Patents Issued in February 6, 2003
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Publication number: 20030026378Abstract: An integrated head assembly (100) is disclosed for a nuclear reactor. The preferred integrated head assembly includes a lift assembly (150) that supports the reactor vessel closure head (90) and integrated head assembly for removal, a separate support structure (202) supported by a ring beam (151) that sits atop the reactor vessel closure head, a shroud assembly (200), a seismic support system (300), a baffle assembly (500), a missile shield (400), and a CRDM cooling system. The CRDM cooling system draws cooling air into the baffle assembly, downwardly past the CRDMs (96), outwardly to upright air ducts (600), upwardly to an upper plenum (680), and out of the assembly through the air fans (190).Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2002Publication date: February 6, 2003Applicant: Advent Engineering Services, Inc.Inventors: Ravi Baliga, Key Y. Choi
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Publication number: 20030026379Abstract: In the joint construction of cobalt-based alloy, a cobalt-based alloy layer 1, in which granular or massive eutectic carbide 2 disperses, is joined to a metal of a base metal 37 via an insert metal layer 36. For the joint construction of cobalt-based alloy, liquid phase diffusion bonding is performed at a temperature of 1100° C. for a retention time of 1 hour with an insert metal with a thickness of about 40 &mgr;m being interposed between the base metal, which is S45C carbon steel, and a cobalt-based alloy material which has granular or massive eutectic carbide with a grain size not larger than 30 &mgr;m in a matrix of cast structure and contains 1.03 wt % C, 29.73 wt % Cr, 3.86 wt % W, 2.59 wt % Ni, 2.67 wt % Fe, 0.59 wt % Si, and 0.07 wt % Mo, the balance substantially being Co. The cobalt-based alloy layer 1 after bonding contains granular or massive eutectic carbide.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2002Publication date: February 6, 2003Inventors: Yoshihisa Kiyotoki, Mitsuo Chigasaki, Shizuo Matsushita, Jiro Kuniya, Takahiko Kato, Yoshiteru Chiba
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Publication number: 20030026380Abstract: A MOX nuclear fuel assembly employable either for a thermal neutron reactor employing UO2 as the nuclear fuel and light water as the moderator/coolant or for a thermal neutron reactor employing the MOX fuels as the nuclear fuel and light water as the moderator/coolant is provided with only one kind of MOX nuclear fuel rods each of which has relatively large magnitude of the enrichment grade of the fissionable Pu-s or Pu239 and Pu241, the quantity of the MOX nuclear fuel rods being relatively small.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2002Publication date: February 6, 2003Applicant: TOKYO ELECTRIC POWER CO.Inventors: Takafumi Anegawa, Shin Takizawa, Shinya Mizokami
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Publication number: 20030026381Abstract: A fuel inlet mechanism to introduce a coolant into a fuel assembly configured to be charged in a light water nuclear reactor, includes, a filter catching a foreign substance included in the coolant on an upstream side of the fuel assembly, the filter having a plurality of through holes to pass the coolant, and the through holes having an inlet portion, an outlet portion and at least one bent portion to a degree by which the outlet portion cannot be seen through from the inlet portion by a straight line.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 15, 2002Publication date: February 6, 2003Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Masaru Ukai, Kosaku Tsumita, Ryoma Kato, Kenjiro Fukamichi, Yuji Yamada, Makoto Sato, Tadaaki Shimazu, Tomoharu Tanabe, Hirotoshi Matsumura, Keiji Matsunaga, Ken Okuda
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Publication number: 20030026382Abstract: There is disclosed a radiation image taking apparatus including a radiation detecting unit which includes a plurality of photo-electric conversion elements and converts radiation into an electrical signal, a plate-like support member which supports the radiation detecting unit, an analog circuit unit having at least one of functions of controlling the radiation detecting unit, receiving an analog signal from the radiation detecting unit, processing the analog signal, and converting the analog signal into a digital signal, a digital circuit unit having at least one of functions of controlling at least one of other units and communicating with a unit outside the apparatus, and a power circuit unit for supplying power to at least one of other units, wherein the analog circuit unit, the digital circuit unit, and the power circuit unit are formed on separate circuit boards, respectively, and the analog circuit unit and the digital circuit unit are arranged in the opposite side of the radiation detecting unit in reType: ApplicationFiled: August 5, 2002Publication date: February 6, 2003Inventor: Shinichi Takeda
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Publication number: 20030026383Abstract: In an apparatus and a method for the analysis of atomic or molecular elements contained in a sample by wavelength dispersive X-ray spectrometry, wherein primary x ray or electron radiation is directed onto the sample whereby fluorescence radiation is emitted from the sample, the fluorescence radiation is directed onto a mirror or focussing device consisting of a multi-layer structure including pairs of layers of which one layer of a pair consists of lanthanum and the other consists of carbon and the fluorescence radiation is reflected from the mirror or focussing device onto an analysis detector for the analysis of the atomic or molecular elements contained in the sample.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 17, 2002Publication date: February 6, 2003Inventors: Carsten Michaelsen, Rudiger Bormann, Jorg Wiesmann
