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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8170878 | Method and apparatus for automatically converting voice The invention proposes a method and apparatus for significantly improving the quality of voice morphing and guaranteeing the similarity of converted voice. The invention sets several standard speakers in a TTS database, and selects the voices of different standard s... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170157 | Low jitter communication system The communication system having a transmitter and a receiver, wherein the transmitter and the receiver are coupled by a clock channel and a data channel, wherein the clock channel is shorter than the data channel and wherein the receiver comprises a delay circuit fo... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8161183 | Distributing information in a markup language within a computer system Computer-based methods and systems are described wherein at least one content provider, a portal and a user are coupled to a communications network or content delivery network. The content provider provides means for generating information in a markup language and f... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8161115 | System and method for effective mail transmission A system and method for rapidly transmitting a large volume of e-mails. Based on domain names obtained from destination mailing addresses, a server 10 for a sender sorts e-mails to be transmitted, generates transfer data for each domain name by grouping e-mai... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8160566 | Message sender controllable messaging system The present invention relates to a mobile phone and a method for its operation and control. The mobile phone is capable of receiving the message sent by other mobile phones through a message transmission system. The method comprises: receiving the message from anoth... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8151067 | Memory sharing mechanism based on priority elevation The present invention discloses a memory sharing mechanism based on priority elevation. In accordance with the present invention, there is provided an apparatus and method for transporting packets of data in a communication device, wherein each packet is assigned on... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8149979 | Method and apparatus for handling of clock information in serial link ports A receiver for a serial link port that is enhanced by a clock-data-recovery loop connected to the forwarded clock signal lane. The receiver includes a phase interpolation means controlled by a phase position logic which gets its update signal from local phase update... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8140915 | Detecting apparatus, system, program, and detecting method A detecting apparatus including a cluster storing unit that stores, for each of clusters into which execution time of previously executed monitored tasks are classified, the range of execution times belonging to the cluster, an acquiring unit that acquires an execut... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8140332 | Technique for searching out new words that should be registered in dictionary for speech processing To search out a new word that should be newly registered in a dictionary contained in a segmentation device for segmenting a text into words. This system inputs a training text into the segmentation device to cause the segmentation device to segment the training tex... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8135649 | Method and system for linking an anonymous electronic trade order to an identity of a trader A method for automatically linking an anonymous electronic trade order having an order quantity (q) to an identity of a trader by providing an identity marker (s) of the trader; embedding the identity marker (s) by splitting the anonymous trade order into a number (... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8131539 | Search-based word segmentation method and device for language without word boundary tag The present invention discloses a search-based segmentation method and device for a language without a word boundary tag. The inventive method includes the steps of: a. providing at least one search engine with a segment of a text including at least one segment; b. ... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8126982 | Method, network device and computer program product for performing service discovery in a pervasive network Described are a method, wireless network device and computer program element each for performing service discovery in a pervasive wireless network (WLAN) operating according to standards such as the Bluetooth standards comprising access protocols and service discove... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8122484 | Access control policy conversion Methods and apparatus are provided for generating an access control policy data structure for a single-authorization-query access control system from a source policy data structure of an access control system in which primary authorizations can be subject to auxilia... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8121122 | Method and device for scheduling unicast and multicast traffic in an interconnecting fabric A method for scheduling unicast and multicast traffic in an interconnecting fabric performs within each time slot the following steps. First a multicast cell scheduling (61) and independently thereof a unicast cell scheduling (62) is performed. Then, t... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8117507 | Decompressing method and device for matrices Decompressing a matrix having a plurality of redundant matrix rows by reading selected matrix rows including at least all non-redundant matrix rows of the matrix from a memory and computing remaining matrix rows of the matrix from the read matrix rows, wherein sever... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8107353 | Data storage device and method for operating a data storage system A data storage device comprises a storage medium, at least one probe designed for creating indentation marks in the storage medium, a control unit designed for creating a control parameter (CTRL) acting on the probe resulting in the creation of one indentation mark.... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8089833 | Storage device and operating method therefor A storage device including a storage medium for storing data in the form of marks in multiple tracks aligned along track center lines, at least one read transducer for writing and reading said data stored in said storage medium, and an actuator for moving said stora... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8077853 | VoIP adapter, IP network device and method for performing advanced VoIP functions A VoIP adapter for POTS a phone comprises: a POTS phone connector, an IP network interface, two sets of signaling senders, signaling receivers, media senders and media receivers for the POTS phone and the IP network respectively, and a controller for controlling the... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8055751 | IP network management based on automatically acquired network entity status information Methods and apparatus are provided for managing an IP network interconnecting a plurality of network hosts (2). Status information, indicative of status of a host, is automatically acquired from each host (2). The status information, such as MAC addres... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8028268 | System and method for building software package for embedded system A method and system for building an embedded software package for a target system including creating a cross-compiling stub in the target system, wherein the stub accesses a compiling tool at a remote location, starting a software package building process at the tar... