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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6009530 | Real time clock synchronization in a telecommunications network In a telecommunication network, a method of determining the accuracy of the real time clocks associated with each element of the network is disclosed. The method comprises sending a marker signal at a predetermined reference time along with the traffic si... | 12/28/1999 |
| 5974027 | Telecommunications network including a channel switching protection arrangement An SDH (Synchronous Digital Hierarchy) telecommunications network has a plurality of interconnected nodes (1, 2, 3, 4). Working channels (7,6) are defined between respective pairs of nodes (1,2 and 3,4) with one common protection channel (5) serving a plu... | 10/26/1999 |
| 5923669 | Adaptive boundary buffers The fitting of boundary buffers on the exit from a telecommunications network can greatly reduce the relative wander. Adaptive boundary buffers have a phase adjusting circuit, for determining the phase error between a recovered line clock and a recovered ... | 07/13/1999 |
| 5911038 | High availability telecommunications system with a dual interface for mirrored asynchronous processing A telecommunications system is required by a system operator to have a high availability, especially in so far as central processing is concerned, as failure of this can render a significant portion of the system inoperative. A telecommunications system h... | 06/08/1999 |
| 5909442 | Intelligent network access to obscure and remote services Using a known Intelligent Network Architecture a service invocation message is addressed via a Sorter to an appropriate Server. After interrogating the caller when necessary, the Server may re-address the message directly to another Server within the same... | 06/01/1999 |
| 5905731 | Synchronous telecommunications system with unique indentification of paths In a digital telecommunication system having data packages carrying identification data, the identification data is characterized in that it is unique to the package within a station and does not depend on the identity of the originating station.... | 05/18/1999 |
| 5903640 | Telecommunications system for establishing connections between intelligent network delivery points and subscribers requesting service A telecommunications system comprises a plurality of subscriber and/or junction terminals connected to a local exchanges the local exchange having an Intelligent Network message terminal, a Service Router addressable from the local exchange via the messag... | 05/11/1999 |
| 5847749 | Video reporting system for enabling real-time, unidirectional data transmission from mobile sources Video on Demand allows, for example, a coded TV signal or film to be transmitted to a subscriber over a standard two-wire metallic telephone line. A similar apparatus for connecting unidirectional mobile data output to a destination via a standard metalli... | 12/08/1998 |
| 5835660 | Optical fibre clamping device In an optical fibre clamping device to prevent relative movement between an optical fibre and a tube within which the optical fibre is located, a body part includes a through passageway to receive the optical fibre. The body part includes a first clamp to... | 11/10/1998 |
| 5822385 | Fast serial pattern recognition In many applications, for example in a telecommunications system, it is necessary to identify a unique data sequence at a high speed serial data interface within one bit period of the complete sequence being received. This pattern recognition is often use... | 10/13/1998 |
| 5822419 | Telecommunications service interactions A basic call in a telecommunications network provides a transmission path between two users. Additional functionality is provided by a set of services, wherein, if a number of services is invoked during the same call, it is important that the services do ... | 10/13/1998 |
| 5793509 | Telecommunications network In a telecommunications time division multiple (TDMA) optic network system, network termination equipments (NTE's) are enabled to communicate with a head end by the NTE encoding a message as a signal including error correction on the existing signal traff... | 08/11/1998 |
| 5793760 | Method of multiplexing and a multiplexer A pure ATM based multiplex is incapable, especially at low carrier rates, of satisfactorily carrying constant bit rate traffic or/human communication traffic. A multiplex format having a plurality of constant bit rate timeslots in which a timeslot is not ... | 08/11/1998 |
| 5734902 | Communication system for maintaining data consistency among replicated shared objects A shared object is created which is copied to all system nodes requiring access to the object and a used-by table is created identifying the nodes holding a copy of the object. When the object is updated by operations at one of the nodes then the copies i... | 03/31/1998 |
| 5703879 | ATM switching arrangement An ATM telecommunications switch includes a plurality of parallel data switching planes and a parallel central plane, each plane having an equal number of input ports and output ports and a central switching unit to switch each input port to any output po... | 12/30/1997 |
| 5694397 | Constant bit rate synchronization Packet based telecommunications networks are being developed to carry Constant Bit Rate (CBR) data streams between source and destination exchanges in the form of multiplexed packets, which are recombined at the destination exchange into a CBR stream. In ... | 12/02/1997 |
| 5682423 | Electrical power and telephone ringer signal distribution system A telephony system includes a plurality of local network terminations connected to a street cabinet in turn connected to an exchange. The street cabinet has a power supply for supplying voltage, a clock for generating a master ringer signal, and a modulat... | 10/28/1997 |
| 5668802 | High-speed digital subscriber lines A communications system employs a high-speed digital link with discrete multiple tone (DMT) the outward paths from a central transmitter/receiver to further transmitter/receivers receiving signals therefrom using one set of carrier frequency channels and ... | 09/16/1997 |
| 5636260 | Telecommunication customer interface A telecommunication network and switching system where digital circuits are supplied to customer terminals for dial-up services and where automatic testing of the access connections to the customer premises is performed while calls are not in progress. A ... | 06/03/1997 |
