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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20110047162 | HANDHELD DEVICE AND KIOSK SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATED COMPILING AND GENERATING ITEM LIST INFORMATION A portable handheld electronic device is in communication with a stationary kiosk device. The portable device provides automated compiling and categorizing of items and generating of categorized item lists in accordance with user-defined preferences including user-defin... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110039584 | MESSAGING SERVICE IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK This invention concerns a messaging service in a wireless communications network. In a first aspect, the invention is a method for providing a messaging service on a wireless device in a wireless communications network; the method comprising the steps of: Retrieving the... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110031896 | LIGHTING DEVICE FOR LIGHTING THE AIRFIELD OF AN AIRPORT The invention relates to a lighting device (1) for lighting the airfield of an airport, comprising a plurality of lighting units (2) for emitting light signals for an approaching, departing, or rolling aircraft, a power supply system which is used for supp... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20110029615 | CONTROLLING THE DISTRIBUTION OF MESSAGES In an example embodiment, described herein is an apparatus that comprises a user interface, a communication interface, and logic coupled to the user interface and communication interface. The logic is configured to receiving a request via the user interface to forward a... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20110026698 | RICH CALLER ID WITH COMMUNICATION HISTORY In an example embodiment, there is described a unified communication system that automatically presents a number of communication attempts from a caller since last contact with a caller, along with the caller identification information. Optionally, links may be provided... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20110026500 | LOW LATENCY MESH NETWORK In an example embodiment, there is disclosed herein an apparatus comprising a wireless transceiver and packet processing logic coupled to the wireless transceiver. The packet processing logic is responsive to receiving a packet from a first node on a first path addresse... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20110026441 | DYNAMICALLY DEDICATED WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORK SERVICE FOR HIGH DEFINITION VIDEO TELECONFERENCING In an example embodiment described herein is an apparatus comprising a wireless transceiver and channel selection logic coupled to the wireless transceiver and operable to select an operating frequency for the wireless transceiver. The channel selection logic is configu... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20110022676 | MOBILITY SERVICE CLUSTERING USING NETWORK SERVICE SEGMENTS Described in an example embodiment herein is a Mobility Service Engine (MSE) cluster comprising an MSE Cluster Master and at least one MSE Cluster Slave. The MSE Master is configured to define Network Service Segments. The MSE Master of the cluster distributes the Netwo... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20110022652 | DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSOR CLUSTERING IN INTEGRATED MEDIA-SERVICES GATEWAYS A Digital Signal Processor (DSP) cloud architecture for clustering DSP resources across multiple integrated media-services gateways. The control plane components use peer-to-peer overlay connections for DSP resource management. The data plane components use a Virtual Lo... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20110022592 | HANDHELD SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATED COMPILING AND GENERATING ITEM LIST INFORMATION A portable handheld electronic device provides automated compiling and categorizing of items and generating of categorized item lists in accordance with user-defined preferences including user-defined categories. The device includes a voice recognition processor for rec... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20110022569 | CENTRAL DATABASE SERVER APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MAINTAINING DATABASES ON APPLICATION SERVERS A central database server (10) supports a central database (12) that contains central database content. A first archiving module (30) archives central database content into a content archive (32). A second archiving module (44) archive... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20110022388 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SPEECH RECOGNITION USING SOCIAL NETWORKS In an example embodiment, there is disclosed an apparatus comprising an audio interface configured to receive an audio signal, a data interface is configured to communicate with at least one social graph, and logic is coupled to the audio interface and the data interfac... