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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5541986 | Method and system for automated telecommunications service script consolidation and downloading A method and system for automatically consolidating service scripts for downloading to Analog Display Services Interface compatible screen telephones. The method and system comprises specifying a general template for a set of service features, specifying ... | 07/30/1996 |
| 5539884 | Intelligent broadband communication system and method employing fast-packet switches A broadband intelligent network (50) an ATM switch or other fast-packet switch (51) in a fiber optic, fast-packet communication system. The ATM switch (51) is directly coupled (53) through one of its ports to a network service control point (61) for the i... | 07/23/1996 |
| 5537446 | Smoothing delay-sensitive traffic offered to asynchronous transfer mode networks A methodology and concomitant circuitry for smoothing delay sensitive traffic utilizes short term traffic forecasts and guarantees meeting a prespecified delay constraint. The pattern of incoming traffic is used to forecast estimates of future incoming da... | 07/16/1996 |
| 5533115 | Network-based telephone system providing coordinated voice and data delivery A method of processing a phone call from a caller in a telephone network, the telephone network including a plurality of switches and an intelligent peripheral (IP) for interfacing the plurality of switches to a service control point (SCP). When a phone c... | 07/02/1996 |
| 5519772 | Network-based telephone system having interactive capabilities A method and system for providing interactive capabilities in a network-based telephone system 100 a service control point (SCP) 102 for accessing a call processing record (CPR) and having an intelligent peripheral (IP) 104 for providing an intelligent in... | 05/21/1996 |
| 5481601 | System and method for creating, transfering, and monitoring services in a telecommunication system A system for creating, transferring, and monitoring services in a telecommunication system includes a service creation and management application and a service execution application. Services are created as call processing records, each call processing re... | 01/02/1996 |
| 5481533 | Hybrid intra-cell TDMA/inter-cell CDMA for wireless networks In a cellular network, a multiple-access methodology and concomitant circuitry in which TDMA is used inside each cell and CDMA signals, having pulse shapes with low cross-correlations, are assigned to adjacent cells. For example, these pulses could be Dir... | 01/02/1996 |
| 5473680 | Methods and apparatus for interfacing with application programs to manage multimedia multiparty communications A system connected to a network for controlling multiparty, multimedia calls having three components. The first component sends and receives multiparty, multimedia calls. The second component stores building blocks representing the multiparty, multimedia ... | 12/05/1995 |
| 5455856 | Method and system for partially automating feeder and distribution cable cross-connects A partially automated cross-connect method and system for temporarily provisioning telephone services through the remote activation of a cross-connect between a feeder cable pair and a distribution cable using a bus pair. Permanent cross-connects are defe... | 10/03/1995 |
| 5455853 | Method of creating a telecommunication service template In a telecommunication network, a method of creating, in response to inputs from an operator of a record creation system, a template for the creation of call processing services. Each call processing service is represented by a call processing record cont... | 10/03/1995 |
| 5450480 | Method of creating a telecommunication service specification In a telecommunication network, a method of creating, in response to inputs from an operator of a record creation system, a general service specification for a call processing record. The call processing record includes logically related nodes and branche... | 09/12/1995 |
| 5442690 | Telecommunication service record structure and method of execution A call processing record for execution in a telephone service execution environment of a telecommunication network. The call processing record includes a record header which associates the call processing record with one or more corresponding telephone se... | 08/15/1995 |
| 5432785 | Broadband private virtual network service and system A system and method for operating a Broadband ISDN to support a viable virtual private network (VPN) service are attained by establishing a plurality of virtual path links connecting customer locations and broadband switching systems, by cross-connecting ... | 07/11/1995 |
| 5432783 | System and method for providing egress policing for broadband virtual private networks A system and method for operating a Broadband ISDN to support a viable virtual private network (VPN) service are attained by establishing a plurality of virtual path links connecting customer locations and broadband switching systems, by cross-connecting ... | 07/11/1995 |
| 5418532 | Method and system for efficient, multiplication-free arithmetic coding Method and system are provided for efficient, multiplication-free arithmetic coding wherein data which represents an alphabet of source symbols is compressed and decompressed in a data transmission system. Multiplications are replaced with single shift-an... | 05/23/1995 |
| 5410736 | Method for determining radio transmitter sites with signals that may potentially interfere with an intended signal at a radio receiver site A method for conducting radio transmission systems interference studies based on the prior art two-step process of conducting a simple analysis on all potentially interfering systems to eliminate those clearly not causing interference into radio receiver ... | 04/25/1995 |
| 5392402 | Broadband intelligent telecommunications network and method employing a resource system to support network services A Broadband Intelligent Network employs an ATM fast-packet switch to route signaling cells from a calling party to a switch port directly connected to a Service Control Point (SCP). The signaling cells carry a service request that requires the support of ... | 02/21/1995 |
| 5392328 | System and method for automatically detecting root causes of switching connection failures in a telephone network An operating system is provided for an analog switching machine having switch fabric formed by multiple line and trunk link networks having interconnected switch stages with each switch stage having multiple grid connections and makes post-connection cont... | 02/21/1995 |
