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Patent No. 5307162

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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Attorney: Van Pelt & Yi LLP


Number of patents: 127
Last date: August 23, 2005

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NumberTitleIssue Date
6286048System and method for discovering relative states of processors
According to an embodiment of the present invention, two routers coupled through a network, such as a local access network (LAN), may be used to serve the function of redundancy to avoid the failure of a connection. The LAN may be used as a backplane to s...
09/04/2001
6275458Method and apparatus for reading and writing a multi-level signal from an optical disc
A system and method are disclosed for reading a multilevel signal from an optical disc. The method includes reading a raw analog data signal from a disc using an optical detector and adjusting the amplitude of the raw analog data signal. A timing signal i...
08/14/2001
6269452System and method for fault recovery for a two line bi-directional ring network
The present invention provides a protection protocol for fault recovery, such as a ring wrap, for a network, such as a two line bi-directional ring network. An embodiment of the present invention works in conjunction with a ring topology network in which ...
07/31/2001
6269060Programmable write signal generator
A system and method are disclosed for generating a transition in a laser control signal at a precise point in time. A write strategy processor is configured to input a sequence of data and to determine a transition in a laser control signal from the seque...
07/31/2001
6260070System and method for determining a preferred mirrored service in a network by evaluating a border gateway protocol
An embodiment of the present invention is a system and method for selecting a mirrored service in a network, such as the Internet, by utilizing a Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) attribute. According to an embodiment of the present invention, the BGP attribu...
07/10/2001
6256324Chip address allocation through a serial data ring on a stackable repeater
Provided is a system which automatically determines and assigns an appropriate address for each chip in repeater system. All the ASICs in a system are chained together on a serial data ring for address allocation purposes. A "First On" ASIC in a system in...
07/03/2001
6243826Redundant network management system for a stakable fast ethernet repeater
Provided is a redundant network management system. Several network management modules (NMMs), preferably one for each repeater unit, are provided in a single repeater stack. The NMMs of the repeater stack communicate using a management bus. The modules co...
06/05/2001
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