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RangeWidget™
Published Sunday, October 1, 2000RangeWidget™ is used to select a range of discrete values similar to the OST Motif XmScale and Xm ScrollBar widgets, but provides selection of a range of values instead of just a single value. A range of values consists of a set of a lower and an upper value within minimum and maximum values.For more information, contact the Office of...
Categories: Education/Training/Multimedia, Information Technology
Keyword(s): OST Motif XmScale, range of values
Docket: IS-95-052
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Polymeric Nanoscale Solid-State Battery
Published Tuesday, October 10, 2000Laptop computers and mobile telephones have become smaller and faster. Unfortunately, the demand for battery power has not fallen; demand for power has increased and as the products decrease in size they approach a size limit dictated by the size of the battery.Researchers at the University of Maryland are developing a nanoscale solid...
Categories: Microelectronics, Nanotechnology + Nanoparticles + Nanomaterials
Keyword(s): battery, solid state, nanotechnology, portable devices
Docket: PS-2000-075
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Method and Apparatus for Compressing and Decompressing Images
Published Wednesday, October 11, 2000Researchers at the University of Maryland have developed an efficient image compression method for transmission or storage where one or more regions of interest are emphasized. The regions of interest can be selected either by the user or system that is initially encoding the image, or by the user or system that receives and decodes the image...
Categories: Information Technology
Keyword(s): 525
Docket: IS-98-006
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Method and Apparatus for Conditional Access in Broadcast/Multicast Systems
Published Wednesday, October 11, 2000Following the rapid expansion of the commercial broadcasting industry, conditional access systems have been deployed extensively to meet consumers' needs. These systems are used to provide services to authorized customers such as cable TV subscribers. In fact, some programs are only accessible to those who have made payments to the program...
Categories: Microelectronics, Information Technology
Keyword(s): scrambler, conditional access
Docket: IS-99-028
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Polarization and Wavelength Diversity for Fade Resistance in Optical Wireless Communication Systems
Published Wednesday, October 11, 2000Optical wireless communication systems are line-of-sight optical links using lasers or light-emitting diodes (LED). Data is transmitted on a laser or LED beam using some form of amplitude, frequency, phase, or polarization modulation, or a combination of these. In these systems an optical beam passes from transmitter to receiver along a path...
Categories: Microelectronics, Information Technology
Keyword(s): Fade Resistsance, Wavelength diversity, frequency polarization
Docket: IS-99-034
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IMPACT Agent Development System
Published Wednesday, October 11, 2000An intelligent agent is a program that gathers information or performs other services without a user's immediate presence and on a regular schedule. Typically, an agent program, using pre-set parameters, searches and gathers information of interest on a network, and presents it to the user on a periodic basis. For example, agents have been...
Categories: Information Technology, Software + Algorithm
Keyword(s): 525
Docket: IS-99-094
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A Method for Eliminating the Requirement for Synchronized Clocks in Distributed Routing Approaches that are Dependent on the Temporal Ordering of Events
Published Wednesday, October 11, 2000A new approach to routing in highly dynamic networks has been recently introduced. The Temporally Ordered Routing Algorithm (TORA) is a significant departure from traditional datagram routing approaches used in static or quasi-static hardwired networks. A unique aspect of TORA is the use of time information to establish the temporal-order of...
Categories: Information Technology
Keyword(s): wireless, radio transeivers
Docket: IS-99-102
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Wet Gas Temperature Measurement Probe
Published Wednesday, October 11, 2000Current technology makes it difficult to accurately detect hot gas temperature when the hot gas is laden with water droplets. The droplets tend to deposit on detecting surfaces resulting in evaporative cooling that causes inaccurate measurement of the gas temperature. For example, this problem is particularly evident in fire sprinkler arrays...
Categories: Chemical
Keyword(s): Gas temperature measurement, Fire suppression, 525
Docket: PS-2000-002
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Fiber Optic Breadboard
Published Wednesday, October 11, 2000Laboratory space utilized in optics research is often an expensive commodity. Unfortunately, the majority of platform equipment used in laboratories is planar in nature and not modular. This planar arrangement tends to consume a lot of valuable lab space and often results in confusing layouts that make troubleshooting during experiments very...
Categories: Microelectronics
Keyword(s): Optical fibers, Free space optics, prototyping
Docket: PS-2000-007
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Living Cyclopolymerization of Nonconjugated Dienes
Published Wednesday, October 11, 2000Researchers at the University of Maryland, College Park, have invented methods and a catalyst for the cyclopolymerization of non-conjugated dienes. The catalyst is an amindinate-based zirconium precatalyst. Upon activation with a borate co-catalyst, it not only allows for the stereospecific living polymerization of alpha-olefins, but can...
Categories: Chemical
Keyword(s): dienes, cyclopolymerization, alpha-olefins
Docket: LS-2000-046