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Keith Braman.
The KU Adamas I RFID tag is an EPC-compliant UHF RFID tag that has a thin profile, small form factor and is capable of high performance when mounted on or near metal or liquid surfaces. Our technology yields itself to overcome the current problems with tags placed on or near metal or water. Some potential applications are asset tracking for assets stored in metal containers or where assets are liquid or stored in liquid. A research prototype is available.
PI(s): Daniel Deavours
For more information: http://www.ittc.ku.edu/publications/ittc_press_release.shtml
ChatTrack archives and indexes the contents of instant messaging and chatroom discussions in XML format. Subsets of this data can be classified upon request to create profiles for particular sessions or users. It's profile and retrieval mechanisms can provide a new safety and security tool for the government, business, and parents.
PI(s): Susan Gauch
For more information: http://www.ittc.ku.edu/techtransfer/documents/ChatTrack.pdf
This search engine retrieves documents based upon a combination of keywords and conceptual matching. Documents are automatically classified to determine the concepts to which they belong. Query concepts are determined automatically from a small description of the query or explicitly entered by the user. In the near future, concepts will be determined by means of a user profile; in this way, the system will be able to provide search results more relevant to the user's current activities and tasks.
PI(s): Susan Gauch
For more information: http://www.ittc.ku.edu/keyconcept/index.html
This technology provides for improvement of existing antennas. This improves the reception of digital tv broadcasts, especially in distant fringe areas or locations without a clear path to a transmitting tower. The planar antenna provides a high degree of multipath interference rejection and extremely wide antenna bandwidth characteristics, allowing an unusually wide range of frequencies to be received with a single antenna. This antenna could be adapted for use in a variety of communication and radar system applications.
Patent No. 6,819,297
PI(s): Daniel DePardo
For more information: http://www.ittc.ku.edu/techtransfer/documents/WidebandPlanar.pdf
KU has developed a patented method of incorporating a Fabry Perot filter with a dispersive grating that provides high-resolution spectrum analysis over a wide optical bandwidth for significantly less cost and achieves higher resolution then current technologies can provide.
Patent No. 6,697,159
PI(s): Ronqing Hui
For more information: http://www.ittc.ku.edu/techtransfer/documents/OSA.pdf
Our technology uses multilink point-to-point protocol (MLPPP) over the Iridium satellite system to provide access to the internet from all over the world. Multiple satellite (Iridium) links are combined to aggregate their bandwidth. It facilitates communication and web access from remote places where conventional facilities do not exist (like Polar regions).
PI(s): Victor Frost
This computational algorithm for feature selection and classification can be applied to microarray data to extract logical mechanism. It provides a probability of importance for each gene and can identify genes that are missed using current methods. This technology is a filter method which focuses on the difference between statistical distributions. No assumption of any prior distribution of data is made; the distribution is calculated based on the data. Similar to other filter methods, this method assumes that all features are independent. Method can can be applied to areas where feature selection is needed, such as when it is necessary to pick a few pixels from images or video for classification.
Potential applications are gene discovery, cancer classification, cancer diagnosis, drug discovery, diagnostic tools, any areas where feature selection is needed (for example, when it is necessary to pick a few pixels from images or video for classification).
PI(s): Xue-wen Chen
For more information: http://www.ittc.ku.edu/publications/ittc_press_release.shtml
SmartXAutofill is an intelligent assistant that automates data entry for XML documents by predicting the values of the XML fields. Our technology supports the complexity and nested structures of XML grammars, and incorporates approximate predictive techniques from Machine Learning. SmartXAutofill achieves much higher accuracy than current auto-complete technologies can offer.
PI(s): Danico Lee, Costas Tsatsoulis
For more information: http://www.ittc.ku.edu/smartxautofill/
Demand for capacity of fiber optic networks continues to increase with the rapid growth of communication services such as video on demand and Internet traffic. We have developed a new transmission technology that utilizes the optical bandwidth to increase the capacity of fiber optic networks without adding additional optical fiber.
We have developed a Sub-Carrier Modulation (SCM) system that combines signals with low frequency sine wave (sub-carrier) that is transmitted with a main carrier. The sub-carriers are typically adjacent to the main carriers in frequency. Our technology utilizes single sideband modulation wherein the signals are modulated so that the sub-carrier frequency is either above or below the main carrier frequency. This technique makes the technology particularly useful for long haul fiber optic networks.
By performing sub-carrier modulation to generate the single sideband optical signal, the communication system increases the transmission capacity without additional impairments such as chromatic dispersion, nonlinear cross-talk, and polarization mode dispersion and without adding additional optic fiber. In addition, the communication system advantageously uses optical single sideband to provide better bandwidth utilization, decrease dispersion penalty, and provide flexibility in moving dispersion compensation to the electronics domain. Another advantage is that coherent detection accounts for the phase, which eliminates the impact of relative phase fluctuation between the carrier and the local oscillator.
PI(s): Christopher Allen
Almost without exception current Web retrieval systems rank documents versus queries using some variant of the ubiquitous tf*.idf (i.e. term frequency in the document * inverse document frequency in the database) formula. While effective, this method does not give the user any information regarding the timeliness of the search results. The dynamic, highly variable Web requires us to extend the model of query versus document matching by explicitly incorporating temporal knowledge.
We have developed a system that can query a collection of Web pages relative to a specific time or time frame. When looking for up to the minute information one is only interested in current information. Whether aimed at a single site, a collection of sites, or the entire World Wide Web, we have created the ability to collect, index and search online Web pages based not only on their contents but also on their dates of creation and modifications.
PI(s): Susan Gauch
For more information: http://www.ittc.ku.edu/temporal/
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