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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8185343 | Base station and method for detecting emplacement of improvised explosive devices An explosive device detection system includes sensors and base station that detect and report on suspected improvised explosive device (IED) emplacement activity within the area. When disposed within a geographic area, each sensor forms part of a wireless communicat... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184748 | Narrow band receiver An RF receiver comprises a signal processor arranged to perform a method of decoding data contained within a signal that comprises a set of slots, at least one said slot comprising a preamble portion and a payload portion and being transmitted at a predetermined tra... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8178015 | Process and device for melt-spinning and cooling synthetic filaments A process and a device involves melt-spinning and cooling synthetic filaments. Therein, a plurality of filaments is extruded from a polymer melt and, after the extrusion, is guided into a cooling shaft for cooling. Within the cooling shaft cool air is blown, via a b... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8177539 | Device for melt spinning multicomponent fibers A device for melt spinning multi-component fibers including at least two melt inlets for introducing separately guided melt components is presented. The device includes a feed plate having a plurality of feed channels for distributing the melt components, a distribu... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8171315 | Method and apparatus for changing power class for a powered device A method and apparatus for changing power class for a powered device are provided. During operation, a powered device, such as an IP telephone, receives power from a power source via a PoE device. In the event that the powered device detects connection to a second p... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8171098 | Techniques for providing storage services using networked computerized devices having direct attached storage A method provides a storage service, and is performed on a set of computerized devices. The method includes connecting the computerized devices to a computer network. The computerized devices include direct attached storage devices (e.g., SCSI disk drives). The meth... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8171046 | Converting CQL query results into user-controllable objects A method is provided. The method includes (a) sending, from a client device to a data storage system, a query regarding elements of the data storage system, (b) receiving, at the client device, from the data storage system, a query result, the query result containin... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170213 | Methodology for coordinating centralized key management and encryption keys cached through proxied elements A method is provided for effectively managing encryption keys. A storage processor requests a key associated with a particular object ID associated with a particular device address range from a key server. The key server provides a unique key associated with the obj... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8169893 | Quick detection of problematic link to support fast failover A technique involves operating an electronic device having data communications ports. Each data communications port includes PHY circuitry to provide Physical Layer network functionality to the electronic device. The technique includes monitoring a particular PCS st... | 05/01/2012 |
| D658775 | Hand held heat light | 05/01/2012 |
| 8166141 | Method and apparatus for emulating web browser proxies A user device disposed on a local area network (LAN) requests a proxy auto-configuration file from a first proxy server. Where the first proxy server is not present on the LAN, a second proxy server on the LAN intercepts the request and responds to it by causing a r... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8160387 | Image processing method and computer software for image processing The invention provides a method of image correction processing which comprises altering area image intensity values of an image according to an dynamic range compression image transform. The output image intensity of an area is altered, compared to the input image i... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8156195 | Systems and methods for obtaining ultra-high data availability and geographic disaster tolerance Network data storage systems and methods allow computers reading and writing data at a plurality of data centers separated by, potentially, large distances to replicate data between sites such that the data is protected from failures, including complete Site failure... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8154486 | Driving of electrowetting display device The invention relates to a method of driving an electrowetting display device including a display element, the display element having an electrode for applying a voltage and providing a display state in response to a signal level of the voltage. The method comprises... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8154314 | Side-docking type test handler and apparatus for transferring test tray for same In a side-docking type test handler, a descending mechanism lowers a horizontally postured test tray, which has been transferred into a soak chamber, down to a descent finish position and a vertical posture changing mechanism changes the posture of the test tray, wh... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8151739 | Device with fluid distributor and measured value recording and method for operation of a boiler with a throughflow of flue gas Certain techniques involve the use of a device including a fluid distributor which has at least one flow duct with an inlet opening and an outlet opening. The inlet opening can be connected to a supply line for a fluid. Means for moving the fluid distributor are pro... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8151348 | Automatic detection of reverse tunnels Presently disclosed are methods and apparatus for analyzing packets and packet flows to detect covert communications channels (including reverse tunnels) in real time. These systems actively probe a suspicious connection in ways that are not possible in prior art lo... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8149683 | Fail-safe inline power in a wired data telecommunications network A dynamic fuse element is provided in an inline power circuit to provide an electrical current protection level that varies in accordance with allocated current levels and that can respond to current spikes that are not expected. The dynamic fuse element comprises a... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8148670 | Rotary actuator ball-detent locking mechanism One embodiment is directed to a locking mechanism. The locking mechanism has a housing and a rotary actuator carried by the housing. The rotary actuator includes a shaft and armature disposed around at least a portion of the shaft. The armature is configured to rota... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8146969 | Pick-and-place module for test handlers A pick-and-place module for test handlers includes a main body, and a kit. The main body has N-th vacuum paths (where N is plural). The kit has M-th pickers. The M-th pickers are provided so as respectively correspond to M-th vacuum passages (where 1≦M≦N), which... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8138475 | System for producing enhanced thermal images An imaging device has a thermal sensor to remotely measure respective temperatures of regions within an imaging field and to generate temperature information signals. A motion tracking system tracks motion of the thermal sensor and generates position information sig... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8137243 | Dance exercise pole A dance exercise pole has a base, a lower cylindrical section journalled for rotation on the base about a substantially vertical axis, a connector extending upwardly from the upper end of the lower cylindrical section, and a lowermost pole section having an internal... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8131919 | Techniques for controlling storage device use by performing a storage device location assessment operation based on a current storage device identifier An electronic system includes a framework, data storage circuitry and a controller. The framework includes multiple device slots. The data storage circuitry is arranged to access storage devices installed in the framework. The controller is arranged to receive a cur... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8131743 | Object searching in data storage systems The method of object searching in a data storage system includes receiving, by an object search machine, a search criteria, the search criteria including a plurality of parameters and storing, by the object search machine, the search criteria as a persistence query ... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8131406 | Piston engine aircraft automated pre-flight testing One embodiment is directed to a method for testing an aircraft prior to flight. The method includes receiving a user signal from a pre-flight test input source, the user signal indicating that a pilot of the aircraft has directed engine control circuitry, which is a... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8131387 | Integrated high-efficiency microwave sourcing control process A technique for controlling instrumentation in an automatic test system includes providing a group of hardware resources that can be configured in a variety of ways to realize different instrument configurations, which generally correspond to different traditional i... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8130681 | Narrow band transceiver The data transmitted from a first station is transmitted at a first data rate. The data transmitted from a second station is transmitted at a second data rate. The second data rate is lower than the first data rate. In view of both the difference in data rates and t... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8128743 | Gas scrubber with adapted drop separators Gas scrubber, with at least one drop separator level which spans a cross section of the gas scrubber, the gas scrubber comprising at least one edge rest and a plurality of carrying beams, spanning the cross section, for the mounting of drop separators which jointly ... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8128475 | Apparatus and method for generating a graphical transformation of an input number for use in a gaming application One embodiment of the invention provides an apparatus and method for use in a gaming application. The apparatus comprises an input for receiving a non-predictable input number, K; and an output for presenting a graphical selector comprising N options. The graphical ... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8128417 | Methods and apparatus for connecting printed circuit boards using zero-insertion wiping force connectors A circuit board assembly includes a primary board, and a connector mounted to a mounting location of the primary board. The connector includes compliant conductors, each compliant conductor having a first end and a second end. The connector further includes a connec... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8122266 | Powered communications interface providing low-speed communications between power-sourcing equipment and powered device in non-powered operating mode A powered communications interface in a power-over-Ethernet (POE) system has a non-powered operating mode in which it withholds operating power from a powered device and applies relatively low signaling voltages and currents to the conductors of the Ethernet cable w... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8108882 | Method and apparatus for interfacing an operating system with a network interface device A processing unit is configured to establish a driver relationship between a network interface driver and a network interface device, the network interface device being configured to carry out multiple functions through the operating system. The processing unit is a... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8106530 | Network-centric scheduled power provisioning method A particular technique provides power to a plurality of Power over Ethernet powered devices. The technique involves operating, during a first time interval, an initial set of Power over Ethernet powered devices (i.e., one or more powered devices) in a higher power c... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8099611 | Powered communications interface with pre-operating mode using low voltages and currents for information signaling A powered device can provide information to another device (such as a power sourcing equipment) via a powered communications interface when operating power is not being provided to the powered device via the powered communications interface, enabling a variety of fu... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8094808 | Unpowered twisted pair loopback circuit for differential mode signaling A method and apparatus provide an IP telephone or similar device with a mechanism to receive and at least briefly loop back discovery signals received from a telecommunications device such as an Ethernet switch while not permitting the loop back of data packet signa... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8089903 | Method and apparatus for providing a logical separation of a customer device and a service device connected to a data storage system A data storage system includes storage array and a switch that is configurable to create numerous network topologies within the system and to maintain separate communications paths between different computerized devices or networks and the storage array. For example... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8086878 | Methods and apparatus for provisioning phantom power to remote devices An apparatus provisions power from a power budget to remote devices configured to obtain phantom power. The apparatus includes, among other things, a controller which is configured to identify a power demand for a remote device (e.g., a power demand based on an actu... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8086732 | Method and apparatus for rate limiting client requests As a server device receives packets from a client device, the server device counts the number of packets received over a particular time interval and compares the result with a preset packet transmission threshold. When the number of packets received from the client... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8082550 | Methods and apparatus for selecting a server to process a request The invention is directed to techniques for selecting a resource from several resources to process a request from a client. A client sends the request to a data communications device (e.g., network device or switch), which measures usage information from usage meter... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8082457 | Data communications device for communicating with and concurrently providing power to a set of powerable devices A method for managing the delivery of power for a plurality of devices includes allocating a power limit for each of the plurality of devices and providing power to at least one of the plurality of devices. The method also includes, in response to the providing of p... | 12/20/2011 |
