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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6920511 | Method and apparatus for controlling communications in data storage complexes A controller for positioning on a shelf of a cabinet within a mass storage system for controlling communication among device enclosures in a reporting group. The controller includes an interface to a data communication loop linking device enclosures each including d... | 07/19/2005 |
| 6917669 | Processes and systems for managing testing of communications systems Processes and systems are disclosed for managing a request for a test of a communication system. One embodiment communicates with a communications network and acquires the request. The request may be annotated with at least one of a date, a time, and an origin of th... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6918059 | Method and system for handling errors in a distributed computer system A method and system for tracking and processing errors in a distributed computer system. As an application encounters an error, a centralized system intercepts and assumes the processing of that error event. The central error processing may be used with a distribute... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6914912 | Route selection for alternate paths in connection-oriented networks A process for selecting the best possible route for an alternate communications path in connection-oriented networks takes into account the reserved network resources and the set of links and/or nodes used by a current communications path. Whenever a request for rou... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6915463 | System and method for performing pre-emptive protection switching Methods and network nodes are provided which are adapted to perform protection switching on the basis of raw signal quality information, such as raw BER information, in a manner which instigates the protection switching before an actual failure has occurred. In some... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6915466 | Method and system for multi-user channel allocation for a multi-channel analyzer Multiple channels of a multi-channel analyzer are allocated among multiple users such that each user can initiate and retrieve the results of separate diagnostic sessions. Each analyzer channel includes an input connection port, a trace buffer memory and logic circu... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6915465 | Received-signal combining method and system A received-signal combining method of transmitting a signal, based on a signal having undergone error-correction coding and transmitted from a radio-transmitting station, to a receiving station from a plurality of radio-receiving stations, and generating a reception... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6909718 | Transmission-reception apparatus and method for performing error control A transmission-reception apparatus does not configure ARQ control information from only sequence number, but the transmission-reception apparatus configures the ARQ control information such that the ARQ control information is comprised of one sequence number contain... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6910169 | ECC code mechanism to detect wire stuck-at faults The inventive mechanism detects wire stuck-at faults, which can be used with any other ECC code. The inventive mechanism determines the number of 1's (or 0's) in the data portion and the ECC code of the data portion. This counted number is then provided with ECC cod... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6907389 | Process for the serial transmission of digital measurement data For achieving lower transmission frequencies when serially transmitting digital measurement data from a transmitter to a receiver, wherein at the transmitter an absolute value of a continuously measured physical parameter and correction values describing alterations... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6907383 | Flow diagnostic system A flow diagnostic system for a flow sensing element and impulse lines. A pressure transmitter coupled to the impulse lines provides digital pressure data to a control system. The control system provides the pressure data and real time clock readings to a diagnostic ... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6904477 | Virtual host controller interface with multipath input/output A processor-based system (200) with a multipath I/O architecture, including a virtual host controller interface (vHCI) layer (280) between a common architecture layer (270) and a physical host controller interface layer (290), which may i... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6904016 | Processing unexpected transmission interruptions in a wireless communications system A radio link control (RLC) layer provides RLC entity information to a medium access control (MAC) layer. The RLC entity information indicates that the RLC layer has service data unit (SDU) data to be transmitted. After providing the RLC entity information, the RLC l... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6904549 | Method for fault identification in an electrical radial network, an application of the method and an arrangement for fault identification in an electrical radial network A Device for fault identification in an electrical radial network has a section cable and a number of outgoers which can be connected thereto. The device provides that a central control device uses fault direction signals and/or fault signals which are formed by out... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6886029 | End to end simulation of a content delivery system A method for testing upgrades and modifications to a first transmission network by providing a second internet transmission network including components that duplicate or simulate one or more of the components of the first network. The second network duplicates the ... | 04/26/2005 |
| 6880115 | Surveillance of quality of service in a digital television link The quality of service in a digital television link is monitored cyclically by means of an analyzer which analyzes the transport stream packets to deduce therefrom many standardized analysis parameters which are complex to interpret. The invention minimizes the numb... | 04/12/2005 |
| 6877105 | Method for sending notice of failure detection To reliably detect a failure even when the failure occurs at a part of a line or in a mating apparatus, a transmission control portion transmits a link-up signal for confirming connection by the mating apparatus to a transfer path during the period in which data is ... | 04/05/2005 |
| 6865700 | Using profiles to perform bit error rate testing A digital system for Bit Error Rate Testing (BERT) of test transmission lines and/or devices and including a test equipment coupled to at least one transmission line for transferring digital information between the test equipment and a company office, a bit error ge... | 03/08/2005 |
