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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7342467 | Variable power coupling device An apparatus and method for providing adaptive control of the output of a radio frequency coupler. A plurality of input signals is provided to a multi-prong divider/combiner, the divider/combiner having a first and a second input terminals communicating a first and ... | 03/11/2008 |
| D547884 | Extrusion for use with a gate panel frame | 07/31/2007 |
| D547883 | Extrusion for use with a gate panel frame | 07/31/2007 |
| D547885 | Extrusion for use with a gate panel frame | 07/31/2007 |
| 7244078 | Control gates A control gate is adapted to be installed across a channel for liquids. The Control gate has a barrier member capable of vertical or tilting movement and it is either slidingly or pivotally mounted to a frame of the control gate. In one instance, the control gate ha... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7242725 | Adaptive broadband post-distortion receiver for digital radio communication system An adaptive broadband post-distortion receiver for wireless digital communications improves performance of a wireless digital communications system. The improved performance of the system includes improved linear AM-AM and AM-PM responses approaching saturation. Ind... | 07/10/2007 |
| D546479 | Extrusion for use with a gate panel frame | 07/10/2007 |
| 7236745 | Transceiver power detection architecture A detector module is described wherein the detector module includes a housing with a conductive waveguide, a detector, a temperature sensor, and detector circuitry. The waveguide is made of a conductive material and of an appropriate size for a signal of a particula... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7228114 | Wide dynamic range power detection scheme A power detection circuit is described that provides for a wide dynamic range power detection. The circuit incorporates a coupler to sample a transmitted or received power. Such sampled power is then directed to a detector diode configured to generate a voltage from... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7221181 | Directional power detection by quadrature sampling Power measurement and control in transmission systems are affected by changes in load conditions. A method and system are provided for detecting and controlling power levels independent of such load conditions. ... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7212172 | System and method for a radio/antenna interface An apparatus is disclosed for mechanical and electrical coupling of an antenna to one or more radio receivers. The apparatus includes a hub that may be attached to an antenna by one or more fasteners. The hub is also fitted with latches that can receive a radio. Fin... | 05/01/2007 |
| D536801 | Extrusion for use with a gate panel | 02/13/2007 |
| 7164285 | Directional power detection by quadrature sampling Power measurement and control in transmission systems are affected by changes in load conditions. A method and system are provided for detecting and controlling power levels independent of such load conditions. ... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7152001 | Fluid regulation The invention discloses a method of predicting the fluid level at a predetermined location in a fluid flow network (10) having at least one regulator (16, 18) to control the flow of fluid along fluid flow network (10). The method includes the st... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7083359 | Control gates A control gate is adapted to be installed across a channel for liquids. The Control gate has a barrier member capable of vertical or tilting movement and it is either slidingly or pivotally mounted to a frame of the control gate. In one instance, the control gate ha... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7072851 | System and method for administrating a credit card use incentive program by which a credit card holder earns rebate in the form of an additional payment toward an outstanding loan principal to reduce overall cost of the installment loan A credit card incentive program wherein a credit card issuer issues a credit card to a credit card holder, who has an outstanding installment loan account with a lending institution; wherein the credit card holder can earn a periodic rebate through use of the credit... | 07/04/2006 |
| 6966882 | Active muscle assistance device and method A method for controlling movement using an active powered device including an actuator, joint position sensor, muscle stress sensor, and control system. The device provides primarily muscle support although it is capable of additionally providing joint support (henc... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6909834 | Media converter that protects optical fiber cable It is an exemplified object of the present invention to provide a media converter so shaped that it may prevent damages and disconnections of an optical fiber cable and facilitates handling of the cable. A media converter of one aspect of the invention includes a co... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6847775 | Accommodation apparatus for transmission medium There is provided an accommodation apparatus for a transmission medium, such as an optical fiber cable which includes a housing for accommodating the transmission medium and an arrangement part located in the housing, said arrangement part arranging an orientation o... | 01/25/2005 |
| 6844787 | Method and apparatus for re-modulation using zero IF The present invention provides for a first modulation at an arbitrary frequency and a second modulation at another arbitrary frequency. To achieve this, the present invention demodulates the first modulation using the same reference oscillator signal that was used i... | 01/18/2005 |
| D499398 | Optical communication apparatus | 12/07/2004 |
| 6631131 | Transpose table biased arbitration scheme A biased arbitration technique utilizes a transpose table to arbitrate access to a shared resource. Each column of transpose table is a binary bias vector encoding a bias value assigned to one of the requestors. The rows of the table are fetched to assure... | 10/07/2003 |
