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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6182028 | Method, device and system for part-of-speech disambiguation A method (300), device (408), and system (400) provide part-of-speech disambiguation for words based on hybrid neural-network and stochastic processing. The method disambiguates the part-of-speech tags of text tokens by obtaining a set of probabilisticall... | 01/30/2001 |
| 6156408 | Device for reworkable direct chip attachment The method (400, 500) and device (200) for reworkable direct chip attachment include a thermal-mechanical and mechanical stable solder joint for arranging connection pads on a top surface of the circuit board to facilitate connection for electronic elemen... | 12/05/2000 |
| 6157632 | Low complexity protocol method device and system robust in the presence of bursted The present invention provides a method/protocol (400, 800) and device (600; 700) for transmitting a synchronous stream of information, in a wireless, centrally controlled communication system. The method includes the steps of parsing the synchronous stre... | 12/05/2000 |
| 6124958 | Manufacturing method and device for a wireless local area network optics fixture array A manufacturing method (700) and device ((100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600) provide a fixturing frame with an optics array alignment for a wireless local area network optics fixture array that has a plurality of circumferential cavities for collecting and det... | 09/26/2000 |
| 6092041 | System and method of encoding and decoding a layered bitstream by re-applying psychoacoustic analysis in the decoder The invention provides a device, method (400,500,600), and system (100) to improve compression efficiency when coding audio for bitrate scalability. It includes at least one of an encoder and a decoder and is applicable when utilizing perceptual coding fo... | 07/18/2000 |
| 6088337 | Method access point device and peripheral for providing space diversity in a time division duplex wireless system A method, access point device and a plurality of peripheral devices provide for controlling a space diversity switch in a time division duplex system. The method includes: inputting data to a peripheral; generating a CRC1 in a peripheral; trans... | 07/11/2000 |
| 6076026 | Method and device for vehicle control events data recording and securing A device (100) and method (200, 300) authenticate and secure control event data for a vehicle, wherein the device includes: A) a microcontroller (104), coupled to receive control event information, for attaching a first time stamp and vehicle identificati... | 06/13/2000 |
| 6058106 | Network protocol method, access point device and peripheral devices for providing for an efficient centrally coordinated peer-to-peer wireless communications network A network protocol method (300), access point device (600) and peripheral devices (700, 800) provide an efficient centrally coordinated peer-to-peer wireless communications network wherein the access point device: (1) broadcasts a block assignment that sp... | 05/02/2000 |
| 6014446 | Apparatus for providing improved encryption protection in a communication system An encryption apparatus and method generate a unique keystream output value for every frame of bearer traffic to provide encryption protection in a communications system. The keystream output value is generated from the following equations: x(n+1)low... | 01/11/2000 |
| 6011800 | Hierarchical resource management method, system, base station, head-end unit and subscriber unit for variable resource size communication systems A method (300), system (400), base station (500), head-end unit (600), and subscriber unit (700) provide for efficient resource management in a communication system or group of communication systems supporting a plurality of communication units, where dif... | 01/04/2000 |
| 5987032 | Hierarchical resource hopping method, system, base station, head-end unit, and subscriber unit for variable resource size communication systems A method (300), system (400), base station (500), head-end unit (600), and subscriber unit (700) provide for efficient resource hopping in a communication system or group of communication systems supporting a plurality of communication units, where differ... | 11/16/1999 |
| 5982327 | Adaptive array method, device, base station and subscriber unit The present invention provides a method, device, base station and subscriber unit for combining a plurality of antenna output signals to provide a combined data signal in a communication system where the antennas receive at least one user signal and where... | 11/09/1999 |
| 5974066 | Low cost, efficient vertical cavity surface emitting laser package, method, bar code scanner and optical storage unit The present invention provides a low cost, efficient vertical cavity surface emitting laser package (300) and manufacturing method, the package having a head assembly having at least three leads, a vertical cavity surface emitting laser die bonded to a to... | 10/26/1999 |
