Combining Or Distributing Information Via Time Channels Patents (Class 370/498)
  • Patent number: 7945816
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method and system for transmitting data on a data channel from a source to a destination. The data channel has a plurality of wavelength channels and a throughput. The system and method include a storage application for multicasting data on each of the plurality of wavelength channels, a storage protocol extension device using buffer credits to adjust the throughput during the multicasting, and an application optimization device for managing data channel latency to achieve asymmetric mirroring behavior at the same time as the multicasting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2011
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.
    Inventor: James A. Gardner
  • Patent number: 7940723
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide for transport and logical channels to be used in wireless transmissions to and from mobile stations. In some embodiments, a mapper may be used to dynamically or statically map the transport channels to the physical channels. In some embodiments, physical layers may receive bearer traffic in physical channels and transmit the bearer traffic over corresponding radio frequency carriers. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2011
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventor: Sassan Ahmadi
  • Patent number: 7936774
    Abstract: A method for multicasting information, the method includes: utilizing a distributed media access control scheme for allocating at least one timeslot for a transmission of information from a first device to a group of peer devices and for a transmission of acknowledgement messages from the peer devices of the group; and transmitting the information in response to the allocation. A computer readable medium having code embodied therein for causing an electronic device to perform the stages of: utilizing a distributed media access control scheme for allocating at least one timeslot for a transmission of information from a first device to a group of peer devices and for a transmission of acknowledgement messages from the peer devices of the group; and transmitting the information in response to the allocation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2011
    Assignee: Wisair Ltd.
    Inventors: Yefim Kuperschmidt, Tamar Danon
  • Patent number: 7936729
    Abstract: The invention discloses a distribution method of channelization code in code division multiple access system, which including: A. the spread spectrum codes distributed to every sector and the correlated coefficients between the spread spectrum codes distributed to every neighboring sector are calculated according to the cellular codes and the channelization codes distributed to every sector, when the network is programmed; B. every sector is divided into different regions and the edge region of every sector is formed; C. the priority of which every channelization code is at the edge region of every sector is decided according to the correlated coefficients between the spread spectrum codes distributed to every neighboring sector; D. the position information of user is real-time calculated during the operation of system, and which region the user positioned in sector is determined according to the position information; E.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2011
    Assignee: China Academy of Telecommunications Technology
    Inventors: Changguo Sun, Yingmin Wang, Guiliang Yang
  • Patent number: 7929573
    Abstract: Network management information (NMI) contained in a first set of byte locations of a received frame is relocated to a second set of byte locations of another frame. The NMI is then transported through network elements using the second set of byte locations until the NMI is to be transported to a compatible network element, which can understand the NMI. At which time, the NMI is relocated back to the first set of byte locations of frames destined for the compatible network element. The relocation of the NMI from a first set of byte locations to a second set of byte locations allows the NMI to be transparently transported through incompatible network elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2011
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Charles Scott Roberson, Paul M. Elliott, Phu Son Le
  • Patent number: 7929467
    Abstract: Method for transmitting through a bidirectional communication channel at least one conventional frame (CVFR) split into time slots SLj (for j=1 to L) separated from each other by guard intervals G, each time slot SLj being allocated either to a first or to a second direction of communication uplink (UL) or downlink (DL) offered by the bidirectional communication channel. The method according to the invention includes: detecting at least two successive time slots SLj, SLm+1, SLj+2 allocated to a same direction of communication DL, and inserting data in the guard interval separating such successive time slots SLj, SLj+1, SLj+2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2011
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: David Mottier
  • Patent number: 7924884
    Abstract: The present invention is directed towards “skip” and “differential” recording techniques for recording values of network parameter to a log in a lossless manner while reducing storage resources used to record such values. The counter monitor of the present invention monitors and records values of counters at time intervals to generate a counter log provided via temporary or permanent storage. The counter monitor compares a reading of the value of the counter to a previously obtained value of the counter. If the value of the counter has not changed, the counter monitor records only the timestamp to the counter log, thereby “skipping” the recording of the unchanged value. If there is any change in the value of the counter, then the change in value of the counter, i.e., a “differential” value, along with the timestamp is stored in the counters log. To further reduce storage resource usage, the counter monitor also stores changes to the timestamps as differential changes in time values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2011
