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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7334346 | Device and method for controlling dehydration during freeze-drying A device for controlling dehydration during freeze-drying in an enclosure connected to a vacuum line includes an analyzer for analyzing the gases contained in the enclosure, the gas analyzer comprising a system for ionizing the gases comprising a plasma source in co... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7336724 | Method for scaling peak power amplitudes in a signal and corresponding transmitter The invention relates notably to a method for scaling peak power amplitudes in a signal at a transmitter before submitting said signal to a power amplifier. According to the invention, the method consists in: calculating sca... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7333770 | Optimised data broadcasting device in a telecommunication system The invention concerns a device for data broadcasting in an access network consisting of several interconnected nodes for transporting fluxes of information elements between content providers and reception terminals. The invention is characterised in that said devic... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7332833 | Switching circuit for master-slave feeding mode of low voltage power supply The present invention provides a switching circuit for the master-slave feeding mode of the low voltage power supply. The switching circuit utilizes the active switches as the switching devices, so that it can increase the switching speed, decrease the voltage drop ... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7333425 | Failure localization in a transmission network Failures are localized through the use of a Tandem Connection along a segment of a transmission path (P) to be monitored, non-intrusive intermediate Tandem Connection monitors (M), and temporary Tandem Connection sources created along the path segment in the case of... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7333506 | Method and apparatus for obtaining a scalable and managed bandwidth for connections between asynchronous level and synchronous hierarchy level in a telecommunication network The present invention provides for a method and apparatus for obtaining a scalable and managed bandwidth for connections between asynchronous and synchronous hierarchy level in a telecommunication network, in which the bandwidth of the synchronous hierarchy level is... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7330516 | Power control method for remotely deployed communication service A power control method for transceiver units conveying data over discrete tones. The method includes the steps of: determining a transmit power over a physical channel for each individual tone, such that this transmit power maximizes a weighted function of data rate... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7330475 | Method for sharing the bandwidth available for unicast and multicast flows in an asynchronous switching node In an asynchronous switching node, n1 input modules and n2 output modules are interconnected by an asynchronous cell switching network. The network routes a cell transmitted by an input module to an output module, in the case of a cell of a unicast flow; the network... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7330436 | Method of selecting transmission paths and a communication network using the method The present invention provides a method of determining or selecting a path for transmitting data in packets in an Internet Protocol communication network and a communication network using the method. The method comprises predetermining a limited number of paths by r... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7328278 | Method for sharing routing information and network element using the same The method allows to share, within a network element of a telecommunication network, routing information deriving from a first routing source; the network element is of the type comprising a management agent provided with a management information database, wherein d... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7327955 | Device and method for switching optical data for optical communication networks The field of the invention is that of switching optical signals with carrier wavelength conversion capacity, comprising a set of input ports (PE1-PEn), a set of output ports (PS1-PSn) functionally connected to the input ports so that an input signal pr... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7327893 | Method for compressing digital images The invention concerns a method for compressing data, in particular images, by transform, in which method this data is projected onto a base of localized orthogonal or biorthogonal functions, such as wavelets. To quantize each of the localized functions with a quant... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7325158 | Method and apparatus for providing redundancy in a data processing system A method for operating a data processing system and a redundancy data processing unit for executing the method is disclosed. Two or more active data processing units are assigned to each redundancy data processing unit. The redundancy data processing unit stores a c... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7324751 | Selective frequency switching system and a reconfigurable optical delay circuit incorporating it The invention relates to a reconfigurable optical switching system for selectively coupling one or more frequencies of first and second input wavelength division multiplex signals (WDM1, WDM2) consisting of N channels to first and second output ports (... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7324451 | Aggregated early message discard for segmented message traffic in a communications network A method and device for message discard of segmented message traffic in an aggregated message traffic stream of a communications network. The aggregated traffic stream has constituent traffic streams and each constituent traffic stream has segmented message traffic ... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7324431 | Method and device for allocating a communication signal to multiple carrier frequencies in a multi carrier communication scheme A method of allocating a communication signal to multiple carrier frequencies in a multi carrier communication scheme is disclosed. The method involves a step of defining a pilot pattern (76), each pilot symbol of the pattern defining a cluster of carrier fre... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7323787 | Off-grid decoupling of ball grid array (BGA) devices and method A multilayered printed wiring board having a ball grid array (BGA) land pattern in which each land in the pattern is connected to a respective via by a link connector, a method of adapting spacing between selected adjacent via and respective link pairs to receive de... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7321277 | Waveguide directional filter A waveguide directional filter for combining multiple high power UHF television broadcasting transmitters on to a common antenna. The directional filter arrangement includes an input waveguide, an output waveguide and an interconnected cascade assembly of two or mor... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7319746 | Method of establishing communications between selected user terminals, using dedicated communication equipments Each communication terminal of the calling user (Uj-k) is logically connected to a first communication equipment (Sk) and each communication terminal of the called user (Uj′-k′) is logically connected to a second communication equipment (Sk′). The combination ... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7319823 | Modulation scheme and transmission system for NRZ signals with left and right side filtering The invention shows a transmission system with a transmitter function, a transmitting fiber and a receiver function where the transmitter function comprising lightsources (1), modulators (2) and a multiplexer (3), and the receiver comprising at ... