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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8170467 | Multi-band jammer including airborne systems An airborne jammer for transport by an aircraft for jamming communications in a communications system where the communications system operates with digital bursts having burst periods measured in time and occurring in a communication frequency band such as GSM havin... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8097364 | Electroactive material for charge transport An electroactive material for charge transport. The material is formed of a plurality of nanocomponents including nanoparticles, in turn formed of conductive carbon-based clusters bound together by a conductive carbon-based cluster binder including nanoclusters and ... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8009409 | Electrochemical capacitor An electroactive material for charge storage and transport in an electrochemical capacitor. The material is formed of a plurality of nanocomponents including nanoparticles, in turn formed of conductive carbon-based clusters bound together by a conductive carbon-base... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8006758 | Waste material processing for oil recovery An enhanced oil recovery method and apparatus for thermal processing of polymer-based waste to produce organic and inorganic processed materials. The organic and inorganic processed materials are injected as an injection stream into the ground to liberate ground oil... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7697885 | Multi-band jammer A jammer for jamming communications in a communications system where the communications system operates with digital bursts having burst periods measured in time and occurring in a communication frequency band such as GSM having a transmit band and a receive band. T... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7634239 | Generator for agile frequency signals The subject of this patent is a system to generate RF frequency hopped signals that can be used to test radio receivers over the range of their signal specifications. The hop sequence and symbols in the signal is decoded from signals transmitted by the same or diffe... | 12/15/2009 |
| 6718486 | Fault monitor for restarting failed instances of the fault monitor A computer system having a fault-tolerance framework in an extendable computer architecture. The computer system is formed of clusters of nodes where each node includes computer hardware and operating system software for executing jobs that implement the services pr... | 04/06/2004 |
| 7394305 | High-voltage pump switching circuit including ramp and discharge A regulator for regulating the output from a high-voltage pump, Vpump, to provide a regulated load voltage, Vpp, to a load in MOSFET integrated circuits. The regulator includes a MOSFET switch which when enabled in a first state connects Vpp to the integrated circui... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7349457 | Broadband frequency agile signal characterization A signal analyzer to characterize the RF signal transmitted by a frequency hopping radio transmitter. The transmitted signal is analyzed while hopping across a broad frequency band without knowledge of the hop frequencies, timing or signal bandwidth. A wide range of... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7092869 | Memory address prediction under emulation Emulation of a guest computer architecture on a host system of another computer architecture. Legacy instructions are translated into translated instructions. If the particular legacy instruction is an operand-setting instruction for storing a value of a precedent o... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7036172 | Bed having low body pressure and alignment A mattress supporting a reclining body with low body pressure and in alignment. The mattress extends in a lateral direction from side to side and extends in a longitudinal direction from a mattress head to a mattress foot where the mattress includes a head part, a s... | 05/02/2006 |
| 6849051 | Devices and methods for extraction of bone marrow This invention provides medical devices and methods for extracting cellular samples from a bone cavity. ... | 02/01/2005 |
| 6832944 | Wave transmission mobile Parallel ribs are aligned and clamped onto a vertical spine, which is a slow-wave discrete-element torsional transmission line. The spine is attached to a motor which may remain ON for extended periods or which be operated by a chip or other mechanical or electronic... | 12/21/2004 |
| 6807698 | Bed having low body pressure and alignment A mattress for supporting a reclining body. The mattress includes a resilient top member having a top region possessing uniform displacement parameters and also includes resilient supporting means supporting the top member with variable displacement. The combination... | 10/26/2004 |
| 6756854 | Digitally controlled angle noise signal generator A digitally controlled angle noise signal generator for generating a signal with precise and accurate noise. The signal generator is formed of a digital noise generator for generating a digital noise signal θN, and a digital signal generator for forming ... | 06/29/2004 |
| 6603440 | Arrayed-segment loop antenna A segmented loop antenna formed of many segments connected in an electrical loop where the segments are arrayed in multiple divergent directions that tend to increase the antenna electrical length while permitting the overall outside antenna dimensions to... | 08/05/2003 |
| 6558635 | Microwave gas decomposition reactor A microwave reactor for decomposing waste green house gases resulting from the manufacture of semiconductors and from other industrial processes. The microwave reactor includes a plasma chamber having a gas inflow port spaced apart from a gas outflow port... | 05/06/2003 |
| 6453344 | Multiprocessor servers with controlled numbered of CPUs A multiprocessor system having a total number of available CPUs partitioned into one or more smaller pools of CPUs called servers where the number of CPUs available to a server is reduced below the total number of available CPUs. Software licensing costs ... | 09/17/2002 |
| 6397216 | Ordering keys in a table using an ordering mask The present invention is a mask ordering method and apparatus which controls the way keys are compared. In its general form, the mask ordering method operates to order (with a less than, greater than or equal to comparison) two N-byte (for example, N=16) ... | 05/28/2002 |
| 6393411 | Device and method for authorized funds transfer A secure funds device for use with a computer system, such as a personal computer, for transferring funds, in response to a funds transfer request for amounts of funds from the computer system, to a funds receiver. One or more electronic cash devices stor... | 05/21/2002 |
