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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7221951 | Method and system for short message service exchange and teleconferencing In a short message service (SMS) wireline/wireless message system, a separate SMS exchange subsystem implements value-added service capability. The value addition service may range, for example, from simple data insertion in the SMS message to the more complex initi... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7120205 | Method and system for multiple-shift code acquisition of optical orthogonal codes in optical CDMA systems A technique for determining an arbitrary delay in a source code word propagated over a channel that introduces the arbitrary delay in the source code word to produce a received code word. The technique is based upon a multiple-shift algorithm to determine the delay ... | 10/10/2006 |
| 6996409 | Multi-party concurrence through short message service exchanges In a short message service (SMS) wireline/wireless message system, a separate SMS exchange server linked to a multi-party concurrence server implements a value-added service capability to achieve multi-party concurrence. The basic function of the multi-party concurr... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6844947 | All-optical holographic code division multiple access switch A technique for processing optical input signals to produce optical output signals using only a single hologram for a plurality of circularly shifted code words used to encode the input signals. A spatial light modulator coupled to the each of the optical input sign... | 01/18/2005 |
| 6834796 | Anonymous redemption and stored value system and method A stored value commerce system and method enabling the anonymous creation and usage of stored value accounts for purchase of goods and/or services, including the anonymous redemption of a value up to a maximum of the balance value associated with a stored value acco... | 12/28/2004 |
| 6684072 | Global wireless prepaid roaming A global prepaid roaming services method and apparatus is described in which a roaming phone located in a first region places an outgoing call to a destination party in a second region, and responsive to placing the call, a service processing node (SPN) e... | 01/27/2004 |
| 6657998 | Conditionally nonblocking switch of the unimodal-circular type Broadband switching including the implementation of and control over a massive sub-microsecond switching fabric. To effect the attributes of the switching fabric, conditionally nonblocking components are used a building-blocks in an interconnection networ... | 12/02/2003 |
| 6633660 | Near-field tomography A method for the direct reconstruction of an object from measurements, called scattering data, of scattered waves due to probing waves as emitted by a source. The scattering data is related to a scattering kernel by an integral operator. The image is dire... | 10/14/2003 |
| 6591285 | Running-sum adder networks determined by recursive construction of multi-stage networks A technique for physically implementing a running sum adder network and configuring the concomitant adder network of elements. A 2k+1×2.sup.k+1 adder network has the size 2k+2 -k-3 and depth 2k+1; thus the adder network achieves a v... | 07/08/2003 |
| 6473738 | Multiple-person buying information system with application to on-line merchandizing Techniques for implementing a computer-implemented, multi-party merchandizing service. This service engenders a buying experience that parallels the best aspects of an "in-store" buying experience, but engenders other aspects which can be advantageously p... | 10/29/2002 |
| 6359883 | Reducing the variability of the data rates of high-rate data streams in order to communicate such streams over a low-rate channel of fixed capacity Techniques whereby a transmitter/receiver pair are cooperatively arranged to buffer incoming data to both the transmitter and the receiver. The transmitter and receiver of the pair are coupled, generically, by pre-existing channel which has a known, fixed... | 03/19/2002 |
| 6058109 | Combined uniform rate and burst rate transmission system A transceiving methodology and concomitant transceiving system wherein high speed, bursty channels are combined with uniform data rate services into a single, interleaved data stream. A system for communicating both a uniform data stream and a bursty data... | 05/02/2000 |
| 5990885 | Personalized services, including a personal presence, for customers based upon collected personal preferences An arrangement to provide personalized services to customers, such as hotel guests or hospital patients, wherein the personalized services are based upon a personal preference profile collected for each individual. The services are displayed to the guest ... | 11/23/1999 |
| 5949780 | Integration of intelligence with communications in a switching node A canonical programming method for integrating intelligence into a communications service at a switching node. The communications service is implemented with a program stored in a processing unit which receives and transmits messages from and to ports, re... | 09/07/1999 |
| 5925097 | Directly programmable distribution element A distribution element composed of a crossbar-type switch with four independent ports and direct multicast transfer capability which effects a direct interface to applications with an instruction sets for the distribution element, the sets providing for g... | 07/20/1999 |
| 5909369 | Coordinating the states of a distributed finite state machine The states of a distributed finite state machine composed of a plurality of devices are coordinated by a sequence of operations to effect a self-timed cycle. Each device is arranged to apply a voltage over one or more leads and measure the current on the ... | 06/01/1999 |
| 5905261 | Imaging system and method using direct reconstruction of scattered radiation A method for the direct, mathematical reconstruction of the image of an object from measurements of the transmitted intensity of the scattered radiation effected by irradiating the object. The transmitted coefficient is related to the image by an integral... | 05/18/1999 |
| 5832922 | Diffusion Tomography system and method using direct reconstruction of scattered radiation A method for the direct reconstruction of an object from measurements of the transmitted intensity of diffusively scattered radiation effected by irradiating the object with a source of continuous wave radiation. The transmitted intensity is related to th... | 11/10/1998 |
| 5787888 | Absorption tomography system and method using direct reconstruction of scattered radiation A method for the direct reconstruction of an object from measurements of the transmitted intensity of diffusively scattered radiation effected by irradiating the object with a source of continuous wave radiation. The transmitted intensity is related to th... | 08/04/1998 |
| 5762607 | Emission tomography system and method using direct reconstruction of scattered radiation A method for the direct reconstruction of an object from measurements of the quantum efficiency determined from both a diffusing wave and a reradiated diffusing wave effected by irradiating the object with a source of radiation. The quantum efficiency is ... | 06/09/1998 |
