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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8068412 | Link selection schemes for avoiding channel contention A connection in an optical communication system is routed over a sequence of cross-connects and aggregated links comprising multiple links. A different link selection algorithm is used for service provisioning than is used for restoration, i.e., after a cable cut or... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8010694 | Network performance and reliability evaluation taking into account multiple traffic matrices Network performability characteristics with improved accuracy are derived by taking into account, in the various analyzed network failure states, attributes of elements at the logical level other than just the capacities of edges, as well as by taking into account o... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7983619 | Signal strength guided intra-cell upstream data forwarding Intra-cell upstream data forwarding is utilized in a wireless network such as a wireless local area network. A network forwarding path is determined based on the signal strength of an access point signal received at client stations within the network, referred to as... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7932777 | Switching amplifier for driving reactive loads A switching amplifier drives balanced piezoelectric or other capacitive or reactive loads with a minimum physical electronics volume, enabling a compact arrangement that can combine amplifier and transducer at the same physical location. Power supply current is mini... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7916657 | Network performance and reliability evaluation taking into account abstract components Network performability characteristics with improved accuracy are derived by taking into account, in the various analyzed network failure states, attributes of elements at the logical level other than just the capacities of edges, as well as by taking into account o... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7911978 | Adaptive topology discovery in communication networks A topology discovery process is used to discover all of the links in an ad hoc network and thereby ascertain the topology of the entire network. One of the nodes of the network, referred to as the coordinator, receives the topology information which can then be used... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7894781 | High-speed two-way point-to-point transmission Multiple-input/multiple-output (MIMO) antenna technology is used in a point-to-point radio link to provide higher data rates than would otherwise be achievable in a similar system that did not use MIMO antenna technology. Particular embodiments of the invention impl... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7806053 | Method and apparatus for changing the spin of a projectile in flight At least some of the segments of a segmented rod projectile are provided with a mechanism that causes them to divert away from the projectile's original line of flight after the segments are separated during flight to the target. That mechanism is illustratively a n... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7783473 | Sequence classification for machine translation Classification of sequences, such as the translation of natural language sentences, is carried out using an independence assumption. The independence assumption is an assumption that the probability of a correct translation of a source sentence word into a particula... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7672331 | Method and apparatus for initiating routing messages in a communication network Switches within a telecommunications network exchange so-called available bandwidth messages, each of which advertises how much bandwidth remains unassigned on a respective link. The network is of a type in which circuits are provisioned with various predefined numb... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7653355 | Signal strength guided intra-cell upstream data forwarding Intra-cell upstream data forwarding is utilized in a wireless network such as a wireless local area network. A network forwarding path is determined based on the signal strength of an access point signal received at client stations within the network, referred to as... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7620375 | High-speed two-way point-to-point transmission Multiple-input/multiple-output (MIMO) antenna technology is used in a point-to-point radio link to provide higher data rates than would otherwise be achievable in a similar system that did not use MIMO antenna technology. Particular embodiments of the invention impl... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7499571 | Video surveillance system with rule-based reasoning and multiple-hypothesis scoring A video surveillance system uses rule-based reasoning and multiple-hypothesis scoring to detect predefined behaviors based on movement through zone patterns. Trajectory hypothesis spawning allows for trajectory splitting and/or merging and includes local pruning to ... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7450516 | Link selection schemes for avoiding channel contention A connection in an optical communication system is routed over a sequence of cross-connects and aggregated links comprising multiple links. A different link selection algorithm is used for service provisioning than is used for restoration, i.e., after a cable cut or... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7448324 | Segmented rod projectile At least some of the segments of a segmented rod projectile are provided with a mechanism that causes them to divert away from the projectile's original line of flight after the segments are separated during flight to the target. That mechanism is illustratively a n... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7418035 | Frequency domain decision feedback equalizer The feedback structure of a frequency domain decision feedback equalizer is implemented in the frequency domain, rather than in the time domain. Advantageously, this permits the synthesis of long feedback filters with a much smaller increase in receiver complexity t... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7366113 | Adaptive topology discovery in communication networks A topology discovery process is used to discover all of the links in an ad hoc network and thereby ascertain the topology of the entire network. One of the nodes of the network, referred to as the coordinator, receives the topology information which can then be used... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7254222 | Method and apparatus for implementing a pre-paid card service A pre-paid telecommunications card service in which the card-holder can register the card with a service provider in such a way that the card account becomes associated with the customer's home telephone line. Thereafter, toll calls made over that particular telepho... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7212569 | Frequency domain decision feedback equalizer The feedback structure of a frequency domain decision feedback equalizer is implemented in the frequency domain, rather than in the time domain. Advantageously, this permits the synthesis of long feedback filters with a much smaller increase in receiver complexity t... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7148912 | Video surveillance system in which trajectory hypothesis spawning allows for trajectory splitting and/or merging A video surveillance system uses rule-based reasoning and multiple-hypothesis scoring to detect predefined behaviors based on movement through zone patterns. Trajectory hypothesis spawning allows for trajectory splitting and/or merging and includes local pruning to ... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7136507 | Video surveillance system with rule-based reasoning and multiple-hypothesis scoring A video surveillance system uses rule-based reasoning and multiple-hypothesis scoring to detect predefined behaviors based on movement through zone patterns. Trajectory hypothesis spawning allows for trajectory splitting and/or merging and includes local pruning to ... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7127083 | Video surveillance system with object detection and probability scoring based on object class A video surveillance system uses rule-based reasoning and multiple-hypothesis scoring to detect predefined behaviors based on movement through zone patterns. Trajectory hypothesis spawning allows for trajectory splitting and/or merging and includes local pruning to ... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7088846 | Video surveillance system that detects predefined behaviors based on predetermined patterns of movement through zones A video surveillance system uses rule-based reasoning and multiple-hypothesis scoring to detect predefined behaviors based on movement through zone patterns. Trajectory hypothesis spawning allows for trajectory splitting and/or merging and includes local pruning to ... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7057671 | Image and video processing with chrominance attenuation The values of the primary color space components of an image signal, such as the components of RGB video signal, are maintained within their allowed range by modifying the signal in a different color space, such as YUV space. Specifically, the U and V chrominance co... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7034414 | Mobile AC-to-DC power conversion system A mobile AC-to-DC power conversion system that can convert AC power into DC power for use by facilities that require it, such as telecommunications switching offices, thereby enabling telecommunications services supplied by the facility's equipment to be quickly and... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7006804 | High-speed two-way point-to-point transmission Multiple-input/multiple-output (MIMO) antenna technology is used in a point-to-point radio link to provide higher data rates than would otherwise be achievable in a similar system that did not use MIMO antenna technology. Particular embodiments of the invention impl... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6978968 | Deployable flare for aerodynamically stabilizing a projectile The center of pressure of a projectile is caused to move upon the occurrence of an event that changes the static margin, such as the jettisoning of a body previously attached to the projectile, as noted above. In particular embodiments, this is achieved by a flare d... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6912562 | Cache invalidation technique with spurious resource change indications A Web server maintains, for one or more resources, a respective list of clients who requested that resource. The server takes on the responsibility of notifying all of those clients on when the resource in question changes, thereby letting them know that if the reso... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6871818 | Aerodynamic stabilization of a projectile The center of pressure of a projectile is caused to move upon the occurrence of an event that changes the static margin, such as the jettisoning of a body previously attached to the projectile, as noted above. In particular embodiments, this is achieved by a flare d... | 03/29/2005 |
| 6869043 | Deployable flare with simplified design The center of pressure of a projectile is caused to move upon the occurrence of an event that changes the static margin, such as the jettisoning of a body previously attached to the projectile, as noted above. In particular embodiments, this is achieved by a flare d... | 03/22/2005 |
| 6783095 | Deployable flare for aerodynamically stabilizing a projectile The center of pressure of a projectile is caused to move upon the occurrence of an event that changes the static margin, such as the jettisoning of a body previously attached to the projectile, as noted above. In particular embodiments, this is achieved by a flare d... | 08/31/2004 |
| 6745978 | Aerodynamic stabilization of a projectile The center of pressure of a projectile is caused to move upon the occurrence of an event that changes the static margin, such as the jettisoning of a body previously attached to the projectile, as noted above. In particular embodiments, this is achieved by a flare d... | 06/08/2004 |
| 6157678 | Probabilistic trellis/coded modulation with PCM-derived constellations Signal points from a PCM-derived constellation are selected for transmission via a modulation technique which employs different levels of redundancy coding--including the possibility of no redundancy coding--for respective different sub-constellations of ... | 12/05/2000 |
| 6014011 | Battery charging system for portable electronic devices A battery charging system for cellular telephones or other portable devices is incorporated into a clock radio. A user is enabled to specify a time-of-day at which s/he wants to be reminded to insert the rechargeable battery into the charging system if re... | 01/11/2000 |
| 5982779 | Priority access for real-time traffic in contention-based networks A contention-based network which allows real-time traffic to be assembled into multiple linked-list chains. A time separation is enforced between the various multiple chains, which are limited to a predetermined maximum number of stations that each can ha... | 11/09/1999 |
| 5911132 | Method using central epidemiological database Patient disease is diagnosed and/or treated using electronic data communications between not only the physician and his/her patient, but via the use of electronic data communications between the physician and one or more entities which can contribute to t... | 06/08/1999 |
| 5872817 | Joint viterbi decoder and decision feedback equalizer Decision feedback equalization is used in a communication system which employs coded modulation, such as trellis coded modulation. The transmitted stream of signal points includes first signal points that were generated using a particular coded modulation... | 02/16/1999 |
| 5835085 | Graphical display of relationships Apparatus for providing displays in which the locations of nodes of a graph relative to each other are a function of the significance of a relationship between the nodes. The technique used to locate the nodes produces groups of nodes with significant rel... | 11/10/1998 |
| 5649057 | Speech recognition employing key word modeling and non-key word modeling Speaker independent recognition of small vocabularies, spoken over the long distance telephone network, is achieved using two types of models, one type for defined vocabulary words (e.g., collect, calling-card, person, third-number and operator), and one ... | 07/15/1997 |
| 5619991 | Delivery of medical services using electronic data communications Patient disease is diagnosed and/or treated using electronic data communications between not only the physician and his/her patient, but via the use of electronic data communications between the physician and one or more entities which can contribute to t... | 04/15/1997 |
