Facsimile arrangement
A system for providing temporary facsimile services to facsimile machines, located in an establishment having a PBX system, comprises an intermediary having a host of direct in-dial telephone numbers ... Read More
Inventors: Gordon, Alastair T.; Reichmann, Michael H.;, Assignee: Alphanet Telecom Inc. (Toronto, CA) |
Method of building fast MACS from hash functions
Briefly stated, the invention resides in an iterated hash function operation in data encryption and authentication. According to one aspect it is directed to a method of performing a compression funct... Read More
Inventors: Preneel, Bart K. B.; Van Oorschot, Paul C.;, Assignee: Northern Telecom Limited (Montreal, CA) |
Method and system for comparing strings with entries of a lexicon
Turning first to the nomenclature of the specification, the detailed description which follows is represented largely in terms of processes and symbolic representations of operations performed by con... Read More
Inventors: Li, Liang;, Assignee: United Parcel Service of America, Inc. (Atlanta, GA) |
Pixel hashing image recognition system
It is an object of the present invention to provide a recognition system which directly correlates a received pixel pattern with a specific character or geometric shape. It is another object of the pr... Read More
Inventors: Carlstrom, David L.;, Assignee: Kaman Sciences Corporation (Colorado Springs, CO) |
System for supporting secured log-in of multiple users into a plurality of computers using combined presentation of memorized password and transportable passport record
An improved, machine-implemented security method and apparatus are disclosed herein for providing flexible and convenient secured access to encryption-covered information on a per-user basis across a ... Read More
Inventors: Grawrock, David; Lohstroh, Shawn R.;, Assignee: Symantec Corporation (Cupertino, CA) |
System, method, and product for information embedding using an ensemble of non-intersecting embedding generators
The present invention includes in one embodiment a system, method, and product for (1) embedding a watermark signal into a host signal, thereby generating a composite signal, (2) optionally enabling t... Read More
Inventors: Chen, Brian; Wornell, Gregory W.;, Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA) |
Method and apparatus for protecting flash memory
To provide for the protection of flash memory containing a program such as a Basic Input/Output System from any unauthorized reprogramming efforts, a system memory controller is included which provide... Read More
Inventors: Mattison, Phillip E.;, Assignee: Intel Corporation () |
Electronic watermarking method, electronic information distribution system, image filing apparatus and storage medium therefor
In order to resolve the above shortcomings, it is one objective of the present invention to provide an electronic watermarking method that accurately prevents the illegal distribution of data, even if... Read More
Inventors: Iwamura, Keiichi;, Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Tokyo, JP) |
Method and apparatus for image authentication
An object of the present invention is to provide robust image authentication methods and apparatus which distinguish malicious content based attacks of an image from allowable transformations of an im... Read More
Inventors: Chang, Shih-Fu; Lin, Ching-Yung;, Assignee: The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, NY) |
Method for monitoring internet dissemination of image, video, and/or audio files
Distribution of imagery (including, e.g., graphics and video) and audio on the Internet is quick and simple. While advantageous in most respects, this ease of distribution makes it difficult for propr... Read More
Inventors: Rhoads, Geoffrey B.;, Assignee: Digimarc Corporation (Tualatin, OR) |
System and method for hashing digital images
This invention is described below as a technique for hashing digital images. Thus, the described hashing techniques are particularly tailored to accommodate characteristics of the human visual system... Read More
Inventors: Venkatesan, Ramarathnam; Koon, Say-Ming William;, Assignee: Microsoft Corporation (Redmond, WA) |
Method for determining a correlation between images using multi-element image descriptors
An embodiment of the present invention provides for a method of determining a correlation between images, wherein each image is represented by an image descriptor. Each image descriptor comprises a pe... Read More
Inventors: Wang, Lizhi;, Assignee: Sony Corporation (Tokyo, JP); Sony Electronics Inc. (Park Ridge, NJ) |
Method for indexing and retrieving manufacturing-specific digital imagery based on image content
A method and apparatus for indexing and retrieving manufacturing-specific digital imagery based on image content in accordance with the inventive arrangement satisfies the long-felt need of the prior ... Read More
Inventors: Ferrell, Regina K.; Karnowski, Thomas P.; Tobin, Jr., Kenneth W.;, Assignee: UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, TN) |
Video skimming system utilizing the vector rank filter
The present invention overcomes the aforementioned drawbacks of the prior art by providing a method and apparatus for digital video content analysis and extraction based on analysis of feature vectors... Read More
Inventors: Crinon, Regis J.;, Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc. (Camas, WA) |
Method and system for generating a characteristic identifier for digital data and for detecting identical digital data
According to one aspect of the present invention, a characteristic identifier for digital data is generated. The information contained in the data is thereby reduced such that the resulting identifier... Read More
Inventors: Fischer, Uwe; Hoffmann, Stefan; Kriechbaum, Werner; Stenzel, Gerhard;, Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, NY) |
