Abstract: Multiple selectable dictionaries are used by a handwriting recognition system to provide accurate and prompt recognition processing. Sets of the multiple dictionaries are selectable by the user or automatically by the recognition program in response to the user handwriting in predetermined fields on a user interface.

Abstract: An optical fiber interconnection system is provided, including a method of fabricating the system. A flat fiber optic circuit is provided with a flat substrate having a peripheral edge and a plurality of first optical fibers mounted on the flat substrate, with ends of the first fibers extending beyond the substrate. A fiber optic connector is terminated to a plurality of second optical fibers, with ends of the second fibers extending from the connector to a connecting point for connection to the ends of the first fibers from the flat fiber optic circuit. A protective shroud is installed over the connecting point between the ends of the first and second fibers. The protective shroud is fixed to the projecting tail portion of the substrate of the flat fiber optic circuit.

Abstract: A fanout system is provided for a fiber optic cable which includes a plurality of optical fibers. A fiber optic ribbon includes a plurality of individual optical fibers adhered to a flat substrate in a generally parallel side-by-side array. The fibers are spread apart in a fanned-out array at an edge of the substrate. Loose ends of the fibers extend beyond the edge of the substrate. A plurality of tube members individually surround the loose ends of the fibers beyond the edge of the substrate. A protective transition member collectively surrounds the loose ends of the fibers at least in an area extending from the edge of the substrate to proximal ends of the tube members.

Abstract: Methods and devices for reducing undesired signals in a communication environment. At least two distinct composite signals (X1 and X2) are transmitted from a first communication environment (260). A noise coefficient of the first communication environment (260) based on the at least two distinct composite signals (X1 and X2) is calculated. At least two noise canceling signals based on the noise coefficient are calculated. The at least two noise canceling signals are added to an incoming signal (Y3) from a second communication environment (280) to produce at least two combined signals. The at least two combined signal are transmitted into the first communication environment (260).

Abstract: A content provider (100) generates broadcast and point-to-point communications and transmits the communications to a subscriber device via a transport medium (105). A broadcast communication is transmitted to all subscriber devices (110, 115, 120, 125) of the transport medium (105) simultaneously. A point-to-point communication is transmitted specifically between the content provider (100) and the subscriber device (110), where only the content provider (100) and the subscriber device (110) have access to the point-to-point communication. Both broadcast and point-to-point communications are received at the subscriber device. The content of the broadcast communication is combined with content of the point-to-point communication to create a combined communication. The combined communication is presented to a subscriber in a unified presentation.

Abstract: A communications device (10) with a processor having instructions that execute on the processor. The programmed instructions include a message manager program (16) for accepting and dispatching messages, one or more application programs (17, 18) for handling and presenting messages; and one ore more message client programs (30, 40) that receive messages from the message manager program (16) and provides them to the application program. The message manager program (16) accepts a registration from each message client program and sets rules, and message attributes to which the rules are to be applied for new messages.

Abstract: A method, and apparatus for performing the method, the method consists of the steps of: estimating a time when a dominant channel distortion occurs for each of a plurality of received test signals, wherein each of the plurality of received test signals occupies a different position in frequency in a communications medium having a given bandwidth; determining a differential group delay for the times estimated for each of the plurality of received test signals; and approximating a phase distortion of the communications medium as the differential group delay. In a variation, the method further consists of the steps of: estimating a power of each of the plurality of received test signals; determining an amplitude ripple by evaluating the power of each of the plurality of received test signals; and approximating an amplitude distortion of the communications medium as the amplitude ripple.

Abstract: In a method of recognition of handwritten input, a preprocessing module (200) of a recognizer (203) having a recognition module (202), segments handwritten input into strokes, to provide stroke vectors. A search module (204) generates hypothetical character strings for scoring by the recognition module (202). A character hypothesis is generated which is a data set of a character, a start vector and an end vector. The recognizer (203) provides a non-cumulative score for the character hypothesis, where the score represents a likelihood of the character being present in the handwritten input at a position starting at the start vector and ending at the end vector. The recognizer (203) delivers to the search module a result that is either the score for the selected first character hypothesis or a result that allows the search module to temporarily ignore the hypothesis or to kill it altogether. The search module maintains or disregards the first hypothetical character string dependent on the result.

Abstract: The present invention provides a user interface having a plurality of user entry regions (34 and 36) Each user entry region is preferably separated into a first user entry sub-region (40) and a second user entry sub-region (42) by a visual cue (38). A first character is received in the first user entry sub-region (40) and a second character is received in the second user entry sub-region (42) to provide a unitary collection of strokes. The unitary collection of strokes is then matched as a whole against at least one character template in order to identify a desired character of a user.

Abstract: A radio communications device has a memory having stored therein a user application program (16), a telephony program (18) and an application programming interface (API) 30 between these. Various aspects of the API are described. In one aspect, the API has a command for establishing a call and the telephony program accepts, as an argument of the command for establishing the call, an array identifying several terminal objects (54-58), thereby permitting establishment of a call for multiple terminal objects. In another aspect, groupings of events are described and an API command defines an event class from one of the groups together with an ID defining an event within the event class. In a further aspect, a program in the telephony program is called to create a call object (50). The call object is created regardless of whether radio service for the radio comunications device has been established.

