Patents Examined by Stephanie Chang
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Patent number: 8958413Abstract: An Internet protocol (IP)-private branch exchange (PBX) system and a method for linking the system with a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) terminal. The IP-PBX system and method allow the VoIP terminal to be registered at an extension of the IP-PBX system, the VoIP terminal supporting a protocol, e.g., H.323 or session initiation protocol (SIP), standardized by a standardization organization, e.g., the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), or the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI).Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2007Date of Patent: February 17, 2015Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventor: Sung-Woo Lee
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Patent number: 8959002Abstract: Readings of a characteristic of the yarn along the longitudinal direction of the yarn are detected. Values of a yarn parameter are determined from the readings. An event field contains a quadrant of a two-dimensional Cartesian coordinate system, whose abscissa defines an extension of yarn parameter values in the longitudinal direction and whose ordinate defines a deviation of the yarn parameter from a desired value. Densities of events in the event field are determined from the values of the yarn parameter and their extensions in the longitudinal direction. A yarn body is represented as an area in the event field. The area on the one hand is delimited by the abscissa, on the other hand by the ordinate and further by a line in the event field that substantially follows a constant event density. The representation of the yarn body permits a clearing limit to be defined in a rapid and rational manner.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2009Date of Patent: February 17, 2015Assignee: Uster Technologies, AGInventors: Beat Keller, Stefan Gehrig, Peter Schmid, Loris De Vries
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Patent number: 8958414Abstract: A modular system uses point-to-point communication between field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) on a control module and each port module, respectively, to manage basic module functions, such as power, environmental monitoring, and health checks on the modules and their components. This allows a chassis to be managed without fully powering each card first, frees processors on the modules from having to perform health checks, allows dedicated resources to rapidly monitor the health of each card, and prevents one bad card from disabling management of all cards.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2008Date of Patent: February 17, 2015Assignee: Force10 Networks, Inc.Inventor: David K. Wong
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Patent number: 8954595Abstract: The present invention is directed towards systems and methods for dynamically deploying and executing acceleration functionality on a client to improve the performance and delivery of remotely accessed applications. In one embodiment, the client-side acceleration functionality is provided by an acceleration program that performs a transport layer connection buffering technique for improving performance of communications and delivery of a remotely-accessed application. The acceleration program establishes a transport layer connection from the client to the server and buffers requests of the client based on determining a difference between a rate of consumption of responses received by the client from a server and a rate of production of requests transmitted by the client to the server. As such, the acceleration program can throttle transmissions of the client if the client's rate of consumption falls behind the rate of submission of requests.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2005Date of Patent: February 10, 2015Assignee: Citrix Systems, Inc.Inventors: Prabakar Sundarrajan, Junxiao He, Sergey Verzunov, Charu Venkatraman, Anil Shetty
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Patent number: 8938515Abstract: A messaging service is described that incorporates messages into cached link lists. The messages are not yet acknowledged as having been received by one or more consumers to whom the messages were sent. A separate link list exists for each of a plurality of different message priority levels. Messages within a same link list are ordered in their link list in the same order in which they where received by the messaging service. At least one of the link lists contains an element that represents one or more messages that are persisted but are not cached in any of the cached link lists.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2005Date of Patent: January 20, 2015Assignee: SAP SEInventors: Radoslav I. Nikolov, Desislav V. Bantchovski, Stoyan M. Vellev, Michael Koegel
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Patent number: 8937903Abstract: A cache server disposed in a motor vehicle receives and caches content from a content distribution network when a load of a cellular link to the content distribution network is low. The cache server determines that the motor vehicle is turned off, broadcasts a wireless signal as part of a wireless network when the motor vehicle is turned off, and provides a device access to the content cached in the cache server via the wireless network.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2011Date of Patent: January 20, 2015Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Farooq Bari, Qingmin Hu
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Patent number: 8934476Abstract: In one embodiment, a first PC may receive a trigger to establish a data communication session with a second PC over an established voice call between first and second phones over a WAN. In response, the first PC may discover the first phone as an authorized personal area network (PAN) device, and may establish a first PAN communication session between the first PC and the first phone. A request may then be transmitted to the second phone over the established voice call to establish the data communication session between the first and second PCs, and in response, the second phone may discover the second PC as an authorized PAN device from the second phone. A second PAN communication session may thus be established between the second phone and the second PC, and data may be exchanged between the PCs using the PAN communication sessions and the established voice call.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2007Date of Patent: January 13, 2015Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.Inventor: Harold James Pulhug
