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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7318094 | Apparatus, system and device for collecting, aggregating and monitoring network management information A system, apparatus and device are described for collecting, aggregating and monitoring network management information from a plurality of network devices in a network management system. User-definable configuration information are utilized, which contain an operati... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7317391 | Safety alert device A danger warning system includes a central station and modules connected via at least one series connection. A mechanism in the central stations determines the distance between the central station and the modules. The modules are triggered by the central station, su... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7315162 | Reducing power consumption of electrical meters The invention contemplates an electrical power meter and method of operating the electrical power meter. The inventive power meter includes a power supply for converting alternating current (AC) voltage to a direct current (DC) voltage for powering the electronic co... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7312721 | Data collector for an automated meter reading system The invention includes an electronic utility meter, a data collector/meter and a method for communicating data in an automated meter reading system. The inventive method includes communicating data with a network and a first electronic utility meter, and communicati... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7312904 | Apparatus, method and program for communication Facsimile communication is correctly performed even when an echo is generated in a communication line having a delay, by handling an echo signal in such a manner that when an echo of a CFR signal (according to the ITU-T recommendation V.21) transmitted from a receiv... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7310629 | Method and apparatus for controlling file sharing of multimedia files over a fluid, de-centralized network Communication is established between a first client and a central index server in a fluid, de-centralized network. The central index server searches the memory of the first client for usable data files which lack authentication certificates issued by the central ind... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7310416 | Method and apparatus for improved personal communication devices and systems A system for adding or updating contact data in a wireless communication device, cellular telephone, pager or personal digital assistant (PDA) is shown. Contact data associated with actual or potential communicants may be entered into a database in the wireless comm... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7307542 | System and method for commissioning addressable lighting systems A system for commissioning ballasts comprising a wireless device that can be easily transported to any location served by an addressable lighting system. The wireless device allows a user to cycle through a list of uncommissioned ballasts and send a command to a con... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7305076 | Method and apparatus for improved paging receiver and system A wireless information communication system and method, such as a paging network, that provides caller identification information transmitted from the public switched telephone network to a pager, PDA (Personal Digital Assistant), a portable computing device, or per... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7301476 | Dynamic self-configuring metering network A dynamic self-configuring system for collecting metering data comprises a collector meter. The collector meter scans for meters that are operable to directly communicate with the collector and registers such meters as level one meters. The collector transmits instr... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7295099 | Home appliance network system and method for operating the same Disclosed herein are a home appliance network system and a method for operating the same. The home appliance network system comprises a plurality of home appliances connected to a network constructed in a home for transmitting and receiving data over the network, an... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7296234 | Electronic device An electronic device includes a design changing unit, a communication unit and a light emitting unit. The design changing unit changes a color of the background of a control panel to a color selected by a user. The control panel is stored in the electronic device, t... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7286797 | Data transmission system, data transmission method, and electronic apparatus A data transmission system, a data transmission method and an electronic equipment. In the playback system, by a controller, at step S1, SEID with respect to receiving stream is grasped. At step S2, inquiry command is used to designate SEID to inquire corresponding ... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7286494 | Polling communication system and polling control method A polling communication system includes a main station and a plurality of sub stations connected to the main station. The main station includes an address control part and a polling control part. The address control part divides a predetermined polling cycle into a ... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7283504 | Radio with internal packet network The invention relates to a programmable radio having an internal packet network for communicating between the functional modules of the radio. Modules may have a network controller, a network connector, memory for storing the instructions and processors to execute t... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7284127 | Secure communications A method of providing secure communications between a first and a second communications unit comprising a key exchange between the communications units resulting in a shared secret key, the key exchange including a user interaction. The method includes the steps of ... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7280823 | Method and apparatus for determining the context of a handheld device A system and method for determining the context of a wireless device is disclosed. An emitter (108) transmits an infrared signal to a wireless client (112). Emitter (108) is placed at a known location and has a known coverage area associated the... | 10/09/2007 |
| RE39879 | Method of transferring data by transmitting lower order and upper order memory address bits in separate words with respective op codes and start information A high speed bus system in which at least one master device, such as a processor and at least one DRAM slave device are coupled to the bus. An innovative packet format and device interface which utilizes a plurality of time and space saving features in order to decr... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7280031 | Barrier operator system with enhanced transmitter storage capacity and related methods of storage and retrieval A method and related system for enabling receipt and storage of data by an operator from at least two types of transmitters, is disclosed. The method includes designating a number of records in a memory array; sub-dividing the memory array into at least two groups, ... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7277011 | Removable memory media with integral indicator light A flash memory module includes an integral indicator light. The module alternatively includes a plurality electrical contacts which electrically interface to a host digital device. The module includes a plurality of flash memory cells. The cells are controlled by an... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7272649 | Automatic hardware failure detection and recovery for distributed max sessions server A Max Sessions Server (MSS) automatically detects hardware and communications failures. Upon detection, counters are adjusted accordingly to maintain an accurate count of users or groups of users on a system. A database of unique identifiers for each connection is m... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7272665 | Modular computer system and I/O module Without being restrained to a specific bus scheme, kinds of I/O modules connected to a processing module can be discriminated. Module exclusive selection parts respectively provided in I/O modules connected in a stacked form to a processing module via connectors jud... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7269467 | Shelf system A shelf system with computer-controlled compartment displays, whereby the displays indicate a number of articles to picked out of the compartment. The shelf system has a plurality of sliding shelves in that the shelves have at least one display element in their fron... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7266670 | Method of determining whether a virtual address corresponds to a physical address in a translation lookaside buffer A method of determining whether a virtual address corresponds to a physical address in a translation lookaside buffer (TLB) includes receiving a virtual address, setting the page type of the virtual address according to a rank of the page types, picking index bits a... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7262791 | Communication apparatus and method, and storage medium There is the possibility that the operator misunderstands as if an abnormality has occurred in an apparatus, depending on the state of reception of an image changing in accordance with situation. This problem is solved by providing a reception unit for receiving ima... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7263476 | High speed information processing and mass storage system and method, particularly for information and application servers A high speed, microcomputer based, Fibre Channel compatible and fault tolerant information processing and mass storage system especially suited for information servers and application servers. A unique and extremely versatile system architecture, including a dual lo... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7263526 | Method and apparatus for embedding chat functions in a web page A real time chat server (610) not only maintains the chat session but also synchronizes the browse and chat functions by dynamically linking the browser and chat applications to allow the contents of the browser window and the chat window to change in a coord... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7262709 | System and method for efficient configuration in a fixed network automated meter reading system Meters are configured using either a program update method or a meter update method. In the program update method, meters associated with a specified configuration program are identified and configured with updated parameters. In the meter update method, a specified... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7262686 | Methods and apparatuses to identify devices A reader identifies tags without requiring or determining whether a response to an interrogation was a single response from a single tag or multiple responses from multiple tags. A method is performed by a tag in an identification system, and the method includes rec... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7254223 | Method and apparatus for improved personal communication devices and systems Contact data in a database for a wireless personal communication device are remotely updatable from, or transferable between, a computer system using a radio frequency connection. New contact data, and changes or updates to existing contact data, are input at the co... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7251318 | Method and apparatus for improved personal communication devices and systems An apparatus and method provide a database in a pager that contains menus that may be displayed on a pager display. A paging service sends a page including an identification, retrieves a menu from the pager database and displays the menu. The pager responds to the p... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7251682 | Web browser system A broadcast data receiver (BDR) is provided with a web browser system. A service provided by the web browser system si selectable by a user of the BDR and, when selected, is controllable by the user via a remote control handset, thereby allowing an Internet web site... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7248977 | Phasor transducer apparatus and system for protection, control, and management of electricity distribution systems A system for measuring the delivery of electrical energy from an energy supplier to a consumer through an electric circuit is disclosed. The system includes devices coupled with the network. Each device comprises a sensor, an analog to digital converter, a processor... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7246148 | Enhanced network services using a subnetwork of communicating processors A method and system for providing enhanced services for a network. The enhanced services use information about the network which is available to a subnet of communicating processors (such as a set of routers), collectively executing a common distributed technique fo... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7245668 | Clock modulation systems Shaped Clocked (SC) and Clock Modulation (CM) systems, signal generation-reception, processing and CM implementations. Systems having a first and second shaped clock signal and providing shaped clocks to a selector switch and to a signal transmitter. The selectable ... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7245874 | Infrastructure for telephony network A cellular telephone network comprises peripheral branches and a central high-capacity data trunking region or network backbone. The invention concerns effective utilization of trunking capacity to provide backbone facilities for such a network. The network backbone... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7245625 | Network-to-network adaptor for power line communications A portable, pluggable power line communications device provides convenient interfacing and connectivity between separate data networks interconnected over the same conventional electric power conveying media. The power line communications device plugs into a single ... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7239250 | System and method for improved transmission of meter data The system includes a number of first meters, which are typically battery powered transmit only devices. The system includes a number of two-way meters, which are operable to both transmit and receive data. The first meters transmit their data to the collector eithe... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7237287 | Patient care bed with network A bed including a frame, a deck, a siderail, a communication network and a graphic caregiver interface module. The graphic caregiver interface module includes an input device, a control circuit, a memory, and a display. ... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7236765 | Data communication over power lines A system for receiving and processing signals received from a plurality of endpoints. Each endpoint includes an endpoint transmitter in electrical communication with a power distribution line within a power distribution system. The system comprises a power line coup... | 06/26/2007 |
