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Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) received Patent No. 121,992 for "An Improvement in Adjustable and Detachable Straps for Garments." He later received two more patents: one for a self-pasting scrapbook and one for a game to help players remember important historical dates.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8185637 | Control of session parameter negotiation for communication connection The invention relates to a session control entity, method and a computer program product for determining a first media type indicated for a session associated with a dialogue and determining a second media type indicated for an early media associated with the dialog... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184801 | Acoustic echo cancellation for time-varying microphone array beamsteering systems In a mobile terminal device having a processing unit and a memory unit, an acoustic echo cancellation and a microphone beamforming are provided. Said device includes a plurality of a microphones, a pre-processing stage has an amplifier and a signal converter for an ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8182296 | Electrical connector The present invention pertains to a connector, having a rear side and a mating side and including a housing having at least one contact receiving space and at least one non-contact receiving space, the spaces extending in a direction from the mating side towards the... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8182290 | Electrical shielding cage and system thereof A shielding cage for receiving a plurality of electronic modules includes a bottom cage portion and a plurality of independent upper cage portions each one of which comprising a top wall and two lateral walls adapted to cooperate with the bottom cage portion. Furthe... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8179772 | Data storage medium and method for scanning a storage medium A data storage medium stories data in the form of marks, said marks being written and/or read by an array of probes. The storage medium further includes a plurality of data fields, each field including an area of the storage medium which, in use, is scanned for read... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179457 | Gradient color filters for sub-diffraction limit sensors An apparatus includes an array of sub-diffraction limit-sized light receptors formed in a substrate having a light receiving surface. Each receptor is configured to output an n-bit element and to change state based on the absorption of at least one photon (n is an i... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8175610 | Apparatus, and an associated method, for facilitating airlink resource management in a radio communication system Apparatus, and an associated method, for allocating radio resources in a radio communication system that provides for data communication services, e.g., reverse link communication services in which data is communicated by a mobile station to a network part of the co... | 05/08/2012 |
| RE43370 | Communication device with two modes of operation The invention relates to a mobile station which comprises two separate user interfaces and an outer covering (10, 11) which can be unfolded. The device has the appearance and the size of a common mobile phone when the outer covering (10, 11) is closed,... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8171362 | Apparatus, method and computer program product for HARQ buffer size reduction Apparatus, methods and computer program products implement HARQ buffer size reduction by storing successfully received blocks of a multi-block signal in a code block buffer and only storing unsuccessfully received blocks of the multi-block signal in the HARQ buffer.... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170555 | Method of selecting a new cell A method for selecting a new cell for a station in a cellular telecommunications system, the station being associated with a current cell is provided. The method comprises the steps of measuring at the station the strength of a communication from the current cell, m... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170305 | Quantitative tract-of-interest metrics for white matter integrity based on diffusion tensor MRI data The exemplary embodiments of this invention relate at least in part to a method, apparatus and system to characterize white matter, such as for detecting a presence of a white matter impairment. An exemplary method to characterize white matter includes identifying a... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8169965 | Inter-mode/inter-rat handover There is disclosed a method of packet switched handover in a communications system having at least two modes of operation, the method comprising, at a terminal of the system, associating identifiers of each mode of operation, and responsive to a packet switched conn... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8168892 | Soldermask-less printed wiring board A printed wiring board has a non-conducting substrate with first and second major outboard surfaces; printed electrical conductors over at least the first major outboard surface; and an electrically insulating coating selectively disposed over the printed electrical... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8167665 | Electrical connector with collapsible coupler Disclosed herein is an electrical connector. The electrical connector includes a first electrical connector member, a second electrical connector member, and an electrical connector coupler. The first electrical connector member includes a flange portion and a shaft... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8166529 | Method and device for authenticating a user in a variety of contexts The invention relates to a method and device for authenticating a user of an electronic device in usage contexts being able to use in said electronic device by using a usage context identifier, wherein in the method, a usage context being used in the device is selec... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8166156 | Failure differentiation and recovery in distributed systems According to an embodiment, a method comprises receiving a data packet including an indication comprising a process state indication and a transmission state indication, comparing the indication with an expected indication, and determining if the data packet is vali... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165235 | Interfering stream identification in wireless communication systems An exemplary embodiment in accordance with this invention is a method for determining the number of interfering streams. The method includes calculating statistical information based on one or more received OFDM signals. The number of interfering streams is estimate... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165073 | Relay-station assignment/re-assignment and frequency re-use A prospective relay station sends a report indicative of radio resource sets/preamble sequences used by its neighbors. Where the reported radio resource sets comprise less than all available radio resource sets, a radio resource set that is not indicated in the repo... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165035 | ACK/NACK DTX detection In a first aspect of the invention there is a method, apparatus, and executable software product for receiving scheduling information, determining that at least one downlink allocation of the scheduling information was not received, sending a reply to the received s... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8164640 | Camera control means to allow operating of a destined location of the information surface of a presentation and information system The invention concerns a control device for controlling an information device arrangement. Control device includes camera means (CAM) and display means (VF) to allow operating of a destined location (21) of the information surface. Destined location is adapte... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8161135 | Device identification number based name service A method for addressing a client device, wherein a unique identification code, such as a serial number or an International Mobile Equipment Identity code of a mobile device, is attached to the device name. The unique identification code can be used as a part of the ... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8160961 | Charging for prepaid subscribers in a telecommunications system To be able to customize subscriber charging in a telecommunications system, at least two different kinds of tariff models (TM) are defined, each model containing a tariff scheme defining how to charge a call. The tariff model to be used with a subscriber is directly... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8160663 | Method and apparatus concerning sliding parts An apparatus including a first rail part and a second rail part which are allowed to slide with respect to each other. The apparatus further includes a wearable protrusion in one of the rail parts to set a pre-defined clearance between the rail parts. A method is al... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8160630 | Method and arrangement for controlling transmission power and a network element This invention relates to a method and arrangement for controlling transmission power in a mobile communications system, and to a network element. In the method according to the invention a certain target level is defined for a value representing the quality of a si... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8160519 | Compensating for variations in the response of a power supply Apparatus includes an equalizer having a signal input, a control input and an output; a controllable power supply having a control input and an output, the input of the controllable power supply being coupled to the output of the equalizer; a power amplifier having ... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8160014 | Configuration of multi-periodicity semi-persistent scheduling for time division duplex operation in a packet-based wireless communication system Systems and methods for determining the periodicity for a multiple periodicity SPS allocation using implicit rules for a TDD communications system are disclosed. A communication terminal such as a UE is provided that may determine the periodicity for a multiple peri... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8159980 | PS network with CS service enabling functionality Method and system for optimization of a handoff of a user equipment between packet switched and circuit switched networks in response to a request for circuit switched network services on the user equipment while the user equipment is resident on a packet switched o... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8158900 | Apparatus and method concerning modular keypad assembly An apparatus that forms or includes a modular keypad the keypad including a replaceable key structure including a set of keys comprising projecting key tops, a replaceable front panel, and a replaceable light guide structure underneath the front panel configured to ... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8155614 | Apparatus and methods for signal processing Apparatus including a matrix; a plurality of magnetic particles distributed in at least a portion of the matrix; the matrix being configured to enable the plurality of magnetic particles to move position relative to one another, and at least a portion of the plurali... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8155102 | Channel access control There are provided measures for channel access control. Such measures may exemplarily include obtaining a contention window assignment including at least an assignment of a size of a contention window for contention-based channel access, accessing at least one logic... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8152965 | Method and device for emptying the floor of a soda recovery boiler The invention is related to a method for emptying a furnace floor in a soda recovery boiler when the soda recovery boiler is being shut down. The emptying may be started while smelt is still flowing in smelt spouts. The floor is emptied by sucking smelt from the fur... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8151321 | Modular network-assisted policy resolution The present invention relates to a policy resolution method and system, access network and terminal device for enabling modular network-assisted policy resolution, wherein the policy resolution is divided into separate stages each handling specific types of trigger ... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8150484 | Protective housings for wireless transmission apparatus and associated methods A housing for an apparatus for portable wireless transmission, the apparatus for portable wireless transmission having an antenna element arranged to be able to resonate at a particular highest resonant operating frequency to send/receive transmissions substantially... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8150443 | Overload indicator for adjusting open loop power control parameters The exemplary embodiments of the invention include a method, apparatus, and program to determine actions to be taken upon receiving overload indicators. In one exemplary embodiment of the invention, a method includes: determining if more than a first predetermined n... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8150398 | Handover of a user equipment with forwarding and reusing a user equipment configuration It is described a method for handing over a User Equipment from a first to a second base station of a telecommunication network. The described method includes establishing a first connection between the User Equipment and the first base station, arranging a current ... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8150393 | Method for handling service failures A method for handling service failures for in a communications network comprising a user equipment, a first network element and a serving network element, the method comprising the following steps. Receiving at the first network element a first message from the user... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8150361 | Single chip amplifier and oscillator having similar resonant circuit topology In one aspect this invention provides a radio frequency receiver for coupling to an antenna. The receiver includes a downconversion mixer, an amplifier having an input coupled to the antenna and an output coupled to a first input of the mixer for providing a receive... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8149958 | Low par zero auto-correlation zone sequences for code sequence modulation In one non-limiting exemplary embodiment, a method includes: randomly selecting a set of sequences with each sequence having sequence elements, each sequence element having a frequency selected from constellation points on a unit circle in a complex plane, where the... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8149776 | Method, apparatus and computer program for user equipment access channel procedures Access to a wireless network is attempted by sending on a random access channel RACH at a first transmit power a first preamble comprising a signature sequence that is randomly selected from a set of signature sequences. After the access attempt from sending the fir... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8149756 | Method, apparatus and computer program product providing randomized relay network A relay node is provided for being interposed between at least one source node and at least one destination node. The relay node includes a receiver, a transmitter and a control unit. A transmission signal transmitted by the at least one source node is received by t... | 04/03/2012 |
