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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8176326 | Method of communications and communication network intrusion protection methods and intrusion attempt detection system A method, system and computer readable medium for protecting a communications device connected to a communications system against an unauthorized intrusion, including providing a variable identifier to the communications device and entities authorized access thereto... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8170951 | Method and apparatus for facilitating shipment of packages A method and apparatus for facilitating the shipment of a package or packages, each package containing one or more items, from a Sender to a Recipient, via one of a number of shippers. The apparatus includes a database for storing shipper data, a processor for proce... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8156031 | Method of operating a venture business A method of operating a venture capital investment business, comprising establishing a business entity; the business entity establishing an investment fund; establishing a fund managing entity of the investment fund, the fund managing entity attending to administrat... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8130814 | Orthogonal code division multiplex CCK (OCDM-CCK) method and apparatus for high data rate wireless LAN Orthogonal Code Division Multiplexing (OCDM) transceiver system with Complementary Code Keying (CCK) and method for baseband OCDM-CCK encoding and decoding are provided. The OCDM-CCK method comprises a serial-to-parallel data converter converting a stream of M*n-bit... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8127378 | Gusseted foot canopy for bed top sheets, blankets, quilts or beds and the like A bed top covering includes a top portion; and a bottom portion. The bottom portion includes a gusseted foot canopy therein configured to allow feet of a user to be extended in an upward direction therewithin and providing room and maneuverability for the feet of th... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8038448 | Method and apparatus for educating and influencing an individual A method and apparatus for influencing a person to develop, accept and/or understand a concept, position or idea using questioning, including a technique sometimes known as the Socratic Method. A universe of question and answer subsets comprising questions and respe... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8005162 | Dynamic digital pre-distortion system A Dynamic Digital Pre-Distortion (DDPD) system is disclosed to rapidly correct power amplifier (PA) non-linearity and memory effects. To perform pre-distortion, a DDPD engine predistorts an input signal in order to cancel PA nonlinearities as the signal is amplified... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7933825 | Method of operating a venture business A method of operating a venture capital investment business, comprising establishing a business entity; the business entity establishing an investment fund; establishing a fund managing entity of the investment fund, the fund managing entity attending to administrat... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7930306 | System and method for near and exact de-duplication of documents A system, method and computer program product for identifying near and exact-duplicate documents in a document collection, including for each document in the collection, reading textual content from the document; filtering the textual content based on user settings;... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7907014 | System and method for dynamic drain voltage adjustment to control linearity, output power, and efficiency in RF power amplifiers A system and method for dynamic adjustment of drain or collector voltage of a power amplifier (PA), including a PA having a voltage input, a temperature sensor measuring ambient temperature of the PA, and an adaptive PA control processor that dynamically changes the... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7848451 | Digital pre-distortion technique using nonlinear filters A system and method for stabilizing a coefficient set used by a digital predistortion (DPD) engine to apply pre-distortion to a transmit signal and cancel distortion generated by a distorting element or distorting system when transmitting the transmit signal, includ... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7865732 | Method and communications and communication network intrusion protection methods and intrusion attempt detection system A method, system and computer readable medium for secure e-commerce communications, including an e-commerce system, including a private system for maintaining confidential information; and a public system for maintaining non-confidential information. The private sys... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7865414 | Method, system and computer readable medium for web site account and e-commerce management from a central location A method, system, and computer readable medium for managing a financial transaction of a user at a merchant, including authenticating the user via a device of the user while the user is at the merchant; transmitting activation information for activating a reusable, ... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7839951 | Dynamic crest factor reduction system A system and method for performing digital crest factor reduction. In one embodiment, the method is devised to suppress the signal amplitude to maintain a low signal peak to average ratio (PAR), while maintaining a desirable Error Vector Magnitude (EVM). This techni... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7838751 | Hand actuated tremolo system for guitars A tremolo device with a movable bridge, an adjustment device, and a support frame is implemented on an acoustic guitar, with features that can also be employed on an electric guitar or other stringed instruments. The movable bridge holds strings of the musical instr... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7817708 | Orthogonal code division multiplex CCK (OCDM-CCK) method and apparatus for high data rate wireless LAN Orthogonal Code Division Multiplexing (OCDM) transceiver system with Complementary Code Keying (CCK) and method for baseband OCDM-CCK encoding and decoding are provided. The OCDM-CCK method comprises a serial-to-parallel data converter converting a stream of M*n-bit... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7809081 | Digital pre-distortion technique using nonlinear filters A method and computer program product for operating a linearizer for a circuit, including generating a set of coefficients via a characterizer; predistorting a signal input to the circuit responsive to the coefficients and generating a linearized output in response ... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7802307 | Systems and methods for communication protection A communications apparatus and method is provided to reliably protect communication systems, such as mobile phone systems, from unauthorized use, as well as to make the interception of wireless communication more difficult. Specifically, the static wireless phone nu... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7756635 | Method and system for generating and presenting off-road travel routes A computer-implemented method for generating and presenting off-road travel routes based on terrain and obstruction analysis. The method includes a Threat Analyzer (100) for assessing threats that may impede progress, a Graph Builder (102) for construc... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7755429 | System and method for dynamic drain voltage adjustment to control linearity, output power, and efficiency in RF power amplifiers A system and method for dynamic adjustment of drain or collector voltage of a power amplifier (PA), including a PA having a voltage input, a temperature sensor measuring ambient temperature of the PA, and an adaptive PA control processor that dynamically changes the... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7752432 | Systems and methods for creating a code inspection system A code inspection system produces a dynamic decoy machine that closely parallels one or more protected systems. The code inspection system can analyze and monitor one or more protected systems, and as those protected systems are updated, altered or modified, the dyn... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7738573 | System and method for crest factor reduction A crest reduction system and method. The inventive system includes a first circuit for suppressing peak amplitudes of an input signal and providing a peak amplitude suppressed signal in response thereto and a second circuit coupled to the first circuit for rejecting... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7721069 | Low power, high performance, heterogeneous, scalable processor architecture One embodiment of the present includes a heterogenous, high-performance, scalable processor having at least one W-type sub-processor capable of processing W bits in parallel, W being an integer value, at least one N-type sub-processor capable of processing N bits in... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7698444 | Systems and methods for distributed network protection By distributing various information and monitoring centers that monitor distributed networks and unauthorized access attempts, it is possible to, for example, more quickly defend against an unauthorized access attempts. For example, a Level 1 monitoring center could... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7623971 | Method, system and computer program product for technical management and biocontrol of disease in animal production systems A system, method and computer program product for controlling disease at an end user location, including (a) testing a range of candidates including at least one of: (i) Bacillus species, (i) Bacillus strains, (iii) species of beneficial bacteria (iv) ... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7606324 | Digital pre-distortion technique using non-linear filters A system, method and computer program product for stabilizing a coefficient set used by a digital predistortion (DPD) engine to apply pre-distortion to a transmit signal and cancel distortion generated by a distorting element or distorting system when transmitting t... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7606322 | Digital pre-distortion technique using nonlinear filters A linearizer and method. In a most general embodiment, the inventive linearizer includes a characterizer coupled to an input to and an output from said circuit for generating a set of coefficients and a predistortion engine responsive to said coefficients for predis... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7169050 | Online gaming cheating prevention system and method A method, system, and software for preventing cheating during online gaming on a first computer system, include receiving information regarding cheaters detected during online gaming gathered by a second computer system; and making the received information available... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7128931 | Semi-permeable microcapsule with covalently linked layers and method for producing same The present invention relates to semi-permeable microcapsules, which exhibit an increased resistance to mechanical stresses as well as an increased resistance to chemical degradation. More specifically, this semi-permeable microcapsule has a bead enclosing a materia... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7072721 | Electrode vest for electrical stimulation of the abdomen and back A vest for providing electrical stimulation is disclosed. The vest includes front and rear sections and a controller. Left front and right front electrodes are provided on interior surfaces of the front section, and left rear and right rear electrodes are provided o... | 07/04/2006 |
| 6899237 | Bedding storage device A storage device adapted for storage of bedding underneath a bed includes a bottom section, side sections, end sections, and divider sections. The bottom, side, and end sections define an enclosure, and the divider sections are removably attachable within the enclos... | 05/31/2005 |
| 6809246 | Electronic music display device An electronic music display device having a scanning device for inputting music score image data from a printed musical score. A memory device receives and stores the inputted music score image data. The data is segregated into sections and a performance sequence is... | 10/26/2004 |
| 7506166 | Method of communications and communication network intrusion protection methods and intrusion attempt detection system A method, system and computer readable medium for protecting a communications device connected to a communications system against an unauthorized intrusion, including providing a variable identifier to the communications device and entities authorized access thereto... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7269577 | System for controlling the distribution and use of digital works using digital tickets A system for controlling the distribution and use of digital works using digital tickets. In the present invention, a “digital ticket” is used to entitle the ticket holder to exercise some usage right with respect to a digital work. Usage rights are used to defi... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7266529 | Method and apparatus for executing code in accordance with usage rights A method and system for controlling execution of a computer program in accordance with usage rights, including receiving, by a server repository, a request from a requestor repository to execute the computer program; determining, by a server repository, based on usa... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7260556 | Content rendering device with usage rights A digital content rendering apparatus. A request is made to render stored digital content. The request is processed by a repository coupled to a rendering engine to permit rendering only for authorized request. ... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7240193 | Systems and methods that provide external network access from a protected network A user who is connected to an unprotected network via a protected network is able to browse the Internet without concern that unauthorized code will execute within their local workstation as the result of a vulnerability within the browser executing on a special vir... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7236598 | Systems and methods for communication protection A communications system and method is provided to reliably protect communication systems, such as mobile phone systems, from unauthorized use, as well as to make the interception of wireless communication more difficult. Specifically, the static wireless phone numbe... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7225160 | Digital works having usage rights and method for creating the same Digital work adapted to be distributed within a system for controlling at least one of the distribution and use of digital works. The digital work includes: digital content representing a portion of a digital work suitable for being rendered by a rendering device an... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7222104 | Method and apparatus for transferring usage rights and digital work having transferrable usage rights A method and apparatus for facilitating transfer of usage rights for digital content. The system comprises digital content, a usage rights module containing usage rights information associated with the content for a user, a transfer permission module containing tran... | 05/22/2007 |
