Demultiplexing Single Signal Into Plural Parallel Channels (e.g., Parallel Transmission For Increasing Transmission Speed) Patents (Class 370/536)
  • Patent number: 11863369
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a network control method and a data processing system that enable to efficiently perform transfer processing on a large amount of data. A network connection device sends, to a data processing device prior to original data, event data indicating a change amount at a predetermined time point of sensor data that is the original data generated by a sensor device, and sends the original data to the data processing device on the basis of a request from the data processing device for the original data. The present technology can be applied to, for example, a network control method of cloud computing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yasuaki Yamagishi
  • Patent number: 11581282
    Abstract: In embodiments, a semiconductor package may include a first die and a second die. The package may additionally include a serializer/deserializer (SerDes) die coupled with the first and the second dies. The SerDes die may be configured to serialize signals transmitted from the first die to the second die, and deserialize signals received from the second die. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Adel A. Elsherbini, Johanna M. Swan, Shawna M. Liff, Gerald S. Pasdast
  • Patent number: 11418294
    Abstract: An apparatus (e.g., receive chain) for wireless communications may perform de-interleaving, de-rate matching, and hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) combining in a single step. The apparatus may include a data pool configured to store HARQ log likelihood ratio (LLR) data from previous transmissions. The apparatus may include a HARQ onload controller configured to load HARQ LLR data from the HARQ data pool into a HARQ buffer. The apparatus may include an LLR buffer configured to store received demodulated, interleaved, and rate matched LLR data. The apparatus may include a plurality of processing engines configured to, starting at different locations of the LLR buffer: receive new input data from the LLR buffer; combine the HARQ LLR data from the HARQ buffer with the new input data to generate de-interleaved, de-rate matched, and HARQ combined data; and write the de-interleaved, de-rate matched, and HARQ combined data into the HARQ buffer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Cunzhen Liu, Alessandro Risso, Li Zhang
  • Patent number: 11310670
    Abstract: A network capacity adjustment is described herein. The network device determines an experience blocking ratio of a cell based on a quantity of concurrent users of the cell and a quantity of equivalent channels of the cell, determines an experience blocking ratio of a cell based on a traffic volume distribution model in the cell, or determines an experience blocking ratio of a cell based on an actual experience rate of each session and a required single-user experience rate. The quantity of equivalent channels of the cell are adjusted based on the experience blocking ratio of the cell. A network capacity of the cell is adjusted based on the experience blocking ratio of the cell, so that an adjusted network capacity of the cell can satisfy user experience.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jiantao Song, Qiyong Zhao
  • Patent number: 10997919
    Abstract: A display device includes a display area of various shapes, has a reduced dead space, and displays an image. Further, the display device includes a display unit including a rounded corner portion, a first driving voltage supply line arranged in a first direction in a non-display area on one side of the display unit, a plurality of first driving voltage lines which supplies a driving voltage to a plurality of pixels and is arranged in a second direction that intersects with the first direction and being connected to the first driving voltage supply line, and a plurality of second driving voltage lines disconnected from the first driving voltage supply line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yanghee Kim, Wonkyu Kwak, Byungsun Kim, Bongwon Lee, Sujin Lee
  • Patent number: 10965490
    Abstract: A method includes dividing, at a cable modem termination system, a transmit stream into multiple data streams. The multiple data streams include a first data stream and a second data stream. Each of the multiple data streams has a lower bit rate than a bit rate of the transmit stream. The method includes transmitting, via the cable modem termination system, the first data stream over at least a first channel of a group of channels. The method also includes transmitting, via the cable modem termination system, the second data stream over at least a second channel of the group of channels. The group of channels supports traffic to a plurality of destinations. The first channel and the second channel are frequency-division multiplexed channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY II, L.P.
