Data Rate Patents (Class 375/225)
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Patent number: 8665938Abstract: A wireless transmission apparatus includes a service processing unit, a duplexer, a radio frequency receiving unit, a frequency synthesizer, and a controller. The controller controls, according to a reduced TR interval, the frequency synthesizer to adjust a frequency of a local oscillation signal which is output by the frequency synthesizer to the radio frequency receiving unit. The service processing unit continues to send a service signal as a self-checking signal, and a part of the self-checking signal leaks into the radio frequency receiving unit through the duplexer. After the radio frequency receiving unit mixes a received signal with the local oscillation signal, a frequency of the self-checking signal included in an output signal falls within a pass-band range of an intermediate frequency receiving unit, which ensures that the self-checking signal can be looped back to the service processing unit, thereby determines whether a fault occurs in its own transmission channel.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2012Date of Patent: March 4, 2014Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventors: Guobin Yu, Hongyong Lin, Yicai Wang
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Patent number: 8660171Abstract: A timing jitter measurement circuit for measuring timing jitter in the digital domain may use an interpolator bank to over-sample a signal from a media reader, a zero crossing estimator to estimate a zero crossing moment in the output of the interpolator bank and a time interval analyzer (TIA) to calculate the timing jitter as the deviation of the estimated zero crossing moment from an expected zero crossing moment in a clock signal. The timing jitter measurement circuit may be integrated into digital circuitry since it avoids using analog devices. Consequently, it may simplify the chip design, lower power consumption and save space.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2008Date of Patent: February 25, 2014Assignee: Marvell International Ltd.Inventors: Mats Oberg, Jin Xie, Bin Ni
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Patent number: 8654377Abstract: A data communication device includes: a communication execution unit that executes serial communication of an asynchronous type; a bit variance detection block that detects a variance between bits in communication data which the communication execution unit receives from a remote communicating party; a timer that measures a low-level pulse width which is a low-level pulse duration and which is determined with the position of the variance between bits detected by the bit variance detection block; and a control unit that performs transmission speed recognizing processing on the communication data according to the low-level pulse width measured by the timer, wherein based on the confirmation that the low-level pulse width is a low-level pulse width equivalent to a bit width compatible with low-speed communication data, the control unit recognizes the transmission speed for the communication data as a low speed.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2009Date of Patent: February 18, 2014Assignee: Sony CorporationInventor: Masashi Kumada
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Patent number: 8655396Abstract: A method for a wireless communication includes receiving or storing a peak to average (PAR) back off value; and applying the PAR back off value to determine the transmission power and rate for SIMO and MIMO transmissions. In one aspect, the PAR back off value is at least partially based on modulation type. In another aspect, the PAR back off value is more for higher order QAM than for QPSK. The power allocation algorithm for different UL MIMO schemes is described as follows. For MIMO without antenna permutation (e.g. per antenna rate control), different PAR back off values are considered for different data streams. For MIMO with antenna permutation or other unitary transformation such as virtual antenna mapping or precoding, the PAR back off are determined based on combined channel. The transmission data rate depends on power and also the receiver algorithms such as a MMSE receiver or MMSE-SIC receiver.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2007Date of Patent: February 18, 2014Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Durga Prasad Malladi, Hao Xu
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Patent number: 8654821Abstract: A fractional rate converting filter in a wireless transceiver comprising a delay line, multiplier circuit, adder circuit, and selector. The delay line receives a digital input signal at a first sample rate and has delay blocks each providing an output and receiving samples gated at a plurality of clock cycles of an integer sub-multiple frequency of a clock. The outputs are multiplied by corresponding filter tap coefficients. Each filter tap coefficient is spaced by a first integer Y. The adder circuit receives and sums the tap outputs to provide an output signal. The selector iteratively shifts the coefficients by a second integer Z. The output of each delay block is multiplied by corresponding shifted filter tap coefficients. The delay blocks are inhibited from receiving another input sample during the plurality of clock cycles. The output signal has a second sample rate at the integer sub-multiple frequency of the clock.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2013Date of Patent: February 18, 2014Assignee: ICERA, Inc.Inventor: Hamid Safiri
