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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7171626 | System and method for presenting the contents of a content collection based on content type An apparatus and method for execution in a graphical user interface environment are provided. The apparatus and method are used to display a set of items within a content collection, such as a set of files within a folder on a computer operating system. The method i... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7171349 | Relational text index creation and searching In an environment where it is desire to perform information extraction over a large quantity of textual data, methods, tools and structures are provided for building a relational text index from the textual data and performing searches using the relational text inde... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7171451 | Remote data acquisition and transmission system and method A remote data acquisition and transmission system and method are disclosed. A plurality of application controllers are interfaced with remote equipment from which operation data is acquired by the application controllers. The application controllers communicate with... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7170431 | Data transmitting circuit and method based on differential value data encoding Disclosed is a data transmitting circuit and a method based on a differential value data encoding to reduce a data transmitting time by transmitting an encoded differential value. The circuit comprises an encoder for encoding and outputting a differential value betw... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7167108 | Method and apparatus for selecting particular decoder based on bitstream format detection The present invention provides an apparatus and method for switching between particular decoders within a plurality of decoders, each decoder adapted to decode bit streams having a unique format. The apparatus comprises format detectors which output format indicator... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7167875 | Web page thumbnails and user configured complementary information provided from a server A method for presenting content from the page in a distributed database. In a preferred embodiment, a server receives a request from a client for a page from the database wherein the page has a plurality of links to linked pages in the database. The server retrieves... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7167892 | System, method and apparatus for vending machine wireless audit and cashless transaction transport The present invention provides a system, method and apparatus for collecting, storing and communicating vending machine transaction data. The system preferably includes an embedded data collection and storage device that, when placed inside a vending machine, will c... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7167115 | Method, apparatus, and computer-readable medium for data compression and decompression utilizing multiple dictionaries A method, apparatus, and computer-readable medium for compressing and decompressing an input data stream utilizing multiple dictionaries is provided. According the method for compressing data, a string and a character are read from the input data stream. A determina... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7164884 | Method and system for interfacing a machine controller and a wireless network A wireless interface module interfaces a machine control system, such as a vending machine controller, with one of plural wireless networks through one of plural removably coupled wireless transceivers. Communication between geographically distributed vending machin... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7165092 | System and method for sharing information among provider systems A system is provided wherein information is provided once, and that information is provided to multiple provider systems. Information provided by a user is stored and implemented for each provider as needed. The information is provided by a user to a central server ... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7164369 | System for improving storage efficiency of digital files Data is partitioned and processed along a bit plane that includes symbols holding a particular place in the ordered symbol sequences of digital information to achieve efficient compression and reduce processing complexity. ... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7164370 | System and method for decoding data compressed in accordance with dictionary-based compression schemes A method is disclosed for decoding a coded input stream and producing a decoded output stream. The method includes the steps of assigning each successive code in the input stream a dictionary definition that references a location in an output stream, and providing l... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7164374 | Demodulation apparatus and method using code table that decreases complexity A demodulation apparatus and method using a code table that decreases complexity. The demodulation apparatus includes a code table including a plurality of the code words, wherein similar ones of the code words are arranged to be grouped together; and a soft demodul... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7164802 | Method for image compression by modified Huffman coding The present invention provides a system that compresses and decompresses an image. The system includes a first codec a first stage codec for identifying runs of pixels of a defined value in a data stream of the image data beginning from the left and right margins of... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7161506 | Systems and methods for data compression such as content dependent data compression Systems and methods for providing fast and efficient data compression using a combination of content independent data compression and content dependent data compression. In one aspect, a method for compressing data comprises the steps of: analyzing a data block of a... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7161508 | Variable length coding method and variable length decoding method An image coding apparatus provides a run-length encoding unit RLE1 that subjects quantized coefficients which are obtained by quantizing frequency components of an image signal to a variable length coding process by using a run value Run that indicates the nu... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7161507 | Fast, practically optimal entropy coding An enumerator employs “indexing volumes” as the add-on values used to compute indexes for n-item ordered sets such as symbol sequences. Each indexing volume is associated with a different class into which the allowed ordered sets are partitioned. The indexing vo... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7162416 | Compressed audio stream data decoder memory sharing techniques A decoder (10) decodes compressed data. A memory (44) stores the compressed data and stores operating data and operating code for a plurality of decompression algorithms requiring different amounts of memory for the operating data and operating code an... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7158683 | Image processing device An image processing device for compressing image data using conversion to spatial frequency components may include a dividing section that divides the image data into a plurality of pixel blocks and computes spatial frequency components of each pixel block; a segmen... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7158684 | Entropy coding scheme for video coding A method of variable length coding classifies each received symbol into one of a plurality of classifications having a corresponding variable length code table selected based upon a probability distribution of received symbols within the classification. The variable... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7155483 | Apparatus and method for conserving bandwidth by batch processing data transactions A system is described in which, under certain conditions, a wireless data processing apparatus and/or the service to which the apparatus communicates, will enter a batch processing mode. Under the batch processing mode, the apparatus and/or service will combine a se... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7155173 | Method and system for providing a context for message compression A method for providing wireless communication between a mobile station and a network station using a context for message compression is provided. Profile-specific information is stored persistently in a profile-specific dictionary. Communication is then provided bet... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7155456 | Storing and recalling information to augment human memories A system for computer-based storing of information about a current state so that later recall of the information can augment human memories In particular, when information about a current event of interest is to be stored, a variety of current state information of d... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7154416 | Adaptive control of codebook regeneration in data compression mechanisms Adaptive control of codebook regeneration in data compression mechanisms. In one implementation, the present invention provides a means controlling the frequency of codebook updates based on expected performance gains resulting from codebook regeneration. The presen... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7154418 | Apparatus and method for encoding digital data A method for encoding digital data includes the step of: encoding the digital data to a corresponding digital signal sequence by a digital signal encoder (110) according to an encoding rule, which can be transmitted through the single digital circuit (12 | 12/26/2006 |
| 7152220 | Collaboration engine: adding collaboration functionality to computer software The present invention disclosed comprises a method for easily adding collaboration functionality to new and existing software. The invention allows seamless collaborative operations at the whole product level, but very importantly, comprises a method for dividing mo... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7148824 | Automatic detection of character encoding format using statistical analysis of the text strings A method of detecting the encoding utilized in an electronic document includes testing the text strings to determine whether the electronic document contains only text strings having legal numeric codes. A statistical analysis of the text strings is then conducted t... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7149811 | Multistandard video decoder and decompression system for processing encoded bit streams including a reconfigurable processing stage and methods relating thereto A pipeline video decoder and decompression system handles a plurality of separately encoded bit streams arranged as a single serial bit stream of digital bits and having separately encoded pairs of control codes and corresponding data carried in the serial bit strea... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7145911 | Method and system for parallel hash transformation for an address input A method for performing a parallel hash transformation in a network device to generate a hash pointer for an address input. The method includes the step of receiving an address input. The address input is apportioned among a plurality of hashing units. The hashing u... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7142133 | Data modulating method and apparatus, data demodulating method and apparatus, and code arranging method In a data demodulating method and apparatus, and a code arranging method, a multiplexer multiplexes an input data stream divided by a predetermined length into a plurality of types of pseudo random data streams using multiplexed information of predetermined bits by ... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7142612 | Method and apparatus for multi-level signaling A system transmits data on a multi-conductor signal path, which produces a current flow based on the value of the data transmitted. The system reduces changes in current flow between successive data transmissions by encoding data values represented by sets of N bits... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7143143 | System and method for distributed caching using multicast replication A system and method for transferring multiple portions of data utilizing a distributed cache are disclosed. A content server obtains a request for content data and associates an identifier with the request. The content server returns a first portion of the data with... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7139684 | High bandwidth real time oscilloscope A method and apparatus for digitizing a data signal, the method comprising the steps of receiving an input analog data signal, splitting the received input analog data signal into a plurality of split signals, and mixing at least one of the split signals with a pred... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7139968 | Processing unit and processing method A digital signal processor configured to perform a Viterbi algorithm includes an instruction fetching unit that fetches instructions and a decoding unit that decodes the instructions fetched by the instruction fetching unit. The digital signal processor also include... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7135997 | Method and apparatus for CAVLC decoding A CAVLC decoding method and apparatus is provided. In the method for decoding a coded bitstream using a CAVLC length table and a CAVLC value table, CAVLC length tables are re-sorted in an order of a codeword length and the coded bitstream is decoded using the re-sor... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7136503 | Encoding hidden data A digital image is processed to hide information, by generally inconspicuous adjustments thereof. These adjustments can define a pattern that extends across some or all of the image. Desirably, the pattern is adapted to the particular image being encoded, so as to b... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7132964 | Coding apparatus, program and data processing method A coding apparatus, a program and a data processing method capable of attaining a high speed and a reduction of a computation amount in coding processing is provided, wherein coding portions for performing a left shift operation on a range and a lower limit value un... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7134075 | Conversion of documents between XML and processor efficient MXML in content based routing networks A method, system, and computer program product for efficient processing of Extensible Markup Language (XML) documents in Content Based Routing (“CBR”) networks. Specifically, the method involves converting existing XML documents to a machine-oriented notation (... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7133832 | Recording and reproducing apparatus for use with optical recording medium having real-time, losslessly encoded data A lossless encoding apparatus encodes audio data and a lossless decoding apparatus restores the losslessly compression encoded audio data on a real-time basis, and a method therefor. The lossless encoding apparatus includes a lossless compression unit which lossless... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7133963 | Content addressable data storage and compression for semi-persistent computer memory Content addressable data storage and compression for semi-persistent computer memory including providing a chunk of data that is a quantity of input data; retrieving a memory block from semi-persistent computer memory; searching for a segment of the chunk that match... | 11/07/2006 |