    Inventors: Bhavesh N. Desai, Nemmara K. Shankaranarayanan, David Hilton Shur, Aleksandra Smiljanic, Todd J. Totland, Jacobus E. Van der Merwe, Sheryl Leigh Woodward
  • Patent number: 10887659
    Abstract: A Video on Demand (VOD) service provides VOD offering in response to a graphical user interface (GUI) screen that renders a guide of available VOD offerings. A concurrent stream of promotional content is also rendered along with the VOD offerings, and displays various VOD offerings and advertising media, typically rendered in a screen portion adjacent the VOD guide offerings. Such promotional content is often referred to as “barker” content and is delivered over a barker channel that transmits in parallel with the VOD guide. Delivery of the VOD guide and associated barker channel content includes a redundant barker player and failover processing that identifies failed barker content transmission (streaming) and commences transmission from a standby barker player with minimal interruption to the rendered viewer experience.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: Charter Communications Operating, LLC
    Inventors: Jeremy P. Meissner, David C. Langdon, Jr.
  • Patent number: 10839753
    Abstract: A display may have rows and columns of pixels. Gate lines may be used to supply gate signals to rows of the pixels. Data lines may be used to supply data signals to columns of the pixels. The data lines may include alternating even and odd data lines. Data lines may be organized in pairs each of which includes one of the odd data lines and an adjacent one of the even data lines. Demultiplexer circuitry may be configured dynamically during data loading and pixel sensing operations. During data loading, data from display driver circuitry may be supplied, alternately to odd pairs of the data lines and even pairs of the data lines. During sensing, the demultiplexer circuitry may couple a pair of the even data lines to sensing circuitry in the display driver circuitry and then may couple a pair of the odd data lines to the sensing circuitry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Chin-Wei Lin, Majid Gharghi, Mohammad Reza Esmaeili Rad, Yun Wang, Jie Won Ryu, Kingsuk Brahma, Shingo Hatanaka, Shinya Ono, Ting-Kuo Chang
  • Patent number: 10769099
    Abstract: A device includes a plurality of blocks. Each block of the plurality of blocks includes a plurality of rows. Each row of the plurality of rows includes a plurality of configurable elements and a routing line, whereby each configurable element of the plurality of configurable elements includes a data analysis element comprising a plurality of memory cells, wherein the data analysis element is configured to analyze at least a portion of a data stream and to output a result of the analysis. Each configurable element of the plurality of configurable elements also includes a multiplexer configured to transmit the result to the routing line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Harold B Noyes, David R. Brown, Paul Glendenning, Paul D. Dlugosch
  • Patent number: 10504407
    Abstract: A display panel includes a pixel block, a data circuit, and a data source. The pixel block includes a first sub-pixel coupled to a first data line, and N second sub-pixels. Each second sub-pixel of the N second sub-pixels is coupled to a corresponding second data line of N second data lines. The data circuit includes N switches. Each switch of the N switches is coupled to a corresponding second sub-pixel. When N voltage levels are sequentially outputted from the data source to the first data line and the N second data lines, the N switches are disabled sequentially.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: AU OPTRONICS CORP.
    Inventors: Shuo-Wen Jang, Jui-Chi Lo
  • Patent number: 10481918
    Abstract: Techniques to determine an execution path in a distributed environment are disclosed. A call to a method or function of a component of the distributed system is received, in connection with a request from a user of the distributed system. A unique correlation identifier that includes data that identifies the component, the request, and the method of function called is generated for the call.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: EMC Corporation
    Inventor: Vinod Kumar
  • Patent number: 10397142
    Abstract: A multi-chip structure comprises a switch system on chip (switch SOC), a plurality of serializer/deserializer (SerDes) chips positioned around the switch SOC, and a plurality of inter-chip interfaces for connecting the switch SOC to the plurality of SerDes chips, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: MediaTek Inc.
    Inventors: Yan-Bin Luo, Hao-Hui Yin, Chih-Ching Yu, Yao-Chun Su
  • Patent number: 10343606
    Abstract: A camera system for a vehicle that includes a camera unit having a serializer and a control unit having a deserializer connected to the serializer is provided. The deserializer includes a plurality of data contacts for parallel data output. One or more of the data contacts are data contact general purpose inputs/outputs (GPIO) pins that communicates with GPIO pins of a data processing unit of the control unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: Connaught Electronics Ltd.
