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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7457259 | Dynamic channel assignment This invention provides interference predictions, suitable for least interference dynamic channel assignment use or other frequency hopping uses by de-coupling the time slot assignment and the frequency hopping pattern assignment. In particular, a least interfered t... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7453861 | System and method for estimating interference in a packet-based wireless network A system and method for predicting future interference power in packet-switched networks is disclosed, allowing improved performance in such networks via optimized link adaptation and power control. In an embodiment for use in a cellular network, Kalman filtering ca... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7451188 | System and method for text translations and annotation in an instant messaging session A system and method for translating received input from a sender to recipient in an instant messaging dialog is disclosed. The method comprises receiving instant messaging input from a sender for recipient, wherein the instant messaging input comprises at least one ... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7446933 | Multi-band hybrid SOA-Raman amplifier for CWDM A multi-band hybrid amplifier is disclosed for use in optical fiber systems. The amplifier uses Raman laser pumps and semiconductor optical amplifiers in series to produce a relatively level gain across the frequency range of interest. Multiple Raman pumps are multi... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7443575 | Discrete hybrid SOA-Raman amplifier with broad gain bandwidth A discrete hybrid amplifier is disclosed for use in optical fiber systems. The amplifier uses one or more Raman laser pumps together with semiconductor optical amplifiers in series to produce a relatively level gain across the frequency range of interest. The Raman ... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7415464 | System, method and computer-readable medium for providing pattern matching A system, method and computer-readable medium are disclosed for identifying representative data using sketches. The method embodiment comprises generating a plurality of vectors from a data set, modifying each of the vectors of the plurality of vectors and selecting... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7415461 | Apparatus and method for merging results of approximate matching operations A device and a method are provided. Approximate match operations are performed for each of a group of attributes for each of a group of tuples with respect to a query to create a respective ranking for each of the group of attributes. The rankings of the group of at... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7412410 | Automated sales support device A system and method for notifying salespersons of customer communications including a target item is provided. Individual customers are mapped to one or more salespersons. Target items of interest to a salesperson are defined and a salesperson is associated with a c... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7412383 | Reducing time for annotating speech data to develop a dialog application Systems and methods for annotating speech data. The present invention reduces the time required to annotate speech data by selecting utterances for annotation that will be of greatest benefit. A selection module uses speech models, including speech recognition model... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7403899 | Method for dialog management A spoken dialog system and method having a dialog management module are disclosed. The dialog management module includes a plurality of dialog motivators for handling various operations during a spoken dialog. The dialog motivators comprise an error handling, disamb... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7386488 | Automated sales support method A system and method for notifying salespersons of customer communications including a target item is provided. Individual customers are mapped to one or more salespersons. Target items of interest to a salesperson are defined and a salesperson is associated with a c... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7373417 | Methods and systems for improving data transmission rates having adaptive protocols A machine-readable medium, a system, and an apparatus are provided for increasing a data transmission rate. A window size is established, where the window size is an indicator of an amount of data a terminal can receive. Data segments are received in accordance with... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7356376 | Work when ready load balancing using critical dates A method of balancing workload using critical dates and including the following steps: (a) assigning a promised delivery date to orders received from customers; (b) identifying one or more tasks associated with each of the orders; (c) assigning an expedited date or ... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7353447 | System and method for representing compressed information The present invention provides a system and method for storing re-synchronization, error correction and/or error detection data within an existing communication protocol, while still maintaining full compliance to a standard, such as the MPEG-2 AAC standard. By doin... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7324918 | Forecasting outcomes based on analysis of text strings A method and a processing device are provided for forecasting whether a record of data for an individual is associated with an outcome. Whether an n-gram associated with one of a group of predictors matches an n-gram included in the record of data is determined. Whe... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7298832 | Method for determining concurrent voice over IP calls A method employs call detail records for developing a report on the usage of VoIP calling along a network path or through a network location. By utilizing, for example, a call-beginning record and a call-ending record for each connection, a report is created of the ... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7295970 | Unsupervised speaker segmentation of multi-speaker speech data Systems and methods for unsupervised segmentation of multi-speaker speech or audio data by speaker. A front-end analysis is applied to input speech data to obtain feature vectors. The speech data is initially segmented and then clustered into groups of segments that... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7292973 | System and method for deploying filters for processing signals A system, method and computer-readable medium are disclosed for using filter signal processing. The system conveys filter information for a spectrum for a signal at a receiver. The system comprises a module configured to transmit information regarding a first filter... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7277693 | Mobile device server A mobile device server includes a flexible architecture having a plurality of components for allowing various mobile devices and protocols to communicate with each other and to receive data from various information spaces. Interface devlets send and receive messages... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7212614 | Voice-messaging with attachments A network method for using a network telephone voice-mail service, by which a caller may leave a voice-message that includes the identification of an attachment, which may include, as examples only, audio, video, text, programs, spreadsheets and graphic attachments.... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7200191 | De-modulation of MOK (M-ary orthogonal modulation) A system and method for the iterative detection and demodulation of M-ary orthogonal signals (MOK) and signals modulated using Complementary Code Keying (CCK) is described. An important feature of these methods is the good performance of noncoherent detectors in AWG... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7197048 | Virtual private network The invention provides apparatus and methods for a Virtual Private Network (VPN) in a network that offers a simple user interface for efficient utilization of network resources. The VPN is defined for a specified set of endpoints each of which is associated with a s... | 03/27/2007 |
| 6370527 | Method and apparatus for searching distributed networks using a plurality of search devices A meta-search engine apparatus and method for searching distributed networks using a plurality of search devices. The meta-search engine apparatus sends search queries to a plurality of search engines and compiles the results obtained from each of these s... | 04/09/2002 |
| 6337859 | Non-blocking crossconnect apparatus A non-blocking crossconnect apparatus includes a primary bi-directional crossconnect device and a plurality of secondary bi-directional crossconnect devices. The primary crossconnect device has a plurality of pairs of bi-directional signal ports. A first ... | 01/08/2002 |
