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Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) received Patent No. 121,992 for "An Improvement in Adjustable and Detachable Straps for Garments." He later received two more patents: one for a self-pasting scrapbook and one for a game to help players remember important historical dates.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7924791 | Method of transmitting data packets between two slave units and a master unit comprising two processors A method of transmitting data packets within a local network including a master unit and at least two slave units is adapted to a configuration according to which the master unit comprises two processors. The first processor executes an application and the second pr... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7924792 | Method, system, gateway and user device for receiving/sending multimedia message Methods, systems, gateways and user devices for receiving/sending multimedia message. According to the invention, a multimedia messaging service system comprising a wireless LAN, a multimedia messaging service user device and a multimedia messaging service gateway, ... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7924793 | Methods and apparatus to manage bandwidth in a wireless network Methods and apparatus to manage bandwidth in a wireless network are disclosed. For a wireless network that includes a wireless access point supporting a private service set identifier (SSID) and a public SSID, a disclosed example apparatus comprises a policy interfa... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7920529 | Intermediary query manager for 2G and 3G services An intermediary system that seamlessly evolves the 2G/2.5G storage mediums to the 3G entities (e.g., a logical HSS) and provides subscriber data to 3G services such as IMS, from legacy data sources. An Intermediary Query Manager (IQM) is provided that functions as i... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7920530 | WLAN TDM IFS time selection protocol A first wireless network device in a wireless network that includes a plurality of wireless network devices comprises an RF transceiver that transmits and receives data packets and that periodically transmits or receives a beacon. A control module communicates with ... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7920531 | Technique for managing wireless networks Network connectivity may be managed on a computing device. An identifier of each wireless access point or network that is available at a given location is determined. The identifier determined without the device attempting to connect to any available wireless access... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7920532 | Method and apparatus for providing distributed service composition model for ad hoc networks A method and apparatus for providing a distributed service composition model in accordance with the characteristics of an ad hoc network are provided. The method includes confirming whether an adjacent mobile node exists within a number of hops from a task initiator... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7920528 | View sharing between in-range devices A system and method for sharing a view between systems in a dynamic wireless communication network. Various aspects of the present invention may comprise a first system communicating information of a view to a display resource of the first system. The first system m... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7920534 | Wireless LAN setting system in an image forming apparatus, and a wireless LAN setting method A wireless LAN setting system mounted on an image forming apparatus that performs network connection through a wireless LAN and used for performing wireless communication with plural terminals, the wireless LAN setting system including a mode for checking, before se... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7920535 | Idle connection state power consumption reduction in a wireless local area network using beacon delay advertisement A novel and useful apparatus for and method of improving idle connection state power consumption in wireless local area network (WLAN) system. Beacon transmission delay information is determined by the access points and advertised to the stations via a Beacon Transm... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7920536 | More robust data transfer through detection of hidden nodes In a wireless network having one or more base stations and one or more access points, the base station is switched automatically from a CSMA/CA exchange protocol to an RTS/CTS exchange protocol, in a case where the base station infers the presence of a hidden node. ... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7920533 | Method and apparatus for calibration and channel state feedback to support transmit beamforming in a MIMO system A method and apparatus for calibration and channel state feedback to support transmit beamforming in a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system are disclosed. For radio frequency (RF) calibration, a first station (STA) sends a calibration request to a second STA... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7916703 | Wireless local area network (WLAN) and method of transmitting frame in the WLAN In a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) and a method of transmitting a frame in the WLAN, mode information and an available data transfer rate of each wireless terminal located within a coverage of an Access Point (AP) are collected. A determination is made as to wh... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7916701 | Virtual addressing to support wireless access to data networks In a telephony communication system, a mobile device requests access to packet-based networks using network access requests that identify access point names associated with these networks. The mobile devices and gateways providing access to the networks support the ... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7916704 | Method of communication scheduling in a multihop network A method of communication scheduling in a multihop network is provided. The multihop network comprises a base station and at least one relay station. The method includes allocating a downlink relay to a relay station; assigning a first one or more connection identif... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7916702 | Dynamic network management apparatus and dynamic network management method A technology is disclosed for certainly performing dynamic routing and error checking processes in the mobile network. According to this technology, the home agent sets up a Binding Acknowledgement message with a smaller Lifetime value when receiving a Binding Updat... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7916706 | Hierarchical data collection network supporting packetized voice communications among wireless terminals and telephones A packet-based, hierarchical communication system, arranged in a spanning tree configuration, is described in which wired and wireless communication networks exhibiting substantially different characteristics are employed in an overall scheme to link portable or mob... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7916707 | Identity-based wireless device configuration Techniques are provided for the relating identity information with wireless configuration information for a wireless device or a wireless network. A trusted system may be used to generate wireless configuration parameters for a wireless network based on identity inf... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7916705 | Method, apparatus, and software product for detecting rogue access points in a wireless network A method, an apparatus, and a software program to implement a method to detect a rogue access point of a wireless network. The method includes maintaining an AP database that includes information about managed access point (APs) and friendly APs, including the MAC a... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7916708 | Automatic partitioning of wireless access points into overlay and underlay networks Methods, apparatuses and systems directed to partitioning access points into two or more network access layers, such as overlay and underlay network access layers. According to one implementation of the present invention, a wireless network management system partiti... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7912023 | Battery-efficient generic advertising service for wireless mobile devices In one embodiment, a method for acquiring service provider information includes querying a wireless network for service provider information, receiving an advertisement response containing advertising service scheduling information, and configuring a power conservat... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7912021 | Method and system for simulating a communication network, related network and computer program product therefor A simulator system for simulating a wireless local area network in a combination of a wireless local area network and one or more 2G or 3G mobile communication networks includes a first set and a second set of access protocol simulation devices representative of wir... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7912022 | WLAN having load balancing based on access point loading A network having distribution of access point loading includes access points to which mobile stations can associate themselves based upon access point beacon signal levels and loading levels for the various access points. A mobile station receives beacon signals fro... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7912019 | Applications of upgradeable scalable switching networks The creation of a variety of upgradeable scalable switching networks are set forth including multistage switching networks as well as novel multidirectional architectures. Systems and methods exploiting the properties such as fault tolerance, upgradeability without ... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7912020 | Methods and devices for dynamic mobile conferencing with automatic pairing Described are methods and systems to preset a Bluetooth enabled headset and a Bluetooth enabled conference hub, so that at the time of a conference call, they are pre-paired and ready for use. Pairing information of a particular Bluetooth headset may be stored with ... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7912016 | Hierarchical data collection network supporting packetized voice communications among wireless terminals and telephones A packet-based, hierarchical communication system, arranged in a spanning tree configuration, is described in which wired and wireless communication networks exhibiting substantially different characteristics are employed in an overall scheme to link portable or mob... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7912024 | Method and apparatus for wide bandwidth mixed-mode wireless communications A network device for implementing high-rate greenfield transmission in a mixed mode frame structure. The network device is configured to transmit a mixed mode frame on two adjacent channels. The mixed mode frame comprises at least two backward compatible portions of... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7912017 | Wireless connection system and wireless connection method A wireless connection system having at least one host apparatus and at least one client apparatus, wherein: proximity wireless communication is executed when a host apparatus and a client apparatus execute wireless communication with each other on the basis of a pre... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7912027 | Controlling visibility of a wireless device in discoverable mode A wireless device in a discoverable mode controls its visibility by determining whether to ignore or respond to an inquiry, received from an inquiring device, based at least in part on one or more properties of the inquiring device. ... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7912026 | Throughput in multi-rate wireless networks using variable-length packets and other techniques In a wireless communication network having a plurality of devices operating at different data rates that contend for access to the network, an apparatus is provided that assigns network access parameters so as to control throughput on the network. ... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7912018 | Apparatus and method for controlling transmission rate in a wireless LAN An apparatus and method for controlling transmission rate by determining whether a data transmission failure is caused by a channel error or a data collision in order to reduce a collision-caused rate decrease or a collision-caused rate increase delay in a WLAN. A c... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7912025 | Methods and apparatus for processing radio modem commands during network data sessions A radio modem includes a serial interface adapted for connection to a host device via a wired serial link; a router coupled to the serial interface; a server coupled to the router; and RF transceiver coupled to the router. The router is configured receive data packe... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7907579 | WiFi geolocation from carrier-managed system geolocation of a dual mode device In one embodiment, a carrier-managed system such as the cellular network or the Global Positioning System (GPS), is leveraged to directly determine or triangulate geographic locations of the dual mode device and then the access point. Advantageously, a service provi... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7907580 | LAN access by ultra-wideband system and method An ultra-wideband (UWB) system and method provide a local area network (LAN) and/or LAN access. LAN access versions of the UWB system includes an emulator layer and bridge that allow data to be transmitted between a LAN-UWB hybrid device and a LAN network switch, su... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7907581 | Method and system for supporting multi mesh operation modes using single Wi-Fi interfacing A wireless-fidelity (Wi-Fi) interfacing method and a Wi-Fi interfacing system are provided. The Wi-Fi interfacing method includes: determining an interfacing operation mode related to a received packet, in interoperation with the receiving of the packet; and process... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7907577 | Communication network providing wireless and hard-wired dynamic routing A data communication network for providing dynamic routing through both wireless and wired subnetworks to support wireless communication devices and wired remote stations is disclosed. In the wireless network, the wireless communication devices can be mobile RF term... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7907578 | Frequency overlay technique for a pico cell system To ameliorate interference between an indoor wireless pico cell system, for example in an aircraft, and public wireless communications systems operating in a surrounding or over-flown area, frequencies of operation of the indoor system are coordinated with those use... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7907582 | Method and apparatus for access point selection in wireless LAN A method and an apparatus select an access point (AP) in a wireless LAN to associate or reassociate, based on considerations that take into account the quality-of-service (QoS) status of the stations (STAs) and the potential hidden terminal effect. The method utiliz... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7907583 | Communication terminal apparatus, communication method thereof, and connected destination selection method in wireless LAN To provide a communication terminal apparatus including a first wireless communication unit that can connect with a host computer, a second wireless communication unit that can connect with connecting equipment by wireless, an equipment information storage unit for ... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7907584 | Access router device, mobility control system, and mobility control method In a network configuration in which a mobility control node is placed in the network, a packet is forwarded from a communication partner to the mobility control node by a basic IP mobility protocol for supporting movement in a local network managed by the mobility c... | 03/15/2011 |