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Publication number: 20030026384Abstract: A dynamic IMRT scheme. A RAD ON/RAD OFF cycle is an IMRT segment. Every set of opposing leaves in the collimator produces an IMRT profile or track. According to such an embodiment, at least one of the opposing leaves moves toward the other to produce the given track. When a track is complete, the opposing leaves remain together until the end of the segment. The dose rate remains constant during the segment.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2001Publication date: February 6, 2003Applicant: Siemens Medical Systems, Inc.Inventor: Francisco M. Hernandez-Guerra
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Publication number: 20030026385Abstract: Process for use of an osteodensitometry system using dual-energy cone beam X-rays.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 24, 2002Publication date: February 6, 2003Inventors: Jean-Marc Dinten, Christine Robert-Coutant
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Publication number: 20030026386Abstract: Grids and collimators, for use with electromagnetic energy emitting devices, include at least a metal layer that is formed, for example, by electroplating/electroforming or casting. The metal layer includes top and bottom surfaces, and a plurality of solid integrated walls. Each of the solid integrated walls extends from the top to bottom surface and has a plurality of side surfaces. The side surfaces of the solid integrated walls are arranged to define a plurality of openings extending entirely through the layer. At least some of the walls also can include projections extending into the respective openings formed by the walls.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2002Publication date: February 6, 2003Inventors: Cha-Mei Tang, Olga V. Makarova
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Publication number: 20030026387Abstract: The invention relates to a method for performing X-ray imaging in intraoral application. The method comprises irradiation of an object with a substantially low amount of X-radiation, and a substantially low amount of X-radiation passed through the object is received. The method comprises compiling a sample of image data from the received, substantially low amount of X-radiation.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 1, 2002Publication date: February 6, 2003Inventors: Jari Makila, Reeta Ikola, Kirsi Nykanen, Tero Isoaho, Tapio Kotka, Vesa Varjonen
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Publication number: 20030026388Abstract: A data processing apparatus comprising a display device for displaying the data; the first recording device for recording the large volume bit map data; the second recording device recording an index data formed as a two-dimensional image obtained by rendering the large volume bit map data; the first data processing device for reading the large volume bit map data from the first recording device and applying the image processing to the large volume bit map data; the second data processing device for reading the large volume bit map data from the first recording device, forming the two-dimensional image data by rendering the large volume bit map data and transferring the image data to the display device; the third data processing device for transmitting the index data to the display device; and the input device for sending the instructions to the first, second and third data processing devices.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2002Publication date: February 6, 2003Inventors: Shouhei Numata, Tarou Takagi
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Publication number: 20030026389Abstract: A data processing apparatus comprising a display device for displaying the data; the first recording device for recording the large volume bit map data; the second recording device recording an index data formed as a two-dimensional image obtained by rendering the large volume bit map data; the first data processing device for reading the large volume bit map data from the first recording device and applying the image processing to the large volume bit map data; the second data processing device for reading the large volume bit map data from the first recording device, forming the two-dimensional image data by rendering the large volume bit map data and transferring the image data to the display device; the third data processing device for transmitting the index data to the display device; and the input device for sending the instructions to the first, second and third data processing devices.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 15, 2002Publication date: February 6, 2003Inventors: Shouhei Numata, Tarou Takagi
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Publication number: 20030026390Abstract: A correction method is used for reducing artifacts caused by structures of high x-ray absorption in computer tomography images. By such a method, it is possible for interfering objects to be found both automatically and interactively in a computer tomography image. Relatively large interfering objects are preferably split up into a plurality of smaller interfering objects. The computer tomography image for each pixel of a selected image region is filtered as a function of its position relative to the interfering object.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 24, 2002Publication date: February 6, 2003Inventor: Andreas Lutz
