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Glam girl Heddy Lamar may have used her good looks to good effect on the silver screen, but she put her smarts to better use as an inventor. During World War II, she co-patented a frequency-switching system for torpedo guidance that was considered years ahead of its time.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8166142 | Inter-domain congestion charging A method and system to allow congestion charging signals to be generated and congestion charges to be applied on an inter-domain basis, on an aggregated basis and not on a per flow basis. Each network domain charges its neighboring domain for any ECN marks that it f... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165565 | Method and system for recursive authentication in a mobile network Under a system referred to as GAA in the 3G protocol, authentication of devices in a network that is usually performed by a home subscriber server can be transferred to a third party element known as a bootstrapping server function. However, the use of a bootstrappi... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8150905 | Process configuration in a network A network is configured or made configurable to provide a process exploiting services distributed among nodes of the network by means of a step-by-step search, the search for one service starting at a node providing a previous service. ... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8149916 | Video coding and decoding A decoder for video signals, such as MPEG, which uses motion-compensated bidirectional predictive coding, performs concealment of lost or corrupted portions of a picture. For this purpose, it estimates missing motion vectors by combining the two vectors which accomp... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8122121 | Event notification over a communications network One or more users of a present state are notified of at least one property of an entity. A request message is received from a user over a first communications channel, the message containing information indicative of at least one property of an entity in which the u... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8102876 | Client/server adaptation scheme for communications traffic A communications system in which carrier Ethernet conveys a plurality of differing types of client signals encapsulated with a generic framing procedure adaptation layer. The client signals are adapted for encapsulation within the carrier Ethernet frames by mapping ... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8082318 | Controlling service requests transmitted from a client to a server A method and system for controlling service requests from a client to a server involves intercepting and controlling the transmission of service requests from the client to the server. The service requests are queued at the client and the transmission of the queued ... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8078487 | Workflow scheduler An interactive workflow schedule optimizer arranged to enable a user to reconfigure an instantiated workflow for a task comprising a plurality of actions having a predetermined dependency relationship to each other. The optimizer comprises means to input one or more... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8077665 | Bandwidth allocation in a wireless network A contention window for allocating bandwidth in a wireless network is determined. A plurality of nodes includes at least a first and a second router and at least one client connected to each of the first and second routers. Information is received at the first route... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8060731 | Computer system A computer system has a plurality of components which can be initialized. A plurality of components can be initialized and each component is configured to produce status data from which the level of need for that component to be initialized can be inferred. At least... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8031684 | Nodal policy inclusive techniques for operating an ad hoc network A method of operating an ad hoc network comprising a plurality of devices (11-16). Each device includes communication means for communicating with other ones of the plurality of devices when they are in range. The method involves storing on each device... | 10/04/2011 |
| 7978615 | Method of operating a network Techniques are provided for operating a network where router devices forward received data packets towards a destination node. Each router maintains a routing table, indicating the next hop to choose in respect of different ultimate destinations m accordance with a ... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7953875 | Distributed computer system for storing data items assigned to virtual directories Computers store data items, each data item being assigned to one of a plurality of virtual directories. Each computer has at least one node of a virtual network for directory look-up, with linking data including addresses of other nodes associated with the same virt... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7948878 | Policing networks Flow in a data network is policed by determining a measure of greediness of a flow through a node, comparing the measure of greediness with a measure indicative of acceptable greediness dependent on the expected greediness of a compliant flow experiencing substantia... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7933200 | Communications system A controller controls the flow of messages in a communication system to a node. The controller monitors the rate of message rejection by the node and the rate of messages to the node passed by the controller. The rate at which messages to the node are passed is cont... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7929533 | System for selecting a connectivity mechanism An address resolver system that assists a node in an IPv6 network to select an address for connectivity with a node in an IPv4 network when both DSTM and NAT-PT transition mechanisms are available. Native connectivity can be achieved by preferring an encapsulation o... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7907519 | Packet forwarding Packet forwarding apparatus has an input for receiving packets; a packet classifier arranged in operation to read a class indication in received packets and in dependence thereon to pass packets to a class-based policer associated with the class indicated; a plurali... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7852786 | Peer-to-peer networks A station used as a node in a peer-to-peer communications system keeps a list of stations to which requests for resources may be sent. The list includes for each member a performance parameter. When a station receives a request for resources it selects at least one ... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7842340 | Fibre coating method and apparatus A fiber unit coating apparatus includes a chamber into which an uncured resin coated fiber unit is passed. Microspheres mixed with air are fed into the chamber via ducts and apertures. As a result rapid and even application of the microspheres can be achieved, and t... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7836077 | Document searching tool and method A store of electronic documents is automatically searched by controlling a user interface to permit a user to enter a search term, carrying out a search using the search term, the documents returned by the search into a plurality of distinct categories, and controll... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7830806 | Monitoring a network path The present invention relates to the monitoring of paths along which signals are carried in a telecommunications network, in particular to determine if a path has been altered. Each path has a transit time associated therewith for data transport along that path. The... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7812857 | Edge analysis in video quality assessment Edge detector techniques, known per se in the art, are applied to the field of automated video quality assessment. Any known edge detection algorithm is used as the basis of an edge detection stage for performing edge analysis of test video fields/frames in order to... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7805731 | Distributed processing management for de-centralized information ecosystem technologies (DIET) A system for distributed process management uses a plurality of units of software installed on a computing platform. Further software controls operation of the plurality of units in use. Each unit of software communicates with other units of software, and at least s... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7796896 | Secure optical communication A secure optical communication scheme uses differential delay D in an unbalanced Mach-Zehender interferometer to provide two copies of the optical source signal at a remote phase modulator separated in time by D. As D is much bigger than the coherence time source, t... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7792265 | Call completion service in case of called party unavailability If an attempt by a first user to contact another party fails, a callback server sets a flag. The callback server monitors terminals that have such flags set and is arranged to transmit an alert to the calling party when the called party next becomes available. Howev... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7787395 | Virtual networks Each node of a virtual network can store only a predetermined number of address links to other nodes. In response to receiving a link request between a first node and a second node, it is determined whether both the first and second nodes have less than the predeter... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7779073 | Computer network In a network of computers, e.g. the internet, each computer records the information sources it accesses, and these records are used to identify computers whose users share common interests, as indicated by the sources they access. A virtual network is created linkin... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7764167 | Monitoring movement of an entity in an environment Whether a person suffering dementia has left their flat unaccompanied can be determined by identifying an event indicating opening of the front door of the flat, determining whether the flat was occupied by more than one person prior to the door opening, determining... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7761901 | Data transmission Data to be transmitted over a network includes a first part (perhaps audio) which is always to be transmitted and alternative second parts (perhaps video coded at different compression rates) of which one is to be chosen for transmission, depending on the current ne... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7756258 | Communications system with direct access mailbox A communication system (1) in which a user (A) can elect to leave a message directly in the mailbox (11a) of another user (B) without calling or disturbing user (B). A store (database 7) is generated and maintained which identifies those ... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7742650 | Object detection in images A segmentation operation is applied to an input image to identify foreground objects of interest, and then a shadow removal operation is applied to remove any detected shadows from the foreground segmentation. The shadow removal algorithms can leave holes and bisect... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7742529 | Video coding and decoding A decoder for video signals, such as MPEG which use motion-compensated bidirectional predictive coding, performs concealment of lost or corrupted portions of a picture. For this purpose, it estimates missing motion vectors by combining the two vectors which accompan... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7742461 | Method for remotely associating a communications device with a computer A Computer Telephony Integration environment has reduced risk of inadvertent or fraudulent registration of the association of a user's computer terminal with the wrong telephone, i.e. one other than the telephone adjacent to the computer terminal or the user's mobil... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7716190 | Conversion of structured information Structured information data sets structured according to a first predefined structure are converted into data sets structured according to a second predefined structure by way of an intermediate data structure. Conversion rules are defined to convert from each of th... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7707271 | Delivering personalized content data via local network Personalized content is provided over a communications network such as the Internet. Providing personalized content includes both generating content which depends on the recipient of that content and delivering that content in a manner that depends on the recipient.... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7693971 | Distributed policy based system management with local management agents responsible for obtaining and storing policies thereat A computer network is managed by policies. This allows selections to be made from a range of control options and optionally to be based on locally available system information. Policy-based management is distributed across the system and is handled locally by manage... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7693273 | Network maintenance A method of signalling in an AIN, in which in an SSP, the initial message of a new transaction is addressed to a Service Global Title (SGT). The SSP translates that SGT to a first address of the first choice SCP. The SCP responds with an acknowledgement message whic... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7660425 | Acoustic echo cancellation A multiple channel steered spatialized signal is generated from a signal input modified according to respective spatialization gain functions to generate a plurality of audio channels. An echo cancellation signal is applied to a return path using a combined spatiali... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7653238 | Image filtering based on comparison of pixel groups Picture elements of a digitally coded image are each represented by a color value. The value of an element x is adjusted by firstly making a number of comparisons between elements elsewhere in the image. This comparison involves comparing a first picture element gro... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7646395 | Adaptive closed group caricaturing Caricatured images of subjects are generated wherein the caricatured image of each subject is adapted when subjects join and leave a closed group of which they are members. By adapting the caricatured images in this manner, it can be ensured that each caricatured im... | 01/12/2010 |
