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Cloaking System Using Optoelectronically Controlled Camouflage
A Cloaking System designed to operate in the visible light spectrum, utilizes optoelectronics and/or photonic components to conceal an object within it.
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| 7486688 | Compact packet switching node storage architecture employing Double Data Rate Synchronous Dynamic RAM A two-chip/single-die switch architecture and a method for accessing a DDR SDRAM memory store in a switching environment are presented. The two-chip/single-die architecture includes an internal memory storage block on the single-die, an external memory storage inter... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7482952 | Response systems and methods for notification systems for modifying future notifications Response systems and methods are disclosed for communications in connection with a computer-based notification system and a personal communications device (e.g., telephone, pager, computer, PDA, etc.) associated with a party. One such representative response method,... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7479901 | Mobile thing determination systems and methods based upon user-device location Systems and methods are disclosed for automated notification systems. A representative method, among others, can be summarized by the following steps: monitoring travel data associated with a first personal communications device (PCD); initiating a notification comm... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7479899 | Notification systems and methods enabling a response to cause connection between a notified PCD and a delivery or pickup representative Systems and methods are disclosed for automated notification systems. A representative method, among others, can be summarized by the following steps: monitoring travel data in connection with a mobile thing that is destined to pickup or deliver an item at a stop lo... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7477410 | Distributed computer architecture and process for virtual copying A computer data management system is capable of transmitting one or more of an electronic image, electronic graphics and electronic document to external destinations including one or more of external devices and applications. The computer data management system incl... | 01/13/2009 |
| 7474670 | Method and system for allocating bandwidth The present invention is directed to methods and systems for allocating bandwidth (or other shared resource) among multiple masters. According to an aspect of the present invention, an arbiter assigns a bucket to each CPU (or other device) where each bucket holds th... | 01/06/2009 |
| 7468842 | Image presentation and micro-optic security system Am image presentation system employing microstructured icon elements to form an image. In one form a synthetic optical image system is provided that includes an array of focusing elements, and an image system that includes or is formed from an array or pattern of mi... | 12/23/2008 |
| 7460520 | Apparatus and method for using multiple call controllers of voice-band calls An apparatus for using multiple call controllers of voice-band calls is provided. The apparatus includes a first protocol endpoint, a second protocol endpoint, and a protocol adapter. The first protocol endpoint is configured to receive at least one first external m... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7456734 | Security alarm device The device is designed for warning about relocation of objects under control relative to the controlling user. The engineering effect is achieved through the ability to carry out control and identification of several objects at a time and to generate preliminary war... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7457353 | Method and system for mitigating Fourier transform side lobes The present invention is directed to implementing theoretical foundations of frequency domain methods aiming to locally decrease the impact of aggregate side lobes of a few discrete frequency tones, in the vicinity of other “victim” frequencies. The family of fr... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7457368 | Multilevel channel coding in ADSL Disclosed herein are various techniques for multilevel channel coding. For a given binary word comprising a plurality of bits, the least-significant bit may be encoded by a boosted coding technique, such as turbo channel coding or low density parity check (LDPC) cha... | 11/25/2008 |
| D580816 | Flower holder | 11/18/2008 |
| 7446558 | High speed IO buffer A bi-directional buffer is provided. The buffer includes a driver, a receiver, and a circuitry configured to select a driving mode in response to detecting a first condition and to select a receiving mode in response to detecting a second condition. The driving mode... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7447261 | Adaptive frequency equalizer An adaptive frequency equalization system providing an equalizer that has programmable taps that adjusts magnitude and phase of symbol information of a received signal and that provides equalized symbol information. The system includes a hard decision circuit that s... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7442927 | Scanning ion probe systems and methods of use thereof Briefly described, embodiments of this disclosure, among others, include scanning ion probe systems, methods of use thereof, scanning ion source systems, methods of use thereof, scanning ion probe mass spectrometry systems, methods of use thereof, methods of simulta... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7443313 | Water utility meter transceiver A water meter transceiver coupled to a water meter has a head portion that houses a processor having a transceiver. The transceiver transmits water utility consumption data received from the water meter. A stem is coupled to the head portion and has a hollowed porti... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7436940 | Methods and systems for enabling a reply call to voice mail message Methods and systems for enabling a subscriber to reply to a voice mail message that has been made available for the subscriber at a voice mail system (VMS). In response to an indication, the VMS transmits a release message with respect to the subscriber's communicat... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7433864 | Compiling information obtained by combinatorial searching Included are embodiments for searching sensitive information. At least one embodiment of a method includes searching for a first piece of sensitive information, searching for a second piece of sensitive information, and combining a score associated with the search f... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7427135 | Adaptive photoscreening system Briefly described, one embodiment of the system, among others, can be implemented as follows. The system includes a computer control system and an environmental light source that is controlled by the computer control system such that an amount of light provided by t... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7418048 | Tone ordered discrete multitone interleaver A tone ordered discrete multitone interleaver system and method, including a tone ordered interleaver and deinterleaver, are provided for efficiently communicating data despite noise affecting a Discrete Multitone modulation (DMT) system. The tone ordered discrete m... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7415424 | System and method for reallocating and/or upgrading and/or selling tickets, other event admittance means, goods and/or services A method, system, server architecture and/or tangible medium determines and/or transmits and/or establishes communication with a mobile device user. The method includes, for example, receiving a communication from and/or transmitting a communication to, an event cus... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7408882 | Automatic discovery of network node addresses The present invention provides a system and method for automatic discovery of network addresses. Briefly described, in architecture, one embodiment of the apparatus, among others, comprises: an announcer logic; a listener logic; and a forwarder logic. The announcer ... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7408397 | Digital-to-analog converter with programmable floating gate Systems and methods are discussed for using a floating-gate MOSFET as a programmable reference circuit. One example of the programmable reference circuit is a programmable voltage reference source, while a second example of a programmable reference circuit is a prog... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7408999 | Method and system for dynamic interleaver adaptation scheme in VDSL The present invention provides a method and apparatus for a new interleaver adaptation scheme that achieves “error free” and zero delay (interleaving—triangular) or near zero delay variation (interleaving—GCI), and with easier implementation but no additiona... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7406425 | System and method for managing intellectual property life cycles The present invention relates to methods and systems for managing intellectual property assets. In an embodiment, an intellectual property protection life cycle of an intellectual property asset is managed, and an intellectual property marketing life cycle of the in... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7400710 | MIMO dynamic PSD allocation for DSL networks A system and method for multiple inputs, multiple outputs (MIMO) PSD allocation in a DSL system is disclosed. In some embodiments, the method may comprise monitoring system performance by performing a multi-ended line test (MELT), processing the MELT and allocating ... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7400640 | Partitioned medium access control implementation A novel implementation of a partitioned medium access control (MAC) is disclosed. The illustrative embodiment employs a shared bus that typically is already present in a wireless terminal for communication between an upper MAC and a lower MAC. The partitioned MAC im... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7400627 | ATM header compression using hash tables Disclosed are exemplary techniques for compressing ATM cells by substituting reduced headers for the original headers. A header table may be maintained at the transmitting end whereby headers are stored in table entries based on a table index generated from a hash f... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7400621 | Technique for achieving connectivity between telecommunication stations A technique for enabling a secure, point-to-point wireless connection between a secondary computer (e.g., a personal digital assistant, etc.) and a primary computer (e.g., a notebook, a desktop, etc.) is disclosed. The primary computer is associated with an extended... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7400970 | System and method for an advance notification system for monitoring and reporting proximity of a vehicle Generally, the present invention monitors and communicates travel data transmitted from vehicles being monitored by the system to users requesting travel information on a particular vehicle. A travel data storage unit receives and stores the travel data. When a user... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7400693 | System and method of echo cancellation An economic low-complexity system and method for echo cancellation are disclosed. The system and method are particularly suited for multi-carrier VDSL using the U0 band. The techniques taught herein may be implemented in VDSL and VDSL2 systems and used to receive si... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7398408 | Systems and methods for waking up wireless LAN devices A system and method for wireless waking computing devices over a computer network is provided. A signal is broadcast over the network that includes one or more device specific wake-up data sequences. Each device specific wake-up data sequence includes multiple itera... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7397860 | Fractional local peak detection and mitigation for PAR reduction A method and system for reducing the power to average ratio (PAR) at the transmitter and after the up sampling and interpolation filter. In the time domain, Fractional Local Peak Detection and Mitigation (FLPDM) locally (i.e. in the neighborhood where the high peak ... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7397809 | Scheduling methods for combined unicast and multicast queuing An improved combined Switching Data Unit (SDU) queuing discipline for unicast and multicast (Protocol Data Unit) PDU forwarding at a switching node is provided. Multicast SDU descriptors are replicated and stored in entries of a First-In/First-Out queue portion of a... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7394864 | Mixed waveform configuration for wireless communications A mixed waveform configuration for wireless communications including a first portion that is modulated according to a single-carrier modulation scheme and a second portion that is modulated according to a multi-carrier modulation scheme. The waveform is specified so... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7388903 | Adaptive transmission rate and fragmentation threshold mechanism for local area networks An apparatus for adjusting the transmission bit rate and fragmentation threshold of a wireless station in response to transmission errors is disclosed. In particular, the illustrative embodiment of the present invention is based on a wireless station that employs bo... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7389239 | System and method for managing intellectual property The present invention relates to methods and systems for intellectual property management. In an embodiment, a system includes an intellectual property asset inventory system to manage an inventory of intellectual property assets. A product inventory system manages ... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7385995 | System and method for dynamic bandwidth allocation on PONs Mechanisms for providing a subscriber-side interface with a passive optical network are described herein. An optical network termination (ONT) having an integrated broadband passive optical network processor is utilized to receive downstream data from an optical lin... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7386040 | System and method for optimizing digital subscriber line performance between transceivers from multiple manufacturers An improved ADSL modem is presented. The ADSL modem in cooperation with a remote ADSL modem will exchange manufacturer identification information during initial DSL system training to establish a DSL communication link. The improved ADSL modem may comprise a memory ... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7386460 | System and method for developing and implementing intellectual property marketing The present invention relates to methods for the development and implementation of intellectual property marketing. A targeted innovation to fulfill an internal need is developed. Actions are taken to legally protect the targeted innovation as an intellectual proper... | 06/10/2008 |