    Inventors: Mutlu Aydin, Ganapathi Ramachandra, Mohammed Nasr
  • Patent number: 10277424
    Abstract: Time, frequency and waveform division multiplex schemes are used to efficiently estimate multiple uplink channels in a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN). Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) and multi-user Multiple Input Multiple Output (MU-MIMO) approaches provide efficient uplink data transmission. An Access Point (AP) communicates with multiple Stations (STAs) in the WLAN. In some approaches, two or more STAs are addressed and the two or more STAs respond at the same time. The AP receives a composite signal and separates the responses to estimate the uplink channel from each STA. After the AP learns the uplink channels, the AP triggers data transmission from one or more of the WLAN STAs by sending a synchronizing trigger message. In some embodiments, the STAs respond simultaneously with data transmissions to the AP.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Guoqing Li, Joonsuk Kim, Yong Liu, Christiaan A. Hartman, Su Khiong Yong
  • Patent number: 10142248
    Abstract: A method implemented by a network element (NE), comprising forwarding one or more initial packets in a packet flow from a source to a destination along an initial route having an initial route packet delay, obtaining an updated route having an updated route packet delay less than the initial route packet delay, and delaying transmission of a subsequent packet over the updated route by an amount of time determined in accordance with the initial route packet delay, the updated route packet delay and an inter-packet delay associated with the packet flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Mehdi Arashmid Akhavain Mohammadi
  • Patent number: 10141936
    Abstract: An integrated circuit may have pipelined interconnects that are configurable to operate in registered single data rate mode, registered double data rate mode, or in combinational mode. The pipelined interconnect may include routing multiplexers for selecting incoming signals, circuitry for serialization and de-serialization, and memory elements that are configurable to store one or two signals per clock period. Operating the pipeline interconnects in double data rate mode may provide a trade-off between reducing the number of physical wires that are required to implement a design at a constant bandwidth or increasing the bandwidth while keeping the number of physical wires constant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: Altera Corporation
    Inventors: David Lewis, Herman Henry Schmit, Carl Ebeling
  • Patent number: 9871737
    Abstract: A method, device and system for implementing bidirectional traffic on the same path in an aggregation group are provided, wherein the method includes that a portal of an LAG receives indication information sent by an opposite end of the LAG, wherein the indication information carries port indexes of the opposite end and/or a traffic distribution method of the opposite end; the portal determines port indexes of the portal and/or traffic distribution method of the portal according to the indication information; the portal distributes traffic according to the determined port indexes and/or traffic distribution method The disclosure solves a technical problem in the prior art that port protection cannot be implemented due to the inability to ensure that traffic of the same service can be transmitted on the same aggregation link, thus effectively ensuring that the same service selects the same aggregation link bi-directionally on two ends of an aggregation group and implementing the technical effect of protection
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2018
    Assignee: XI'AN ZHONGXING NEW SOFTWARE CO. LTD.
