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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6901122 | Method and apparatus for restoring a soft decision component of a signal A method includes the steps of receiving (402), by a first receiver (102), a first received signal comprising a first signal (110) and a second signal (120), and receiving (402), by a second receiver (104), a second received... | 05/31/2005 |
| 6681278 | Communication protocol for energy system integrated on a system communication bus A computer system having an integrated energy system on a system communication bus where the energy system includes a plurality of energy devices. Each energy device is integrated on the system communication bus and has a memory and processor. Each energy... | 01/20/2004 |
| 6525501 | Method and apparatus for accelerating communication between controllable devices The present invention is a method and apparatus for data communication between controllable devices, and more particularly, between a first programmable device (21) and at least one second programmable device (31) coupled to a processor. In one embodiment... | 02/25/2003 |
| 6487426 | Self-aligning wireless interface system and method A self-aligning wireless interface system (1) couples a wide variety of equipment (12, 18, 20, 40, FIG. 1; 84, 90, FIG. 2) to one or more of a wide variety of communications, entertainment, Internet, security, control, and/or other wireless services. The ... | 11/26/2002 |
| 6372813 | Methods and compositions for attachment of biomolecules to solid supports, hydrogels, and hydrogel arrays The present invention provides solid supports (e.g., glass) and polymer hydrogels (particularly polymer hydrogel arrays present on a solid support) comprising one or more reactive sites for the attachment of biomolecules, as well as biomolecules comprisin... | 04/16/2002 |
| 6351638 | Method and apparatus for accessing a plurality of communication networks A method enables a subscriber unit (20) to access a common communication system to communicate with a selected communication system. The subscriber unit receives (404) an indication of any communication systems available in a geographic region associated ... | 02/26/2002 |
| 6293753 | Air moving apparatus and method of optimizing performance thereof An air moving device in the form of an axial flow fan is provided that is adapted for use in substantially enclosed high-density electrical systems, e.g. computers and the like. The fan includes an annular wall extending about the blades thereof and in wh... | 09/25/2001 |
| 6292781 | Method and apparatus for facilitating distributed speech processing in a communication system The present invention addresses the need for an apparatus and method for facilitating and performing distributed speech processing in a wireless communication system. The present invention encompasses communication infrastructure embodiments that facilita... | 09/18/2001 |
| 6286112 | Method and mechanism for providing a non-stop, fault-tolerant telecommunications system A method and mechanism provide for online testing, replacement, upgrading and modification of portions of a radio communications system 100. A task controller 200 tests and replaces online elements in a task unit. The task unit is generally comprised of a... | 09/04/2001 |
| 6256008 | Computer screen saver with wireless messaging capability and method therefor A wireless screen saver for use with an electronic information processing device (106) having a display screen (300). The wireless screen saver has a first screen layout with at least one predetermined display pattern (302) persisting until a user input i... | 07/03/2001 |
| 6236835 | Method for acquiring a predetermined type of information from a selective call device in a communication system A technique is used in an infrastructure (150) of a two-way radio synchronous communication system (100) to efficiently acquire a predetermined type of information from a selective call device (106). The technique includes receiving an inquiry (1), genera... | 05/22/2001 |
| 6198779 | Method and apparatus for adaptively classifying a multi-level signal A radio receiver circuit (200) is used for receiving a multi-level signal (201) that includes a plurality of symbols, wherein each level is representative of a symbol of data. Baseband samples are generated for each symbol, whereby each baseband sample ha... | 03/06/2001 |
| 6189035 | Method for protecting a network from data packet overload An internal network (16) is protected from being overloaded by an excessive number of data packets that originate from a source in an external network (10). In a preferred embodiment, data packet gate (20) receives each incoming data packet and determines... | 02/13/2001 |