| 5959499 | Predistortion system and method using analog feedback loop for look-up table training The present invention provides a linearization system (100) and method (700, 800) for generating a predistorted drive signal for a nonlinear transmission path. The linearization includes: A) an analog feedback system (39), coupled to a computation unit, f... | 09/28/1999 |
| 5956490 | Method, client device, server and computer readable medium for specifying and negotiating compression of uniform resource identifiers A method (500), client device (700), server (800) and computer readable medium (900) provide a scheme for negotiating compression of universal resource identifiers. The method includes: (1) sending, by a client, a request to a server wherein the request i... | 09/21/1999 |
| 5950162 | Method, device and system for generating segment durations in a text-to-speech system The present invention teaches a method (400), device and system (300) utilizing at least one of: mapping a sequence of phones to a sequence of articulatory features and utilizing prominence and boundary information, in addition to a predetermined set of r... | 09/07/1999 |
| 5940400 | Method, device, wireless transceiver and computer for providing collision detection in wireless carrier sense multiple access systems A method (600), device, wireless transceiver, computer and personal digital assistant (300, 400) provide collision presence detection in wireless intensity-modulated binary-coded data transceivers which is compatible with the collision detection employed ... | 08/17/1999 |
| 5930756 | Method, device and system for a memory-efficient random-access pronunciation lexicon for text-to-speech synthesis A method (400, 900, 1000, 1100), device (1205, 1306) and system (1207, 1308) provide memory-efficient encoding of the random-access lexicon for a text-to-speech synthesis system. The method generates word pronunciations based on efficient retrieval of sto... | 07/27/1999 |
| 5930754 | Method, device and article of manufacture for neural-network based orthography-phonetics transformation A method (2000), device (2200) and article of manufacture (2300) provide, in response to orthographic information, efficient generation of a phonetic representation. The method provides for, in response to orthographic information, efficient generation of... | 07/27/1999 |
| 5923454 | Modem method and device for indicating received signal strength and presence for intensity modulated binary-coded wireless data packets with reduced recovery time The present invention provides a modem (100), method (300) and device (103) for indicating received signal strength and presence for intensity modulated binary-coded data packets with reduced recovery time in a packet data receiving system. The device inc... | 07/13/1999 |
| 5913194 | Method, device and system for using statistical information to reduce computation and memory requirements of a neural network based speech synthesis system A method (400), device and system (300) provide, in response to linguistic information, efficient generation of a parametric representation of speech using a neural network. The method provides, in response to linguistic information efficient generation o... | 06/15/1999 |
| 5905803 | Flush-porting method and device for reduction of wind-induced noise in a microphone The present invention provides a method (600) and device (400) for minimizing wind-induced noise in a microphone. The device includes: a housing (412) having a recessed area shaped to accommodate a microphone transducer (410); the microphone transducer (4... | 05/18/1999 |
| 5892769 | Method and system for prioritized multiple access using contention signatures for contention-based reservation The present invention provides a method (300) and system (200) of contention-based multiple access for the reservation subchannel to support a large population of users with diverse QoS requirements wherein users are permitted to transmit reservation mess... | 04/06/1999 |
| 5867478 | Synchronous coherent orthogonal frequency division multiplexing system, method, software and device A synchronous coherent orthogonal frequency division multiplexing, SC-OFDM, system, method, software and device include a plurality of SC-OFDM transmitters and a plurality of SC-OFDM receivers. Each of the plurality of SC-OFDM transmitters is synchronized... | 02/02/1999 |
| 5862452 | Method, access point device and peripheral devices for low complexity dynamic persistence mode for random access in a wireless communication system A method, access point device and a perpherical device provide low complexity dynamic persistence for random access in a wireless communication system. The peripheral device includes: A) a block assignment receiver, for receiving a block assignment having... | 01/19/1999 |
| 5835999 | Low power regenerative feedback device and method A low power regenerative feedback device and method automatically increases bias current during positive large-signal slewing, enabling output to change faster. When the device is not in a positive slew, bias currents are unchanged, providing a low standb... | 11/10/1998 |
