Multiplexing Plural Input Channels To A Common Output Channel Patents (Class 370/537)
  • Patent number: 11868251
    Abstract: Provided are a memory access method and a server for performing the same. A memory access method performed by an optical interleaver included in a server includes receiving a request message from a requester processing engine included in the server, setting receiving buffers corresponding to different wavelengths corresponding to the number of external memory/storage devices connected to the server, multiplexing the same request message at the different wavelengths according to a wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) scheme, and transmitting the multiplexed request messages to the respective external memory/storage devices, wherein an address of a virtual memory managed by the server is separated and stored according to an interleaving scheme by a responder included in each of the external memory/storage devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Jongtae Song, Daeub Kim, Ji Wook Youn, Kyeong-Eun Han, Joon Ki Lee
  • Patent number: 11804892
    Abstract: Disclosed is an in-building distributed repeater technique for distributing a wireless mobile communication signal into a building. Mobile communication signals of service carriers in communication between devices of an in-building distributed repeater system may be converted into intermediate frequency (IF) signals with adjacent frequency bands and may be transmitted or received as analog signals with compressed bandwidths through frequency division multiplexing. The service band gap spacing of Tx downstream analog IF signals transmitted by a headend unit to a remote service unit is wider than that of Rx downstream analog IF signals received from an active antenna unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: TJ INNOVATION Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Young Man Cho, Gwangjae Jang, Judong Lee, Jinkyu Lee, Taeyoul Park, Jinsil Park, Duckyoung Park, Youngchul Baek
  • Patent number: 11791934
    Abstract: Provided is a communication device, including: a transmission and reception unit that transmits and receives a signal with an other communication device; an error detection unit that detects an occurrence of an error by having the transmission and reception unit receive a preamble specifying a type of data to be transmitted next, and comparing a bit sequence of a signal received following the preamble to a bit sequence that should be transmitted for the type specified for transmission by the preamble; and a conflict avoidance unit that, if the occurrence of an error is detected by the error detection unit, instructs the transmission and reception unit to transmit a clock corresponding to a certain number of bits following the preamble, and then transmit an abort signal giving an instruction to terminate communication partway through.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroo Takahashi, Takashi Yokokawa, Sonfun Lee, Naohiro Koshisaka
  • Patent number: 11750314
    Abstract: This application discloses a service data processing method and apparatus, to resolve a problem of low bandwidth utilization in the conventional technology. A dynamic framing method is used. When a transmission rate of an OTN data frame increases, a length of a payload area constantly increases, while a length of an overhead area does not increase. In other words, in OTN data frames at different transmission rates, lengths of overhead areas are fixed. As the transmission rates of the OTN data frames increase, lengths of payload areas constantly increase. In this way, when the rate increases, overheads do not occupy more bandwidths, thereby improving bandwidth utilization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Wei Su
  • Patent number: 11743528
    Abstract: Devices, systems and methods are provided for delivering media content from different types of content sources to different destination devices across an outdoor/indoor interface using an outdoor hub device. An exemplary hub device includes a first input interface to receive a broadcast signal, a second input interface to receive a telecommunications signal from a telecommunications network, and an output interface. The device further includes a content stream management module coupled to the first input interface and the second input interface to multiplex broadcast and telecommunications content into a multiplexed content stream, an encapsulation module coupled to the content stream management module to encapsulate the multiplexed content stream into a packetized multiplexed content stream, and a communications interface coupled to the encapsulation module and the output interface to transmit the packetized multiplexed content stream to an indoor gateway device via the output interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: DISH Technologies L.L.C.
    Inventor: Edmund Petruzzelli
  • Patent number: 11735287
    Abstract: A buffer circuit is disclosed. The buffer circuit includes a command address (C/A) interface to receive an incoming activate (ACT) command and an incoming column address strobe (CAS) command. A first match circuit includes first storage to store failure row address information associated with the memory, and first compare logic. The first compare logic is responsive to the ACT command, to compare incoming row address information to the stored failure row address information. A second match circuit includes second storage to store failure column address information associated with the memory, and second compare logic. The second compare logic is responsive to the CAS command, to compare the incoming column address information to the stored failure column address information. Gating logic maintains a state of a matching row address identified by the first compare logic during the comparison carried out by the second compare logic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Rambus Inc.
