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...that while attempting to develop a super strong glue, 3M employee Spencer Silver accidentally developed a glue that was so weak it would barely hold two pieces of paper together? However, his colleague Art Fry needed the glue. Fry sang with his church choir and marked the pages of his hymnal with small scraps of paper that often fell out. He used Silver's glue to hold the papers in place. Today we call this invention Post-it Notes.
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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20100246606 | Optimizing the Transmit Power Spectrum Density (PSD) Of A Remotely Deployed Line to Ensure Spectral Compatibility An apparatus comprising a transmitter at a digital subscriber line (DSL) Cabinet configured to transmit a downstream signal in a subscriber line according to a power spectral density (PSD) configuration, wherein the PSD configuration comprises a cutoff frequency based o... | 09/30/2010 |
| 20090116376 | METHOD FOR COMMON TRANSMISSION OVER MULTIPLE LINE PAIRS, AND TRANSMITTING END AND RECEIVING END THEREFOR The present disclosure discloses a method for common transmission over multiple line pairs, and a transmitting device and a receiving device therefor. The method for common transmission over multiple line pairs includes: modulating information to be sent; and sending a ... | 05/07/2009 |
| 20090074011 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, CONTROL METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM The present invention provides a communication system that can suppress the crosstalk of a communication device installed in a remote terminal. The communication system according to the invention is the communication system configured so that a first communication devic... | 03/19/2009 |
| 20090046742 | OUTLET WITH ANALOG SIGNAL ADAPTER, A METHOD FOR USE THEREOF AND A NETWORK USING SAID OUTLET An outlet (70, 75, 76, 78, 79) for a Local Area Network (LAN), containing an integrated adapter (21, 25) that converts digital data to and from analog video signal. Such an outlet allows using analog video units in a digital data network (80), elimi... | 02/19/2009 |
| 20090003384 | DATA TRANSMISSION SCHEME WITH SCHEDULING OPTIMIZATION FOR PHYSICAL CHANNEL GROUP A novel apparatus for and a method of optimized data transmission whereby an input data stream is distributed over a plurality of physical channels within a logical channel group. Transmission of data over the channel group appears as transmission over a single logical ... | 01/01/2009 |
| 20080253402 | Timing device and method A logical network directory database compliant with the X.500 standard for a directory data system is disclosed. The network directory database provides a source of subscriber and service data accessible by various control and management processes that require subscribe... | 10/16/2008 |
| 20080253401 | TRANSIENT ROBUST CHANNEL FOR COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS One embodiment of the present invention relates to a network device. The network device includes a receiver configured to be coupled to a transmission medium supporting a multi-carrier channel over which data is communicated as symbols in a first communication state acc... | 10/16/2008 |
| 20080253403 | Nomadic subscriber data system A logical network directory database compliant with the X.500 standard for a directory data system is disclosed. The network directory database provides a source of subscriber and service data accessible by various control and management processes that require subscribe... | 10/16/2008 |
| 20080240161 | Method and apparatus for digital subscriber line transfer VDSL (Very-high-data-rate Digital Subscriber Line) technology uses at least one downlink frequency band (D1, D2) for conveying information from a data network to a subscriber's transceiver unit. At some sites VDSL technology cannot be used because no stand... | 10/02/2008 |
| 20080165806 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING MULTIMEDIA BROADCAST MULTICAST SERVICES VIA A DEDICATED DOWNLINK CARRIER A method and apparatus for wireless communication of multimedia broadcast multicast services (MBMS) data and unicast data using separate downlink carriers and are disclosed. A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) having a single receiver that is switchable to receive e... | 07/10/2008 |
| 20080101415 | PRIVATE DATA TRANSMISSION VIA AN ANALOG BROADCAST TRANSMISSION A method and system for sending private data to a subscriber via a broadcast analog transmission is provided. A service provider assigns to each subscriber a unique key that specifies a sub-channel (i.e., frequency) that is within a predetermined channel (i.e., broadcas... | 05/01/2008 |
| 20080037686 | WIRELESS TRANSMISSION METHOD USING OFDM AND TRANSMITTER AND RECEIVER THEREOF A wireless transmitter includes an allocation unit allocating first modulation symbols to first subcarriers arranged in N subcarriers cycles, modulators performing OFDM modulation on the first modulation symbols allocated to the first subcarriers to generate OFDM signal... | 02/14/2008 |