Network anti-virus system
A network based anti-virus system especially for wide area networks, like the internet, where one or more anti-virus host computers (AVHC) handle requests of client computers to inspect if said clien... Read More
Inventors: Loukas, Pasi Into;, Assignee: |
Consumer interactive shopping system
It is the object of the present invention to provide an improved marketing and shopping system which may be used in a portable shopping and order fulfillment system. It is a further object of the pres... Read More
Inventors: Swartz, Jerome; Roslak, Thomas K.; Premutico, Mauro; Petrovich, Adam; Barkan, Edward;, Assignee: Symbol Technologies, Inc. (Holtsville, NY) |
Speaker independent speech recognition system and method
The present invention provides in a first embodiment a method of generating command models for a set of commands. Each command model generated is represented by a single vectors. The method comprises ... Read More
Inventors: Campbell, William Michael; Kleider, John Eric; Broun, Charles Conway; Gifford, Carl Steven; Assaleh, Khaled;, Assignee: Motorola, Inc. (Schaumburg, IL) |
Point-of-sale (POS) voice authentication transaction system
The present invention is directed to an authentication system located at the point of sale to allow a voice verification process for authenticating the user's identity. According to an aspect of the i... Read More
Inventors: Piotrowski, Tony E.;, Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. (Eindhoven, NL) |
System and method of voice recognition near a wireline node of a network supporting cable television and/or video delivery
An embodiment of the invention provides speech recognition services to a collection of users over a network that supports cable television and/or video delivery. User identification based upon speech ... Read More
Inventors: Calderone, Theodore; Cook, Paul M.; Foster, Mark J.;, Assignee: AgileTV Corporation (Menlo Park, CA) |
System and method of providing conversational visual prosody for talking heads
What is needed in the art is a new method of controlling head movement in a virtual agent such that the agent's movement is more natural and real. There are two parts to this process: (1) controlling ... Read More
Inventors: Cosatto, Eric; Graf, Hans Peter; Strom, Volker Franz;, Assignee: AT&T Corp. (New York, NY) |
Method and apparatus for storing reference codes in a writing instrument and for retrieving information identifed by the reference codes
Embodiments of the present invention overcome drawbacks of the above-mentioned publications and provide a method and apparatus for allowing a reader to easily store a reference code associated with a ... Read More
Inventors: Buckley, John E.; Peterson, Thomas H.; Linderson, Paul E.; Mercurio, Frank; Southworth, Robert O.;, Assignee: A.T. Cross Company (Lincoln, RI) |
Voice file management in portable digital audio recorder
It is accordingly an object of the invention to provide for convenient management of audio information stored in a portable digital audio recorder. It is a further object of the invention to provide e... Read More
Inventors: Dwyer, John J.; Godin, David K.; Colon, Sr., Richard S.; Rothschild, Stephen; Pawlowski, John J.; Vaughan, John C.;, Assignee: Dictaphone Corporation (Stratford, CT) |
Method and apparatus for recording and managing communications for transcription
The above-discussed and other drawbacks and deficiencies of the prior art are overcome or alleviated by the method and apparatus for remote recording of communications for transcription of the present... Read More
Inventors: Zebryk, Jay; Catuogno, Sr., Raymond; Catuogno, George;, Assignee: Sten-Tel, Inc. (Springfield, MA) |
Personalized time-shifted programming
A method and apparatus for personalized time-shifted programming in described. Digital content is retrieved from a library and stored for subsequent playback. A subset of the content is stored in a pl... Read More
Inventors: Story, Guy A.; Rajasekharan, Ajit; Mott, Timothy;, Assignee: Audible, Inc. (Wayne, NJ) |
Voice intelligibility enhancement system
The present invention solves these and other problems by providing improved intelligibility of voice communication that would otherwise be degraded by noise. In one embodiment, intelligibility of spee... Read More
Inventors: Klayman, Arnold I.;, Assignee: SRS Labs, Inc. (Santa Clara, CA) |
Method and apparatus for parallel encoding and decoding of data
A method and apparatus for decompressing and compressing data is described. The present invention includes a method and apparatus for decoding a data stream having multiple codewords in a pipelined ma... Read More
Inventors: Allen, James D.; Boliek, Martin; Gormish, Michael; Schwartz, Edward L.;, Assignee: Ricoh Corporation (Menlo Park, CA); Ricoh Company, Ltd. (JP) |
Lossless and loss-limited compression of sampled data signals
OF INVENTION An efficient, lossless compression method for audio, speech, video, and other sampled data signals is described. In the following description numerous specific details are presented in o... Read More
Inventors: Wegener, Albert William;, Assignee: |
Lightweight directory access protocol workflow management system
The invention provides a lightweight directory access protocol workflow management system. The invention utilizes an intuitive user interface for creating Workflow processes and converts processes int... Read More
Inventors: Chone, Jeremy; Khodabakchian, Edwin;, Assignee: Netscape Communications Corporation (Mountain View, CA) |
Graphical voice response system and method therefor
In view of the foregoing problems of the conventional systems and methods, an object of the present invention is to provide a structure (and method) for reducing the time spent on phone calls in which... Read More
Inventors: Narayanaswami, Chandrasekhar;, Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, NY) |
Data Compression 