| 5381407 | Method and system for controlling user traffic to a fast packet switching system A method and system are provided for controlling user traffic to a fast packet switching system using the leaky bucket scheme. Each of the packets (53 byte length cell) originates at a source of packets and has a virtual channel identifier (VCI). The meth... | 01/10/1995 |
| 5367473 | Expert system for computer system resource management An expert system methodology for operating a computer system is disclosed to facilitate tuning, that is, resource balancing of the various resources comprising a large-scale software system. The computer system is adapted to store a knowledge base derived... | 11/22/1994 |
| 5351287 | Method and apparatus for data evidence collection A dialed number recorder, a data monitor, and a personal computer are connected in combination to monitor the data traffic on a suspect "hacker's" telephone line. At the beginning of a call, the dialed number recorder receives and interprets the DTMF sign... | 09/27/1994 |
| 5351286 | Method and system for billing an ISDN data user interconnection to the public switched telephone network A method and system are provided for connecting and billing a first user on an Integrated Services Digital Network to a second user on a voice-band network for packet data and circuit switched data connections. A network access device is used to extract t... | 09/27/1994 |
| 5345380 | System and processes specifying customized customer telecommunication services using a graphical interface A method and apparatus for creating and implementing customer service procedures for individual customers of a telecommunication network. The method and apparatus provides for the creation and execution of customized records to provide the desired service... | 09/06/1994 |
| 5345073 | Very high speed optical receiver with a cascadable differential action feedback driver Our invention is a differential transimpedance amplifier circuit with shunt-shunt local feedback gain stages. These shunt-shunt feedback gain stages comprise an additional resistor and two transistors in a shunt-shunt feedback configuration to provide a l... | 09/06/1994 |
| 5323452 | Visual programming of telephone network call processing logic A system and method for creating and modifying intelligent telephone network call processing logic trees which can be customized for individual customers and created in a user-friendly visual environment (10, 15, FIG. 3-5). Service primitives are defined ... | 06/21/1994 |
| 5315646 | Systems and processes for providing multiple interfaces for telephone services A method and apparatus for creating customized call processing information (CCPI) records to permit customized telephone services for individual subscribers to a telephone network. The records are provided in a binary representation, an internal data stru... | 05/24/1994 |
| 5313620 | Selective receiver for each processor in a multiple processor system Circuitry, and associated methodology in a parallel processing system for sharing the address space among a plurality of autonomous processors (110, 210, 310) communicating over a common bus (60) provides an efficient, non-destructive data transfer and st... | 05/17/1994 |
| 5301109 | Computerized cross-language document retrieval using latent semantic indexing A methodology for retrieving textual data objects in a multiplicity of languages is disclosed. The data objects are treated in the statistical domain by presuming that there is an underlying, latent semantic structure in the usage of words in each languag... | 04/05/1994 |
| 5291477 | Method and system for multicast routing in an ATM network Method and system for multicast routing in an ATM network including a multicast tree having a plurality of nodes interconnected by links wherein a weight representative of traffic congestion level is assigned to each link and at least one algorithm is uti... | 03/01/1994 |
| 5267266 | Fast converging adaptive equalizer using pilot adaptive filters A fast converging adaptive equalizer and method for for improving the convergence speed of an LMS adaptive equalizer by whitening both the received and conditioning signals using pilot filters.... | 11/30/1993 |
| 5241675 | Method for enforcing the serialization of global multidatabase transactions through committing only on consistent subtransaction serialization by the local database managers Our invention guarantees global serializability by preventing multidatabase transactions from being serialized in different ways at the participating local database systems (LDBS). In one embodiment tickets are used to inform the MDBS of the relative seri... | 08/31/1993 |
| 5241588 | Systems and processes providing programmable or customized customer telephone information services A method and apparatus for creating and implementing customer service procedures for individual customers of a telephone network. The method and apparatus provides for the creation and execution of customized call processing information (CCPI) records to ... | 08/31/1993 |
| 5241395 | Adaptive transform coding using variable block size An adaptive transform coding algorithm for a still image utilizes a quadtree based variable block size discrete cosine transform to achieve a better tradeoff between bit rate and image quality. The choice of appropriate block size is made according to a m... | 08/31/1993 |
| 5204882 | Service clock recovery for variable bit rate services To recover the service clock of a variable bit rate source (170) which generates data at a rate which is not proportional to a service clock (76), timing cells are generated. The timing cells are generated at a rate which is proportional to the service cl... | 04/20/1993 |
| 5166560 | Voltage-controlled variable capacitor An integratable temperature-stable voltage controlled capacitor circuit comprising a variable gain current amplifier connected in parallel and between a reference capacitor and an input-output port. The current amplifier reproduces the current from the re... | 11/24/1992 |
| 5155725 | Adaptive token release mechanism for ring networks A token ring network in which the token release mechanism adapts to the status of the other stations in the ring. Rather than releasing the token at the end of the token holding period, the token-holding station requests permission to continue transmittin... | 10/13/1992 |
