Patent application number | Description | Published |
20100102936 | REMOTELY CONTROLLABLE POWER SWITCH OF AN APPLIANCE AND METHODS OF EMPLOYING THE SAME - A remotely controllable power switch of an appliance and a method of employing a remotely controllable power switch of an appliance to control the overall load that an electric power distribution network bears. The method may include a method of employing a remotely controllable power switch of an appliance to compute the rate that a particular customer pays for electric power. In one embodiment, the remotely controllable power switch of an appliance includes: (1) a switching device coupled between an input and an output of the remotely controllable power switch of an appliance and (2) communication circuitry coupled to the switching device, addressable only by class and configured to receive a turn-off signal and turn off the switching device in response thereto. | 04-29-2010 |
20100103173 | REAL TIME OBJECT TAGGING FOR INTERACTIVE IMAGE DISPLAY APPLICATIONS - Apparatus and methods that track the location of an object within a video image at the time of capture of the video image are described. The location of the object within each frame can be recorded as meta-data for the video image so that when the video image is played back, a viewer can select the object using suitable interaction means and be linked through to a source of additional information about the object, such as a product website or the like. A device emitting radio frequency (RF) signals is attached to an object that is to be identified and tracked within a video image. Using an RF receiver with multiple antennas and applying trilateration techniques, the object's location within the video image is determined in real time and recorded as the video image is recorded. Where multiple objects are to be tracked, each object is provided with a radio device having a unique ID and the location of each device within the video image is recorded. The described solution automates an otherwise manual, error-prone and time-consuming process. | 04-29-2010 |
20100211982 | A/V PREMISES DECODER, A CONTENT MANAGER, A VIDEO INSERTION SYSTEM INCLUDING BOTH THE DECODER AND MANAGER, AND A METHOD OF INSERTING LOCAL CONTENT INTO A VIDEO STREAM AT A CUSTOMERS PREMISES - A multimedia (audio and video) insertion system, an A/V premises decoder, a content manager and a method of inserting local content into a multimedia stream at a customer's premises. In one embodiment, the A/V premises decoder includes: (1) a signal converter configured to convert a received digital multimedia stream to an analog multimedia stream, and (2) a content inserter configured to insert secondary content in the analog multimedia stream based on control information associated with the secondary content. | 08-19-2010 |
20110084664 | METHOD AND APPARATUS OF STORED ENERGY MANAGEMENT IN BATTERY POWERED VEHICLES - A secondary battery and charging system are provided within an electric car or other electric drive vehicle. The secondary battery may, e.g., be owned by the electric utility. The battery is removable and can be charged and discharged independently of the primary car battery system. The utility can use the secondary battery to implement vehicle-to-grid functionality. | 04-14-2011 |
20110084665 | Method and apparatus of stored energy management in battery powered vehicles - A secondary battery and charging system are provided within an electric car or other electric drive vehicle. The secondary battery may, e.g., be owned by the electric utility. The battery is removeable and can be charged and discharged independently of the primary car battery system. The utility can use the secondary battery to implement vehicle-to-grid functionality. | 04-14-2011 |
20120170943 | Configuring optical launch powers in optical fiber transmission lines - A method includes transmitting optical signals through a heterogeneous sequence of spans of an all-optical transmission line. Each span has an optical transmission fiber connected to an optical amplifier. Each amplifier launches the signals into a sequential remainder of the line. The transmitting includes launching the optical signals into the highest loss fibers with substantially equal average optical launch powers or operating the spans with the highest loss fibers to have substantially equal quality products. The average optical launch powers are substantially equal to the inverse of a sum of (1−T | 07-05-2012 |
20120284523 | MAC Aggregation Resilient To Denial-Of-Service Attacks For Use In A Multi-Node Data Network - An improved MAC aggregation technique is disclosed that yields an aggregate MAC much shorter than the concatenation of constituent MACs while achieving improved resilience to denial-of-service (DoS) attacks. The aggregate MAC is constructed in a manner wherein upon instance of channel impairments or malicious attack (e.g., from a rogue node or man-in-the-middle attacker), only a portion of the aggregate MAC will include corrupted data, at least a portion of the aggregate MAC thereby including valid verifiable data. A source of corruption of the aggregate MAC may be ascertained based on indicia of which constituent MACs are included in the valid portion; and constituent MACs that are wholly included in the valid portion may be declared valid. | 11-08-2012 |
20150026818 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PROVIDING TEMPORARY CONTACT INFORMATION - A device includes a storage unit, a processor and an output unit. The storage unit is configured to store identification information and a plurality of temporary contact data items. The processor is configured to select one of the temporary contact data items based on the identification information and a first time index. The output unit is configured to output the selected temporary contact data item. The selected contact data item may include at least one of, e.g. a temporary telephone number, a temporary email address, a temporary IP address, and a temporary uniform resource identifier (URI). | 01-22-2015 |