Bizarre Patents
Reward Candy Dispenser for Personal Computers
A personal computer peripheral, battery powered reward candy dispenser which immediately presents students with a single candy for each problem completed correctly.
PatentStorm News
Make the Most of Our Site
See this month's Top Inventors and Most Cited Patents.
Stay on top of the latest innovations by subscribing to an RSS feed.
Registered users: Manage your profile.
| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7756105 | On-hook signal detector A method and apparatus are disclosed to minimize wasted bandwidth by suppressing communications between a trunking gateway and a media gateway until a telephone service-related signal is detected during an on-hook state. In an embodiment, the trunking gateway and th... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7685508 | Device monitoring via generalized markup language A request to view statistic data of a system is received. One or more forms are generated to carry the statistic data. The one or more forms are to carry the statistic data pulled from the system. Based on data fields on the one or more forms, the requested statisti... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7596693 | Controlling ARP packet traffic to enhance network security and scalability in TCP/IP networks A method of preventing ARP broadcast flooding of subscriber access links where an ARP packet is received at a subscriber network edge device and the source and destination information contained within the ARP packet is compared to address lease information for subsc... | 09/29/2009 |
| 7492761 | Broadband loop carrier system A method and apparatus for receiving data from a network subscriber, wherein the data conforms to multiple protocols, converting the data into packets that conform to a single protocol of a single layer of the Open System Interconnection Model, and propagating the p... | 02/17/2009 |
| 7490351 | Controlling ARP traffic to enhance network security and scalability in TCP/IP networks A method of preventing ARP broadcast flooding of subscriber access links where an ARP packet is received at a subscriber network edge device and the source and destination information contained within the ARP packet is compared to address lease information for subsc... | 02/10/2009 |
| 7463598 | Multi-stream jitter buffer for packetized voice applications In one embodiment the invention is a method. The method includes receiving data from a first party into a multiplexing device or a plurality of multiplexing devices. The method also includes receiving from a second party into a first jitter buffer, processing the da... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7155496 | Configuration management utilizing generalized markup language A framework is used for delivering data to and from a system. The framework consists of different delivery vehicles or forms to carry different types of data to and from the system. The data contains configuration information. When storing the configuration informat... | 12/26/2006 |
| 6999450 | Ethernet based TDM switch A method and apparatus for packetizing data framed as a TDM stream as an Ethernet packet. In an embodiment, the data is packetized into an Ethernet frame having a header which includes information which indicates an appropriate time at which to write the data into a... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6952830 | System and method to uniformly access devices System and method to uniformly access devices. The method may include receiving at least one high-level request regarding at least one designated device of a plurality of devices from an application program, translating the high-level request to one or more low-leve... | 10/04/2005 |
| 6907572 | Command line interface abstraction engine A CLI description language is implemented to define a set of command keywords and arguments forming CLI description files. The CLI description language is implemented using Extensible Markup Language (XML). A set of XML tags and corresponding semantic definitions ar... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6856615 | Stratum traceable clock driver for voice dejittering and control According to an embodiment of the invention, the voice processing logic for a node in a packet-based network includes a shared memory, a counter to be clocked by a signal derived from a stratum traceable clock (STC) reference, a processor, a digital signal processor... | 02/15/2005 |
| 6725233 | Generic interface for system and application management Data available in a system is identified. Each data is categorized as a scalar data or a tabular data. The tabular data is associated with data from a table and the scalar data is not. Each data is further categorized as a parameter data or a statistic data. The sta... | 04/20/2004 |