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7315539 | Method for handling data between a clock and data recovery circuit and a data processing unit of a telecommunications network node of an asynchronous network, as well as a bit rate adaptation circuit and a clock and data recovery system A method for handling data between a clock and data recovery system CDR and a data processing unit DP of a telecommunications network node TNN of an asynchronous communications network, using a bit rate adaptation circuit BAS, the bit rate adaptation system BAS incl... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7313748 | FEC decoder and method A method is described for FEC decoding a signal which has become affected by transmission errors, the original signal being transmitted together with parity data. The method comprises: receiving (5) the original signal (DATA) and parity data (ECC DATA) with e... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7313362 | High altitude airborne craft used as radio relay and method for placing said airborne craft on station The present invention relates to an aircraft and to a method of getting the aircraft onto station. According to the invention, said aircraft (1) includes propulsion means (2) capable only of enabling said aircraft (1) to move and to orient itsel... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7313209 | Method and arrangement to synchronize a multi-carrier transmission system The invention relates to a method to synchronise a multi-carrier transmission system wherein a time misalignment between a transmitter and a receiver is determined through an average of at least two pilot tones phase errors (Øi) weighted in accordance wi... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7313150 | Telecommunications signal relay node A relay node is provided for coupling telephone, facsimile or data terminals to a digital packet telecommunications network. The relay node includes a signal discriminator for determining the type of signal coming from a terminal coupled to the node, from amongst a ... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7311491 | Molecular drag, turbomolecular, or hybrid pump with an integrated valve A molecular drag, turbomolecular, or hybrid turbo/drag pump (5) of the invention has an outlet stage with a cylindrical peripheral wall (17) and a radial outlet orifice (23) passing through the cylindrical peripheral wall (17). An annular... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7312748 | Method of factorizing pseudodistance time of week in an assisted GNSS context A method is disclosed of calculating the position of a mobile device in which an assistance data server provides aid with solving the point of the mobile device and the mobile device communicates with the server via a cellular network and receives positioning signal... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7310323 | Method and system for providing a transmission link for streaming traffic Method for providing a transmission link includes providing a proxy equipment including cache or buffer, establishing a streaming connection or session between the proxy equipment and the mobile terminal, upon request of a service from the terminal requesting stream... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7308503 | Forwarding of IP packets for routing protocols A forwarding engine of a router device may replace addresses of some IP packets by virtual ones such to mask the active routing daemon. This is used in unicast regime when said forwarding engine forwards incoming IP packets from neighbor routers to said routing daem... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7308178 | Doped-ring amplifying optical fiber, and an amplifier containing such a fiber The amplifying optical fiber (1) comprises a single-mode core (10) and a multimode core (20) surrounding the single-mode core, the multimode core containing a doped layer referred to as a “doped ring” (21) and having a certain concent... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7307428 | Method for single ended line testing and single ended line testing device A single ended line testing method for qualifying an electrically conducting line, including the steps of sending a plurality of randomized excitation signals from a first end of the line towards a second end of the line, subsequently taking measurements, at the fir... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7301932 | Method and system for multiple access in a radiocommunication system A method for multiple access in a radiocommunication system which avoids forming a signaling multiframe with an inflexible turn of transmission. A fixed unit broadcasts over a pilot channel a predetermined number of virtual identities for signaling which form the si... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7301945 | Device and method to compress destination addresses of a multicast message To compress a list of destination addresses (A.B.C.D, A.B.C.E, A.F.G.H) of a connectionless multicasted message, addresses (A.B.C.D, A.B.C.E) that have a common prefix (A.B.C) are replaced with a single compound address (A.B.C{D,E}). This compound address (A.B.C{D,E... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7302230 | Method of selecting of a path to establish a telecommunication link The present invention relates to a method of selecting of a path to establish a communication link between a first node and one of a plurality of access points of a wireless cellular telecommunication system, the wireless cellular telecommunication system having sec... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7302194 | Optical filter and transmission system incorporating an optical filter The present invention specially deals with a transmission system in which at least two coded optical signals are multiplexed and transmitted between an emitter and a receiver, a first of said coded signals providing a first spectrum having a first carrier wavelength... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7295775 | Method and a system for monitoring the transmission of optical signals The present invention relates to a method of monitoring the transmission of optical signals including a step of inserting a monitoring signal (S) more particularly suited to monitoring the quality of service. During the transmission of optical signals each carried b... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7295774 | Performance monitoring for optical links A method for estimating at least one optical link parameter using a Viterbi equalizer (1) generating averaged values (M) of signal amplitudes of a distorted optical signal transmitted through an optical link (2) for a set of decided bit patterns (a, b,... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7295602 | Auto-negotiation of transceiver roles in communication systems A transceiver unit freely and automatically chooses whether it will operate as a central unit or as a remote unit, depending on the capabilities of the peer transceiver unit, which it is connected to. The transceiver unit listens first to any signal the peer may tra... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7295846 | Method for localizing a mobile terminal in an area under radio coverage of a cellular communication network and of a localization point, corresponding mobile terminal, server and localization point A method for localizing a mobile terminal (13) in an area under radio coverage of a cellular communication network (12) and of a localization point (11). The method includes the steps of: transferring to the mobile terminal (13) a localiz... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7292534 | Method and device for providing a minimum congestion flow of ethernet traffic transported over a SDH/SONET network A method for providing a minimum congestion flow of Ethernet traffic that is transported through a pipe from a sending point to a receiving point over a synchronous network. The synchronous network comprises network elements, fiber connections connecting the network... | 11/06/2007 |
