Abstract: A subscriber card includes a controller for concentrating Internet frames so as not to occupy a telephone circuit for each call to an Internet service provider. The subscriber card is connected to a switching matrix that facilitates transmission of the concentrated Internet frames to a data transmission network. The subscriber card handles multiple subscriber inputs and statistically multiplexes data from the multiple subscriber inputs in order to increase throughput.

Abstract: The invention concerns a method for producing security marks on a support having a first face and a second face opposite said first face which consists in the following steps: high resolution printing with a varnish on the support first face; treating the support by electrolysis; washing and drying the support.

Abstract: The invention concerns a method for producing security marks on a support having a first face and a second face opposite said first face which consists in the following steps: high resolution printing with a varnish on the support first face; treating the support by electrolysis; washing and drying the support.

Abstract: In one embodiment of the invention, an ISDN subscriber card includes an HDLC controller (4) which is used to concentrate Internet frames so as not to occupy a telephone circuit for each call to an Internet service provider. Application to ISDN telephone exchanges.

Abstract: In one embodiment of the invention, an ISDN subscriber card includes an HDLC controller (4) which is used to concentrate Internet frames so as not to occupy a telephone circuit for each call to an Internet service provider. Application to ISDN telephone exchanges.

Abstract: A printing tool comprising a raster formed of a grid of intersecting raster lines which raster lines form raster points between them. The raster comprises at least one region in which each raster point is connected to at least one other raster point adjacent via an interruption in the raster line separating the raster points.

Abstract: The invention concerns a method for producing high resolution patterns on a support comprising the following steps: high resolution printing of a varnish on the support; treating the support by electrolysis; washing and drying the support.

Abstract: A subscriber card includes a controller for concentrating Internet frames so as not to occupy a telephone circuit for each call to an Internet service provider. The subscriber card is connected to a switching matrix that facilitates transmission of the concentrated Internet frames to a data transmission network. The subscriber card handles multiple subscriber inputs and statistically multiplexes data from the multiple subscriber inputs in order to increase throughput.

Abstract: The miniaturizable sensor comprises an insulating substrate (10) supporting first measurement electrode (24) and comprising a flexible measurement arm (18) of conductive or semiconductor material, one end of which is secured to the substrate (10) and the other end of which constitutes a second electrode facing the first electrode. The first end of the measurement arm is secured to the substrate via a beam (16) having a bending modulus at least ten times greater than that of the measurement arm (18) and substantially parallel to the measurement arm and via a foot (14) rigidly secured to the substrate (10) and situated between the two ends of the measurement arm, the connections of the beam (16) to the measurement arm (18) and to the foot (14) being of the fixed-end type.

Abstract: An oral vaccine formulation is provided for stimulation of an immune response in gut-associated lymphoid tissues. The formulation comprises an enzymatically degradable antigen in a hydrogel matrix. In ruminant species, the vaccine formulation, upon oral administration, is formed to pass through the rumen without substantial hydration and then into the post-ruminal portion of the digestive tract where the antigen is released for contact with the gut-associated lymphoid tissue.

Abstract: In a QPSK system using one cycle of a squared-off sinusoid per Baud period to represent the data dibits, the following are disclosed:(1) a direct detection circuit using samples taken only during the second and third quarters of the Baud period;(2) timing recovery by recognition of the opposite polarity of any QPSK signal compared to a half-Baud-delayed version of itself; and(3) an encoding scheme wherein only one of the two dibits is differentially encoded.

Abstract: Echoes occur in telephone systems whenever signals in one channel of a two way conversation spill over into the other channel. The present echo canceller is particulary intended for use with a hands free telephone where the spill over is in the form of an acoustic echo from the loud speaker (2) to the microphone (1). The signals are sampled at a rate 1/T and are made available as digital samples. A synthetic copy of the echo signal is generated by means of an adaptive digital non-recursive time domain transversal filter. Instead of tapping the filter at unit time intervals equal to the sampling period T in the conventional manner, the filter is tapped at unit intervals equal to twice the sampling interval. For a given amount of calculation in the filter, this has the effect of doubling the length of the filter's impulse response.

