Abstract: This invention is a broadband matrix switch system and method of operation. The broadband matrix switch has N number of broadband inputs, each of the broadband inputs having one or more broadband signals. The matrix switch has M number of broadband outputs. There are N number of splitters. Each of the splitters has a splitter input connected to one of the broadband inputs. Each of the splitters has M number of splitter outputs that produce the splitter output signal. There are N times M number of node switches. Each node switch is uniquely connected to one of the splitter outputs. The node switches have a control input that allows the node switch to pass the respective splitter output signal upon receiving a close command at the control input and to terminate the respective splitter output signal with an input impedance upon receiving an open command at the control input. There are M number of combiners. Each combiner has a combiner output connected to one of the broadband outputs.

Abstract: The invention relates to the use of an antibody recognizing the Cdw52 antigen in the treatment of multiple sclerosis. Preferably, the antibody is the humanized antibody in the humanized antibody CAMPATH-1H.

Abstract: One or more novel switch controllers are used in a network of network devices to connect and disconnect to one another. The switch can be any general purpose computer that has one or more communication links that connect one or more outputs of the computer to one or more of the network devices. In the computer, the network is represented by a directed graph that has two or more nodes and one or more directional edges connecting one or more pairs of the nodes. Each node in the pair represents a device that is connected/disconnected (represented by the edge of the directed graph.) One or more commands are associated with each edge that is used to connect the network devices represented by the nodes that the edge connects.

Abstract: One or more servers and/or control functions that are connected to a network. One or more service providers provide information having content to the servers. The server/control function executes a process which parses the information content sent from the service provider onto two or more channels and then broadcasts those channels over the network to a plurality of client computers. The server process examines the information packets sent from the service provider to determine zero or more of the categories that describe a content of the information packet and labels the information packets with the channel identifier associated with the respective categories prior to sending the information packets over the network. The server can also run processes and broadcast commands to the clients that associate/disassociate channel identifiers with categories.

Abstract: A filter adaptor connects a computer to a network through a network connection. The network has a large plurality of broadcast type messages having a given protocol. Each of the broadcast messages has a destination field and a source field. The adaptor has a preference list of one or more fixed channels that the computer is capable of receiving. Each fixed channel has a channel identifier that is also listed in the preference list. Further, the filter adapter has a filtering process that monitors the source field and discards any message that does not have a source identifier in the source field that matches one of the channel identifiers on the preference list.

Abstract: The present invention is a switching system for a broadband network operating above five megahertz. The system connects to a first and second network through appropriate network connections. There are four components in the switching network. A first component with a first common connection, a first A branch, and a first B branch, the first common connection is connected to the first network terminal. A second component has a second common connector and a second A and B branch. The second common connector is connected to the second network terminal. The third component has a third A and B branch and one third common connector. The third A branch is connected to the first A branch. The third B branch is connected to the second B branch. The third common connector is connected to a first device terminal of a device. The fourth component has a fourth A and B branch and a fourth common connector. The fourth B branch is connected to the second B branch.

Abstract: The invention relates to recombinant cell lines, in particular mamalian cell lines, capable of expressing recombinant CDw52 antigen or an antigenic fragment thereof. The cell lines can be used for the production of recombinant CDw52 antigen and in assaying for anti-CDw52 antibody in a sample.

Abstract: A synthetic antigen having the amino acid sequence Gly-Gln-Asn-Asp-Thr-Ser-Gln-Thr-Ser-Ser-Pro-X wherein X is Ser, Ser-Ala, Ser-Ala-Ser, Ser-Ala-Ser-Ser, Ser-Ala-Ser-Ser-Asn, Ser-Ala-Ser-Ser-Asn-Ile, Ser-Ala-Ser-Ser-Asn-Ile-Ser, or an antigenic fragment thereof, a process of the production of the antigen and the use of the antigen in assaying for purifying or inducing CDw52 antibody.