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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7942273 | Cross flow air separation system A cross-flow air separation system comprises a conveyor configured to project material out over an end of the conveyor generally along a trajectory path into a far receiving bin. An optical sensing system is configured to identify particular objects in the projected... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7502320 | Method and apparatus for network-based admission control using path-coupled quality of service signaling A Resource ReSerVation Protocol (RSVP) proxy is used in combination with a signaling proxy to provide improved admission control, Quality of Service (QoS) reservation, and media path routing. This avoids entangling call signaling with media plane functions as requir... | 03/10/2009 |
| 7501612 | CMOS light sensor with the quantity of light sensing cells along a line is more than the quantity of corresponding capacitors and operation method thereof A CMOS light sensor and the operation method thereof are disclosed. The CMOS light sensor has a plurality of light sensing lines and a plurality of capacitor lines. Each light sensing line has a plurality of light sensors such that the number of capacitors in each c... | 03/10/2009 |
| 7500269 | Remote access to local content using transcryption of digital rights management schemes Methods and devices allowing distribution of content that resides in a source device on a local area network (LAN) are described. A gateway between the LAN and a wide area network (WAN) receives from a sink device a request for an instance of content. The request is... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7499977 | Method and system for fault management in a distributed network management station A method and system for fault management in a distributed network management station is disclosed. In one method embodiment, the present invention initiates a first device coupled to a network. Next, the present invention broadcasts an information packet to a plural... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7489636 | System and method for prioritizing packetized data from distributed control environment for transmission through a high bandwidth link A priority scheme is provided for ports assigned to respective channel units in a channel bank. The priority scheme is based on an amount of preallocated bandwidth unused by channel unit ports. A first water level in a first bucket is associated with an amount of al... | 02/10/2009 |
| 7490125 | Multimodal system and method The invention relates to a system and method for coordinating multiple session multimodal interaction. The system and method includes a capability discovery module adapted to discover multimodal capability between at least one client and a multimodal device. The sys... | 02/10/2009 |
| 7490124 | Domain name acquisition and management system and method A preferred embodiment of the present invention provides for transfer fulfillment or reassignment of an expired internet domain name registration to a new registrant before the registration is purged from the registry. In one example, the method calls for first iden... | 02/10/2009 |
| 7489643 | Increased availability on routers through detection of data path failures and subsequent recovery Methods and systems for monitoring a data path on a network routing device are described. The data path includes a plurality of devices on the network routing device and an interface. Data packets are moved on the network routing device using the devices and communi... | 02/10/2009 |
| RE40592 | Mounting apparatus for optical sensor having screw piles with annular fitting boards A mounting apparatus for an optical sensor, applied to an optical scan module. A screw pile with a filet slot head, a washer and a screw nut are used to mount the base plate of the charged-couple device to the main body. Therefore, it is easy to adjust the skew in t... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7460413 | Memory compiler redundancy An improved redundancy architecture for embedded memories in an ASIC chip includes one or more compiler-generated embedded memory instances. Each embedded memory instance has a universal register for storing an address of a defective subunit of the memory instance f... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7460518 | Devices, softwares and methods for rule based determination of attributes of called device for network telephone call setup Devices, softwares and methods can establish an IP connection with each other through a network. Dynamic connection attributes of the called device are inferred locally by the calling device. These may include any one or more of type of codec, bandwidth, port number... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7460281 | Document holding fixture A document holding fixture for a vertical optical scanner. The fixture has a main body, a transparent panel, four linking bars, a document cover panel, and a document backing plate. The document holding fixture uses a simple four linking bar system to maintain a con... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7460257 | Technique for transferring image information from a scanning apparatus A technique for transferring image information from scanning apparatus includes adjusting the period of a shift signal according to the speed of reading data from a scan line by a computer instead of using a memory buffer. Therefore, correct data transmission betwee... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7457012 | Detecting the alignment of a document in an automatic document feeder A method of detecting the alignment of a document in an automatic document feeder including an optical scanner that has an automatic document feeder and a document. The automatic document feeder has a colored pattern layer corresponding to a scanning window of the o... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7457320 | Synchronization using multicasting A process to synchronize information transmitted from an information provider to a plurality of network elements is provided. The process determines a temporal difference between related network elements and compensates for this difference by dilating an information... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7457290 | Method and apparatus for automatic inter-domain routing of calls A method and apparatus for inter-domain routing of calls in a network, where the network represents a first wide area network. A routing node of the network advertises its access to a range of addresses in a second wide area network and a cost for access to the rang... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7451708 | Sound systems for model railroad locomotives On-board model railroad speaker enclosure designs are presented that allow maximum sized speakers, improve impedance matching of sound to the outside of the locomotive, and isolate back and front speaker waves while maintaining the standard horizontal drive-train in... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7454296 | Biosensor with multi-channel A/D conversion and a method thereof A biosensor with multi-channel A/D conversion and a method thereof are provided. The present biosensor includes a chip generating a time-dependent analog signal in response to a content of a specific component of a specimen provided thereon, a multi-channel A/D conv... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7453891 | Clusters of devices, softwares and methods for improved handling of a gatekeeper load in VoIP communication A cluster of alternate gatekeepers handles the load of a single logical zone. The alternate gatekeepers exchange signals among each other according to a special cluster protocol. Each alternate gatekeeper may be connected and exchange signals with endpoint devices. | 11/18/2008 |
