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Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) received Patent No. 121,992 for "An Improvement in Adjustable and Detachable Straps for Garments." He later received two more patents: one for a self-pasting scrapbook and one for a game to help players remember important historical dates.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7454140 | Fiber to the home broadband home unit An apparatus and system are provided for delivering communication services such as video, data and telephony services to individual residential units. According to one embodiment, an optical network terminal (ONT) for providing communication services to a sin... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7412305 | Power supply detection device and method A power supply detection circuit monitors an input voltage and generates a magnitude signal representative of a supply voltage magnitude. Timing signals are generated relative to a transient condition associated with connection to an input voltage. A data store rece... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7368835 | Power distribution system and method A backplane in a power distribution shelf has power outputs connected to corresponding primary card slots and adjacent card slots. Power distribution cards are seated in the card slots. A maintenance card can be configured to selectively provide redundant power to t... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7356042 | Distributed ethernet hub A technique for multiplexing high speed computed data with digitized voice signals onto a fiber optic cable for transfer to a local central office. The data packets of a number of computers are networked by way of a distributed hub that extends to residences, office... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7286769 | Bidirectional frequency shift coding using two different codes for upstream and downstream A method of transmitting bidirectional telephony communication signals on a single optical fiber. The bidirectional signals are transmitted in one direction as NRZ coded signals at a first clocking pulse rate, and in the other direction as Manchester coded signals a... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7277637 | Fiber to the home broadband home unit An apparatus and system are provided for delivering communication services such as video, data and telephony services to individual residential units. According to one embodiment, an optical network terminal (ONT) for providing communication services to a sin... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7254330 | Single fiber passive optical network wavelength division multiplex overlay A single fiber passive optical network (PON) wavelength division multiplex (WDM) overlay includes a central office, a fiber optic network, and a plurality of optical network termination (ONT) units. The central office has a baseline optical link that receives a base... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7197205 | Deep fiber network with high speed data and video on demand A communication system for providing high speed data services to a subscriber using optical fibers comprises a first optical interface unit (OIU) and a second OIU. The first OIU transmits optical representations of signals from an electrical communication path to th... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7103907 | RF return optical transmission A method of transmitting TV signals and bidirectional telephone communication signals on a single optical fiber, existing telephone twisted pair infrastructure, and existing coaxial cable infrastructure. In addition to allowing the downstream transmission of televis... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7096147 | Apparatus and method for correlating the air flow velocity in an environmental chamber to a rack assembly A system and method are disclosed for measuring the airflow velocity within a chamber in order to qualify electronic equipment based on airflow velocity in combination with temperature rating. Furthermore, a system and method are disclosed for measuring and monitori... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7085261 | Digital packet network for the local access loop A digital packet access network for transporting voice and data signals in the local loop between a central office location and a plurality of remote local users. The network architecture may also include: (1) a dual-pipelined structure for separately transporting t... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7058966 | Optical communication system for transmitting RF signals downstream and bidirectional telephony signals which also include RF control signals upstream A method of transmitting TV signals and bidirectional telephone communication signals on a single optical fiber, existing telephone twisted pair infrastructure, and existing coaxial cable infrastructure. In addition to allowing the downstream transmission of televis... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7035504 | Deep fiber network with high speed data and video on demand Optical interface units are provided for transmitting data and video signals in a deep fiber network. The optical interface units may include a first type which is situated in a central location, such as at a host digital terminal in a central office location, and a... | 04/25/2006 |
| 6977966 | Bidirectional optical communications having quick data recovery without first establishing timing and phase lock A method of transmitting and rapidly recovering a burst of data without first having to establish a timing or phase lock. The signals are transmitted as modified Manchester coded signals having pulse transitions at a clocking pulse rate which is a multiple of the cl... | 12/20/2005 |