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Publication number: 20140036979Abstract: Through the use of a least squares minimization concept, the loop length, the number of bridged taps and length of the bridged taps on a transmission line can be determined from readily available modem data. In particular, the loop length, the number of bridge taps and the length of bridged taps can be estimated by comparing a measured frequency domain channel impulse response of the transmission line to a model of a loop that is comprised of multiple sections and multiple bridge taps.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2013Publication date: February 6, 2014Applicant: AWARE, INC.Inventor: Murat Belge
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Patent number: 8619840Abstract: Disclosed are methods and apparatus for sampling rate conversion in a wireless transceiver. The methods and apparatus achieve agile setting of sampling rates or resampling by adaptively setting a sampling rate of a signal based on at least one performance requirement of the transceiver. In particular, the methods and apparatus perform sampling of an input signal at a first sampling rate to gain one or more input signal samples. The input signal samples are then filtered using parallel or polyphase filtering operating at a second sampling rate lower than the first sampling rate. The filtered samples are then interpolated at the second sampling rate to achieve resampling of the input signal. Polyphase filtering affords an effectively high input sampling rate for good spectrum image rejection, while allowing the second sampling rate to be effectively much lower than the first rate, thereby reducing the complexity of multiplier operations for interpolation.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2011Date of Patent: December 31, 2013Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Zhu Ji, Brian Clarke Banister, Inyup Kang
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Patent number: 8615033Abstract: A method for controlling a transmission rate of at least one transceiver, the transceiver including a transmitter and a receiver, includes: determining a signal quality characteristic corresponding to a signal received at the receiver by measuring a difference between one or more reference constellation points and one or more received constellation points, and modifying a transmission rate of the transmitter over a wireless communication channel as a function of the signal quality characteristic.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2008Date of Patent: December 24, 2013Assignee: Agere Systems LLCInventors: Jan Boer, Bas Driesen, Ra'anan Gil, Kai Roland Kriedte
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Patent number: 8611405Abstract: A modem or associated computing or testing device is configured to detect the presence of one or more faults that affect DSL communications, and upon their detection, generate, for example, an indication, communication or message that recommends corrective action. In this context, a fault is generally caused by one or more unfiltered devices, impulsive noises, malfunctioning modems, or other factor that does not affect measured attenuation or measured noise, but does affect the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of the link. In addition to being able to generate a message guiding a user through corrective action, the system can estimate the rate impact of the detected fault.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2009Date of Patent: December 17, 2013Assignee: Aware, Inc.Inventors: Christopher Cunningham, Jianming Zhu
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Patent number: 8611373Abstract: A first communication device includes: a control unit functioning as: a first selection unit which, for a first case where first type data is to be transmitted from the first communication device to a second communication device, selects one or more band guarantee values from a plurality of band guarantee values determined on a basis of transmission capability with which the first communication device transmits the first type data; a request unit which provides a first request command indicating the one or more band guarantee values to the second communication device; a communication unit that acquires a first response command indicating one band guarantee value selected from the one or more band guarantee values by the second communication device; and a first transmission execution unit which transmits the first type data to the second communication device in accordance with the one band guarantee value indicated by the first response command.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2011Date of Patent: December 17, 2013Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Kiyotaka Ohara
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Patent number: 8605777Abstract: A circuit for recognizing a beginning and a data rate of data includes at least two data rate detecting units and a post processing unit. The at least two data rate detecting units are used for comparing at least two alignment patterns corresponding to different data rates with data simultaneously to recognize a data rate of the data. The post processing unit is coupled to the at least two data rate detecting units for recognizing a beginning of the data according to an alignment pattern corresponding to the data when the data rate of the data is recognized.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2011Date of Patent: December 10, 2013Assignee: Etron Technology, Inc.Inventors: Kuo-Cyuan Kuo, Cheng-Pin Huang, I-Ta Chen
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Patent number: 8599910Abstract: Provided is a jitter injection apparatus that injects jitter into a signal, comprising: a plurality of jitter injecting sections that are provided in series in a transmission path that propagates the signal; an output section that selects the signal that is passed from a jitter injecting section at a first stage through a designated jitter injecting section, and outputs the selected signal; and a plurality of branch-path jitter injecting sections that (i) are provided in a plurality of branch paths that propagate the signal output by each jitter injecting section from the transmission path to the output section and (ii) are relays having frequency characteristics of attenuating a high-frequency band more than a low-frequency band.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2009Date of Patent: December 3, 2013Assignee: Advantest CorporationInventors: Kenichi Nagatani, Takayuki Nakamura
