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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7299297 | Method and apparatus for protecting electronic commerce from distributed denial-of-service attacks An Internet Service Provider (ISP), in consideration of being remunerated in some manner by an e-merchant, carries the packets of a designated subset of that e-merchant's clients, designated as VIPs, in a privileged class of service as compared to an unprivileged cl... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7228134 | Method of minimizing reverse channel interference caused by an abnormally high number of access attempts in a wireless communications system When an overload condition is determined to exist at a base station in a wireless communications system based on the number of unsuccessful access attempts to access the system relative to the successful access attempts to access the system, the base station broadca... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7207062 | Method and apparatus for protecting web sites from distributed denial-of-service attacks An Internet Service Provider (ISP), in consideration of being remunerated in some manner by a site, determines whether packets destined to that site conform to a profile provided to the ISP by that site. The profile, indicates, for example, what protocols are allowe... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7171165 | Method for determining a transmission rate on the reverse common signaling channel of a wireless system A mobile terminal selects a transmission rate for the reverse common signaling channel in response to at least one mobile-terminal-measured metric that is associated with the RF conditions of the channel. The mobile terminal is provided with information, where the i... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7155740 | Method and apparatus for robust NAT interoperation with IPSEC'S IKE and ESP tunnel mode Linux's NAT (Network Address Translator) implementation, IP Masquerade, includes a VPN Masquerade feature that provides interoperation of NAT with IKE and ESP tunnel mode within the IPSec security protocol suite. VPN Masquerade uses heuristics to route packets from ... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7154960 | Method of determining the capacity of each transmitter antenna in a multiple input/multiple output (MIMO) wireless system The per antenna capacity of each of the transmitter antennas in a MIMO system are individually determined from measurable information at the receiver end. Specifically, the channel capacity for each individual transmitter antenna is calculated at the receiver end as... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7103566 | Applications of executable shopping lists An executable shopping list (ESL) enables a user browsing an affiliate Web site's Web page to order, with a single action, a bundle of multiple items offered for sale by the affiliate's associated merchant Web site, wherein the bundle is one that is not offered or a... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7103884 | Method for maintaining consistency and performing recovery in a replicated data storage system A recovery process allows a recovering replica in a replicated data storage system to recover from a current replica the changes to the data that it has missed during a failure while, at the same time, the system is processing new requests issued by the source. Sequ... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7092731 | Method for improving capacity of a reverse link channel in a wireless network The capacity of a reverse link is improved by realizing a scheme to effect sharp changes in pilot channel transmit power (PCTP) and data channel to pilot power ratio (DCPR), coordinated with the start of the data channel transmission. The change in pilot power and d... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7068993 | Method and apparatus for packetized supplemental wireless distress signaling In response to the triggering of a user's mobile terminal, such as through pushing a dedicated button, by inputting a predetermined sequence of digits, through a menu selection, or automatically in response to an external input, a digital record containing user-spec... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7039410 | Method of handoff at the border between CDMA underlay and overlay systems To avoid interference with the reverse link of a base station within an underlay area, a described method determines when to redirect and handover a mobile terminal that is still communicating on an adjacent carrier with a border base station within an overlay area ... | 05/02/2006 |
| 6981157 | Method and apparatus for ensuring security of users of short range wireless enable devices Master and slave Bluetooth-enabled devices communicate with other by sending messages using a carrier frequency that is constantly hopping from one frequency to another. In the prior art, each frequency in the sequence of frequencies, known as a hopping sequence, is... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6978075 | Cable protector for central office cable rack A cable protector in a telecommunications central office protects cables from damage from contact with cable racks as the cables are pulled from bay to bay. The cable protector is a cardboard-like fiber material that is folded into a planar portion that is dimension... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6976210 | Method and apparatus for web-site-independent personalization from multiple sites having user-determined extraction functionality A personal Web view is created that includes a plurality of Web clippings. Each Web clipping contains information from a user-selected Web page, which can be essentially any Web page that is accessible on any Web server. In creating the page, the user loads a person... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6963982 | Method and apparatus for application-independent end-to-end security in shared-link access networks Clients that are connected on a private network and which are assigned a private IP address that is not routable on the Internet can connect to the Internet through a router/server that includes a network address translator (NAT). For outgoing packets, the NAT trans... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6941142 | Wireless service redirection signaling based on protocol revision A selective Global Service Redirection mechanism allows a service provider, for instance, to instruct only CDMA2000 (MOB_P_REV=6) mobiles to access specific carrier that is deployed to support advanced services known as 3G services. In another embodiment, data-only ... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6907091 | Segmented architecture for multiple sequence detection and identification with frequency offset compensation Detection and identification of known sequences such as sequences composed of Walsh-Hadamard sequence and scrambling sequence are provided in a fast fading and frequency offset environment using a segmented correlator and FHT (Fast Hadamard Transform) architecture w... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6886103 | Method and apparatus for extending network address translation for unsupported protocols Clients that are connected on a private network and which are assigned a private IP address that is not routable on the Internet can connect to the Internet through a router/server that includes a network address translator (NAT). For outgoing packets, the NAT trans... | 04/26/2005 |
| 6836666 | Method to control uplink transmissions in a wireless communication system Efficient data communication in wireless communication system is provided by using centralized control of data communications, such as packet switched services, over the uplink channel (mobile station (MS) to base station (BS)). A multiple access protocol is used wh... | 12/28/2004 |
