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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7181141 | Method and system for collecting network topology in an optical communications network An exemplary embodiment of the invention is a network element in an optical communications network. The network element includes a data collection application program interface (API) for receiving a request from a client for network topology information along with a... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7143153 | Internal network device dynamic health monitoring The present invention provides a method and apparatus for internal network device dynamic health monitoring. To increase network device availability, internal network device evaluations of resource attributes are conducted against threshold expressions and network m... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7130870 | Method for upgrading embedded configuration databases The present invention provides a method for upgrading embedded configuration databases while a network device is operating and with minimal disruption to network device operation. While a network device is operating and using an embedded primary configuration databa... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7130264 | Service protection method and apparatus for TDM or WDM communications networks Service path protection is provided for packet-based data services (e.g. GbE or FC) by making available to a protected service, as and when needed, preemptable (i.e. sharable) transport bandwidth (e.g. STS-1s for a SONET network) used, under normal conditions, to tr... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7121449 | Method and device for applying material to a workpiece In order to apply solder material (20) to a workpiece (1), compressed gas is guided through a bore hole (5) of a capillary (3). A pressure sensor (13) situated in the bore hole (5) measures the dynamic pressure of the compre... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7121776 | Housing retrofit assembly for a milling machine or the like The present invention is a housing retrofit assembly for a milling machine or the like, including a quick adjusting stop nut for selective sliding coarse adjustment and rotational precision fine adjustment for rotatable engagement with a threaded rod or shaft in clo... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7124368 | System and method for displaying usage information in a data network A channel map display module, at least one user interface template and storage for holding information about band and channel assignments, subrate information, provisioned circuit and subrate circuits are used to create a unique channel map that presents the network... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7119264 | Magnetic return pedal for percussion instruments A musical percussion instrument foot pedal uses a pair of high gauss rated magnets, one under the foot pedal and one on the base below the foot pedal the magnets aligned for magnetic repulsion. The magnetic repulsion between the magnets return the pedal to its origi... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7114689 | Gimbaled mounting bracket A gimbaled mounting bracket apparatus for aligning an actuator with a receptacle is disclosed, having a mounting ring rotatable around a pair of gudgeons. A concentric rotation ring attached to the pair of gudgeons. The concentric ring is mounted to a base along a r... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7114316 | Rolling lawn trimmer carriage A rolling lawn trimmer carriage incorporates a remote trimmer motor control. The carriage may include adjustable mounting bracket means for attaching a lawn trimmer in various positions on the carriage base. A means for parking the carriage in a stationary position ... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7116671 | Method and apparatus for providing OC-n virtual bridge ports A method and apparatus for intelligent packet forwarding utilizing virtual ports defined by a grouping of one or more STS-1s allocated to source and destination I/O devices (client) connected to an NxSTS-1 SONET network. A data flow path for transporting the client ... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7113626 | Automated UV recoat inspection system and method A camera system and automated translation system allows automatic image capture of a recoat of a fiber which has undergone a number of processes. These images may be used to automatically inspect the recoat of the fiber in accordance with objective criteria. A stabi... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7112145 | Golf training device A golf training device that assists a golfer in sighting the direction to hit, and in the proper alignment of his body with respect to the golf ball. The device has a housing for mounting at least two lasers having a vertical element that provides vertical support f... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7113968 | Method and apparatus for efficiently performing Galois field multiplication A method and apparatus for performing Galois field multiplication with reduced redundancy. Generally, multiplication by a Galois field multiplier involves the multiplication of two polynomials modulo another polynomial. The Galois field multiplier has two Galois Fie... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7113699 | Fault forwarding in an optical network A system and method for forwarding fault information in an optical network is disclosed. Responsive to a fault being detected at a node, the fault information is forwarded to the destination node in the form of a loss-of-signal condition by turning off laser transmi... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7113698 | Fault detection and isolation in an optical network A system for detecting faults in an optical network having switching nodes and amplifier nodes is provided. According to one aspect of the system, one or more amplifier nodes are coupled between two switching nodes. Each amplifier node is capable of detecting a faul... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7110396 | System for transporting sub-rate data over a communication network System for transporting a sub-rate data stream over a communication network using a selected network protocol. The sub-rate data stream has an associated sub-rate protocol. The system includes a rate adapter to receive the sub-rate data stream and adapt a rate chara... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7110406 | Mechanism for facilitating broadcast in a communication system An improved inter-module communication facilitation mechanism (CFM) is disclosed, which provides improved scalability, improved efficiency, and enhanced functionality and performance. In one aspect, the CFM enables a subscriber to subscribe to multiple events using ... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7111053 | Template-driven management of telecommunications network via utilization of operations support services clients The present invention provides a method of managing telecommunications networks through an Operations Support Services (OSS) client and templates. Using an OSS client and various provisioning templates a network manager may interactively provision network services i... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7110638 | Reconfigurable optical node with distributed spectral filtering An architecture is proposed for an optical node in a wavelength division multiplexed network. The optical node may be an optical add/drop node. Conventional add/drop nodes utilize a broadcast or blocking architecture. In a broadcast architecture, a copy of an optica... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7106979 | Polarization mode dispersion compensating apparatus, system, and method Residual birefringence in optical fibers causes polarization mode dispersion (PMD). The invention compensates for this by using a polarization mode dispersion compensator and a polarimeter. The PMD compensator has a variable PMD that may be controlled. The output of... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7106729 | Switching control mechanism based upon the logical partitioning of a switch element A switch element is configured to extend communications between data lines. The switch element includes a set of ingress devices, a set of center stage devices, and a set of egress devices. Each center stage device is connectable to each ingress device and to each e... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7101604 | Footwear sole having a natural grip The invention is footwear having an outer sole(s) with an ergonomic gripping or traction surface. More particularly, the ergonomic gripping or traction surface is a gripping and traction pattern, formed as an integral part of a shoe sole, that is based on a natural ... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7100149 | Apparatus and generic method for interfacing with managed objects in a communication network A method of interfacing with managed objects in a communication network, including: receiving an application independent request for service using generically represented data; mapping the request to a registry to determine the particular service application that ca... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7096408 | Method and apparatus for computing the error locator polynomial in a decoder of a forward error correction (FEC) system A method and apparatus for performing quickly and efficiently generating the error correction polynomial. In accordance with the present invention, multiple coefficients of the syndrome vector are processed in parallel by a Berlekamp algorithm logic block of the pre... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7081628 | Spatially patterned light-blocking layers for radiation imaging detectors Spatially patterned light-blocking layers for radiation imaging detectors are described. Embodiments comprise spatially patterned light-blocking layers for an amorphous silicon flat panel x-ray detector, wherein the spatially patterned light-blocking layer blocks li... | 07/25/2006 |
| 7081986 | Method and system for controlling amplifier power in an optical communications network having add/drop capability The invention includes a method for controlling amplifier output power in an optical communications network having channel add/drop capability. A first transmission parameter and a second transmission parameter are determined at a first amplifier. In an exemplary em... | 07/25/2006 |
| 7064262 | Method for converting a music signal into a note-based description and for referencing a music signal in a data bank In a method for transferring a music signal into a note-based description, a frequency-time representation of the music signal is first generated, the frequency-time representation comprising coordinate tuples, a coordinate tuple including a frequency value and a ti... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7062642 | Policy based provisioning of network device resources Methods are disclosed for establishing a path for data transmissions in a system having a plurality of possible paths by creating a configuration database and establishing internal connection paths based upon a configuration policy and the configuration database. Th... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7058876 | Method and apparatus for use in a decoder of a forward error correction (FEC) system for locating bit errors in a error locator polynomial The present invention provides a method and apparatus for quickly and efficiently processing an error correction polynomial to locate bit errors using a Chien search algorithm. In accordance with the present invention, it has been determined that multiplying the Λ ... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7058299 | Method and system for optimizing a laser system A method for optimizing an optical transmitter is provided. According to one exemplary method, the optical transmitter is optimized by varying three transmitter parameters including the bias voltage, the crossing level and the peak-to-peak voltage. Once the respecti... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7058297 | Distributed processor modules and persistent storage in an optical network In an optical network having a plurality of nodes, administrative information for one node is persistently stored at another node in the network. The network includes a first node having persistent storage memory for storing administrative information from a second ... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7058012 | Systems and methods for automatic end-to-end path provisioning for SONET networks Systems and methods for automatic end-to-end paths for SONET networks are disclosed. The method for path provisioning generally includes obtaining path parameters for each network element, performing discovery of paths including determining connection possibilities ... | 06/06/2006 |
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| 7054324 | Interface transmitter for communications among network elements An interface transmitter coupled among a number of network elements of at least one network is provided, wherein a number of data frames of a first type are received from at least one processor and stored in at least one random access memory (RAM). Data is read from... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7054554 | Method and system for detecting network elements in an optical communications network An exemplary embodiment of the invention is a method of detecting network elements in an optical communications network. The method includes an initiating network element generating a neighbor discovery message including a requested hierarchy level at which neighbor... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7054310 | Methods and apparatuses for providing multiple services from any slot in a SONET system having multiple slots Network data is received in a first format. The data is converted to a synchronous optical network (SONET) format. Switching functions are performed on the SONET formatted data. The SONET formatted data is converted to a second format. In one embodiment, the switchi... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7054272 | Upper layer network device including a physical layer test port The present invention provides an upper layer network device with one or more physical layer data test ports. The data supplied to the test ports reflects the data received by the network device with minimal modification and no upper layer translation or processing,... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7046619 | Method and system for bi-directional path switched network A system for use in a bi-directional path switched ring network for detecting a failed optical path and establishing a protection path so as to allow signals from the failed optical path to be re-routed via the protection path is provided. According to one aspect of... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7044644 | Electrically conducting ceramic bearings Electrically conducting ceramic bearings are described. All components of these bearings preferably comprise TSC, and may not require any conductive coating, or any lubricating coating. These bearings may comprise at least one rolling element such as a bearing ball,... | 05/16/2006 |