| 6185525 | Method and apparatus for digital signal compression without decoding A method (100) of compressing a digital signal that is parametrically modeled and encoded includes the steps of storing (102) the digital signal in a memory in a plurality of frames having a plurality of parameters in each frame of the plurality of frames... | 02/06/2001 |
| 6178210 | Method and apparatus for reducing data distortion and improving simulcast reception A selective call receiver unit (700) capable of reducing data distortion and improving simulcast reception includes a selective call receiver (20), a demodulator (30) coupled to the selective call receiver and a circuit (36 and 300) coupled to the demodul... | 01/23/2001 |
| 6169889 | Method and electronic device using random pulse characteristics in digital signals An electronic device has reduced radio frequency interference (RFI) emissions. The electronic device includes a signal generator that is coupled to a reference clock signal and a first digital circuit. The signal generator generates a random signal derive... | 01/02/2001 |
| 6167235 | Method and apparatus for providing additional information to a selective call device about a broadcast A technique is used in a selective call communication system (100) and in a broadcast communication system (106) to provide additional information about a broadcast to a selective call device (111). A broadcast receiver (109) receives a broadcast that inc... | 12/26/2000 |
| 6167078 | Conservation of power in a serial modem A serial modem (14) having a phase-locked loop (22), a central processing unit (20), a serial buffer (26) and a universal asynchronous receiver transmitter (UART) (28), wherein the serial buffer (26) and the UART (28) are connected to a host device (10) v... | 12/26/2000 |
| 6163698 | Link setup method for a narrowband cellular communication system A method for setting up a link for a call in a narrowband cellular communication system (100) includes, in a selective call radio (106), determining a transmitter identity and a signal quality (310, 315) of a strongest monitoring channel of a set of N mon... | 12/19/2000 |
| 6162064 | Method and apparatus for elastomer connection between a bonding shelf and a substrate An elastomer connection between a bonding shelf (20) and a substrate (28) includes a plurality of conductive runners (23) on a surface of the bonding shelf and a non-conductive surface (22) placed above the bonding shelf. The non-conductive surface has a ... | 12/19/2000 |
| 6160490 | Apparatus for improving the battery life of a selective call receiver A selective call receiver (100) operating from a battery (102), includes a battery monitor (114), a radio receiver (108), a regulator (104), a capacitor (105) coupled to the regulator and the radio receiver, and a processor (116) for controlling the foreg... | 12/12/2000 |
| 6157313 | Method and apparatus utilizing a multifunction remote appliance sensor A system (10) utilizing a multifunction remote appliance sensor that remotely senses a status of an appliance (20) and that locks and unlocks the appliance. The system includes a selective call receiver (50) for receiving status information from the appli... | 12/05/2000 |
| 6148245 | Method and apparatus for sharing processing information in a manufacturing facility A line controller (115) for controlling a manufacturing process comprises a data entry device (225) for receiving product identification information and determining circuitry (310, 315) coupled to the data entry device (225) for receiving the product iden... | 11/14/2000 |
| 6141454 | Methods for data compression and decompression using digitized topology data A digitized topology data compression and decompression method provides the digitized topology data of a collection of segments connected to each other via nodes. The method forms at least one composite line representing a chain of connected segments, whi... | 10/31/2000 |
| 6137690 | Electronic assembly An electronic assembly (10) comprises one or more electronic components (18) having solder terminations (20), and a printed circuit substrate (12) having printed circuit traces (14, 16), wherein at least one of the solder terminations of the one or more e... | 10/24/2000 |
| 6137830 | Measuring bit error rate performance of a receiver by the receiver and conveying measurement acoustically A system (100) for measuring bit error rate performance of a radio device by the radio device and conveying measurement acoustically includes a test controller (102), a pattern generator (104), a radio frequency signal generator (106), an audio receiver (... | 10/24/2000 |
| 6132048 | Single display assembly having selective reflectors to view indicia A single display assembly (10) has an electronically controllable display (11) with a plurality of display elements (12) and sandwiched by two support plates (13,14), two polarizers (15,16) and two selective reflectors, namely a first selective reflector ... | 10/17/2000 |
