Patents by Inventor E. Strauss

E. Strauss has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 7511535
    Abstract: A power management circuit is provided for controlling power dissipation in at least one combinational logic circuit. The power management circuit includes a detector operative to receive at least a first input signal to the combinational logic circuit and to detect a transition of the first input signal between a first logic state and a second logic state. The detector generates a control signal indicative of whether or not a transition of the first input signal has occurred.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2009
    Assignee: Agere Systems Inc.
    Inventors: Kanad Chakraborty, Steven E. Strauss, Bingxiong Xu
  • Publication number: 20090010251
    Abstract: A method using a combination analog/DSL modem for deploying DSL services is disclosed. A combination analog/DSL modem is utilized at the subscriber premises. A telephone line is tested using the analog portion of the modem. In combination with information provided by the subscriber and records, suitability of the service line for DSL services may be accurately determined. DSL service is then ordered by the subscriber. Preferably, DSL services are deployed on top of the existing analog voice service line allowing service turn-on within a short period of time. The subscriber can have the ability to access a network using the DSL portion of the combination modem. If during modem testing, it is determined that the telephone line would not support DSL service, the subscriber would be informed that DSL service is currently not available for them. However, the subscriber could continue to use the analog portion of the combination modem.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2008
    Publication date: January 8, 2009
    Applicant: AGERE SYSTEMS INC.
    Inventors: William R. Bullman, Anthony J. Grewe, Steven E. Strauss
  • Patent number: 7421273
    Abstract: A method and system for servicing data traffic in wireless local area networks (such as IEEE 802.11 networks) in multiple queues having different levels of priority. These queues include at least a low priority queue for ‘best effort’ traffic, a medium priority queue for streaming data such as video pictures, and a high priority queue for voice traffic, and are serviced in order of decreasing priority. To prevent the ‘best effort’ traffic in the low priority queue from being ‘starved’, a bit is set to indicate when such a condition is likely to occur, and the low priority queue is served first when that bit has been set. Alternatively, low and medium priority traffic is handled on a weighted round-robin basis, and high priority traffic is given strict priority over both. Transmit and receive queues are handled on a rotating priority basis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2008
    Assignee: Agere Systems Inc.
    Inventors: Wilhelmus Diepstraten, Jayant Somani, Steven E. Strauss
  • Publication number: 20080204124
    Abstract: A power management circuit is provided for controlling power dissipation in at least one combinational logic circuit. The power management circuit includes a detector operative to receive at least a first input signal to the combinational logic circuit and to detect a transition of the first input signal between a first logic state and a second logic state. The detector generates a control signal indicative of whether or not a transition of the first input signal has occurred.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2007
    Publication date: August 28, 2008
    Inventors: Kanad Chakraborty, Steven E. Strauss, Bingxiong Xu
  • Publication number: 20080109860
    Abstract: Method and system of video on demand (VOD) dating. The method and system permitting a user to select video personals for on demand view. The video personal include recordings of individual interviews or other activities which may be used to introduce the individual to the user and/or to otherwise facilitate dating.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2005
    Publication date: May 8, 2008
    Applicant: COMCAST CABLE HOLDINGS, LLC
    Inventors: Rebecca Lee Glashow, Page Hamilton Thompson, Matthew E. Strauss
  • Publication number: 20080077818
    Abstract: Various systems and methods for power management are disclosed herein. For example, a synchronous semiconductor circuit is disclosed that includes two or more clock sources and a power management controller. The power management controller is operable to apply power to one of the clock sources and to select another of the clock sources for synchronization of the circuit. Then, upon stabilization of the first clock source, it is selected by the power management controller to synchronize the circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2006
    Publication date: March 27, 2008
    Inventors: Richard Rauschmayer, Steven E. Strauss, Tatsuya Sakai
  • Patent number: 7158592
    Abstract: The invention is a method and apparatus for ensuring synchronization for digital communication between a transmitting and a receiving device, particularly when the clock and/or frame synchronization is sourced from a different location than the transmit data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2007
    Assignee: Agere Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: James W. Hofmann, Donald Raymond Laturell, Vladimir Sindalovsky, Steven E. Strauss, Eric Wilcox
  • Patent number: 7154996
    Abstract: A method of dynamic spectral bandwidth allocation in home phone-line networking (HPN). An HPN terminal is configured to sense transmission activity in a frequency sub-band corresponding to a broad-band high-speed service, such as ADSL. If no activity is detected, the HPN terminal uses the sub-band for communication with other HPN terminals. As a result, major impediments to HPN networking, such as crosstalk from neighboring home networks and signal attenuation due to the unpredictable topology of the in-home wiring, are minimized or possibly mitigated. In addition, the capacity accessible to HPN terminals may be increased. Consequently, the robustness of HPN networking is improved and higher data throughput rates may be supported.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2006
    Assignee: Agere Systems Inc.