    Assignee: Citrix Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Kailash Kailash, Saravanakumar Annamalaisami
  • Patent number: 7924889
    Abstract: Methods for transmitting first packets encapsulated in second packets in a transmission system in which part of the first packets contain a first timing reference for synchronization of a receiver clock and at least part of said second packets contain a second timing reference for reducing transmission jitter of the second packets at the receiver is described. This method provides, at the transmitter, collecting first packets, determining whether a collected first packet contains a first timing reference and triggering transmission of a second packet encapsulating collected first packets including the first packet containing the first timing reference in response to a positive determination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2011
    Assignee: Thomson Licensing
    Inventors: Helmut Burklin, Jean-Francois Fleury, Mary-Luc Champel
  • Publication number: 20110080924
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for the transmission of waveforms to aid channel estimation, timing synchronization, and AGC bootstrapping in a wireless network. The method includes inserting at least one TDM pilot symbol located at a transition between wide area and local area waveforms to facilitate decoding of the transmission block.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2010
    Publication date: April 7, 2011
    Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Michael Mao Wang, Bojan Vrcelj, Krishna Kiran Mukkavilli, Raghuraman Krishnamoorthi, Ashok Mantravadi
  • Publication number: 20110069694
    Abstract: The invention discloses a method in an electronic communication device for processing a digital signal within a wireless communication network in order to transform the digital signal from a first domain representation to a second domain representation in a communication device, comprising the steps of: transforming the signal from the first domain to the second domain resulting in a signal of a first order of values with quantization noise in at least one area of the second domain, and performing a cyclic shift on the transformed signal to move the quantization noise in the second domain, resulting in a first shifted signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2008
    Publication date: March 24, 2011
    Inventors: Anders Skyman, Henrik Sahlin
  • Patent number: 7912080
    Abstract: The invention relates to a cyclical time-based communication system, for the transmission of useful data (DATA) between users of the system, which comprises a databus and users connected thereto. The data transmission occurs within cyclical repeating timeframes, each with at least two timeslots. Each timeslot is provided for the transmission of a message (Ni). A message (Ni) comprises at least part of the useful data (DATA) and each message (Ni) is provided with a code (ID). The bandwidth available for data transmission may be better utilized, if the code (ID) is placed within the message (Ni) as a part thereof, each message (Ni) is additionally provided with time information concerning the timeslot which may be extracted from the code and at least one of the timeslots within the timeframes may be used for transmission of various messages in various cycles. In a preferred embodiment the information relating to the current cycle comprises an ordinal number for the cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2011
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Josef Berwanger, Anton Schedl, Ralf Belschner, Peter Lohrmann, Matthias Kuehlewein, Thomas Fuehrer, Bernd Mueller, Florian Hartwich, Robert Hugel, Carsten Gebauer
  • Patent number: 7912092
    Abstract: A method for transmitting a transmission time interval signal in a cellular network is described. A multiplexed data signal is received. A demultiplexer is applied to the data signal. The data signal from the demultiplexer is encoded. A linear transform is applied to the data signal. A plurality of uplink transmission time interval signals, which include the data signal, are reformatted. The placement of one or more reference signals are staggered within each of the plurality of transmission time interval signals. Each of the plurality of uplink transmission time interval signals are transmitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2011
    Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventor: John M. Kowalski
  • Patent number: 7907636
    Abstract: A modem unit inputs a plurality of combinations, of control signal and data signal, which are to use a plurality of subcarriers. In a plurality of combinations the modem unit adds a first known signal for data signals contained at least in a first combination, and in a plurality of combinations inputted to an input unit it adds second known signals for a second combination and the subsequent combinations, respectively, in anterior positions. The modem unit uses part of a plurality of subcarriers for control signals contained respectively in the second combination and the subsequent combinations, and defines a second known signal in a manner that a part corresponding to the part of a plurality of subcarriers is extracted from the first known signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2011
    Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Seigo Nakao
  • Patent number: 7907642
    Abstract: A content comprises contiguous blocks containing a program stream and interleaved blocks containing interleaved program streams, wherein the program streams are divided into program units and are readable independently of one another, and the occurrence of consecutive interleaved blocks is forbidden. The content is enhanced as follows. Each program unit of the enhancement program stream is associated with a program unit of the original program stream. The enhancement program stream is interleaved in the content at the program unit level such that enhancement program units are as close as possible to the original program unit they are associated with. The occurrence of consecutive interleaved block is avoided; and the original program units point to the enhancement program units they are associated with.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2011
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
    Inventor: Tibor Novosad
  • Publication number: 20110058576
    Abstract: A method and device for improving clock stability are provided. The method includes: determining whether a difference between a current sender timestamp (ST) and a current receiver timestamp (RT) is a mutated value; pre-processing the ST and RT, if the difference between the ST and RT is a mutated value; acquiring a service clock according to the pre-processed ST and RT; and sending time division multiplex (TDM) data according to the service clock.. Through the embodiments of the present disclosure, a packet delay variance (PDV) may be smoothed, the impairment of the PDV on clock recovery may be reduced, the quality of the clock recovery may be improved, and the problem of clock synchronization may be solved through the mutation processing on the timestamps.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2010
    Publication date: March 10, 2011
    Applicant: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wenhua Sun, Xiaobo Wang, Jihui Wang, Wenguang Xu, Shengbing Yang, Youhao Deng, Bingbo Li
  • Publication number: 20110051750
    Abstract: There is provided a communication device performing communication by breaking up a frame into a plurality of links, the communication device includes a dividing means for dividing the frame into units of a predetermined size, a distributing means for distributing the units to a plurality of links, a plurality of storing means for storing the units distributed by the distributed means in payloads of transfer frames for the respective plurality of links, a timer means for measuring a timeout time based on a priority of the frame, and a transmission means for transmitting the transfer frames to another communication device via the plurality of links in one of a case where the units included in the payloads of the transfer frames becomes to a predetermined amount and a case where the timeout time measured by the timer becomes to a predetermined value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2010
    Publication date: March 3, 2011
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventor: Jun Tanaka
  • Patent number: 7894485
    Abstract: A method of carrying SDH services in PON is provided, in which tributary units carrying SDH service data are mapped into payload part of GEM frames, thereby implementing transmission of SDH services in GPON. De-capsulation is performed in reverse process at receiving end. A device of receiving or transmitting SDH services and a method of mapping SDH data frame into PON data frame are also provided. The present invention may be merged with SDH network directly since standard SDH tributary unit structure is adopted, and extraction of virtual containers that includes SDH service data and synchronism can be accomplished conveniently based on pointer adjustment mechanism adopted by tributary units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2011
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Effenberger Frank, Jun Zhao, Wei Huang, Wei Lin
  • Patent number: 7881220
    Abstract: A system and method for changing a value of a talk burst control timer, are provided. According to an embodiment, there is provided a method of controlling talk burst timer operations for a terminal that communicates with a network, the method performed by the network and comprising: receiving at least one talk burst request from the terminal; and sending, to the terminal, at least one time value for at least one talk burst control timer of the terminal, wherein the time value is decided with consideration of network environment information, and wherein the time value is sent by using a device management (DM) provisioning method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2011
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Kang-Suk Huh, Kyung-Ae Yoon
  • Patent number: 7880608
    Abstract: A System and Method for Person or Object Position Location Utilizing Impulse Radio, comprising a plurality of reference impulse radios; an object or person to be tracked having a mobile impulse radio associated therewith; an architecture with an associated positioning algorithm associated with said plurality of impulse radio reference radios and said mobile impulse radio; and display means for displaying the position of the person or object whose position is to be determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2011
    Assignee: Time Domain Corporation
    Inventors: James L. Richards, Larry W. Fullerton, Donald A. Kelly, David C. Meigs, Timothy T. Payment, James S. Finn, William J. Tucker, William D. Welch, Jr.
