Lockheed Martin Corporation

Skype Limited

Scott Miller

Kenneth Roy Lorell

Natasha Valerie Sopieva

Sergei Anikin

Jean-Noel Aubrun

Neil Dodd

Mark Wolfson

A method of accessing a first communication system of a first communication provider via a packet-based network, the first communication system maintaining a first list of contacts being users of the first communication system. The method comprises establishing a contact-sharing channel with a second communication system of a second, partner communication provider, wherein the second communication system is accessible via an independently executable web-browser and the packet-based network, and wherein the second communication system maintains second group of contacts being users of the second communication system. The contact-sharing channel is used to fetch contact information of one or more of the second contacts, so as to display at least part of the fetched contact information in the client application and establish a communication based on at least part of the fetched contact information.

Integrating communications

An enhanced optical delay line device for providing multiple degree of freedom active control, including first and second actively-controlled mirrors, each of the actively-controlled mirrors having two rotational degrees of freedom and one translational degree of freedom. The first actively-controlled mirror is mounted substantially orthogonally to the second actively-controlled mirror. The system also includes a closed-loop control system, the control system providing six mechanical degrees of freedom of active control for the enhanced optical delay line device by controlling the first and second actively-controlled mirrors based upon a command input and mirror position signals. The present invention is smaller than conventional optical delay line devices, has better performance, and eliminates the need for one of the FSMs, bringing the total number of mechanisms down to two from three.

Enhanced optical delay line with multiple degree of freedom active control

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San Jose, CA, United States of America

Scott Miller