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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8141031 | Automatic software production system An automated software production system is provided, in which system requirements are captured, converted into a formal specification, and validated for correctness and completeness. In addition, a translator is provided to automatically generate a complete, robust ... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8001803 | Diaper bag with heated and cooled compartments A diaper bag having a major compartment with pockets on the walls or bottom thereof for one or more of the following accessories needed either by the mother or baby for travel: wipes, diapers, spare clothes, Mom's ipod, cell phone, keys and/or wallet, a changing mat... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7751350 | Full duplex network radio bridge with low latency and high throughput A full duplex radio bridge using two transceivers coupled to a first packet network, one for transmitting data toward another radio bridge coupled to a second packet network, and the other for receiving data transmitted from the first packet network toward said seco... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7555742 | Automatic software production system An automated software production system is provided, in which system requirements are captured, converted into a formal specification, and validated for correctness and completeness. In addition, a translator is provided to automatically generate a complete, robust ... | 06/30/2009 |
| 7278130 | Automatic software production system An automated software production system is provided, in which system requirements are captured, converted into a formal specification, and validated for correctness and completeness. In addition, a translator is provided to automatically generate a complete, robust ... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7162737 | Synchronization of security gateway state information A method (400, 500, 600, 700) for synchronizing state information in a security gateway cluster comprising at least two nodes comprises the following steps. Synchronizing (403) state information by sending state information from a first node of said at... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7146595 | Data structures for representing the logical and physical information of an integrated circuit A floor planner tool for integrated circuit design which provides tools and displays for a designer to create a floor plan to define desired placement of circuits defined in a logical netlist by creating a physical hierarchy comprised of nested pblocks. Each pblock ... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7130266 | Handling of data packets A method for handling data packets in a network element, such as a gateway, said data packets belonging to a set of data packets. Data packets are captured, and captured data packets are processed. Captured data packets are accepted for processing or declined from p... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7120892 | Process for adjusting data structures of a floorplan upon changes occurring A floor planner tool for integrated circuit design which provides tools and displays for a designer to create a floor plan to define desired placement of circuits defined in a logical netlist by creating a physical hierarchy comprised of nested pblocks. Each pblock ... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7117473 | System for creating a physical hierarchy of a chip without restriction by invading a logical hierarchy of logic blocks A floor planner tool for integrated circuit design which provides tools and displays for a designer to create a floor plan to define desired placement of circuits defined in a logical netlist by creating a physical hierarchy comprised of nested pblocks. Each pblock ... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7073149 | System for representing the logical and physical information of an integrated circuit A floor planner tool for integrated circuit design which provides tools and displays for a designer to create a floor plan to define desired placement of circuits defined in a logical netlist by creating a physical hierarchy comprised of nested physical blocks (pblo... | 07/04/2006 |
| 6988134 | Apparatus and method to automatically collect data regarding assets of a business entity A system to automatically gather attribute data about elements such as networks, network interface cards, operating systems, device types, installed software, processes in execution, financial data, etc. in an organization or a designated subset of the organization.... | 01/17/2006 |
| 6853027 | Semiconductor nonvolatile memory with low programming voltage A semiconductor nonvolatile memory cell comprised of a p-type silicon well 12, an n+ drain 8 and an n+ source 10, the source and the drain regions defining an channel region 7. On top of the well 12 there are ... | 02/08/2005 |
| 6848036 | Method and apparatus for faster block size calculations for interleaving An interleaver for any modem or transmitter which transmits digital data. The interleaver eliminates the iterative divide step of a first prior art method to calculate the final depth of each block and the divide followed by a multiply step of a second prior art met... | 01/25/2005 |
| 6795917 | Method for packet authentication in the presence of network address translations and protocol conversions For achieving packet authentication according to an applicable security policy between a sending node (903) and a receiving node (902) in a network, the following steps are taken: the transformations occurring to a packet en route between the se... | 09/21/2004 |
| 6782474 | Network connectable device and method for its installation and configuration A network device (100, 300) is connected to a network (102) having also a management station (107) connected thereto. The method for configuring the network device comprises the steps of transmitting from the management station a configur... | 08/24/2004 |
| 6459703 | Mixed DOCSIS 1.0 TDMA bursts with SCDMA transmissions on the same frequency channel A method for allowing upstream channels having the same multiplexing type but different symbol rates or the same symbol rates but different multiplexing types to be transmitted on the same frequency band without interfering with each other. In particular,... | 10/01/2002 |
| 6426947 | Apparatus and method for unilateral topology discovery in network management A system for reducing the cost of network managment by using a proxy agent and subchannel communications so fewer SNMP licenses and fewer protocol stacks are needed. Subchannel communication is achieved in a plurality of different embodiments. Embodiments... | 07/30/2002 |
| 6426983 | Method and apparatus of using a bank of filters for excision of narrow band interference signal from CDMA signal A narrow band interference excision circuit for use in broadband digital data communication systems such as CDMA systems. The excision circuit is comprised of a matrix of polyphase filters that divide the input signal into a plurality of narrow subbands. ... | 07/30/2002 |
| 6307868 | Apparatus and method for SCDMA digital data transmission using orthogonal codes and a head end modem with no tracking loops A system for bidirectional communication of digital data between a central unit and a remote unit wherein the need for tracking loops in the central unit has been eliminated. The central unit transmitter generates a master carrier and a master clock signa... | 10/23/2001 |