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Publication number: 20030026391Abstract: Single ended line probing techniques for determining if a telephone line qualifies for digital subscriber line service are disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 9, 2001Publication date: February 6, 2003Inventors: Jalil Kamali, Babak H. Khalaj
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Publication number: 20030026392Abstract: Current voice message systems typically operate by recording a message that people leave for a user. However, these current systems do not process the message in a manner where significant information, such as phone numbers, meeting times, and locations, is identified, extracted, and output. The present invention solves the current system's limitations and extracts pertinent data from a voice message. In addition, the present invention is versatile because it is applicable to a recorded or live voice message, and any type of phone can actuate the extraction mechanism. The invention builds on voice recognition technology by identifying data, for instance, common phrases and strings of numbers from a voice message. Next, the invention provides an interface for actuating extraction technology. In one embodiment, the extraction technology removes information based on user commands according to a series of keystrokes. In another embodiment, the invention extracts information by a user's voice commands.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 6, 2001Publication date: February 6, 2003Inventors: Charles M. Brown, David W. Curbow
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Publication number: 20030026393Abstract: A system and method for interfacing unified message processing systems with legacy voice mail, e-mail and facsimile systems, located behind corporate firewalls. The system includes a unified message server a proxy interface and a message protocol convertor. The proxy interface is configured to access the legacy system in response to a request from a unified message server. Messages stored on the legacy system are converted by a protocol convertor to a predetermined format compatible with the unified message server. The converted messages are then transferred to a unified message server which is capable of providing messages from different messaging system, such as voice mail, e-mail and facsimile to users in a predetermined format. The invention permits enterprise wide communication systems to provide unified messaging without abandoning pre-existing legacy messaging system.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 3, 2002Publication date: February 6, 2003Inventors: Julia Skladman, Robert J. Thornberry, Bruce A. Chatterley, Alexander Siu-Kay Ng, Bruce L. Peterson
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Publication number: 20030026394Abstract: Data communication between a data sender and at least one data recipient is facilitated when the data recipient is associated with a telephone number that can not be used to access the user with a telephone call. An invention receives the telephone number associated with the data destination (data recipient) and receives an indication that data is to be communicated. The invention uses the telephone number to determine at least one characteristic of data destination/recipient. The invention also receives at least one characteristic of the data to be communicated that enable the data to be communicated to the data receiver/recipient.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2001Publication date: February 6, 2003Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Robert E. Chapman, Asser N. Tantawi, Edith H. Stern, Barry E. Willner
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Publication number: 20030026395Abstract: A system and method (10) that enables customers (15) to order products and services from business vendors (19) using customized selection codes (24A) that they enter into a telephone ordering system (17). The order (32) is then transmitted (33) to the business vendor (19). The vendor (19) receives the order (32) and processes the order.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2001Publication date: February 6, 2003Inventor: Shawn Snow
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Publication number: 20030026396Abstract: The invention concerns a method of executing transactions of electronic money amounts between subscriber terminals of a communication network, with the steps of setting up a communication connection between a paying subscriber terminal which participates in a transaction and a transaction server, setting up a communication connection between a receiving subscriber terminal which participates in a transaction and a transaction server, receiving data to determine the paying subscriber terminal, the receiving subscriber terminal and the money amount to be transferred in the transaction server, and debiting the stated money amount from a money memory of the paying subscriber terminal and crediting this money amount to a money memory of the receiving terminal, with the mediation of the transaction server, and a communication network, a transaction server, and program module for it.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2002Publication date: February 6, 2003Applicant: ALCATELInventors: Hartmut Weik, Wolfgang Lautenschlager
