pro... | 09/28/1999 |
| 5956482 | Multimedia information service access Real time delivery of multimedia information accessed either through the Internet, or otherwise, simultaneously, or sequentially time delayed to one more users, is enabled by delivering the multimedia information over a switched network via a multipoint c... | 09/21/1999 |
| 5952914 | Power line communication systems Two duplex channels are provided using only three lines, two power lines and one neutral line. The transmitter/receiver of each duplex channel includes adaptive filters to cancel cross-coupling introduced by the common neutral line. Each channel is couple... | 09/14/1999 |