  • Publication number: 20110007759
    Abstract: A controller area network (CAN) controller unit has a message assembly buffer receiving a serial bitstream, a buffer memory coupled in parallel with said message assembly buffer, a CAN control unit coupled with the message assembly and the buffer memory, and at least one control register. The at least one control register can be programmed to cause the CAN control unit to store a message received in the message assembly register in at least a first and second mode, wherein in the first mode, control information and data payload of the received CAN message are stored in the buffer memory and in the second mode only the data payload of the CAN message is stored in the buffer memory.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2010
    Publication date: January 13, 2011
    Inventors: Steven G. Dawson, Tim L. Wilson, Joseph W. Triece
  • Patent number: 7869390
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method and a system for PSMP communication in a wireless communication system such as an IEEE 802.11n WLAN including an AP and multiple STAs. An example of such a PSMP communication involves transmitting a PSMP frame from the AP to the STAs over a wireless channel, detecting if the channel is idle for certain duration, and if the channel is idle for said certain duration, then performing a PSMP recovery process. The PSMP frame includes one or more STA info fields which specify schedules of periods for communication over the wireless channel in a PSMP sequence. In performing a PSMP recovery process, the AP constructs and broadcasts a PSMP recovery frame that allows STAs that missed the original PSMP frame to join the PSMP sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2011
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Harkirat Singh, Chiu Ngo
  • Patent number: 7869463
    Abstract: An information communication method, which is executed on a transmitting side, is provided. The method comprises a first step of transmitting communication data to a receiving side; and a second step of retransmitting the communication data to the receiving side without waiting for an arrival of a negative acknowledgement signal of the communication data, which arrives from the receiving side, or an elapse of a predetermined acknowledgement wait time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2011
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Kotaro Shiizaki, Daisuke Jitsukawa, Kenji Suda, Hiroyuki Seki
  • Patent number: 7869465
    Abstract: A communication system comprises a first communication unit having a plurality of application ports; and a second communication unit having a plurality of application ports and coupled to the first communication unit; wherein the first communication unit is configured to extract timeslots from a first signal having a first interface format and from a second signal having a second interface format, and to insert the extracted timeslots into a frame for transmission to the second communication unit; wherein the second communication unit is configured to pass the first interface format signal to an application port of a similar interface format and to pass the second interface format signal to an application port of a third dissimilar interface format based on the order of the extracted timeslots in the frame transmitted from the first communication unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2011
    Assignee: ADC DSL Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Xinkuan Zhou, Clifton Powers, Laxman Anne, Manish Sharma, Joe Polland
  • Patent number: 7869466
    Abstract: The invention relates to the technical field of data transmission via a transmission link according to the TDM method, corresponding to time division multiplex. Such a method is used in an audio mixing console in order to transport the sample words of a plurality of audio channels jointly to an audio DSP processor and, after processing, to transmit them back from said processor to an output processor. Since the data output process is performed in an automated manner with the aid of a DMA unit, severe interfering noise can occur in cases of error, said noise also being output via the loudspeakers. The invention is based on the aim of avoiding such interfering effects. An error detection method based on the marking of data frames is used for this. For this purpose, a number of marking bits of the time slot of the data frame are set, the bit pattern of the marking bits being alternated in a defined sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2011
    Assignee: Thomson Licensing
    Inventors: Ulrich Gries, Ulrich Schreiber, Peter Steinborn
  • Patent number: 7869464
    Abstract: A communication network comprises a first digital subscriber line (DSL) unit having a plurality of application ports and at least one DSL port; and a second DSL unit having a plurality of application ports and at least one DSL port; wherein the first DSL unit is communicatively coupled to the second DSL unit via a DSL pair coupled to the at least one DSL port in each of the first and second DSL units; and wherein each of the first and second DSL units are configured to receive a signal of a first interface format over one of the plurality of application ports, extract timeslots from the received first interface format signal, transmit the timeslots over the at least one DSL port, and use timeslots received over the at least one DSL port to generate at least one second signal of a dissimilar interface format.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2011