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Publication number: 20030026397Abstract: A commercial interaction system improves the convenience and efficiency of conducting a verbal interaction over a communications network (via telephone or Internet, with or without visual supplement). The interaction is conducted because one party (a “host”) is willing to provide and another party (a “guest) is interested in obtaining the value of the content communicated during the interaction. The present invention facilitates the scheduling, connecting, privacy management and convenient settlement of financial accounts necessary for the execution of said interaction.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 1, 2001Publication date: February 6, 2003Inventor: Dennis McCroskey
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Publication number: 20030026398Abstract: A teleconferencing system with capability to store incoming multiple medium messages for later retrieval and playback is disclosed. The system includes a communications multiplexer which, in normal mode, receives the incoming message and routes the message to various output functions, including video, audio, and computer display. In store mode, the communications multiplexer receives the incoming message and communicates it to disk storage, for example by way of direct memory access. During playback, the communications multiplexer receives data from the disk storage, and controls its communication to the various output functions, in the same manner as during receipt of a normal incoming message during an interactive teleconference. As a result, multiple medium messages may be stored for later retrieval, with the playback appearing in the same manner as a conventional teleconference message.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2002Publication date: February 6, 2003Applicant: Forgent Networks, Inc.Inventors: Joe W. Duran, Michael Vayden Jenkins, William Todd Clayton
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Publication number: 20030026399Abstract: The present invention relates to a system and method for selecting one of plurality of PRBS generators for use with a modem. The modem includes a measuring device adapted to measure an operating environment of the modem; and a storage device adapted to store a list of PRBS generator definitions. The modem selects one of a plurality of PRBS generators based on the measurement of the operating environment.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 6, 2001Publication date: February 6, 2003Inventor: Arthur J. Carlson
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Publication number: 20030026400Abstract: A fax routing system and method using a standard fax machine and personal computer. The telephone number is decoded from the telephone number dialing which is generated by the fax machine. This number is looked up in a table. If a corresponding Internet-address is found, the fax is downloaded from the fax machine, converted into a computer file, and sent to the recipient via his Internet address. If a corresponding Internet address is not found, the decoded number is dialed on a telephone line and, thereafter, the telephone line is connected to the fax machine for normal fax delivery.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 29, 2002Publication date: February 6, 2003Inventors: Joseph Elias Bashoura, Charles J. Coudsi, Peter Victor Derycz, Fady Joseph Garabet
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Publication number: 20030026401Abstract: Embodiments provide a method, article of manufacture, and apparatus for customizing a telephone calling card operation. In one embodiment, the calling card may be customized to redial a last number by entering a pre-defined shortcut sequence. In another embodiment, a search tool is used to search for a particular number using one or more pre-stored address books.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 1, 2001Publication date: February 6, 2003Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Cary Lee Bates, John Matthew Santosuosso
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Publication number: 20030026402Abstract: A communication such as a telephone call is received, bearing identification information such as caller ID. The received audio signals if any, is encoded and stored. The identification information is used to look up additional information about the sender of the communication, such as by using the caller ID information to search the internet, for example by doing a reverse telephone number lookup. The user is presented with a graphical representation of this, and prior, communications, such as via an html page, and can select individual communications for playback, deletion, and the like. If the user is at a remote location, the encoded communications may be forwarded to that location, such as in the form of email attachments.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 2, 2001Publication date: February 6, 2003Inventor: Edward O. Clapper
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Publication number: 20030026403Abstract: A communication such as a telephone call is received, bearing identification information such as caller ID. The received audio signal, if any, is encoded and stored. The identification information is used to look up additional information about the sender of the communication, such as by using the caller ID information to search the internet, for example by doing a reverse telephone number lookup. The user is presented with a graphical representation of this, and prior, communications, such as via an html page, and can select individual communications for playback, deletion, and the like. If the user is at a remote location, the encoded communications may be forwarded to that location, such as in the form of email attachments.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 2, 2001Publication date: February 6, 2003Inventor: Edward O. Clapper
