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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8170054 | Software control of half duplex radio data transceivers Apparatus and method for providing a data interface to a plurality of radio transceivers such as between a personal computer or other information processing device to one or more radio transmitter/receiver systems having a serial data interface in a manner that prov... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8160982 | Method for detecting people of interest from information sources A method for detecting people of interest from information sources. Method performs automatic community model generation based on uni-parity data. Correlation analysis is employed to identify links within the community. Method may be particularized for solving speci... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8051475 | Collaboration gateway Method for exchanging information between heterogeneous secured networks. Method supports synchronous communications across security domains including text chat, instant messaging, audio applications, video applications, and whiteboard collaboration. The invention i... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8013792 | Method and apparatus to minimize antenna backside signal response and ambiguity Method and apparatus for minimizing antenna backside signal response and ambiguity in low frequency applications, particularly low frequency synthetic aperture radar (SAR). Various time delay elements are selectably switched into the signal path so as to cause a nul... | 09/06/2011 |
| 7916068 | Generalized inner product method and apparatus for improved detection and discrimination Method and apparatus for improving the detection and discrimination of slow moving or stationary range-Doppler spread objects on or in close proximity to the ground (or sea surface). Invention detects, discriminates and separates radar returns from interference incl... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7904263 | Method for automatically detecting and characterizing spectral activity The invention disclosed herein provides a computer implementable method for characterizing signals in a frequency domain spectrum where such signals may be a wideband signal while individually being of varied formats such as tones, analog modulation, digital modulat... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7902857 | Reconfigurable electronic circuit An apparatus and method provides the foundation for designing reconfigurable electronic computing systems. The invention relies on an ability to change the resistance state of a memristor device to achieve an optimal voltage at specific circuit nodes, whereby this d... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7877748 | Method and apparatus for timing information flow in a distributed system A computer and software method and apparatus for distributed data processing which provides agreement between data sources (sensors) and data sinks (actuators) as to what data has been written into a shared buffer. The invention further provides methods and means fo... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7859479 | Antenna for compact satellite terminal An antenna for a compact satellite terminal. Antenna is a rigid parabolic structure of metal matrix composite capable of disassembly into segments affording a high degree of portability such as for man-packable satellite terminals and the like. A shallow feed horn a... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7756685 | Method for automatic community model generation based on uni-parity data Method for automatic community model generation based on uni-parity data. Correlation analysis is employed to identify links within the community. Method may be particularized for solving specific problems such as determining the activities between individuals withi... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7707222 | Method and apparatus for providing access to information systems via e-mail Invention provides a method for an e-mail based interface to function as a single common access point for requesting, receiving, publishing, accessing and sharing various data from multiple, remote information systems. The invention becomes akin to a human relay ope... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7646326 | Method and apparatus for simultaneous synthetic aperture radar and moving target indication Method and apparatus for simultaneous synthetic aperture radar and moving target detection. A plurality of independent radio frequency signals are generated and applied to separate radiating/receiving antenna elements. Signals are generated as basis functions, such ... | 01/12/2010 |
| 7630395 | Apparatus and method for providing a data interface to a plurality of radio transceivers Apparatus and method for providing a data interface to a plurality of radio transceivers such as between a personal computer or other information processing device to one or more radio transmitter/receiver systems having a serial data interface in a manner that prov... | 12/08/2009 |
| 7620673 | Complimentary discrete fourier transform processor Method and apparatus for a complimentary discrete Fourier transform processor. An input signal is sampled, samples then being sequentially delayed, channelized, and processed. Synthesized outputs are provided in complimentary form. Channels are independent so as to ... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7613579 | Generalized harmonicity indicator The invention disclosed herein provides a method and apparatus for analyzing periodic signals so as to determine the degree of harmonicity in real time. Harmonicity estimates are generated for each segment of a signal without the need to process subsequent segments.... | 11/03/2009 |
| 7581028 | Method for efficient image distribution and management Method for efficient image distribution and management Invention employs compact image data structures and packet delivery techniques for Internet applications. Images on a Web page are inefficiently stored, using a single image per file. Invention uses clustering t... | 08/25/2009 |
| 7577564 | Method and apparatus for detecting illicit activity by classifying whispered speech and normally phonated speech according to the relative energy content of formants and fricatives Method and apparatus for the classification of speech signals. Speech is classified into two broad classes of speech production—whispered speech and normally phonated speech. Speech classified in this manner will yield increased performance of automated speech pro... | 08/18/2009 |
| 7570213 | Method and apparatus for detecting and locating intrusion in a wireless network Method and apparatus for locating an intruding radio frequency signal in a wireless network. Relative distance measurements are computed between pairs of receivers from a plurality of receivers to the source of the intruding signal based on received signal strength.... | 08/04/2009 |
| 7512891 | Method for local registration, enrollment, and interaction with multiple-user information display systems by coordinating voice and optical inputs This invention provides a method for registering and enrolling multiple users in a interactive information display systems where the untethered multiple users interact with large information displays using laser pointers coordinated with voice commands. A registrati... | 03/31/2009 |