| 6349094 | Method and apparatus for wireless communications employing control for broadcast transmission A communication system having a plurality of forward channel communications and a plurality of corresponding reverse channel communications from and to a plurality of mobile users. A plurality of broadcaster transmitters are distributed at macro-diverse l... | 02/19/2002 |
| 6289457 | Value data system having containers for theft deterrent repositories A value data system for secure electronic storage, transfer and other processing of value data using repositories of security controlled devices. The value data system includes a repository container including one or more of the repositories and a contain... | 09/11/2001 |
| 6286089 | Coupling facility using dynamic address translation A system that employs virtual addressing for structures in a coupling facility. The system operates to share data among two or more processes that execute on central processing complexes. The central processing complexes each have an inter-system channel ... | 09/04/2001 |
| 6269370 | Web scan process An information locator system providing for the expedient acquisition, validation and updating of information locators in a heterogenous network protocol environment. The locator system includes an information location discrimination engine coupleable to ... | 07/31/2001 |
| 6212387 | Method and apparatus for collector arrays of directional antennas co-located with zone managers in wireless communications systems The present invention is a communication system having a plurality of forward channel communications and a plurality of corresponding reverse channel communications in a region for communications with cellular users. Each region includes a plurality of zo... | 04/03/2001 |
| 6195750 | Method and apparatus for dynamic CPU reconfiguration in a system employing logical processors A multiprocessor system having a plurality of CPUs that can be dynamically reconfigured between online and offline without system shutdown. The multiprocessor system includes a dynamic reconfiguration subsystem for reconfiguration without shutdown. The dy... | 02/27/2001 |
| 6192038 | Method and apparatus for wireless communication employing aggregation for digital signals A communication system having a plurality of forward channel communications and a plurality of corresponding reverse channel communications from and to a plurality of mobile users. A plurality of collectors are distributed at macro-diverse locations for r... | 02/20/2001 |
| 6173191 | Localization of shaped directional transmitting and transmitting/receiving antenna array A micro-diverse directional transmitting antenna array positioned proximately upon the boundary of a convex shape whereby the primary attenuation lobes of neighboring antennae overlap. Distinct transmissions by distinct directional antenna components util... | 01/09/2001 |
| 6157825 | Cellular telephone anti-fraud system A transmitter identification system to determine if cellular phones in a cellular phone system are authorized as distinguished from cloned phones, operated by fraudulent users, that are unauthorized. Components used in the manufacture of cellular phones v... | 12/05/2000 |
| 6145066 | Computer system with transparent data migration between storage volumes A computer system includes a transparent data migration facility (TDNff) to accomplish automated movement of data (migration) from one location to another in the system. A data migration program includes a main module to control the start of a migration s... | 11/07/2000 |
| 6137784 | Method and apparatus for wireless communication employing control for confidence metric bandwidth reduction A communication system having a plurality of forward channel communications and a plurality of corresponding reverse channel communications from and to a plurality of mobile users. A plurality of collectors are distributed at macro-diverse locations for r... | 10/24/2000 |
| 6131034 | Method and apparatus for collector arrays in wireless communications systems The present invention is a communication system having a plurality of forward channel communications and a plurality of corresponding reverse channel communications in a region for communications with cellular users. Each region includes a plurality of zo... | 10/10/2000 |
| 6112058 | Method and apparatus for wireless communication employing confidence metric processing for bandwidth reduction A communication system having a plurality of forward channel communications and a plurality of corresponding reverse channel communications from and to a plurality of mobile users. A plurality of collectors are distributed at macro-diverse locations for r... | 08/29/2000 |
| 6108385 | Method and apparatus for reducing intermodulation distortion in digital wideband transmission systems Signal processing to remove unwanted signal components of non-linear elements such as RF amplifiers in broadband wireless communications systems that exhibit unwanted intermodulation products. An information signal is processed to form a processed output ... | 08/22/2000 |
| 6070158 | Real-time document collection search engine with phrase indexing A collection search system is responsive to a user query against a collection of documents to provide a search report. The collection search system includes a collection index including first predetermined single word and multiple word phrases as indexed ... | 05/30/2000 |
| 6047174 | Cellular telephone anti-fraud system Apparatus for identifying wireless subscriber units and for granting or denying access to a subscriber service includes a plurality of wireless subscriber units each for generating a wireless subscriber signal including internal data traits and external s... | 04/04/2000 |
| 6041232 | Aggregation of shaped directional receiving antenna array for improved location information A micro-diverse directional antenna array positioned proximately upon the boundary of a convex shape whereby the primary attenuation lobes of neighboring antennae overlap. This creates a situation in which the reception of signals by said array from the s... | 03/21/2000 |
| 6018733 | Methods for iteratively and interactively performing collection selection in full text searches A method of selecting the likely most relevant database collections for document searching based on an ad hoc query where each of the databases includes a plurality of documents. Iterative collection selection processing of the databases is performed to o... | 01/25/2000 |
| 6015348 | Scalable game server architecture A scalable game apparatus and method for implementing a multi-player computer game includes a plurality of networked computers over which computer processes are distributed. In various embodiments, each computer includes a baron process which coordinates ... | 01/18/2000 |