| 5633925 | Low loss telephone circuit A telephone line power strip-off circuit includes a low loss polarity guard sub-circuit, a low loss line seize sub-circuit, a low loss speech transformer sub-circuit and a high efficiency switched mode power supply which has an output voltage less than th... | 05/27/1997 |
| 5627824 | Telecommunications network In a telecommunications switching network which has a plurality of sub-networks, each sub-network having a plurality of User Network Ports, the Destination and Source addresses in a cell-header carrier by a cell switched by the network are each divided in... | 05/06/1997 |
| 5610928 | Data verification method In a telecommunications duplicated synchronous switch where switching in bit synchronism is carried out and fault detection is by discrepancy checking between the duplicate switch planes, determination of the faulty plane is provided by the data being car... | 03/11/1997 |
| 5604617 | Telecommunications switching element A multi-stage telecommunications switch, such as a "rotator", has 2n input ports and 2n output ports, `n` being an integer greater than 1, and is formed from a number n×y.sup.(n-1) of y×y switching elements where `y` is an integer ... | 02/18/1997 |
| 5579314 | Connectionless information service delivery A telecommunications system has subscriber and/or private automatic branch exchange accesses, an access signalling system, and a connectionless network signalling system. The telecommunications system employs a connectionless signalling interworking unit ... | 11/26/1996 |
| 5579311 | Telecommunications switching In a telecommunications system in which narrowband or guiding services already exist, different service rates, either fixed or variable may be required. A further service switch is connected in parallel with the existing narrowband or guiding switch, the ... | 11/26/1996 |
| 5572574 | Cordless telephone registration method A method of on-air registration of a cordless telephone handset with a base station, includes the steps of: arming the handset so that it can indicate that it wants to register with a base station; arming the network to enable it to accept the registratio... | 11/05/1996 |
| 5559805 | Outstation ranging in demand assignment, time division multiple access, communication system In a multi-station, demand assigned, time division multiple access system, digital information is communicated from a head end to a population of outstations so that all the outstations receive the stone stream of digital information and select their traf... | 09/24/1996 |
| 5544168 | ATM switching arrangement An ATM telecommunications switch includes a plurality of parallel data switching planes and a parallel control plane, each plane having an equal number of input ports and output ports and a central switching unit to switch each input port to any output po... | 08/06/1996 |
| 5544172 | Method for the digital transmission of data Timing pointer signals to be transmitted across a synchronous digital hierarcy (SDH) network are transmitted in virtual containers (VC) in a number of fixed stuff bytes which were hitherto unused. In a preferred embodiment two such bytes are used to carry... | 08/06/1996 |
| 5537469 | Bandwidth allocation of DPNSS networks A method for providing dynamic allocation of trunk circuits of different classes of traffic having different bandwidths in a Digital Private Network Signalling System (DPNSS) link between two switching nodes is disclosed. The trunk circuits are grouped in... | 07/16/1996 |
| 5533005 | Dual connections Data is protected in a data transmission system operating on the synchronous digital hierarchy. The data is transmitted in multiplex form between ports in the system and protection is applied between ports at different or the same aggregate bit rates. Thi... | 07/02/1996 |
| 5528406 | Telecommunications switching device A telecommunications switching device includes a plurality of ports and a plurality of switching units and a connecting circuit for connecting each of the ports to each of the switching units in turn. The connecting circuit includes a photonic channel sep... | 06/18/1996 |
| 5510705 | Electrical test arrangement and apparatus Apparatus is disclosed for use in the testing of the electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) and electrostatic discharge (ESD) performance of an electrical unit. The apparatus comprises a cable tray positioned adjacent the unit, the cable tray having arranged... | 04/23/1996 |
| 5504739 | Reconfigurable switch memory A reconfigurable switch memory which is applicable to time switches and space switches enables two very different time switching functions to be efficiently implemented by one type of switching unit. A reconfigurable switching device is provided which, fo... | 04/02/1996 |
| 5493435 | Optic switching A broadband multiport coherent optic data switch comprises a passive optic combiner/splitter, a plurality of port units and a switch control unit connected thereto, each port unit having a coherent optic source tuned to a respective optic frequency, the o... | 02/20/1996 |
| 5491573 | Optical signal transmission network Fault location in an optical signal transmission network in which a main optical fibre is divided into a plurality of branch circuits, is simplified. Optical time domain reflectrometry (OTDR) equipment transmits an output signal along the main fibre, and ... | 02/13/1996 |
| 5475680 | Asynchronous time division multiplex switching system An ATDM switching system comprises a serial to parallel converter arranged to receive incoming packets of data (which include their own routing information) from several input ports in serial form and deliver them, in parallel format, to a Random Access M... | 12/12/1995 |
| 5461504 | Opto-electronic circuits For use in a coherent optic switch a coherent optical transceiver has a single coherent receiver for both data recovery and to lock the transmitter to an optical reference input to the receiver. The switch may include polarisation control of the optical i... | 10/24/1995 |
| 5459724 | ATM switching arrangement An ATM telecommunications switch includes a plurality of parallel data switching planes and a parallel control plane, each plane having an equal number of input ports and output ports and a central switching unit to switch each input port to any output po... | 10/17/1995 |
| 5416423 | Method and apparatus for verifying the integrity of a smart card A Contact Smart Card (3) is inserted in a contact card reader and its capacitance is measured by applying a square wave generated by an oscillator (1) to it via a resistor (4). The capacitance effect of the smart card (3) affects the amplitude of the outp... | 05/16/1995 |
