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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8145715 | Off-the-record e-mail methods and apparatus This invention provides for an off-the-record e-mail system that can ensure that messages, particularly sensitive messages, are available only for the intended recipient and never reside on permanent storage media. Control of the existence of the off-the-record e-ma... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8085908 | Voice-messaging with attachments A network method for using a network telephone voice-mail service, by which a caller may leave a voice-message that includes the identification of an attachment, which may include, as examples only, audio, video, text, programs, spreadsheets and graphic attachments.... | 12/27/2011 |
| 7961380 | Fast power transient supression in constant power-mode controlled optical amplifiers The specification describes an improved approach to suppressing fast transients in optical amplifier systems. The approach relies on operating the amplifier in an automatic power-mode control with an extra loss component. It is applicable to optical amplifiers based... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7874180 | Chemical powder deposition method for the manufacture of optical fiber preforms and optical fibers The specification describes the production of optical fibers and optical fiber preforms using Chemical Powder Deposition (CPD). In this process a slurry of silica powders and dopant powders in a liquid carrier is prepared and the inside surface of a silica glass sta... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7827584 | Method and system for adaptive transmission of smoothed data over wireless channels A method and system that reduces the impact of packet loss on video data quality. Packet selection is performed by the method and system to selectively drop low priority packets so that the overall quality of the received video data may be improved. In one exemplary... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7823182 | Method and system for adaptive transmission of smoothed data over wireless channels A method and system that reduces the impact of packet loss on video data quality. Packet selection is performed by the method and system to selectively drop low priority packets so that the overall quality of the received video data may be improved. In one exemplary... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7817258 | Measuring modal content of multi-moded fibers The output modal content of optical fibers that contain more than one spatial mode may be analyzed and quantified by measuring interference between co-propagating modes in the optical fiber. By spatially resolving the interference, an image of the spatial beat patte... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7795709 | Shielding noisy conductors in integrated passive devices The specification describes a thin film Integrated Passive Device (IPD) design that achieves isolation between conductive runners by shielding the top and bottom regions of a noisy runner with metal shield plates. The shield plates are derived from metal interconnec... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7792407 | Optical devices with multiple wafers containing planar optical waveguides A method for fabricating an optical device wherein the device comprises a first substrate wafer with at least one buried optical waveguide on an approximately flat planar surface of the substrate and a second substrate wafer with at least a second buried optical wav... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7778511 | Optical fiber cables An optical fiber cable suitable for drop cable applications has a dual jacket, dual reinforcement layers, a round cross section, and a tight buffered construction. The optical fiber cable is a compact unitary coupled fiber assembly that has a small profile, and is l... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7720338 | Optical fiber cables Described are new cable designs for indoor installations wherein the cable comprises a dual-layer optical fiber buffer encasement of acrylate resin. The buffer encasement has an acrylate compliant inner layer that protects the fiber and minimizes stress transfer to ... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7706045 | Continuously tunable optical dispersion compensation synthesizers using cascaded etalons Described is a method for designing individual stages of a multiple cascaded etalon TDC device to allow continuous thermo-optic tuning over a desired range without inducing incremental signal distortion due to uncontrolled and unpredictable dispersion of the TDC dur... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7692793 | Analyzing tunable optical filters using tunable source The specification describes an optical wavelength monitor/analyzer that uses a cost effective wavelength reference source. The wavelength reference source is a nominally fixed wavelength laser with inherent tunability over a very limited wavelength range, i.e. a few... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7692511 | Compact balun transformers Balun transformers are described wherein multiple transformer loops are implemented in a stacked design with the primary and secondary loops overlying one another. By aligning the loops in a vertical direction, instead of offsetting the loops, the area of the device... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7641400 | Electro-optic device packages A package design for electro-optic devices has been developed in which the substrate supporting the electro-optic element serves also as the base of the device housing. The electro-optic element is flip-chip bonded to the substrate. In a preferred embodiment the sub... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7603014 | Method for the manufacture of optical fibers and improved optical fibers The present invention is directed to a universal channel dispersion compensating fiber (CDCF) for WDM channel compensation that provides essentially zero dispersion slope over the wide wavelength band used in state-of-the-art transmission systems. It allows compensa... | 10/13/2009 |
| 7573097 | Lateral double diffused MOS transistors The specification describes an improved mechanical electrode structure for MOS transistor devices with elongated runners. It recognizes that shrinking the geometry increases the likelihood of mechanical failure of comb electrode geometries. The mechanical integrity ... | 08/11/2009 |
| 7565048 | Undersea optical fiber transmission systems Described are optical fibers having a relatively large effective area, large negative dispersion coefficient, and relatively low attenuation. These optical fibers are advantageously paired with positive dispersion coefficient optical fibers for blockless undersea ca... | 07/21/2009 |