    Inventors: Scott C. Best, John Eric Linstadt, Paul William Roukema
  • Patent number: 11729758
    Abstract: A communication system includes a remote unit that exchanges radio frequency signals with mobile devices, at least some of the radio frequency signals comprising information destined for, or originating from, a mobile device, the remote unit being configured to perform first physical layer processing. A controller is separated from the remote unit by a switched Ethernet network, wherein data corresponding to the information is transmitted in frames between the controller and the remote unit. At least some of the data comprises baseband data that is transmitted in frequency domain. The controller and the remote unit are configured to transmit time stamp messages on the switched Ethernet network to synchronize a controller clock and a remote unit clock. The controller is configured to advance downlink subframe timing relative to the remote unit, when transmitting on the switched Ethernet network, based on a measured transport delay across the switched Ethernet network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: CommScope Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Vedat Eyuboglu, Arthur J. Barabell
  • Patent number: 11716088
    Abstract: Methods and devices are provided for circuits. One device includes an adjustment circuit having an adjustable resistor for modifying a resistance value of a resistive device, the adjustment circuit connected to an adjustment terminal of the resistive device. The resistance value of the adjustable resistor changes, when a voltage or charge on the adjustment terminal of the adjustable resistor is changed. The adjustable resistor is a phase change element with an adjusting terminal to which different voltage values are applied for adjusting a conversion device threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Inventor: Frank R. Dropps
  • Patent number: 11698391
    Abstract: A system and method are provided for displaying input signals from a DUT on a display screen. The method includes sending a data stream of digitized data received from the DUT to an FPGA for serial decoding; receiving decoded symbols from the FPGA; identifying valid symbols among the decoded symbols indicating transitions between the decoded symbols; storing the valid symbols with corresponding time-tags as valid packets in memory, and discarding ones of the decoded symbols occurring between the valid symbols; and plotting on the display screen the valid packets occurring between beginning and ending valid packets of the stored valid packets. The beginning valid packet has a corresponding time-tag occurring immediately before a first point time-tag associated with a left edge of the display screen, and the ending valid packet has a corresponding time-tag occurring at or immediately before a last point time-tag associated with a right edge of the display screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: KEYSIGHT TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Joseph D. Shaker, Allen Montijo, Matthew S. Holcomb, Connor P. McKay
  • Patent number: 11700602
    Abstract: A communication system includes remote units to exchange radio frequency (RF) signals with mobile devices, at least some of the RF signals comprising information destined for, or originating from, a mobile device. The communication system also includes a controller comprising one or more modems and connected to an external network, at least one of the modems being a baseband modem and being configured to pass first data corresponding to the information. The controller is separated from the remote units by an intermediate network over which second data corresponding to the information is carried in frames between the controller and the remote units. The second data comprises baseband data, and at least some of the baseband data is compressed in a frequency domain. The remote units and the controller are configured to compress the baseband data for transmission over the intermediate network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: CommScope Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Vedat Eyuboglu, Arthur J. Barabell
  • Patent number: 11689751
    Abstract: In a communication system where a channel feed carrying a media stream is broadcast for delivery of the media stream to a media client, where the channel feed further includes metadata in-band and correlated with a content frame of the media stream, but where the metadata gets removed from the channel feed before the media stream reaches the media client, a computing system (i) extracts the metadata from the channel feed and (ii) transmits out-of-band to the media client the extracted metadata in correlation with reference fingerprint data representing the frame of the media stream, the correlation being useable by the media client as a basis to re-correlate the metadata with the frame of the media stream, so as to enable the media client to carry out an action, such as dynamic ad insertion, based on the correlation of the metadata with the frame of the media stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: ROKU, INC.