    Assignee: ADC DSL Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Joe Polland, Manish Kumar Sharma, Xinkuan Zhou, Fu-Chin Yang
  • Publication number: 20100329237
    Abstract: A signal receiver including an input that receives a plurality of signals from a respective plurality of channels; a multiplexer unit that receives the plurality of signals from the input and that selects, in a time-division manner, one of the plurality of signals; and at least one phase difference detector that receives the selected signal from the multiplexer unit, a number of the at least one phase difference detectors being less than a number of the plurality of channels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2010
    Publication date: December 30, 2010
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hideki Awata, Hideki Takahashi
  • Patent number: 7856283
    Abstract: A digital microphone interface includes a phase generator for generating a phase signal. A clock generator produces a digital microphone clock at a selected frequency based on the frequency select signal, and supplying the digital microphone clock to a digital microphone. A first data latch, operably coupled to the phase generator, produces a stream of first data from a first channel of the digital microphone, based on a phase select signal and the phase signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2010
    Assignee: Sigmatel, Inc.
    Inventors: Theodore Burk, Daniel T. Bogard
  • Patent number: 7856036
    Abstract: A communication network comprises a first central digital subscriber line (DSL) unit having at least one application port and a plurality of DSL ports; a first remote DSL unit having at least one application port and at least one DSL port, wherein the first remote DSL unit is communicatively coupled to the central DSL unit via a first single independent DSL pair having a first EOC channel; and a second remote DSL unit having at least one application port and at least one DSL port, wherein the second remote DSL unit is communicatively coupled to the central DSL unit via a second single independent DSL pair having a second EOC channel; wherein the at least one application port in the central DSL unit is communicatively coupled to an application port in at least one of the first remote DSL unit and the second remote DSL unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2010
    Assignee: ADC DSL Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Joe Polland, Manish Kumar Sharma, Xinkuan Zhou
  • Patent number: 7852870
    Abstract: A supervisory communications device, such as a base station within a wireless network, monitors and controls communications with a plurality of remote communications devices, such as mobile nodes, throughout a widely distributed network, including the Internet. The supervisory device establishes the upstream slot structure and allocates upstream bandwidth by sending messages over its downstream channel. The supervisory device also uses the messages and minislot counts to anticipate bursts from the remote devices. Dual registers are provided within the supervisory device to generate minislot counts. A primary register generates minislot counts for a current slot structure, and a secondary register generates minislot counts for a revised slot structure. Software executed on the supervisory device determines a switchover time for changing to the revised slot structure and revised minislot count.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2010
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventors: David Roger Dworkin, Niki Pantelias, Son Dinh Nguyen, Yushan Lu
  • Patent number: 7852880
    Abstract: The present invention provides TDM service, such as DS1, E1, or DS3, in a GPON system that is cost-effective, flexible, and that is easily configured and reconfigured. A system for telecommunications comprises circuitry operable to receive time division multiplexed data traffic, circuitry operable to form Virtual Tributary encapsulated data traffic including the time division multiplexed data traffic, circuitry operable to transmit the Virtual Tributary encapsulated data traffic, circuitry operable to receive the Virtual Tributary encapsulated data traffic, and circuitry operable to extract the time division multiplexed data traffic from the Virtual Tributary encapsulated data traffic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2010
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: David Solomon, Stephen J. Brolin
  • Patent number: 7852864
    Abstract: A method for detecting and directing traffic in a network environment is provided that includes receiving a packet included within a communication flow that is initiated by a mobile terminal and setting a flag within the packet. The method further includes directing the packet to a next destination by recognizing that the flag included within the packet was set and therefore is associated with a mobile-to-mobile communication session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2010
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Wan-yeung Au, Jayaraman R. Iyer
  • Patent number: 7852871