| 6859900 | Injection of selected numbers of errors in returned loopback data to provide gray-scale type qantification of loop performance measurements An in-band communication scheme reports the results of loop performance measurements from a remote site to a test site, by deliberately injecting, into a loopback sequence of a repeated code word, a selected one of different numbers of errors. The number of errors i... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6847395 | Digital television signal test equipment The invention, in part, provides an integrated digital television (DTV) diagnostic instrument comprising: at least one of a video display device (VDD) and an audio display device (AudDD); DTV circuitry (AV) to receive a DTV signal, to reconstruct at least one of a v... | 01/25/2005 |
| 6839872 | Media converter and failure detection technique A media converter allowing a test mode to be activated from cable side and allowing easy detection of a failure and failure location is disclosed. A media converter includes first and second physical-layer interfaces and a memory connected between the first and seco... | 01/04/2005 |
| 6829709 | Validation of network communication tunnels This invention provides methods and apparatus for validating that transformations that are expected to occur in an IP network are indeed occurring as expected. Generally, these transformations establish logical communication tunnels within an IP network between the ... | 12/07/2004 |
| 6819880 | Loss of signal detection circuit for light receiver An increase in the code error rate in a received signal is detected in a light receiver. An loss of signal detector circuit for a light receiver 20 comprises a main discrimination circuit 8a for comparing the intensity of an electric signal obta... | 11/16/2004 |
| 6816987 | Apparatus and method for built-in self-test of a data communications system The present invention comprises an apparatus and corresponding method for performing a built-in self-test (BIST) of a data communications system. The apparatus of the invention includes a transmitter, a receiver coupled to the transmitter and a test control system c... | 11/09/2004 |
| 6813736 | Blind transport format detection for communication A receiver (300) is provided that efficiently determines what transport format combination is currently being utilized by a transmitter (200) multiplexing (201) several transport channels onto a single over-the-air channel (209). The rece... | 11/02/2004 |
| 6789114 | Methods and apparatus for managing middleware service in a distributed system A distributed computing system includes a number of computers, workstations or other computing machines interconnected by a network. One or more service managers are introduced that provide a management interface to corresponding middleware services. The service man... | 09/07/2004 |
| 6778781 | Health check algorithm for protection circuit in optical network An optical network has an optical splitter connected to (1) a working optical subscriber unit (OSU) of a working circuit via a working optical fiber, (2) a protection OSU of a protection circuit via a protection optical fiber, and (3) one or more optical network ter... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6760877 | Method for forming acknowledgement data in a wireless communication system and a wireless communication system The invention relates to a method in a wireless communication system (1) comprising wireless terminals (MT1-MT4), a communication channel (CH) and at, least one access point (AP1, AP2) and access point controller (AC1, AC... | 07/06/2004 |
| 6760870 | Algorithm for resynchronizing a bit-sliced crossbar A data switch is configured to communicate data messages in the form of multibit data unit segmented into a plurality of multibit data subunits. The data switch includes at least two separate, parallel switching units, each having a plurality of ports to communicate... | 07/06/2004 |
| 6742154 | Forward error correction codes for digital optical network optimization A network optimization method measures the line bit error rate (BER) at a receiver by counting forward error correction corrected errors, and adjusts network parameters to minimize the corrected error rate. Adjustable parameters include, among other things, transmit... | 05/25/2004 |
| 6735728 | Unidirectional verification of bus-based systems A testing unit for testing a data transfer and/or an addressing scheme in a bus-based system comprises a data generator for generating an expected data pattern and a comparator for comparing the expected data pattern with a data pattern received from a sending unit ... | 05/11/2004 |
| 6732323 | Method of selecting initialization parameters for multi-channel data communication with forward error correction The present invention includes alternative methods for selecting forward error correction parameters to be used in multi channel communications. Method embodying aspects of the present invention may include acquiring signal to noise ratio data for a set of communica... | 05/04/2004 |
| 6725176 | Loop diagnostics for ADSL systems The present invention provides techniques for performing loop diagnostics in DSL communication systems. ... | 04/20/2004 |
| 6711704 | Transmission method using error correction processing A transmission method allowing the reduced amount of hardware in a repeater is disclosed. The overhead portion of a frame is divided into a selected overhead portion for error-correction processing and the non-selected overhead portion for error-correction processin... | 03/23/2004 |
| 6704287 | Enabling smart logging for webtone networks and services Methods and apparatus for providing enhanced telecommunications services troubleshooting in multi-carrier telecommunications networks are described. Troubleshooting information gathering is initiated by launching a "Test Service Call with a Travelling Log... | 03/09/2004 |
| 6691262 | Method and apparatus for quality evaluation of cable circuit A cable line quality evaluating method for evaluating a quality of a cable line for transmitting a digital modulation signal in a bidirectional manner comprises the steps of extracting a noise signal of an upstream line from one of a cable line connection... | 02/10/2004 |
| 6690839 | Efficient predictor of subjective video quality rating measures An efficient predictor for subjective video quality rating measures processes a reference video and an impaired video corresponding to the reference video in respective processing channels. Each channel applies a contrast sensitivity function from a human... | 02/10/2004 |
| 6684350 | Repetitive pattern testing circuit for AC-coupled systems A method for testing a signal path for mark ratio tolerance includes generating a varying test pattern by selecting between a first pattern and a second pattern according to a defined sequence; and sending the varying test pattern over the signal path. An... | 01/27/2004 |
| 6678845 | Arrangement for testing programmed port registers of integrated network device by reading-back values from the port registers A method of testing a port register of an integrated network device includes establishing a programmable value for a register of an integrated network device. The register is programmed with a prescribed value configured to represent the programmable valu... | 01/13/2004 |
| 6678729 | Method of monitoring the availability of a messaging and VOIP networking A method of monitoring the availability of a network on a monitor web page, includes the steps of: reading query information and depositing query requests into a corresponding one of a plurality of request queues; reading the query requests from the corre... | 01/13/2004 |
