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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7378960 | Low-rate wireless personal area network system for tracking containers A WPAN system for establishing communication between a control station of a cargo vessel and a plurality of containers that are loaded onto the vessel is provided that comprises a base station configured to establish and manage a pre-configured WPAN having a hybrid ... | 05/27/2008 |
| 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 |
| 6895311 | Method and device for the plotting of scanned information, in particular operating data for a motor vehicle A method and a device for recording the curve of information. The information is scanned using a specifiable scanning period. The information is specifically the operating data of a motor vehicle. The scanned information is subjected to a data reduction, and then th... | 05/17/2005 |
| 6601021 | System and method for analyzing eyetracker data Methods and Systems for analyzing data of a user viewing a display of dynamic hypermedia pages through a browser including monitoring and storing location and time of the user's gaze as eyetracker data, processing the eyetracker data into fixation data, m... | 07/29/2003 |
| 6529119 | Establishment of communications with a selected device in a multi-device environment A method and apparatus are described that allows a wireless device to detect and initiate communications with a selected second wireless device in a multi-device environment. Initiation of communications with a chosen second device is accomplished by gene... | 03/04/2003 |
| 6198406 | Method and apparatus for providing a predictable upper bound for a channel search time of a portable subscriber unit A portable subscriber unit (PSU) (222) operating in a plurality of messaging systems selects (605) a first messaging system to monitor for messages. The PSU then initiates (610) background scanning according to a scan list (326), including a plurality of ... | 03/06/2001 |
| 4885568 | Integrated alarm transponder A time multiplexed integrated alarm contact for reporting detected alarm conditions to a system controller in a hardwired alarm system and wherein distinguishable binary frequencies are used for synchronizing/responding and for programming the contact. Du... | 12/05/1989 |
| 4766432 | Telemetry system for floor maintenance machines A telemetry system for a surface maintenance machine such as a scrubber or a sweeper has a plurality of sensors which monitor machine operating conditions. The sensors are periodically scanned and repetitive outputs indicative of sensor condition are used... | 08/23/1988 |
| 4672374 | System for bilateral communication of a command station with remotely located sensors and actuators A remote sensing and control system wherein a plurality of remote sensing units are connected to a central control and monitoring console by only four interconnecting wires. A clock signal is converted to a plurality of parallel address signals at the loc... | 06/09/1987 |
| 4668939 | Apparatus for monitoring disturbances in environmental conditions An improved apparatus for detecting environmental disturbances such as the occurrence of a fire, a gas leak or the like, includes a central processing unit and a plurality of terminal detectors, wherein an identification code is assigned to each of the de... | 05/26/1987 |
| 4596983 | Module for printed assemblies in a telecommunication system an apparatus for automatically putting the means on printed board assemblies newly inserted into the module into operation The invention relates to an apparatus for, in a printed board assembly module (1), which has room for a predetermined number of printed board assemblies having different types of controlled auxiliary means serving traffic-carrying means in a telecommunica... | 06/24/1986 |
| 4563682 | Scanning temperature display system A scanning display system for providing a sequential display of a number of temperature signal inputs. The inputs are coupled through a multiplexer to sequentially produce single output signals, which are in turn scaled and displayed in a digital display.... | 01/07/1986 |
| 4538138 | Integrated security system having a multiprogrammed controller A security system continuously monitoring a plurality of spatially diverse events which are reportable to a central monitoring facility, the system including a controller for sequencing the performance of reporting and monitoring tasks according to the re... | 08/27/1985 |
| 4536748 | Process for protecting a remote monitoring system against sabotage and a system using this process Each sensor of the system is connected to a central station and is interrogated cyclically. In turn, the sensors generate over a bus line a variable amplitude signal synthesized from data stored in a read only memory. Each sensor has a read only memory wi... | 08/20/1985 |
| 4441100 | Electrical circuits A security installation has four, for example, normally-closed sensor switches which open in the presence of an intruder. Each switch is in series with a respective resistor and these series combinations are connected in parallel across a pair of bus line... | 04/03/1984 |
| 4342986 | Central station alarm reporting system A central station alarm reporting system having a remote premises unit which is polled by the central station using FSK messages and reports its alarm information in DTMF (dual tone multifrequency) messages wherein a plurality of parallel bits of informat... | 08/03/1982 |
| 4227180 | Centralized monitor and control system A centralized monitor and control system includes a plurality of pairs of link lines which connect, in matrix form, a plurality of alarm switches, controlled devices, etc., installed at an alarming terminal end with a plurality of alarm display devices, s... | 10/07/1980 |
| 4160238 | Remote control addressing and reply indicating system A plurality of receivers which can be respectively addressed by addressing pulses provide reply pulses on a separate reply signal bus indicative of a single digit, or multi-digit binary response condition. To permit extended indication, the central statio... | 07/03/1979 |
| 4022977 | Automatic meter-reading and controlling system An automatic meter-reading system monitors broadly distributed utility meters over a communication link by indirectly measuring the resistance value representative of the digit shown on the meter from calculation using the equation derived from the theory... | 05/10/1977 |