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Patent number: 8917717Abstract: A system and method for provisionable, multi-modal communications, including detecting a provisioning condition, selecting a communications mode based on the provisioning condition from a first usage mode, a second usage mode, and a third usage mode, and displaying an interface corresponding to the selected communications mode. The first usage mode includes a first communications channel supporting a first communication data consisting of instant messages (IM) and in-network voice data. The second usage mode includes a second communications channel supporting a second communication data consisting of IM, in-network voice data and out-of-network voice data. The third usage mode includes a second communications channel supporting a third communication data comprising video data.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2007Date of Patent: December 23, 2014Assignee: Vonage Network LLCInventors: John Riley, Daniel Thomas Smires, Mary Grikas
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Patent number: 8917719Abstract: A method, equipment, and a mobile communication system for realizing explicit call transfer are provided. The method for realizing explicit call transfer includes the following steps. A service centralization & continuity application server (SCC AS) receives a call request sent by a second user equipment (UE), and sends the call request to a third UE, in which an instruction for replacing a call between a first UE and the third UE is carried in the call request. A message returned by the third UE according to the call request is received, and the third UE is controlled to establish a connection with the second UE and to break a connection with the first UE. The third UE is an IP multimedia subsystem centralized service user equipment (ICS UE).Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2010Date of Patent: December 23, 2014Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hui Jin, Shuiping Long, Xiaoyan Duan
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Patent number: 8891383Abstract: A method of operating a transceiver integrated circuit is disclosed. The method comprises generating test signals directed to testing one or more transceiver parameters. The test signals are transmitted from a digital domain to an analog domain along a transmit path, and looped-back from the transmit path to a receive path. Echo canceller circuitry coupled between the transmit path and the receive path is trained and generates a filtered output representing a metric indicative of the one or more transceiver parameters.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2011Date of Patent: November 18, 2014Assignee: Aquantia Corp.Inventors: Fadi Saibi, Hossein Sedarat, Ramin Farjadrad
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Patent number: 8874390Abstract: An instrument (100) is provided according to an embodiment of the invention. The instrument (100) includes an interface (101) configured to receive a Doppler measurement signal and a processing system (112) coupled to the interface (101) and receiving the Doppler measurement signal. The processing system (112) is configured to generate a two-sided velocity spectrum including a plurality of discrete frequency bins from the Doppler measurement signal, with the two-sided velocity spectrum distinguishing spectral elements, and process one or more velocity spectrum bin pairs against a plurality of local gate thresholds, with the one or more velocity spectrum bin pairs being substantially symmetrically located about one or more carrier wave bins and wherein each velocity spectrum bin pair is processed against a corresponding local gate threshold of the plurality of local gate thresholds.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2011Date of Patent: October 28, 2014Assignee: Hach CompanyInventor: David Langley Rick
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Patent number: 8873542Abstract: A phone call is selectively routed to a public switched telephone network or to a packet switched network based on a called number to which the phone call is directed. A phone call may be made as a Voice-Over-Internet-Protocol call through, for example, the Internet except when a user dials an emergency number, in which case the call is made to the public switched telephone network.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2007Date of Patent: October 28, 2014Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventor: Laura Reid
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Patent number: 8856372Abstract: A system and method providing for the flow of peer-to-peer traffic between end users within an access network without requiring the traffic to pass through a network gateway such as a Broadband Remote Access Server (BRAS). End user devices connect through access nodes to an aggregation network and a gateway. An Upstream Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) proxy and a Downstream ARP proxy are implemented in each access node. The Upstream ARP proxy receives an Upstream ARP request and forwards the request upstream only if peer-to-peer communications are allowed. Otherwise, a reply is sent with the MAC address of the BRAS. The Downstream ARP proxy intercepts a Downstream ARP request for a target device and determines whether the target device is in an ARP Cache in the access node. If so, the proxy sends an ARP reply giving the MAC address of the target device. If not, no ARP reply is sent.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2005Date of Patent: October 7, 2014Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)Inventor: Ulf Fredrik Jönsson
