A game for measuring and ranking the sport fishing skills of players, played on a course including a body of water having several designated and marked fishing locations, includes the steps of fishing at a given fishing location until a fish is caught, proceeding to the next fishing location until all fishing locations are fished, recording the number of casts required to catch a fish at each fishing location, and computing scores for each player based at least in part on the total number of cas...

A system to display an image including a first memory for storing picture data representing the image attribute data to qualify the picture data. The attribute data includes embedded synchronization data. The system further includes a circuit that produces the image by scanning the picture data qualified by the attribute data onto to a display in accordance with the synchronization data. This invention further provides for storing the synchronization data within the attribute data enabling the s...

The invention disclosed is an optical fiber which includes a central core glass region with a first refractive index profile. The fiber includes a second core glass region adjacent to and surrounding said central region, said second region having a thickness that varies along an axial direction of said second region and having a second refractive index profile that differs from said first profile. Additionally, the invention includes an optical fiber preform that can be drawn into the above fibe...

A low profile lighting system for military or other heavy equipment vehicles that includes a high intensity discharge (HID) headlight, and light emitting diode (LED) turn signals and running light. A microprocessor controller is included to interface to the vehicle lighting control system. An electromechanical actuator lifts and holds the light unit in place. The light unit is mounted on a hidden hinge in an armored and signature managed housing. The unique hinge design allows for electromechani...

A single-mode optical waveguide fiber designed to limit power penalty due to four wave mixing and a method of making the waveguide is disclosed. Variations in properties, e.g., radius or refractive index, of the waveguide fiber core provide a total dispersion which varies along the length of the waveguide. The algebraic sum of products of length times total dispersion is controlled to a pre-selected value for each waveguide fiber which makes up a system link Proper choice of total dispersion var...

Establishment and maintenance of a managed community. In this disclosure there is an approach and tool that enables an administration tool to manage communities whose information resides in separate and differently structured directories and databases. In addition, this disclosure describes an approach and tool that enables an administration tool to establish information to be managed from the broad range of directories and databases, which includes defining information that is to be managed and...

A managed private network ("MPN") system for interconnecting enterprise entities to subscriber entities. The MPN system uses the ATM protocol and segregates data for an enterprise on to virtual connections dedicated to the enterprise. Each enterprise may have a single connection to the MPN system. The MPN system may forward data to various service providers through which subscriber entities may be connected to the MPN system. Thus, the enterprise entities need not have a separate physical connec...

A system and method for facilitating cross-process access into a managed code process is useful in an embodiment of the invention for debugging managed code without perturbing the process being accessed or requiring the code under test to be running during debugging. A compiler according to an embodiment of the invention is used to produce mirror code wherein in-process pointers have been replaced with cross-process pointers in order to mirror the address space of the process under test to the a...

This invention concerns a method for organizing the execution of Common Management Information Protocol (CMIP) requests in an Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) environment by providing main threads and sub-threads within each main thread for simultaneous processing of multiple CMIP requests. In brief, a main thread is started sequentially for executing incoming CMIP requests, the main thread checks whether a particular managed object is available, i.e. not locked, lock it, and starts a sub-thre...

Disclosed is a dispersion managed optical waveguide fiber. The power loss due to four wave mixing is kept low by making the waveguide from sub-lengths of fiber which have non-zero dispersion. The sign of the total dispersion of the sub-lengths is made to alternate along the length of the waveguide, thereby allowing the total dispersion of the waveguide to be managed to a pre-selected target value. It has been discovered that the best performance is obtained when the zero dispersion wavelengths o...