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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8013760 | High occupancy vehicle status signaling using electronic toll collection infrastructure An electronic toll collection system, reader, method and transponder for communicating occupancy status. The vehicle-mounted transponder includes a selection device that permits a user to select between a normal and high occupancy state. The transponder reports its ... | 09/06/2011 |
| 7991139 | Methods and apparatus to limit ring trees in voice over internet protocol networks Methods and apparatus to limit ring trees in voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) networks are disclosed. A disclosed example parallel ring policy enforcer comprises a memory to hold parallel ring tree information and a policy checker to enforce a parallel ring polic... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7990982 | Methods and apparatus to bound network traffic estimation error for multistage measurement sampling and aggregation Methods and apparatus to bound network traffic estimation error for multistage measurement sampling and aggregation are disclosed. An example method disclosed herein comprises determining a hierarchical sampling topology representative of multiple data sampling and ... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7971250 | System and method for providing data content analysis in a local area network A system and method for providing data content analysis is disclosed. The system includes an intelligent switch in a local area network, where the intelligent switch has content analysis applications stored therein and is configured to apply one or more content anal... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7957289 | Method to reduce IGP routing information A system and method for routing traffic from an ingress provider edge router to an egress provider edge router that eliminates the need to share state information between the ingress provider edge router and a plurality of core routers in a core network. The ingress... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7953791 | Network resource monitoring and measurement system and method A method and system for analysing and measuring multiple sources of data over a communications network (18) so as to ascertain information or usage of one or more resources, such as resource servers (2). A data collection and processing means (20 | 05/31/2011 |
| 7924987 | Methods, apparatus and data structures for managing distributed communication systems Methods and apparatus for authorizing and allocating outdial communication services are disclosed. A disclosed system comprises an application server to initiate an outdial communication service, a gateway to transport the outdial communication service from the appl... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7720964 | Content display monitor The invention can enable monitoring of the display of content by a computer system. Moreover, the invention can enable monitoring of the displayed content to produce monitoring information from which conclusions may be deduced regarding the observation of the displa... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7664138 | Multiple channel system for a twisted pair telephone wire local loop system The system (50) has a subscriber digital filter system (54)connected to the twisted pair telephone wire (56). A subscriber controller (52) sends control signals to the subscriber digital filter system (54). An office digital filter... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7533300 | Configurable error handling apparatus and methods to operate the same Configurable error handling apparatus and methods to operate the same are disclosed. An example apparatus comprises a processor core in a semiconductor package, a hardware functional block in the semiconductor package, an error handler in the semiconductor package, ... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7472262 | Methods and apparatus to prefetch memory objects by predicting program states based on entropy values Methods and apparatus are disclosed to prefetch memory objects. An example method includes identifying program states associated with an executing program; associating memory profiles with respective ones of the program states; identifying at least one next probable... | 12/30/2008 |
| 7466844 | Methods and apparatus to count people appearing in an image Methods and apparatus to count people appearing in an image are disclosed. One disclosed method reduces objects appearing in a series of images to one or more blobs; for each individual image in a set of the images of the series of images, represents the one or more... | 12/16/2008 |
| 7385525 | Dynamic timing adjustment in an electronic toll collection system An electronic toll collection system with dynamically adjusted timing for operation of one or more subsystems. The timing is dynamically adjusted based upon the prevailing traffic speed for the roadway. The roadway traffic speed is determined based upon direct measu... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7240792 | Packaging for a sink In order to produce a packaging for a sink which has particularly good absorption properties and a low rate of transportation damage there is proposed a packaging for a sink which comprises at least one supporting body that is formed at least partly from a foamed pl... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7066091 | Methods and apparatus for controlling impurity levels in an enclosed printing press environment Methods and apparatus for controlling impurity levels in an enclosed printing press environment are disclosed. A disclosed system controls impurity levels by using variable speed fans to control the intake of air into the enclosed environment and the exhausting of a... | 06/27/2006 |
| 6984590 | Method of manufacturing an EEPROM device A method of manufacturing an EEPROM device is disclosed. An example method forms a screen oxide film on a semiconductor substrate, forms a first ion implantation mask defining a gate insulating film forming region on the screen oxide film, and performs a first ion i... | 01/10/2006 |
| 6969653 | Methods of manufacturing and-type flash memory devices Example methods of manufacturing an AND-type flash memory device are disclosed. One example method may include forming a tunnel oxide layer and a first polysilicon layer in sequence on a silicon substrate; forming a floating gate by removing some part of the first p... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6844940 | Imposition process and apparatus for variable imaging system The present invention is useful for assembling a book. The inventive method includes the steps of specifying pagination information including an indication of whether a page is to be selectively included in the book, determining whether the page is to be assembled i... | 01/18/2005 |
| 6836695 | Automatically generating embroidery designs from a scanned image A method and system are disclosed for automatically generating embroidery designs from a scanned image. An embroidery data generating mechanism generates accurate embroidery designs. The embroidery data generating mechanism first reads an image data file, which cont... | 12/28/2004 |