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Patent number: 8849597Abstract: Method, system, and computer program product for estimating a consumed battery life of a battery used in a wind energy application. An energy storage system for use with a wind farm includes a rechargeable battery configured to be selectively charged by wind turbines or the power grid and configured to be selectively discharged to a power grid. One or more remaining battery life algorithms are used to compute a consumed battery life for the battery. A battery life curve characteristic of the battery and a state of charge profile are used as inputs to each remaining battery life algorithm.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2010Date of Patent: September 30, 2014Assignee: Vestas Wind Systems A/SInventors: Daniel Viassolo, Jason Hoffman, Jianhui Zhang
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Patent number: 8843327Abstract: A method and apparatus are disclosed for determining status of a canister of a topical negative pressure (TNP) system. The method includes the steps of monitoring pressure provided by a pump element of the TNP system, determining at least one characteristic associated with the monitored pressure and determining status of at least one parameter associated with a canister of the TNP system responsive to the determined characteristics.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2008Date of Patent: September 23, 2014Assignee: Smith & Nephew PLCInventors: Edward Vernon-Harcourt, Jake Turner, Benjamin Gordon
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Patent number: 8838750Abstract: A system and method for configuration using abstract configuration information is described. In an embodiment, an abstract configuration module acts like an informational proxy between components of a system. The configuration module provides a level of abstraction that allows for some properties to be abstracted instead of being hard coded into each node of the system.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2005Date of Patent: September 16, 2014Assignee: SAP AGInventors: Ingo Zenz, Krasimir P. Semerdzhiev, Elitsa N. Pancheva, Mladen L. Markov
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Patent number: 8825409Abstract: Method, system, and computer program product for tracing seismic sections to convert to digital format are provided. The method includes: receiving a scan of a seismic section having multiple overlapping traces measured at spot points; splitting the traces into segments; associating the segments with appropriate baselines; estimating the traces between segments using logical rules; and deriving amplitudes of the traces.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2010Date of Patent: September 2, 2014Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Dan Shmuel Chevion, Yaakov Navon
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Patent number: 8824456Abstract: The present invention provides an information registration system, a server device, a server processing program, and an information registration method which are capable of efficiently registering a telephone number without hesitation of the user and recognizing an identical person using the telephone number thus registered. According to the present invention, an information registration system is provided with a server device and a terminal device which has a browser function and is connectable to the server device through a communication means. The terminal device is provided with a display means for displaying a specified page and a determination request sending means for sending to the server device a telephone number registration determination request including a telephone number designated by a user through thus displayed page.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2008Date of Patent: September 2, 2014Assignee: Rakuten, Inc.Inventor: Masahiro Itaba
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Patent number: 8818754Abstract: The properties of a surface of an object in presence of thin transparent films are determined by generating a library of model signals and processing a measurement signal via searching the library to evaluate films properties and topography. The library may be reduced with principal component analysis to enhance computation speed. Computation enhancement may also be achieved by removal of the height contributions from the signal leaving only the film contribution in the signal. The film measurement signal is compared to a library of film signals to determine the film parameters of the sample. The library of film signals is produced by processing each full signal in a library to similarly remove the height contributions leaving only the film contributions. Additionally, a post-analysis process may be applied to properly evaluate local topography.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2011Date of Patent: August 26, 2014Assignee: Nanometrics IncorporatedInventors: Boris V. Kamenev, Michael J. Darwin
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Patent number: 8811279Abstract: A wireless communication system transmits overhead messages including a plurality of message types using a first priority scheme that identifies a first priority for transmitting the plurality of overhead messages based on the plurality of message types. The wireless communication system receives and processes call information to indentify a rate of call a rate of call originations. The rate of call originations is then processed to determine a second priority scheme that identifies a second priority for transmitting the plurality of overhead messages based on the plurality of message types if the rate of call originations exceeds a threshold. The wireless communication system then transmits the overhead messages using the second priority scheme if the rate of call originations exceeds the threshold.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2011Date of Patent: August 19, 2014Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.Inventor: Sachin R. Vargantwar