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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5461611 | Quality of service management for source routing multimedia packet networks A management system for local area networks ensures selected levels of quality of service to all transmission requests submitted to the management system. This management system is attached to the network and receives requests from all other stations on t... | 10/24/1995 |
| 5303137 | Multiresonant self-oscillating converter circuit A direct current to direct current converter utilizes a MOSFET half-bridge configuration in which the inherent magnetizing and leakage inductances of the transformer are used as the only inductances in the frequency-determining circuit. Diodes are used to... | 04/12/1994 |
| 5231973 | Vaginal speculum A vaginal speculum is disclosed in which a ratcheted linear motion of a thumb pad is translated into a complicated linear, rotational and retractive motion of the speculum paddles to provide anatomically correct motions for dilation of the vagina and the ... | 08/03/1993 |
| 5090117 | Method of assembling electronic equipment An electronic equipment cabinet is shown having an integrated cover panel which provides a plurality of connector receptacle positions to which outside equipment may be connected. Connector contacts are snap locked into the receptacle positions. The conne... | 02/25/1992 |
| 5072868 | Portable wet paint brush holder A portable wet paint brush holder which is formed by a substantially rectangular bottom panel, vertical front and rear walls, and substantially rectangular side walls forming an enclosure with a top opening for receiving the brush portion of a conventiona... | 12/17/1991 |
| 5057036 | Pull ring locking mechanism A pivotable pull ring is permanently attached to a low profile electrical plug by fashioning a locking stub at the attaching ends of the pull ring. Matching lock stub cavities in the electrical plug have "one-way" locking tabs which accept the locking stu... | 10/15/1991 |
| 5053926 | Electronic equipment cabinet cover panel with integrated connector assembly An electronic equipment cabinet is shown having an integrated cover panel which provides a plurality of connector receptacle positions to which outside equipment may be connected. Connector contacts are snap locked into the receptacle positions. The conne... | 10/01/1991 |
| 5020115 | Methods and apparatus for dynamically scaling images An image processing system is disclosed in which the various image processing circuits are arranged in a pipeline such that the output of each circuit is passed on to the next circuit in the pipeline without storing the data between circuits of the pipeli... | 05/28/1991 |
| 5002188 | Collapsible protective carton with interior cradle A collapsible protective carton of corrugated cardboard is constructed from either one or two blanks and contains a suspended product protecting cradle dividing the carton interior into upper, lower, and central compartments. The central compartment is th... | 03/26/1991 |
| 4963104 | Shielded connector assembly A multiconductor shielded connector is disclosed in which a flexible, compressible double bushing is used between the connector half shells and the multiconductor cable. The double bushing comprises an outer bushing dimensioned to grasp the outer jacket o... | 10/16/1990 |
| 4960392 | Shielded connector assembly with noise suppressor A multiconductor shielded connector is disclosed in which a flexible, compressible double bushing is used between the connector half shells and the multiconductor cable. The double bushing comprises an outer bushing dimensioned to grasp the outer jacket o... | 10/02/1990 |
| 4927376 | Electrical plug assembly and system A low profile alternating current electrical plug is disclosed in which the electrical pins are terminated in lands at right angles to the axis of the pins. These lands are used for crimping wires to the pins as well as for mechanically stabilizing the pi... | 05/22/1990 |
| 4853889 | Arrangement and method for speeding the operation of branch instructions Arrangement and method for avoiding the processing time associated with executing branch instructions in a computer. An instruction fetch unit appends a next instruction address field to each instruction it passes it via an instruction cache to an instruc... | 08/01/1989 |
| 4853790 | Electromagnetic and electrostatic shielding for electronic equipment A method and structure for assembling cathode ray tube electronic equipment is disclosed in which a sheet metal cage is assembled inside the plastic housing to enclose the electronic components. The face of the cathode ray tube is covered with a fine cond... | 08/01/1989 |
| 4844389 | One-piece hammer strap and method of using same A one-piece hammer strap is disclosed for attaching ductwork to the superstructure of a building. The hammer strap comprises a baseplate, a strap and a fastening device. The strap is attached at one end to the baseplate, threaded around the ductwork and t... | 07/04/1989 |
| 4724278 | Pedestal enclosure with contaminant barrier A compliant, synthetic material of predetermined thickness is inserted into the space between cables and the inner surface of a pedestal enclosure which houses the cables. The compliant material prevents moisture, rodents, and insects from entering the up... | 02/09/1988 |
| 4698752 | Data base locking A data base system is disclosed in which records are locked out during record changing by using a dynamically generated directed acyclic graph of the records. The edges of the graph, stored in the records themselves, point toward a "root" record represent... | 10/06/1987 |
| 4698804 | Shared data transmission system A digital transmission system includes a plurality of stations sharing a common transmission line. Variable length messages, set off by flags, are exchanged between pairs of stations. While a message is being received, the downstream portion of the transm... | 10/06/1987 |
| 4697188 | Interference canceler with difference beam Undesired signals from interfering satellites are separated from desired signals from a target satellite by using a sum beam and a difference beam as in a monopulse radar. Both desired and undesired signals are received by an antenna and separated by diff... | 09/29/1987 |
| 4649298 | Non-saturating tri-state driver circuit A single chip, bipolar logic circuit receives input signals in a differential amplifier or comparator stage coupled, without saturation, by differential current mirrors to drive an output stage of the push-pull variety. Various circuit arrangement are inc... | 03/10/1987 |
