Did You Know...
...that the video game, Pong, was invented by a guy who graduated at the bottom of his engineering class? Nolan Bushnell spent more time running the games at a local amusement park than he did on his studies at the University of Utah. His dreams of working for Disney's amusement empire were dashed when the company wouldn't hire him. Taking a boring job, Nolan daydreamed about electronic versions of popular games. He invented Pong, the first video game, and went on to found Atari Co.
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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20110044326 | IDENTIFY A SECURE END-TO-END VOICE CALL We describe a system embodiment comprising generating a Secure Real-Time Transport Protocol (SRTP) encapsulated packet and including a secure media indicator into the SRTP encapsulated packet. The method further comprises inserting the SRTP encapsulated packet into an S... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110044310 | SYSTEM FOR ON-DEMAND ACCESS TO LOCAL AREA NETWORKS A roaming company makes payments to an aggregator of independent WLAN operators in exchange for providing Internet access services to subscribers of the roaming company. Independent WLAN operator accounts are maintained at the aggregation company.... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110032940 | TRIGGERING BANDWIDTH RESERVATION AND PRIORITY REMARKING In one embodiment, a reservation proxy monitors for received connectivity check messages or beginning-of-media-flow indication messages. When either type of message is observed, the reservation proxy requests resource allocation for a media flow associated with the rece... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20110029832 | EFFICIENT ERROR CORRECTION SCHEME FOR DATA TRANSMISSION IN A WIRELESS IN-BAND SIGNALING SYSTEM In one example, a mobile device segments a payload for transmission to a remote server and provides redundant data for each payload segment. The remote server examines the received payload on a per segment basis using the redundant data to identify segments associated w... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20110029665 | DYNAMICALLY CONFIGURABLE SESSION AGENT A monitoring system captures the behavior of distributed applications and also provides a framework for augmenting functionality of the application in response to user interactions and different states of the application and network. Network events exchanged between an ... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20110026632 | MULTIPLE INPUT, MULTIPLE OUTPUT COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS Embodiments of the present invention include systems and methods for optimizing the transmitter and receiver weights of a MIMO system. In one embodiment, the weights are optimized to create and steer beam nulls, such that each transmitted signal is substantially decoupl... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20110026584 | STATISTICAL REMULTIPLEXING OF COMPRESSED VIDEO SEGMENTS Compressed digital video bitstreams are segmented into video segments. A staging processor performs transrating on the original video segments and generates several transrated output video segments. The output video segments are combined into a video block for further d... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20110021134 | MULTI-FUNCTION VENTILATION AND ELECTRICAL SYSTEM A system includes a turbine positioned above an opening on a building structure, wherein the turbine is configured to create a low pressure area in the building structure as a result of a rotation of the turbine. The system further comprises an electrical generator conf... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20110021133 | PASSIVE HEATING, COOLING, AND VENTILATION SYSTEM A ventilation system includes a turbine positioned on a building structure, wherein the turbine is configured to create a low pressure area in the building structure. A first air flow path is positioned between the turbine and an interior of the building structure, and ... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20110019542 | QOE BASED ADMISSION CONTROL In one example, a Cable Modem Termination System (CMTS) analyzes received service flow traffic to estimate Quality of Experience (QoE) at the endpoints. An admission control system on the CMTS uses the QoE estimate to determine whether to admit new service flows.... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20110019196 | APPARATUS FOR TESTING COMPONENT CONCENTRATION OF A TEST SAMPLE An apparatus with a combination of a point light source and a single lens is provided. The present apparatus includes a point light source, a photodetector and a lens. The lens is placed in the same side of the point light source and the photodetector in order that the ... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20110017679 | HOME-SCALE WATER AND SANITATION SYSTEM A water processing system includes a water collector to deliver unpurified water to a first container, and a water purifier to purify the water in a second container. A thermal scavenging device extracts heat from a thermal source to heat the purified water, wherein the... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20110017200 | INTEGRATED OFF-GRID THERMAL APPLIANCE A thermal device includes a solar collector configured to concentrate solar energy in a heated zone, and a combustion area configured to provide thermal energy to the heated zone simultaneously with the concentrated solar energy from the solar collector. The heated zone... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20110010657 | INTERACTIVE TEXT COMMUNICATION SYSTEM A communication system quarantines text and then automatically transmits the text across a network at the end of a quarantine time period. This text quarantine period gives a user the chance to edit or delete text for a brief amount of time after the text has been enter... | 01/13/2011 |
| 20110004441 | FLATBED WEIGH SYSTEM WITH VACUUM CAPSTAN ROLLER A flatbed weigh system and methods for weighing substantially flat articles such as mail flats while they are moving. A weigh system has an intake plate (2102) and an accelerator assembly (2100) that receives an article (2150) and accelerates it to ... | 01/06/2011 |
| 20110002236 | OPTIMIZATION OF STREAMING DATA THROUGHPUT IN UNRELIABLE NETWORKS Multiple TRFC connections transport streaming data through a wireless channel, and the difference between measured round trip times of packets and minimum round trip time is used to adjust the number of TFRC connections to fully utilize bandwidth through the wireless ch... | 01/06/2011 |
| 20100332357 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DYNAMIC CONFIGURATION OF MULTIPROCESSOR SYSTEM A multiprocessor system used in a car, home, or office environment includes multiple processors that run different real-time applications. A dynamic configuration system runs on the multiple processors and includes a device manager, configuration manager, and data manag... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100330875 | SIGNALING AND REMOTE CONTROL TRAIN OPERATION A model train and layout control system based on on-board sound and locomotive modules, new signaling methods, bi-directional communication, environmental sound, turnout control, train location methods, computer interaction and accessory control, by adding components to... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100328312 | PERSONAL MUSIC RECOMMENDATION MAPPING Scale free network datasets, such as music tracks, playlists and other media item recommendations are analyzed and presented in a graphic map display (FIG. 1) for visualization, preferably in an interactive environment (FIG. 2). A plotting and visualizatio... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100325311 | IP SERVICE NODE FOR DIRECT P2P MEDIA FLOWS WITH NAT TRAVERSAL Method and apparatus for establishing direct IP bi-directional or unidirectional connectivity between communication devices (6,24), accommodating the circumstance of either or both communication devices residing behind a Network Address Translator (NAT). When a c... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100324724 | RETURN ADDRESS DESTINATION DISCRIMINATION TECHNOLOGY Methods, software and apparatus (FIG. 5) disclosed to maintain and update an association database (650) that enables relating updated address information to affected mailpieces (FIG. 7), and providing the benefits of that information to mailers, esp... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100318476 | RULE PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS PROVIDING AUTOMATIC USER INPUT SELECTION An improvement in decision automation employing a ZDD rule model indicative of a business or engineering rule to provide decision support to a user. The computer-implemented improvement automatically identifies compliant inputs for the rule processing system according t... | 12/16/2010 |
| 20100316104 | WIDEBAND CABLE SYSTEM A wideband cable modem system increases available bandwidth of a single channel by encoding a data stream into wideband packets. The wideband packets are associated with a logical wideband channel that extends over multiple physical downstream cable channels.... | 12/16/2010 |
| 20100313167 | SYSTEM FOR BROWSING THROUGH A MUSIC CATALOG USING CORRELATION METRICS OF A KNOWLEDGE BASE OF MEDIASETS A system and method to navigate through a media item catalog using correlation metrics (FIGS. 1,2) from a knowledge base (400) of mediasets (FIG. 4, 1-7). The system uses a knowledge base consisting of a collection of mediasets. Various metri... | 12/09/2010 |
| 20100312433 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RESTRICTING ACCESS TO VEHICLE SOFTWARE SYSTEMS A multiprocessor system used in a car, home, or office environment includes multiple processors that run different real-time applications. A dynamic configuration system runs on the multiple processors and includes a device manager, configuration manager, and data manag... | 12/09/2010 |
| 20100310055 | CALL SECURITY SYSTEM A method and apparatus for reducing the vulnerability of the telecommunications system to unauthorized use that is easy to implement and that can reduce the instances of unauthorized access even during periods when telecommunications personnel are not able to give atten... | 12/09/2010 |