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20110019721 | ADAPTION OF MEDIUM ACCESS AND TRANSMISSION PARAMETERS FOR WIRELESS NETWORKS In accordance with an example embodiment, there is disclosed herein an apparatus where transmitter operating parameters are adjusted based on channel condition data obtained from a transmitter and/or from a receiver communicating with the transmitter. For example, the t... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20110018811 | GRADUAL PROXIMITY TOUCH SCREEN In an example embodiment, there is disclosed herein an apparatus comprising a touch screen display, a sensing mechanism operable to sense an object in proximity of the touch screen display, and control logic coupled to the sensing mechanism and the touch screen display.... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20100303973 | DEVICE TO EFFICIENTLY COOK FOOD Deep fryers and associated accessories providing increased efficiency and convenience in the production of deep-fried, steamed and boiled foods. Multiple cooking cycles and versatile food support means to fully cook foods are provided. Special advantages for larger unit... | 12/02/2010 |
| 20100285760 | Reducing Power Consumption on Multi-Transmitter Devices In an example embodiment, there is disclosed an apparatus comprising a first transmitter, a second transmitter, and logic coupled to the first transmitter and the second transmitter. The logic is operable to limit a time period the second transmitter is able to transmit... | 11/11/2010 |
| 20100278395 | Automatic backlit face detection The subject application is directed to a system and method for detecting facial areas from an image having a relatively light background. Image data is received including at least one candidate facial region. A candidate facial region is isolated from the image data as ... | 11/04/2010 |
| 20100277751 | System and method for color printer calibration employing measurement success feedback The subject application is directed to a system and method for color printer calibration employing measurement success feedback. Color input data is received corresponding to a color printout from an associated color measurement device, the color input data including MÃ... | 11/04/2010 |
| 20100275538 | SPACER ARRANGEMENT WITH FUSABLE CONNECTOR FOR INSULATING GLASS UNITS A spacer frame arrangement for insulating glass units, comprising a spacer profile body extending in a first direction and having a predetermined cross section in a plane perpendicular to the first direction, the predetermined cross section defining a hollow inner space... | 11/04/2010 |
| 20100271964 | FLOW REDIRECTION EMPLOYING STATE INFORMATION In an example embodiment, there is disclosed an apparatus comprising a first interface configured to receive a packet from a client, a second interface configured to transmit the packet to a server, a third interface configured to communicate with at least one processin... | 10/28/2010 |
| 20100269712 | DEVICE TO EFFICIENTLY COOK FOOD Deep fryers and associated accessories providing increased efficiency and convenience in the production of deep-fried, steamed and boiled foods. Multiple cooking cycles and versatile food support means to fully cook foods are provided. Special advantages for larger unit... | 10/28/2010 |
| 20100265907 | METHOD FOR A SIMPLE 802.11e HCF Implementation A Hybrid Coordination Function (HCF) implementation wherein an access point's existing (E)DCF transmit queues are augmented by at least one strict priority HCF transmit queue. The HCF queues are only used to schedule downlink data and CF-Poll transmissions are used for ... | 10/21/2010 |
| 20100259781 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REMOTE RENDERING OF ELECTRONIC DOCUMENTS ON THE GO The subject application is directed to a system and method for remote rendering of electronic documents. Electronic documents are stored in a data storage of a networked workstation, and a mobile document rendering selection is received. Electronic document output data ... | 10/14/2010 |
| 20100257445 | BUILDING DYNAMIC USER INTERFACES BASED ON INTERATIVE QUERY OF DEVICE AND WORKFLOW CAPABILITIES The subject application is directed to a document processing device user interface system and method having functional controls specified by device attribute querying. A plurality of components associated with a document processing device is queried, and device informat... | 10/07/2010 |
| 20100254597 | System and method for facial tone indexing The subject application is directed to a system and method for facial tone indexing. Image data comprised of a plurality of pixels encoded in at least a three dimensional component space is received and at least one candidate facial region is isolated in the received im... | 10/07/2010 |
| 20100246829 | KEY GENERATION FOR NETWORKS Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with key generation for networks are described. One example method includes configuring a key server with a pseudo-random function (PRF). The key server may provide keying material to gateways. The method may also inclu... | 09/30/2010 |