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Patent number: 8594168Abstract: As a digitized representation of an intermediate frequency television signal moves through a demodulator it undergoes a number of processes, including conversion from an analog signal to a digitized data, digital signal processing of the digitized data, and the like. The rate at which the digitized data moves through the digital signal processor of the demodulator for processing is referred to as the data rate of the DSP. The demodulator can vary the data rate based on a selected television channel, thereby reducing the level of interference at the demodulator resulting from noise.Type: GrantFiled: February 29, 2012Date of Patent: November 26, 2013Inventors: Gary Cheng, Vyacheslav Shyshkin, Steve Selby
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Patent number: 8588328Abstract: The present invention provides a information transmission device including: a transmission section that transmits information to a first transmission path that transmit information serially; a reception section that receives information from a second transmission path; a waveform shaping section that, according to setting information, shapes at least one of a signal waveform of the information for transmission, and/or a signal waveform of the information for reception; and a controller that, when establishing communication, controls the transmission section to transmit predetermined first information that requests communication establishment, and effects control to change the first setting information and controls the transmission section to re-transmit the first setting information when the reception section has not received the first information within an interval that from the beginning of transmission of the first information until a predetermined duration required for communication establishment has elapType: GrantFiled: March 12, 2010Date of Patent: November 19, 2013Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.Inventor: Hirokazu Tsubota
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Patent number: 8588315Abstract: Provided are a decoding apparatus, a decoding method and a receiving apparatus for decoding in a system supporting an OFDM/OFDMA scheme. The decoding method includes the steps of: receiving phase-modulated signal; performing subcarrier demodulation on the received signal and generating correlation metrics; generating decoding metrics using the correlation metrics; and determining a payload using the largest metric of the decoding metrics and at least one of an average metric and the second largest metric of the decoding metrics.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2007Date of Patent: November 19, 2013Assignee: Intellectual Discovery Co., Ltd.Inventors: Zheng Zi Li, Yong Suk Hwang, Jae Hyeong Kim, Sang Bae Ji
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Patent number: 8548034Abstract: Methods and apparatus for power control in a communications device are described. Bonding of channels in a modem may be dynamically adjusted responsive to user activity or demand for bandwidth. Bonded channel configurations may be adjusted to single channel configurations for low power operation. Modem configuration may be dynamically adjusted so as to maintain only required synchronization and system information to facilitate rapid data transfer resumption upon demand.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2011Date of Patent: October 1, 2013Assignee: MaxLinear, Inc.Inventors: Curtis Ling, Timothy Gallagher
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Patent number: 8532164Abstract: To improve throughput by reducing the resource used for transmitting a parameter relating to retransmission control and decreasing the overhead of retransmission control signaling. In a case where a retransmission control method is employed in consideration of adaptive MCS control in which the encoding rate can be changed, the scheduling section sets the MCS in accordance with CQI notified from the communication counterpart apparatus. When transmission data is encoded, the RV parameter bit-number setting section sets the number of bits used for signaling the RV parameter to decrease as the encoding rate of the first transmission is decreased and sets the RV parameter based on the number of bits. For example, in a case where the encoding rate R is R>2/3, two bits are set. In a case where the encoding rate 1/3<R?2/3, one bit is set. On the other hand, in a case where R?1/3, zero bits is set.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2009Date of Patent: September 10, 2013Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Masayuki Hoshino, Katsuhiko Hiramatsu, Yasuaki Yuda
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Patent number: 8525936Abstract: A communication apparatus (100) includes: a communication unit (10) connectable to one end of a cable (50); a first detection unit (111) which detects a maximum transmission capability of an external device based on a communication standard with which the external device complies, the external device being connected to an other end of the cable (50) connected to the communication unit (10); a second detection unit (112) which detects a maximum transmission capability of the cable (50) connected to the communication unit (10); and an alert output unit (114) which outputs an alert when the maximum transmission capability of the cable (50) is smaller than the maximum transmission capability of the external device, the maximum transmission capability of the cable having been detected by the second detection unit (112), and the maximum transmission capability of the external device having been detected by the first detection unit (111).Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2010Date of Patent: September 3, 2013Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Seiji Kubo, Taku Matsuda, Yoshifumi Sakata