| 6801790 | Structure for multiple antenna configurations An antenna array comprising at least two groups of antennas where each group comprises at least two pairs of antennas. Each of the pairs in a group contains orthogonally polarized antennas and at least one antenna in a pair is similarly polarized to one antenna in a... | 10/05/2004 |
| 6778550 | Method and apparatus for TDM/TDMA communications In a power splitting passive optical network, TDM/TDMA communication is employed for downstream/upstream transmission over a fiber. A framed structure is used for the downstream transmission from an optical line card (OLC) at the network end to a plurality of optica... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6763436 | Redundant data storage and data recovery system A data replication system is disclosed in which replication functionalities between a host computer, an interconnecting computer network, and a plurality of storage devices are separated into host elements and a plurality of storage elements. The host computer is co... | 07/13/2004 |
| 6728779 | Method and apparatus for exchanging routing information in a packet-based data network Routing information is exchanged between edge routers in different autonomous systems that independently define their routing policies. A Simple Path Vector Protocol extends the prior art Border Gateway Protocol in a manner that is guaranteed to converge by adding a... | 04/27/2004 |
| 6721834 | Rate adaptation in a wireless communication system Disclosed is a method of data rate adaptation based on channel conditions. In the present invention, data is initially transmitted at a first data rate based on a measured first channel condition and, if a NACK is received, the data is retransmitted. The data retran... | 04/13/2004 |
| 6628626 | Wireless data communications using asymmetric channel allocation High speed data transfer from a base station to a mobile terminal is provided using an additional wide band communication channel that supplements the communications provided by the reverse (mobile to base station) and forward (base station to mobile) lin... | 09/30/2003 |
| 6600736 | Method of providing transfer capability on web-based interactive voice response services Interactive voice response (IVR) services are provided to an end user at a telephone terminal (201) connected to the PSTN (202) through a telephone/IP server (205) that serves as an interface between the PSTN and an IP network (204) such as the Internet. ... | 07/29/2003 |
| 6597777 | Method and apparatus for detecting service anomalies in transaction-oriented networks On a transaction network that supports short-duration electronic transactions within multiple service classes between input terminals and host processors, such as for credit card purchases, a network anomaly detector monitors the network to determine a po... | 07/22/2003 |
| 6591373 | Uniform configuration controller for replicated component systems In a replicated component system, changing the condition of a component can deleteriously effect the system as a whole unless the result of making such a change may have on other components is considered. In response to a request to change the condition o... | 07/08/2003 |
| 6580439 | Graphical user interface for providing component relational information for a uniform configuration controller for replicated component systems In a replicated component system, changing the condition of a component can deleteriously affect the system as a whole unless the result of making such a change may have on other components is considered. In response to a request to change the condition o... | 06/17/2003 |
| 6574455 | Method and apparatus for ensuring security of users of bluetooth TM-enabled devices Rather than including a static network descriptor in messages transmitted between master and slave Bluetooth-enabled devices communicating on a piconet, which network descriptor is computed as a known function of the master's Bluetooth address (BD_ADDR), ... | 06/03/2003 |
| 6535912 | Method for creating and playing back a smart bookmark that automatically retrieves a requested Web page through a plurality of intermediate Web pages Shortcuts to Web pages that require multiple steps to be retrieved are enabled by means of a smart bookmark. A smart bookmark is a stored sequence of browsing steps performed by a user, that have been recorded in a transparent manner and which can be auto... | 03/18/2003 |
| 6529676 | Waveguide incorporating tunable scattering material A unique waveguide structure is provided in which the waveguide contains individual scattering elements that are capable of being tuned to provide local refractive index variations, e.g., on a micron scale--which is on the order of wavelengths typically u... | 03/04/2003 |
| 6510531 | Methods and systems for testing parallel queues There is provided methods and systems for testing linearizable, linearizable priority, and non-linearizable queues. According to one embodiment of the invention, there is provided a method for verifying correct function of a linearizable queue with respec... | 01/21/2003 |
| 6490705 | Method and apparatus for receiving MPEG video over the internet In order to transmit an inter-frame coded video signal, such as an MPEG-coded video signal, over a packet-based network such as the Internet, the video signal associated with at least one video frame, is split (102, 402) into a high priority partition and... | 12/03/2002 |
| 6459774 | Structured voicemail messages A sender (101) creates a voicemail message that includes a plurality of messaging elements that include embedded instructions that define a structure of the message. Other messaging elements may include textual fragments, audio fragments that refer to aud... | 10/01/2002 |
| 6445686 | Method and apparatus for improving the quality of speech signals transmitted over wireless communication facilities It has been recognized that in a wireless communication system certain frames of encoded speech data transmitted between a base station and a mobile unit, or between a mobile unit and a base station, are more critical than others. A frame may be determine... | 09/03/2002 |
| 6434618 | Programmable network element for packet-switched computer network A programmable network element (400) operates on packet traffic flowing through the element in accordance with a gateway program (404, 405, 406) which is dynamically uploaded into the network element or unloaded from it via a mechanism separate from the a... | 08/13/2002 |
| 6393107 | Method and apparatus for creating and sending structured voicemail messages A sender (101) creates a voicemail message that includes a plurality of messaging elements that include embedded instructions that define a structure of the message. Other messaging elements may include textual fragments, audio fragments that refer to aud... | 05/21/2002 |
| 6389462 | Method and apparatus for transparently directing requests for web objects to proxy caches In order to transparently redirect an HTTP connection request that is directed to an origin server (107) to a proxy cache (110-1), a proxy redirector (104) translates the destination address of packets directed to the origin server to the address of the p... | 05/14/2002 |
| 6317462 | Method and apparatus for transmitting MPEG video over the internet In order to transmit an inter-frame coded video signal, such as an MPEG-coded video signal, over a packet-based network such as the Internet, the video signal associated with at least one video frame, is split (102, 402) into a high priority partition and... | 11/13/2001 |
