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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7558191 | Method of OFDM communication using superposition coding Improvements are provided in an OFDM network that uses superposition coding. A broadcast signal and e.g. a unicast signal are each subjected to OFDM modulation including processing by an IDFT, combined, and transmitted using non-orthogonal transmission resources. In... | 07/07/2009 |
| 7283753 | System and method for WDM communication with interleaving of optical signals for efficient wavelength utilization In a system and method of optical communication, optical signals are generated in multiple wavelength channels. Each optical signal is passively transported from an origination node of a network to a destination node. The destination node is determined by the signal... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7283365 | Jet impingement cooling apparatus and method A nozzle useful for enhancing localized cooling of electronic elements and the like is provided. The nozzle is mountable on a substantially planar face of a substrate. It is conformed to intercept a fluid flowing across said face and redirect it toward the substrate... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7135438 | Method of making cuprate superconducting material A class of superconductive materials containing copper-oxygen bonding and with mixed cation-occupancy designed with a view to size and valence consideration yield useful values of critical temperature and other properties. Uses entail all applications which involves... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7117424 | Block coding method having increased flexibility in choice of code length or minimum code distance In a method of block coding, each character of the codeword may be thought of as a sum of characters of the message word, computed such that each message-word character that contributes to the sum is weighted by a respective weight coefficient. In the method describ... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7110651 | Optical fiber having enhanced separation of higher-order modes A new annular-core optical fiber is useful, inter alia, for stabilizing the behavior of an optical attenuator based on a Long Period Grating (LPG) against fluctuations in the polarization of the fundamental optical signal. The fiber dimensions and Δn are selected s... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7100385 | Thermal management system for electrical enclosures To improve the thermal management of an enclosure for electrical equipment or the like, one or more wall-mounted panels are provided. An air-filled space between each panel and the adjacent wall, door, or ceiling has insulative behavior when the air in the space is ... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7058296 | Design method for WDM optical networks including alternate routes for fault recovery A procedure for designing WDM optical networks provides both working circuits and protection circuits for carrying traffic demands between node pairs. The protection circuits are activated for the purpose of network recovery in case of a fault on a working circuit. ... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7034765 | Compact multiple-band antenna arrangement An antenna element is provided which responsive in multiple frequency bands, has symmetric beam patterns, and is easily and cheaply fabricated. The antenna element includes at least three conductive plates arranged in a stack At least one pair of adjacent plates con... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7031460 | Telephonic handset employing feed-forward noise cancellation A telephonic handset comprises an active noise reduction (ANR) system. The ANR system comprises a reference microphone and an IIR filter. The IIR filter is receivingly coupled to the reference microphone with respect to noise reference signals, and it is transmittin... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7009565 | Miniaturized antennas based on negative permittivity materials An antenna comprises a resonator and a waveguide. The resonator comprises at least one body having a negative effective electrical permittivity or a negative magnetic permeability when a resonance is excited therein by electromagnetic radiation lying in some portion... | 03/07/2006 |
| 7009949 | Asymmetric rate feedback and adjustment system for wireless communications A rate feedback and adaptation scheme or system uses a rate of rate feedback asymmetrical with the rate of data rate adaptation. In particular, the rate adaptation system provides a rate of rate feedback slower than the rate of rate adaptation. Thus, by allowing the... | 03/07/2006 |
| 6954739 | Measurement-based management method for packet communication networks Disclosed are network management procedures that apply measurements of traffic load to achieve greater efficiency in the operation of the network. In a method for deciding whether to route an incoming call on a selected potential service route, the potential service... | 10/11/2005 |
| 6944236 | Method of multiple-antenna wireless communication using space-time codes In a method of wireless transmission, space time matrices are used to spread the transmission of data over two or more transmit antennas and/or over two or more symbol intervals. Initially, blocks of data are encoded as symbols, each being a complex amplitude select... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6904409 | Method for constructing an updateable database of subject behavior patterns A method is provided for maintaining compact descriptions of the behavior of customers in a database of information relating to customer transactions. Of all possible variables that might be used to characterize customer transactions, a limited number are selected o... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6856450 | Method and apparatus for generating a sequence of optical wavelength bands An optical comb generator includes frequency-shifting elements of a particular type that we refer to as a “frequency mirror.” A frequency mirror mixes input light at a signal frequency and a reference frequency to produce output light at a third frequency that l... | 02/15/2005 |
| 6646615 | Method and apparatus for wireless communication utilizing electrical and magnetic polarization A method of wireless communication is disclosed, in which polarization diversity can be utilized to improve fading performance or to increase the capacity of the communication channel in a scattering environment. Complementary signal information is impres... | 11/11/2003 |
| 6638894 | Devices and systems based on novel superconducting material A class of superconductive materials containing copper-oxygen bonding and with mixed cation-occupancy designed with a view to size and valence consideration yield useful values of critical temperature and other properties. Uses entail all applications whi... | 10/28/2003 |
| 6635603 | Devices and systems based on novel superconducting material A class of superconductive materials containing copper-oxygen bonding and with mixed cation-occupancy designed with a view to size and valence consideration yield useful values of critical temperature and other properties. Uses entail all applications whi... | 10/21/2003 |
| 6630425 | Devices and systems based on novel superconducting material Superconducting copper oxides of the perovskite structure are modified to have mixed occupancy of a cation site, thereby resulting in increased limits in critical field and/or critical current. Mixed occupancy may be observed in terms of increased resisti... | 10/07/2003 |
| 6405046 | Method for partitioning mobile stations of a wireless network between an overlay and an underlay A method is described for partitioning the mobile stations occupying each of a plurality of cells of a wireless communication network between an overlay and an underlay. Within each cell, each of that cell's mobile stations is assigned to the overlay if t... | 06/11/2002 |
| 6363121 | Wireless transmission method for antenna arrays using unitary space-time signals Messages according to a method of wireless signal transmission are sent as sequences of unitary space-time signals. Each signal is representable as a matrix in which each column represents a respective transmitting antenna of a transmitting array, and eac... | 03/26/2002 |
| 5329392 | Optical communication system with multiple fiber monitoring An optical communication network includes a fiber-optic terminal system (FOTS) coupled to internal optical waveguides (or fibers) situated within a central office or terminal. These waveguides connect to external optical fibers. A new component is provide... | 07/12/1994 |
| 5327515 | Method for forming a Bragg grating in an optical medium The invention involves a method for making Bragg gratings in glass optical fibers, or other glass optical waveguides, which is relatively insensitive to perturbations in the actinic light used for processing. This method is suitable for mass production an... | 07/05/1994 |
| 5004325 | Optical processing using a multilayer heterostructure An electro-optic medium, useful for image processing, is formed by creating a distribution of deep impurity levels over essentially all the lateral extent of a multilayer heterostructure. This treatment renders the heterostructure semi-insulating, and as ... | 04/02/1991 |
| 4999507 | Apparatus comprising an electrostatic wafer cassette Disclosed is apparatus comprising an electrostatic cassette assembly for securing a semiconductor wafer during lithographic processing such as direct-write particle-beam lithography. The cassette assembly comprises a cassette body and an electrostatic chu... | 03/12/1991 |
