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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7956719 | Building control system communication system timing measurement arrangement and method An arrangement for handling communication messages in a building control system includes a communication circuit and a control device. The communication circuit is operable to provide a first message on a communication network to a remote building control system dev... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7511601 | Radio frequency identification in document management Various systems and methods of handling items such as files are disclosed, including systems and methods for polling RFID-tagged items while they are stored in storage areas. ... | 03/31/2009 |
| 7411494 | Wireless sensor unit A low cost, robust, wireless sensor that provides an extended period of operability without maintenance is described. The wireless sensors are configured to communicate with a base unit or repeater. When the sensor unit detects an anomalous ambient condition (e.g., ... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7386002 | Redundant radio frequency network having a roaming terminal communication protocol Disclosed herein is a redundant network and communication protocol at least including host computers, RF base stations, and roaming terminals. The network may utilize a polling communication protocol such that under heavy traffic conditions, a roaming terminal wishi... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7373267 | System performance monitoring system An industrial controller performance monitoring system includes a detector connected to a controller. The detector is optically coupled to an output, such as a display, of equipment under test and the controller is configured to receive a signal from the equipment u... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7369036 | Method and system of information exchange between an interrogator device and transponder devices that takes into account the level of ambient noise A method and apparatus of information exchange between an interrogator device and a plurality of transponder devices are disclosed. Each of the transponder devices is equipped with a different binary identification code and is located in the magnetic field of the in... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7356582 | Electronic apparatus and communication device switching method according to device priority An electronic apparatus allows communication devices to be connected thereto, and has a plug-and-play function of automatically setting a communication device to be connected. A communication monitoring module monitors the communication statuses of the communication... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7337337 | Apparatus and method of reducing power consumption using power-save polling list An apparatus and method of reducing power consumption in a station on a wireless LAN is provided. Included is a cumulative lead time frame receiver, a self lead time frame production transmission unit, an inactive state cumulative lead time count unit, and an active... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7324876 | System for remotely controlling energy distribution at local sites A power management system and associated method includes provision of local wireless energy control units at remote sites for controlling power delivery to customer loads, and a central station with a wireless transmitter for broadcasting commands to the wireless en... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7296026 | Method and apparatus for automatically performing an online content distribution campaign A computer implemented method is described. Data is collected about a number of member entities that have online interaction with a group entity. A predefined state is assigned to a selected one of the member entities automatically, in response to applying a predefi... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7274285 | System and method for improved object identification A method for identifying objects within a set of objects includes the steps of transmitting a signal toward a region of interest, receiving energy reflected from the region of interest, establishing a baseline field strength for the received reflected energy, determ... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7273105 | Monitoring of a reservoir A system is described for monitoring a subsea formation, which is under development. Instruments located in a completed but unconnected well are employed for providing information by a provisional monitoring unit being lowered downhole and connected to the well. Cha... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7265652 | Controllable electronic switch A controllable electronic switch for, e.g., controlling power distribution comprises a deformable member such as a bimetal arm that can be deformed to break an electrical path. The deformable member may be anchored at one end and in controllable contact with an elec... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7241062 | Method of controlling tape processing apparatus, apparatus for processing tape, and program A method controls a tape processing apparatus which performs, on a tape to be sent from a tape inlet to a tape outlet along a tape travel passage through an embossing section, a series of tape processing operations of incoming-feed operation to feed the tape from th... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7227462 | Extremely fast polling method for determining the presence of individual electric meters on a power line A “super-fast” polling method for electrical meters for outage detection. In response to a query, a large group of electric meters (M) all simultaneously transmit reply signals over an electrical distribution network using TWACS®. The signals are separated by a... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7221110 | Lighting control system and method A lighting control system includes a plurality of light controllers. Each light controller contains a microprocessor-based intelligence. The plurality of light controllers form a distributed architecture. The microprocessor-based intelligence is operative to store, ... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7215088 | System and architecture for controlling lighting through a low-voltage bus A system and architecture for managing lighting through a seamless low-voltage bus network is disclosed. The system comprises a plurality of control units that serve as nodes for integrating devices, such as light fixtures, control switches and sensors into the bus.... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7193967 | Switching system An ATM switching system 1 is provided with an ATM switch 11, a reserved connection memory 12 for storing reserved connection information, a call history memory 13 for maintaining call histories of requests for connection from subscriber's... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7190126 | Daylight control system device and method A system and device for and a method of programming and controlling light fixtures is disclosed. A system in accordance with the present invention includes a stationary controller unit that is electrically coupled to the light fixtures. The stationary controller uni... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7188202 | Techniques for accessing devices through a set of serial buses In a highly available environmental monitoring system, several slave devices are associated with either a fast polling list or a slow polling list. The fast polling list is polled by a master device more frequently than the slow polling list. A slave device is assoc... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7176785 | Device control system While a general-purpose interface circuit and another general-purpose interface circuit are provided so as to transmit/receive data between a host appliance and a device appliance, when the general-purpose interface of the device appliance happens to hang up, a cont... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7164682 | ATM communication apparatus and bandwidth control method of the same An ATM communication apparatus and the bandwidth control method thereof that are capable of bandwidth control to guarantee the minimum cell rate and limit the upper-limit for each of subscriber terminals, dynamically and fairly distribute the shared bandwidth based ... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7158046 | System and method for radio frequency tag group select A master entity is capable of broadcasting commands to slaves which move to another state when they satisfy a primitive condition specified in the command. By moving slaves among three sets, a desired subset of slaves can be isolated in one of the sets. This desired... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7151436 | Receiving/backscattering arrangement and method with two modulation modes for wireless data transmission as well as modulation arrangement therefor For transmitting data, a receiving/backscattering arrangement receives, modulates and reflects or backscatters electromagnetic waves emitted by a base station. The modulation corresponds to the data to be transmitted and is carried out selectively using first and/or... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7146237 | Controller and method to mediate data collection from smart sensors for fab applications The present invention relates to control of and data collection from sensors associated with tools. In particular, it relates to using a controller to mediate communications among a tool, sensors associated with the tool and data users, such as a host system or dist... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7139682 | Sensor system with variable sensor-signal processing A sensor system with variable sensor-signal processing comprises an integrated circuit sensor unit. The integrated circuit sensor unit includes a sensor element that provides a sensed signal in response to a measurement variable, and a memory device that stores adju... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7130315 | Method of and apparatus for utilizing extended AV/C command and response frames including transaction label and common result/error code AV/C command and response data packets are used for asynchronous data block transactions between devices over an IEEE 1394-1995 serial bus network. Extension data fields hold extension data that support new or added features of an IEEE 1394-1995 serial bus network a... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7127529 | Smart card system having asynchronous communication with the smart card operating either as master or slave A smart card comprises a microcontroller, a memory unit, a storage unit, and a communications unit. The smart card may be connected to a terminal, which is in turn may be connected to a host computer and/or a network. The smart card is configured to initiate communi... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7124184 | Home networking system having alive and connection termination messages and method for operating same A home network system for controlling one or more home appliances connected to a network and a method for operating the same. If an alive message or a connection termination message is normally generated from the home appliance, or if the alive message or the connec... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7113708 | Data communications link A data communications link uses a multi-power level optical source to encode and transmit data words along a communications channel to a receiver station. A received signal condition monitor senses the level of a pre-determined characteristic and transmits a control... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7110419 | Technique for using address filter parameters to facilitate sign-on procedures in access networks A technique is disclosed for reducing collisions of signals occurring on at least one communication channel in an access network. The access network may include at least one Head End, and a plurality of network nodes. Each of the network node is configured to transm... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7102505 | Wireless sensor system A low cost, robust, wireless sensor system that provides an extended period of operability without maintenance is described. The system includes one or more intelligent sensor units and a base unit that can communicate with a large number of sensors. When one or mor... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7102504 | Wireless sensor monitoring unit A low cost, robust, wireless sensor system that provides an extended period of operability without maintenance is described. The system includes one or more intelligent sensor units and a base unit that can communicate with a large number of sensors. When one or mor... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7099568 | Information playback apparatus and electronic pop advertising apparatus An information playback apparatus includes a storage memory removably attached to a main unit and in which compressed moving image file data are electrically stored; an MPEG decoder in the main unit for reading the data and decompressing it; an NTSC encoder in the m... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7095333 | Method and apparatus for enabling optical communication through low intensity indicators in an appliance that uses a vacuum fluorescent display An optical interface using indicator lights is provided for an appliance having a vacuum fluorescent display (VFD) by mounting the indicator lights behind a VFD. In a VFD having a dark background, apertures are formed in the VFD so the indicator lights are enabled f... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7076210 | Communication method, communication system, and communication device In the case where close range wireless communication is performed among a plurality of communication devices, when a predetermined connection operation is performed in a first communication device 10a, an inquiry message is wirelessly transmitted in or... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7069122 | Remote locomotive control A locomotive control system includes an on-board controller responsive to a time signal received from a remote source for outputting a first polling signal at a time determined with reference to the time signal. A first remote controller is responsive to the polling... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7068633 | Enhanced channel access mechanisms for QoS-driven wireless lans A method and a system is disclosed for providing quality of service (QoS)-driven channel access within a basic service set (BSS) in a wireless network. A contention control (CC) frame is sent from a point coordinator (PC) station of the BSS. The CC frame contains in... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7065470 | Plug-and-socket device comprising an integrated diagnostic/evaluation circuit, display and switchable terminating resistors Plug and socket devices for measuring and diagnostic purposes are known in the art. The substantial disadvantage of said plug and socket devices is that they only furnish mechanical and electrical connections. For diagnostic purposes, an additional socket for connec... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7057543 | Low power method and interface for generating analog waveforms A low power analog output circuit is disclosed that utilizes a low pass filter driven by a bit stream to render a waveshaped output signal based upon a raw digital data signal. The analog output circuit includes sequential bit pattern selection logic that receives a... | 06/06/2006 |