| 20100238917 | CLOCK SYNCHRONIZATION In an example embodiment, a method for synchronizing clocks between a plurality of clocked devices where one of the plurality of clocked devices is not directly synchronized with another of the plurality of clocked devices. Clock offset and a clock drift between a first... | 09/23/2010 |
| 20100235593 | FLOW RESILIENCY In an example embodiment, packets for a selected flow are replicated and sent over one or more diverse paths, such as a primary path and at least one secondary path, to a destination switching device. At the destination switching device, one copy of the replicated packe... | 09/16/2010 |
| 20100225472 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING TRACKING SERVICES TO LOCATE AN ASSET The present invention is directed to a method of asset location. Location data is received from a cellular transmitter associated with a selected asset, which location data includes data representative of a cellular receiver with which direct communication with the cell... | 09/09/2010 |
| 20100223458 | PAIR-WISE KEYING FOR TUNNELED VIRTUAL PRIVATE NETWORKS In an embodiment, a method for generating and distributing keys retains the scalability of a group VPN, but also provides true pair-wise keying such that an attacker who compromises one of the devices in a VPN cannot use the keys gained by that compromise to decrypt the... | 09/02/2010 |
| 20100220856 | PRIVATE PAIRWISE KEY MANAGEMENT FOR GROUPS In an example embodiment, a key generation system (KGS) is used to generate private pairwise keys between peers belonging to a group. Each member of the group is provisioned with a set of parameters which allows each member to generate a key with any other member of the... | 09/02/2010 |
| 20100220360 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PRINTING BOOKS BY BOOK IDENTIFICATION A system and method for efficiently copying books. According to the system and method, a user inputs a book identification into a peripheral device to cause the peripheral device to access an electronic version of the book. Upon so accessing, the peripheral is adapted t... | 09/02/2010 |
| 20100217647 | DETERMINING SHARE OF VOICE An example embodiment disclosed herein is directed to an apparatus, comprising a communication interface configured to communicate over an associated network, and share of voice analysis logic operable to send and receive data via the communication interface. The share ... | 08/26/2010 |
| 20100208724 | Power Savings For Network Telephones In an example embodiment, an IP phone is connected to a network switch that has an established communications channel to a call control server. The network switch acts as a proxy for the phone exchanging registration information that in effect keeps the phone registered... | 08/19/2010 |
| 20100205471 | NETWORK BASED SYSTEM TO CONTROL AND MONITOR POWER CONSUMPTION OF NETWORKED ELEMENTS In an example embodiment, a technique for network based power management for power consuming devices associated with a network. A power control strategy is communicated to network elements coupled to the network. The power control strategy is enforced by the network ele... | 08/12/2010 |
| 20100204027 | THERAPEUTIC EXERCISE APPARATUSES Described herein are exercise apparatuses suitably adapted for use by crippled persons for exercising their hips and legs. In one embodiment, an apparatus with a supporting structure and a seat mounted on the supporting structure. A cushion comprising a pad for splaying... | 08/12/2010 |
| 20100202472 | MULTI-RATE MULTI-RECEIVER MULTI-RESPONSE AGGREGATION A method for sending a multi-rate multi-receiver message containing a multi-receiver multi-response aggregate. The multi-rate multi-receiver aggregate is transmitted until a multi-receiver multi-response aggregate embedded within the multi-rate multi-receiver aggregate ... | 08/12/2010 |
| 20100201998 | System and method for display matched color printer calibration The subject application is directed to a system and method for display matched color printer calibration. Color input data is received corresponding to a color printout from an associated color management device, the color input data including M×N discrete color areas ... | 08/12/2010 |
| 20100195911 | System and method for image facial area detection employing skin tones The subject application is directed to a system and method for image facial detection employing skin tones. Image data comprised of a plurality of pixels encoded in at least a three dimensional component space is received and sub-sampled region data is generated from th... | 08/05/2010 |
| 20100192080 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING A USER CUSTOMIZABLE DEFAULT USER INTERFACE FOR A DOCUMENT PROCESSING DEVICE The subject application is directed to a system and method for generating a user customizable default user interface for a document processing device. First, screen data representing each of a plurality of different user interfaces is stored. Each user interface include... | 07/29/2010 |
