Kerfoot, Iii
Branch Price Kerfoot, Iii, Sherborn, MA US
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20100035225 | ADAPTIVE SPACED TEACHING METHOD AND SYSTEM - The system of the present invention provides interactive spaced education and combines the pedagogical merits of the spacing effect and the testing effect to improve a learner's ability to learn and retain conceptual items. A test item, such as a question or educational material regarding a concept, is delivered, a learner's response is recorded, and the correct answer to the test item is provided. Future delivery of additional test items is customized with regard to its content, difficulty, and time interval based on information from the learner's response(s). The electronic delivery includes a structured repetition over spaced intervals of time as well as retesting the learner with subsequent test items based on new levels of difficulty, new delivery intervals, and new content areas. The present invention, by combining spaced education with adaptive learning, improves the learner's ability to learn, recall, and retain items of information. | 02-11-2010 |
Franklin Webb Kerfoot, Iii, Red Bank, NJ US
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20080310860 | Method and Apparatus for Decision Threshold Control In An Optical Signal Receiver - A method of adjusting a decision threshold in an optical signal receiver. A forward error correction (FEC) decoder provides a feedback signal representative of corrected errors. The decision threshold is adjusted in response to a polarity of the received signal and to balance a number of corrected ones and zeros. | 12-18-2008 |
Frank W. Kerfoot, Iii, Red Band, NJ US
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20130016964 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR FAULT RECOVERY IN AN OPTICAL NETWORKAANM Mu; RuomeiAACI East BrunswickAAST NJAACO USAAGP Mu; Ruomei East Brunswick NJ USAANM Golovchenko; Ekaterina A.AACI Colts NeckAAST NJAACO USAAGP Golovchenko; Ekaterina A. Colts Neck NJ USAANM Kerfoot, III; Frank W.AACI Red BandAAST NJAACO USAAGP Kerfoot, III; Frank W. Red Band NJ US - A method of managing fault recovery in a trunk-branched OADM network may include determining that an optical power level over data channels of a first communications link between a first and a second terminal of the branched optical network exceeds an optical power limit. The method may further include increasing optical power sent over spare channels of the first communications link to a first level at which the optical power level over the data channels decreases to a second level below the optical power limit. | 01-17-2013 |
Frank W. Kerfoot, Iii, Red Bank, NJ US
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20150063797 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR FAULT RECOVERY IN AN OPTICAL NETWORK - A system for fault recovery in an optical network may include an initial loading equipment (ILE) apparatus configured to supply power to a set of channels over a first communications link of the optical network, the set of channels including data channels and spare channels, and a control system configured to detect an optical power level over the data channels of the first communications link and determine whether a Q-factor corresponding to the data channels of the first communications link is below an error correction threshold, the control system configured to alert the ILE apparatus to adjust its optical power output over the spare channels upwardly based on the determination that the Q-factor is below the error correction threshold to increase the Q-factor. | 03-05-2015 |