    Inventor: Ting Ao
  • Patent number: 9842559
    Abstract: A demultiplexer circuit (12) of a display device according to one aspect of the present invention includes signal input lines (Vn), control lines (BSW, GSW, and RSW), and sampling transistors (13R2, 13G2, and 13B1). Sampling transistors connected to one signal input line includes first and second sampling transistors. A first sampling transistor (13B1) includes a control electrode (17) which branches to a first branch part (17a) and a second branch part (17b), either one of an input electrode (15) and an output electrode (18) that are disposed between a first branch part (17a) and a second branch part (17b), and other one of an input electrode (15) and an output electrode (18) that are disposed outside of a first branch part (17a) and a second branch part (17b).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takahiro Yamaguchi, Yuhichiroh Murakami, Yasushi Sasaki
  • Patent number: 9837038
    Abstract: A display panel uses demultiplexers to reduce numbers of data lines, and divides the data lines into groups being coupled to the demultiplexers respectively. The demultiplexers are disposed along an edge of the display region and compliant to the outline of the display panel, so as to save the layout space. In addition, the layout of control lines of the demultiplexers can be configured to more effectively utilize the layout space in the layout region. Furthermore, the aforementioned layout helps reduce the length of the conductive lines, and improves the transmission of signals in the conductive lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: Au Optronics Corporation
    Inventor: Chia-Hwa Lee
  • Patent number: 9825730
    Abstract: A serial communication link includes a receiver and a transmitter coupled to the receiver by a first serial communication lane operating at a first speed, and a second serial communication lane operating at a second speed. The second speed is slower than the first speed. The transmitter can include bit steering logic that receives a data stream, provides a first number of bits of the data stream to the first serial communication lane, and provides a second number of bits to the second serial communication lane. The proportion of the first number of bits to the second number of bits is the same as a proportion of the first speed to the second speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: DELL PRODUCTS, LP
    Inventors: Stuart Allen Berke, Bhyrav M. Mutnury
  • Patent number: 9767062
    Abstract: A Serializer/Deserializer (SerDes) is described with an architecture that simultaneously provides flexibility for many different gear ratios as well as reduced power consumption. The SerDes utilizes latches where flops were previously used to help reduce power consumption, among other things. The SerDes also includes a main register bank with a plurality of sub-banks that can be filled according to any number of different schemes, thereby enabling the SerDes to accommodate different output widths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: AVAGO TECHNOLOGIES GENERAL IP (SINGAPORE) PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Darrin C. Miller, Peter J. Meier, Gilbert Yoh
  • Patent number: 9692590
    Abstract: In one aspect, a method includes receiving n data bits in parallel, receiving a data command signal, receiving a clock signal, transmitting the n bits in serial and encoding one of the n bits, after receiving the data command signal, to include at least three logical states. The number of states is a function of the clock signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: RAYTHEON COMPANY
    Inventors: Gary J. Rommel, Johnathan W. Craig
  • Patent number: 9531483
    Abstract: UEs are adapted to facilitate calculation of signal-to-interference ratio (SIR) estimates in closed-loop transmission diversity (CLTD) communications before downlink and uplink synchronization is achieved. A UE may receive a transmission sent using transmission diversity. According to one example, the UE may calculate a plurality of signal-to-interference ratio (SIR) estimates for the received transmission, where each signal-to-interference ratio estimate is calculated using a different weight factor. The UE may further select one of the calculated signal-to-interference ratio (SIR) estimates to be employed for the received transmission. According to another example, the UE may calculate a signal-to-interference ratio (SIR) estimate for the received transmission without employing any weight factor. Other aspects, embodiments, and features are also included.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Wei Zhang, Guang Xie, Nate Chizgi, Prashant Udupa Sripathi, Todd Nicholas Tsakiris
  • Patent number: 9438385
    Abstract: A method and system for transmitting data is provided. The method includes receiving by a first interface device, data. The data is divided into a plurality of data packets and stored within an internal buffer. A first group of data packets are transmitted to a network node communicatively coupled to the first interface device. The first group of data packets are transmitted from the first communication device to a second interface device via a first communication network. A second group of data packets are transmitted to a first communication device communicatively coupled to the first interface device. The second group of data packets are transmitted from the first communication device to the second interface device via a second communication network associated with the first communication device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: First Principles, Inc.
