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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7251720 | Flexible digital signal processor The invention describes a digital signal processor to execute at least one dedicated operation of a dedicated system such as an digital front-end of any digital subscriber line system. The digital signal processor is a flexible digital signal processor and comprises... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7248396 | Large bandwidth optical parametric amplifier WDM optical signals are amplified using optical parametric amplification by applying an appropriate separation of those optical signals according to their carrier angular frequencies. These angular frequencies are within the two principal amplification bands defined... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7248588 | Method for transmitting data packets and network element for carrying out the method A method is disclosed for transmitting data packets in wide area networks (WAN) by way of a synchronous digital data transmission network (SDH), wherein the data packets are packed into synchronous transport modules (STM-N) and are transmitted by way of virtual conn... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7249189 | Network management programmable configuration management framework A programmable configuration management infrastructure is provided. The programmable configuration management infrastructure employs Programmable Configuration Requests (PCRs) to perform configuration management over a definable target list of field-installed manage... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7248799 | Method and an improved device for controlling the power delivered at the output of a node of an optical network that switches bands of wavelengths A device (D) is dedicated to controlling the power of optical signals in a transparent switching node of an optical communication network that switches bands of wavelengths. The device includes, firstly, a controller (12) for comparing input optical power mea... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7248598 | Method of and a system for lightening the signaling load of a multicast protocol applied to a network of terminals using a transmission medium that does not support mutual listening between terminals The invention concerns the transmission of data packets in multicast mode, in which method the packets are sent from a sending end of a physical transmission medium and received by terminals at a receiving end of said medium. It finds a typical application in networ... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7245601 | Method and devices for operating a radio-based telecommunications system For radio transmission on the downlink the transmit power must be calculated also for that signals which shall be sent on the common physical channel, known as secondary common control physical channel (SCCPCH), in the Frequency Division Duplex mode of the Universal... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7245046 | Internal power re-routing by reverse powering to overcome fault scenarios in submarine cable systems System and method for re-routing internal power for reducing voltage requirements of a submarine transmission system. A power supply supplies power to a bridge rectifier circuit (10) the latter biasing a plurality of Zener diodes (11; 12; 13; 14; 15; 16 | 07/17/2007 |
| 7239848 | Method of transmitting signals between an adaptive antenna of a base station and a mobile user equipment in a telecommunication network A telecommunication system is described for transmitting signals between an adaptive antenna of a base station and a mobile user equipment. At least one uplink parameter of a signal received by the base station is calculated. The uplink parameter relates to a specif... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7240175 | Scheduling data frames for processing: apparatus, system and method A scheduler in, for example, an off-load engine reports events for processing data frames to processing engines. Each event to report has associated to it an event information to report to a respective processing engine for processing, for example, a data frame. Res... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7239961 | Method for inputting destination data through a mobile terminal The invention relates to a method for inputting destination data into a navigation system as well as a mobile terminal and a navigation system for executing this method. The mobile terminal having a short range wireless interface is brought into contact with the nav... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7239878 | Telecommunication method for a wireless network A telecommunication method for a wireless network comprises providing a location server and a location based application for the wireless network, requesting a location reporting service by the location based application from the location server, detecting when a wi... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7233431 | Semiconductor optical amplifier based Raman pump An optical signal amplifier comprises a Semiconductor Optical Amplifier SOA used as semiconductor Amplified Spontaneous Emission ASE source. This SOA produces optical pumping seed which has to be amplified to get a large pump power. With such large pump power, it wi... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7231535 | Ethernet card for connection to a local network, for controlling connection to a communication terminal An Ethernet card (CL) is dedicated to the connection of a communication terminal (UE) to a local network via an Ethernet connection (CX). The terminal (UE) can be powered electrically by first power means (MAP), and includes a first internal bus (PCI1). The c... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7228076 | Method for remodulation of a modulated optical signal and device for remodulation and transmission system A method for remodulation of a modulated optical signal is disclosed which uses a disturbed line signal and an optical clock signal derived from the undisturbed original line signal modulated with the bitrate frequency feeding both signals in a Raman amplifying fibe... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7227934 | Method and apparatus for processing multiple signals transceived through a coupling Conventional modems coupled in parallel to a coupling need a sharing apparatus, which can be avoided by providing each modem with a detector for detecting upstream/downstream signals to be transceived by other modems coupled in parallel. The detector has a distingui... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7224895 | Method of managing the traffic protection in OMS-SPRING networks Described is a method for managing the traffic protection in OMS-SPRING networks and allowing the wavelength allocation change in the traffic transit nodes. The method of managing the traffic protection in an OMS-SPRING network should a span of the path fail is char... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7224900 | Actively stabilized time multiplexer An optical time multiplexer for generating an N Gbits/s output signal (36) from n data modulated input pulse streams (21, 22) with a pulse frequency of N/n GHz, where nεIN and n≧2, with a combiner device for passively interleaving the n input pulse ... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7219692 | Apparatus for conditioning the atmosphere in a chamber In the invention, the atmosphere in a process chamber is conditioned using a primary pump, a secondary pump, speed control means for controlling the speed of the primary pump, and at least first gas analyzer means adapted for analyzing the extracted gases upstream f... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7218718 | Method to perform a telecommunication with dialing destination preview The present invention concerns a method to perform a telecommunication between a caller terminal and a callee terminal identified by an identification code, such as a phone number. Method wherein it comprises the steps of: collecting routing information relat... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7218725 | Interface means between a network switch and a CTI server means and apparatus for providing a service to a customer including such an interface means A method for providing a telephony service, the method including coupling an interface device directly between a network switch of a public intelligent network and a computer telephony integration server, the network switch being coupled to a service switching funct... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7218913 | Company telephone network The invention relates to telecommunication equipment (10) for setting up local telephone calls between GSM mobile telephones (1) of a private network, on the one hand, and a public GSM mobile telephone network (5), on the other hand. The equipme... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7218908 | Integrated circuit able to operate in active and inactive modes and a device including it An integrated circuit for a portable electronic device able to operate in an active mode or in an inactive mode and including a functional module implementing control functions of the device in the active mode and the inactive mode, controlling switching of the devi... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7216268 | Method and arrangement to estimate transmission channel characteristics A channel characteristic of a transmission channel between a remote terminal and a central office is estimated by collecting information in the remote terminal, transferring this information from the remote terminal to the central office and matching the received in... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7212533 | Method of managing a telecommunication network and a network management unit for implementing the method A telecommunication network management method and unit are disclosed. Connection requests are received and the possibility of setting up a connection is determined from parameters including time parameters in the form of time intervals. The connections database is u... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7212544 | Method of and apparatus for transmitting data at a time-variable data rate The present invention relates to a method of transmitting data at a time-variable data rate, to a connection control module for a network facility (SW1, SW2) therefor, and to a communications module for a user terminal (T1–T5) therefor.... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7209604 | Anti-PMD system The invention provides an anti-PMD system comprising: an anti-PMD pulley (1) over which an optical fiber (4) is to roll and which is mounted to rotate about an axis of rotation (ar); and at least two optical fiber guide devices (2, 3) situated o... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7209492 | DSO timing source transient compensation System and method for compensating for DS0 timing source transients, such as may occur during a switchover to a new external reference, is described. In one embodiment, an SFI control signal is monitored for embedded frame position information. When the frame positi... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7209666 | Optical clock recovery device for recovering the clock from an optical signal An all-optical clock recovery system for recovering the clock from a received optical signal with a short response time and without patterning effects includes a first optical clock recovery device adapted to supply a first optical clock signal in response to the re... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7209658 | Time division multiplex and wavelength division multiplex optical switching node The invention relates to a time division and wavelength division multiplex optical switching node for use in an optical communications network (2), which node combines a set of time division multiplex packets (8-1, 8-2, . . . , 8-i) into ... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7206278 | Method and system for increasing the total amount of useful information (throughput) transmitted in a radiocommunication system A method, system, and device are provided for increasing the total amount of useful information transmitted in a radio communication system. The method includes receiving a selection signal with which a cluster is selected; receiving data streams of information from... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7206972 | Path commissioning analysis and diagnostic tool A method for identifying service critical faults in a communications network and a network management system employing the method are provided. A service provisioning tool associated with the network management system and operating in accordance with the method, per... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7203225 | Method of phase controlling of a data signal, counter clock circuit arrangement, and interface device The invention relates to a method of phase controlling a data signal transmitted from a data source to a data sink using a counter clock approach, wherein the phase of a data sink clock is compared with the phase of a reference signal at the data sink and the phase ... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7202737 | Method of influencing an input signal and predistorter The present invention relates to a method of influencing an input signal (x), in particular an input signal of a power amplifier of a wireless communication system, wherein said input signal (x) has a range of input amplitudes (r0, . . . , rM−1 | 04/10/2007 |
| 7203650 | Telecommunication system, speech recognizer, and terminal, and method for adjusting capacity for vocal commanding In telecommunication systems including a terminal and a speech recognizer for vocal commanding, an indication signal originating from the terminal is detected, e.g., a telephone number dialed or a key signal or a vocal signal, or originating from an application loca... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7200334 | System for transmitting digital signals in a space vehicle The invention relates to a system for conveying digital signals inside a space vehicle between a transmitter and a receiver. In the invention, the link between the transmitter and the receiver comprises a first portion made of optical fiber and a second portion in w... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7200217 | SAS service architecture It is an object of the invention to provide an advantageous SAS Service Architecture. The inventive SAS service architecture has a layered structure including a set of software modules, at least: ASTP dispatcher, SCCP transcoder, TCAP, TCAP user service distributor,... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7197247 | WDM optical communication system The present invention provides a WDM optical communication system, comprising input means and output means for an optical signal, an optical fibre path connecting signal-transmissively said input and output means, wherein the optical signal is amplified by means of ... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7191227 | System for dynamically changing the communication means used for communication between two software agents A system and a method for changing the communication means used for communication between two software agents. Each software agent has a communication module, which gives the software agents access to the communication means. In addition, the software agents have me... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7189312 | Under water cable system having an earthing electrode An earthing electrode assembly and method for providing a submerged electrical apparatus with an earth path, the electrode assembly having an earthing electrode, an attachment device for attaching the electrode assembly to a cable, and an insulated electrical connec... | 03/13/2007 |