| 7464395 | Method and system for adaptive transmission of smoothed data over wireless channels A method and system that reduces the impact of packet loss on video data quality. Packet selection is performed by the method and system to selectively drop low priority packets so that the overall quality of the received video data may be improved. In one exemplary... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7431963 | Optical fiber cables for microduct installations The specification describes optical fiber cables designed for microduct installations. The microduct cables are coated with a sheath having particulates added to modify the drag of the outer surface of the cable to air, and thereby facilitate air blown installation.... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7423341 | Plastic overmolded packages with mechanically decoupled lid attach attachment The specification describes a lidded MCM IC plastic overmolded package with chimney-type heat sink. The lid is mechanically decoupled from the chimneys by a compliant conductive polymer plug. ... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7403485 | Optimum construction of a private network-to-network interface The number of nodes in a private network-to-network interface may be very large. These nodes can be organized in two or more hierarchical levels. Network performance parameters, for example, call set-up time, may be used to determine the optimum number of hie... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7386108 | Routing extensions for telecommunication network system and method A distributed features system is disclosed which permits a telecommunication network to accommodate the creation of open multimedia services. It is an object of the present invention to create an architecture that facilitates modularity and compositional service cre... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7382056 | Integrated passive devices The specification describes a multi-chip module (MCM) that contains an integrated passive device (IPD) as the carrier substrate (IPD MCM). Parasitic electrical interactions are controlled at one or both interfaces of the IPD either by eliminating metal from the inte... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7356232 | Optical fibers for high power applications The specification describes optical fiber designs that overcome the problem of self-induced damage to optical fibers due to excessive self-focusing. The refractive index of these fiber designs is grossly non-uniform in the center core of the optical fiber. In one em... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7355264 | Integrated passive devices with high Q inductors The specification describes flip bonded dual substrate inductors wherein a portion of the inductor is constructed on a base IPD substrate, a mating portion of the inductor is constructed on a cover (second) substrate. The cover substrate is then flip bonded to the b... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7269669 | Sharing single host controller with multiple functional devices Multi-media Memory Card (MMC) devices, Secure Digital (SD) devices, and Secure Digital Input Output (SDIO) devices connected to a single host controller with signals multiplexed to allow simultaneous activation of more than one device at a time. ... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7259077 | Integrated passive devices The specification describes an integrated passive device (IPD) that is formed on a polysilicon substrate. A method for making the IPD is disclosed wherein the polysilicon substrate is produced starting with a single crystal handle wafer, depositing a thick substrate... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7251213 | Method for remote measurement of echo path delay A method of measuring echo path delay in a circuit having echo cancellers after enabling an echo signal to pass through the echo cancellers. The known time for a given echo canceller to disable is subtracted from the overall test signal duration. This quantity can b... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7218821 | Optical fiber cables The specification describes an optical fiber drop cable with a flat configuration and having two side-by-side subunits. One of the subunits contains a cable strength member, e.g. a steel wire or stranded wire. The other subunit is an optical fiber subunit, which con... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7061258 | Testing integrated circuits A flexible membrane test apparatus and test method for high-speed IC chips. The method and apparatus rely on locating the reference components of the test circuit very close to the contact pads of the IC chip under test. This is achieved in one embodiment by locatin... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7043128 | Multimode optical fibers with increased bandwidth The specification describes a technique for drawing circular core multimode optical fiber using twist during draw to increase fiber bandwidth. ... | 05/09/2006 |
| 6973245 | Optical fiber cables The specification describes an improved optical fiber cable wherein the cable cross section is round and contains a plurality of bundled optical fibers. The bundle may comprise randomly spaced fibers or fibers aligned in a ribbon configuration. The bundle is encased... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6952517 | Method for the manufacture of optical fibers, improved optical fibers, and improved raman fiber amplifier communication systems The specification describes an improved optical fiber design in which the criteria for high performance in a Raman amplified optical system, such as moderate effective area, moderate dispersion, low dispersion slope, and selected zero dispersion wavelength, are simu... | 10/04/2005 |
| 6937788 | Adjustable dispersion compensator with few mode fibers and switchable mode converters The specification describes dispersion compensators that are adjustable based on selection of mode propagation properties of two or more modes. The fundamental device structure comprises two or more sections of optical fiber that support the fundamental mode as well... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6934452 | Optical fiber cables The specification describes an improved optical fiber cable wherein the cable cross section is round and contains a plurality of bundled optical fibers. The bundle may comprise randomly arranged optical fibers or optical fibers aligned in a ribbon configuration. The... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6928841 | Optical fiber preform manufacture using improved VAD The specification describes a VAD method for producing optical fiber preforms by depositing soot onto a solid core rod. The solid core rod preferably has a uniform composition, doped or undoped, suitable for the center core region of the preform. The primary claddin... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6923024 | VAD manufacture of optical fiber preforms with improved deposition control The specification describes a VAD method for dynamically controlling the growth rate of both the core soot and the cladding soot in response to separate growth monitors. ... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6867607 | Membrane test method and apparatus for integrated circuit testing The specification describes a flexible membrane test apparatus and test method for high-speed IC chips. The method and apparatus rely on locating the reference components of the test circuit very close to the contact pads of the IC chip under test. This is achieved ... | 03/15/2005 |
| 6845194 | Optical bandpass filter using long period gratings The specification describes an optical filter wherein long period gratings (LPGs) are used in a new configuration to provide in-line bandpass filtering of optical signals. In the basic embodiment, two dissimilar LPGs are installed in the optical fiber transmission l... | 01/18/2005 |
