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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 |
| 8175015 | WiMAX MAC A media access control (MAC) processor includes a programmable controller and a memory coupled to the programmable controller to store machine readable instructions for implementing MAC functions corresponding to data received by a communication device. A hardware p... | 05/08/2012 |
| 7929471 | Data packet encapsulation protocol Protocols or methods are presented for encapsulating data in frames for transmission in a communication system, wherein (N+M)-byte frames are provided having one or a few sync bytes indicating a frame boundary, as well as an N-byte frame data field following the syn... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7929470 | Method and apparatus for exchange of information in a communication network A technique for connecting a unique identifier to a data object is described. The connecting of a unique identifier such as a telephone number or an internet address such as an IPv6 address, to a specific data object, hereafter referred to as phonepage, will allow a... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7423973 | Methods and apparatus for hybrid multicast and unicast transmissions in a data network Methods and apparatus for hybrid multicast and unicast transmissions in a data network. A method is provided for operating a server on a data network. The method includes computing a multicast cost indicator and a unicast cost indicator that are associated with mult... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7330444 | Cluster communication in heartbeat messages A method and mechanism for inter-node communication. A first node is coupled to a second node via a communication link. The first node is configured to convey a heartbeat or similar data packet to the second node on a periodic or other scheduled basis. A message man... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7280565 | Synchronous clocked communication system with decentralized input/output modules and method for linking decentralized input/output modules into such a system The invention relates to a synchronous clocked communication system, for example a distributed automation system, the stations of which can be arbitrary automation components and which are coupled to one another via a data network. Using the disclosed method for int... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7272496 | Vehicle network and method of communicating data packets in a vehicle network A vehicle communication network (200) includes a plurality of network elements (202–212) and a plurality of communication links (214–230) communicatively coupling the network elements in a point-to-point configuration. At least a portion of ... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7257656 | Device for synchronous transmission of data between a master device and a slave device A data transmission device for serial, synchronous transmission of data includes a master device and a slave device which can be linked by at least one data transmission line and a clock signal line. The master and slave devices can be linked by an additional ready ... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7187706 | Handoff and source congestion avoidance spread-spectrum system and method A spread-spectrum, code-division-multiple-access (CDMA), system with a remote station (RS) communicating with a first base station (BS). The remote station receives the first BS-packet signal, and transmits a first RS-packet signal to the first base station. The fir... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7106210 | Method and apparatus for mud pulse telemetry A method and related apparatus for telemetry between downhole devices and surface devices. In particular, the methods and related apparatus may send a first datum of a first parameter in an uncompressed form, and send a second datum of the first parameter in compres... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7100196 | Device in a system operating with CAN-protocol and in a control and/or supervision system A control supervision system incorporates a digital serial communication and modules that are mutually communicable to this and operate with CAN-protocol. A control desk can be wirelessly connected to one or more modules operating with a signal protocol which does n... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7082485 | Systems and methods for establishing peer-to-peer communications between network devices communicating via a common bus A system for establishing peer-to-peer communications via a network bus comprises a bus controller and at least one peer-to-peer grouping including a source device and at least one receiving device, all of which are in electrical communication with the network bus. ... | 07/25/2006 |
| 7012893 | Adaptive control of data packet size in networks An adaptive packet mechanism and method for optimizing data packet transmission through a network connection between a sending node and a receiving node. Current network conditions in the connection are periodically determined wherein the network conditions pertain ... | 03/14/2006 |
| 6975624 | Network interworking device for LAN/internet A network interworking device used in a communication system which has a first communication network with an IP, a second communication network and a plurality of other network interworking devices connected to the first communication network, the network interworki... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6961320 | In-band transmission of TTY/TTD signals for systems employing low bit-rate voice compression A method, system, and software product for transmitting TTY/TDD signals in a system employing low bit-rate voice compression are disclosed. The method includes receiving an input signal and generating a teletypewriter (TTY) indicator signal from the input signal. Wh... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6912210 | Data communication system and communication device used A data communication system is capable of performing data communication by readily changing the ratio of SCN/SD data and DMA data corresponding to each communication and to individual destination devices. The data communication system may include a first communicati... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6907541 | System for recovering received data with a reliable gapped clock signal after reading the data from memory using enable and local clock signals A system for reliably receiving data includes a memory, write logic, and read logic. The write logic receives data and an unreliable clock signal and writes the data to the memory using the unreliable clock signal. The read logic generates a gapped clock signal and ... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6803213 | Nucleic acids encoding modified parathyroid hormone The present invention is related to a synthetic and/or recombinant biologically active peptide derivatives of PTH(1-28). Some of the peptides of the invention are at least 90% identical to a peptide consisting essentially of the amino acid sequence X | 10/12/2004 |
| 6687262 | Distributed MUX scheme for bi-endian rotator circuit The inventive control logic provides the selection signals for a bi-endian rotator MUX. The logic determines the starting point for the data transfer by determining which input register byte is going to Byte 0 of the output register. The control logic pas... | 02/03/2004 |
