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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6052365 | Multi-channel digital data transmission in a wireless telecommunications system A wireless telecommunications system includes a central station communicates with a plurality of subscriber stations served by the central station. The central station is connectable to a telecommunications network under a multiplexed multi-channel digita... | 04/18/2000 |
| 6009075 | Transport interface for performing protection switching of telecommunications traffic A transport interface (10) provides add drop multiplex functionality and termination requirements for the transportation of network traffic. The transport interface (10) includes high speed units (12), broadband interfaces (16), and SONET formatters (18).... | 12/28/1999 |
| 5915216 | Apparatus and method of transmitting and receiving information in a wireless telecommunications system A wireless telecommunications system (1) includes a central terminal (10) for transmitting and receiving radio frequency signals to and from a subscriber terminal (20). A downlink communication path is established from a transmitter (200) of the central t... | 06/22/1999 |
| 5867543 | Multi-rate transmission system A multi-rate transmission system (10) includes a receive section (12) and a transmit section (14). The receive section includes a receiver (16), a clock recovery unit (18), and a serial to parallel converter (20) all operating at a first clock rate (M). T... | 02/02/1999 |
| 5838913 | Control message transmission in telecommunications systems A communications interface is used in a telecommunications network station which including a number of network elements, a controller for controlling the network elements and an internal bus interconnecting the controller and the network elements. The con... | 11/17/1998 |
| 5835543 | Digital desynchronizer A digital desynchronizer device (10) includes an elastic store unit (12) that receives data in an asynchronous manner and synchronously transmits the data in response to a synchronization clock generated by a clock generator (14). The clock generator (14)... | 11/10/1998 |
| 5828339 | Integrated directional antenna An integrated directional antenna includes a radome, a resonant cavity within the radome, a microstrip radiator and a patch re-radiator positioned within the resonant cavity to provide a directed or focused beam. A first radiator can be provided for signa... | 10/27/1998 |
| 5826061 | System and method for modeling metastable state machine behavior A method for simulating the behavior of a metastable state machine is presented. The method includes outputting a transitional value when the state machine exhibits metastable behavior, such as when a set-up or hold violation occurs. A randomly-determined... | 10/20/1998 |
| 5818843 | E1 compression control method An N:1 transcoder (12, 40) with a compression data path that includes uncompressed digroup circuits (92, 94, 96, 98, and 100) each receiving N incoming uncompressed signal and extracting a plurality of control, signaling, and voice/data traffic channels t... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5815798 | Apparatus and method of controlling transmitting power in a subscriber terminal of a wireless telecommunications system A wireless telecommunications systems (1) includes a central terminal (10) for transmitting and receiving radio frequency signals to and from a subscriber terminal (20). A downlink communication path is established from a transmitter (200) of the central ... | 09/29/1998 |
| 5809093 | Apparatus and method of frame aligning information in a wireless telecommunications system A wireless telecommunications system (1) includes a central terminal (10) for transmitting and receiving radio frequency signals to and from a subscriber terminal (20). A downlink communication path is established from a transmitter (200) of the central t... | 09/15/1998 |
| 5809028 | Protocol converter for a wireless telecommunications system A protocol converter for a wireless telecommunications system, the protocol converter comprising: an interface for receiving first protocol message packets from at least one control station of the telecommunications system and for transmitting first proto... | 09/15/1998 |
| 5809021 | Multi-service switch for a telecommunications network A multi-service switch for a telecommunications network (10) is provided. A system bus (13) has an ingress portion (14) and an egress portion (16). The system bus (13) is operable to carry data in a plurality of time slots. A system bus control (11) compr... | 09/15/1998 |
| 5801328 | Cable EMI shield termination and enclosure The apparatus and method includes a backplane (14) and a plurality of cable connectors (16) arranged orderly on the backplane (14) to which the cables (12) are connected. A plurality of conductive groomer fingers (30) extend generally perpendicularly from... | 09/01/1998 |
| 5790519 | Broadband digital cross-connect system architecture A small broadband cross-connect system (10) includes a two-stage matrix (12) for processing and cross-connecting optical and electrical telecommunication network signals. An administration subsystem (14) provides centralized control and synchronization to... | 08/04/1998 |
| 5786770 | Message handling in a telecommunications network A message handler for the transmission and/or reception of message packets in one or both directions between a telecommunications station and a controller for one or more telecommunications stations, has a number of control layers including a transmitter ... | 07/28/1998 |
| 5787085 | Data transmission optimization system and method A system for optimizing data for transmission that includes a data collector operable to collect a plurality of data packets, wherein each data packet includes an address label, a data assembler operable to order the data packets by address label and asse... | 07/28/1998 |
| 5781527 | Integrated multi-fabric digital cross-connect integrated office links An integrated multiple cross-connect system (10) having remotely located components interconnected by integrated office links is provided. The system (10) includes a broadband matrix (20), at least one remotely located high speed line terminating equipmen... | 07/14/1998 |
| 5768278 | N: 1 Transcoder An N:1 transcoder (12, 40) with a compression data path that includes uncompressed digroup circuits (92, 94, 96, 98, and 100) each receiving N incoming uncompressed signal and extracting a plurality of control, signaling, and voice/data traffic channels t... | 06/16/1998 |
| 5764629 | Method and apparatus for avoiding collisions in an electronic business set terminal An electronic business set terminal (24) includes a signaling gate array (40) that performs reception and transmission of 8 kHz signaling messages while avoiding collisions that may result in message loss. The signaling gate array (40) includes a receiver... | 06/09/1998 |
