Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc.

Verizon Corporate Services Group Inc.

Level 3 Communications, LLC

Bbn Technologies Corporation

Theodore Reed Farrell

Frederick E Shelton, IV

Jerome R Morgan

Michael Joseph Frentz

Mark S Ortiz

Shailendra Kumar Parihar

Steven G Hall

Michael S Cropper

Salvatore G Caldarise

Patrick M Schleitweiler

Dhananjay V Patil

Brandon L Livingston

Kiyoto Benjamin Sakai, Jr

Methods and devices are provided for providing surgical access into a body cavity. A surgical access port is provided that has an adjustable longitudinal length, such as by being formed from multiple segments configured to move relative to one another. An anchor can be coupled to a distal end of the surgical access port to help secure the surgical access port within a tissue opening by engaging a distal side of the tissue. Optionally, the anchor can be removably coupled to the distal end of the surgical access port, thereby allowing any one of a plurality of anchors to be selectively coupled thereto.

Methods and devices for providing surgical access through tissue to a surgical site

Methods and devices are provided for providing access through tissue to a surgical site. Generally, the methods and devices allow adjustment of a surgical access port's longitudinal length. In one embodiment, a surgical access port is provided that includes a housing having a cannula distally extending therefrom. The housing can be configured to cut a proximal portion of the cannula to adjust a longitudinal length of the cannula and hence of the surgical access port. In another embodiment, a surgical access port is provided that includes a cannula formed of a plurality of modular segments removably coupled together. One or more of the segments can be configured to be removable from the cannula to change the cannula's longitudinal length.

Methods and devices for providing access through tissue to a surgical site

Methods and devices are provided for providing surgical access into a body cavity. In general, the methods and devices allow a surgical access device to be securely positioned within an opening in tissue to provide access to a body cavity underlying the tissue. An actuator can be rotatably disposed on or in a housing of a surgical access device such that rotation of the actuator relative to the housing is effective to move a cannula of the surgical access device between an insertion configuration in which the cannula has a reduced profile enabling it to easily be inserted into a tissue opening, and an expanded profile enabling it to form an anchor against and/or within the tissue opening.

Methods and devices for providing access into a body cavity

In accordance with the principles of the present invention, unwanted calls may be prevented. In particular, information about a particular destination is stored in a registry at a clearinghouse server located within a network, e.g., the public telephone network. When a call is being made to the destination, it is routed to the clearinghouse server. Identifying information such as caller-id data is retrieved and the registry is searched. If the caller is registered as being approved, the call is forwarded with information indicating that the call is 'approved'. If the caller is not registered or is unknown, the call is forwarded with information indicating that call is 'unregistered' or &#x201c;unavailable&#x201d;. A user at the destination is then able to quickly determine if the call is unwanted. Alternatively, a user may be compensated for answering calls from an &#x201c;unregistered&#x201d; caller, thereby encouraging businesses to focus their telemarketing efforts by imposing a cost on them for unsolicited phone calls and providing compensation to users accepting calls from unregistered callers.

Method and apparatus for eliminating unwanted telephone calls

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Penfield, NY, United States of America

Theodore Reed Farrell