Did You Know...
...that Robert Adler has the dubious distinction of being the Father of the Couch Potato? Back in 1955 Adler was employed by what was then Zenith Radio Corp., where he was charged to invent something that would allow viewers to turn down the TV volume without leaving their chairs. After a series of flops (such as a wired contraption that people tripped over), Adler hit on the idea of using sound waves. Thus the Remote Control was born...
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7370102 | Managing recovery of service components and notification of service errors and failures A method and apparatus for providing management and maintenance to a node within a data communications network and to the composite data communications network. A network management application is started on a host which may be located at a network operation center.... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7293091 | Method and apparatus for disruption sensitive network data management Numerous embodiments of a method and/or apparatus for disruption sensitive network data management are disclosed. In one particular embodiment, a determination is made of the network resources available to a computing system for exchange of data complying with a par... | 11/06/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7249186 | System and method for identifying a subscriber for connection to a communication network A system for identifying a subscriber includes an access server coupled to a number of subscribers using a first communication network and further coupled to a second communication network, a memory coupled to the access server, and a processor coupled to the memory... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7233592 | Packet transfer control circuit A packet transfer control circuit is a part of a node in a network of nodes, in which packets of data are passed between the nodes. The packets include normal packets and write packets, and each packet includes a header portion and a data portion. The transfer contr... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7231475 | Advanced bandwidth allocation in PCI bus architecture A bus arbitration system and method allocates total bus bandwidth between latency sensitive and latency insensitive interfaces by utilizing windows to divide the total bandwidth into latency sensitive and latency insensitive portions. Each interface is initially all... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7216175 | System and method for determining subscriber information A system for determining subscriber information includes an access server coupled to a number of subscribers using a communication network, a memory coupled to the access server, and a processor coupled to the memory. The access server receives a communication from ... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7194567 | Method and system for ordering requests at a bus interface A bus bridge for coupling between a first bus and a second bus includes: multiple ticket registers; a ticket dispenser counter; and a ticket call counter. The ticket dispenser counter dispenses a ticket value to a request received at the bridge from the first bus fo... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7188357 | Video-on demand video server disk/memory streaming selection methodology A method of and apparatus for efficiently managing video programming services by a provider of video on demand services in response to requests from cable television subscribers. The system is controlled by a multimedia application server. Upon receipt of a request,... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7177971 | General input/output architecture, protocol and related methods to provide isochronous channels An enhanced general input/output communication architecture, protocol and related methods are presented. ... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7164667 | Integrated wireless distribution and mesh backhaul networks Networks, devices and methods related to wireless networking. A wireless network using nodes that perform both distribution and backhaul functions is provided. These nodes constitute the key elements of a wireless network that would be deployed and controlled by a w... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7095782 | Method and apparatus for streaming scalable video A system and method are disclosed for streaming scalable video data over a variable-bandwidth network such as a packet-based one. In other words, the number of bits (for FGS) or sub-layers (for discrete multi-layer scalability) is chosen to be transmitted for each e... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7093027 | Fast connection protection in a virtual local area network based stack environment A fast protection mechanism capable of maintaining end-to-end and fast local protection on the order of sub 50 ms for both VLAN only based connections and for connections that are based partially on VLAN technology and partially on MPLS technology. The present inven... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7085494 | High-capacity packet-switched ring network A packet-switched WDMA ring network has an architecture utilizing packet stacking and unstacking for enabling nodes to access the entire link capacity by transmitting and receiving packets on available wavelengths. Packets are added and dropped from the ring by opti... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7079555 | Integrated digital loop carrier system with virtual tributary mapper circuit An integrated digital loop carrier (IDLC) system includes digital line feeders and signal processors to interface with the feeders an to ultimately provide data to subscriber instruments. The system can be employed as a central office terminal (COT) or remote digita... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7054284 | Method and apparatus for supervising a potentially gated signal in a wireless communication system The present invention is a novel and improved method and apparatus for supervising a potentially gated channel in a wireless communication system. The first method is an extension of the method used in IS-95 with empty frames simply ignored, but with potentially dif... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7036142 | Single step network logon based on point to point protocol A method and apparatus for providing single-step logon access for a subscriber to a differentiated computer network having more than one separate access area. In a method for single-step logon a network gateway interface grants a subscriber access to both one or mor... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7020148 | Data transferring apparatus and data transferring method that use fast ring connection A data transferring apparatus includes a ring bus, which circularly transfers data by holding in a slot to one direction and a plurality of nodes connected to the ring bus. Each of the plurality of nodes includes a detector and a controller. The detector detects whe... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7020140 | Receive and transmit blocks for asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) cell delineation Receive and transmit blocks for asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) cell delineation are disclosed. The receive block has a plurality of cell delineation blocks, a memory controller, a memory and a bus controller. The transmit block has a bus controller, a plurality of... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7016369 | Binding information for telecommunications network Various binding information techniques are provided for a telecommunications network (20) having separated call and connection layers. In a first embodiment of the invention, binding information is associated with connection endpoint information for a first c... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7009991 | Reservation-based media access controller and reservation-based optical network A method and apparatus for reserving bandwidth in a network includes a series of elements. A demand matrix is calculated, for bandwidth requirements based upon communication needs among a plurality of nodes on the network. An integer number of time slots is provided... | 03/07/2006 |