| 20080037589 | HOME NETWORK SYSTEM AND METHOD A home network, in one embodiment including a home wiring system; a demarcation point unit in electrical communication with the home wiring system; and a home network module in electrical communication with the home wiring system. The home network module is adapted for ... | 02/14/2008 |
| 20070280294 | Constrained Fidelity Constant Bit Rate Video Encoding Systems and Methods A CBR/VBR hybrid implementation encoding video streams for conserving bandwidth usage in a channel comprises, in an exemplary arrangement, CBR encoding for frames whose complexity exceeds a threshold, and uses VBR encoding for frames whose complexity is below the thresh... | 12/06/2007 |
| 20070280296 | System and method for measuring distribution quality of video image A measuring system of distribution quality of a video image includes a distribution server, an receiving terminal, an upstream side reception time data generating section, a downstream side reception time data generating section and a quality data measuring section. The... | 12/06/2007 |
| 20070280295 | PLAYBACK APPARATUS, PLAYBACK METHOD, AND PLAYBACK PROGRAM A playback apparatus includes the following elements. An input receives content data and accompanying data formed on the basis of a plurality of first units and used for displaying information accompanying the content data. A first storage section stores, among the plur... | 12/06/2007 |
| 20070259644 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR POWERLINE LOCAL AREA NETWORKS OVER COAXIAL CABLE Method and system for powerline local area network over coaxial cable. According to an embodiment, the present invention provides a powerline communication system. The system includes a data connection that is configured to communicating a first signal in a first format... | 11/08/2007 |
| 20070195823 | Communication between network interface device and subscriber devices via power supply lines The disclosure describes communication of information between a network interface device and subscriber devices over a power line. A UPS unit receives operating power from subscriber premises via a first power line and delivers operating power to the network interface d... | 08/23/2007 |
| 20070177526 | Customer premise equipment device-specific access-limiting for a cable modem and a customer premise equipment device A method of initializing, provisioning, and managing a cable modem and a customer premise equipment device includes, prior to receiving the configuration file for the cable modem, providing an equipment identification message containing a description of the customer pre... | 08/02/2007 |
| 20070171941 | DTV television transmitter/receiver and method of processing data in DTV transmitter/receiver A DTV transmitter includes a pre-processor pre-processing enhanced data, a data formatter generating enhanced data packets including known data, a multiplexer multiplexing the enhanced data packets with main data packets, a data randomizer randomizing the multiplexed da... | 07/26/2007 |
| 20070147431 | xDSL modem A reception result of an analog signal transmitted from a local switch to a subscriber line, or a voltage difference corresponding to a line current is analyzed, and a transmission characteristic in the subscriber line is evaluated based on an analyzing result. The tran... | 06/28/2007 |
| 20070140298 | METHOD AND APPARATUS OF DOWNSTREAM COMMUNICATION FOR A FULL-SERVICE CABLE MODEM SYSTEM A method and system are disclosed for enabling full-service communications between a full-service cable modem termination system (fsCMTS) and a plurality of full-service cable modems (fsCMs) for a conventional two-way hybrid fiber-coax (HFC) cable television network. Fu... | 06/21/2007 |
| 20070104226 | QUALITY OF SERVICE MANAGEMENT IN A SWITCHED DIGITAL VIDEO ENVIRONMENT Quality of service management in a switched digital video environment. The devices in a user's home can be given quality of service priority statuses by a system operator. In the event of oversubscription, the quality of service management allows the user to determine w... | 05/10/2007 |
| 20060291575 | Power Line Communication System and Method A power line communications system for providing communications for one or more user devices via one or more low voltage power line is provided. In one embodiment the system includes a plurality of first communication devices, each comprising a first modem configured to... | 12/28/2006 |
| 20060242652 | Configurable alert notification system and method A configurable alert notification communications system including an audio receiver for detecting a discrete signal transmitted by a message dispatch system, and a computer connected to the audio receiver for recording, in a first format, an audio message associated wit... | 10/26/2006 |
| 20060171375 | System and method for high speed distributed cable broadband system The Hi-SD CBS includes a termination unit and pluralities of distributed customer premise units connected through the cable TV (CATV) network. The radio signals in Hi-SD CBS are propagating inside the co-axial cable. To insure the linking quality between the termination... | 08/03/2006 |