    Inventor: Keith A Raniere
  • Patent number: 9374171
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an optical transport system configured to transport an amplitude-modulated optical signal generated at the transmitter using single-sideband modulation of an optical carrier and detected at the receiver using direct optical detection. The receiver is configured to estimate the level of signal-signal beat interference (SSBI) in the electrical signal generated upon direct detection of the received optical signal by first converting this electrical signal into a modified baseband signal configured for single-sideband modulation and then squaring and appropriately scaling this modified baseband signal. The receiver is further configured to subtract the estimated level of SSBI from the electrical signal generated by the direct optical detector and to process the resulting corrected electrical signal to recover the data encoded in the amplitude-modulated optical signal. Example analog and digital circuits for estimating the level of SSBI at the receiver are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Sebastian A. Randel, Dario Pilori
  • Patent number: 9264350
    Abstract: A network system, method, and device are provided for improving network communication performance between at least a first client site and a second client site, where the first client site and the second client site are at a distance from one another that is such that would usually require long haul network communication. The network system includes at least one network bonding/aggregation computer system for bonding or aggregating one or more diverse network connections so as to configure a bonded/aggregated connection that has increased throughput; and at least one network server component, configured to interoperate with the client site network component, the network server component including a server/concentrator or a cloud concentrator element that is implemented at an access point to an multiple protocol label switching network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: TELOIP INC.
    Inventor: Patricio Humberto Saavedra
  • Patent number: 9166916
    Abstract: In a modular switching device that includes a plurality of packet processors interconnected by a plurality of connecting devices, one or more data packets are received at a first packet processor. The first packet processor generates a communication frame that includes at least a portion of a first data packet among the one or more data packets. The first packet processor divides the communication frame into a plurality of transmission units, includes a communication frame identifier in respective transmission units, and includes a respective position identifier in respective transmission units. The transmission units are transmitted to the plurality of connecting devices via a first plurality of uplinks, and the plurality of connecting devices transmits the transmission units to the second packet processor via a second plurality of uplinks. The communication frame is reassembled from the plurality of transmission units using the communication frame identifier and the position identifiers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignees: Marvell International Ltd., Marvell Israel (M.I.S.L) Ltd.
    Inventors: Tal Mizrahi, Carmi Arad, Martin White, Tsahi Daniel, Yoram Revah, Ehud Sivan
  • Patent number: 9099054
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display generates k DEMUX control signals for controlling the turn-on time of the DEMUX switches so as not to overlap with each other, and generates at least some of the DEMUX control signals every 2 horizontal periods, and makes 1 pulse sustaining period of the DEMUX control signals generated every 2 horizontal periods to overlap with a tail portion of the preceding horizontal period and a front portion of the subsequent horizontal period, among two neighboring horizontal periods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Sangho Kim
  • Patent number: 9100904
    Abstract: A method and system for matching bandwidth is provided. The method includes receiving by a first interface device, data. The data is divided into a plurality of data packets and stored within an internal buffer. A first data packet is transmitted to a first communication device communicatively coupled to the first interface device. The first data packet is transmitted from the first communication device to a second interface device via a first communication network. A second data packet is transmitted to a second communication device communicatively coupled to the first interface device. The second data packet is transmitted from the second communication device to the second interface device via a second communication network associated with the second communication device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignee: FIRST PRINCIPLES, INC.
    Inventor: Keith A. Raniere
  • Patent number: 9014219
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a switch includes a processor adapted for executing logic, logic adapted for receiving link aggregation (LAG) information about a first peer switch, logic adapted for storing the LAG information about the first peer switch, and logic adapted for using the LAG information about the first peer switch and LAG information about the switch to determine load balancing across one or more connections between the switch and the first peer switch. In another embodiment, a method for exchanging LAG information between peer switches includes receiving LAG information about a first peer switch at a second peer switch, storing the LAG information about the first peer switch, and using the LAG information about the first peer switch and LAG information about the second peer switch to determine load balancing across one or more connections between the first and second peer switches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Sisir Chowdhury, David Iles, Keshav G. Kamble, Vijoy A. Pandey
  • Patent number: 8989137
