Apple Inc.

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Jeffery L Mullins

Edward W Geiger

Jonathan M Zweig

Alan B Oppenheimer

Kerry E Lynn

Michael W Ritter

A culling buoy holder that includes multiple tubes laid side by side in a parallel fashion and affixed to a mounting structure or to each other. The tubes are sized in length and diameter such that a culling buoy may be inserted down through the bore of a tube, with a float first orientation, until the float dangles below the lower open end of the tube. Further, while tube bore sizes are large enough to permit the passing of a buoy float, they are small enough that the clipping apparatus comprising the opposite end of the buoy cannot pass. Advantageously, each buoy, once inserted through an individual tube of the buoy holder, is effectively separated from other buoys as it securely hangs in its individual tube.

Buoy holder for fish culling

A method and apparatus for assigning a unique network address to a first node within a network which is arbitrarily connected. The first node may include a shared network resource, such as a networked printer device, or a modem, in addition to a stand-alone computer system. The network may include a network which is wireless, wherein various nodes comprise radio transceiver circuitry, including radio frequency modems. A first provisional network address for use in assigning the unique network address is determined by the first node. The first node broadcasts probes containing the provisional network address until a first probe response to one of the probes is received or a first interval of time elapses. If the first probe response to one of the probes is received, then the first node determines a second provisional network address and repeats selection of the address and broadcasting, until no probe response is received in the first interval of time. Using the first provisional network address, the first node broadcasts forward probes in the network until a second probe response to one of the forward probes is received by the first node or a second period of time has transpired. If a second probe response to one of the forward probes is received by the first node, then the first node determines a third provisional network address and repeats the steps of selecting, broadcasting probes and forward probes until no the response is received in the second interval of time. The final provisional network address may be used as the unique network address for the first node.

Dynamic address assignment in an arbitrarily connected network

In a communication system including a plurality of networked stations that communicate using a slow frequency hopping system, a method for encoding a packet of data in a transmitting station and decoding the data in a receiving station. In the transmitting station, the packet is divided into data segments. Error correction segments are added to correct the data segments. The segments are fragmented into a series of fragments, and a data error control field is calculated for each fragment and appended thereto. The data units including the segments are transmitted, and in a receiving station all or a portion of the bursts are received. The DEC field for each received fragment is calculated and compared with the received DEC field to determine whether each fragment is good or bad. If there are a sufficient number of fragments in each column, then the data can be reconstructed.

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San Jose, CA, United States of America

Jeffery L Mullins