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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8184564 | Staggering bursts of broadcast management frames in a wireless network device having a plurality of MAC addresses A method, a software product, and an apparatus to operate in a wireless device of a wireless network. The wireless device acts as a plurality of APs. The method includes transmitting bursts of management frames containing a broadcast-buffered indication for a corres... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8169435 | Generating and rendering three dimensional models of flexible packaging A method, and apparatus, and a computer-readable medium encoded with instructions to carry out a method. The method is of rendering a model of a surface of wrinkly material such as paper or foil, e.g., a model of packaging on a display device. The method includes ac... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8164617 | Combining views of a plurality of cameras for a video conferencing endpoint with a display wall A telepresence apparatus, a method of operating a telepresence apparatus, and a tangible computer readable storage medium in a telepresence apparatus that is configured with instructions that when executed cause operating of the telepresence apparatus. The teleprese... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8159932 | Initial timing estimation in a wireless network receiver An apparatus for and a method of wirelessly receiving a signal, and detecting a start of packet (SOP) from the received signal using at least one SOP detection criterion. In the case an SOP is detected, determining a plurality of metrics from the received signal, an... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8144784 | Position coding for context-based adaptive variable length coding Particular embodiments include a method, an apparatus, and logic embodied in tangible computer-readable medium that when executed carries out a method of encoding an ordered sequence of quantized transform coefficients of a block of image data. One embodiment is a c... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8135071 | Breakpoint determining for hybrid variable length coding using relationship to neighboring blocks A method, and apparatus, and logic encoded in one or more computer-readable tangible medium to carry out a method. The method is to code an ordered sequence of quantized transform coefficients of a block of image data using a hybrid coding method that includes deter... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8131096 | Variable length coding for clustered transform coefficients in video compression Coding quantized transform coefficients as occur in image compression combines a position identifying method to identify the relative position of clusters of consecutive non-zero-valued coefficients, an amplitude event identifying method to identify amplitude events... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8126062 | Per multi-block partition breakpoint determining for hybrid variable length coding A method, and apparatus, and logic encoded in one or more computer-readable tangible medium to carry out a method. The method is to code a plurality of ordered sequences of quantized transform coefficients of a corresponding plurality of blocks of image data using a... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8121427 | Breakpoint determining for hybrid variable length coding and encoding the determined breakpoint A method, and apparatus, and logic encoded in one or more computer-readable tangible medium to carry out a method of determining a breakpoint position in an ordered sequence of quantized transform coefficients of a block of image data for a hybrid variable length co... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8111934 | Extension of two-dimensional variable length coding for image compression A method and an apparatus to encode a series of quantized coefficients of a transform of a block of image data. The transform is such that 0 is the most likely coefficient amplitude and 1 is the next most likely coefficient amplitude. The method includes forming sym... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8111331 | Image resizer and resizing method An apparatus embodiment is operative to scale video and includes an input buffer coupled to a real time source of video data and configured to hold a number of lines of video, a horizontal resizer coupled to the input buffer to resize lines of image data, outputting... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8110757 | Interference removal in pointing device locating systems An apparatus and a method for determining the location of a pointing device in the vicinity of a set of receivers able to receive one or more locating signals transmitted through a medium. The method includes receiving at a receiver a signal that includes a locating... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8103694 | System and method for managing data in multiple bills of material over a network A method of storing and managing BOMs of different owners in the same environment. One or more BOMs have an owner. An owner's BOM may include confidential information such that unrestricted access to the confidential information is limited to the owner and any desig... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8102814 | Access point profile for a mesh access point in a wireless mesh network A mesh access point that includes an access point profile storing one ore more parameters in non-volatile memory, and a method of using the mesh access point having the access point profile to select and carry out mutual authentication on a wireless mesh network to ... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8100054 | Clamping device, system and method for clamping flexible plates onto an imaging cylinder An imaging cylinder includes a clamping device embodiment with a pair of independent adjacent clamping elements, and a method embodiment includes placing end edges of a flexible plate between each of the clamping elements of the clamping device and a surface approxi... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8087155 | Method of forming an integrated circuit with MM-wave antennas using conventional IC packaging A method of forming the integrated circuit. The method includes, in an integrated circuit package, forming each bond to or from an integrated circuit pad that is intended to be an antenna connection to be elongated compared to other bonds, and arranged in an approxi... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8086076 | Real-time face detection using temporal differences An apparatus, a method, and a computer-readable medium having instructions encoded thereon that when executed cause a method to be carried out. The method includes dividing at least a portion of a picture of a video stream into parts of blocks, and processing the pa... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8085249 | Pre-assembled part with an associated surface convertible to a transcription apparatus An apparatus including a part board having an associated surface or a frame for a surface, such as a whiteboard, that is pre-assembled to include components that when connected to an external module convert the surface to an electronic transcription apparatus. In on... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8077772 | Coding background blocks in video coding that includes coding as skipped A method, an apparatus, and a method to encode a block in a picture of a time sequence of pictures such as video. The method includes selecting the mode for coding the block, one of the modes being to code the block as skipped. The method further includes limiting t... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8077079 | Radiolocation using path loss data Determining the location of a station or potential rogue access point in a wireless network including accepting an ideal path loss model and calibrating the ideal model using path loss measurements between access points at known locations. The calibrating determines... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8046379 | System and method for access control and for supply chain management via a shared bill of material A system for securely uploading and downloading data from a client to a remote data storage location under control of a remote application program. The data is stored in encrypted form so that the data server has no access to the data. The data is associated with a ... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8041131 | Variable length coding of coefficient clusters for image and video compression A coding method, apparatus, and medium with software encoded thereon to implement a coding method. The coding method includes encoding cluster of consecutive non-zero-valued coefficients, the encoding of a cluster including jointly encoding joint events that each ar... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8037305 | Securing multiple links and paths in a wireless mesh network including rapid roaming A method and logic encoded in tangible media and apparatus for securing links between a mesh point and one or more identities of one or more parent mesh points of a wireless mesh network in order to secure the links. A first association is carried out to one of the ... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8036471 | Joint amplitude and position coding of coefficients for video compression A coding method, apparatus, and medium with software encoded thereon to implement a coding method. The coding method includes jointly encoding joint events that each are defined by a cluster of consecutive non-zero-valued coefficients, each joint event defined by th... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8023478 | System and method for securing mesh access points in a wireless mesh network, including rapid roaming An authentication method in a mesh AP including using standard IEEE 802.11i mechanisms between the mesh AP and an authenticator for authenticating the mesh AP to become a child mesh AP with a secure layer-2 link to a first parent mesh AP that has a secure tunnel to ... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8023452 | Method and apparatus for cell identification in wireless data networks A method including wirelessly receiving a packet at a wireless station belonging to a cell of a wireless network, the network for communicating according to a wireless network standard, each transmitting station of the cell able to transmit a packet that includes ce... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8018883 | Wireless transmitter identity validation in a wireless network An apparatus, a method, and logic encoded in computer readable media that when executed operable to carry out the method. The method includes wirelessly receiving at a receiving station a signal transmitted from a transmitting station in a wireless network. The sign... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8018492 | Video testing using a test pattern and checksum calculation A method, an apparatus, and logic for testing a video data path. One method includes sending video data corresponding to a video test pattern to an input port of a video data path; receiving video data at an output port of the video data path; and calculating a func... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8015283 | Cooperative monitoring of peer-to-peer network activity Particular embodiments include cooperative monitoring of peer-to-peer activity on a network including maintaining communication between a local monitoring process and a network monitoring process such that a process can use both network monitoring and local monitori... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8013887 | Beam illumination system and method for producing printing plates Images are transferred to printing plates by illuminating light-responsive materials with patterns corresponding to the images to be printed. The present invention provides for the transferring of an image by the combined flux from two or more beams of light. Partic... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8009836 | Audio frequency response processing system The invention provides a method and system for forming an output impulse response function. The method includes the steps of creating an initial impulse response, and dividing the impulse response into a head portion and a tail portion. The tail portion is high pass... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7997198 | Plate drum loadable as a sleeve for an imaging device A cylindrically-shaped tube fitting over a cylindrically-shaped base body rotatable around an axis of rotation. The tube has a cylindrically-shaped inner surface defining a hollow region, a cylindrically-shaped outer surface, a first end, and a second end. The base ... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7979464 | Associating rights to multimedia content A method and software to implement a method comprising receiving digital content such as multimedia content, and either ascertaining whether at least a part of the digital content has previously been associated with one or more matched referenced works or searching ... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7949195 | Per block breakpoint determining for hybrid variable length coding A method, and apparatus, and logic encoded in one or more computer-readable tangible medium to carry out a method. The method is to code an ordered sequence of quantized transform coefficients of a block of image data using a hybrid coding method that includes deter... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7949141 | Processing audio signals with head related transfer function filters and a reverberator A method, an apparatus, and a software product to process a plurality of input audio signals. The apparatus accepts a plurality of input signals and includes a multi-input, multi-output reverberator arranged to generate a set of output signals including delayed reve... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7949052 | Method and apparatus to deliver a DVB-ASI compressed video transport stream A method and apparatus to compress a DVB-ASI bit stream including accepting the stream containing packets of compressed media, sync words, and stuffing words, identifying starts of packets, identifying and discarding stuffing words; and adding information to form a ... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7940294 | Method and apparatus for using far end camera control (FECC) messages to implement participant and layout selection in a multipoint videoconference A method, an apparatus and a medium encoded with instructions for providing layout selection, participant selection, and/or participant-to-participant far end camera control of the selected participant for use in a continuous presence multipoint videoconference. The... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7929507 | Selecting an access point according to a measure of received signal quality A method, an apparatus for inclusion in a wireless station, and a computer readable storage medium for operation in a wireless station. The method includes received data from at least one remote station and determining an EVM measure from samples of the received dat... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7916705 | Method, apparatus, and software product for detecting rogue access points in a wireless network A method, an apparatus, and a software program to implement a method to detect a rogue access point of a wireless network. The method includes maintaining an AP database that includes information about managed access point (APs) and friendly APs, including the MAC a... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7912306 | Variable length coding for clustered transform coefficients in video compression Coding quantized transform coefficients as occur in image compression combines a position identifying method to identify the relative position of clusters of consecutive non-zero-valued coefficients, an amplitude event identifying method to identify amplitude events... | 03/22/2011 |
