Patents Assigned to Genuity Inc.
  • Patent number: 6405188
    Abstract: Methods and systems for providing an improved IR system that performs information retrieval by using probabilities. When performing information retrieval, the improved IR system utilizes both the prior probability that a document is relevant independent of the query as well as the probability that the query was generated by a particular document given that the particular document is relevant. By using these probabilities, the improved IR system retrieves documents in a more accurate manner than conventional systems which are based on an ad hoc approach.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 1998
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2002
    Assignees: Genuity Inc., GTE Service Corporation
    Inventors: Richard M. Schwartz, David R. H. Miller, Timothy R. Leek
  • Patent number: 6370579
    Abstract: A system for performing packet based data communications over a parallel set of sublinks is provided. A transmitter unit separates the sublinks into an available set of sublinks and a busy set of sublinks. This transmitter avoids processing delays by utilizing sublinks in the available sublink set and not waiting for sublinks in the busy sublink set to be released. To receive the packets, a receiver unit utilizes a sequence number associated with each packet. Accordingly, the receiver extracts the one or more packets of data received in parallel over the set of sublinks in sequential order. A packet window buffer is used to store packets in sequence if they are initially received out of order. The receiver utilizes a sliding window to provide packets in continuous sequential order and transmits the packets serially over a single communication link.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 1998
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2002
    Assignees: Genuity Inc., GTE Service Corporation
    Inventor: Craig Partridge
  • Patent number: 6347366
    Abstract: An embedded genetic allocator system uses genetic algorithms to generate trial solutions to the allocation of data buffers among various kinds of memory banks and measures the quality of each solution. The quality is determined through the use of a monitoring system that accurately measures application execution times while maintaining low intrusiveness in the software execution. Because the allocation process is highly automated and based upon accurate performance data derived from actual system operation, optimal solutions to the allocation problem are reached much more quickly and efficiently than can be done using current, largely manual, approaches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 1998
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2002
    Assignees: Genuity Inc., GTE Services
    Inventor: David B. Cousins
  • Patent number: 6311182
    Abstract: A voice activated and operated Internet web browser where voiced utterances are digitized and the digitized representation is input to a speech recognition program is disclosed. The speech recognition program determines the most likely set of words from a stored vocabulary making up the utterances. The words are analyzed and searched against a database of topics or micro-domain areas. If a match occurs the words are analyzed by a subprogram associated with the specific topic area and key words are identified and other words discarded. The key words are input to a search engine or the equivalent. The search engine returns information associated with the topic. If no topic match is found a general search on the recognized words is performed. The recognized words are fed to a identification module where key words are extracted that are associated with names of people, organizations, locations, and companies; times; money amounts; percentages; dates; and not-a-name.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2001
    Assignees: Genuity Inc., GTE Service Corporation
    Inventors: Sean C. Colbath, David Stallard, Cecile Pham, Long Nguyen
  • Patent number: 6310893
    Abstract: A method and system for communicating a packet over a cell relay satellite network, without establishing a connection in the cell relay satellite network, comprises the steps of segmenting the packet into a number of segments at a source node in the communications network, generating for each of the segments a fixed size cell that includes a cell header and a payload with a prefix, a downlink beam locator, and a source node identifier included in the cell header, and inserting each segment into the payload of each generated cell, respectively, and transmitting the cells to the cell relay satellite. A cell relay satellite receives each transmitted cell from the source node, and broadcasts each cell on a downlink beam corresponding to the downlink beam locator in each cell header. A destination node receives each broadcasted cell on the downlink beam, and re-assembles the packet from the received cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2001
    Assignees: Genuity Inc., GTE Service Corporation
    Inventors: Ruixi Yuan, Bora Akyol, William Timothy Strayer
  • Patent number: 6185619
    Abstract: According to the present invention, a method and system provides the ability to assign requests for data objects made by clients among multiple network servers. The invention provides a distributed computing system and methods to assign user requests to replicated servers contained by the distributed computing system in a manner that attempts to meet the goals of a particular routing policy. Policies may include minimizing the amount of time for the request to be completed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2001
    Assignees: Genuity Inc., GTE Service Corporation
    Inventors: Rodney Lance Joffe, Barry A. Dykes, Jason Alan Brittain, Victor Joseph Oppleman, Brian Everett Pettingell, James Joseph Lippard, Ian Burke Vandeventer, Brett Dean Watson, Steven Michael Hotz, Nils Herbert Mc Carthy