| 20100309813 | DETECTION AND SUPPORT OF A DUAL-STACK CAPABLE HOST A network processing device is configured to receive a configuration message from a host device and forward the configuration message to a server. The configuration message can be configured to request the server assign an Internet Protocol (IP) address to the host devi... | 12/09/2010 |
| 20100306035 | DIGITAL MEDIA INVENTORY CONTROL, DISTRIBUTION AND DESTRUCTION SYSTEM The system (10) includes a digital media creator-destroyer apparatus (12) for receiving and storing digital media from a remote digital media source (20), for generating multiple transferable copies of the digital media, and for destroying unused co... | 12/02/2010 |
| 20100299429 | CONTROLLING ACCESS TO MANAGED OBJECTS IN NETWORKED DEVICES Controlling access to managed objects associated with a networked device. A method comprises receiving a request from a principal for access to a managed object associated with the networked device. The managed objects are accessible based on membership in access groups... | 11/25/2010 |
| 20100294572 | DYNAMIC THICKNESS ADAPTATION FOR AN IN-LINE SCALE Methods and apparatus for weighing an article, such as a mail piece, while the article is moving at high speed. An article (900) is received from an intake transport (1200), and gripped in a weighing station (1310), in between a capstan roller and a... | 11/25/2010 |
| 20100288680 | HEATING SYSTEM FOR MATERIAL PROCESSING SCREEN A separation screen has multiple discs configured to receive a material stream at an in-feed end and move a first group of materials from the material stream up an inclined angle and over a top out-feed end of the separation screen while a second group of materials from... | 11/18/2010 |
| 20100282647 | ELECTROSTATIC MATERIAL SEPARATOR A separation system includes an air separator that, in one embodiment, primarily receives Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) containing a mixture of relatively light MSW recyclable materials such as plastic, paper, cardboard, plastic containers, and/or metal containers and rel... | 11/11/2010 |
| 20100282521 | ACTIVE ELECTRONIC DAMPING FOR AN IN-LINE SCALE Methods and apparatus for weighing an article, such as a mail piece, while the article is moving at high speed, for example along a transport of a sorter machine. An article (900) is received from an intake transport (1200), and gripped in a weighing stati... | 11/11/2010 |
| 20100273470 | AUTOMATIC GAIN CONTROL IN A PERSONAL NAVIGATION DEVICE In one example, a Bluetooth enabled navigation device pairs with a mobile phone and then sends a plurality of tuning transmissions, each at a different transmission power gain amount, to a remote server using the mobile phone. These tuning transmissions are encoded usin... | 10/28/2010 |
| 20100273422 | USING A BLUETOOTH CAPABLE MOBILE PHONE TO ACCESS A REMOTE NETWORK In one example, a Bluetooth enabled mobile device discovers the Bluetooth profile capability of a plurality of mobile phones and stores the profile information in a database. Thereafter, when access to a remote network such as an Internet Protocol (IP) network is necess... | 10/28/2010 |
| 20100271678 | COMPUTER GENERATED HOLOGRAM A three dimensional display apparatus includes a diffraction panel for displaying a computer generated hologram and a look-up table. The look-up table includes a plurality of phase entries corresponding to a plurality of image points within a three dimensional image rep... | 10/28/2010 |
| 20100271677 | IMAGE TRANSFER APPARATUS An apparatus includes a light source configured to provide a path of light and a spatial light modulator located in the path of light and configured to modulate the light source. Relay optics are configured to receive the modulated light from the spatial light modulator... | 10/28/2010 |
| 20100268680 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PRIORITIZING MOBILE MEDIA PLAYER FILES Disclosed are embodiments of systems and methods for prioritizing mobile media player files by providing for the automated addition and/or deletion of media items for a mobile media player. In some embodiments, a statistical method may be provided for inferring which me... | 10/21/2010 |
| 20100262469 | DIGITAL WINDSHIELD INFORMATION SYSTEM EMPLOYING A RECOMMENDATION ENGINE KEYED TO A MAP DATABASE SYSTEM Disclosed is a method and system for recommending locations keyed to a map database system and providing navigation instructions to the recommended locations to a driver of a vehicle by gathering actual statistics about the preferences of the user and/or by comparing th... | 10/14/2010 |
| 20100261455 | USER-INITIATED COMMUNICATIONS DURING MULTIMEDIA CONTENT PLAYBACK ON A MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE A multimedia display process executing in a mobile device traps user input signals to allow switching from display of multimedia to another task without requiring manual termination of the multimedia display process by the user.... | 10/14/2010 |