| 7453828 | Devices, methods and software for generating indexing metatags in real time for a stream of digitally stored voice data Devices, softwares and methods generate, in real time, indexing metadata for select portions of a telephone conversation or conference. The indexing metadata is generated responsive to inputs received while the conversation is being recorded live. The inputs are eit... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7453952 | Predistortion circuit for a transmit system Systems and methods related to amplifier systems which use a predistortion subsystem to compensate for expected distortions in the system output signal. A predistortion subsystem receives an input signal and applies a predistortion modification to the input signal. ... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7451268 | Arbiter for array machine context data memory A device comprises a plurality of interface circuits configured for communicating between a semantic processing unit and a memory and a selection circuit for selecting an interface circuit allocated to a semantic processing unit for processing a data operation reque... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7450769 | Image processing method for facilitating data transmission An image processing method for facilitating data transmission is provided. An image compression method is performed to convert X-bits binary digital signals to a binary compressed data in the form of n*2m, in which n is represented by the former Y bits of... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7450181 | Bit-depth extension with models of equivalent input visual noise A method for extending bit-depth of display systems. The method includes creating pseudo-random noise from human visual system noise. When applied to the image data, the noise causes spatiotemporal dithering. The pseudo-random noise is combined with image data, prod... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7450276 | Scanning apparatus A scanning apparatus includes a housing with a scan flatbed. A loading glass is installed at the scan flatbed of the housing for loading a to-be-scanned document. A photoelectric sensing device senses the light corresponding to the to-be-scanned document to generate... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7450777 | Method for adjusting image data The present invention provides a determination method to obtain the optimum image output quality. The method comprising the standard white plate is scanned prior to the scanning document sheet to obtain a first image data. Then, the first image data is calculated to... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7446913 | Image compensation structure and compensation method An image compensation method is provided. At least one light source and a plurality of reflecting elements each capable of reflecting light from the light source are provided. Each reflecting element reflects a beam of light from the light source to produce a beam o... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7447836 | Disk drive storage defragmentation system The present invention provides a disk drive storage defragmentation system, comprising providing a cache buffer system coupled to a host system, coupling a disk drive storage system to the cache buffer system, performing a defragmantation process on the disk drive s... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7444539 | Network device and method of operation A network device to maintain resource management within a network may comprise an emulator or watchdog that may send an emulation request to a resource manager for emulating a request of a client. Operability of the resource manager may be identified based on a repl... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7443857 | Connection routing based on link utilization A method and system for connection routing based on link utilization. A link utilization limit is accessed at a node of a network. The link utilization limit is compared to a utilization of a link coupled to the node. If the utilization of the link is greater than t... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7443792 | Method and system for selecting connections to bump based on priority in a network A method and system for selecting connections to bump based on priority in a network. The present invention describes a method for selecting connections to bump in a network to accommodate an incoming connection. The method begins by receiving an incoming connection... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7443546 | Method for generating a calibration curve A method for generating a calibration curve is disclosed. The method comprises the following steps. Calibration data of one line image of a previous scan are first provided. Reference pixels are selected from the image line. Then a calibration board is scanned and c... | 10/28/2008 |
| D579572 | Skin therapy device | 10/28/2008 |
| 7443550 | Structure of light-source module The invention discloses an improved structure of light-source module, which arranges a reflection piece of light-source module in an image picking-up device of optical scanner. The invention applies the design of improved reflection piece to generate a compensatory ... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7440146 | Scanning method and scanning system free of identifying original's attribute In accordance with the present invention, an operating procedure of a scanning system free of identifying original's attribute comprises steps of scanning at least one original free of identifying original's attribute to generate at least one image, wherein the imag... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7440501 | Method and apparatus for controlling loop filtering or post filtering in block based motion compensationed video coding Adjacent blocks are identified in an image. Coding parameters for the adjacent blocks are identified. Deblock filtering between the identified adjacent blocks is skipped if the coding parameters for the identified adjacent blocks are similar and not skipped if the c... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7440635 | Method for removing ringing artifacts from locations near dominant edges of an image reconstructed after compression A method to remove ringing artifacts from locations near dominant edges of an image reconstructed after compression. The image is decomposed into blocks small enough so that each would contain only one significant edge. A significant edge is tested as to whether it ... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7441271 | Method and apparatus for intercepting events in a communication system An intercept system provides more effective and more efficient compliance with legal intercept warrants. The intercept system can provide any combination of operations that include near-real-time intercept, capture of intercepted data in structured authenticated for... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7440463 | Method and apparatus for automatic document interchange between electronic mail (e-mail) and facsimile (fax) systems An ARPA-Internet Network Access/Service Provider device includes a fax gateway having a storage device for storing an e-mail message received from a sender through a data communication network. The stored e-mail message is converted to a fax document for transmissio... | 10/21/2008 |