| 7511665 | Method and apparatus for a frequency diverse array Method and apparatus for a frequency diverse array. Radio frequency signals are generated by a plurality of independent waveform generators and simultaneously applied to a transmit/receive module. A progressive frequency shift is applied to all radio frequency signa... | 03/31/2009 |
| D588856 | Bicyclist's water bottle with bottom drinking valve | 03/24/2009 |
| D583626 | Bicyclists' water bottle having bottom drinking valve | 12/30/2008 |
| 7402744 | MIDI file steganography Method for providing steganography in MIDI files. Present invention provides list steganography algorithms and methods for their application to MIDI files. Present invention further provides a 300% increase in average encoding rate and better implementation of stego... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7400788 | Linearized optical modulator having a plurality of coupling functions Invention discloses an apparatus that provides linear optical modulation of light carrier signals by an electrical modulation signal. Linearized modulation is achieved through the selection of a spacing profile between two optical transmission waveguides. The spacin... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7319427 | Frequency diverse array with independent modulation of frequency, amplitude, and phase Method and apparatus for a frequency diverse array. Radio frequency signals are generated and applied to a power divider network. A progressive frequency shift is applied to all radio frequency signals across all spatial channels. Amplitude weighting signals are app... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7301967 | Method and apparatus for processing custom time division multiplexed signals Method and apparatus for processing time division multiplexed (TDM) signals which may be custom in format. The TDM signal is translated to an intermediate frequency, or externally demodulated, input, and processed. Individual channels of either analog, digital or bo... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7231271 | Steganographic method for covert audio communications Method for embedding a covert message within a digital audio signal. The existence of the covert message is undetectable and the information content of the covert message can be further rendered unascertainable. Covert message data is embedded within a digital audio... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7177808 | Method for improving speaker identification by determining usable speech Method for improving speaker identification by determining usable speech. Degraded speech is preprocessed in a speaker identification (SID) process to produce SID usable and SID unusable segments. Features are extracted and analyzed so as to produce a matrix of opti... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7171561 | Method and apparatus for detecting and extracting fileprints Method and apparatus for processing data sequences for the purpose of data integrity assessment, data ownership demonstration and data authentication. An input data sequence is processed to extract what could be called naturally occurring digital watermarks. More ap... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7113169 | Apparatus and method for a multiple-user interface to interactive information displays This invention relates to the untethered multiple user interaction of large information displays using laser pointers coordinated with voice commands. A projection system projects application windows onto a large information display. One or more users may command th... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7082219 | Method and apparatus for separating text from images The invention described herein provides a method and apparatus for document processing that efficiently separates and interrelates single modalities, such as text, handwriting, and images. In particular, the present invention starts with the recognition of text char... | 07/25/2006 |
| 7071873 | T/R module for satellite TT and C ground link Transmit/Receive (T/R) module that provides multiple simultaneous ground to satellite links with rapid pointing and acquisition. The (T/R) module incorporates independent gain and phase control. Left-hand or right-hand circular polarization can be supplied to dual f... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7072890 | Method and apparatus for improved web scraping Method and apparatus to enable the parser component of a web search engine to adapt in response to frequent web page format changes at web sites. Parser “learns” from a set of defined HTTP links, how to find and parse web pages returned from a search engine quer... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7059569 | Method for aerial rearmament of aircraft The invention provides a method for the aerial transfer of munitions from a rearming aircraft to the weapons pylon of the recipient combat aircraft. The invention also provides for the selection of munitions from a database of munitions and aircraft types in respons... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7035700 | Method and apparatus for embedding data in audio signals Method and apparatus for embedding binary data in audio signals. The magnitude of the power spectrum at the perceptual holes of each frame of a host speech utterance, may be altered so as to embed digital data. The phase spectrum at perceptually masked spectral poin... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7024405 | Method and apparatus for improved internet searching Method and apparatus for improved Internet searching. A user defines their search objective using topic trees. The user is provided a set of tools that allow for the creation and modification of these topic trees and storage for later use. From the topic tree, a use... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7017113 | Method and apparatus for removing redundant information from digital documents Method and apparatus for reconstructing new documents from a group of old ones by removing the existing redundant information. Redundant information (images, text paragraphs) from retrieved multimedia documents is removed. Each document consists of two main parts st... | 03/21/2006 |
| 6952590 | Apparatus and method for a multi-channel, multi-user wireless intercom Method and apparatus for providing a multi-channel, multi-user wireless intercom, comprising a plurality of multi-channel wireless transceiver radios configured to form a radio unit. Each user in a group of users employs a radio unit to communicate with other users ... | 10/04/2005 |
| 6932299 | Apparatus for aerial rearmament of aircraft The invention provides an apparatus for the aerial transfer of munitions from a rearming aircraft to the weapons pylon of the recipient combat aircraft. The invention also provides for the selection of munitions from a database of munitions and aircraft types in res... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6915016 | Method and apparatus for wireless image transmission An image, whether compressed or uncompressed, can be transmitted via a fading communication channel to provide at the receiver an image of good perceptual quality despite the impaired channel. Diversity improves wireless transmission by using highly uncorrelated sig... | 07/05/2005 |
