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Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) received Patent No. 121,992 for "An Improvement in Adjustable and Detachable Straps for Garments." He later received two more patents: one for a self-pasting scrapbook and one for a game to help players remember important historical dates.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7715377 | Apparatus and method for matrix memory switching element A matrixed memory array device is disclosed that includes input ports and output ports. Each input port is coupled to a first data bus and each output port is coupled to a second data bus that is different and separate from the first data bus. A memory brick is plac... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7483420 | DSP circuitry for supporting multi-channel applications by selectively shifting data through registers Digital signaling processing (DSP) circuitry that supports multiple channel or time division multiplexing (TDM) applications is provided. For example, the DSP circuitry can process one or more channels of data without mixing the data of one channel with data of anot... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7406101 | System and method for providing on-chip delay measurements in serializer / deserializer systems A system and method is provided for making highly accurate data propagation delay measurements in a serializer/deserializer (SERDES) integrated circuit. The invention detects a selected special character when the special character is present at the input of a transm... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7362125 | Digital routing switch matrix for digitized radio-frequency signals Routing and distribution of radio-frequency (RF) signals is commonly achieved in the analog domain. However, improved performance and simplified circuit architectures may be obtained by first digitizing the RF signal, and then carrying out all routing in the digital... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7362751 | Variable length switch fabric Variable length switch fabric for switching variable length data packets between input and output transmission paths in a communication network. In one embodiment of the invention, apparatus is provided for switching variable length data packets between input and ou... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7349393 | Method and system for implementing an improved universal packet switching capability in a data switch A system and method for moving voice telephone calls through a data network. More particularly, the system and method are directed to the efficient operation of using identification numbers to route data packets through a communications node without reformatting ind... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349416 | Apparatus and method for distributing buffer status information in a switching fabric Network switching and/or routing devices can use switching fabrics that gather information about output port buffer status and distribute that information to various line cards for use in data frame congestion avoidance. The switching fabric can gather output buffer... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7328255 | Communication system, and connection setting method and connection setting program of exchange and terminal A communication system for connecting a terminal connected to an exchange, to an outside communication network, through the exchange for connecting with the communication network, in which the terminal sends the transmission data including the information of the ter... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7307967 | Mobile communications system and routing management apparatus used in the mobile communications system A mobile communications system is disclosed that includes a first local routing manager (LRM) providing a first network in which a mobile terminal is currently located, a second local routing manager (LRM) providing a second network in which a counterpart terminal c... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7304989 | ATM cell/packet switch and communication control method using the same In order to provide an ATM cell/packet switch which can easily maintain the band for the normality confirmation packet of the user data transfer path without influencing the user band at a state of in-band, and a communication control method using the switch, at lea... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7277729 | Base station apparatus and terminal apparatus A base station apparatus corresponding to a first base station apparatus of base station apparatuses and connected to terminal apparatuses, first base station apparatus transmitting and receiving first packets with respect to a second base station apparatus correspo... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7260092 | Time slot interchanger A digital cross connect comprises plural switching stages. Each stage has plural switches which receive plural frames of time multiplexed input data and which switch the data in time and space. Configurations of the switches change in frame synchronization at the st... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7243183 | SONET data byte switch A switch system including a plurality of input ports and a plurality of output ports for transferring data from one of the input ports to one of the output ports, and a plurality of memory devices is disclosed. The memory devices include a first memory bank configur... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7200143 | Intergrated services digital network private branch exchange capable of choosing synchronization clock source automatically An integrated services digital network private branch exchange, which is capable of automatically choosing a synchronization clock source. The integrated services digital network private branch exchange comprises a plurality of trunk chips, a plurality of subscribe ... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7161936 | Method and system for distributing data communications utilizing a crossbar switch A solid-state crossbar switch for transmitting data traffic includes a first number of input ports. Each input port is operable to receive DSL data from a data switch. The crossbar switch also includes a second number of output ports. Each output port is capable of ... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7145904 | Switch queue predictive protocol (SQPP) based packet switching technique A switch queue predictive protocol (SQPP) includes a packet switching system including: a switch fabric having a cross-point switch, and a plurality of line cards, each coupled to the switch fabric. A cross-point buffer is located at each cross-point of the cross-po... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7113505 | Mesh architecture for synchronous cross-connects A synchronous cross-connect switch for routing data samples from a source node to a destination node comprises a mesh architecture including a plurality of inputs for receiving one or more of the data samples presented to the cross-connect switch. The mesh architect... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7106842 | Method of detecting cut-off calls in a switching system A system and method for detecting cut-off of calls in a switching system records data corresponding to connection of a call in a first memory, records the call connection data in a second memory, and then at a later time and, for example, in response to a call relea... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7099086 | Wavelength division multiplexing system and method using reconfigurable diffraction grating An improvement in a wavelength division multiplexer and/or a dense wavelength division multiplexer (WDM/DWDM) is achieved by incorporating an electronically reconfigurable diffraction grating (108). The introduction of the electronically reconfigurable diffraction g... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7042874 | Digital switching system and method of switching data of same A digital switching system includes a multiplexer for multiplexing time slots from a plurality of circuits, a switching memory for storing and switching the multiplexed data for one frame period, switching control equipment for directing the interchange of the time ... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7020133 | Switch queue predictive protocol (SQPP) based packet switching method A switch queue predictive protocol (SQPP) includes a packet switching system including: a switch fabric having a cross-point switch, and a plurality of line cards, each coupled to the switch fabric. A cross-point buffer is located at each cross-point of the cross-po... | 03/28/2006 |