    Abstract: A supervisory communications device, such as a base station within a wireless network, monitors and controls communications with a plurality of remote communications devices, such as mobile nodes, throughout a widely distributed network, including the Internet. The supervisory device establishes the upstream slot structure and allocates upstream bandwidth by sending messages over its downstream channel. The supervisory device also uses the messages and minislot counts to anticipate bursts from the remote devices. Dual registers are provided within the supervisory device to generate minislot counts. A primary register generates minislot counts for a current slot structure, and a secondary register generates minislot counts for a revised slot structure. Software executed on the supervisory device determines a switchover time for changing to the revised slot structure and revised minislot count.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2010
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventors: David Roger Dworkin, Niki Pantelias, Son Dinh Nguyen, Yushan Lu
  • Patent number: 7848359
    Abstract: A system for executing distributed software under hard real-time conditions comprises a plurality of nodes and a communication channel. Nodes are allowed to transmit data across the communication channel within time windows relative to repetitive communication time intervals of the communication channel, wherein a number of bytes transmitted within the communication time windows may vary from communication time window to communication time window. The data may be transmitted as a message comprising a representation of an identifying tag and a representation of the data. Also a number of bytes representing respective tags may vary from communication time interval to communication time interval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2010
    Assignee: Wolfgang Pree GmbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Pree, Josef Templ
  • Patent number: 7848222
    Abstract: A method for transmitting signals along an interconnect in a VLSI system comprising receivers is disclosed. The VLSI based systems operate in the high Giga hertz range. The signals are transmitted along the interconnect as a localized wave packet i.e. as a pulse. The interconnect may be either electrically linear or nonlinear in nature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2010
    Assignee: Cornell Research Foundation, Inc.
    Inventors: Pingshan Wang, Edwin C. Kan
  • Patent number: 7843970
    Abstract: A technique for detecting a physical random access channel (PRACH) signal includes demasking a received signal with a demasking signal. In this case, the demasking removes a PRACH root index component from the received signal. A fast Fourier transform is performed on the demasked received signal to provide a time-domain signal. At least three peaks of the time-domain signal from all antennas are then power combined. Finally, a determination is made as to whether a preamble index for the PRACH signal matches a known preamble index based on an output power of the time-domain signal at the at least three peaks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2010
    Assignee: Motorola Mobility, Inc.
    Inventor: Weidong Yang
  • Publication number: 20100278192
    Abstract: Provided is a channel data multiplexing apparatus and method for supporting a variable transmission rate. The channel data multiplexing apparatus includes an input memory for receiving multi-channel baseband data in parallel and storing the baseband data at a first clock rate; an output memory for reading the baseband data stored in the input memory at a second clock rate and storing the baseband data; a multiplexing unit for reading the baseband data stored in the output memory in channel sequence at a third clock rate and outputting the baseband data in serial; and a control unit for controlling address processing and clock rates for data read/write (storage) from/in the input and the output memories and the multiplexing unit depending on a transmission mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2008
    Publication date: November 4, 2010
    Applicant: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Keun-Pyo Hong, Hokyom Kim, Dae-Ig Chang
  • Patent number: 7826488
    Abstract: A method for adapting the rates of a certain number of asynchronous HDLC channels (15) to a single clock domain suited for interfacing with an HDLC processor (13) through a synchronous pseudo-TDM interface (14) in which the HDLC channels are multiplexed in time and vice versa in the opposite direction. In one direction the algorithm is based on the writing of the HDLC channels in a dedicated buffer (17) and in reading these buffers with a common synchronous clock just above the expected maximum HDLC rate. The under-run condition is avoided by inserting neutral information between the end byte and the start byte of the HDLC packets when this is suggested by the buffer fill monitoring function. A simple function to locate the first and last bytes of each HDLC packet read by the buffer is hence used in combination with the buffer fill monitoring function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2010
    Assignee: Ericsson AB
    Inventors: Sergio Lanzone, Orazio Toscano
  • Patent number: 7817675
    Abstract: An apparatus and methods for handling emergency message frames (e.g., “911” call frames, etc.) sent by a station in a wireless local-area network are disclosed. The illustrative embodiment increases the probability with which an emergency message frame is accorded the singularly highest quality-of-service by modifying one or more IEEE 802.11e parameters (e.g., back-off contention window length, Arbitration Inter-Frame Space [AIFS], etc.) for a station or access point that transmits an emergency message frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2010
    Assignee: Avaya Inc.