| 20060146882 | Apparatus and method for eliminating noise contained within usable frequency band of a mobile communication terminal Disclosed are an apparatus and method for removing noise contained within a usable frequency band of a mobile communication terminal. The apparatus includes a multiplier for multiplying a main clock of the mobile communication terminal by a predetermined integer to gene... | 07/06/2006 |
| 20060092965 | Information terminal and information terminal system An information terminal incorporates a network interface and an extension interface, and in the case of outside call, an audio send signal is modulated into an audio signal frequency band, and sent to the exchange through a private telephone line and a subscriber's line... | 05/04/2006 |
| 20060092981 | Automated method and system for selectively updating communications parameters representing subscriber services in telecommunications networks Methods and systems for updating subscriber service parameters in a communications network wherein a central provisioning unit automatically locates subscriber ports having subscriber service parameters that require updating and which automatically issues commands for u... | 05/04/2006 |
| 20060029109 | Playback of downloaded digital audio content on car radios Digital audio content is delivered to a non-volatile memory device, operatively connected to a car radio mounted in a motor vehicle, and played back using a playback effecter mounted in the motor vehicle. Exemplary playback effecters include but are not limited to butto... | 02/09/2006 |
| 20060013259 | Data stream transmission preprocessing Embodiments of transmission data stream pre-processing are disclosed. A method includes receiving the data stream for transmission, forming blocks of samples from the data stream, inverse Fourier transforming the blocks of samples forming multi-carrier signal symbols, s... | 01/19/2006 |
| 20060015918 | Method for fast reinstallation of deployed DOCSIS devices After a user device unsuccessfully attempts to establish upstream communication with a central network equipment downstream frequency to which it has tuned, an identifier corresponding to the tuned-to downstream frequency is removed from a cache of the user device. The ... | 01/19/2006 |
| 20050265395 | Multimedia service system for portable devices using hardware transcoder The present invention relates to a system for providing a multimedia service to a portable device. The multimedia service system of the present invention includes a multimedia source, a hardware transcoder, an interface unit, a storage unit and a portable device. The mu... | 12/01/2005 |
| 20050259691 | Network combining wired and non-wired segments A local area network (60) within a residence or other building, including both wired (5) and non-wired segments (53). The wired segments are based on new or existing wires (5a, 5b, 5c, 5d, 5... | 11/24/2005 |
| 20050249245 | System and method for carrying a wireless based signal over wiring A device, network and method wherein a standard wireless modem is coupled to wiring for carrying a wireless baseband signal that may be OFDM based, and may be directly generated by the wireless IF modem, or extracted from the modem RF signal. The wiring may be a buildin... | 11/10/2005 |
| 20050190794 | Video multiplexer system providing low-latency VCR-like effects and program changes An advanced multiplexer designed and optimized for next generation on-demand video distribution is described. Features and capabilities include low-latency client interactions, quality of service management, session based encryption management, support for multiple vide... | 09/01/2005 |
| 20050152404 | System and method for a robust preamble and transmission delimiting in a switched-carrier transceiver A method and system for robust delimiting of messages in switched-carrier operation in which a preamble precedes each message. The preamble comprises symbols transmitted at a rate lower than that of the following data. The lower rate significantly increases the probabil... | 07/14/2005 |
| 20050085212 | High power architecture for power over Ethernet A combiner for use with a powered device having high power needs, the combiner comprising: a first power input adapted to receive a first power signal over a first set of wire pairs utilized to carry communication data; a second power input adapted to receive a second p... | 04/21/2005 |
| 20050068984 | Low-cost network system between a base station controller and a base transceiver station, and method for transmitting data between them Various embodiments of the invention relate to a low-cost network system that can reduce the network cost by connecting a base station controller (BSC) with a base transceiver station (BTS) by the use of matching units that match an E1/T1 line to an IP line. In one embo... | 03/31/2005 |
| 20050063420 | Communications system using a hospital telephony infrastructure to allow establishment of healthcare information sessions at hospital-wide points of care A communications system, in which a plurality of remote modems communicate over a twisted-pair telephony infrastructure, each remote modem being communicatively coupled to a corresponding subset of user devices. The system also comprises a healthcare information system ... | 03/24/2005 |