| 5765172 | System and method for verifying integrity of replicated databases A method to verify the integrity of replicated databases that includes the steps of determining a checksum for a first database after updating the first database, determining a checksum for each of a number of second databases after updating each of the s... | 06/09/1998 |
| 5761429 | Network controller for monitoring the status of a network A network controller for monitoring the status of a network includes a hierarchical object-based data structure representative of the network to be controlled. The data structure includes a set of hierarchically linked objects representative of elements o... | 06/02/1998 |
| 5757793 | Integrated multi-rate cross-connect system An integrated multi-rate cross-connect system (10) includes a broadband subsystem (14) for processing optical and electrical telecommunication network signals. A wideband subsystem (16) processes wideband level electrical telecommunication signals from th... | 05/26/1998 |
| 5751724 | Demultiplexer for a multi-bitline bus A demultiplexer (10) includes an input stage (12) that receives a serial data stream having a plurality of m-bit sections at a first clock rate. The input stage converts successive n-bit portions of each m-bit section into a first n-bit parallel output at... | 05/12/1998 |
| 5745496 | Apparatus and method of establishing a downlink communication path in a wireless telecommunications system A wireless telecommunications system (1) includes a central terminal (10) for transmitting and receiving radio frequency signals to and from a subscriber terminal (20). A downlink communication path is established from a transmitter (200) of the central t... | 04/28/1998 |
| 5745489 | Buffered crosspoint matrix for an asynchronous transfer mode switch and method of operation A buffered crosspoint matrix (20) of an asynchronous transfer mode switch (10) includes a plurality of switching elements (38) for receiving and switching segments containing asynchronous transfer mode cells. Each switching element (38) receives segments ... | 04/28/1998 |
| 5742595 | Processing CDMA signals A CDMA signal processing circuit (300) includes a summer circuit (302) that receives a plurality of CDMA signals from a plurality of channels (304). The summer circuit (302) combines the plurality of CDMA signals according to a power magnitude value and p... | 04/21/1998 |
| 5740169 | Subscriber interface for a fiber optic communications terminal A terminal for interconnecting a large number of subscriber telephone circuits with a large bandwidth fiber optic transmission system. A system backplane includes a large number of connectors that each can receive a subscriber printed circuit card which i... | 04/14/1998 |
| 5699022 | Adaptive cable equalizer An adaptive cable equalizer (10) includes an input section (12) that receives a radio frequency electrical signal from a cable (14). The input section (12) provides the electrical signal to an equalizing amplifier section (16) that controls an amount of c... | 12/16/1997 |
| 5699391 | Digital desynchronizer A digital desynchronizer device (10) includes an elastic store unit (12) that receives data in an asynchronous manner and synchronously transmits the data in response to a synchronization clock generated by a clock generator (14). The clock generator (14)... | 12/16/1997 |
| 5696766 | Apparatus and method of synchronizing a transmitter in a subscriber terminal of a wireless telecommunications system A wireless telecommunications system (1) includes a central terminal (10) for transmitting and receiving radio frequency signals to and from a subscriber terminal (20). A downlink communication path is established from a transmitter (200) of the central t... | 12/09/1997 |
| 5689535 | Method and apparatus for processing multiple facility datalinks A method and apparatus for processing a plurality of facility datalinks is provided. In particular, synchronizers (14 and 16) receive multiple facility datalinks and synchronize them. These synchronized signals are transmitted to FDL state machine (18). F... | 11/18/1997 |
| 5675580 | Processor device for terminating and creating synchronous transport signals In the inbound direction, a tributary processor (32) includes an SPE encoder/decoder for extracting a synchronous payload envelope (SPE) from an STS-1P signal. A path terminator (62) may extract DS3 signals or a matrix payload envelope (MPE) from the STS-... | 10/07/1997 |
| 5667230 | Rack lift assembly A rack lift assembly (10) includes a side mount plate (12) that can be connected to an equipment rack holding telecommunication equipment. A caster plate (14) connects to the side mount plate (12) by a loose pin hinge (26) and by a latch pin (18). The lat... | 09/16/1997 |
| 5644575 | Managing memory within a local telecommunications network A telecommunications network (10) includes a plurality of transport node controllers (18) that interface with a plurality of local communication processors (16) for the transfer of telecommunications information between subscribers (14) associated with th... | 07/01/1997 |
| 5623491 | Device for adapting narrowband voice traffic of a local access network to allow transmission over a broadband asynchronous transfer mode network A voice adaptation device (18) provides an interface between a narrowband local access network and a broadband asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) backbone network (16). The voice adaptation device (18) includes a T1/E1 network adaptor (50) that converts T1/... | 04/22/1997 |
| 5608757 | High speed transport system A high speed signal transport system (10) provides data transmission across a balanced channel (14). The balanced channel (14) carries differential signals from the output of a differential transmitter (12). An equalizer (18) compensates for distortion in... | 03/04/1997 |
| 5602850 | High-speed packet bus A high-speed bus system for a computer is constructed of a network of buses with parallel bit lines, each bus of which operates independently and supports serial packet communications, wherein transmit agents and receive agents associated with each commun... | 02/11/1997 |
| 5598464 | Method and apparatus for providing local number portability A system (10) includes a calling party (12) that initiates a call to a ported customer (14). Upon receiving the call from calling party (12), switch (16) generates a trigger indicating that ported customer (14) is now being serviced by another switch (20)... | 01/28/1997 |
| 5592545 | Voice enhancement system and method A telecommunications network (120) is provided with adaptive gain control (AGC) of the voice signals in network (120). Network (120)includes an input (12) for receiving a voice signal, an output (14) for receiving the voice signal, and a coupling between ... | 01/07/1997 |