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Publication number: 20130223498Abstract: A method for performing channel estimation in a millimeter wave wireless communication system. The method includes receiving complementary sequences at a receiver of the millimeter wave wireless communication system, wherein the received complementary sequences are generated at a first sampling rate; producing special complementary sequences from the received complementary sequences; cross-correlating the special complementary sequences with an input signal related to the received complementary sequences, wherein the cross-correlation is performed at a second sampling rate and the second sampling rate is higher than the first sampling rate; and analyzing the result of the cross-correlation to estimate at least characteristics of a channel between the receiver and a transmitter of the millimeter wave wireless communication system.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 29, 2012Publication date: August 29, 2013Applicant: Wilocity, Ltd.Inventors: Amichai Sanderovich, Ohad Rozen
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Publication number: 20130215950Abstract: A symbol rate detection apparatus includes an analog-to-digital converter (ADC), a coarse detection module, a mixer, a down-sampling module, and a fine detection module. The ADC converts an analog input signal to a digital input signal at an original sampling frequency. The coarse detection module estimates a carrier frequency offset and a coarse symbol rate according to the digital input signal. The mixer adjusts the frequency of the digital input signal according to the carrier frequency offset to generate a frequency-compensated signal. The fine detection module determines a fine symbol rate according to the frequency-compensated signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 3, 2012Publication date: August 22, 2013Applicant: MStar Semiconductor, Inc.Inventors: Yi-Ying Liao, Tung-Sheng Lin, Tai-Lai Tung
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Patent number: 8514978Abstract: Receiving a modulated carrier signal that is modulated using a reference signal, wherein an acquisition by a digitizer is synced to the reference signal such that the modulated carrier signal has known timing with respect to a start of an acquisition within the digitizer. Further including routing the modulated carrier signal through a receiver system to generate a processed signal, receiving the processed signal at the digitizer, digitizing the processed signal at the digitizer, and determining a delay of the modulated carrier signal routed through the receiver system based on the timing of the processed signal.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2010Date of Patent: August 20, 2013Assignee: National Instruments CorporationInventors: Daniel S. Wertz, Charles L. Corley, II, Kunal H. Patel
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Patent number: 8488662Abstract: This patent application relates generally to wireless communications systems, and, more particularly, mobile station receiver architecture.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2008Date of Patent: July 16, 2013Assignee: MediaTek Inc.Inventors: David Stephen Ivory, Timothy Perrin Fisher-Jeffes
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Patent number: 8488661Abstract: A method performed by a network device may include determining a transmission bit rate associated with a content, determining a bit rate of a network, determining a number of data streams to be transmitted through the network based on the determined bit rate, where a combined bit rate of the number of data streams is equal to or greater than the determined transmission bit rate, receiving the number of data streams transmitted through the network and reassembling the number of data streams to provide a single data stream of the content.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2008Date of Patent: July 16, 2013Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.Inventors: Vinod K. Menon, Olufemi Olumoko, Omoniyi Segun
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Patent number: 8457183Abstract: The present invention discloses a method for adjusting a tunable compensation filter within a communication device. The method includes the following steps: generating at least a detecting signal according to at least a pole of the tunable compensation filter; generating a transmitted signal according to the detecting signal; receiving the transmitted signal via a loop switch; generating a filtered signal by filtering the transmitted signal; generating a received signal by compensating the filtered signal; generating at least an indicating signal by comparing the detecting signal with the received signal; and determining whether to adjust at least a coefficient of the tunable compensation filter or not according to the indicating signal.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2009Date of Patent: June 4, 2013Assignee: Realtek Semiconductor Corp.Inventor: Ming-Chung Huang
