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Decorative Jeweled Wheel Cover
An improved wheel is provided wherein decorative items such as gem stones are embedded in either the wheel surface, a special mounting section attached to the wheel surface, or to a spoke strap that wraps around each spoke and positions embedded gem stones on the outside surface of the spoke.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7965725 | Hyper-ring-on-chip (HyRoC) architecture A network-on-chip interconnects an array of integrated circuit resources. The network-on-chip includes at least one vertical communications ring per column of the array and at least one horizontal communications ring per row of the array. A network interface is asso... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7697552 | MAC address scalability in interconnected rings A method for communication is used in a communication network that includes multiple ring nodes arranged in at least first and second ring networks, which are connected by one or more of the ring nodes serving as interconnect nodes. A data packet is accepted from a ... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7443788 | Method and apparatus for improving performance of a loop network A method and apparatus for improving performance of a loop network, in particular a Fiber Channel Arbitrated Loop. The loop network has two loops and a plurality of dual-ported devices each with one port on each loop. The method includes selectively bypassing redund... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7428236 | Architecture for a hybrid STM/ATM add-drop multiplexer Architecture for a SONET network element. The architecture includes an interconnection system for a network element, including a line unit slot, a switch fabric slot, and service unit slots. The line unit slot is connected as a hub to the switch fabric slot and the ... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7412718 | Method for bidirectional data transfer Provided are a method, system and article of manufacture for bidirectional data transfer. In certain embodiments a link layer login is sent from a first port to a second port. Subsequently, an application layer login is sent from the first port to the second port to... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7400574 | Method and apparatus for managing a loop network A method and apparatus for managing a loop network, the loop network (200) including at least one loop (206, 208), a plurality of devices (210) connected to the at least one loop (206, 208) via ports (211, 212), wherein at least tw... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7376149 | Method and apparatus for bridging network protocols Methods and apparatus for bridging network protocols are disclosed. A protocol bridge may be used to function as a target for a network processor while performing a target mode operation, while functioning as an initiator on behalf of the network processor while per... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7362728 | Handover control apparatus, relay router, gateway apparatus, access router base station, mobile communication system, and handover control method A mobile communication system 100 according to the present invention comprises handover control apparatus 1 and radio terminal unit 10. The handover control apparatus 1 controls handover of a radio terminal unit 10 between access r... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7362769 | Fibre channel arbitrated loop bufferless switch circuitry to increase bandwidth without significant increase in cost A switch, switched architecture and process for transferring data through an FCAL switch is disclosed. The switch uses multiple switch control circuits each coupled to one FCAL network and all connected to a crossbar switch. The switch control circuits are coupled t... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7352758 | Dynamic bandwidth management using signaling protocol and virtual concatenation A communication system (10) employs switching circuits, such as an add/drop multiplexer (70) and another add/drop multiplexer (110). The bandwidth of a circuit switched connection between the switching circuits is altered without taking down the... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7333511 | Dynamically channelizable packet transport network A communications network for transporting data packets among L2/L3 nodes based on dynamically L1-channelizable multi-source buses. The dynamic channelization of a packet transport bus among source-node-specific L1 connections is managed by a bus control process, whi... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7325063 | Apparatus, method, and system for removing ethernet header and adding second IP header An apparatus including a protocol stack, the protocol stack including an application layer, a network layer, and a physical layer, wherein the physical layer comprises a hardware interface between the apparatus and a network, wherein network-level tunnelling of a pa... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7315897 | Adaptable control plane architecture for a network element A method, computer program product, and data processing system for distributed control of network elements is disclosed. The present invention divides the control plane functions of a network element into subsystems, which are implemented as processes or threads. A ... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7313631 | DNS updating in communication network In a communication network in which terminals (11) are mobile in the network, the mobility must be managed, and in particular the location of the mobile terminal needs to be determined. Networks each have an associated name server (13) and the name ser... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7313231 | Methods, apparatus and computer program products for routing phone calls to a PSTN or a packet switched network based on called number A phone call is selectively routed to a public switched telephone network or to a packet switched network based on a called number to which the phone call is directed. A phone call may be made as a Voice-Over-Internet-Protocol call through, for example, the Internet... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7293107 | Method and apparatus for providing mobile and other intermittent connectivity in a computing environment A seamless solution transparently addresses the characteristics of nomadic systems, and enables existing network applications to run reliably in mobile environments. A Mobility Management Server coupled to the mobile network maintains the state of each of any number... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7283478 | Traffic engineering in bi-directional ring networks A method for traffic engineering in a communication system made up of network nodes arranged in multiple interconnected networks, including at least one bi-directional ring network having an inner ring and an outer ring. The bi-directional ring network is defined as... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7269131 | Method and apparatus for managing a loop network A method and apparatus for managing a loop network, the loop network (200) including at least one loop (206, 208), a plurality of devices (210) connected to the at least one loop (206, 208) via ports (211, 212), wherein at least tw... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7260112 | Method and apparatus for terminating and bridging network protocols Methods and apparatus for bridging network protocols are disclosed. A protocol bridge may be used to function as a target for a network processor while performing a target mode operation, while functioning as an initiator on behalf of the network processor while per... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7260325 | Network component for an optical network comprising an emergency operation function, especially for an optical network in ring topology A network component (3d) for an optical network (1) is described, including a coupling device (2; 4, 5) for optical coupling of the network component (3d) to the optical network (1), the coupling device (2; 4, 5 | 08/21/2007 |