Abstract: A phase noise correction circuit for a synchronous data transmission system using symbols and including a decision circuit (33) at its receiving end for supplying an estimate of the transmitted symbols on the basis of the received symbols, wherein said correction circuit comprises a phase shifter circuit (36) located at the receiving end ahead of the decision circuit (33) and provided with a third-order phase-controlling feedback circuit (37) comprising:a phase shift angle generator (62) having an incrementation input and providing the phase shifter circuit (36) with the value of a phase shift angle updated at the rate at which the symbols are received,a phase error detector (60) providing the value of the phase error between the received and the estimated symbols appearing at the terminals of the decision symbols, likewise at the rate at which the symbols are received; anda filter (61) interposed between the output of the phase error detector (60) and the incrementation input of the phase shift angle generat

Abstract: An echo canceller for a full-duplex carrier modulation transmission system terminal. The echo canceller includes a digital time-domain complex transversal filter with controlled weighting coefficients and an offset equal to a submultiple l of a Baud period .DELTA. related to a rate at which a stream of complex symbols is received at the input of the filter. These complex symbols include complex symbols outputted by a coder of a transmitter of the terminal at the rate l/.DELTA. interleaved with l-1 null symbols. The transversal filter output is connected to a digital modulator operated at the transmitter carrier frequency with instantaneous values updated at intervals equal to the Baud period to generate a passband echo copy signal. The invention is of particular benefit in transmission systems in which the product of the transmission carrier frequency and the Baud period is an integral multiple of l/4, as digital implementation of the modulator is then extremely simple.

Abstract: Data in the form of multi-value symbols is transmitted at a symbol rate 1/.DELTA.T. At the receiver a decision circuit supplies estimates of the transmitted symbols on the basis of the received symbols. The present invention concerns compensating phase noise after equalization if any of the received symbols and before application of the received symbols to the decision circuit (38, 39). The received symbols are in complex form with in-phase and quadrature components y.sub.k ' and y.sub.k " respectively. Phase noise is compensated by complex multiplication in a multiplier (36) of the received symbols by a complex coefficient.The invention is particularly applicable to quadrature modulation systems, but if only one channel is transmitted the quadrature channel can be simulated using the Hilbert transform of the one channel.

Abstract: Data in the form of multi-value symbols is transmitted at a symbol rate 1/.DELTA.T. At the receiver a decision circuit supplies estimates of the transmitted symbols on the basis of the received symbols. The present invention concerns compensating phase noise after equalization, if any, of the received symbols and before application of the received symbols to the decision circuit (38, 39). The received symbols are in complex form with in-phase and quadrature components y.sub.k ' and y.sub.k " respectively. Phase noise is compensated by complex multiplication in a multiplier (36) of the received symbols by a complex coefficient m.sub.km.sub.k+1 =[m.sub.k -.lambda.(v.sub.k -a.sub.k)y.sub.k *]exp[-iF.sub.k (.epsilon..sub.j)]where:.lambda. is a real coefficient;y.sub.k * is the complex conjugate of the symbol received at instant k.DELTA.T+t.sub.o (where t.sub.o is the instant taken as the origin of time measurements);v.sub.k is the symbol applied to the decision circuit at said instant;a.sub.

Abstract: A system for transmitting data between distant locations comprises a modem at each location and a communication channel, typically a telephone line, whose transfer function has a principal component whose variation is slow and a second component whose variation is faster, but whose action is lesser. A correction device is located in the modem at the output of the channel and comprises an equalization filter constructed to compensate for the principal component and a digital adaptive network having a few coefficients and a low time constant, compatible with the frequency of the second component. The coefficients of the digital network may be adapted independently of those of the equalization filter.