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Publication number: 20030026404Abstract: A convergent communications system and method employing a rule set, having several functions, including determining, for an authorized user, at least one rule applicable at that time for authorizing a transaction and debiting an account of the authorized user, applying the at least one rule for authorizing the transaction, debiting the account, according to the at least one rule for debiting an account, in real time if the transaction is authorized and settling the real time debit to a plurality of transaction providers in accordance with at least one settlement rule.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2002Publication date: February 6, 2003Inventors: Simon James Joyce, Murali Goparaju, Sundaram Mohan Kumar, Radhakrishnan Subhashree, Michel Heitstuman
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Publication number: 20030026405Abstract: Individuals and groups of individuals, such as corporations, are provided access to one or more private directories. The private directories can be edited by an administrator. Access to the private directories may be limited by administrators of the private directories. Access to private directories is provided via a connection to directory assistance providers. Directory service providers are capable of facilitating the administration of the private directories as well as connecting users of private directories to contacts in the private directories. Access to the private directory may be obtained via an internet connection.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 2, 2002Publication date: February 6, 2003Applicant: Metro One Telecommunications, Inc.Inventors: Nicholas J. Elsey, Michael A. Kepler, Michael Essex, John S. Stafford
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Publication number: 20030026406Abstract: A local conferencing exchange subscriber line conferencing system and method using a series of input signals from the phone of a subscriber, such as a dual-tone multifrequency (DTMF) sequence of key inputs starting with a star key input, to initiate the conference. The conference is set up in a bridge and the phone of the subscriber is connected to the bridge. All subsequent callers to the subscriber's phone number at the local exchange carrier are routed and connected to the conference at the bridge. When the conference call ends, the subscriber's phone is returned to normal service.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2002Publication date: February 6, 2003Inventors: William Paul Ernstrom, Thomas Edward Yackey, Warren Edward Baxley
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Publication number: 20030026407Abstract: A local conferencing exchange subscriber line conferencing method using a series of input signals from the phone of a subscriber, such as a dual-tone multifrequency (DTMF) sequence of key inputs starting with a star key input, to initiate the conference by enabling a termination attempt trigger. The conference is set up in a bridge and the phone of the subscriber is connected to the bridge. All subsequent callers to the subscriber's phone number at the local exchange carrier are routed and connected to the conference at the bridge. When the conference call ends, the subscriber's phone is returned to normal service.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2002Publication date: February 6, 2003Inventors: William Paul Ernstrom, Thomas Edward Yackey, Warren Edward Baxley, Jeffrey C. Adams, Anna Lea Gellatly
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Publication number: 20030026408Abstract: A reservation system and method are provided that allow a user, who wants to receive a telephone inquiry or consultation service but cannot get through because an operator's line is busy, to reliably receive the service by making a callback reservation with a time or condition specified over the Internet without needing further telephone calls. The user enters customer information, such as a customer ID, name, and telephone number, and a reservation time or a reservation condition and makes a reservation. A reservation acceptance unit accepts the reservation from the user and notifies the user of reservation completion. When a user-specified time has come or a user-specified condition is satisfied, a reservation monitor unit notifies an operator of the reservation request to prompt the operator to call up the user. After the operator starts request processing, a reservation-request-processing update unit updates a processing status of the reservation request.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2002Publication date: February 6, 2003Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Takeshi Mashimo, Takatoshi Kaneko
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Publication number: 20030026409Abstract: The present invention relates to a customer call routing menu employing an interactive voice response system (IVR) to process a call in a customer service center. The menu messages are provided in terms of customer tasks to be performed, rather than in terms of corporate units. Further, the menu messages are arranged and played to the caller in the order of the most frequently requested tasks and include terminology commonly used by customers.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2001Publication date: February 6, 2003Applicant: SBC TECHNOLOGY RESOURCES, INC.Inventors: Robert R. Bushey, Yanira Marbella Bowen, Ruth Elaine Lawrence, John Mills Martin, Denise Quackenbush, Rachel Beth Simon