    Inventor: Mathilde Benveniste
  • Patent number: 7808905
    Abstract: Stream data and a command output from a drive device are individually packetized in a first packet processing unit. The stream data packet and the command packet are further multiplexed, and the multiplexed data is transmitted to a transmission path using a synchronous channel. When the command output from a decoding unit is packetized in a second packet processing unit, it is packetized by multiplexing flow control information output from the decoding unit, and is transmitted to the first packet processing unit using a synchronous channel of the transmission path. Based on this flow control information, reading/writing by the drive device is controlled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2010
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Susumu Ibaraki, Akihiro Yamamoto, Toshiaki Mori, Toshikazu Hattori
  • Patent number: 7809024
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided which comprises an interconnect means (N) for coupling a plurality of processing modules (IP1-IP5) to enable a communication between the processing modules (IP1-IP5). The electronic device further comprises a plurality of network interfaces (NI) for coupling the interconnect means (N) to one of the processing modules (IP1-IP5). Furthermore, at least one time slot allocating unit (SA) is provided for allocating time slots to channels of the interconnect means (N). The time slot allocating unit (SA) comprises a plurality of slot tables (T0-T4) with a plurality of entries. Each entry corresponds to a fraction of the available bandwidth of the interconnect means (N). A first slot table of the plurality of slot tables (T0-T4) comprises at least one first entry of the plurality of entries which relates to a second slot table of the plurality of slot tables (T0-T4).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2010
    Assignee: ST-Ericsson SA
    Inventors: Edwin Rijpkema, John Dielissen
  • Publication number: 20100246607
    Abstract: Each of n signal transition detection sections detects a transition of the signal level of at least one of a first input signal or a second input signal corresponding to the signal transition detection section. A time-division control section outputs a control pulse according to a system clock when a signal transition is detected by at least one of the n signal transition detection sections. Each of n output switching sections outputs either the first or the second input signal corresponding to the output switching section as a multiplexed signal according to the control pulse.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2010
    Publication date: September 30, 2010
    Inventors: Makoto KAWAJIRI, Norihide Kinugasa, Naohisa Hatani
  • Patent number: 7804859
    Abstract: In a particular embodiment, a system includes an input/output (I/O) interface adapted to couple to a network cable to receive power and data and includes a physical transport layer (PHY) circuit including multiple channels coupled to the I/O interface. The PHY circuit is adapted to send data to and receive data from a network device via the multiple channels. The system further includes a multiplexer circuit coupled to the PHY circuit to multiplex data from the multiple channels into a multiplexed data stream and includes an isolation barrier circuit coupled to the multiplexer circuit and to a particular circuit. The isolation barrier is adapted to electrically isolate a particular circuit from the multiplexer circuit, the PHY circuit, and the I/O interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2010
    Assignee: Silicon Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: D. Matthew Landry, Phillip A. Callahan
  • Publication number: 20100238955
    Abstract: A communication device and method is provided. The communication method using a human body includes modulating data, generating a first timing signal by using the modulated data, generating a wideband pulse with a short time interval on the basis of the first timing signal, and transmitting the wideband pulse through an electrode unit that contacts a human body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2007
    Publication date: September 23, 2010
    Inventors: Jin-Bong Sung, Sung-Weon Kang, Jung-Hwan Hwang, Chang-Hee Hyoung, Jin-Kyung Kim, Duck-Gun Park
  • Patent number: 7801170
    Abstract: A communication system sets the data transmission time which is the time suitable for data transmission and the quasi-data transmission time which is the time other than the data transmission time in a period in accordance with the transmission path. Further, bits are assigned and transmitted in such a manner that data for one period can be transmitted during the data transmission period for that period and the data can be uniformly distributed over the data transmission time for the period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2010
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Wataru Matsumoto, Hidenobu Fukushima, Masafumi Narikawa
  • Patent number: 7801182
