Abstract: In one embodiment, a network node of a secondary network receives a message from a multi-homed network. The message includes a block of network addresses allocated to the multi-homed network. It is determined that a primary network has advertised an aggregated route including the multi-homed network's allocated block of network addresses. Advertisements of the multi-homed network's allocated block of network addresses are suppressed, after a determination that the primary network has advertised an aggregated route including the multi-homed network's allocated block of network addresses. It may be later be determined that the multi-homed network has lost network connectivity via the primary network. Advertisements of the multi-homed network's allocated block of network addresses are unsuppressed, after a determination that the multi-homed network has lost network connectivity via the primary network.

Abstract: A technique for implementing route aggregation in a computer network containing a multi-homed customer site connected to primary and second networks, which in turn are both connected to a common “backbone” network. According to the technique, the primary network allocates a block of network addresses for the customer site, and the customer site notifies the secondary network of its allocated addresses. The secondary network first determines whether the primary network has already advertised an aggregated route which incorporates the customer site's route. If so, the secondary network “suppresses” (i.e., does not advertise) the customer site's route. The secondary network only “unsuppresses” the customer site's route if it detects that the primary network has lost connectivity to the customer site and/or the backbone network.

Abstract: Systems and methods for obtaining corrected time information in a GPS enabled device connected to a mobile handset via a short-range wireless network, such as a Bluetooth Piconet. The mobile handset includes a GPS time and a network clock synchronized with a network clock in a short-range wireless network interface in the GPS enabled device. The GPS enabled device may send requests for time information to the mobile handset. The mobile handset receives the request and latches the network clock time and the GPS time. The captured network clock time and GPS times are sent to the GPS enabled device in response to the request. The GPS enable device substracts the captured network clock time from its own network clock time and adds the difference to the captured GPS time to obtain a corrected GPS time.

Abstract: A system for hiding transit-only interfaces in a network. When a routing system is advertising a transit-only interface, the advertisement is marked to indicate the address is a transit-only interface. A routing system receives the advertisement and detects the identifier of the transit-only interface and does not store the address in the Router Information Base of the routing system.

Abstract: An image processor system for a charge coupled device (CCD) or CMOS imaging system includes a correlated double sample and variable gain (CDSVGA) circuit for receiving data from a CCD system and an automatic gain control (AGC) circuit which first controls gain by adjusting said CCD system and then for yet a higher gain level makes gain adjustments in said CDSVGA circuit AND a digital gain circuit to produce a combined target gain level. A processing system for an imager device includes a camera system for producing an imager signal, a correlated double sample (CDS) circuit for receiving data from an imager, a variable gain amplifier (VGA), an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) coupled to said CDS circuit, a digital gain circuit (DGC) coupled to said ADC, and an automatic gain control (AGC) circuit coupled to said DGC for controlling the CDS circuit and the DGC.

Abstract: An airfoil having a root, a tip, and an outer surface for pressuring air flowable thereover. The outer surface includes one or more slots elongate in a direction selected to preclude or reduce circulation within the slots, and the one or more slots are configured to bleed a boundary layer from the outer surface to the tip utilizing one or more passageways within the airfoil.

Abstract: An image processor system for a charge coupled device (CCD) or CMOS imaging system includes a correlated double sample and variable gain (CDSVGA) circuit for receiving data from a CCD system and an automatic gain control (AGC) circuit which first controls gain by adjusting said CCD system and then for yet a higher gain level makes gain adjustments in said CDSVGA circuit AND a digital gain circuit to produce a combined target gain level. A processing system for an imager device includes a camera system for producing an imager signal, a correlated double sample (CDS) circuit for receiving data from an imager, a variable gain amplifier (VGA), an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) coupled to said CDS circuit, a digital gain circuit (DGC) coupled to said ADC, and an automatic gain control (AGC) circuit coupled to said DGC for controlling the CDS circuit and the DGC.