| 6993622 | Bit level programming interface in a content addressable memory An apparatus and method for generating a comparand in a content addressable memory array. The apparatus includes a content addressable memory (CAM) array and translation circuitry to receive translation information indicative of translation of a bit group from an in... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6973037 | System and method for dynamically varying integrated services digital network (isdn) interface bandwidth A method for dynamically varying bandwidth of a primary rate ISDN interface includes requesting, over a data (D) channel, allocation of at least one first B channel of the primary rate ISDN interface. When notification of allocation of the first B channel is receive... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6952480 | Self-synchronous data scrambler An encryption system has been provided to self-synchronously scramble communications where the receiver must recover the clock information from the data stream, such as the SONET format. To prevent jamming during initialization, or during times when no data is being... | 10/04/2005 |
| 6918019 | Network and networking system for small discontiguous accesses to high-density memory devices A networking system consists of multiple computing devices connected to multiple networking processing engines each containing a memory system including a random access device (RAM). The RAM device contains a memory controller which performs memory read and write re... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6885663 | Time/space switching component with multiple functionality A time/space switching component is provided with multiple functionality that includes a time switching unit, of a space switching unit of a data channel sequence correction unit and of a control unit. As a result of corresponding mode selection, the different funct... | 04/26/2005 |
| 6526047 | Single point writing of control information A system provides control information from a control system to a number of control stores in a switch. The system includes a control point which receives control information for distribution to predetermined control stores. The control information for a p... | 02/25/2003 |
| 6507564 | Method and apparatus for testing aging function in a network switch A network switch configured for switching data packets across multiple ports uses an address table to generate frame forwarding information. The address table includes aging information used by an internal decision making engine so that aged entries are i... | 01/14/2003 |
| 6456590 | Static and dynamic flow control using virtual input queueing for shared memory ethernet switches A virtual input queue 80 count frames of data arriving an input port zo in an Ethernet switch 10 using shared memory 50. The shared memory 50 is allocated among 1-N input ports based on either a static or dynamic memory scheme. The static schem... | 09/24/2002 |
| 6330237 | Time slot assignment circuit A time slot assignment circuit capable of performing channel setting with a high efficiency and with a high degree of freedom of channel setting with respect to a large volume of transmission data and in addition having a small circuit scale and low power... | 12/11/2001 |
| 6212180 | Reconfiguring a multiplexer In an STM-network having multiplexer units (1) and a switch (3), for changes in the traffic configuration memories (41,49;43,51) must also be changed, these configuration memories being located in the multiplexer units for controlling reading and writing ... | 04/03/2001 |
| 5852634 | Data coding system A system for communicating digital data comprises a splitting device (38) for separating an input digital data word, which may be provided by a speech coding arrangement (34,36), into most significant bits and less significant bits. The most significant b... | 12/22/1998 |
| 5852605 | Matrix time switch apparatus capable of providing control data from inlet time switches to a matrix A matrix time switch apparatus for use in a small capacity switching system comprises a matrix having N×N voice memories, N being a positive integer greater than 1, wherein each voice memory in each row of the matrix is attached to a corresponding time s... | 12/22/1998 |
| 5801641 | Controller for a non-blocking broadcast network A controller for a nonblocking broadcast switching network comprising an input stage, an output stage, and a middle stage. The input stage has N1 or n1 r1 input ports and r1 switches, where n1 ࣙ2 an... | 09/01/1998 |
| 5796733 | Time division switching system There is provided a switching system that includes a plurality of input lines for transmitting time division multiplexed data signals, and a conversion means for receiving and converting the respective data signals into a non-time division multiplexed, pa... | 08/18/1998 |
| 5627826 | Time-slot interchanger A time-slot interchanger includes first and second time switches and a space switch installed between the first and second time switches. The first time switch includes a first part for supplying data, which is produced by adding a blank region to input d... | 05/06/1997 |
| 5327422 | Controllable multiplexer for a digital switch The invention relates to a multiplexer for a digital switch, arranged to be included in a switch network whose data flow is organized in frames containing a number of time slots, said time slots including data time slots, which shall be directed through t... | 07/05/1994 |
| 5323390 | Multirate, sonet-ready, switching arrangement A time-division multiplex switch (100) switches a hierarchy of data rates. It sets up higher-rate connections not as a plurality of individual lowest-rate connections but as one or more time slots in each one of a plurality of sequential frames (40,50) th... | 06/21/1994 |
| 4979164 | Switching system reliability The switch units of a distributed switching system are connected by a central switch for advancing connections between the switch units and also by inter-switch unit trunks. To save switch unit resources, trunk services such as scanning and signaling are ... | 12/18/1990 |
| 4961187 | PBX system with assignable relationships between network loops and ports A peripheral controller for a PBX system accepts PCM data from a plurality of channels. The channels may be processed in time and space switches of more than one network loop. A channel-merge device merges the PCM data into a combined PCM data stream for ... | 10/02/1990 |
