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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7460562 | Uplink frame at the transcoder rate adaptation unit/base transceiver station interface in a cellular mobile radio network An uplink transmission frame transmitted from a base transceiver station to a transcoder rate adaptation unit in a cellular mobile radio network includes in the conventional way an information area in the form of at least one data field and at least one control fiel... | 12/02/2008 |
| 6584807 | Method of fabricating a component with crystalline silicon substrate A method of fabricating a component having a crystalline silicon substrate includes the steps of depositing a layer of silica onto a crystalline silicon substrate, this silica layer being doped with dopants, and then treating the substrate. Before the dop... | 07/01/2003 |
| 6445920 | Virtual private network for mobile subscribers To install a virtual private network (VN) within a given mobile-radio network (MRN), a facility is proposed which is connected to the base stations (BS) and controls the establishment and release of calls between mobile subscribers (MS1 . . . MSX) assigne... | 09/03/2002 |
| 6230008 | Dual fixed/mobile communications system A dual fixed/mobile communications system comprises a set of base stations (BS) connected to a local exchange (LE), and a set of wireless terminal stations (WTS) that communicate, by radio, with the base stations (BS) in order to provide telephone service... | 05/08/2001 |
| 6202178 | Complementary methods for interleaving and deinterleaving data frames and corresponding forward error correcting devices in a transmitter and receiver A method for interleaving data frames, forward error correcting device and modulator including such a device, wherein each data frame to be interleaved is divided into a plurality of codewords, each containing the same amount of data bytes. An overhead ex... | 03/13/2001 |
| 6128502 | Method of selecting one of at least two communications terminals, and a communications terminal therefor A method and terminal for use in a telecommunications infrastructure which allows a call directed to a particular subscriber to be taken selectively at one of at least two separate terminals, has the subscriber identify himself to at least one of the term... | 10/03/2000 |
| 6128488 | Non-geostationary satellite communication systems, and station and terminal thereof A communication system comprising a set of non-geostationary satellites provides communication links between ground stations and terminals, a communication link from a particular station via a satellite terminating at associated terminals in a limited geo... | 10/03/2000 |
| 6104792 | Method of providing call charge information as well as service control facility, subscriber terminal exchange, terminal, and communication network The invention concerns a method of informing a subscriber in a communication network about the charge for a desired connection, and a service control facility (SCP), a subscriber switching facility, a terminal (TA) and a communication network for carrying... | 08/15/2000 |
| 6078950 | Electrical transmission system with a broadband distribution network for TV and audio signals and with interactive service capability An electrical transmission system is indicated, in which a broadband distribution network (2) has a center (1) and a number of terminals (26) connected thereto, which can receive TV and Audio signals emitted by the center (1), and individual subscriber si... | 06/20/2000 |
| 6031574 | Device for storing video data To reduce the data in a video-server (SER), a compression of the video data of a video film is performed by coding according to the interframe method (K1). In addition, the video data of predetermined individual video pictures are coded according to the i... | 02/29/2000 |
| 6029067 | Virtual private network for mobile subscribers To install a virtual private network (VN) within a given mobile-radio network (MRN), a facility is proposed which is connected to the base stations (BS) and controls the establishment and release of calls between mobile subscribers (MS1. . . MSX) assigned... | 02/22/2000 |
| 6014563 | Radio system for a closed user group To implement a radio system (PRS) for a closed user group by simple means and at low cost, a device (MONE) is proposed which connects at least one commercially available base station (BTS1, BTS2) to a telecommunication network (PSTN) via standard interfac... | 01/11/2000 |
| 6006066 | Transmission system with tap devices which reduce the effects of interference A transmission system with a number of tap devices (1), which are connected to a distribution network (9). Subscriber terminals (11) can be connected to each tap device (1) present in a building (10), by means of a private, in-house network (13); these te... | 12/21/1999 |
