Abstract: A wireless, integrated, mountable, portable, battery-operated, non-contact eddy current sensor that provides similar accuracy to 1970's laboratory scale equipment (e.g., a Hewlett-Packard GP4194A Impedance Analyzer) at a fraction of the size and cost.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for de-prioritizing mobile-to-mobile calls in favor of mobile-to-landline calls in a communication system. De-prioritizing mobile-to-mobile calls, which are less sensitive to infrastructure delays due to to their bypass of encoding and decoding steps, allows more delay sensitive mobile-to-landline calls requiring extra processing time due to encoding and decoding to be transmitted over a communication system first. A control processor creates a modified FIFO queue to effect a queuing scheme to de-prioritize mobile-to-mobile calls. Application of the de-prioritizing scheme in a packet based network affords an increase in the quality of mobile-landline calls while not adversely affecting quality of service for mobile-to-mobile calls.

Abstract: To address the need for an apparatus and method for transcoding among multiple wireless protocols, the present invention provides a framework for more generalized transcoding. A voice processing resource (e.g., 105) of a transcoder (101) receives the dynamic transcoding attributes (e.g., 201–207) for a frame and then transcodes that frame according to the requirements of the transcoding attributes. These dynamic attributes may contain information such as the wireless protocol involved, the frame type, the source type, the sequence number, the delivery timing requirements, and the delivery mode of subsequent frames.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for de-prioritizing mobile-to-mobile calls in favor of mobile-to-landline calls in a communication system. De-prioritizing mobile-to-mobile calls, which are less sensitive to infrastructure delays due to to their bypass of encoding and decoding steps, allows more delay sensitive mobile-to-landline calls requiring extra processing time due to encoding and decoding to be transmitted over a communication system first. A control processor creates a modified FIFO queue to effect a queuing scheme to de-prioritize mobile-to-mobile calls. Application of the de-prioritizing scheme in a packet based network affords an increase in the quality of mobile-landline calls while not adversely affecting quality of service for mobile-to-mobile calls.

Abstract: To address the need for an apparatus and method for transcoding among multiple wireless protocols, the present invention provides a framework for more generalized transcoding. A voice processing resource (e.g., 105) of a transcoder (101) receives the dynamic transcoding attributes (e.g., 201-207) for a frame and then transcodes that frame according to the requirements of the transcoding attributes. These dynamic attributes may contain information such as the wireless protocol involved, the frame type, the source type, the sequence number, the delivery timing requirements, and the delivery mode of subsequent frames.

Abstract: Memory (120) in a device (100) that includes a power source (105) is erased when an alarm triggering event is detected. An alarm signal is provided that is used to determine whether the memory (120) has been erased since a transition from normal to low power mode. It is only when the memory (120) has not been erased since such a transition, that the memory (120) is erased, thereby providing an energy efficient erasure process.