    Inventors: Steven M. Cormie, Brian Jentz
  • Patent number: 11662645
    Abstract: A shaping encoder capable of improving the performance of PCS in nonlinear optical channels by performing the shaping in two or more stages. In an example embodiment, a first stage employs a shaping code of a relatively short block length, which is typically beneficial for nonlinear optical channels but may cause a significant penalty in the energy efficiency. A second stage then employs a shaping code of a much larger block length, which significantly reduces or erases the penalty associated with the short block length of the first stage while providing an additional benefit of good performance in substantially linear optical channels. In at least some embodiments, the shaping encoder may have relatively low circuit-implementation complexity and/or relatively low cost and provide relatively high energy efficiency and relatively high shaping gain for a variety of optical channels, including but not limited to the legacy dispersion-managed fiber-optic links.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy
    Inventor: Joon Ho Cho
  • Patent number: 11658759
    Abstract: A method for low-rate signal transmission on Optical Transport Networks is provided. In the method, a signal is mapped to a low-rate OPU of a low-rate ODU, wherein the low-rate ODU comprises an ODU overhead section and the low-rate OPU, the low-rate OPU comprises an OPU overhead section and an OPU payload section, the low-rate ODU has a bit rate of 1, 244, 160 Kbps±20 ppm, and the OPU payload section has a bit rate of 1, 238, 954.31 Kbps±20 ppm; OPU overhead bytes and ODU overhead bytes are added to corresponding overhead section; then, the low-rate ODU is multiplexed to an Optical channel Data Unit-k (ODUk) that has a bit rate higher than the bit rate of the low-rate ODU; finally, the ODUk is transmitted via the OTN.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shimin Zou
  • Patent number: 11627650
    Abstract: An intelligent sensor-activated light control device including at least one ambient light sensor is described herein. In one exemplary, non-limiting embodiment, the motion is detected via one or more motion sensors. An ambient light level is then determined using one or more ambient light sensors, and a light control device causes light to be output at an output light level associated with the determined ambient light level. In one embodiment, the output light level is further determined based on a current time interval during with which the motion is detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: EATON INTELLIGENT POWER LIMITED
    Inventors: Brandon Jeremy Rogers, Ahmed El-Gayyar
  • Patent number: 11601951
    Abstract: A communication system includes remote units, a UTC or GPS reference timing source, and a controller. The controller includes one or more modems and is connected to an external network, at least one of the modems being a baseband modem and being configured to pass first data corresponding to the information. The controller is separated from the remote units by an intermediate network over which second data corresponding to the information is transmitted in frames between the controller and the remote units. The second data includes baseband data. A controller clock is synchronized with the reference timing source and provides timing information to the controller. A remote unit clock is synchronized with the controller clock and provides timing information to a remote unit, the controller and the remote unit being configured to transmit time stamp messages to synchronize the controller clock and the remote unit clock.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: CommScope Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Vedat Eyuboglu, Arthur J. Barabell
  • Patent number: 11567848
    Abstract: A device, comprising: a main module; a plurality of secondary modules; and a data bus configured to enable data transmission between the main module and the plurality of secondary modules over a data line of the data bus; wherein each of the plurality of secondary modules is configured with a unique secondary address used by the main module to communicate with the respective secondary module over the data line, wherein the main module is operable to configure a first two or more of the plurality of secondary modules with a first common secondary address for simultaneous data transmission from the main module to the first two or more of the plurality of secondary modules over the data line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Cirrus Logic, Inc.
    Inventors: Neil Whyte, Andy Brewster, Jens Puchert
  • Patent number: 11531586
    Abstract: A memory system includes at least one semiconductor memory device including a plurality of memory blocks in which an original data stripe including a plurality of unit data and parity data is stored, and a controller configured to control an operation of the semiconductor memory device. The controller performs an error correction operation on one or more unit data received from the semiconductor memory device, and generates data for recovery based on remaining data except for first and second unit data among the plurality of unit data, in response to a first error correction failure for the first unit data among the plurality of unit data and a second error correction failure for the second unit data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: SK hynix Inc.
