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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| RE43099 | Speech coder methods and systems Coding systems that provide a perceptually improved approximation of the short-term characteristics of speech signals compared to typical coding techniques such as linear predictive analysis while maintaining enhanced coding efficiency. The invention advantageously ... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8010050 | Method and system for wireless access to a network by an isolated user Wireless access to a network 2 by an isolated user 1 includes the isolated user 1 transmitting a wireless signal intended to produce interference at nodes included in a group 3, 4 and 9 of nodes, that have access to the network ... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7986627 | Method for transmitting control information on the forward link of a wireless network A signaling method is provided that can improve the efficiency of forward-link control signaling in OFDM systems. The method involves using a set of forward-link subcarriers that are dedicated for control information, and are shared by a set of two or more users. Th... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7929556 | Method of private addressing in proxy mobile IP networks A method is disclosed, by which a local mobility anchor (LMA) In a proxy mobile IP network can perform address assignment for a mobile node in cooperation with network address translation, so that the mobile node can be configured with a private HoA. In one embodime... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7864683 | Wireless communication method with air-interface encoder packets configured for more efficient use of network resources A method is provided for communicating data belonging to at least one application flow (AF). In one aspect, the method involves mapping the data to payload bits of two or more encoder packets (EPs) such that each said EP carries a payload dedicated to only one AF, a... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7821924 | Method and apparatus for timeout reduction and improved wireless network performance by delay injection A technique for avoiding spurious TCP timeouts through delay injection which requires no modification of, or access to, the TCP protocol itself. More particularly, injection of additional random delay or jitter at some point in a packet's roundtrip path across a wir... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7777685 | Small spherical antennas An antenna is provided for operating within the electrically small antenna regime (i.e., ka≅0.5), and having bandwidth performance quite close to fundamental limits. The antenna of the invention, in various embodiments, is based upon spherical resonator structures... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7738422 | Interference-reducing method of forward link scheduling for wireless networks A method of scheduling and sub-channelization is provided for a wireless network such as an OFDMA network. Distributed coordination is applied across sectors, such neighboring sectors will tend to schedule cell-edge users at the same time, while sub-channelizing to ... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7620722 | Method and apparatus for establishing communication A method of establishing communication between an information source defined by a data processing system and a user accessing the information source with a data processing device via a communications network is described. The method comprises assigning a position in... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7564822 | Method of reverse link transmission in a wireless network using code and frequency multiplexing A hybrid method of reverse link transmission provides improved performance, particularly in wireless packet data systems. The method includes aspects of both OFDMA transmission and MC-CDMA (Multi-carrier CDMA) transmission. In specific embodiments, an MC-CDMA pilot ... | 07/21/2009 |
| 7165115 | Method for controlling the disposition of an incoming call based on the loading status of a route and on a test of each link along the route 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... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7091798 | Notch filter system and method A circulator is used as a notch filter having a notch at a notch frequency band outside its frequency band of operation as a circulator. It has been observed that circulators operate as a notch filter at a relatively narrow band of operation outside its typical band... | 08/15/2006 |
| 6944238 | Digital transmitter system and method A digital transmitter converts a digital signal into analog form with a digital to analog converter (DAC) and uses an analog signal image produced from the DAC to provide an analog signal at a transmission frequency and/or uses a projected analog signal image to pro... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6894573 | Tunable negative resistance device The invention proposes a device for providing tunable high-frequency and/or radio-frequency comprising within one IC-package at least four signal paths providing at least two input and at least two output ports (rf-port1, rf-port2, rf-prot3, rf-... | 05/17/2005 |
| 6844858 | 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 impressed upon, o... | 01/18/2005 |
| 6820090 | Method for generating quantiles from data streams In a method for acquiring statistical information from data, an initial cumulative distribution function (CDF) that characterizes an initial set of data is acquired. The acquisition of this CDF comprises acquiring a set of quantile endpoints that define the CDF. At ... | 11/16/2004 |
| 6785240 | Method for estimating the traffic matrix of a communication network In many packetized communication networks, it is not feasible to obtain exact counts of traffic (OD counts) between specific origin-destination node pairs, because the link counts that are readily obtainable at router interfaces are aggregated indiscriminately over ... | 08/31/2004 |
| 6785472 | Broadband amplified WDM ring A fiber-optic WDM ring carries communication traffic among a plurality of nodes, each node associated with respective subscriber premises. Remote gain is provided in at least one link of the ring. In specific embodiments of the invention, the remote gain is applied ... | 08/31/2004 |
| 6771598 | Method of admission control for packetized communication networks A method is disclosed for determining the admissibility of an offered session of traffic of a specified class to a server in a packetized communication network. Each class c has a peak traffic rate r(c). The server has a total processing rate C. Admitted packets are... | 08/03/2004 |
| 6693976 | Method of wireless communication using structured unitary space-time signal constellations A method is disclosed for generating unitary space-time signals for wireless communication using an array of M transmitting antennas. Each unitary space-time signal comprises T symbols. The method can be used to generate arbitrarily large signal constella... | 02/17/2004 |
