Did You Know...
...that when IBM conducted a market study of Chester Carlson's invention in 1959, the company concluded that it would take only 5000 units of his new product to saturate the market? IBM therefore declined to be part of the new product introduction. Too bad for IBM. Carlson's invention was the xerography process, and his new product was the beginning of the Xerox Corporation. It is estimated that every day, worldwide, 3,000,000,000 copies are made!!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7139088 | Communication apparatus and communication method When a data communication apparatus as a sender gateway receives instruction information for instructing a communication system via ITU recommendation T.38 or a communication system via ITU recommendation T.37 from a sender facsimile apparatus as an analogue communi... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7139790 | Weak leader election A weak leader election approach to determine which of a number of redundant nodes is the leader node is disclosed. The redundant nodes exchange information particular to them, such as age information. Based on the information received from the other nodes, each node... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7136357 | Transmission path controlling apparatus and transmission path controlling method as well as medium having transmission path controlling program recorded thereon The present invention relates to distributing the load between the set routes among a plurality of routes between a communication apparatus which serves as a start point to another communication apparatus which serves as an end point. An apparatus provided in a rout... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7136934 | Multimedia synchronization method and device A system and method for synchronizing a multiplicity of devices in a multimedia environment is described. The system has at least one central storage and interface device, wherein audio, video, and photographic information including content information and content m... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7136354 | Merge method and node for consolidating a plurality of communication connections in a connection-oriented network A communication connection merge method and a node to be employed in the same can merge parameter of LSP, such as request bandwidth or the like, upon performing merging. The communication connection merge method performs merge process for consolidating a plurality o... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7134137 | Providing data to applications from an access system An access system is disclosed that can provide data to a downstream application. In one embodiment, the data is provided as header variables associated with an HTTP request. Other embodiments can use other protocols and other means for transmitting the data. The dat... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7130408 | Service logic context cache for signaling events A method for sharing signaling event data in a telephony system can include receiving within a first service logic component an event from a telephony signaling network. An event context can be determined for the event and asynchronously stored within an event conte... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7130608 | Method of using a communications device together with another communications device, a communications system, a communications device and an accessory device for use in connection with a communications device A method of using a first communications device, such as a mobile telephone, together with at least one other communications device, such as a telephone, comprises the steps of playing back audio signals in the first communications device, transmitting the same audi... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7130913 | System and methods for accelerated data storage and retrieval Systems and methods for providing accelerated data storage and retrieval utilizing lossless data compression and decompression. A data storage accelerator includes one or a plurality of high speed data compression encoders that are configured to simultaneously or se... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7130304 | Method and apparatus for graceful restart A method and apparatus for graceful restart is described. A method in a network device provides for refreshing a set of one or more labels after a label propagation module has restarted, the set of one or more labels having been allocated for the label propagation m... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7126967 | Time-alignment apparatus and method for providing data frames of a plurality of channels with predeterminated time-offsets The invention relates to a time-alignment apparatus and a time-alignment method of a transmitter (TX) of a telecommunication system TELE. Successive data frames (ch1/0, ch2/0, ch3/0, ch4/0, ch8/0, ch300/0) are written to one... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7126491 | Method and apparatus for indication of application layer connectivity A display indicator is provided on a set-top appliance to indicate application layer connectivity between a client device and a server belonging to a hosted service. This connectivity optionally reflects synchronization state of a service related database on the app... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7127303 | System for automating, monitoring and controlling technical processes and acquiring measurements thereof A system for automation, monitoring and measurement acquisition for technical processes, having measurement and control units (2, 14, 15, 16) that are connected to sensors and actuators of the processes (1, 8, 9, 10) via measurement and control lines (... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7127503 | Computer networking system, device, and method for improved speed in web page rendering A system, method, and device for computer networking is disclosed. According to one embodiment of the invention, the method includes receiving from a remote client a request for a web resource. The method further includes, prior to processing the request, sending a ... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7127564 | Double buffered flash programming A double buffered flash bank. In one embodiment, a flash interface may be programmed by a register interface with a first set of data while a second set of data is being written to the register interface. In one embodiment, flash banks may be programmed in parallel ... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7124319 | Delay compensation for synchronous processing sets A fault tolerant computing system is provided comprising two or more processing sets that operate in synchronism with one another. The two processing sets are joined by a bridge, and there is a communications link for each processing set for transmitting data from t... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7117264 | Method and system for peer to peer communication in a network environment A method for communicating among a plurality of peer nodes in a network environment is provided. A discovery command is communicated from a current peer node to at least one neighbor peer node, the neighbor peer node in communication with the current peer node. An a... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7117242 | System and method for workload-aware request distribution in cluster-based network servers A method and system for workload-aware request in cluster-based network servers. The present invention provides a web server cluster having a plurality of nodes wherein each node comprises a distributor component, a dispatcher component and a server component. In an... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7113521 | Apparatus and method for re-sending data on communication channels A multi-channel transmission system that provides dynamic mapping of data to channels is described. In one embodiment, a packet of data to be transmitted is broken up into a number of fragments. Fragments are loaded into transmit buffers. Active buffers are indicate... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7114008 | Edge adapter architecture apparatus and method An architecture for intercepting and processing packets from a network is disclosed. The architecture provides both stateful and stateless processing of packets in the bi-directional network flow. Further, stateless processing is provided by a parallel arrangement o... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7114004 | Premium messaging exchange A premium messaging exchange. The premium messaging exchange can include a list of destinations supported by the premium messaging exchange. Each record in the list can include a specified destination, and a supporting external messaging system. Finally, the premium... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7111086 | High-speed packet transfer in computer systems with multiple interfaces An initiating subsystem transfers a data set either in or out in subsets such as packets. Packet transfer is sequential, and transfer of a packet is contingent upon successful transfer of a previous packet. Actual data transfer to or from a destination, over a chann... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7111162 | Load balancing approach for scaling secure sockets layer performance A load-balancing approach for scaling Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) performance is disclosed. During a handshake phase of establishing a SSL connection among a client and server, a processor card identifier value, processor identifier value, and session index value are... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7110726 | RF ASIC for subscriber communicator An RF ASIC for a subscriber communicator includes a receiver section, a transmitter section, a CODEC and an I2S port. The receiver section downconverts by superheterodyning and demodulates a received RF communication signal to provide analog quadrature co... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7111070 | Deferred acknowledgment communications and alarm management A communication technique enables the efficient transmission of data through a low bandwidth and/or time delayed communication link and minimizes the idle time of the communication link by using a deferred acknowledgment of message bundles to temporally pack the com... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7107342 | Method and system for providing service trigger management in a wireless network A method for providing service trigger management in a wireless network is provided. The method includes generating at an application of a mobile unit a current request for a network session. Allowability of the session is determined based on a service agreement wit... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7107597 | Method of and system for controlling task-oriented systems utilizing an application programming interface A method of, and system for, using a high-level, task-oriented Application Programming Interface (API) to access a legacy system, the method including the steps of: (a) providing the legacy system, including emulation software for accessing the legacy system; (b) op... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7107344 | Connection allocation technology A method and apparatus useful in network management which makes intelligent, high speed, connection allocation decisions, overcoming difficulties encountered heretofore and providing enhanced network services. During episodes of network congestion, some connection r... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7103002 | Communication management in networks having split control planes and user planes Methods of re-establishing a connection between a radio network node and a core network having a control plane entity and a user plane entity in a communication network and of detecting faulty communication paths or re-started entities in such networks are provided.... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7102772 | Method and system for delivery of a facsimile A method of delivering a facsimile, including: providing a printed form for entering a message thereon using a sensing device adapted to read coded data on the form; receiving, in a computer system, interaction data representing interaction of the sensing device wit... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7103635 | Really simple mail transport protocol A new mail transport protocol is proposed for use over a reliable byte-stream transport. This protocol is faster, simpler and more streaming than prior methods, and handles binary and unicode data more efficiently. The protocol requires fewer communication round tri... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7099954 | Congestion control mechanism for streaming media Streaming media applications, e.g., sent over the Internet with TCP, can suffer from various fluctuations and low utilization due to TCP's Additive Increase Multiplicative Decrease (AIMD) congestion control mechanism. Improved methods and apparatuses are provided in... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7099333 | Automatic protocol version detection and call processing reconfiguration in a communication system A switch or other processing element of a communication system is configured to detect automatically the particular version of an asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) user-network interface (UNI) protocol or other signaling protocol utilized by a customer premises equip... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7099300 | Radio transmission apparatus and radio transmission method A radio transmission apparatus and a radio transmission method for readily controlling retransmission timing presets a frame cycle for retransmission, and transmits only packets for which no acknowledgement of receipt has been received within the frame cycle as a re... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7096039 | Backhaul multicasting using Ethernet-based radio access networks The present invention sets forth a methodology for providing improved downlink backhaul services from a radio network controller (RNC) to a plurality of base stations via a backhaul network that provides Ethernet services. The Ethernet services are provided by a gro... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7096302 | Method and apparatus for accelerating detection of serial bus device speed signals A method and apparatus for accelerating detection of speed code signals, and in particular S400 signals, for IEEE Standard 1394-1995 serial bus devices. The present invention validates S400 mode immediately after detecting an S400 speed signal, ... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7093034 | Method and apparatus for input management having a plurality of input provider types wherein staging area holds and allows access by external components The present invention is directed to a method and system for use in a computing environment for managing input information. The system for facilitating input management in a computerized environment may include an input manager for processing events received from an... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7093018 | Methods, systems, and data structures to connect services Methods, systems, and data structures are provided to connect services. A local service attempts to connect with a remote service by first using an internal address for the remote service, where the internal address is used to establish a local connection between th... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7089321 | Wireless data transmitting and receiving system, server device, and server device controlling method A wireless data transmitting and receiving system is disclosed which comprises a server device connected wirelessly to a plurality of client devices constituting a wireless network. The system allows the server device to transmit externally acquired reproduction-des... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7089294 | Methods, systems and computer program products for server based type of service classification of a communication request Methods, systems and computer program products are provided for type of service classification of a communication request for an application executing on a server. An application plug-in associated with the application is provided in an operating system kernel of th... | 08/08/2006 |