    Abstract: A transmission method simultaneously transmitting a first modulated signal and a second modulated signal at a common frequency performs precoding on both signals using a fixed precoding matrix and regularly changes the phase of at least one of the signals, thereby improving received data signal quality for a reception device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Yutaka Murakami, Tomohiro Kimura, Mikihiro Ouchi
  • Patent number: 8964781
    Abstract: Aspects relate to a Remote NodeB Relay that appears similar to a NodeB, a Radio Network Controller (RNC), and served mobile devices. Also provided is a Super-Light Router Relay that can provide better performance and QoS to served mobile devices while mitigating modifications to mobile devices, NodeBs, or interfaces between RNC and intermediary NodeBs. Aspects also relate to an Internet Protocol (IP) Relay that requires few, if any, modifications to mobile devices, NodeBs, or interfaces between RNC and intermediary NodeBs. Further, changes to an RNC and/or a core network can be mitigated though utilization of a strategic Relay Gateway.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jason F. Hunzinger, Jilel Hou, Rohit Kapoor, Bibhu P. Mohanty
  • Patent number: 8948204
    Abstract: A method for receiving packet data at a communication channel and transmitting the packet data over serial links of the communication channel. The packet data is sliced into n-bit data portions which are concatenated with a header prior to transmitting an n-bit portion across one of the serial links of the communication channel. The header may include an invert bit to alter the majority sign of an n-bit portion. Other aspects of the present invention are also described herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Neil Sharma, Matthew Todd Lawson, Mick R. Jacobs
  • Patent number: 8942262
    Abstract: A communication device includes: a division unit that divides first data to be transmitted to another communication device via a transmission path including a plurality of lanes into a plurality of second data; a transmission unit that transmits the plurality of second data to the another communication device by distributing them to either one of the plurality of lanes; and an error notification reception unit that receives an error notification when an error is detected from one of the plurality of second data received by the another communication device. When the error notification reception unit receives the error notification, the division unit divides second data, in which an error is detected, into a plurality of third data, and the transmission unit retransmits the second data to the another communication device by distributing the plurality of third data to either one of the plurality of lanes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hirokazu Tsubota
  • Patent number: 8918559
    Abstract: Partitioning of a variable length scatter gather list including a processor for performing a method that includes requesting data from an I/O device comprising an I/O buffer. The requesting includes initiating a subchannel. The method further includes determining whether the subchannel supports data divisions by requesting SSQD data from the I/O device and inspecting at least one bit in the SSQD data. A determination is made whether the requested data includes a metadata block in response to determining that the subchannel support data divisions. Also, the subchannel is notified that the requested data includes the metadata block in response to determining that the requested data includes the metadata block. A location of storage is identified in an SBAL in response to notifying the subchannel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2014
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Stefan Amann, Gerhard Banzhaf, Ralph Friedrich, Raymond M. Higgs, George P. Kuch, Bruce H. Ratcliff
  • Patent number: 8913635
    Abstract: A particular overall architecture for transmission over a bonded channel system consisting of two interconnected MoCA (Multimedia over Coax Alliance) 2.0 SoCs (Systems on a Chip) and a method and apparatus for the case of a “bonded” channel network. With a bonded channel network, the data is divided into two segments, the first of which is transported over a primary channel and the second of which is transported over a secondary channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2014
    Assignee: Entropic Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: David Barr, Michail Tsatsanis, Arndt Mueller, Na Chen
  • Patent number: 8885674
    Abstract: Provided are methods and devices for determining the assignment of subsignals (S1, S2, S3, S4) transmitted by inverse multiplexing, particularly via an Optical Transport Network (OTN), to the transmission links (5a, 5b, 5c, 5d) carrying said subsignals. After a synchronization for the correct assembly of the subsignals (S1, S2, S3, S4) into the digital reception signal (E), the signal transmission via at least one transmission link (5a, 5b, 5c, 5d) is interrupted for a detection process in which the subsignal assigned to the interrupted link is determined. The process may be repeated to determine all subsignal assignments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: ADVA Optical Networking SE
    Inventor: Oliver Bleck
  • Patent number: 8879435
    Abstract: Various embodiments of systems and methods for memory access are provided. In one embodiment, a data segment is stored in a plurality of memory segments of at least one memory bank. The data segment stored in the memory segments is selected, where the data segment has a bit boundary that is arbitrarily misaligned with at least one memory segment boundary of the memory segments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Mindspeed Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Karl G. Andersson
  • Patent number: 8855147
    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: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.
