Patents Examined by Eva Tang
  • Patent number: 6064664
    Abstract: A base-band interleaver for forward traffic and paging channel for CDMA mobile telecommunication system with reduced memory size for data interleaving and more simplified construction. Modulo-16 circuit divides an index by a numeral 16, the index being a selected one of successive indexes 0 to 383 corresponding to input data, and provides a remainder. Bit invertor makes bit inversion of an output from the modulo-16 circuit and determines a column position to write in the data with interleaving taken. Quotient-16 circuit produces a quotient of dividing of the index by the numeral 16. Code converter has a row table by which the quotient is respectively matched to a row position to be written with interleaving taken, for generating a row position corresponding to the quotient. 24-based counter provides a 24-based counted value corresponding to a selected row of output data to read out. 16-based counter provides a 16-based counted value corresponding to a selected column of output data to read out.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 1997
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2000
    Assignee: SamSung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jung-Sik Kim
  • Patent number: 6034947
    Abstract: Provided is a cross connection system for time-division multiplexed signals, upon detection of deterioration in quality, performs line setting to easily switch to a line having another directional orientation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2000
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Hiroshi Yoshida, Hideo Sunaga, Masashi Tanaka
  • Patent number: 6031847
    Abstract: The present invention comprises a dynamic skew compensation circuit. The present invention includes a receiver, a plurality of channel inputs built into the receiver, and a delay stack structure coupled to the plurality of channel inputs. The receiver is adapted to accept data from a parallel data transfer cable. The channel inputs couple to each of the individual communications channels which comprise the parallel data transfer cable. The delay stack structure includes a plurality of delay stacks, each coupled to a respective channel input. Each delay stack dynamically selects an additional delay amount for its respective communications channel such that each communications channel of the parallel data transfer cable is deskewed with respect to the others. In so doing, the distances across which data can be received and the speeds at which data is transferred via the parallel data transfer cable is increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 29, 2000
    Assignee: Silicon Graphics, Inc
    Inventors: Hansel Anthony Collins, Paul Everhardt, David Parry, Greg Chesson
  • Patent number: 6005858
    Abstract: A telecommunications switching system (1) has a switch unit (2) having switches (9) controlled by local modules (10). These modules implement instructions which are either in-build or are received from remote modules (20) on machines (6, 7, 8) which communicate via a central router (3). This allows almost unlimited processing scalability and versatility. An application object base (21) has an object corresponding directly to a local module (10) or a subset thereof and a signal base (22) provides signal-level commands understood by the local module (10). A signal transfer function (23) on the remote machine (6), and a signal transfer function (11) on the switch unit (2) provide for direct transfer of signals in both directions. There is no need to modify the local modules (10) as the signal transfer function (11) is addressable as a local module and the remote aspect of the interaction is transparent to the local modules (10).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 21, 1999
    Assignee: Ericsson Invention Ireland Limited
    Inventors: Liam Fallon, Michael Adams, James O'Meara
  • Patent number: 5995506
    Abstract: A communication system includes a data-transmitting unit, at least one data-receiving unit, and a network connecting the data-transmitting unit and the at least one data-receiving device with each other. The data-transmitting unit comprises a first network circuit that adds identification information for identifying attributes of data for transmission to the data for transmission and changes the identification information when there is a change in the attributes of the data for transmission. The at least one data-receiving unit each comprise a second network circuit that delivers a signal demanding attribute information indicative of the attributes of the data when there is a change in the identification information added to the data received from the data-transmitting unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 30, 1999
    Assignee: Yamaha Corporation
    Inventor: Junichi Fujimori
  • Patent number: 5970066
    Abstract: A virtual ethernet interface interconnects a first computer at a customer premise with an ethernet local area network (LAN) at a central office that is connected to the customer premise via a digital subscriber line (DSL). The virtual ethernet interface comprises a virtual interface card connected to the first computer and a physical interface card connected to a second computer that is in communication with the ethernet hub. On start up, the central office computer sends the MAC address associated with the ethernet interface of the physical interface card back to the virtual interface card of the first computer. Thus, the virtual ethernet interface allows the first computer to form ethernet frames using the MAC address of the physical interface card so that it appear as though they were originated from the second computer. Further, the first computer can receive frames taken from the ethernet LAN by the physical interface card and transmitted to the virtual interface card over the DSL link.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 19, 1999
    Assignee: Paradyne Corporation
    Inventors: Gerard P. Lowry, Michael J. Pepsin
  • Patent number: 5946319
    Abstract: An ISDN communication apparatus of the present invention can accept termination of information when this information is received even when there is no idle B channel. The ISDN communication apparatus comprises at least one ISDN line interface (1) connected to the ISDN line, a multiplex link forming circuit (3) connected to a plurality of B channels to form a logical link through the multiplex conversion and a point R interface (2) connected to the logical link formed of the multiplex link forming circuit. When the D-ch interface(12) detects the distant party address from the termination information from the distant communication apparatus, the main control circuit (4) compares the distant party address with the previously set reference address to detect whether these are matched or not.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 31, 1999
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Yoshikazu Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 5926468
    Abstract: A Data Link is established for communicating messages between the first entity and the second entity via Information Frames communicated between a first Data Link Layer at the first entity and a second Data Link Layer at the second entity. An Information Frame addressed to the second Data Link Layer, preferably indicating a normal condition for the Data Link, is transmitted from the first Data Link Layer. The first and second Data Link Layers are reset if it is determined that a transmitted Information Frames fails to be communicated from the first Data Link Layer to the second Data Link Layer. An Information Frame addressed to the second Data Link Layer, preferably indicating a normal condition for the Data Link, is transmitted from the first Data Link Layer after the first and second Data Link Layers are reset. The Data Link preferably is maintained from the first step of transmitting through the second step of transmitting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 1997
    Date of Patent: July 20, 1999
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson
    Inventors: Randy G. Chapman, Andrew S. Wright
  • Patent number: 5917817
    Abstract: This invention allows customers and other users of the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) to enable, disable or modify special services provided by the network. The PSTN is defined here as all equipment world wide (land-based, radio or other) enabling ordinary telephone users to connect to other telephone users, but excludes private telephone networks such as "tie line" systems maintained or leased by private enterprises. Presently contemplated actions can be taken independent of the state of the customer's telephone line (e.g. on-hook or off-hook), and usually involve use of equipment other than telephones and communication networks other than the PSTN (e.g. computers operating through the Internet and pagers operating through pager networks). The special services include existing services (call waiting, call blocking, call forwarding, etc.) and new ones (e.g. transferring an active call from a desk phone to a mobile cellular one without interrupting the call).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 1996
    Date of Patent: June 29, 1999
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: James M. Dunn, Alan George Ganek, Colin George Harrison, Edith Helen Stern, Barry Edward Willner