    Inventors: Soo Jin Park, Won Hyoung Lee
  • Patent number: 11523174
    Abstract: Provided is a bitstream processing method, including: acquiring auxiliary information in a bitstream, where the auxiliary information includes at least one of bitstream information for transcoding or bitstream information for supporting transcoding; and transcoding the bitstream by using the auxiliary information and generating a transcoded bitstream. Further provided are a bitstream processing device and a storage medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Zhao Wu, Ming Li, Ping Wu
  • Patent number: 11467796
    Abstract: A display control system includes a plurality of display devices and a display controller (display device). The display controller generates a graphics command for each frame, and attaches, to the graphics command, time stamp corresponding to an order of generation of the graphics command. Each of the plurality of display devices: acquires the graphics command; performs, in parallel, first processing of acquiring only the time stamp attached to the graphics command in the order of generation and second processing of performing rendering processing based on the graphics command in the order of generation and acquiring the time stamp attached to the graphics command based on which the rendering processing is performed; and when a difference between the time stamp acquired in the first processing and the time stamp acquired in the second processing exceeds a predetermined threshold value, performs reduction processing for reducing a load on the rendering processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi Tsubone, Daisuke Misonoo
  • Patent number: 11456962
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for controlling a transmission buffer in a transmission node of a transmission network transmitting data packets of a data packet flow, wherein each data packet includes a delay value indicating a transmission delay requirement of the data packet and a packet value indicating a level of importance of the data packet. The buffer includes different buffer regions and an arriving data packet is put into its respective buffer region based on the delay requirement indicated by a delay value contained in the data packet. The number of bytes waiting before the freshly arrived data packet cannot increase so that the delay requirement is met and possibly other packets in the buffer might be dropped for the newly arriving packet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Szilveszter Nádas, Csaba Keszei, Sandor Laki, Gergo Gombos
  • Patent number: 11451429
    Abstract: Modulation schemes are disclosed that include one or more zero-power modulation states, in which the transmitter briefly emits zero or very low signal for one resource element of a message in 5G or 6G networking. In phase-modulated examples such as QPSK, an additional zero-power state can provide higher information density and shorter message sizes. In pulse-amplitude modulated schemes, the additional states can have zero power in one or both branches, thereby providing multiple additional modulation options. The receiver can readily detect and interpret the zero-power modulation states. Messages transmitted including the zero-power modulation states are generally shorter (in time or in bandwidth) due to the higher information density, and involve substantially lower energy expenditure because the message size is smaller, and because some of the states have zero or very low transmission power. Receivers also can benefit from the smaller size messages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: ULTRALOGIC 6G, LLC
    Inventors: David E. Newman, R. Kemp Massengill
  • Patent number: 11405123
    Abstract: Method and apparatus for transporting client signals in an OTN are provided. In one embodiment, the method includes: mapping a client signal into a first Optical Channel Data Tributary Unit (ODTU) frame including an ODTU payload area and an ODTU overhead area, such that a plurality of n-bit data units of the client signal are inserted into the ODTU payload area and number information is inserted into the ODTU overhead area; mapping the first ODTU frame into the OPUk frame, such that the plurality of n-bit data units are mapped into an OPUk payload part occupying at least one Tributary Slot (TS) of the OPUk payload area and the number information of the ODTU overhead area is mapped into a first OPUk overhead part of the OPUk frame; forming an Optical Channel Transport Unit-k (OTUk) frame including the OPUk frame for transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Limin Dong, Qiuyou Wu
  • Patent number: 11341842
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a metering data management system including a metering data transmission module configured to collect a piece of metering data and generate a message containing the piece of metering data and topic information corresponding to the piece of metering data, a plurality of buffer servers, each of which has a plurality of buffers to which different topics are assigned, configured to store the message in a buffer corresponding to the topic information, a metering data processing module configured to extract the piece of metering data from some of the plurality of buffer servers and process the extracted piece of metering data, and a broker server configured to determine a buffer server, which is an extraction target of the metering data processing module, among the plurality of buffer servers on the basis of state information of the plurality of buffer servers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Korea Electric Power Corporation
    Inventors: Yong Jae Joo, Jin Ho Shin, Jae Koo Noh
  • Patent number: 11269806
    Abstract: A time deterministic computer is architected so that exchange code compiled for one set of tiles, e.g., a column, can be reused on other sets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: Graphcore Limited
    Inventors: Stephen Felix, Simon Christian Knowles
  • Patent number: 11223436
