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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7245402 | Flexographic printing A method of screening a continuous tone image into a halftone representation for a flexographic printing operation can compensate for characteristic printing problems in highlight areas by selectively placing non-printing dots or pixels proximate highlight dots. The... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7229241 | Automatic printing plate feeding system An automatic plate feeding system for loading plates of various sizes into a printing plate imaging device, which includes a plurality of trays staggered one on top of the other is provided. At least two of the trays contain plates of different sizes stacked with th... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7225737 | Method for automated platemaking A computer-to-plate (CTP) machine is operated using processless printing plates. A plate bender is built directly into the CTP, bending the plate after imaging in order to make it ready for mounting on the printing press, eliminating all intermediate steps. For pres... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7047308 | System and method for simultaneous media playout A system and method have been provided for achieving simultaneous media playout in a network including a server and a plurality of clients. The method comprises: from a server, supplying a media stream to clients at a first bitrate (R1); determining the netwo... | 05/16/2006 |
| D514916 | Letter opener | 02/14/2006 |
| 6967112 | Three-dimensional quantum dot structure for infrared photodetection A 3D quantum dot optical path structure is provided, along with a method for selectively forming a 3D quantum dot optical path. The method comprises: forming a single crystal Si substrate with a surface; forming a Si feature in the substrate, such as a via, trench, ... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6909778 | Enhanced IP phone operation An enhanced IP telephone taking advantage of the many call-related functions provided by existing PBX systems. The enhanced IP telephone includes a thin computer telephony integration (CTI) client transmitting to a CTI server a command associated with a particular c... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6789118 | Multi-service network switch with policy based routing A multi-service network switch capable of providing multiple network services from a single platform. The switch incorporates a distributed packet forwarding architecture where each of the various cards is capable of making independent forwarding decisions. The swit... | 09/07/2004 |
| 6785698 | Instance-reduction algorithm for garbage-collected language A system and method for reducing object instances and making efficient use of memory. A WeakHashMap class provided by the Java programming language is utilized to maintain a map of unique objects in memory. When a new candidate object is presented, the map is search... | 08/31/2004 |
| 6771935 | Wireless bus In order to avoid mechanical assembly problems and transmission of undesired electrical currents among circuit cards or boards in a telecommunications switch or similar digital device, a conventional hard-wired midplane bus is replaced by a wireless bus. The wireles... | 08/03/2004 |
| 6765927 | RSVP proxy service for communication network RSVP host proxy services for extending RSVP-signaled QoS provisioning to flows involving one or more RSVP-unaware hosts. In an RSVP sender host proxy service, a switch through which an RSVP-unaware source host accesses a network acts as an RSVP sender host proxy for... | 07/20/2004 |
| 6757286 | Self-configuring communication network Methods for configuring, maintaining connectivity in and utilizing an ATM network. Neighboring switches share topology information and enable links to neighboring switches for tag switching. Point-to-point tagged virtual connections are established between switches ... | 06/29/2004 |
| 6754314 | Digital text messaging system and method A communication system is disclosed including a first digital telephone set, a second digital telephone set, or its processing equivalent, having a private branch exchange (PBX)-paging server interface, and a PBX operative between the first digital telephone set and... | 06/22/2004 |
| 6721309 | Method and apparatus for maintaining packet order integrity in parallel switching engine A method and apparatus for maintaining packet order integrity in a switching engine wherein inbound packets are forwarded to different ones of parallel processing elements for switching. Order preservation for packets relating to the same conversation is guaranteed ... | 04/13/2004 |
| 6717913 | Multi-service network switch with modem pool management A multi-service network switch capable of providing multiple network services from a single platform. The switch incorporates a distributed packet forwarding architecture where each of the various cards is capable of making independent forwarding decisions. The swit... | 04/06/2004 |
| 6711163 | Data communication system with distributed multicasting A bridge provides distributed multicast forwarding with sub-interface granularity. Forwarding decisions on multicast data packets transmitted on the bridge backplane are made by network interfaces by referencing local multicast databases. Each network interface forw... | 03/23/2004 |
| 6708187 | Method for selective LDAP database synchronization A unified policy management system for an organization including a central policy server and remotely situated policy enforcers. The central policy server includes a central database storing configuration information for the remotely situated policy enforcers. Each ... | 03/16/2004 |
| 6647107 | Multi-user answering system and method A system and method for receiving calls for a plurality of persons. The system receives an incoming telephone call at a communications host, such as a PBX, from a caller for called person and queries a database for a set of information regarding the calle... | 11/11/2003 |
| 6628616 | Frame relay network featuring frame relay nodes with controlled oversubscribed bandwidth trunks A frame relay network has a network management system in combination with frame relay nodes. The network management system provides frame relay oversubscription trunk and connection parameter signals to the frame relay nodes. The network management system... | 09/30/2003 |