    Inventor: Steven E. Strauss
  • Patent number: 7081727
    Abstract: In a portable electronic device having a data-storage drive that employs a rotatable data-storage carrier, as the data-storage carrier undergoes spin-up and spin-down cycles when the data-storage drive is being accessed, the electronic device recaptures at least a portion of the kinetic energy of the rotating data-storage carrier during the spin-downs to generate electrical currents and use them to either charge the battery or reduce the battery drain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2006
    Assignee: Agere Systems Inc.
    Inventors: William R. Bullman, Steven E. Strauss
  • Patent number: 7039690
    Abstract: A system and method for accessing registers of a PHY device in a network including an extended protocol software layer between the protocol and application layers, on the one hand, and the MAC driver, on the other hand. The extended protocol layer generates the PHY device register read and write commands and embeds them within standardized Ethernet data packets. The extended PHY device is adapted to distinguish these register read and write command packets from normal data packets and intercept and parse them to retrieve the commands. Likewise, the extended PHY device embeds the read and write acknowledgments in standardized Ethernet data packets that the extended protocol layer, in turn, can distinguish from normal Ethernet data packets and intercept and parse them to retrieve the acknowledgments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2006
    Assignee: Lucent Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: William R. Bullman, Ryan S. Holmqvist, Steven E. Strauss
  • Patent number: 6981164
    Abstract: A data-based software type link integrity module is implemented separately in hardware (e.g., using physical gates, using a microcontroller, etc.) and separated from core CPU functionality in a network device, such that the link integrity module may remain powered in a cold power mode (e.g., when core functionality is powered down). The separately powered data-based link integrity module is powered by an auxiliary backup power source. Thus, when in a power down mode (e.g., when in an ACPI defined D3 type cold state) a minimal power source may be used to power the separate link integrity module separate from the power source to the core network device functionality. The separately powered data-based link integrity module may be redundant to a software driver type data-based link integrity module implemented in core memory and enabled or disabled as desired.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2005
    Assignee: Agere Systems Inc.
    Inventors: William R. Bullman, Matthew Henry, Ryan S. Holmqvist, Steven E. Strauss
  • Patent number: 6928057
    Abstract: A translation system and related method for use with a communications device having a physical layer system and a data link layer system with a media access control layer subsystem and coupleable to a communications network. In one embodiment, the translation system includes a generator that constructs a piggyback packet containing characteristics associated with the physical layer system. The translation system also includes a correlator, coupled to the generator, that receives the piggyback packet and extracts information about the physical layer system. The generator and correlator transmit and receive the piggyback packet without substantially modifying the media access control layer subsystem.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2005
    Assignee: Agere Systems Inc.
    Inventors: William R. Bullman, Matthew R. Henry, Ryan S. Holmqvist, Steven E. Strauss
  • Publication number: 20050096684
    Abstract: A surgical tool system comprises a first hand instrument including a first signature discrete circuit element and a control console connected to the first hand instrument. The control console includes a memory device and instructions for identifying and controlling a plurality of hand instruments, including the first hand instrument. The first signature discrete circuit element is detected by the control console for identifying the first hand instrument.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2003
    Publication date: May 5, 2005
    Applicant: Medtronic, Inc.
    Inventors: Wade Farrow, E. Strauss, Robert Ellins, John Murphy, Samuel Owusu-Akyaw
  • Patent number: 6848059
    Abstract: A system and method for processing wake-up signals during a sleep mode of a computer in a communications network to wake up sleeping components of the computer. The system includes an extended PHY (physical layer) device for receiving wake-up signals from a network medium, converting the wake-up signals into an additionally-encoded data packet, and generating a standardized wake-up packet based on the additionally-encoded data packet. The system also includes a MAC (media access controller) device, coupled to the extended PHY device, for receiving the standardized wake-up packet and generating a wake-up notification signal in response to the standardized wake-up packet to wake up the sleeping to components of the computer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2005
    Assignee: Agere Systems Inc.