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for determining an availability of a synchronization source in a communication system. The method comprises: detecting a stability of the synchronization source when the synchronization source recovers from a failure; and determining the availability of a synchronization source based on the detected stability of the synchronization source. The present disclosure also relates to network devices and a computer readable medium for performing said method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventor: Cuihua Deng
  • Patent number: 11212364
    Abstract: The present application describes a communication system including a first apparatus including a single application processor operably coupled to a non-transitory memory including instructions and a local group of discrete radio resources each including a modem. The single application processor of the first apparatus is configured to at least execute the instructions of sending a request for capacity information to a second, remote apparatus. The second apparatus includes a single application processor, a non-transitory memory operably coupled to the single application processor, and a local group of discrete radio resources each including a modem operably coupled to the single application processor. The first apparatus is also configured to execute the instructions of determining, from the local group of discrete radio resources of the first and second apparatuses, a dedicated resource to handle a communication request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Inventors: Adam Christopher Markham, Brett Michael Brotherton, Kevin Michael Dyer
  • Patent number: 11121907
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to operation, administration and maintenance (OAM) data transmission methods and apparatus. One example method includes obtaining a first data flow and sending the first data flow. The first data flow includes at least one first OAM data block. The at least one first OAM data block is a code block that carries first OAM data. The first data flow is a data flow obtained by deleting at least one redundant block or at least one second OAM data block from a second data flow and inserting the at least one first OAM data block, or the first data flow is a data flow obtained by modifying at least one second OAM data block in a second data flow. The second data flow is an aggregated data flow. The second OAM data block carries second OAM data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jing Huang, Min Zha, Qiwen Zhong
  • Patent number: 11082146
    Abstract: A method for efficient utilization of a transport capacity provided by an optical transport network includes mapping client signals comprising lower order optical data units into optical data tributary units, each requiring a number of tributary slots of an aggregate payload area having a size corresponding to the available aggregated OPU payload areas of Nx independent higher order optical data units to be transported. The method further includes multiplexing the optical data tributary units into the aggregate payload area. The method further includes mapping the tributary slots of the aggregate payload area into tributary slots provided by the OPU payload areas of the Nx independent higher order Optical data units according to a predefined mapping rule. The method further includes multiplexing the Nx independent optical data units containing the payload areas or transmitting them as optical transport units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: ADVA OPTICAL NETWORKING SE
    Inventor: Oliver Bleck
  • Patent number: 11044738
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method and device for sending a control protocol data unit (PDU) and belongs to the field of communication technologies. The method comprises: establishing a dedicated bearer for transporting a control PDU; when a control PDU to be sent exists, sending, on a logical channel to which the dedicated bearer corresponds, the control PDU to a media access control (MAC) entity of the communication device through a radio link control (RLC) entity of the communication device; and sending the control PDU through the MAC entity according to a promoted priority of the logical channel. The present disclosure can shorten the sending delay of the control PDU.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Xiaowei Jiang
  • Patent number: 10993162
    Abstract: A network device distributes a plurality of symbol blocks, received via a plurality of input streams, to a plurality of output links comprised in a defined connection according to a mapping of the symbol blocks to the output links. Responsive to an input stream of the plurality of input streams being empty such that an expected symbol block is not received, the network device distributes idle data to the output link mapped to the expected symbol block to maintain the mapping of the symbol blocks to the output links. The network device transmits the symbol blocks and idle data over the defined connection via the plurality of output links and according to the distribution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventor: Holger Helmke
  • Patent number: 10917673
    Abstract: An example method of mapping a plurality of modulation symbols of a plurality of physical layer pipes present in a frame to a resource grid of data cells for the frame is described. The modulation symbols of the plurality of physical layer pipes are represented by a two-dimensional array comprising the modulation symbol values for the plurality of physical layer pipes and the resource grid of data cells is represented by a one-dimensional sequentially indexed array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: ONE MEDIA, LLC
    Inventors: Mark Earnshaw, Michael J. Simon, Kevin A. Shelby
  • Patent number: 10886916