    Abstract: Information relating to a playback of divided static media data included in static media transmission data is stored in static media transmission data previous than the static media transmission data, and transmitted, thereby making it possible to determine whether there is no divided static media data originally or lost when the divided static media data is not received. Accordingly, in the case where static media such as timed text and the like is used in distribution of streaming type, when receiving no static media data, a data receiving apparatus determines whether there is no media data to be next displayed or media data is lost in the course of transmission to notify a user of loss of media data correctly. Moreover, it is possible to reduce time required for packet loss detection to execute a retransmission request without increasing pre-buffering.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2010
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Daiji Ido, Yoshinori Matsui, Masataka Sugiura
  • Patent number: 7801183
    Abstract: A method of transmission over a packet based network including providing data packets to be transmitted on the packet based network during a predetermined time interval and arranging the provided data packets in a transmission block according to desired transmission times of the data packets, such that one or more gaps remain between at least some of the data packets. The method further includes adding padding bytes to the transmission block in a manner which substantially fills the one or more gaps and providing the block for transmission on the packet based network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2010
    Assignee: Imagine Communications Ltd.
    Inventors: Ron Gutman, Doron Segev
  • Publication number: 20100226393
    Abstract: Data communication sub-slots of a cycle in a time division mode are allocated to communication apparatuses; a maintenance communication sub-slot is allocated to the communication apparatus operating as a master communication apparatus; the communication apparatuses perform data communication with the use of the data communication sub-slots allocated thereto; and the communication apparatus uses the maintenance communication sub-slot to change or monitor information about the communication of the communication apparatuses in the time division mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2006
    Publication date: September 9, 2010
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Koutarou Sugisawa, Satoshi Mizogami, Takahiro Kamada
  • Patent number: 7792121
    Abstract: Serialized data from broadcast services is provided to a broadcast server for transmitting to one or more client devices. The serialized data may correspond to shared data, private data, or control data. Data is scheduled for transmission based on weighted priorities including quality of service metrics. The transmission frame is arranged according to a frame protocol that includes provisions for a table of contents indexing system for the shared data. Packets of shared data are formatted based on criteria that is known by the particular broadcast service and corresponding application that is resident on the client device. The client device receives the table of contents at the transport layer, and notifies applications of data that will be available in the next frame. Applications submit prioritized requests to the transport layer, requesting data in the next frame. Data is retrieved by the transport layer, and deserialized by handlers for each application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2010
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: R. Donald Thompson, III, Davide Massarenti, Cosmin A. Corbea, Gerald F. Cermak, Gideon A. Yuval
  • Patent number: 7787576
    Abstract: A time synchronized measurement system has a master device and a slave device. The master device and the slave device each have a time measurement device for assigning a corresponding time of sending and/or receiving a piece of measurement information. The master device also has a reference clock pulse-generating device for transmitting a reference clock signal to the slave device. The reference clock signal is modulated by a piece of information on a common time basis for the master device and the slave device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2010
    Assignee: Tektronix, Inc.
    Inventors: Sven Foerster, Steffen Schmack, Michael Schuricht, Hans-Ulrich Vollmer
  • Patent number: 7787448
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a method and a system for transparent transport of optical channel transmission unit (OTU) signals via an optical transport network (OTN), which includes a transmitting unit and a receiving unit at the OTN network boundary: the transmitting unit converts an OTUj signal mapping entering the OTN network into OTUk signals of the current OTN network for transmission. In the mean time, it reserves the OTUj control overhead, or extracts the OTUj control overhead and transfers it to the reserved overhead location; the receiving unit receives the OTUk signals arriving at the OTN network boundary, and performs demapping and converting them into OTUj signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2010
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jianmei Zhang