Natural Microsystems Corporation

Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Nms Communications Corporation

Volt Information Sciences, Inc.

Charles C Linton

Jonathan D Pollack

Aayush Aggarwal

James Plumley

Anatoly Mitlin

R Brough Turner

Oliver Christoph Purwin

Aram Falsafi

Sarfraz Banglawala

Daniel F Daly

Andrei E Toma

Kevin J Bruemmer

Nicholas A Smith

Svetlana O Sokolova

Michael R Matatia

James M Van Donsel

Yuhao Qian

John D Pacheco

Murtaza Amiji

Benoit Delorme

Paul Trudel

David Ouellet

Jean-Hugues Deschenes

Sean Edward Murray

George D Kontopidis

Ralph F Rothschild

Usha Kamat

In various examples, systems and methods for qualification of robotic firmware are described. In various examples, first firmware or first hardware may be deployed on a first set of robots and second firmware or second hardware may be deployed on a second set of robots. The first firmware may generate first log data and the second firmware may generate second log data during operation of the first and second set of robots during a first time period. A first value of a first performance metric may be determined using the first log data and a second value of the first performance metric may be determined using the second log data. The second firmware or the second hardware may be modified based at least in part on the first value and the second value.

Robot firmware and hardware performance qualification tool

A system for configuring generic maintenance activity scheduling is provided. For example, user input may help define a maintenance process for a plurality of mobile drive units of the physical workspace. The maintenance process may be defined through a configuration of activity templates and input templates. Input may be received to configure maintenance activities and the system may automatically correlate failure rules with the activity template. The system may generate the configurable electronic instructions for the mobile drive units and transmit them with the failure rules, if generated, to one or more mobile drive units of the physical workspace. When the one or more mobile device units receive the configurable electronic instruction, the mobile drive units may operate in accordance with the configurable electronic instruction.

Generic maintenance activity scheduling

Wireless network demands continually increase as wireless service providers pursue additional service capabilities. In a cellular communication system, leased lines between remote cell sites and the corresponding Mobile Switching Offices (MSOs) remain a major operating cost. Bandwidth reduction by identification and elimination of payload data and control information which need not be fully replicated because it can be deduced from information accessible or previously transmitted allows fewer lines to support the same bandwidth. A wireless access gateway is operable to aggregate such redundant and regenerable data on a backhaul link between a wireless cell site and the corresponding mobile switching office (MSO) to provide low-latency, type specific lossless bandwidth reduction. The wireless access gateway identifies regenerable information and eliminates portions of the data which the device need not transmit because the data is redundant, or accessible or recreatable, at the receiving side. In this manner, the access device allows fewer lines to carry the reduced message traffic by transmitting only the non-recreatable data and eliminating message traffic for regenerable information.

Methods and apparatus for network signal aggregation and bandwidth reduction

Aspects of the present invention are directed to communications circuits and method that utilize associative memories for providing telephony switching of data between different time slots in one or more time division multiplexed (TDM) serial data lines or streams. The communications circuit may include a first content-addressable memory block and a second content-addressable memory block each of which receive the same address for independently generating tags for accessing a data memory to provide data to or receive data from TDM data lines.

Multi-stream associative memory architecture for computer telephony

A communication switching station includes a digital switch and a sub-rate interface circuit. The switch has signal terminals including inputs and outputs, and switching circuitry, adapted to operate at a first rate, operatively connected between the inputs and outputs. The sub-rate interface circuit includes a first signal terminal operatively connected to at least one of the signal terminals of the first signal terminal and the second signal terminal, the programmable circuitry being operative at a second rate that is lower than the first rate.

Mixed full-rate and sub-rate switching

A communication bus interface circuit includes a local frame signal generator responsive to a device clock signal and having a local bus frame signal output. A synchronization loss detector is responsive to the local frame signal output and to a bus frame signal input. A clock adjuster is responsive to the synchronization loss detector and to the device clock signal to adjust the local frame signal generator until synchronization between the bus frame signal and the local frame signal is established.

Phase alignment of frames in computer telephony busses

In an operator system for providing services to subscribers in a public telephone network, a circuit board for controlling audio characteristics of audio signals in the public telephone network. The circuit board comprises an interface for receiving the audio signal from the public telephone network, an audio characteristics control circuit coupled to the interface for receiving the audio signal, adjusting the audio characteristics of the audio signal and for recording and generating voice messages to be transmitted to the public telephone network via the interface and a headset interface coupled to the audio characteristics control circuit for receiving the adjusted audio signal and providing an interface to at least two headsets.

Voice interface board for use in an operator system

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Charles C Linton