    Inventors: William R. Bullman, Ryan S. Holmqvist, Steven E. Strauss
  • Publication number: 20040242159
    Abstract: Combined IEEE 802.11 (WiFi) and Bluetooth transceiver and method of operation employing busy signals to monitor when transmissions of each type are being transmitted or received, and employing a synchronizing signal to synchronize the use of time slots. In one embodiment, a simple two-wire interface is exposed linking Bluetooth and IEEE 802.11 radio systems. In another embodiment, the Bluetooth and IEEE 802.11 services can exchange information including scheduling, mode of operation, channel usage and device state via a shared resource such as a memory, referred to as a ‘mailbox’.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2003
    Publication date: December 2, 2004
    Inventors: Roberto Calderon, Wilhelmus Diepstraten, John N. MacDonald, Ying Shen, Steven E. Strauss
  • Publication number: 20040092278
    Abstract: A method and system for servicing data traffic in wireless local area networks (such as IEEE 802.11 networks) in multiple queues having different levels of priority. These queues include at least a low priority queue for ‘best effort’ traffic, a medium priority queue for streaming data such as video pictures, and a high priority queue for voice traffic, and are serviced in order of decreasing priority. To prevent the ‘best effort’ traffic in the low priority queue from being ‘starved’, a bit is set to indicate when such a condition is likely to occur, and the low priority queue is served first when that bit has been set. Alternatively, low and medium priority traffic is handled on a weighted round-robin basis, and high priority traffic is given strict priority over both. Transmit and receive queues are handled on a rotating priority basis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2003
    Publication date: May 13, 2004
    Inventors: Wilhelmus Diepstraten, Jayant Somani, Steven E. Strauss
  • Publication number: 20040081298
    Abstract: A method of dynamic spectral bandwidth allocation in home phone-line networking (HPN). An HPN terminal is configured to sense transmission activity in a frequency sub-band corresponding to a broad-band high-speed service, such as ADSL. If no activity is detected, the HPN terminal uses the sub-band for communication with other HPN terminals. As a result, major impediments to HPN networking, such as crosstalk from neighboring home networks and signal attenuation due to the unpredictable topology of the in-home wiring, are minimized or possibly mitigated. In addition, the capacity accessible to HPN terminals may be increased. Consequently, the robustness of HPN networking is improved and higher data throughput rates may be supported.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2002
    Publication date: April 29, 2004
    Inventor: Steven E. Strauss
  • Publication number: 20040080244
    Abstract: An expandable cabinet allows for the storing and positioning of electrical component boxes of different lengths. One or more expansion brackets are capable of being secured by one or more brace guides at fixed positions relative to a rear corner post or posts and the back portion of the cabinet fame. An expanded space is formed between a back door and back portion of the cabinet frame when the expansion brackets are extended in a rearward direction from the rear corner post or posts, enabling the expansion cabinet to accommodate electrical component boxes that are too large to fit within the cabinet frame. One or more box mounts are also installed within the cabinet at or near the rear corner posts and near the expanded space. Each box mount engages and positions a component box with respect to the back portion of the cabinet frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2002
    Publication date: April 29, 2004
    Inventors: Robert J. Lowther, Arthur J. Whelan, William S. Santucci, Albert E. Strauss
  • Patent number: 6574237
    Abstract: A networking device includes a legacy preamble injector that inserts a legacy preamble based on an indication that a legacy device is coupled to a common network. The legacy preamble injector inserts the legacy preamble if a legacy device is a target device for communication from a network appliance. Alternately, a device may be adapted to output a payload portion at a native rate, for example, if a legacy device is not a target. A Home Phone Line Network Alliance (HomePNA) system includes a telephone line network and a plurality of devices couple to the telephone line network. The plurality of devices may include at least one V2.x device and at least one V1.x device. The at least one V2.x device is adapted to recognize a presence on the telephone line network of at least one V1.x device, and to modify a transmission frame format based on this recognition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2003
    Assignee: Agere Systems Inc.
    Inventors: William R. Bullman, Steven E. Strauss
  • Patent number: 6535580
    Abstract: Signature apparatus and techniques that make home networking devices, e.g., in-Home Phoneline Network (herein referred to as “HPN”) devices, isolation filters, network interface devices, etc., detectable by commercially available metallic loop termination (MLT) test equipment. The invention also provides a method of testing a telephone line for the existence of a signature circuit identifying a home network. The home network signature circuit includes a series combination of a voltage breakdown device (e.g., Zener diodes) and an impedance (e.g., 200K ohm resistor). In operation, the home network signature circuit shunts the tested subscriber line loop with a voltage-dependent impedance in the presence of an appropriate test voltage exceeding 80 volts. Different high voltage thresholds of the voltage breakdown portion and/or different resistance values of the shunt impedance can be implemented in the home network signature device to produce uniquely detectable signatures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2003
    Assignee: Agere Systems Inc.
    Inventors: Steven E. Strauss, John T. Holloway, Jason Alexander Trachewsky, Lixi Wu