| 5832223 | System, method and device for automatic capture of internet access information in a broadcast signal for use by an internet access device The present invention provides a system (100, 200), device (300) and method (400) for facilitating automatic capture of internet access information in a broadcast signal for use by an internet access unit. The system includes: a broadcasting unit having a... | 11/03/1998 |
| 5831218 | Method and circuit board panel for circuit board manufacturing that prevents assembly-line delamination and sagging Board delamination during the singulation from a board panel and board sagging during front-end assembly are two biggest problems encountered in cellular manufacturing lines. The method (700) and circuit board panel (600) of the present invention substant... | 11/03/1998 |
| 5832147 | Holographic optical interconnect system and method for board-to-board and chip-to-chip communication interconnections A holographic optical interconnect system (100) and method (200) provide flexible, efficient interconnection of a plurality of circuit boards CBs and a plurality of integrated circuit chips. Each CB has at least an optically transparent substrate OTS mate... | 11/03/1998 |
| 5828660 | Multiple user communication system, device and method with overlapping uplink carrier spectra The present invention provides a method, system, subscriber unit, and base/headend unit for a bandwidth efficient multiple user digital communication system that facilitates multiple user reverse link communication using overlapped transmit signal spectra... | 10/27/1998 |
| 5822307 | Method, transceiver, and system for providing wireless communication compatible with 10BASE-T Ethernet The present invention provides a method (200), transceiver (100), and system (900) for providing wireless communication compatible with 10 BASE-T Ethernet. In the transceiver, an absence detector receives a transmitted signal, determines an absence of the... | 10/13/1998 |
| 5818618 | High-speed serial simplex broadcast data distribution using optics A positioning device (100) provides adaptive positioning for at least a first optical signal to facilitate a serial simplex broadcast between one of: a plurality of transmit communication units and a receive communication unit and at least a first transmi... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5818348 | Method and radio frequency identification system for a novel protocol for reliable communication Reliable communication is provided by a radio frequency identification system comprising at least one of an interrogator (102) and a transponder (104). The interrogator (102) transmits a plurality of interrogator frames (106) and receives at least one of ... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5812614 | Apparatus and method for maximizing frequency offset tracking performance in a digital receiver An automatic frequency control loop structure utilizes a dual selection automatic frequency control unit which is coupled to a differential phase unit and a coherent phase unit to provide a frequency corrected received signal output for efficient tracking... | 09/22/1998 |
| 5812615 | Apparatus and method for maximizing frequency offset tracking performance in a digital receiver An automatic frequency control loop structure utilizes a dual selection automatic frequency control unit which is coupled to a differential phase unit and a coherent phase unit to provide a frequency corrected received signal output for efficient tracking... | 09/22/1998 |
| 5802218 | Method, post-processing filter, and video compression system for suppressing mosquito and blocking atrifacts The visibility of mosquito and blocking artifacts in a video compression system (200) are effectively suppressed by calculating a post-processed pixel intensity. A post-processed pixel intensity is determined (100) using a predetermined noise variance, a ... | 09/01/1998 |
| 5802044 | Multicarrier reverse link timing synchronization system, device and method The present invention provides a communication system, device and method of reverse link symbol timing synchronization of transmited signals to facilitate reverse link timing synchronization. A base unit transmits a forward link signal, receives a reverse... | 09/01/1998 |
| 5793314 | Method and apparatus for bound-based adaptive entropy encoding/decoding The present invention provides an apparatus and method for adaptive entropy encoding/decoding in a multimedia compression system. For encoding, the steps include: A) parsing a predetermined number of quantized transform coefficients into a plurality of co... | 08/11/1998 |
| 5790706 | Method and apparatus for scanning of transform coefficients The present invention provides an apparatus and method for, in at least one of: encoding and decoding, scanning transform coefficients in an image/video encoded/decoder. In encoding, the steps include: A) segregating a predetermined number of quantized tr... | 08/04/1998 |
| 5778191 | Method and device for error control of a macroblock-based video compression technique The present invention provides a method (200) and device (300) for error control of a video compressed sequence in which error protection for both random and burst channel errors is provided. The error control syntax (100) applies a fixed length packet sy... | 07/07/1998 |