    Inventors: Bhavesh N. Desai, Nemmara K. Shankaranarayanan, David Hilton Shur, Aleksandra Smiljanic, Todd J. Totland, Jacobus E. van der Merwe, Sheryl Leigh Woodward
  • Patent number: 8848640
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for bandwidth aggregation for an Internet protocol (IP) flow are disclosed. A sender may split IP packets on a single IP flow, and transmit the IP packets to a receiver via at least two interfaces. The sender splitting the IP packets over multiple interfaces may not send any signaling to the receiver. Alternatively, the sender may send information to the receiver for configuring distribution of the IP packets over multiple interfaces. The information may be carried on a binding update message, a binding acknowledgement message, or a binding refresh request message. The IP packets may be split and transmitted by a logical interface that sits between an IP layer and a layer 2, or by a bandwidth aggregation (BWA) middleware located between a transmission control protocol (TCP) layer and an IP layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Alexander Reznik, Usman Ehtesham Gul, Michelle Perras, Prabhakar R. Chitrapu, John R. Cartmell, John L. Tomici, Hao Jin, Bartosz Balazinski
  • Patent number: 8842655
    Abstract: A communication apparatus capable of simultaneously receiving signals from a plurality of users by an SC-FDMA scheme reduces its circuit size. A communication apparatus BS1, BS2 is capable of simultaneously receiving signals from a plurality of users by the SC-FDMA scheme. The communication apparatus BS1, BS2 includes a plurality of antennas 1a and 1b; a processing unit 6 that performs multi-antenna signal processing on a plurality of received SC-FDMA signals in a frequency domain, the received SC-FDMA signals being received by the plurality of antennas 1a and 1b; and a user separating unit 7 that demultiplexes a signal obtained through the multi-antenna signal processing, into signals for each user based on user allocation information in the SC-FDMA scheme.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2014
    Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Eiji Mochida, Mitsuru Hirakawa
  • Patent number: 8823562
    Abstract: A first multiplexer, at each given cycle, outputs a second input data signal, after outputting a first input data signal. A second multiplexer, at each given cycle, outputs a fourth input data signal, after outputting a third input data signal. The second multiplexer outputs the third input data signal at a timing that coincides with the timing at which the second input data signal is output from the first multiplexer. At each given cycle, a third multiplexer, after outputting the first input data signal and the second input data signal output from the first multiplexer, outputs the third input data signal and the fourth input data signal output from the second multiplexer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventor: Shigeto Suzuki
  • Patent number: 8817825
    Abstract: Methods and systems for processing signals in a receiver are disclosed herein and may comprise receiving spatially multiplexed signals via M receive antennas. A plurality of multiple data streams may be separated in the received spatially multiplexed signals to detect MIMO data streams. Each of the MIMO data streams may correspond to a spatially multiplexed input signal. Complex phase and/or amplitude may be estimated for each detected MIMO data streams utilizing (M-1) phase shifters. Complex waveforms, comprising in-phase (I) and quadrature (Q) components for the MIMO data streams within the received spatially multiplexed signals may be processed and the processed complex waveforms may be filtered to generate baseband bandwidth limited signals. Phase and/or amplitude for one or more received spatially multiplexed signals may be adjusted utilizing the estimated complex phase and amplitude. Phase and/or amplitude may be adjusted continuously and/or at discrete intervals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventors: Mark Kent, Vinko Erceg, Uri Landau, Pieter Van Rooyen
  • Patent number: 8803714
    Abstract: A transmitting device includes a parallel data generation unit and a transmitting unit. The parallel data generation unit generates first serial data and second serial data from a data packet, converts the first serial data and second serial data respectively into first parallel data and second parallel data, transmits the first parallel data and second parallel data respectively through first and second parallel transmission paths, and performs the transmission of the first parallel data and the transmission of the second parallel data in parallel. The transmitting unit receives the first parallel data and second parallel data respectively through the first and second parallel transmission paths, re-converts the first parallel data and second parallel data respectively into the first serial data and second serial data, and transmits the first serial data and second serial data to a receiving device respectively through first and second serial transmission paths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yusuke Fujita
  • Patent number: 8798014