| 6687363 | Method of designing signaling networks for internet telephony A method is disclosed for designing a signaling network of call coordinators (CCs) for internet telephony. The new method can be used to design a CC network of arbitrary size that satisfies, with high probability, limitations on the maximum number of sock... | 02/03/2004 |
| 6600796 | Method and apparatus for receiving wireless transmissions using multiple-antenna arrays A method is disclosed for signal detection in a wireless communication system that includes multiple-antenna arrays for transmission and reception. The method involves multiplying a vector of signals collected from respective receiving antennas by a nulli... | 07/29/2003 |
| 6590890 | Method of packet scheduling, with improved delay performance, for wireless networks A new scheduling discipline is disclosed for the forward link of a wireless network such as a CDMA network. The new discipline, which we denominate Modified LWDF (M-LWDF), resembles the known LWDF discipline in that only one queue is served at a time, and... | 07/08/2003 |
| 6496490 | Method for dynamically allocating carriers in a wireless packet network, with reuse of carriers We disclose a method of dynamic channel assignment for wireless transmission systems that employ time or frequency multiplexing, or both time and frequency multiplexing. The invention is specifically addressed to the problem of avoiding interference in th... | 12/17/2002 |
| 6452916 | Space-time spreading method of CDMA wireless communication We describe a method for CDMA transmission of sets of data symbols to users that are organized into one or more user groups. Each user group is paired with a group of spreading codes, referred to as a "code group." Each set of data symbols that are destin... | 09/17/2002 |
| 6381046 | Routing method for ring networks, such as WDM ring networks for optical communication We disclose a method for routing a set of demands in a ring network that comprises nodes interconnected by directed links, in which each demand may be routed clockwise or counterclockwise. According to our method, a linear program is solved to obtain a se... | 04/30/2002 |
| 6351729 | Multiple-window method for obtaining improved spectrograms of signals There is disclosed a method for processing a time-varying signal to produce a high-resolution spectrogram that represents power as a function of both frequency and time. Data blocks of a time series, which represents of a sampled signal, are subjected to ... | 02/26/2002 |
| 6351329 | Optical attenuator An optical attenuator having a structure in which a membrane covers a cavity formed on a substrate is disclosed. The membrane covering the cavity formed in the substrate is movable relative to the bottom surface of the cavity constituting a deformable mir... | 02/26/2002 |
| 6349219 | Antenna array having reduced sensitivity to frequency-shift effects In a system for sending wireless communication signals on at least one downlink wavelength and receiving wireless communication signals on at least one uplink wavelength, there is a ratio r equal to the larger divided by the smaller of these wavelengths. ... | 02/19/2002 |
| 6331986 | Method for resource allocation and routing in multi-service virtual private networks We describe a method for solving the joint problem of optimal routing and optimal bandwidth allocation in a network that supports plural subnetworks and plural communication services. Our method involves, for each source-destination pair communicating via... | 12/18/2001 |
| 6327310 | Wireless transmission method for antenna arrays, having improved resistance to fading Disclosed is a modulation method for wireless signal transmission. Each message that is transmitted is made up of a sequence of signals, each selected from a constellation of L such signals, L a positive integer. Each transmitted signal is distributed spa... | 12/04/2001 |
| 6323993 | Method of optical signal transmission with reduced degradation by non-linear effects In an optical communication system, the signal power level injected into each of one or more optical fiber spans is reduced so as to suppress undesired non-linear effects. This reduction in injected signal level is made possible by remotely pumped amplifi... | 11/27/2001 |
| 6317098 | Communication employing triply-polarized transmissions Problems of fading in a multi-path environment are ameliorated, and the presence of reflective surfaces is turned from a disadvantage to an advantage, by employing a third polarization direction that effectively creates a third communication channel. This... | 11/13/2001 |
| 6301268 | Communication method for frequency division multiplexing signalling systems with reduced average power requirements We describe an improved method for decreasing the probability of an unacceptably high peak-to-average power ratio in a signal to be transmitted by a Frequency Division Multiplexing (FDM) system, such as a discrete multitone (DMT) system. The method involv... | 10/09/2001 |
| 6236495 | Optical dispersion compensation The present invention relates generally to the field of optical communication and particularly to optical communication techniques which compensated for dispersion such as that in optical fibers. Compensation of optical dispersion is achieved with a polar... | 05/22/2001 |
| 6195608 | Acoustic highway monitor Apparatus and method are provided for detecting vehicles which are moving through a predetermined zone. The apparatus includes a plurality of acousto-electric transducers trained on the zone. A bandpass filter is provided for processing electrical signals... | 02/27/2001 |
| 6188337 | Low disparity coding method for digital data A 16B/18B low disparity code is described. The 16-bit input word is split into two bytes, i.e., into two 8-bit words, and each byte is mapped to a 9-bit word. The image of each input byte under the mapping depends at least in part on its disparity, and al... | 02/13/2001 |
| 6182097 | Method for characterizing and visualizing patterns of usage of a web site by network users A system is disclosed for displaying information pertaining to the usage of Web pages. The system comprises first and second Web sites. The first Web site comprises plural Web-component files, each having a name in a Web-site directory. The second Web sit... | 01/30/2001 |
| 6163610 | Telephonic handset apparatus having an earpiece monitor and reduced inter-user variability A noise-cancelling handset has reduced inter-user variability. The handset includes an earpiece housing. A space, referred to as the "front volume" is defined by the rear and side walls of this housing and a front surface containing acoustic ports for rad... | 12/19/2000 |
| 6163391 | Method and apparatus for holographic data storage We disclose apparatus for holographic recording of information. The apparatus includes a lens or lens system, referred to here as the "FT lens," situated in such a way that light from an object beam enters the FT lens after passing through an object, and ... | 12/19/2000 |