    Abstract: Disclosed is a signal transmission circuit, comprising: a common interface, a first switch, a second switch, and an interference-resistant branch; the common interface is configured to, receive a digital signal through the first switch when the first switch is closed, or to receive an analog signal through the second switch when the second switch is closed; the interference-resistant branch is configured to eliminate an interference of the second switch on the digital signal; a signal input of the interference-resistant branch is configured to receive the digital signal, and a signal output of the interference-resistant branch is connected to a signal input of the first switch; and/or, the signal input of the interference-resistant branch is connected to a signal output of the second switch, and the signal output of the interference-resistant branch is connected to a signal input of the common interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Fangxi Hou
  • Patent number: 10887651
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for managing received data by a client device and indicating data removal management by a server. A method for managing received data by a client device includes receiving a message including information about a number of modes for removal of the data from a buffer at the client. The method also includes selecting a mode for removal of the data from the buffer with a maximum required buffer size among the modes indicated by the information about the modes in the received message and removing the data from the buffer based on the identified mode. A method for indicating data removal management by a server includes generating and sending a message including information about a number of modes for removal of received data from a buffer at a client device. The information indicates, for each of the modes, a type of mode for removal of the data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Youngkwon Lim, Imed Bouazizi
  • Patent number: 10833892
    Abstract: A bridge communicates a link layer frame between a device and a cellular access network node, the link layer frame comprising a portion including a header and data of an upper layer protocol layer instance in the device or the cellular access network node. The header includes identification information to identify which of a plurality of upper layer protocol layer instances the data is associated with.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: James Randolph Winter Lepp, Michael Peter Montemurro, Stephen McCann
  • Patent number: 10727965
    Abstract: A system and method for time stamp synchronization are disclosed. In one embodiment, first and second devices are provided. The second device receives a first time stamp of the first device, wherein the first time stamp was generated in response to a time stamp synchronization event common to the first and second devices; generates a second time stamp of the second device in response to the time stamp synchronization event, wherein the first and second time stamps are in different time domains; and correlates the first and second time stamps, wherein correlating the first and second time stamps provide a relationship between the time domains because the first and second time stamps were both generated with respect to the same time stamp synchronization event common to the first and second devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: David Brief, Tomer Spector, Amir Rozen
  • Patent number: 10725437
    Abstract: A safety sensor for monitoring the operational safety of a system comprises at least one safety signal input and at least one safety signal output. The safety sensor has a control unit. The control unit imprints the output safety signal with additional data, wherein the signal value of the output safety signal is changed within the limits of the value range assigned to the presently output signal state of the output safety signal depending on the additional data of the signal value of the output safety signal, and/or the control unit imprints the received input safety signal with additional data, wherein the signal value of the received input safety signal is changed within the limits of the value range assigned to the presently received signal state of the input safety signal depending on the additional data of the signal value of the received input safety signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: BERNSTEIN AG
    Inventors: Marcus Scholz, Georg Zwirkowski, Thomas Krause
  • Patent number: 10694231
    Abstract: A media content packaging and distribution system that controls distribution of a channel to be viewed on a plurality of user-computing devices associated with a plurality of specific subscriber accounts, receives a plurality of user-preferences from at least one of the plurality of user-computing devices over one or more communication mediums, and generate a plurality of customized media feeds of a media feed of the channel, based on at least the received plurality of user-preferences. The generated plurality of customized media feeds represents a plurality of user-specific versions of the channel. The plurality of customized media feeds is communicated over the one or more communication mediums to be viewed on the plurality of user-computing devices. The media feed corresponds to at least one of a live media feed, or a stored media feed, and the plurality of user-computing devices is associated with one or more regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: TURNER BROADCASTING SYSTEM, INC.
    Inventors: Donald Jude Loheide, Nishith Kumar Sinha, Mark Cooper Pope, V
  • Patent number: 10636431
    Abstract: This application relates to methods and apparatus for transfer of multiple digital data streams, especially of digital audio data over a single communications link such as a single wire. The application describes audio interface circuitry comprising a pulse-length-modulation (PLM) modulator (204). The PLM is responsive to a plurality of data streams (PDM-R, PDM-L), to generate a series of data pulses (PLM) with a single data pulse having a rising and falling edge in each of a plurality of transfer periods defined by a first clock signal (TCLK). The timing of the rising and falling edge of each data pulse is dependent upon on a combination of the then current data samples from the plurality of data streams. The duration and position of the data pulse in the transfer window in effect defines a data symbol encoding the data. Circuitry for receiving and extracting the data is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: Cirrus Logic, Inc.
