Abstract: An arrangement for providing synchronization between a number of overlapping area access points within a wireless LAN utilizes an Ethernet cable connection to transmit synchronization signals from a centralized hub/switch to each of the access points connected to the cable. The synchronization signal takes the form of a direct sequence spread spectrum (DS-SS) signal. At each access point, a filter is used to recover the synchronization signal, allowing for the group of access points to share a common beacon signal and allowing frequency re-use among the access points.
Type:
Application
Filed:
September 19, 2013
Publication date:
January 16, 2014
Applicant:
AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P. (formerly known as AT&T Corp.)
Inventors:
Saeed S. Ghassemzadeh, Robert Raymond Miller, John F. Murray
Abstract: A method and apparatus for utilizing temporal prediction and motion compensated prediction to accomplish multiple description video coding is disclosed. An encoder receives a sequence of video frames and divides each frame into non-overlapping macroblocks. Each macroblock is then encoded using either an intraframe mode (I-mode) or a prediction mode (P-mode) technique. Both the I-mode and the P-mode encoding techniques produce an output for each of n channels used to transmit the encoded video data.
Type:
Application
Filed:
June 11, 2012
Publication date:
November 29, 2012
Applicant:
AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P. (formerly known as AT&T Corp)
Inventors:
Michael Orchard, Hamid Jafarkhani, Amy Reibman, Yao Wang
Abstract: A method includes receiving, at a transmit site, a first stream of packets addressed to an end user device in a first address space. The first stream of packets is encapsulated to form a second stream of packets addressed in a second address space. A first packet of the second stream of packets is assigned to a first radio frequency channel of a plurality of radio frequency channels. A second packet of the second stream of packets is assigned to a second radio frequency channel of the plurality of radio frequency channels. The first packet is transmitted via the first radio frequency channel and, in parallel, the second packet is transmitted via the second radio frequency channel.
Type:
Application
Filed:
July 6, 2011
Publication date:
October 27, 2011
Applicant:
AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P. (formerly known as AT&T CORP.)
Inventors:
Bhavesh N. Desai, Nemmara K. Shankaranarayanan, David Hilton Shur, Aleksandra Smiljanic, Todd J. Totland, Jacobus E. van der Merwe, Sheryl Leigh Woodward
Abstract: An exemplary embodiment of the invention relates to a method of using pattern vectors for image coding and decoding. The method comprises converting a block of image data into a set of transform coefficients, quantizing the transform coefficients such that a number of the coefficients become zero, constructing a single entity or bit vector indicating which coefficients are non-zero, coding the single entity or bit vector as an integer using an adaptive, semi-adaptive or non-adaptive arithmetic coder, coding the values of the coefficients in any fixed order, using an adaptive, semi-adaptive or non-adaptive arithmetic coder, or some other coder, and coding all coefficients except the zero coefficients. The system and method of decoding data relate to the corresponding hardware and process steps performed by the decoder when decoding a bitstream coded as described herein.
Type:
Application
Filed:
October 16, 2008
Publication date:
February 12, 2009
Applicant:
AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P., formerly known as AT&T Corp.
Abstract: A video coding system that codes video objects as scalable video object layers. Data of each video object may be segregated into one or more layers. A base layer contains sufficient information to decode a basic representation of the video object. Enhancement layers contain supplementary data regarding the video object that, if decoded, enhance the basic representation obtained from the base layer. The present invention thus provides a coding scheme suitable for use with decoders of varying processing power. A simple decoder may decode only the base layer of video objects to obtain the basic representation. However, more powerful decoders may decode the base layer data of video objects and additional enhancement layer data to obtain improved decoded output. The coding scheme supports enhancement of both the spatial resolution and the temporal resolution of video objects.
Type:
Application
Filed:
October 17, 2008
Publication date:
February 12, 2009
Applicant:
AT & T Intellectual Property II, L.P. formerly known as AT&T Corp.
Inventors:
Barin Geoffry Haskell, Atul Puri, Robert Lewis Schmidt