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8014452 | Format conversion circuit A format conversion circuit 100 includes a FIFO memory 101 for writing and reading video data VD in synchronization with a sampling clock CK, a header generation circuit 102 for generating an MPEG2-TS packet header, and a synchronous timing dete... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8009016 | Tag identification system The present invention relates to a tag identification system comprising: a plurality of tags, each tag being identifiable by an associated tag identifier, and at least one tag comprising at least one link to at least one other tag in said group. ... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8002178 | Virtual membership card system and providing method, and virtual membership card reading method A method for providing virtual membership cards whereby by a card broker generates a virtual membership card based on the information of a card issuer and the information of a user and sends the virtual membership card to the mobile terminal of the user though a com... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7996407 | System, method and computer executable program for information tracking from heterogeneous sources A system for information clustering comprising a data accumulation part for accumulating documents in a document repository, the documents having loosely related attributes, and defining a cluster between the documents being time sliced so as to define chunks of the... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7995076 | System and method for generating virtual images according to position of viewers A method generates and superposes virtual images to an existing image in order to show special effects. Images are generated depending on the relative position of one or more subjects viewing the existing image. The images are generated in order to see an augmented ... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7991669 | Method and system for enterprise portfolio management based on component business model An Enterprise Management Portfolio Hub allows a user to perform enterprise portfolio management activities from a single point of control. EPMH relates information, analysis, display and control based on the organizing concept of the business components that compris... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7990869 | Method for monitoring data congestion in a computer network with multiple nodes and method for controlling data transmission in the computer network A method for monitoring data congestion in a computer network with multiple nodes and for controlling data transmission in the computer network. The method includes generating a congestion notification by the node which detects a data congestion and transmitting the... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7984473 | System and method for the coordination of short-term cyclic data and ephemeral content in a broadcast stream A system and method allowing a broadcaster to deliver short-term cyclic data along with the main content of the broadcast stream, synchronized with that main content, and for allowing users to have access to that information for longer periods than a typical data br... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7979082 | Method and apparatus for message identification A method and apparatus for identifying an unwanted short message service (SMS) message from SMS messages received by a cellular mobile communication system, which comprises at least a history database (HB) for storing a set (H) of the messages received by the cellul... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7978690 | Method to operate a crossbar switch A method is described to operate a crossbar switch comprising a crossbar fabric with N sending and M receiving ports, with port cards connected to at least one sending and/or receiving port each of the crossbar fabric, said crossbar switch further comprising a contr... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7977618 | Testing of transimpedance amplifiers Testing is performed on an amplifier wafer housing a transimpedance amplifier prior to packaging the transimpedance amplifier with an external photodetector, wherein the transimpedance amplifier includes a small, auxiliary, integrated silicon photodetector provided ... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7968450 | Methods for incorporating high dielectric materials for enhanced SRAM operation and structures produced thereby Methods for fabricating a hybrid interconnect structure that possesses a higher interconnect capacitance in one set of regions than in other regions on the same microelectronic chip. Several methods to fabricate such a structure are provided. Circuit implementations... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7962345 | Speech-to-speech generation system and method An expressive speech-to-speech generation system which can generate expressive speech output by using expressive parameters extracted from the original speech signal to drive the standard TTS system. The system comprises: speech recognition means, machine translatio... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7954091 | Method and apparatus for testing of business processes for web services A method for unit testing of business processes for Web services, including steps of mapping the Web service description language (WSDL) elements of a process under test and its partner processes into equivalent Object-Oriented language (OO) elements, and performing... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7953677 | Computer-implemented method, computer program and system for analyzing data records by generalizations on redundant attributes A computer implemented method and system for analysing a first set of data records where each data record comprises attribute values for one or more attributes, by expanding the first set of data records into a second set of data records by creating for at least one... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7952369 | Device and method for sensing a position of a probe A device for sensing a position of a probe relative to a reference medium, the probe comprising a heater element with a temperature dependent electrical resistance and being adapted to determine probe position by measuring a parameter associated to a thermal relaxat... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7948888 | Network device and method for operating network device A network device including at least one rate-limited-queue and multiple timer modules, the network device being operable to receive and/or transmit data flows from and/or to a communication network. Each data flow includes multiple data packets. The network device b... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7948373 | Method for reducing power consumption of sensors A method for reducing power consumption of sensors (2) within a sensor network (1), wherein a central controller (3) calculates a transmission schedule for said sensors (2) on the basis of a correlation between sensor data transmitted fro... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7933284 | Method and apparatus for improving SIP server performance A method and apparatus for improving SIP server performance is disclosed. The apparatus comprises an enqueuer for determining whether a request packet entering into the server is a new request or a retransmitted request and its retransmission times and for enqueuing... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7930590 | Method and system for diagnosing an application A system, method and program enabling users to diagnose applications easily without affecting the operating performance of the application server, optimizing the log mechanism based on the integrated development environment. The method includes running the applicati... | 04/19/2011 |
