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...that it was melting ice cream that inspired the invention of the outboard motor? It was a lovely August day and Ole Evinrude was rowing his boat to his favorite island picnic spot. As he rowed, he watched his ice cream melt and wished he had a faster way to get to the island. At that moment the idea for the outboard motor was born!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7877405 | Pruning of spatial queries using index root MBRS on partitioned indexes A method, system, and computer program product provides improved performance for queries on local partitioned indexes. A method of performing a database query comprises receiving a query of spatial data in a database, the database comprising at least one partitioned... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7822052 | Communication processing apparatus and totalizing system A communication processing apparatus appends group information representing a group to received communication frames. Group information to be appended to the communication frames is changed on a predetermined cycle. The communication frames processed in each process... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7805074 | Package starting control device The invention relates to a package starting control device determining a moment and a sequence of starting a package corresponding to an individual wavelength to be wavelength-division-multiplexed in a wavelength division multiplex transmission device. An object of ... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7804811 | Method of detecting error of control information to be transmitted by downlink channel of radio communication and mobile terminal An error detection method for detecting an error of control information (parameters) of a physical channel and a mobile terminal are provided. In a receive side (mobile terminal), the size of each bit string generated in the transport channel HS-DSCH (High-Speed Dow... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7801122 | Method and apparatus for extending synchronous optical networks The number of managed network elements within a SONET network is configured to exceed the number addressable elements in a given address area. This is achieved through the use of SONET extension network elements and a special TL1 command message protocol. Any networ... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7795925 | Phase difference detector and phase difference detection method A phase difference detector for detecting a phase difference between input clocks which both have a same first frequency, including: a pulse width conversion unit for converting the input clocks into a phase difference signal indicating by a pulse width a phase diff... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7764643 | Wireless communication system, transmitting device and receiving device A wireless communication system has a transmitting device and a receiving device that perform communication by using a multi-carrier signal wherein the receiving device includes a quality generating unit generating each piece of receiving quality information on each... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7756469 | Extended radio base station system having broadcast wave retransmitting function A broadcast wave retransmission system is provided at a low cost, in an extended radio base station system having a master base station for mobile communications and an extended radio base station that is connected to the master base station via a communication line... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7756468 | Relay apparatus and relay method A relay apparatus for managing a base station that connects to a mobile station by wireless is disclosed. The relay apparatus includes: an idle mode detection unit configured to detect that the mobile station is in an idle mode; a renewal execution unit configured t... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7756216 | Signal peak voltage suppression apparatus As in a conventional technology, a hard clipping process and a filtering process are performed on a transmission signal. An original transmission signal is subtracted from a signal on which the processes have been performed, and an inverse sign signal to the suppres... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7751776 | Wireless communication device and method for communication using frame Wireless communication device and method whereby, even in cases where relay stations that transmit control information to terminals and relay stations that do not transmit control information coexist in the same system, the terminals are prevented from interfering w... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7751539 | Telecommunication control system In order to provide a telecommunication control system for determining the most appropriate connection configuration according to a connection configuration requested by a caller terminal and a receiver terminal, the telecommunication control system comprises a call... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7751119 | Optical surge suppressive type optical amplifier According to an optical surge suppressive type optical amplifier in the present invention, for a WDM optical amplifier having a multi-stages amplification configuration in which a plurality of optical amplifying means is connected in series, an optical amplifying me... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7746957 | Distortion correction control apparatus and distortion correction control method A distortion correction control apparatus is for compensating for a burst distortion in a transmission amplifier caused by a burst of an input signal of a transmission target. The apparatus includes a holding unit that stores a distortion correction coefficient havi... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7746786 | Retransmission control method and device In a retransmission control method and device which can suppress or expedite a retransmission of user data depending on a processing congestion status or the like on a receiving side, a user equipment on a data receiving side transmits to a radio network control dev... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7746275 | Position detecting system and position detecting server A position detecting system includes an RFID terminal configured to transmit an identification information signal by radio; a plurality of receiving devices configured to receive the identification information signal; and a position detecting server configured to re... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7734652 | Non-negative matrix factorization from the data in the multi-dimensional data table using the specification and to store metadata representing the built relational database management system An implementation of NMF functionality integrated into a relational database management system provides the capability to apply NMF to relational datasets and to sparse datasets. A database management system comprises a multi-dimensional data table operable to store... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7733861 | Radio terminal and ad hoc communication method A source terminal reflects user information of a communication destination terminal in setting information for ad hoc communication, and establishes an ad hoc network by notifying management information including the setting information to terminals surrounding its ... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7725023 | Electronic device, photographing control method, and recording medium An electronic device, such as mobile terminal devices, with a photographing function, and in the case where a photographing target is a person, enhances its function for protecting the photographing target from being photographed without consent by such as spy shots... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7724755 | Communications apparatus To provide a communications apparatus for preventing degradation in data quality, which is caused by the missing of reception data at the time of a data communication, an application processing unit comprises a load monitor processing unit for monitoring a load impo... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7724039 | Conversion circuit for converting differential signal into signal-phase signal A conversion circuit for converting a differential signal into a single-phase signal 1 has a source-follower amplifier 10 and a source-grounded amplifier 20. The source-follower amplifier 10 outputs a non-inverted signal IN of the differe... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7709929 | Capacitor sheet and electronic circuit board A disclosed capacitor sheet attached to an electronic apparatus comprises: a laminated body; a first penetration electrode penetrating the laminated body, the first penetration electrode being electrically connected to a terminal electrode of the electronic apparatu... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7698309 | Advanced fine-grained administration of recovering transactions A method, system, and computer program product provides advanced and fine-grained transaction administration features, along with interoperability between transactional software architectures and business entities. A method of administering recovering transactions c... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7692572 | Detecting and ranging apparatus and detecting and ranging program product A detecting and ranging apparatus and a program product obtain a correct relative velocity vector by a simple calculation based on a relative distance etc. obtained by a plurality of detectors such as a radar etc. by including: two relative distance measurement unit... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7679447 | Variable gain amplifier circuit and filter circuit This variable gain amplifier is provided with an operational amplifier. The non-inversion input terminal of the operational amplifier is connected to a reference potential. A feedback resistor is connected between the output terminal and inversion input terminal of ... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7671886 | Video-phone terminal apparatus, image-shooting method, and computer product A remote-operation authenticating unit determines whether to permit a remote operation of the video-phone terminal apparatus by other video-phone terminal apparatus via a video phone communication. A remote operation unit receives, from the other video-phone termina... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7664843 | Distributed managed entities and database A system and method for providing a technique by which currently available MCUs can handle the large amounts of information present in a large GPON network, without adding expense and complexity to the network elements. A system for managing a telecommunications net... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7664502 | Radio network controller and method for handover of mobile terminal In a radio network controller (100), a buffer (161) for buffering data received from a mobile terminal (MT) via different base stations (BS1 and BSX) is expanded in accordance with the magnitude of the difference between the data transmission ti... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7664473 | Amplifier control device A bias control signal generation unit detects ON and OFF of a transmission signal input to an amplifier and having a property of a burst according to burst information. The bias control signal generation unit controls a bias voltage to be applied to an amplifier suc... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7663436 | Power amplifier with distortion compensation circuit A power amplifier negates a memory effect and is applied a linearizer using a digital predistortion system even in an inexpensive device. The power amplifier compares an input signal power against a sampled component of an output power, and provides predistortion to... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7660370 | Wireless terminal apparatus, control method for wireless base station and control method for wireless terminal apparatus The present invention provides a wireless terminal apparatus, including a reception unit for receiving a multi-carrier signal generated by applying an N-point (where N is a natural number) inverse fast Fourier transform (IFFT) to a plurality of sub-carriers to which... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7657176 | Method, apparatus, and system for evaluating faulty point in multi-stage optical amplifying and repeating transmission line A method, apparatus, and system for evaluation of a faulty point in a multi-stage optical amplifying and repeating transmission line which provides a totally new technique for searching for faults neither of the typical “command response type” or the “DCR meth... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7653026 | Wireless communication system, wireless base station, and mobile station Data transport which allows for handover is implemented by a mobile wireless communication system wherein a first datum is transmitted by a wireless base station, in response to the reception of which a mobile station transmits a second datum, in response to the rec... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7652992 | Two tier traffic shaper approach for resilient packet ring stations RPR traffic management concepts are extended to individual client flows while adhering to the station level traffic management functions by using a two tiered shaper approach. The first tier manages the client level SLAs and feeds the second tier which provides the ... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7634018 | Wireless communication apparatus In a wireless receiving apparatus, comprising a plurality of antennas and a plurality of receivers each of which is provided for each antenna, each receiver uses a received signal that was received by the receiving antenna that is connected to it, and received signa... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7633455 | Plane antenna A plane antenna comprises a substrate having a first surface and a second surface, a first radiating element, a first power feeding pattern connected to the radiating element, and a first non-power feeding loop type radiating element provided adjacent to the first r... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7630638 | Shared multi-lambda source for WDM PON Shared optical carrier sources for the OLT's are provided. An apparatus comprises a plurality of optical carrier generators, each optical carrier generator outputting an optical carrier at a different wavelength, an optical multiplexer operable to combine the plural... | 12/08/2009 |
| 7616718 | Wireless receiver apparatus When carrying out a channel compensation of a data symbol, a channel estimation value of the reference symbol of the frame itself and that of a reference symbol of the preceding frame are used. In this event, if an AGC gain at the time of a channel estimation value ... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7576997 | Backplane extension apparatus and method A method and apparatus for adapting a backplane from one type of connector to another type of connector is disclosed. The method includes providing a backplane with a plurality of connectors, each connector being of a first type of connector, providing at least one ... | 08/18/2009 |
| 7573808 | Smart resync of data between a network management system and a network element Network recovery of multiple NEs, such as at NMS restart, or at re-establishment of communication after loss of communication with the NMS that provides reduced cost and reduced the elapsed time before the NMS can start performing network monitoring. A method of rec... | 08/11/2009 |