    Abstract: Disclosed are a data transmission method and device in a carrier aggregation system, used for realizing the data transmission of UE which does not support uplink and downlink transmission simultaneously in a carrier aggregation system which uses different TDD uplink and downlink configurations. The data transmission method in a carrier aggregation system provided in the present application includes: an eNB performing data transmission with specific user equipment (UE) according to the time division duplex (TDD) uplink and downlink sub-frame configuration employed by a specific component carrier in a carrier aggregation system by means of a component carrier in the carrier aggregation system, wherein said specific UE is TDDUE which does not support simultaneously performing uplink data transmission and downlink data transmission in an identical sub-frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: China Academy of Telecommunications Technology
    Inventors: Xueming Pan, Zukang Shen, Yanan Lin
  • Publication number: 20140169389
    Abstract: An optical receiver module includes a demultiplexer, an optical device including a right-angled mirror reflecting individual optical signals transmitted from the demultiplexer and a plurality of lenses receiving the reflected optical signals, and a plurality of photodetectors spaced apart from the plurality of lenses by a predetermined distance. The plurality of photodetectors converts the individual optical signals into electrical signals. The optical device and the demultiplexer are formed into a united structure. A distance between the lenses is equal to a distance between the photodetectors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2013
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Inventors: Taeyong KIM, JiHo JOO, Gyungock KIM
  • Patent number: 8750337
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for managing a preference channel are provided which can reduce a delay time when a channel change is made between preference channels, by storing a preference channel directly selected by a mobile terminal user in a mobile broadcast system. A mobile terminal receives and demultiplexes multiplexed logical channels on which data streams are transmitted from a service provider through a communication network. Preference channels of the demultiplexed logical channels are dynamically allocated to decoding buffers using stored information. A decoding time at which data of the decoding buffers is accessed and decoded is computed using reference information. A decoding operation is performed at the computed decoding time, and decoded channel-by-channel elementary streams are stored in a memory. The decoded channel-by-channel elementary streams stored in the memory are displayed on a screen of the mobile terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignees: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Industry-University Cooperation Foundation Hanyang University
    Inventors: Young-Joo Song, Ki-Ho Jung, Young-Kwon Lim, Je-Chang Jeong, Kook-Heui Lee, Jae-Hyun Park
  • Patent number: 8750336
    Abstract: A method, system, and computer-readable media are provided for facilitating communication of multimedia data across a distributed network. When the invention is employed for facilitating intra-communication between mobile network carriers, the invention can be configured to utilize a plurality of distribution sites. A first distribution site of a sender can receive an item of multimedia data and an identifier from a sender. The first distribution site may then transmit the identifier to a look-up server in order for the look-up server to identify the location of a recipient's distribution site. Once the look-up server identifies the recipient's distribution site for the first distribution site, the first distribution site can transmit the multimedia data to the recipient's distribution site.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.
    Inventors: Lyle Bertz, John Belser, William Parsel
  • Patent number: 8737436
    Abstract: A transmission apparatus includes a plurality of modems, which are configured to communicate via respective wireless communication channels and includes at least first and second modems configured to communicate respectively over separate first and second wireless communication networks. The transmission apparatus also includes a stream processor, which is configured to receive and process an incoming media stream so as to provide multiple upload streams for transmission by different ones of the modems, including first and second upload streams for transmission by the first and second modems, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: Liveu Ltd.
    Inventors: Rony Haim Ohayon, Avichai Cohen
  • Patent number: 8731378
    Abstract: A system, method, and apparatus for playback of multiple video elementary streams is presented herein. A host processor modifies the video elementary streams to allow a transport demultiplexer to distinguish among the plurality of the video elementary streams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventors: Girish Hulmani, Arul Thangaraj, Sandeep Bhatia