| 6131277 | Method for accurately aligning and attaching an electrical part to a surface mount circuit An electrical circuit includes a substrate having at least two alignment pads on the substrate that are accurately aligned with a first set of electrical interconnect pads, and also includes a corresponding number of alignment posts that are cylindrical a... | 10/17/2000 |
| 6130920 | Method and apparatus for accurate synchronization using symbol decision feedback A circuit (12) for symbol decision directed feedback synchronization includes a current synchonization clock (45) that provides an initial sampling point and selects a detector corresponding to a current symbol decision. The circuit further includes a plu... | 10/10/2000 |
| 6125513 | Multifunctional belt clip for a portable device A portable device having a multi-function belt clip assembly includes a leaf spring 16 having a first end 18 and a second end 20; a housing 14 which has a recess 22 to engage the first end 18 of the leaf spring 16; and a belt clip 12 which has a recess 24... | 10/03/2000 |
| 6125262 | Selective call radio for selectively decoding prioritized messages and method therefor A SCR (122) is assigned to a plurality of addresses, and includes a receiver (304) and a processor (308) coupled thereto. The processor is adapted to assign a priority level to each of the plurality of addresses assigned to the SCR. At or near a predeterm... | 09/26/2000 |
| 6114969 | Method in a selective call radio for presenting advertisement messages and coupons A SCR (122) capable of communicating with a communications center (102) includes a RF receiver (304), a presentation circuit (313), and a processor (308). The processor is adapted to select an advertisement source from a plurality of advertisement sources... | 09/05/2000 |
| 6111855 | Method and apparatus for baud detection in a communication device A method (500) of baud detection in a communication device (700) includes the steps of sorting phase pulses among overlapping sets of time slots (502) and counting phase pulses within each of the overlapping sets of time slots creating corresponding count... | 08/29/2000 |
| 6101370 | Method and apparatus used in a simulcast radio communication system for providing improved local time A technique is used in a simulcast radio communication system (200) for providing improved local time information. The technique includes, in a fixed portion (300) of the simulcast radio communication system (200), alternatively transmitting in a radio si... | 08/08/2000 |
| 6100730 | Prescaler system circuits A prescaler system (100) has a prescaler circuit (102) coupled to a divider (104), wherein the divider includes an improved dynamic flip flop divider (118). The divider (118) includes a TSPC nine-transistor D-flip-flop (10). The divider further includes a... | 08/08/2000 |
| 6076170 | Method and apparatus for selectively programming access time in a data processor In a data processing system, a memory control unit (22) provides a control register bit field (60), logic, and a state machine (62) which facilitate a programmable number of clocks for an initial access to an on-chip memory (20). Specifically, the memory ... | 06/13/2000 |
| 6073002 | Mixer circuit and communication device using the same A mixer circuit (230) comprises a double balanced mixer (370) including a first pair of transistors (Q3, Q4) and a second pair of transistors (Q5, Q6) and a differential amplifier (330) including a pair of transistors (Q1, Q2) coupled to a first reference... | 06/06/2000 |
| 6072774 | Communication network and method for managing internodal link topology A communication network (20) includes a multiplicity of switching nodes (18), many of which are located in orbiting satellites (16). Communication links (30) interconnect the switching nodes (18). A control center (32) performs a request for connection pr... | 06/06/2000 |
| 6073094 | Voice compression by phoneme recognition and communication of phoneme indexes and voice features A communication system includes a transmitter for transmitting messages to a plurality of receiving devices of the communication system, and a processing system. The processing system is adapted to convert a caller's voice message to a sequence of phoneme... | 06/06/2000 |
| 6064955 | Low complexity MBE synthesizer for very low bit rate voice messaging A MBE synthesizer (2200) for generating speech from information received by a receiver (114) includes a voiced signal generator (2280) for generating voiced signal components in the time domain using an IDFT in a pitch wave generator (2210) and and a pitc... | 05/16/2000 |