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Publication number: 20030026410Abstract: The present invention provides a system with a redirect functionality that removes the potential of a bottleneck inherent with a central redirect server. In a communications system according to the present invention, the central redirect server is eliminated in favor of a distributed redirect server. This distributed redirect server is distributed to, and hosted on, telephony access nodes (TANs) in the system. This configuration resolves both the problem of a potential bottleneck and provisioning of redundant redirect server capability.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2000Publication date: February 6, 2003Inventor: John E. Lumsden
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Publication number: 20030026411Abstract: A system and method for exchanging telecommunication service information between a telecommunication service provider and a telecommunication service customer include electronically receiving a request in a predefined format to establish an interactive session with a telecommunications customer, determining whether the telecommunications customer is authorized for electronically exchanging information and continuing only if the customer is authorized, parsing the request to identify information related to at least one telecommunications service offered by the telecommunications services provider, the telecommunications service having an associated identification code, determining whether the requested telecommunication service is available in a particular location, and automatically generating information associated with the requested telecommunications service and transmitting the information using the predetermined format to the customer.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2002Publication date: February 6, 2003Applicant: Ameritech CorporationInventors: Timothy Mark Gilles, Joseph Anthony Rogers, Richard Alan Dishman
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Publication number: 20030026412Abstract: A system and method for selectively routing telephone calls in an Advanced Intelligent Network, wherein an edge switch 102, comprising an AIN-equipped switching system, sends a query message to a service control point 108 and receives a response message containing call discrimination information about a telephone call, whereby the edge switch 102 determines whether to route the telephone call via a toll tandem office 100 for further processing. The system further includes a segmentation directory 140 which contains information determinative of which service control point 108 has the service logic to process the call.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2002Publication date: February 6, 2003Inventors: James A. Ibezim, Barbara Joanne Kittredge, James J. Mansell, Robert Yaeger Peters
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Publication number: 20030026413Abstract: A system and a method store, display and report outgoing call log data associated with telephone calls from a subscriber's telephone. The system includes a switch in one network that receives a telephone call from the subscriber's telephone and launches a query in response to an AIN trigger to a service control point. In response, the service control point forwards associated call data to an interface server in another network via a generic data interface. The interface server obtains additional information from a directory database and sends the call data and the additional information to an outgoing call log database, which stores the call data and the additional information as the outgoing call log data. A web server retrieves the outgoing call log data and displays it to the subscriber at a web client.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2001Publication date: February 6, 2003Applicant: SBC TECHNOLOGY RESOURCES, INC.Inventors: Jeffrey Lewis Brandt, Bojana Mamuzic, James Thomas Miller, Stephen Mark Mueller
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Publication number: 20030026414Abstract: Disclosed is a method for distributing customer contacts to a transaction processing entity of a transaction processing system. The method includes determining a media type for a customer contact in the transaction processing system and finding a transaction processing entity that is capable of handling the media type. In addition, the method includes routing the customer contact to a transaction processing entity that is capable of handling the media type. In one embodiment, a transaction routing table is used to perform the distribution of customer contacts. It is emphasized that this abstract is provided to comply with the rules requiring an abstract that will allow a searcher or other reader to quickly ascertain the subject matter of the technical disclosure. It is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims. 37 CFR 1.72(b).Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2001Publication date: February 6, 2003Inventors: Daniel Baker, Anthony J. Dezonno, Craig R. Shambaugh
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Publication number: 20030026415Abstract: An improved thermal design for passively cooled telecommunication repeater housings for use with wire transmission in the local loop outside plant is achieved by replacing the known convection based heat transfer designs with a design based on solid thermal conduction. A thermal chassis for a thermally enhanced center housing of an 818/819 style repeater housing includes thermal collection, transfer and distribution members that collect the repeater modules' waste heat through respective thermal interfaces, transfer the waste heat along respective thermal conduction paths to the environmental enclosure, and then distribute the waste heat over a substantial portion of the enclosure's available surface area to form an enlarged thermal interface for convectively transferring the waste heat to the ambient air. The thermal collection, transfer and distribution members can be integrated into a thermal chassis.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2002Publication date: February 6, 2003Inventor: Erich K. Laetsch
