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Glam girl Heddy Lamar may have used her good looks to good effect on the silver screen, but she put her smarts to better use as an inventor. During World War II, she co-patented a frequency-switching system for torpedo guidance that was considered years ahead of its time.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8170029 | Intermittent communication system, base station apparatus and mobile station apparatus In an intermittent communication system where an intermittent communication can be made between a base station and a mobile station, a transmitting unit of the mobile station transmits a request to start a normal communication after stopping an intermittent communic... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8160073 | Method and apparatus for transporting content A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a controller operable to receive signaling information from a local resource manager (LRM) identifying a recipient media processor (RMP) and describing at least one media charac... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8149842 | Automated discovery of network devices supporting particular transport layer protocols Disclosed are, inter alia, methods, apparatus, computer-storage media, mechanisms, and means associated with automated discovery of network devices supporting particular transport layer protocols, such as, but not limited to Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCT... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8139585 | Method and system for controlling sessions from a subscriber terminal A method and system for providing users with the ability to control the configuration of data session initiated to connect terminals connected to the public-switched telecommunications network (“PSTN”) to services available on data networks. A legacy terminal ma... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8107479 | Method and system for telephony and high-speed data access on a broadband access network A system and method for providing telephony and high-speed data access over a broadband access network, comprising a network interface unit (NIU) coupled to a backup local exchange carrier (LEC) line, the broadband access network coupled to the NIU, an intermediate ... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8094664 | Session based communication A user terminal requesting a session establishment although the session already exists, is informed on the existing session in a response to the request. If the user terminal offered in the request one or more media types that were rejected, the response contains an... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8094663 | System and method for authentication of SP ethernet aggregation networks A Service Provider (SP) authentication method includes receiving a message from a subscriber-premises device, the message being compatible with an authentication protocol and being transported from the subscriber-premises device to a u-PE device operating in complia... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8059657 | System for QOS aware reverse link admission control in wireless communication systems A system, comprising various methods and apparatus, for Reverse Link Admission Control (RLAC) with QoS differentiation in wireless communication systems is disclosed. With the present invention, wireless systems may admit new calls or transmission flows based upon s... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8059656 | Expedited resource negotiation in SIP A method of expediting resource negotiation in a modified Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) reduces the number of messages exchanged for resource negotiation, thereby reducing the latencies involved in session setup. The method entails sending an INVITE message havi... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8050272 | System and method for concurrent sessions in a peer-to-peer hybrid communications network An improved system and method are disclosed for peer-to-peer communications. In one example, the method provides for concurrent sessions to be maintained by multiple endpoints. ... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8050273 | Lawful interception in IP networks A method to provide lawful interception of a device in a network, the network comprising defining Virtual Local Area Networks (VLAN), wherein a lawful interception device of the network defines a Virtual Local Area Network where at least the device to intercept and ... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8050274 | Changing a first subscriber identifier to a second identifier The invention relates to telecommunications systems, in which a subscriber is identified in a network with a first identifier and with a second identifier in a server providing services to the subscriber through the network. In the invention the first identifier is ... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8040893 | Method for fast source routed connection setup The invention comprises a method for establishing a connection between a begin node and an end node in which parallel transmission and processing of connection request messages is used to minimize the dependency of connection setup time on connection path length. | 10/18/2011 |
| 8040894 | System and method for providing dynamic bandwidth on demand A system and method to adjust dynamically network speed or bandwidth allocation. A network connection is established at some initial speed. The bandwidth usage through the connection is monitored, and when the connection speed becomes congested with data, the connec... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8031719 | System, node, and method optimizing data connections for packet services Systems and methods for optimizing resources of a packet service gateway are disclosed. According to an embodiment, a telecommunication system includes a servicing node, a gateway node connecting the servicing node to a data network, and a control node virtualizing ... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8031718 | Method of data communication between PLC stations belonging to different PLC cells and apparatus thereof A method of data communication between power line communication (PLC) stations belonging to different PLC cells includes transmitting a station ID of a PLC reception station to a PLC cell bridge (CB) of a first PLC cell to which a PLC transmission station belongs, r... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8018948 | P-GANC offload of URR discovery messages to a security gateway In one embodiment, a security gateway receives an IPSec Initiation (IPSec INIT) request from a client. The security gateway may communicate with a AAA server to authenticate the client. After authentication, the security gateway intercepts a URR Discovery request fr... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8000331 | Receive device for a cable data service A receive device includes a plurality of demodulators and a tunnel destination. The demodulators are configured to receive multiple data streams, each of the multiple data streams having a bit rate that is lower than a bit rate of a transmit data stream. The tunnel ... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7990976 | Negotiated secure fast table lookups for protocols with bidirectional identifiers During connection establishments for a protocol with bidirectional identifiers, connection data is allocated, the locally selected identifier is a pointer to the allocated connection data, and a mathematical transformation is applied to the pointer. The pointer and ... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7990977 | Method, system, and device for sending data in a cable data service A method of sending data from a transmit site to a receive device includes dividing a first transmit data stream having a first bit rate into multiple data streams with each of the multiple data streams having a bit rate that is lower than the first bit rate. Each o... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7974292 | Method and apparatus for dynamically adjusting broadband access bandwidth A method and apparatus for providing a method to enable subscribers of broadband access services, such as Digital Subscriber Loop based or Cable based broadband access services, to dynamically reconfigure their access arrangements as a function of the application th... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7969986 | Method and device for using a data object representing a user in a distributed communication network A method and device are provided for conducting a media communication session with at least one user presented by at least one data object, where the data object resides at a plurality of platforms associated with a distributed IP communication network. The media co... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7961735 | Communication apparatus and control method of the same A communication apparatus functioning as a mobile station may include a message receiver, a communication range determination unit, an existence determination unit, and a management signal output unit. The message receiver receives from a first control station a mes... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7948990 | Control decisions in a communication system A method, system, network and gateway of deciding a policy for controlling communications in a communication system are disclosed. The method comprises determining the type of an access network associated with communications via a gateway. In a further step, a polic... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7936760 | Method, communications network arrangement, communications network server, terminal, and software means for selecting and changing operating modes for packet-switched voice connection The invention relates to a method for selecting or changing communications modes used by a terminal on a communications connection over a packet-switched data network where the communications mode can be based on either real-time or non-real-time transfer and where ... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7929541 | Communication system, information processing apparatus, server, and communication method A first information processor transmits a bubble packet to a second communication control unit for leaving transmission record in a first communication control unit by way of the first communication control unit, a second information processor transmits a reply pack... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7920572 | Modifying operation of peer-to-peer networks based on integrating network routing information A data processing method comprising establishing a first node in a peer-to-peer data communications network, wherein the node is configured as a supernode in conformance with a peer-to-peer communications protocol, wherein the first node is configured as an active l... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7864774 | ATM connection band control method and control system An asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) connection band control system, in an ATM network, may include a first memory, a second, different memory, and a connection-setting control portion. The first memory may store, in a buffer control memory, band acquiring data of a ... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7860102 | Call establishment for multimedia call A mechanism for controlling an establishment of a call from a calling party being located in a first communication network environment to a receiving party being located in a second network environment, comprise a determination whether or not information on media pa... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7860103 | Method and apparatus for extended addressing in a fiber channel arbitrated loop Methods and apparatus for increasing the number of addressable node ports within one arbitrated loop are provided in a way that allows all node ports be able to participate in loop operations. The method also adds destination filtering based on the source address to... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7852848 | Service gateway, serving system, QoS negotiation method and serving recourse release method Embodiments of the present invention provide a service gateway, comprising a service session detection unit adapted to detect a service session request and the end of a service session. The service gateway further comprises a QoS negotiation unit, adapted to acquire... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7843934 | Methods and apparatus for providing emergency telephone service to IP-based telephone users For purposes of servicing emergency calls, such as 911 calls, a telephone number is associated with each edge router port used to provide IP service to a customer premise location. A telephone number is associated with the edge router port and the corresponding cust... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7843937 | Method for requesting domain transfer and terminal and server thereof A method, terminal and server for controlling a domain transfer operation, are discussed. According to an embodiment, the method includes receiving, by a terminal, a domain transfer request message from a network server, the domain transfer request message including... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7843936 | Distributed controlled passive optical network system and bandwidth control method thereof Disclosed is a distributed controlled passive optical network system and bandwidth control method thereof. The system comprises an optical line terminal (OLT), plural optical network units (ONUs) and a splitter with combiner. Each ONU has a first Tx/Rx for respectiv... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7843935 | System and method for resource management in a terminal connected to a communication network A system for managing a resource in a terminal (10) for an architecture (15, 15′) dedicated to a communications network. The system includes a dedicated architecture resource manager (16, 16′) adapted to process a request for a resource of t... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7839860 | Packet based video display interface A packet based display interface arranged to couple a multimedia source device to a multimedia sink device is disclosed that includes a transmitter unit coupled to the source device arranged to receive a source packet data stream in accordance with a native stream r... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7822043 | Supporting applications sensitive to data loss on switched virtual circuits (SVCs) An edge router receives datagrams to be forwarded an SVC. If the SVC is not already set up, the edge router buffers the datagrams until the SVC set up is complete. The buffered datagrams are forwarded once the SVC set up is complete. According to another aspect of t... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7817640 | Fair round robin scheduler for network systems A scheduler for use in a computer network system which provides an order 1 level of complexity, while maintaining proportional fairness and a constant normalized worst-case fair index to create short term and long-term fairness among backlogged flows. The scheduler ... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7817639 | Method of data transmission in a data communication network A method of data transmission in a data communication network includes negotiating a connection between a source terminal and a destination terminal in the data communication network. During the connection negotiation process, optimal field lengths are determined fo... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7813349 | Service aware switched SDH/SONET/TDM network Method and apparatus to establish a communication link over a high speed communications network. A unique predetermined address assigned to a switching and access node of each network node of the high speed communications network is examined. In addition, a service ... | 10/12/2010 |