    Inventors: John Paul Lesso, Peter John Frith, John Laurence Pennock
  • Patent number: 10602204
    Abstract: An example method of mapping a plurality of modulation symbols of a plurality of physical layer pipes present in a frame to a resource grid of data cells for the frame is described. The modulation symbols of the plurality of physical layer pipes are represented by a two-dimensional array comprising the modulation symbol values for the plurality of physical layer pipes and the resource grid of data cells is represented by a one-dimensional sequentially indexed array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: One Media, LLC
    Inventors: Mark Earnshaw, Michael J. Simon, Kevin A. Shelby
  • Patent number: 10506264
    Abstract: An image encoding unit generates a video stream by encoding image data of each picture that constitutes moving image data. A transmission unit transmits a container in a predetermined format that continuously includes a first video stream and a second video stream generated in the image encoding unit. The first video stream and the second video stream are composed of first to Mth streams out of first to Nth streams (M?N). The transmission unit applies a fixed identifier to the respective first to Nth streams. The image encoding unit can prevent an occurrence of a display mute in a case of switching services.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Ikuo Tsukagoshi
  • Patent number: 10462564
    Abstract: An audio accessory key detection system (40) includes a host circuit (2-3) coupled to communicate via a microphone line (7) with an accessory circuit (3-3) in either a MSFT mode or a digital communication mode. Depletion mode transistors (44-1,2,3) in the accessory circuit are coupled between keys (15-1,2,3) of the accessory circuit, respectively. The depletion mode transistors are allowed to remain conductive for MSFT mode operation. For digital communications mode operation, the host circuit sends a command via the microphone line to a key detector and controller circuit (29A) in the accessory circuit. In response, a voltage is generated to turn the depletion mode transistors off so as to allow digital communications mode operation between the accessory circuit and the host circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Ball Fan, Wenpang David Wang, Christopher Michael Graves
  • Patent number: 10459922
    Abstract: A device, method and computer-readable medium for generating unique identification for records in a data streaming processing system are disclosed. A method may collect an identification of a source of a data record, a timestamp of the data record and a count of a number of records a data source has added to the stream with that timestamp, generate a unique identification with the identification of the source of the data record, the timestamp of the data record and the count of the number of records the data source has added to the stream with that timestamp, apply the unique identification to the data record and transmit the data record with the unique identification to a downstream operator within a data stream processing system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Theodore Johnson, Vladislav Shkapenyuk
  • Patent number: 10375427
    Abstract: A method and system to facilitate localized replacement of one or more commercials or other instances of base content in a video feed with replacement-media delivered in a separate broadcast TV transport stream. A local TV station that broadcasts to an area covering a video program distributor (VPD) includes supplemental content, such as replacement commercials, within its broadcast in a manner that standard broadcast-TV receivers would disregard but that a equipment at the VPD will receive and process. The equipment at the VPD thus receives the local broadcast from the TV station and extracts from the broadcast the included supplemental content. And equipment at the VPD inserts the extracted supplemental content in place of one or more instances of base content in a transport stream that the VPD receives separately from a video-program source, so as to establish a modified transport stream for delivery to end-user TV receivers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: Tribune Broadcasting Company, LLC
    Inventors: Hank Hundemer, Dana Lasher
  • Patent number: 10356146
    Abstract: A method and device for streaming multimedia data over a communication network. Data associated with multimedia content is received over the communication network. Portions of the data are processed into multiple data blocks. The multiple data blocks are associated with multiple segments by associating each segment with at least two data blocks of the multiple data blocks. The segments of the multiple segments are sequenced according to a stream index. The stream index is assigned to a main index that describes a set of streams for the multimedia content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Zoltán Ponekker, Ákos Gyimesi, Balázs Vida, József Tamás Ecsédi, Dávid Simon, Sándor Lovász
  • Patent number: 10237804
    Abstract: It is provided a network entity (10) for grouping traffic in a communication network onto a defined connection comprising a plurality of output links (1 . . . L), wherein the traffic comprises a plurality of input streams (1 . . . S+1 . . . S+A), each input stream carrying symbol blocks. The network entity further comprises a scheduler (100) for associating, for all symbol blocks that are to be transmitted during a predetermined time interval, each of the symbol blocks to be transmitted with a corresponding output link according to a one to one correspondence. It is also provided a corresponding network entity for ungrouping traffic, corresponding system and method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventor: Holger Helmke
