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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5950146 | Support vector method for function estimation A method for estimating a real function that describes a phenomenon occurring in a space of any dimensionality. The function is estimated by taking a series of measurements of the phenomenon being described and using those measurements to construct an exp... | 09/07/1999 |
| 5949369 | Portable satellite phone having directional antenna for direct link to satellite A portable satellite phone is integrated into a communication system. The portable satellite phone forms a highly directed beam toward a satellite and adaptively maintains a beam to track the satellite as the portable satellite phone and/or the satellite ... | 09/07/1999 |
| 5946692 | Compressed representation of a data base that permits AD HOC querying A method and system for compressing a data base that permits queries on the compressed representation of the data base. Another feature is that an approximation of the values of the data base are derivable directly from the compressed representation of th... | 08/31/1999 |
| 5946656 | Speech and speaker recognition using factor analysis to model covariance structure of mixture components Hidden Markov models (HMMs) rely on high-dimensional feature vectors to summarize the short-time properties of speech correlations between features that can arise when the speech signal is non-stationary or corrupted by noise. These correlations are model... | 08/31/1999 |
| 5938775 | Distributed recovery with .kappa.-optimistic logging A fault tolerant message passing system includes a plurality of interconnected processors with storage and a watchdog process wherein the processors may undergo failure. A method restores a consistent system state using optimistic logging protocol with as... | 08/17/1999 |
| 5940484 | Self-provisioning names database for caller identification services A self-provisioning names database adds new names to a database for associating names to calling address data in a caller identification with name delivery service. A new caller's name is added to the database each time the new caller places a call to a s... | 08/17/1999 |
| 5933483 | Systems and methods for providing personal, non-geographic call management Systems and methods for providing personal, bi-directional, non-geographic base call management are presented. An inter-exchange provider network enables subscribers to obtain a personal telephone number that is independent of the subscriber's residence. ... | 08/03/1999 |
| 5930344 | Method and apparatus for tracing a specific communication A method and apparatus using information stored in a communications switch to trace a specific communication in a network, including an in-progress communication. A search request with a set of search criteria is sent to a communications switch that route... | 07/27/1999 |
| 5920805 | Transmission of network-connected device control information over a separate channel A method and system for transmission of control information over a separate channel to devices connected to a telecommunications network. An outdial node couples a destination system to a user who is accessing the destination system using a first communic... | 07/06/1999 |
| 5917424 | Duplicate page sensor system and method A system and method of using one-way or two-way paging to establish communications with a mobile party and sensing duplicate pages. A one-way or two-way paging device operates to compare an incoming page with pages that have been received within a predete... | 06/29/1999 |
| 5878027 | Episodic traffic monitor The rate at which messages are transmitted through a network (10) is monitored to first determine whether a statistically significant number of messages occurred within a prescribed interval. If so, then the number of messages within the interval is compa... | 03/02/1999 |
| 5875401 | Method and apparatus for initiating wireless messages A communications system allows special messages to be transmitted to a wireless device subscriber if certain conditions are met. Identification information authenticating the sender may be sent using an originating device, such as a personal computer with... | 02/23/1999 |
| 5875181 | Packetized CDMA/TDM satellite communication system In a satellite communication system a CDMA uplink signal including user data is transmitted in a packetized manner, the packets are switched on board the satellite by a packet switch before its downlink delivery. The packet switch routes the packets to th... | 02/23/1999 |
| 5835568 | 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... | 11/10/1998 |
| 5816744 | Underwater cable burial machine having tripable plows A cable burying machine having three plow blades which are mounted on a rotating disk. The disk is restrained from movement in normal operation, but if the active plow blade encounters an obstacle which imposes more than a preset force on the blade, the d... | 10/06/1998 |
