Did You Know...
...that the video game, Pong, was invented by a guy who graduated at the bottom of his engineering class? Nolan Bushnell spent more time running the games at a local amusement park than he did on his studies at the University of Utah. His dreams of working for Disney's amusement empire were dashed when the company wouldn't hire him. Taking a boring job, Nolan daydreamed about electronic versions of popular games. He invented Pong, the first video game, and went on to found Atari Co.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8126428 | Subscriber management system for a communication network A subscriber management system for a communication system having a radio access network coupled to by a gateway node to a packet switched network. The system consolidates three prior art subscriber management system components, a DPI device, a QoS Policy Manager ... | 02/28/2012 |
| 7526290 | Establishing a communication channel in a wireless network A method of operating a communication system is disclosed. The method includes transmitting from a remote unit to a base station remote unit channel data. The remote unit channel is generated at the remote unit and includes data about a first portion of communicatio... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7460561 | Delay compensation In a discrete tone system, a base station receives a transmission burst from a remote unit being installed that includes delay compensation pilot tones that are uniformly spread throughout the transmission bandwidth. The arrival time transmission burst is not synchr... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7324495 | System and method for broadcasting timing information to remote units in a wireless multiple access network A method has been provided for using the broadcast channel of a wireless multiple access network to communicate network timing information, or a time-stamp, to remote units. The method defines a broadcast channel protocol which divides communication frames into unit... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7177650 | Method and apparatus for use in reducing overutilization of RF communication system resources A method of allocating resources in a network is disclosed. The method includes accessing data from a fixed wireless loop network having a plurality of stations that are each associated with a plurality of remote units. Each plurality of remote units is assigned to ... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7161922 | Methods and apparatus for dynamically assigning time slots in a wireless communication system A wireless communication system having a base unit and a plurality of remote transceiver units utilizes a dynamic time slot assignment scheme for channel access. The base unit receives and processes a channel access request message from a remote transceiver unit and... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7085280 | Location optimization and base assignment tool for creating optimal switch-base station networks in the wireless industry A method for optimizing a communications network such as a wireless telecommunications network, having central switch nodes and intermediate base station transport nodes, via a non-hierarchical clustering technique is provided. At least one of the central switch nod... | 08/01/2006 |
| 6968371 | Design for scalable network management systems A system and methodology for building highly scalable Network Management Systems (NMS)s for the management of large voice and data networks is provided. The NMS of the present invention is designed to manage a plurality of network elements communicating through netw... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6898413 | Method for seamless port capability for an alternative service provider A method provides seamless porting of a user telephone number from a first telephone service provider network to a second telephone service provider network. A network interface device is provided that is interconnected to the first telephone service provider networ... | 05/24/2005 |
| 6868120 | Real-time system for measuring the Ricean K-factor A system and method for measuring the Ricean K-factor of a wireless channel in real time are provided. An amplitude sample of a transmitted RE waveform of either fixed or varying amplitude is low-pass filtered to eliminate high frequency noise if present. The magnit... | 03/15/2005 |