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Publication number: 20030026416Abstract: According to the invention, a method for alerting a user of an incoming phone call is disclosed. In one step, notification of the incoming phone call is received with an identifier that is associated with the incoming phone call. The identifier associated with the incoming phone call is detected. The identifier is correlated with a pre-recorded voice announcement and the pre-recorded voice announcement is played.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 1, 2001Publication date: February 6, 2003Inventor: Marc E. Fusco
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Publication number: 20030026417Abstract: A communication system is described, which is provided with stations mutually coupled through a communication line, wherein at least one of the stations comprises acoustic means embodied by one or more loudspeakers and microphones, and echo canceling (EC) means embodied by line EC means and acoustic EC means. Each such EC means is respectively coupled to respective inputs of individual subtracters having respective subtractor outputs. The EC means are further embodied by respective EC spectral post processors each coupled to the respective subtractor outputs.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 16, 2002Publication date: February 6, 2003Inventors: Harm Jan Willem Belt, Cornelis Pieter Janse, Rene Petrus Marie Bakx
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Publication number: 20030026418Abstract: A dynamically adjustable digital gyrator device for a telephone line interface (e.g., a DAA) utilizing extended feedback and a dynamically adjustable filter to achieve stable convergence in the control of DC line current on a telephone line a short period of time. The low pass filter of the digital gyrator includes at least two (2) different fast filter settings and at least two (2) different slow filter settings based on possible load terminations (e.g., PBX, TAS, etc.), which can be determined based on the dynamic detection of an oscillation on the line. For instance, in a disclosed example, a voice band modem system is allowed to go off-hook with a 1 Hz cutoff low pass filter, and then the output of the low pass filter is checked for an oscillation. If an oscillation is detected, then the poles and/or zeroes of the low pass filter cutoff are changed to a slower convergence rate cutoff frequency (e.g., to 0.1 Hz). As a result, the exemplary voice band modem will converge stably and quickly (e.g.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 20, 2001Publication date: February 6, 2003Inventors: Hong Cui, Lane A. Smith
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Publication number: 20030026419Abstract: An elliptic curve encryption processing method and an elliptic curve encryption processing apparatus enable high-speed elliptic curve encryption processing computations to be realized. In elliptic curve encryption processing computations, two scalar multiplications, kP and lQ, are not performed separately, but the computation process of kP+lQ is performed simultaneously. In the computation of scalar multiplications, kP and lQ are set on a Montgomery elliptic curve By2=x3+Ax2+x. On the basis of a combination of each bit value of k and l from the high-order bits of the binary representation data of the scalar quantities k and l, a computation relation of the next four points based on the computed four points is selected, and based on the selected relation, a process of computing the next four points is repeatedly performed to eventually compute kP+lQ.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 24, 2002Publication date: February 6, 2003Applicant: Sony CorporationInventor: Toru Akishita
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Publication number: 20030026420Abstract: Copyright protection is ensured in personal computers when reproducing and outputting audio files or media data representing audio data and/or picture data. An application program is used to read copyright information that is attached to the media data and to write it into a registry. Upon receipt of a play request that is made by the user operating the personal computer, a device driver is activated to read the copyright information from the registry. The read copyright information is compared with a default value representing the prescribed criterion in copyright protection, so that the device driver automatically attaches the default value or the read copyright information, which is equal to or above the default value, to the output data that are output from the personal computer reproducing the media data.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 5, 2002Publication date: February 6, 2003Applicant: Yamaha CorporationInventor: Hideki Makino
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Publication number: 20030026421Abstract: Process of transmission of information with access control as a digital watermark.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2002Publication date: February 6, 2003Inventor: Jean-Noel Morlet
