Comic actor Danny Kaye received patent D166,807 for the co-design of "Blowout Toy or the Like". It's similar to one of those toys that unravels when you blow into at a birthday party except Kaye's has three blowouts going in different directions, not just one.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4823365 | Synchronization method and elastic buffer circuit An asynchronous communication system includes a clock recovery circuit (2) to which the received signal (1) is applied and which provides recovered data (3) to a frame delimiter detector (4). The frame delimiter detector in turn generates a frame start si... | 04/18/1989 |
| 4811340 | Synchronization of asynchronous data signals In a synchronous network, asynchronous data signals are synchronized using positive/negative stuffing under the control of stuff request signals which are produced in dependence upon the phase difference between the asynchronous and synchronized data sign... | 03/07/1989 |
| 4796281 | Digital signal transmission system A digital signal transmission system which converts first digital signals having a given bit rate into second digital signals having a predetermined bit rate to transmit them. The first digital signals are written into a buffer memory at a bit rate of the... | 01/03/1989 |
| 4764942 | Slip control in a plesiochronous buffer circuit to reduce distortion of two kinds of data signals For a buffer memory used in a plesiochronous buffer circuit for reception of a PCM signal at station clocks and transmission thereof at satellite clocks, first and second partial write control arrangements control writing of first and second parts of each... | 08/16/1988 |
| 4716575 | Adaptively synchronized ring network for data communication In a ring communication system, data is received by and retransmitted by a plurality of network interface units spaced along the ring. Each network interface unit includes an elastic storage buffer which is preferably less than two bits in length. A feedb... | 12/29/1987 |
| 4712225 | Phase quantizer apparatus Phase quantizer apparatus in an all digital phase locked loop to provide a two-part digital number representing the phase of the input signal (a noncontinuous pulse train) relative to the output signal of the all digital phase locked loop. The phase quant... | 12/08/1987 |
| 4661966 | Method and apparatus for adjusting transmission rates in data channels for use in switching systems Two data equipments are connected by switching equipment which supplies high speed lines for a modified data signal and a stuff control signal. A system clock or system clock derived signal is used in a stuffing pattern generator which generates a stuff c... | 04/28/1987 |
| 4596026 | Asynchronous data clock generator A circuit and method for generating a substantially smooth clock for clocking asynchronous data to a user device. Incoming asynchronous data is stored in an elastic buffer such as a first-in first-out memory. Periodically, an output identifiable bit is re... | 06/17/1986 |
| 4580279 | Elastic store slip control and maintenance circuit In an elastic store synchronization system, failures in the slip control circuitry or the elastic store itself are determined by employing a slip maintenance circuit. To this end, parity written into the elastic store is scrambled in a prescribed manner. ... | 04/01/1986 |
| 4558455 | Data transmission system In the modem based data transmission system the transmitting section provides a bit from each terminal (DTE) to be stored into a transmission buffer register (BX) under the control of an external clock signal derived from a modem internal transmission clo... | 12/10/1985 |
| 4525849 | Data transmission facility between two asynchronously controlled data processing systems with a buffer memory In order to avoid unambiguous logic switching statuses in a data and control path upon transfer from one clock system of an outputting data processing system into an independent, asynchronous clock system of an accepting data processing system, and wherei... | 06/25/1985 |
| 4434498 | Process and apparatus for synchronization of digital signals A digital signal formed from successive words representing quantized samples of sound information and comprising silent periods is synchronized with a local reading clock. For that, the words are stored in a random access memory as they arrive, they are r... | 02/28/1984 |
| 4393279 | Digital data transmission system having frequency or phase modulated data carrying signals to provide supervisory channel A supervisory channel is provided on a digital transmission system by frequency modulation of the data signal transmitted along a transmission link which includes repeaters. The frequency modulation can be carried out using an elastic store. Each repeater... | 07/12/1983 |
| 4392234 | PCM Signal interface apparatus A PCM signal interface apparatus comprises a buffer memory being capable of asynchronously writing and reading a PCM signal, means for inserting a frame marker to the PCM signal upon writing the PCM signal into the buffer memory, means for judging whether... | 07/05/1983 |
| 4374305 | Arrangement for regenerating start-stop signals and dial pulses Described is the regeneration of dial pulses in the signalling system CCITT type B. The dial pulses are regenerated by a combined regeneration process comprising a reduced process with two sampling instants (10 ms, 30 ms) and an inverse process with four ... | 02/15/1983 |
| 4353130 | Device for processing serial information which includes synchronization words A data stream is received from a medium. This stream consists of synchronization words and data words. The synchronization words are either identical or one the inverse of the other when they are correctly received. Between two synchronization words a fix... | 10/05/1982 |
| 4181975 | Digital delay line apparatus Apparatus is illustrated for delaying in increments of infinitesimally small electrical angles the data bits in a data stream using an addressable elastic buffer which is addressed by a phase lock loop used to compare the output data with a reference. The... | 01/01/1980 |
| 4054747 | Data buffer A data buffer makes use of a plurality of buffer storage cells into which serial bit streams are sequentially written, in order to obtain correction for phase jitter. A write clock signal is derived from the serial bit stream and is used to sequentially w... | 10/18/1977 |
| 4049910 | Digital signal transmission system A transmission system of the kind comprising, on emission, a code converter for coding said signals into variable length words according to their occurrence probabilities, the word rate being determined by an emission clock, a synchronizing word generator... | 09/20/1977 |
| 4027100 | Code transmission system having buffers of approximately equal capacities on both transmitting and receiving sides A buffer memory of a transmitter stores, for transmission at a predetermined transmission rate, synchronization codes produced regularly, buffer occupancy codes immediately following the respective synchronization codes, and information codes produced bet... | 05/31/1977 |
| 4021609 | System for regenerating a data from a burst signal which is received and processing said data with a local clock and the circuit for carrying out the same In the receiving terminal of a PCM (Pulse Code Modulation)-TDMA (Time Division Multiple Access) system, a data is demodulated from a received burst signal, said data is written in a buffer register by using a burst clock which is regenerated from the rece... | 05/03/1977 |