| 7254145 | Data transmission apparatus and a path control method thereof A data transmission apparatus using a virtual concatenated path in an SDH transmission system is capable of engaging one or more extra paths by an automated sequence execution to meet a traffic requirement that is higher than usual but up to a maximum speed of a use... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7248891 | Method of managing a communication with multi-server service providing means The invention relates to a method of managing a call through a telecommunications network (10) between an access terminal (18) connected to the network (10) and means (22) for providing a service through the network. Said means comprise f... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7231463 | Multi-level ring peer-to-peer network structure for peer and object discovery In one embodiment of the invention, a Peer-to-Peer (P2P) subsystem includes a cache of a current peer and a peer locator. The current peer is in a current ring at a current level. The cache stores information of ring peers within the current ring. The current ring i... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7191380 | Defect-tolerant and fault-tolerant circuit interconnections Methods for increasing defect tolerance and fault tolerance in systems containing interconnected components, in which a signal level is classified as belonging to one of a plurality of different, distinguishable classes based on one or more thresholds separating the... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7188245 | Contents transmission/reception scheme with function for limiting recipients In a contents transmission/reception system, the transmission of the contents to the corresponding reception device is permitted only in the case where the device identification information searched out by the device identification information search unit and the de... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7188168 | Method and apparatus for grammatical packet classifier A packet classification language (GPCL) is provided to specify protocol hierarchies among data packets in a routing device. The GPCL uses regular expressions to match incoming data packets and a syntax to describe the protocol hierarchy. A GPCL compiler produces an ... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7185081 | Method and apparatus for programmable lexical packet classifier A packet classification language (PCL) is provided to specify data packets in a routing device. The PCL uses regular expressions to match incoming data packets. Class identifiers associated with each regular expression identifies the class to which each recognized p... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7173936 | Method and apparatus for partitioning SONET frames into logical channels to optimize bandwidth utilization A system for partitioning SONET frames into logical channels in a SONET ring is described. A SONET frame comprising a number of STS frames is subdivided into a plurality of logical channels. Each logical channel includes one or more STS frames. A protection layer is... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7161899 | Interlocking SONET/SDH network architecture A SONET/SDH architecture is disclosed that enables the multiplexing of STS-1's from different SONET/SDH rings into a single STS-N for transmission via a single optical fiber, but while maintaining the association of each of the STS-1's with its respective SONET/SDH ... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7161913 | Packet transmission method for mobile internet A method for transmitting a data packet from a mobile node to a correspondent node through a foreign agent while maintaining security is disclosed. A correspondent node transmits a first data packet for communication with a mobile node to the home agent. Upon receip... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7151742 | Flow control for communication ring access control Ring access control circuitry comprises a receive interface, a host interface coupled to the receive interface, a mate interface coupled to the host interface, a flow control agent coupled to the mate interface, a transmit interface coupled to the flow control agent... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7139577 | Method for call control of communication terminal equipment wirelessly connected to communication networks Calls (ar) directed to wireless communication terminal equipment (KE) wirelessly connected to base stations (BS-H) of a home area (H) and to a communication network (KN) are switched to the appertaining base station (BS-H) in the home area (H) using the communicatio... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7116672 | Method and apparatus for reducing flooding in bridged networks A method and apparatus for reducing flooding in a bridged network. The invention generally allows broadcast flooding for a predefined limited time period to permit mapping of a MAC address to a port by the bridge and disallows broadcast flooding for a second predefi... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7110356 | Pre-provisioning a light path setup A system and method of reserving node resources along a desired path through a communications network that can be used to reserve resources across a fault such as an unconnected node interface or a disconnected link. The resource reservation technique is performed o... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7103683 | Method, apparatus, system, and article of manufacture for processing control data by an offload adapter Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture, where in one embodiment of the method metadata related to a packet may be allocated in a host memory by a protocol processor, where the host memory may be comprised in a host that may be capable of being cou... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7088676 | Methods and systems for fast restoration in a mesh network of optical cross connects Communication is restored in a fiber optic network by placing error detection circuitry at the add/drop ports of the network nodes of the network. If the error detection circuitry detects an error condition for a communication signal traversing a normal communicatio... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7088675 | Wrap path for communication ring access control Ring access control circuitry comprises a receive interface, a host interface coupled to the receive interface, a mate interface coupled to the host interface, a flow control agent coupled to the mate interface, a transmit interface coupled to the flow control agent... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7080012 | Dynamic time division multiplexing of voice signals into Ethernet data streams over a WAN circuit The present invention injects and/or removes voice data into and/or out-of an Ethernet stream in a dynamic, Time Division Multiplexer-like manner, thus providing optimum quality Voice with minimal impact on data bandwidth. ... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7072976 | Scalable routing scheme for a multi-path interconnection fabric Various embodiments of a scalable routing system for use in an interconnection fabric are disclosed. In this routing scheme, a routing directive describes a route in the interconnection fabric between a sending node and a destination node. Either the sending node or... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7069291 | Systems and processes for call and call feature administration on a telecommunications network Improved systems and methods for call and call feature setup, administration and processing on PSTN and other telecommunications networks are provided. Calls are set up on a service plane of a conceptual switch that includes a switch plane, control plane, and servic... | 06/27/2006 |