| 6003026 | Emulator for an SQL relational-database Method and means for porting an existing application (An) using a relational-database with SQL interface toward a hardware platform (HW2) with a reduced software configuration which does not include an SQL relational-database. The invention emulates an SQ... | 12/14/1999 |
| 5999297 | Method of putting binary data on an optical carrier wave, and a transmission system using the method In a transmission system, a control circuit (4) receives an input binary sequence (T) representing data to be transmitted. The circuit encodes the sequence using a phase alternation code which differs from the phase inversion duobinary code in that the ph... | 12/07/1999 |
| 5995835 | Method of handing over a call set up with a mobile station from one cell to another within a cellular radio network The safe method of handing over a call set up with a mobile station (M) comprise the following cyclic steps: a following base station (B(n)) receives (ET3) UP data (DM) of the call in a following channel (CH2), which UP data is transmitted by the mobile s... | 11/30/1999 |
| 5995530 | Interferometric semiconductor laser with low-loss coupling of light therefrom and an arrangement with such a laser An interferometric semiconductor laser (YL) as well as optoelectronic arrangements with such a laser are disclosed. The laser has a special coupling segment (Z) which allows high optical output to be obtained without affecting the filtering function or si... | 11/30/1999 |
| 5974126 | Method and telecommunications network for control of mass calling It is proposed that in a telecommunications network (KN) for control of mass callings to subscribers of the telecommunications network (KN) with exchanges (VST1, . . . , VST7), each of which has a control means (SM1), to perform measurements to detect a m... | 10/26/1999 |
| 5974125 | Telephone exchange with a further unit Telephone exchange with associated voice mail device is connected to a calling subscriber after a predetermined time if the called subscriber does not answer the call, as well as method to store such voice messages in such a device, whereby the voice mail... | 10/26/1999 |
| 5963885 | Sensing circuit The sensing circuit is used in an Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL) transmission system to detect a wave signal with a predetermined shape in an input signal (IN1/IN2) transmitted over the system and applied to an input terminal (IN1/IN2) of the s... | 10/05/1999 |
| 5946628 | Method and circuit arrangement for the access of cordless terminals to a telecommunications system The essential functions and characteristics of a telecommunications system with cordless terminals are established by the known DECT standard. On the one hand, the invention has the task of reducing the cost of ADPCM/PCM transcoders in DECT or DECT-like s... | 08/31/1999 |
| 5943459 | Optical coupling arrangement An optical duplexer, configured as a directional coupler, is integrated into an optical coupling arrangement with a fiber optic pigtail, constructed in planar-optical hybrid technology on a substrate (1). To reduce the required surface area and decrease o... | 08/24/1999 |
| 5940805 | Method of selling data records as well as vending apparatus, memory device, chip card, and system for selling telecommunications software A vending apparatus (AUT) is used to sell data records. The vending apparatus comprises a payment device (PAY), a control device (CONTR), a device for limiting the extent of utilization (RESTR), and an interface device (INTER1). The interface device (INTE... | 08/17/1999 |
| 5937350 | Train radio telephone system using home location register (HLR) A train radio system with a simple network structure that is suitable for a safe radio transmission. The train radio system comprises radio stations (R), which are arranged along a route, and a mobile station (MS) which is mounted in a vehicle moving alon... | 08/10/1999 |
| 5930262 | Method for TDMA management, central station, terminal station and network system to perform this method, frame structure used in this method The method is used in a system comprising a central station (CS) coupled to each of a plurality of terminal stations (TS1-TSn), wherein the central station (CS) is enabled to transmit downstream frames (DS) to the terminal stations to allow the terminal s... | 07/27/1999 |
| 5930707 | System for remotely testing a cellphone base station To enable testing of lightly loaded, remote base stations 2, a mobile phone 3 located within the cell is programmed to dial a test number via the public switched telephone network (PSTN). The test number generates an audio signal, e.g. a fixed tone which ... | 07/27/1999 |
