Bizarre Patents
A gun that fires a missile, powered by gas "discharged by the operator of the toy."
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 |
| 8161075 | Systems and methods for managing integrated and customizable data In one of many possible embodiments, an exemplary system includes a data integration subsystem including at least one base hierarchical data structure representative of a first set of one or more data relationships. The system further includes a customization subsys... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8130919 | Message delivery using a voice mail system Voicemail systems and methods can provide a user with means for receiving categorized messages from parties. The categories can be independent of the intended recipients of the messages, such that multiple users can receive the same message. A user can subscribe to ... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8102877 | Systems and methods for policy-based intelligent provisioning of optical transport bandwidth Policy-based, on-demand provisioning of optical transport bandwidth is disclosed. In one of many possible embodiments, a system is provided for policy-based, on-demand provisioning of optical transport bandwidth. The system includes a layer-specific operation suppor... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8087083 | Systems and methods for detecting a network sniffer A device (110) records traffic in a communications network. The device (110) monitors traffic received by the device (110) and determines whether the received traffic is unexpected. The device (110) records the traffic when the traffic is... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8065339 | Hierarchy modification A hierarchy of nodes is created, each node being one of associated with an item retrieved according to a condition and associated with a category of information including the item. It is determined whether at least one of the nodes is redundant in the hierarchy. The... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8055553 | Dynamic comparison text functionality A system is provided comprising a plurality of listings, a plurality of labels associated with at least some of the listings. Additionally, a plurality of form inputs are provided, each associated with one of the labels, wherein selection of a form input causes a tr... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8005463 | Presence lite A service is provided to cell phone subscribers to improve reachability. A home location register node maintains state information on a subscriber's cell phone status. Cell phone status information includes: off; on, registered and available to receive calls; on, re... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7986693 | Data link layer switch with multicast capability A data link layer switch includes a switching mechanism coupled to a plurality of port interface controllers. Each of the port interface controllers comprises a multicast address table, a multicast matcher, and a timer. The multicast address table stores multicast a... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7983188 | Monitoring portal systems and methods In one of many possible embodiments, a system includes a monitoring portal configured to receive state information descriptive of usage of a plurality of communication services provided on a plurality of communication networks of different types and to make the stat... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7979562 | Service level agreements and management thereof Method and apparatus for service level agreement formation and management is described. More particularly, a service level agreement (SLA) manager is described. This SLA manager comprises an admission controller, a specification module and a performance measurement ... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7978665 | Systems and methods for providing connection status and location information in a wireless networking environment A system may provide a client device with a persistent wireless network browser toolbar for use in, for example, a network browser. The persistent wireless network browser toolbar is provided with a login status indicator, a logout option, and a wireless network sig... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7971121 | Systems and methods for providing distributed packet loss concealment in packet switching communications networks A communications system (100) includes a packet switching network (130) configured to transfer a stream of information packets from a source (110) to a destination (120). The communications system (100) also includes at least one l... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7917447 | Method and system for providing a community of interest service Methods and systems are provided for facilitating communications among persons sharing a common interest. Customers of a telecommunications provider are notified about the service via a notification included in a billing statement. A customer uses the information to... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7913184 | Intelligent auto-tabbing systems and methods The invention relates to systems and methods for selectively auto-tabbing between input fields of an interface based on received input. More specifically, the intelligent auto-tabbing systems and methods accommodate different user preferences related to providing in... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7899910 | Method and apparatus for integrated communication services provisioning for health care community A method and system of accessing an information system using a portable access device is provided. The method includes identifying a communication profile associated with a first network server, attempting, by the portable access device, to establish a communication... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7849447 | Application testing and evaluation A system includes a first application that is the subject of a test. A log of information relates to use of the first application. At least one data file relates to the first application. A second application conducts the test based at least in part on the log and t... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7861088 | Method and system for verifiably recording voice communications A system and method can verifiably record a voice communication between participants of the voice communication by connecting a first participant to a verifying service provider, connecting between the verifying service and at least one additional participant, recor... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7853490 | Dynamic comparison text functionality A system is provided comprising a plurality of listings, a plurality of labels associated with at least some of the listings. Additionally, a plurality of form inputs are provided, each associated with one of the labels, wherein selection of a form input causes a tr... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7844432 | Node emulator Systems, methods, and apparatus are provided for emulating the performance effect on network traffic flow traversing a node in a communications network. According to one illustrative embodiment, a method of emulating traffic through a node is provided. The method in... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7822612 | Methods of processing a voice command from a caller Schemes for processing a voice command from a caller are disclosed herein. The schemes may allow a caller to manipulate data using a voice command and designate a device to which to provide the manipulated data. The schemes may be accessed over telecommunication net... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7822186 | Methods and systems for time-based delivery of calls Methods and systems are provided for managing the scheduling of calls and automating the process of making and delivering such calls. Any endpoint (e.g., telephony-enabled) device can be used with a PSTN, cellular, and VoIP network. Different types of devices and in... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7813354 | Systems and methods for wireless access point detection Systems and methods are provided for detecting a wireless access device on a network. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving from the network a packet with an address; comparing the address with one or more registered addresses; determining the operating s... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7805287 | Node emulator System, methods and apparatii are provided for emulating the performance effect on network traffic flow traversing a node in a communications network. According to one illustrative embodiment, a method of emulating the performance effect on network traffic through a... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7801280 | Methods and systems for measuring the perceptual quality of communications Described are methods, systems, and devices that include obtaining a first measured perceptual quality by measuring, at a first location associated with a communications network, a perceptual quality of a first communication transmitted from the first location to a ... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7779342 | Hypervideo: information retrieval at user request Disclosed is a method and device for selecting documents, such as Web pages or sites, for presentation to a user, in response to a user expression of interest, during the course of presentation to the user of a document, such as a video or audio selection, whose con... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7768919 | Selective packet discard apparatus and method A selective packet discard mechanism is disclosed for selectively discarding packets at buffers in packet switches in the event of traffic congestion. The mechanism makes use of ordering information contained in data packets, such as forward sequence numbers or time... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7765462 | Facilitation of hypervideo by automatic IR techniques utilizing text extracted from multimedia document in response to user requests Disclosed is a method and device for selecting documents, such as Web pages or sites, for presentation to a user, in response to a user expression of interest, during the course of presentation to the user of a document, such as a video or audio selection, whose con... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7760660 | Systems and methods for automatic evaluation of subjective quality of packetized telecommunication signals while varying implementation parameters A system and method automates the process of objectively measuring the subjective quality of packetized telecommunication signals as a function of network quality-of-service (QoS) parameters, implementation choices, and other related parameters. Computer-based simul... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7729947 | Computer implemented methods and system for providing a plurality of options with respect to a stopping point A route may be created and provided to a client. A stopping point along the route is received, and a search is performed for at least one point of interest according to the stopping point. Further, a route is created and provided to a client, and at least one stoppi... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7729931 | Systems and methods for comparing and improving sales performance over heterogeneous geographical sales regions A method of improving sales performance over multiple geographical sales regions includes determining (305) characteristics of each of the geographical sales regions and determining sales parameters, over which control can be exercised, for each of the sales ... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7725424 | Use of generalized term frequency scores in information retrieval systems Disclosed are methods and systems for selecting electronic documents, such as Web pages or sites, from among documents in a collection, based upon the occurrence of selected terms in segments of the documents. The method may be applied where index terms have previou... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7710878 | Method and system for allocating traffic demands in a ring network A method of allocating a plurality of traffic demands on a network having a plurality of stations connected by a bi-directional ring is disclosed. The method comprises selecting a first traffic demand from the plurality of traffic demands. The method then acquires a... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7698218 | Method and system for flexible group ordering and billing A method for flexible billing provides for a service provider to apportion billing for one or more services among a number of parties. The services may be shared among the parties and the bill may be apportioned in accordance with an apportioning scheme, or billing ... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7672672 | Methods and techniques for penalty-based channel assignments in a cellular network A cellular network configuration tool is described that performs frequency assignments for use in a cellular network. The channels are assigned in accordance with input configuration data such as a channel separation matrix, geographic data, and requested channel as... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7668708 | Method and apparatus for network planning A system and method for wireless network planning utilizing raster data, stored and manipulated in raster data planes (204-212) and vector data (522) stored and manipulated in vector data planes (528-532). The invention increases t... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7664861 | Managed peer-to-peer file sharing A system and method for managed peer-to-peer (p2p) file sharing. The peer nodes can include a web browser and a p2p agent. The web browser can connect to the Internet and can interface with the p2p agent. The p2p agent provides the file sharing utilities for impleme... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7664083 | Monitoring portal systems and methods In one of many possible embodiments, a system includes a monitoring portal configured to receive state information descriptive of usage of a plurality of communication services provided on a plurality of communication networks of different types and to make the stat... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7657547 | Hierarchy modification A hierarchy of nodes is created, each node being one of associated with an item retrieved according to a condition and associated with a category of information including the item. It is determined whether at least one of the nodes is redundant in the hierarchy. The... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7656880 | Prioritized segmentation and reassembly methods and systems The disclosed technology provides systems and methods for accommodating a diversity of services (e.g., telephone, video broadcasting, email, etc.) using a fixed connection of a certain service type. A method and system of communicating data using a fixed connection,... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7613299 | Cryptographic techniques for a communications network Techniques are described for enabling authentication and/or key agreement between communications network stations and service networks. The techniques described include the negotiation and use of a cryptographic primitive shared between a service network and a home ... | 11/03/2009 |