| 5747810 | Simultaneous absorption and diffusion tomography system and method using direct reconstruction of scattered radiation A method for the direct reconstruction of an object from measurements of the transmitted intensity of diffusively scattered radiation effected by irradiating the object with a source of continuous wave radiation. The transmitted intensity is related to th... | 05/05/1998 |
| 5640546 | Composition of systems of objects by interlocking coordination, projection, and distribution A methodology for developing scalable systems based on a technique for the composition of objects to form a larger, composite object using Interface Cycles, which are canonical programs, hardware, or abstractions which interlock protection, distribution, ... | 06/17/1997 |
| 5634004 | Directly programmable distribution element A distribution element composed of a crossbar-type switch with four independent ports and direct multicast transfer capability which effects a direct interface to applications with an instruction sets for the distribution element, the sets providing for g... | 05/27/1997 |
| 5608649 | Directly programmable networks A procedure for establishing a scalable spanning tree over a network composed of nodes and links in which the resources for each node is independent of the size of the network. The procedure involves the selection of a set of states, a set of messages, st... | 03/04/1997 |
| 5605019 | Foldable and expandable pitch pocket and method of forming same A foldable and expandable pitch pocket for encompassing an element such as a vent pipe protruding from a roof structure. The pitch pocket is initially an elongated piecepart which is arranged with slits on a horizontal wall and notches on the vertical wal... | 02/25/1997 |
| 5045994 | Emulation process having several displayed input formats and output formats and windows for creating and testing computer systems A method of operating a computer system is disclosed that facilitates the creation and testing of application system software by utilizing an autonomous environment to emulate the application system environment. The emulation environment allows the user t... | 09/03/1991 |
| 4984152 | System for controlling computer processing utilizing a multifunctional cursor with decoupling of pointer and image functionalities in space and time A human-computer interface for executing computer operations on data objects under control of a multifunctional cursor which represents multiple computer operations visually in the cursor, which facilitates execution of repeated operations through a "cycl... | 01/08/1991 |
| 4870610 | Method of operating a computer system to provide customed I/O information including language translation A method of operating a computer system to effect user-customization, primarily foreign language translation, of standard system-supplied screen displays without the need to modify underlying system source code. A transltion environment includes an autono... | 09/26/1989 |
| 4852091 | High capacity communication system utilizing OR-type channels A methodology is disclosed for effecting contention-free communication over a plurality of OR-type lines interconnecting numerous synchronized stations. In broad terms, each station having a message to transmit executes a prescribed encoding/decoding algo... | 07/25/1989 |
| 4839853 | Computer information retrieval using latent semantic structure A methodology for retrieving textual data objects is disclosed. The information is treated in the statistical domain by presuming that there is an underlying, latent semantic structure in the usage of words in the data objects. Estimates to this latent st... | 06/13/1989 |
| 4835709 | Assembly modeling process A method is disclosed for the operation of a computer process to generate and store a file representative of physical assemblies by utilizing an enhanced decision tree defining in detail the interrelationsips of subassemblies. The computer process further... | 05/30/1989 |
| 4835763 | Survivable ring network A survivable ring network is disclosed that can withstand a cut link or failed node, without the need for a central controller or protection switching among links. The disclosed invention comprises two rings carrying identical multiplexed node-to-node com... | 05/30/1989 |
| 4833638 | Parallel processing state alignment Circuitry, and associated methodology, in a parallel processing environment for aligning the various processing states of the autonomous processors communicating over a common bus assures that the order of execution and alignment of processing states is p... | 05/23/1989 |
| 4821264 | Adaptive concentration communication network ISDN access A structure and methodology is disclosed for adaptively concentrating Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) B and D channel basic access on carrier systems. Central station 93 receives B and D channel requests on the D channel, combines this informat... | 04/11/1989 |
| 4818241 | Electrical interconnection device using elastomeric strips A circuit board edge connector that utilizes alternating conductive (5) and non-conductive (6) segments of elastomeric strips (4) to provide discrete electrical conductivity between pairs of boards (illustratively 40 and 60). The disclosed structure maint... | 04/04/1989 |
| 4813756 | Etalon filters for optical channel selection in wavelength division multiplexed fiber systems Filter arrangements (400,500,600) are disclosed for tunable channel selection in optical wavelength division multiplexed systems. Each filter arrangement has an etalon device (e.g. 401-403) as a simple, compact, in-line component which is rotatably adapte... | 03/21/1989 |
| 4788721 | Routing of network traffic A process is disclosed for routing service requests through a network comprising nodes interconnected with links. The network is also arranged so that each node may communicate with each of the other nodes. At preselected time intervals, sets of routes th... | 11/29/1988 |
| 4782517 | System and method for defining and providing telephone network services A telephone system allows a user to provide new services to terminations in a telephone network. A server having program sequences for controlling its operation connects the terminations and the telephone network. Using certain of its program sequences, t... | 11/01/1988 |
| 4782484 | Encoding and decoding signals for transmission over a multi-access medium An encoder method for processing an input data signal to produce binary coded data frames and to provide for synchronized, high-speed operation partitions the incoming data into contiguous frames composed of a plurality of bit positions. For each frame, a... | 11/01/1988 |
| 4779266 | Encoding and decoding for code division multiple access communication systems Methodology, and associated circuitry, for encoding and decoding signals utilize optimizing orthogonal code techniques that effect autonomy of communications and simplified signal processing, thereby improving reliability. Encoder (121) processes an incom... | 10/18/1988 |