| 6295272 | Subchannel modulation scheme for carrying management and control data outside the regular data channel A method and apparatus for implementing a subchannel for management and control or other supplemental data on a media shared with a high speed data link. Several FDMA approaches are disclosed including AM, FM, PM, phase, QAM, QPSK etc. modulation of a sub... | 09/25/2001 |
| 6253321 | Method and arrangement for implementing IPSEC policy management using filter code A data processing system implements a security protocol based on processing data in packets. The data processing system comprises processing packets for storing filter code and processing data packets according to stored filter code, and a policy managing... | 06/26/2001 |
| 6243386 | Fibre channel learning bridge, learning half bridge, and protocol A learning half bridge and bridge for a Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop and switching protocol. A half bridge can be coupled to a local loop segment and a remote loop segment. The half bridge includes transmit and receive ports implementing predetermined sw... | 06/05/2001 |
| 6243369 | Apparatus and method for synchronizing an SCDMA upstream or any other type upstream to an MCNS downstream or any other type downstream with a different clock rate than the upstream A bidirectional digital data communication system which generate phase coherent upstream clock and carrier signals from recovered downstream clock generated from a master clock in a central unit. The preferred species uses any downstream clock rate and ge... | 06/05/2001 |
| 6232913 | Method and system for measuring radar reflectivity and doppler shift by means of a pulse radar Characteristics of a target are measured by a radar or sonar. Pulses (101, 102, 103) are transmitted and in between (X) the transmissions of pulses a signal is received which depends on the transmitted pulses and on the distribution of the characteristics... | 05/15/2001 |
| 6198427 | Doppler complex FFT police radar with direction sensing capability A series of police doppler single mode radars and a multimode police doppler radar, all with direction sensing capability are disclosed. A quadrature front end which mixes received RF with a local oscillator to generate two channels of doppler signals, on... | 03/06/2001 |
| 6192054 | Accelerated fibre channel hub and protocol An apparatus for accelerated Fiber Channel protocol handshaking and data exchange involves dividing a Fiber Channel arbitrated loop architecture up into a plurality of arbitrated subloops, each of which arbitrates locally using the same fundamentals as th... | 02/20/2001 |
| 6154456 | Apparatus and method for digital data transmission using orthogonal codes A method and apparatus for carrying out synchronous co-division multiple access (SCDMA) communication of multiple channels of digital data over a shared transmission media such as a cable television system coaxial cable, a fiber optic or copper conductor ... | 11/28/2000 |
| 6149080 | Hopper spreader for a truck box The spreader comprises an elongated hopper which is mountable across the rear end of a truck box in an underslung fashion. When the end-gate of the box is opened, aggregate can spill into the hopper. The hopper forms a discharge slot along its lower end. ... | 11/21/2000 |
| 6131500 | System and method for producing motion This disclosure is directed to novel systems and methods for producing motion in response to a drive signal where the motion has a smooth translational reversal. The system accepts a command position signal and compares the command position signal to the ... | 10/17/2000 |
| 6130550 | Scaleable padframe interface circuit for FPGA yielding improved routability and faster chip layout An interface circuit for use in the layout of padframe interface circuits for field programmable gate arrays having a plurality of I/O cells each of which may be programmed as an input or an output (or both) and a programmable connection matrix which prov... | 10/10/2000 |
| 6091356 | Chirp source with rolling frequency lock for generating linear frequency chirps A source for a linear homodyne transceiver that generates repeated linear chirps. A YIG oscillator with a main coil and an FM coil receives a basic linear current ramp at the main coil to generate a chirp. The FM coil is coupled to receive a PLL error sig... | 07/18/2000 |
| 6041374 | PCMCIA interface card for coupling input devices such as barcode scanning engines to personal digital assistants and palmtop computers A variety of PC card interfaces to interface from many different types of input devices to Personal Digital Assistants or palmtop computers through PCMCIA slots. The disclosed interfaces can receive data in undecoded format from laser based, wand based or... | 03/21/2000 |
| 6039824 | Method for repairing a locally damaged, dented surface of a wall as well as a wall comprising such a locally repaired surface A method for repairing a locally damaged, dented surface of a wall, whereby the surface is provided with a relief, as well as a wall comprising a locally repaired surface, which has been repaired by using the method below. A mould comprising an impression... | 03/21/2000 |
| 6025736 | Fast reprogrammable logic with active links between cells A high speed active link switching technology suitable for implementing field programmable gate arrays using current mode logic in the high speed data path, and CMOS steering logic outside the high speed data path to enable the high speed switching logic ... | 02/15/2000 |
| 6021438 | License management system using daemons and aliasing A license restriction management system having wrapper programs and agents as appropriate to manage launches of application programs in distributed systems of computers having a multiplicity of different operating systems. The system includes passive moni... | 02/01/2000 |
| 6010403 | System and method for displaying an interactive event This disclosure is directed to novel systems and methods for displaying an interactive event, such as a race car video game. Numerous display devices are disclosed for displaying video and audio elements of the video game to both current players and to in... | 01/04/2000 |
| 6002268 | FPGA with conductors segmented by active repeaters An interface circuit for use in the layout of padframe interface circuits for field programmable gate arrays having a plurality of I/O cells each of which may be programmed as an input or an output (or both) and a programmable connection matrix which prov... | 12/14/1999 |
| 6000020 | Hierarchical storage management from a mirrored file system on a storage network segmented by a bridge A system for hierarchical data storage management and transparent data backup in a high speed, high volume Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop environment comprising first and second Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loops, each coupling a Transaction Server and backup ... | 12/07/1999 |
| 5978379 | Fiber channel learning bridge, learning half bridge, and protocol A learning half bridge and bridge for a Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop and switching protocol. A half bridge can be coupled to a local loop segment and a remote loop segment. The half bridge includes transmit and receive ports implementing predetermined sw... | 11/02/1999 |