| 7006520 | System and method of operation for managing data communication between physical layer devices and ATM layer devices A system for managing data communication between physical layer devices and ATM layer devices in a cell based ATM network is disclosed. A plurality of low speed physical layer devices a high speed physical layer device are connected to a bus. A bus interface device ... | 02/28/2006 |
| 7006434 | System for non-disruptive insertion and removal of nodes in an ATM sonet ring A system and a method of operating the system for non-disruptively inserting a node into the operations of an ATM ring uses the ring operations to update topology information and routing tables at the existing nodes to include therein the new node and one or more vi... | 02/28/2006 |
| 7003705 | Ethernet automatic protection switching A method and apparatus is provided for automatic protection switching in a ring network by creating a protection domain having a control vlan and protected data vlans and designating a master node and transit nodes connected by a primary port and a secondary port. T... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6993042 | LAN interface apparatus and a method of controlling the transmission and reception of a frame Disclosed is a method of avoiding a collision of a frame and enabling the guarantee of the QoS in a network using the CSMA/CD system, wherein when a terminal transmits a frame onto a transmission line, timing information as to the timing of transmitting a next frame... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6993048 | ATM permanent virtual circuit and layer 3 auto-configuration for digital subscriber line customer premises equipment The present invention pertains to a method and device for automatically configuring the Permanent Virtual Circuit (PVC) of a Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) Customer Premises Equipment (CPE) and link it to a software interface. The method comprises receiving an ATM ce... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6968379 | Latency-reducing bandwidth-prioritization for network servers and clients Communications bandwidth available to network servers and computers running client processes is allocated among connections available to those devices based on sets of priorities. Those priorities include type of information being retrieved, how fast user connection... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6966004 | Method for providing single step log-on access to a differentiated computer network A method for providing single step log-on access for a subscriber to a computer network. The computer network is differentiated into public and private areas. Secure access to the private areas is provided by a Service Selection Gateway (SSG) Server, introduced betw... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6944672 | Method and system for processing fragments and their out-of-order delivery during address translation A set of packetized fragments in which only a portion of the fragments carry translation information for the set of fragments is translated by storing in a memory fragments received before the translation information. In response to receiving the translation informa... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6925259 | MAC protocol for optical packet-switched ring network A flexible, credit-based MAC protocol along with an admission algorithm enhance the throughput capacity of a packet switched WDMA ring network utilizing packet wavelength stacking and unstacking. ... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6912209 | Voice gateway with echo cancellation A network gateway is configured to facilitate on line and off line bi-directional communication between a number of near end data and telephony devices with far end data termination devices via a hybrid fiber coaxial network and a cable modem termination system. The... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6904048 | Sanitizing fiber channel frames A system and method of sanitizing a data frame from a node in a network loop includes receiving the data frame from the node, and, when the data frame includes invalid data, replacing a first word of the invalid data with a frame termination primitive and subsequent... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6895462 | Integrated circuit An integrated circuit includes a processor and at least one module and provides registers required for the modules as well as access to these registers. By concentrating the required registers according to the invention in a central register bank, which like the pro... | 05/17/2005 |
| 6882647 | Multiple address transport in communications networks A method of signalling a message using a terminal address across multiple network entities is provided. At least two contiguous network entities are associated with addressing spaces for which message addresses are not routable by way of the terminal address and are... | 04/19/2005 |
| 6834056 | Virtual local area network protection switching A telecommunications system having segmented local ring networks is described. VLANs are used to segment the ring, constructing a logical non-ring topology providing each device on the ring with alternative paths for communication. The system provides failover (with... | 12/21/2004 |
| 6505264 | Information transmitting apparatus and method, information receiving apparatus and method, and information transmitting/receiving apparatus and method An information transmitting apparatus is included in a system for transmitting information through a bus (B), for transmitting the information onto the bus. The information transmitting apparatus is provided with: an initialization detecting device (1) fo... | 01/07/2003 |
| 6226268 | Communication system An information communication system in which a switch constituting section (2) housing a data generating source is connected to a center switch constituting section (1) through a communication channel (3) using an ATM technology as if the function of an A... | 05/01/2001 |
| 6137800 | System and method for connecting a call A system and method connects a call in a broadband system using the asynchronous transfer mode protocol for switching. Calls are connected over a SONET ring that has SONET multiplexers coupled by SONET paths. The SONET multiplexers are adapted to add call... | 10/24/2000 |
| 6130888 | ATM transmission method having silence compression controlling function and system transmitter and receiver using the method An ATM transmission system which transmits voice data in an asynchronous transfer mode (ATM). It implements compression of a mute section over a channel by detecting the mute section of a call and by physically suppressing its transmission over the channe... | 10/10/2000 |
| 6049541 | Distributed telecommunications switching system and method A distributed telecommunications switching system (100) is disclosed. The system includes a controller (140) that generates and transmits a cell stream with a plurality of reserved cells. A first switching subsystem (104) in communication with the control... | 04/11/2000 |
