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Cloaking System Using Optoelectronically Controlled Camouflage
A Cloaking System designed to operate in the visible light spectrum, utilizes optoelectronics and/or photonic components to conceal an object within it.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7450924 | Interference cancellation and receive diversity for single-valued modulation receivers A combined SAIC receiver and a multiple-antenna, receive diversity receiver are employed to reduce interference in a wireless system. The real and imaginary parts of the de-rotated signal for each receive path associated with an antenna are separately filtered and a... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7444171 | Method and system for sharing speed dial lists amongst multiple telecommunications services A master database stores a speed dial list associated with a user of multiple telecommunications services. The database shares the speed dial list with the telecommunication services such that a single speed dial list serves all of the user's telecommunications serv... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7433362 | System and method for SONET NSAP addressing A synchronous optical network (SONET) system having multi-hierarchal network service access point (NSAP) addressing includes a plurality of network elements (NEs) electrically linked, and a first level routing area and a second level routing area that each includes ... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7415760 | Apparatus for pre-forming a twisted-pair electrical cable A wiring block pre-forms a cable end having twisted wires for subsequent installation of a plug on the cable end. A back end of the block leading to a cavity within the block receives the cable end such that a cable portion adjacent to the cable end sits inside the ... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7415106 | Network-based voice activated auto-attendant service with B2B connectors In a particular embodiment, a method of processing enterprise information system data for use by a voice activated auto-attendant service network is disclosed. The method includes provisioning a network-based voice activated auto-attendant service via a web interfac... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7406334 | Systems and methods for securing personal or private content stored in the internal memory of a mobile terminal Mobile terminals, such as cell phones, having an internal memory and operating in a GSM wireless network environment with a SIM, store private content such as images, ring tones, buddy lists, email and the like, in the terminal memory. The private content is associa... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7406504 | Intelligent email detection and auto reply email technique to emails destined to no reply email addresses An intelligent email detection and auto reply email tool is disclosed. A method includes receiving an incoming email, determining whether the incoming email requires a response; and after determining that the incoming email requires a response, generating an auto re... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7400720 | System and method for optimizing digital subscriber line based services A method is provided that can be used for modifying a control parameter associated with a digital subscriber line (DSL) service. Initially, a real-time performance parameter is received from a first termination unit that is coupled to an DSL circuit. The real-time p... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7388906 | Method for detecting bridged taps on telephony cable In a particular embodiment a method of collecting and processing modem data is provided. The method includes, during training of a broadband modem, sending a series of tones within a frequency transmission band of the broadband modem, receiving the transmitted serie... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7388948 | AMA access over local audit analysis (AAOLA) A method of evaluating automatic message accounting records associated with telephony calls that originate at a local exchange carrier telephony office and that are routed over an inter-exchange carrier telephony facility is disclosed. The method comprises collectin... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7386116 | Quick shift jack panel A method and system for coupling a second wire pair to a communications service are disclosed. The system includes a first connector for receiving an electrical connection to a first wire pair. The first wire pair provides a communication service to a customer locat... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7384168 | Light fixture having air ducts A light fixture has an outer housing having a top outer wall, outer side walls extending substantially perpendicularly from the outer edges of the top outer wall, an inner housing having a top inner wall, and inner side walls extending substantially perpendicularly ... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7379448 | Automated method and system for selectively updating communications parameters representing subscriber services in telecommunications networks Methods and systems for updating subscriber service parameters in a communications network wherein a central provisioning unit automatically locates subscriber ports having subscriber service parameters that require updating and which automatically issues commands f... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7379650 | Apparatuses having spool assembly for absorbing jumper slack An apparatus includes a trough for routing jumpers along a surface of the trough. The apparatus further includes a spool assembly having a spool supported on a mount. The mount has an adhesive surface. The adhesive surface is attached to the trough surface to attach... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7379449 | Method and system of supporting abbreviated dialing between affiliated phones wherein at least one phone is associated with a non-affiliated network Method and system of supporting abbreviated dialing. The method and system may be used in conjunction with calls between affiliated phones if at least a portion of the signals associated therewith are transmitted over a non-affiliated network. ... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7376112 | Method and system for seamless service availability for multi-mode terminals in different access networks Systems, methods and devices provide seamless communication service for a wireless multi-mode communication terminal. A multi-mode communication terminal with an intelligent call forwarding module automatically forwards calls in a multi-mode network environment. A b... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7366203 | Passive optical network and ultrawide band adapter The disclosure relates generally to a system including a passive optical network element and a first ultra wideband adapter coupled to the passive optical network element. The first ultra wideband adapter is coupled via a data communication line to a second ultra wi... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366337 | Personal bill denomination reader A memory stores built-in images per bill denomination for a plurality of bill denominations. The built-in images may include a corresponding image for each of four corners for each of two sides of the bill denomination. A camera captures an image of a bill. A patter... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7362713 | System and method for accessing digital subscriber line data A system and method of accessing digital subscriber line data is provided. The system includes a first server having an input to receive a telephone number from a web browser interface and having an output to provide performance analysis data associated with at leas... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7359494 | System and method for restricted telephone message delivery A system for controlling restricted telephone calls that originate from a facility includes a facility resident telephone for calling a destination telephone number as a collect call, where the collect call is completed when accepted, a call processing platform elec... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7356475 | System and method for providing access to an interactive service offering A system and method are disclosed for providing access to an interactive service offering. A method incorporating teachings of the present disclosure may include receiving a first communication in a format that complies with a first protocol. The first communication... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7356023 | System and method for facilitating packetized calls between managed networks A system and method for facilitating packetized calls between managed networks are disclosed. In one embodiment of a system incorporating teachings of the present disclosure, a mediation server may be associated with and maintain an information store holding a first... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7353047 | Integrated mobile phone ring scheduler A mobile telephone comprises a ringer to provide an audible alert of an incoming telephone call. The mobile telephone has a ringer schedule interface to receive a ringer control schedule. The ringer control schedule indicates times at which a parameter of the ringer... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7346756 | System, computer readable medium and method for multi-tiered data access A system, computer readable medium, and method for multi-tiered data access. The method includes the steps of determining a first search parameter and a second search parameter in response to an operator initiated command, determining a physical location of a data u... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7346152 | Intelligently providing dialup access numbers using an automated voice response system A method for an automated voice response system to present access numbers to dial-up Internet users. The automated voice response system can perform the step of establishing a telephony communication with a party responsive to a received telephone call from the part... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7342920 | Voice over internet protocol (VoIP) telephone apparatus and communications systems for carrying VoIP traffic The present disclosure is generally directed to a voice over internet protocol (VoIP) telephone apparatus and a communication system for carrying VoIP traffic. In a particular embodiment, the VoIP telephone apparatus includes an encoder and decoder module responsive... | 03/11/2008 |
| D562806 | Remote control device | 02/26/2008 |
| 7336694 | Delay-induced scattering with phase randomization and partitioned frequency hopping A first copy and a second copy of a signal, which comprises a plurality of TDMA frames, are transmitted from the same antenna. Relative to the first copy, the second copy of the signal has a fixed delay and a random phase. The random phase changes from one of the TD... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7325988 | One-piece ergonomic keyboard and related methods A one-piece keyboard includes a compressible body having a plurality of depressible key areas, each associated with a first spring constant, and a wrist support area of the body associated with a second spring constant. By selecting appropriate spring constants, str... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7321656 | Shared usage telecommunications billing system and method In a particular embodiment, the disclosure is directed to a telecommunications billing system that includes an interface, a customer database, a usage database and a billing module. The interface is configured to receive subscription data associated with a subscript... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7313562 | Rhetorical content management system and methods The present disclosure is directed generally to a method of content management. The method includes receiving a user input entered in a plurality of grammatical structured text entry elements associated with a content subject, each of the plurality of grammatical st... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7313576 | System and method for flexible data transfer A method and system for flexibly transferring data from one or more data sources to one or more data destinations within an information network where each of the one or more data sources have data in a particular source format and each of the one or more data destin... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7310807 | System and method for local video distribution A system and method are disclosed for facilitating local video distribution. A method incorporating teachings of the present disclosure may include linking a plurality of users with associated carrier frequencies. The associated frequencies may be given approximatel... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7308288 | System and method for prioritized interface design A system and method for prioritized interface design are disclosed. In one embodiment of a system incorporating teachings of the present disclosure, a wireless-enabled device may include a display, a user input mechanism, and a housing component that at least partia... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7307574 | Remote control, apparatus, system and methods of using the same A system provides an audible signal to the user of the system before a control or function is activated by the user. In one embodiment, a remote control can be used with an apparatus, such as a set-top box. When the user places an object near a control of the remote... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7301936 | Ring overlay network dedicated to carry broadcast traffic to DSLAMs A broadcast overlay network has a ring topology to carry broadcast traffic from a head-end network. A digital subscriber line access multiplexer (DSLAM) has a network interface in communication with the broadcast overlay network. The DSLAM is to receive a request fo... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7302155 | Apparatuses having spool assembly for absorbing jumper slack A spool assembly includes a spool supported on a mount. The mount has an adhesive covered by a cover capable of being peeled off from the adhesive. The adhesive is attached to a structure such as a trough or a panel in order to attach the spool to the structure such... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7299478 | Integration service and domain object for telecommunications operational support In a particular embodiment, the disclosure is directed to an integration service. The integration service includes an interface layer, a logic layer, an object layer, and a resource layer. The interface layer includes a plurality of communications adapters. The logi... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7296027 | Rhetorical content management with tone and audience profiles A content management system including an audience profile is disclosed. The content management system includes a database having a plurality of records. At least one record of the plurality of records includes a plurality of fields storing a plurality of grammatical... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7293291 | System and method for detecting computer port inactivity A system and method for detecting an idle or inactive data port connection on a personal computer (PC) and blocking external access, e.g., Wide Area Network (WAN) access to an end-user PC is presented. The system provides for added security for unattended PCs having... | 11/06/2007 |