| 6622247 | Method for certifying the authenticity of digital objects by an authentication authority and for certifying their compliance by a testing authority A computerized method is provided for certifying a digital object. The digital object is uniquely identified with an identification. The identification is registered with a certification authority using a first public/private key exchange to receive a cer... | 09/16/2003 |
| 6496940 | Multiple processor system with standby sparing A multiprocessor system includes a number of sub-processor systems, each substantially identically constructed, and each comprising a central processing unit (CPU), and at least one I/O device, interconnected by routing apparatus that also interconnects t... | 12/17/2002 |
| 6473525 | Method for detecting an image edge within a dithered image A method for detecting an image edge within a dithered image. A pixel within a support region is selected for processing. The differences between pixel values in the region and the selected pixel are computed to form a current difference map. Whether the ... | 10/29/2002 |
| 6470398 | Method and apparatus for supporting a select () system call and interprocess communication in a fault-tolerant, scalable distributed computer environment A computing environment (2) includes multiple CPUs (5a-c), multiple nonshared memory spaces and a means for implementing a select system call (10a-c). The connection maintenance system is both fault-tolerant and scalable in that agents (30-33a-c) exist in... | 10/22/2002 |
| 6470342 | Process of maintaining a distributed map of transaction identifiers and using hashing to access these maps Systems and methods for supporting and maintaining a distributed global map of transaction identifiers at the gateway processes using a hashing algorithm configured on each application process to access the global maps. A global map of transaction identif... | 10/22/2002 |
| 6457125 | Encrypted download of SRAM-based FPGAs Method and apparatus is provided for securely configuring a programmable hardware device from a remote source. The programmable hardware device includes a plurality of programmable logic modules. A host receives configuration information from the remote s... | 09/24/2002 |
| 6453406 | Multiprocessor system with fiber optic bus interconnect for interprocessor communications In a data processing system of the type having multiple processor units coupled to one another by a bus means for interprocessor communications there is provided a fiber optic interconnection system to interconnect the bus means of multiple processor sect... | 09/17/2002 |
| 6449733 | On-line replacement of process pairs in a clustered processor architecture In a multiple processing system or cluster, a pair of processes, assuming the role of a primary process and a backup process to the primary process, are replaced on-line by stopping the backup process; creating the replacement backup process; checking to ... | 09/10/2002 |
| 6424655 | Transpose table-biased arbitration A biased arbitration technique utilizes a transpose table to arbitrate access to a shared resource. Each column of transpose table is a binary bias vector encoding a bias value assigned to one of the requesters. The rows of the table are fetched to assure... | 07/23/2002 |
| 6411981 | Method and apparatus for conducting a transaction between homogeneous and/or heterogeneous transaction processing systems using asynchronous pull of a transaction transfer A protocol for a transaction involving two homogeneous or two heterogeneous computing systems involves starting a transaction on one of the two systems, sending a request for participation in the transaction to an application resident on the other of the ... | 06/25/2002 |
| 6397315 | Processor interface chip for dual-microprocessor processor system A processor interface chip and a maintenance diagnostic chip are provided coupled with two microprocessors designed to be run in tandem. The processor interface chip includes logic for interfacing between the microprocessors and a main memory, logic for p... | 05/28/2002 |
| 6393582 | Error self-checking and recovery using lock-step processor pair architecture A logical processor is formed from a pair of processor units operating in close synchrony to perform self-check operations. Outputs of one of the processor units are compared to that of the other processor unit. When one of the processor units experiences... | 05/21/2002 |
| 6389017 | Resource scheduling algorithm in packet switched networks with multiple alternate links A system and method for scheduling packets between multiple links of an adaptive set utilizes a destination register or a cache line associated with each of the alternate links of the network switch. Each of the cache lines holds the destination of the la... | 05/14/2002 |
| 6374367 | Apparatus and method for monitoring a computer system to guide optimization A method for sampling the performance of a computer system is provided. The computer system includes a plurality of functional units. The method selects transactions to be processed by a particular functional unit of the computer system. State information... | 04/16/2002 |
| 6370583 | Method and apparatus for portraying a cluster of computer systems as having a single internet protocol image A method and apparatus for presenting the multiple processors of a cluster as a single virtual host to a network wherein the processors are communicatively coupled among themselves and to a network interface. The network interface is communicatively coupl... | 04/09/2002 |
| 6360329 | Interval-timing facility using overbuilt hierarchical timing wheels A system for timing intervals in a computer. The system provides an interval timing service for processes running in a computer system. The timing service supports a potentially large number of interval timers by using "timing wheels" that "turn" at diffe... | 03/19/2002 |
| 6360303 | Partitioning memory shared by multiple processors of a distributed processing system A symmetrical processing system includes a number of processor units sharing a memory element. At least a portion of the memory element is partitioned so that separate memory partitions are made exclusively available to some if not all the processor units... | 03/19/2002 |
| 6360284 | System for protecting output drivers connected to a powered-off load A system for preventing a powered-up sub-unit from driving a powered-off low-impedance load transitions to a NO_CLOCK state and tri-states output drivers of the sub-unit output unless a clock signal is received from a connected sub-unit. While in the NO_C... | 03/19/2002 |