Abstract: A system (10) and method for packet telephony power management of a cable distribution network (20), i.e., a hybrid fiber coax (HFC) communication system, for internet protocol (IP) packet telephony information between multiple cable modem subscriber units (16,18) communicated over a public switch telephone network (PSTN) (32) with at least one router (28), e.g., a cable modem termination system (CMTS) on a communication network backbone. Power management is provided to minimize power consumption on the IP telephony distribution system (10) supporting line-powered cable-modem subscriber units (16). The power saving techniques are supported using a virtual broadcast channel (VBC) (62) provided in the packet telephony system using an alert queue (60). The alert queue (60) is established and segmented into a plurality of phases for selective activation, each phase having memory buffers for buffering packet telephony information communicated via the CMTSs (28).

Abstract: A computer operating system (30) receives information from first and second application programs relating to control words for controlling the application programs. This information is contained in vocabulary A (74) and vocabulary B (76). The speech recognition tool (36) is arranged to accept the information from the first and second application programs and perform a comparison with digitized speech received at an input (60). A selected one of the application programs (32 and 34) is controlled according to the digitized speech received.

Abstract: A storage medium (72) having stored thereon a set of instructions, which when loaded into a microprocessor (74), causes the microprocessor (74) to extract strokes from a plurality of characters (76), derive a pre-defined number of stroke models based on the strokes extracted from the plurality of character (78) and represent the plurality of characters as sequences of stroke models (80).

Abstract: A wireless electronic commerce system (10) comprising a wireless gateway (18) to a wireless network (19) with which a wireless device (11) having a unique client identifier (ID) is capable of communicating. A server (15) or servers (15 and 16) is/are coupleable to the wireless gateway, delivering content items (e.g. software products) to the wireless device (11) and maintaining digital content certificates for content items and digital license certificates for licenses for the content items. The server maintains, for each wireless client associated with the system, a record of licenses for that client and a record of content items associated with each license.

Abstract: A method for assigning communication resources includes assigning communication resources (216, 218, 220) in the nature of bandwidth according to various selection schemes based upon the type of communication service being provided, and based upon the nature of the service area (128, 130) and subscriber premises (132, 134).

Abstract: A mounting system (10) and method for adjusting the position of a PCB (14) in a housing (22) therefor is provided. An annular, stepped mounting member (16) having axially and radially spaced surface portions (19) provides predetermined positions for the PCB (14) in the housing (22) based on the size of a mounting opening (20) of the PCB (14). The PCB (14) is placed onto the mounting member (16) with those surface portions (19) that are of smaller diameter than the opening (20) fitting therethrough until the first portion (19) having a larger diameter is encountered which will be engaged against the PCB (14). In this manner, the present system (10) allows for a relatively quick and easy change to the size of the PCB mounting hole opening (20) to be made to effect a change in the PCB vertical position in the housing (22) thereby avoiding expensive and time-consuming changes that are usually required when the position of the PCB (14) needs to be changed to accommodate component reconfigurations and the like.

Abstract: A data entry apparatus (10) receives a first character key from a keypad (12). A set of characters associated with the first character key is displayed. A second character key from the keypad (12) is received, wherein a second set of characters is associated with the second character key. A character from the first set of characters is combined with a character from the second set of characters. A set of alternative n-grams is displayed, derived from the step of combining, in descending order based on a probability of frequency of use in a given language. When an alternative n-gram is detected as being actively highlighted, the n-gram is locked to create a locked n-gram and characters associated with subsequent character keys vary in their combinations with respect to the locked n-gram.

Abstract: A cable communication system (100) where a control unit (110) sends operation parameters to subscriber units (130) and the subscriber units (130) respond by modifying the method of communication. Also, the subscriber units (130) send messages which include information on the subscriber unit (130) and the capabilities of the subscriber unit (130). Furthermore, the control unit (110) efficiently manages the system 100 by monitoring the capabilities and instructing the subscriber units (130) on-how to communicate on the system (100). Such management allows for the migration of subscriber units (170) from one service area (140) to another (190) without the disruption of service. In addition, initialization of subscriber units (130) may be accomplished over the cable and does not require an operator at the subscriber location.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for generating a context dependent phoneme network as an intermediate step of encoding speech information. The context dependent phoneme network is generated from speech in a phoneme network generator (48) associated with an operating system (44). The context dependent phoneme network is then transmitted to a first application (52).

Abstract: A thermal mass (18) is reflow soldered atop of a multi-layered medium (10) in order to yield minimum thermal resistance between a heat source (22) located on the multi-layered medium (10) and the thermal mass (18) for greater heat dissipation efficiency. Moreover, the thermal mass (18) can be auto-placed onto the multi-layered medium (10) in order to accurately and closely position the thermal mass (18) next to the heat source (22).