| 6643716 | Method and apparatus for processing serial data using a single receive fifo The present invention discloses a method and apparatus for processing a packet of data received by a first-in-first-out (FIFO). In one embodiment, a message in the packet of data is recognized. Based on a plurality of control bits encoded in the message, ... | 11/04/2003 |
| 6628651 | Communication switching techniques with improved frame format Input interfaces convert a predetermined data frame structure, such as a Sonet STS-1, into an internal format comprising a predetermined number of rows and columns, the rows being a multiple of a number evenly divisible into the bytes contained in the int... | 09/30/2003 |
| 6438368 | Information distribution system and method An information distribution system with an architecture that facilitates efficient distribution of a plurality of information asset data to a plurality of different requesting users substantially simultaneously. Fundamental components of the system includ... | 08/20/2002 |
| 6385671 | Method/apparatus for flushing DMA transmit packet in FIFO when self-ID code generated by counter after bus reset is different than FIFO message self-ID field The present invention discloses a method and apparatus for processing a packet of data received from a direct memory access (DMA) engine. In one embodiment, a counter generates a self-ID code and increments the self-ID code after a bus reset. A formatter ... | 05/07/2002 |
| 6337852 | Flow control system using control information of a message for initiating retransmission of data portion when buffer is available A method for a message processing system in which messages are transmitted from source nodes to destination nodes. A transmission flow control technique is disclosed in which the source node optimistically sends control information and a data portion of a... | 01/08/2002 |
| 5872991 | Data driven information processor for processing data packet including common identification information and plurality of pieces of data A data driven information processor includes an input control portion for producing a first data packet including common identification information and a plurality of pieces of data, a junction portion for controlling input of the first data packet and a ... | 02/16/1999 |
| 5838750 | Binary data electronic communication system A binary data communication system includes a transmitter unit coupled to a receiver unit via a communications link. The transmitter sends a message signal packet to the receiver. The packet includes data arranged according to mixed protocols. The receive... | 11/17/1998 |
| 5621725 | Communication system capable of preventing dropout of data block In a data communication system, even when cycle start data or a communication start signal of a communication cycle is not received, data blocks corresponding to that communication cycle can still be transmitted by effectively utilizing the frequency band... | 04/15/1997 |
| 5384770 | Packet assembler Method and apparatus for reducing latency delay associated with converting asynchronous, serial digital data to packet data. The number of data characters received before a time-out occurs are counted; the last character received before a time-out occurs ... | 01/24/1995 |
| 5384775 | Apparatus for, and method of, packing and unpacking information in transmission lines Symbols, each having a particular number (e.g. 9) of binary bits in first channels have individual periodicities. A symbol in each channel indicates the start and the periodicity of the symbols in that channel. Another symbol indicates the end of the symb... | 01/24/1995 |
| 5323385 | Serial bus communication method in a refrigeration system A method of communication in a refrigeration system, between communication nodes connected to a serial data bus using Controller Area Network protocol (CAN) having a message frame format which includes a data field. The method includes converting a byte o... | 06/21/1994 |
| 5218465 | Intelligent interconnects for broadband optical networking An optical link having a terminal at each end, each terminal including formatting circuitry controllable to format transmitted data in a variety of configurations and to rectify formatting errors and failure detectors for detecting the failure of an optic... | 06/08/1993 |
| 4988972 | Method for transmitting and receiving signals over transmission power lines A transmission signal sending and receiving method using the steps of setting the reference channel and data channels in each cycle of the AC voltage wave for transmission in the sending and receiving means, superposing the reference transmission signal o... | 01/29/1991 |
| 4943978 | Digital interface unit An interface apparatus and method is disclosed which allows communication of digital data messages between a first type of data terminals (10 and 65) employing a message protocol (FIG. 1a) with a "free text-type" message, and other user devices employing ... | 07/24/1990 |
| 4872186 | Apparatus and method for identification of message initiation in a process control network In order to insure the accuracy of information transmitted over a network, the initiation of the message must be unambiguously identified. In the present invention, the intermessage spacing consists of a series of identical logic signals that exceeds a mi... | 10/03/1989 |
| 4712214 | Protocol for handling transmission errors over asynchronous communication lines A system or scheme for automatic detection of and recovery from transmission errors in the asynchronous communication mode at the data link level with complete transparency at the higher levels is disclosed wherein the transmissions are in the form of a s... | 12/08/1987 |
| 4542380 | Method and apparatus for graceful preemption on a digital communications link A method and apparatus for graceful preemption on a digital communications link used for selective communication from a plurality of user devices. Link controllers are used to implement the enforcement of a protocol on the link. When a first user device i... | 09/17/1985 |
| 4438432 | Information display apparatus A plug-in "universal" information display module for use in an information display system, e.g. a train describer system, of the kind in which all information to be displayed is multiplexed onto a data highway routed to all display locations. The heart of... | 03/20/1984 |
| 4377862 | Method of error control in asynchronous communications Error control, in the form of a modulo 2 division remainder checksum is added to a packet of reformatted asynchronous characters prior to transmission over a data link connecting two data devices such as a host computer and a teletype terminal. At one end... | 03/22/1983 |
| 4313193 | Time division multiplex transmission apparatus A time division multiplex transmission apparatus which transmits low-speed data and telegraph signals of a maximum of n×m channels as high-speed data in a multiplexed manner based on a time division system. The apparatus also separates received high-spee... | 01/26/1982 |
| 4247935 | Arrangement for converting start-stop signals into an isochronous signal An arrangement is described wherein the leading edge of an A-pulse in a telex signal is additionally delayed relative to the trailing edge, in order to prevent a specified upper limit from being exceeded at the conversion into an isochronous signal. For Z... | 01/27/1981 |