| 5926299 | System for distributing optical signals The invention relates to a system for distributing amplified optical signals, the system comprising an optical star coupler having at least two inputs, each input of said coupler being connected to the output of a respective optical amplifier whose input ... | 07/20/1999 |
| 5920835 | Method and apparatus for processing and transmitting text documents generated from speech Generating, sending, receiving and commenting a text document via a telecommunication installation. A text document is generated by means of speech and converted into text data by a speech recognizer (SEK). The text data can be corrected, edited and comme... | 07/06/1999 |
| 5920800 | Broadband distribution system and method therefor In a broadband distribution system (SYS) for distributing television signals (TVS) and video signals (VOD), the return channel provided for requesting video signals is divided among the subscribers (TN) of the broadband distribution system (SYS) in such a... | 07/06/1999 |
| 5917870 | Synchronization monitoring in a network element In digital transmission systems, such as synchronous transmission systems according to the SDH/SONET standard, there is a need to have information on the synchronization status of the system. A known approach is to monitor the pointer activity. This is di... | 06/29/1999 |
| 5914948 | Mobile radio system with time-division multiplexing A mobile radio system that permits broadband radio transmission in which a mobile station (MS) can be assigned a plurality of subscriber channels (TCH) of different widths. To accomplish this, concentrators (SMX) are connected to the base stations (BS, BS... | 06/22/1999 |
| 5911015 | Polarization-independent Kerr modulator, and an all-optical clock recovery circuit including such a modulator The invention relates to a Kerr type optical modulator and to an all-optical clock recovery circuit operating by active mode locking of a fiber loop laser including such a modulator. Operation is independent of the polarization of the signals presented to... | 06/08/1999 |
| 5903376 | Optical transmitter for an optical communication system in connection with a radio system A prior art optical transmitter for an optical communication system having a radio system connected thereto comprises a DFB laser, an optical modulator, a signal source, and an optical filter. This optical transmitter transmits light which is not modulate... | 05/11/1999 |
| 5898676 | Method, communication system and conference unit for carrying out conferences It is proposed to use several distributed conference units (KE1, KE2) in a conference system (KS) for carrying out conferences, particularly broadband conferences, and to mix the signals (S1 . . . S4). The signals (S1 . . . S4) from subscriber stations (T... | 04/27/1999 |
| 5898670 | Bursty traffic multiplexing arrangement and method for shaping and multiplexing bursty input flows A bursty traffic multiplexing arrangement (A) includes a multiplexing unit (MUX) to multiplex a plurality of bursty input flows (IF1, . . . , IFI, . . . , IFN) into an output flow (OF). Congestion due to insufficient throughput capacity of the multiplexin... | 04/27/1999 |
| 5898456 | Communication system with hierarchical server structure A communication system (KS) with a hierarchical server structure is indicated for a demand service, which makes possible a suitable compliance with requests for services from users (U1 . . . UN). To that end, the communication system (KS), as viewed by th... | 04/27/1999 |
| 5896212 | Wavelength division multiplexing optical communication network To simplify the connection protocols of an optical communication network using wavelength division multiplexing and to increase the throughput of the network, each node sends messages on a specific wavelength and associates destination labels with them. A... | 04/20/1999 |
| 5886996 | Synchronous digital communication system with a hierarchical synchronization network In synchronous digital communication systems using a synchronization quality marker (SSM), timing loops can be created. To avoid such timing loops, a synchronous digital communication system is provided having network elements (NE11, . . . , NE33) in whic... | 03/23/1999 |
| 5880650 | Dielectric resonator for a microwave filter, and a filter including such a resonator A multimode composite resonator, in particular for a microwave filter, includes a resonant cavity, a dielectric resonator element disposed inside the cavity, a tuning element for each mode and a coupling element for coupling between modes. The resonator e... | 03/09/1999 |
| 5870432 | Method for transmission line impulse response equalization and a device to perform this method A set of parameters (W) is calculated for an equalizer which equalizes a transmission line impulse response (LIR) in such a way that the equalized impulse response (EIR) approximates a target impulse response (TIR) with predetermined length (L). An error ... | 02/09/1999 |
