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A mouthguard includes a U-shaped upper bite plate which removably fits over upper teeth of a person, with the entire upper bite plate being made from a soft, deformable and edible gummi candy.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8181078 | Methods and system for simplified SAS error recovery Methods and systems for simplified error recovery in a SAS device. A SAS device (e.g., a SAS/SSP target device such as a storage device) enhanced in accordance with features and aspects hereof NAKs a received frame that has an error and then NAKS all subsequently re... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180935 | Methods and apparatus for interconnecting SAS devices using either electrical or optical transceivers Methods and systems for encoding and/or decoding digital signals representing serial attached SCSI (SAS) out of band (OOB) signals exchanged over an optical communication between two SAS devices. A SAS OOB signal to be transmitted from a first SAS device to a second... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179741 | Compensation for depth finders System and methods are disclosed for compensating a depth signal for a depth finder of a boat. In one embodiment, a compensation system is implemented between the depth finder and a transducer mounted on the boat. The compensation system receives a depth signal (i.e... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8176218 | Apparatus and methods for real-time routing of received commands in a split-path architecture storage controller Apparatus and methods for real-time routing of received frames in a split-path architecture storage controller. In one exemplary embodiment, a split-path storage controller comprises a soft-path I/O processor for processing of any received frames and comprises a fas... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175975 | IMS device operable for financial transaction authorization and ID cards display IMS networks and methods are disclosed for authorizing financial transactions. Credit card information, debit card information, and other purchasing data may be consolidated into an IMS device for conducting financial transactions, such as the purchasing of items fr... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175575 | Online charging for roaming users in a proxy online charging system of a visited network Communication networks and methods are disclosed for performing online charging credit control in a visited network when a user is roaming. The visited network which is providing service to a roaming user includes a proxy online charging system (OCS) that communicat... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8159950 | Determining processor occupancy of a cluster of home location registers Methods and computer readable mediums are provided for determining the processor occupancy of a cluster of HLR registers. A deterministic-based performance model is utilized to determine the processor occupancy based on a number of nodes in the cluster, a number of ... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8155518 | Dynamic load balancing of fibre channel traffic Systems and methods herein provide for load balancing Fiber Channel traffic. In this regard, a Fiber Channel load balancer may be operable to monitor Fiber Channel paths coupled to a host bus adapter and determine the speeds of the Fiber Channel ports within the Fib... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8155290 | Systems and methods for providing per call measurement data in an IMS network Systems and methods for providing per call data measurement in an IMS network are provided. An IMS network adapted to provide per call measurement data comprises a plurality of network nodes serving a call for a subscriber adapted to monitor network performance to g... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8155246 | Methods, apparatus, and systems for determining 1T path equivalency information in an nT implementation of a viterbi decoder Methods, apparatus, and systems for generating bit-wise path equivalency information corresponding to 1T decision nodes in a soft output Viterbi algorithm (“SOVA”) decoder operating with an nT clock signal. An add, compare, select circuit (ACS) of the SOVA gener... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8154778 | Systems and methods for color correction processing and notification for digital image data generated from a document image Systems and methods for generating color corrected digital image data from a document image according to personal preferences of an identified user of the digital image copy. A color correction profile is provided defining color correction parameters for a particula... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8151172 | Adjustable error-correction for a reed solomon encoder/decoder Methods and structure described herein provide for reducing the overall delay of an RS encoder/decoder without changing the essential functionality of the RS encoder/decoder. In one embodiment, a cascade module reduces the combinatorial logical delay by reducing the... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8139735 | IMS gateway systems and methods IMS gateway systems and methods are disclosed for providing online charging for IMS sessions. An IMS gateway system described herein operates based on a state machine to provide charging triggers and IMS session control. For one charging trigger, the IMS gateway sys... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8135906 | Online storage capacity expansion of a raid storage system The methods and structure herein provide for expanding the storage capacity of a RAID storage system while maintaining the same level of RAID storage management. A RAID storage controller may be coupled between a host computer and a RAID storage volume. The RAID sto... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8131933 | Methods and systems for communication between storage controllers Methods and systems for communication between two storage controllers. A first storage controller specifies a special frame indicator in a frame of a protocol that is also used by a first storage controller to send a storage command to a storage device. The first st... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8126131 | Call blocking based on the network access type for the called party A communication network and method are disclosed that block calls from a calling party based on the network access type of a called party. The communication network of the invention includes a permission system, an access system, and a call control system. Based on ... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8126124 | Charging for long duration sessions in communication networks Communication networks and associated methods are disclosed that provide charging for long duration sessions. A charging data system of the communication network receives interim accounting request messages from a network element that is serving a session. The charg... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8122298 | Methods and systems for capturing error information in a SATA communication system Methods and systems for capturing error information regarding a Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (SATA). An initiator device is enhanced in accordance with features and aspects hereof to detect an error condition in operation of the system and to transmit error... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8116728 | Charging in LTE/EPC communication networks Communication networks and methods are disclosed for performing charging in LTE/EPC communication networks. In an LTE/EPC communication network, a PCRF stores charging rules for online and offline charging. To perform charging for a session, LTE network elements tha... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8116330 | Bridge apparatus and methods for coupling multiple non-fibre channel devices to a fibre channel arbitrated loop Apparatus and methods for an enhanced bridge device for coupling multiple non-Fiber Channel storage devices to a Fiber Channel Arbitrated Loop (FC-AL) communication medium. Features and aspects hereof provide for FC-AL enhanced circuits for processing loop port bypa... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8116147 | Methods and structures for testing SAS-2 speed options in speed negotiation windows Method and structures provide for testing a SAS link during speed negotiation windows to determine success/failure in using a negotiated speed at one or more configured sets of speed options. For each device linked to a master SAS device, each possible set of speed ... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8109321 | Modular heat sink assembly comprising a larger main heat sink member thermally connected to smaller additional floating heat sink members A modular heat sink assembly is disclosed. The heat sink assembly includes a main (larger) heat sink member having one or more voids through the member. The heat sink assembly also includes one or more additional (smaller) heat sink members that fit within the voids... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8108574 | Apparatus and methods for translation of data formats between multiple interface types Apparatus and methods for translation of data formats between multiple interface types. Translation logic is interposed between a producer circuit and a consumer circuit to translate data formats of data signals generated by the producer for application to the consu... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8102981 | Alerting for long duration sessions in communication networks Communication networks and associated methods and systems are disclosed that provide duration alerting for communication sessions to subscribers. A communication network of the invention comprises a charging system and a network management system. The charging syste... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8099254 | Elastomeric conductor and shield fault detection The systems and methods described herein provide for the early detection of wire/cable faults. For example, a system may detect electrical/electronic faults with power lines, data lines, communication lines, coaxial cables, and the like (generally referred to herein... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8099117 | SMS message delivery over broadband data networks Broadband messaging gateways, SMS-C's, and associated methods are disclosed that attempt to deliver SMS messages over a broadband data network as opposed to a voice network. When a mobile device sends a Mobile Originated (MO) SMS message, the mobile device sends the... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8077620 | Methods and apparatuses for processing packets in a credit-based flow control scheme Methods and systems for processing a second request before processing of a first request has completed. The first request is associated with a first flow control credit type, and the second request is associated with a second flow control credit type. After a period... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8069285 | Methods and systems for improving communication throughput of storage links Methods and systems for improving communication throughput of a link between SAS/SATA devices. The link, initially established at a first signal rate, is one of a SATA link and a SAS link. A SAS/SATA device increments one of the at least one counter based on an erro... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8065401 | Systems and methods for frame ordering in wide port SAS connections Methods and structures for assuring proper sequencing of processing of SAS frames received over multiple physical ports of a SAS wide port. A frame scheduler element is communicatively coupled with a SAS transport layer and with a corresponding plurality of link lay... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8054822 | Synchronization of call traffic in the forward direction over backhaul links Communication networks and methods are disclosed for synchronizing call traffic in the forward direction over backhaul links. Within a communication network, a traffic processing unit is connected to base stations over a plurality of backhaul links. When the traffic... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8050700 | Negotiation of control over a PTT call between an OMA PoC network and a P25 network Communication networks and methods are disclosed for negotiating control over a PTT call between an OMA PoC network and a P25 network. If an OMA PoC PTT server receives a request for the PTT call from a calling party, then the PTT server transmits a call initiation ... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8036314 | Automatic correction of data polarity on a differential serial bus Methods and structure described herein provide for detecting data inversions between electronic devices in communication with one another and automatically correcting those that inversions. An electronic device may be configured with a receiver that is configured fo... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8033928 | Method and apparatus for an assistive energy type golf club The present invention relates to method and apparatus adapted for use with an assistive energy type golf club which is safe to use, inconspicuous, and able to release sufficient assistive energy at the optimum time during a golf swing to add prescribed incremental v... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8019073 | Systems and methods for implementing split numbering plan area codes in an IMS network Systems and methods are disclosed for implementing a split numbering plan area code in an IMS network. The IMS network comprises a subscriber server adapted to store a new phone number including a new area code for a subscriber assigned as a result of the split numb... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8015376 | Methods and systems for management of copies of a mapped storage volume Methods and systems for rapid creation of copies of a mapped storage volume. A new copy of a mapped storage volume is created by copying the mapping table and updating meta-data associated with the new copy and any ancestral parents thereof. The physical blocks rema... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8005924 | Unified support for web based enterprise management (“WBEM”) solutions Methods and systems for support a unified Web Based Enterprise Management (“WBEM”) solution is provided. A first processing element for generating first HTTP content data is provided such that a response to a non-Common Information Model (“CIM”) request is b... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8004816 | Disabling a target using electrical energy One system described herein provides electrical energy by means of a Tesla coil that generates a strong electric field in the vicinity of an electrical target. An energy booster provides additional electrical energy to increase the probability of disabling and/or di... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8000460 | Providing a call waiting distinctive ringback feature in wireless networks Wireless networks and methods provide call waiting distinctive ringback. A wireless network of the invention comprises a switching system and a subscriber database. The switching system receives a registration request from a mobile device of a subscriber, transmits ... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7991424 | Dynamic generation of group lists for a communication device using tags Systems and methods are described for dynamically generating one or more group lists as a sub-group of the contact list by assigning tags to contacts in a contact list. A user may define one or more tags for contacts in the contact list to generate a tag list in add... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7990961 | Apparatus and methods for improved dual device lookup in a zoning SAS expander Apparatus and methods for full address resolution in a zoning SAS expander. A single memory circuit is used in a zoning SAS expander to store zone information associated with the SAS address (e.g., WWN) of devices exchanging information through the expander. The sou... | 08/02/2011 |