| 4646229 | Time-ordered data base A data base system includes future versions of the data base which are maintained currently in response to orders for future execution. All transactions against the data base are time stamped to assure access to the proper version of the data base. Inform... | 02/24/1987 |
| 4644562 | Combined cross polarization interference cancellation and intersymbol interference equalization for terrestrial digital radio systems Data-aided equalization and cancellation in digital data transmission over dually polarized fading radio channels is disclosed. The present invention uses decision feedback structures with finite-tap transversal filters. Subject to the assumption that som... | 02/17/1987 |
| 4641299 | Mechanized loop testing using a local metallic access port In a telephone local exchange system where loops are connected to a remote switch which in turn homes on a host switch via a carrier system and where the distance between the ends of the loops and the host switch exceeds a threshold, the loops may be test... | 02/03/1987 |
| 4639914 | Wireless PBX/LAN system with optimum combining A wireless PBX or LAN system is disclosed that allows multiple, simultaneous users per channel for communication between a base station and a plurality of remote terminals by a combination of adaptive signal processing arrays using optimum combining at th... | 01/27/1987 |
| 4636939 | Parallel bus protocol A mechanized system distributing the access, test and communication functions to the point of testing, typically the centralized switching facility serving the telephone loops and equipment to be tested. Computer (200) stores information about each subscr... | 01/13/1987 |
| 4628158 | Stored program controller A mechanized system distributing the access, test and communication functions to the point of testing, typically the centralized switching facility serving the telephone loops and equipment to be tested. Computer (200) stores information about each subscr... | 12/09/1986 |
| 4618194 | Connecting block for digital system cross-connect frame A connecting block for a digital cross connect system has printed wiring circuit boards to interconnect terminals on the rear surface with jacks and terminals on the front surface. The terminals on the front surface are multipled to jack appearances also ... | 10/21/1986 |
| 4610032 | Sis mixer having thin film wrap around edge contact A single substrate with a stripline circuit on one of its surfaces for use in a down converting mixer has a thin metallic film deposited utilizing photolithographic techniques onto two free ends: one end with the junction section of the stripline circuit ... | 09/02/1986 |
| 4607332 | Dynamic alteration of firmware programs in Read-Only Memory based systems A method for dynamically altering Read-Only Memory (ROM)-based programs utilizes Random-Access Memory (RAM) and standard processor linkages associated with subroutine or function calls. Each original ROM program includes a statement to call a ROM processi... | 08/19/1986 |
| 4590583 | Coin telephone measurement circuitry A mechanized system distributing the access, test and communication functions to the point of testing, typically the centralized switching facility serving the telephone loops and equipment to be tested. Computer (200) stores information about each subscr... | 05/20/1986 |
| 4587632 | Lookahead stack oriented computer A computer architecture is disclosed which obtains the advantages of stack oriented machines from a programming viewpoint and, at the same time, obtains the hardware advantages of a multiple operand architecture from the hardware viewpoint. This is accomp... | 05/06/1986 |
| 4583219 | Trunk for packet switching Fair and fast service to a plurality of channels served by packet switches at nodes interconnected through a common carrier facility is achieved by controlling the quantity of data sent from any one channel to another. When data arrives at a node from a c... | 04/15/1986 |
| 4580105 | Automatic reduction of intermodulation products in high power linear amplifiers A distortion simulating pilot is injected at the input of an amplifier which uses feed forward distortion correction. The magnitude of the pilot signal in the amplifier output is used to control a decreasing step size circuit algorithm for adjusting the g... | 04/01/1986 |
| 4578761 | Separating an equivalent circuit into components to detect terminating networks A methodology for decomposing a three-wire equivalent circuit into a cascade arrangement of a two-wire transmission line and a three-port terminating network is disclosed. Decomposition synthesis is accomplished by iteratively separating the equivalent ci... | 03/25/1986 |
| 4577276 | Placement of components on circuit substrates In laying out integrated circuits on a substrate, the placement of the components relative to each other is important in minimizing conductor area and hence chip area. Large scale integration often uses polycells which are lined up in rows to realize the ... | 03/18/1986 |
| 4562436 | Data communication network A mechanized system distributing the access, test and communication functions to the pont of testing, typically the centralized switching facility serving the telephone loops and equipment to be tested. Computer (200) stores information about each subscri... | 12/31/1985 |
| 4555774 | Fast response for switched data networks An interactive information retrieval system is disclosed in which a large number of user terminals interact bilaterally with a centralized computer controlled data base by using a communications controller. In order to speed up the response time of the sy... | 11/26/1985 |
| 4555775 | Dynamic generation and overlaying of graphic windows for multiple active program storage areas A graphic terminal is disclosed using bitmaps to represent plural overlapping displays. Graphics software is also disclosed in which the overlapping asynchronous windows or layers are manipulated by manipulating the bitmaps. With this software, the physic... | 11/26/1985 |
| 4554642 | Digital filtering with monitored settling time A mechanized system distributing the access, test and communication functions to the point of testing, typically the centralized switching facility serving the telephone loops and equipment to be tested. Computer (200) stores information about each subscr... | 11/19/1985 |
| 4550415 | Fractionally spaced equalization using nyquist-rate coefficient updating A fractionally spaced adaptive equalizer is disclosed wherein the coefficients (C-2 to C+2) are updated synchronously by an integral -T error circuit (40) and alternately by a fractional =T error circuit (48). This arrangement featur... | 10/29/1985 |