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Publication number: 20030026422Abstract: A method of fingerprinting digital video by inserting a watermark into individual color channels or the intensity channel of a streaming video. The watermark is a cryptographically encoded identifier for an authorized video delivery consisting of spectral lines inserted in the perceptually significant portions of the Fourier spectrum of the individual frames of the video. In-phase and quadrature components or sinusoids may be encoded in two chroma channels to provide shift-invariant detection of the spectral lines. The pattern is repeated for a perceptually significant duration to defeat frame-swapping attacks. The watermark is extracted by comparing a suspected pirated video to the original video. The watermark data is interpreted to identify the source of the pirated video to enable criminal prosecution.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 19, 2001Publication date: February 6, 2003Applicant: USA Video Interactive CorporationInventors: Albert P. Gerheim, Paul A. Brandon
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Publication number: 20030026423Abstract: An encryption arrangement for multiple encryption of television programs. A system according to embodiments of the present invention multiple encrypts only a portion of the data required for full presentation of a television program to permit coexistence of multiple conditional access encryption systems associated with multiple manufacturer's set-top boxes within a single system. In one embodiment, only critical packets such as those carrying a payload incorporating packetized elementary stream header information is encrypted. By only encrypting a portion of the program, dramatically less bandwidth is consumed than the alternative of multiple encryption of all program data, thus permitting a larger number of programs to be carried over the same bandwidth while permitting coexistence of multiple conditional access systems in a single cable television system.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 2, 2002Publication date: February 6, 2003Inventors: Robert Allan Unger, Brant L. Candelore
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Publication number: 20030026424Abstract: A system, method and computer program product, for distributing content over a terrestrial broadcast channel including a broadcast station configured to transmit over the terrestrial broadcast channel a television signal including encrypted updated content information, distributed at least one of nationally and locally, and television information to all users within a broadcast coverage area; and an apparatus pre-configured to include encrypted predetermined content information stored therein prior to acquisition of the apparatus by a user and configured to: receive over the terrestrial broadcast channel the television signal, extract the encrypted updated content information from the television signal, store the encrypted updated content information in the apparatus, decrypt the updated encrypted content information and the encrypted predetermined content information, and provide on demand at least one of the decrypted updated content information and the decrypted predetermined content information in a formaType: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2002Publication date: February 6, 2003Applicant: THALES BROADCAST & MULTIMEDIA, INC.Inventors: Roger K. McGarrahan, Brett Evan Jenkins, Brian Scott Murtari, Edward M. Karam, Donnell M. Heyse, John D. Isham
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Publication number: 20030026425Abstract: A digital information recording apparatus, which solves a conventional problem that, when information of which copying is limited for a recording/reproducing apparatus provided with a plurality of recording circuits is to be copied on or moved to recording media over the authorized number of media.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 25, 2002Publication date: February 6, 2003Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Hiroo Okamoto, Hitoaki Owashi, Atsushi Yoshioka
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Publication number: 20030026426Abstract: The method for roaming in a network environment utilizes a token created by a first bridge device. The token comprises an identity of a context associated with the mobile device. The first bridge device creates the token and securely provides it to the mobile device. When the mobile device roams to a second bridge device in the network, the token is securely provided to the second bridge device. The second bridge device uses the token to establish to the first bridge device that it is a genuine agent of the mobile device. Once the first bridge authenticates the second bridge device's authority, it securely sends the context associated with the mobile device to the second bridge device. The second bridge device uses the context to properly connect the mobile device to the network. In this manner, secure roaming within a bridged network is provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 2, 2001Publication date: February 6, 2003Inventors: Michael D. Wright, Douglas LaVell Hale, Anthony Alan Jeffree, Peter Kendrick Boucher
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Publication number: 20030026427Abstract: Disclosed are a system and a method for transferring with improved security root keys from a key provider system to a customer system via an information network that is other than secure. The key provider provides a secure module having a super-root key stored therein within the customer system. The super-root key is accessible internally to the module only by program code executable on a processor internal to the module, and only in response to a request from a corresponding module of the key provider system. The super-root key is only for use in decrypting encrypted root keys that are provided from the key provider system, which decrypted root keys are stored internally to the secure module.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 2, 2001Publication date: February 6, 2003Inventor: Bruno Couillard