  • Patent number: 10224042
    Abstract: A device includes a receiver configured to receive an encoded bitstream from a second device. The encoded bitstream includes a temporal mismatch value determined based on a reference channel captured at the second device and a target channel captured at the second device. The device also includes a decoder configured to decode the encoded bitstream to generate a first frequency-domain output signal and a second frequency-domain output signal. The decoder is configured to perform inverse transform operations on the frequency-domain output signals to generate a first and second time-domain signals. Based on the temporal mismatch value, the decoder is configured to map the time-domain signals to a decoded target channel and a decoded reference channel. The decoder is also configured to perform a causal time-domain shift operation on the decoded target channel based on the temporal mismatch value to generate an adjusted decoded target channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: Qualcomm Incorporated
    Inventors: Venkata Subrahmanyam Chandra Sekhar Chebiyyam, Venkatraman Atti
  • Patent number: 10212094
    Abstract: An apparatus and method are provided. A first buffer is configured to store a first packet stream, the first buffer comprising a first read pointer pointing to a first position in the first packet stream. A second buffer is configured to store a second packet stream. The second packet stream corresponds to the first packet stream and the second buffer comprises a second read pointer. A controller is configured to determine a second position in the second packet stream that corresponds to the first position in the first packet stream and adjust the second read pointer to point to the second position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: NXP B.V.
    Inventors: Martin Kessel, Sebastian Bohn, Matthias Schattka
  • Patent number: 10064072
    Abstract: Among other things, a communication system comprising remote units and a controller is described. The remote units exchange radio frequency (RF) signals with mobile devices. At least some of the RF signals comprise information destined for, or originating from, a mobile device. The controller comprises one or more modems and is connected to an external network. At least one of the modems is a baseband modem and is configured to pass first data corresponding to the information. The controller is separated from the remote units by an intermediate network over which second data corresponding to the information is carried in frames between the controller and the remote units. The second data comprises baseband data and at least some of the baseband data is compressed in a frequency domain. The remote units and the controller are configured to compress the baseband data for transmission over the intermediate network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: CommScope Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Vedat Eyuboglu, Arthur J. Barabell
  • Patent number: 10020852
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus reducing or eliminating the number of multipliers in Schnorr-Euchner expansion algorithms are disclosed. Methods and apparatus for implementing Schnorr-Euchner expansion algorithms with a reduced number of multipliers or without any multipliers are also disclosed. Also disclosed is a Schnorr-Euchner expansion method for a multiple-input multiple-output communication system. The method includes receiving, by a plurality of input terminals, a plurality of input signals. The method also includes detecting a symbol transmitted by each input signal. The detection includes identifying a list of possible symbols that may be transmitted by each input signal. A cost value for each possible symbol is determined based on a cost function. The cost function is implemented without requiring a multiplier. The possible symbol with a lowest cost value is identified as the transmitted symbol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: Georgia Tech Research Corporation
    Inventors: Xiaoli Ma, Qi Zhou
  • Patent number: 9996104
    Abstract: A frequency adjustment method, a System-On-a-Chip, and a terminal are provided. In the embodiments of this application, when an access bandwidth requirement on a DDR memory changes, a first frequency adjustment request for a DDR interface is generated using a CPU, and a working frequency of the DDR interface is adjusted. Because during adjustment of the working frequency of the DDR interface, the working frequency of the DDR interface is gradually adjusted according to a predetermined adjustment amount by which a frequency adjustment coefficient of a spread spectrum clocking generator is adjusted each time and a predetermined interval between two adjacent adjustments, it is ensured that a DLL in the DDR interface and a phase-locked loop in the spread spectrum clocking generator are in locking-in states, so that the DDR memory can still be accessed during frequency adjustment of the DDR interface and system performance is ensured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tao Huang