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Patent number: 8457181Abstract: Methods and apparatus for maintaining the maximum achievable data rate on a DSL line, up to and including a rate to which a user subscribes is described. Performance monitoring is conducted on the DSL line on an ongoing basis to determine noise margins in each direction. Each noise margin is compared against pre-determined decreasing/increasing thresholds to determine whether the line characteristics dictate a data rate change without loss of synchronization. The invention supports dynamic provisioning changes including application driven service level change requests, e.g., new bandwidth-on demand services. In some embodiments, a combination of existing and new embedded operations channel (EOC) messages are used to implement the modem data rate changes. New EOC messages may be implemented using some of the reserved and/or vendor proprietary Opcodes currently permitted. Modem assigned data rate changes are implemented without a disruption of service, e.g.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2007Date of Patent: June 4, 2013Assignee: Intellectual Ventures II LLCInventors: Terrence E Remy, James E. Sylvester
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Patent number: 8446935Abstract: A method and system for fractionally converting sample rates. Fractional rate conversion for a transmit path of a transceiver is achieved by upsampling an input signal having a first sample rate by a first integer factor, removing aliasing resulting from the upconversion process, and then downsampling the intermediate signal by a second integer factor to provide a final signal having a second sample rate. The first factor and the second factor are selected to obtain a desired output sample rate that is a fraction of the sample rate of the input signal.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2009Date of Patent: May 21, 2013Assignee: Icera, Inc.Inventor: Hamid Safiri
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Patent number: 8441938Abstract: The present invention relates to methods and arrangements for uplink retransmissions from a user equipment to a radio base station in a UTRAN with enhanced uplink. The UE transmits a subframe comprising physical control channel(s) and physical data channel(s) in an initial transmission. According to the present invention, one or more of the physical control channels are transmitted with a lower transmission power level in all or some of the retransmitted subframes in the uplink. This results in reduced control overhead (a smaller part of the transmission power resource is used for control signaling) and thus reduced interference from the overhead. At the same time, the transmission power resource no longer used for the physical control channel information, can be used to increase the transmission power level of the physical data channel information in these retransmitted subframes, which improves the uplink coverage.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2008Date of Patent: May 14, 2013Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)Inventors: Markus Ringström, Dirk Gerstenberger, Johan Bergman
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Publication number: 20130107929Abstract: A system and method for operating mode self-adaptation are provided. A method for controller operations includes collecting performance information about a communications system, determining a performance indicator from the performance information, and automatically switching an operating mode of the communications system in response to determining that the performance indicator meets a performance threshold. The operating mode of the communications system includes the communications system operating in an inter-cell interference coordination (ICIC) mode or a non-ICIC mode, and the operating mode of the communications system remains unchanged in response to determining that the performance indicator does not meet the performance threshold.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 27, 2011Publication date: May 2, 2013Applicant: FutureWei Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Jianglei Ma, Mohammadhadi Baligh
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Publication number: 20130107930Abstract: In at least some embodiments, an electronic device includes a data sink and a buffer coupled to the data sink. The buffer is configured to receive streaming data in transit to the data sink. The electronic device also includes a clock drift compensation controller coupled to the buffer, wherein the clock drift compensation controller is configured to apply either of two predetermined clock drift compensation values to a clock rate for the buffer whenever a buffer fullness status value is offset from a predetermined threshold.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 9, 2011Publication date: May 2, 2013Applicant: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATEDInventors: Laurent LE FAUCHEUR, Eric Louis Pierre BADI
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Publication number: 20130107931Abstract: Methods and circuits for transmitting data are disclosed. An embodiment of a method includes transmitting a predetermined number of pulses during predetermined period of time. A first predetermined number of pulses transmitted during the predetermined period of time represents a first value and a second predetermined number of pulses transmitted during the predetermined period of time represents a second value.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 26, 2012Publication date: May 2, 2013Applicant: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATEDInventor: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
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Patent number: 8432816Abstract: A Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) terminal has a Quality of Service (QoS) monitoring function and uses a QoS monitoring method. In a VoIP system performing real-time voice communication over an IP network, a packet loss value and a time-axis index value are detected, and are calculated from a real-time transport protocol (RTP) packet and an RTP control protocol (RTCP) packet, a QoS state value of the network is obtained in real time, the detected QoS state value is compared to a preset QoS state table, and thus a QoS state of the IP network is displayed for users.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2006Date of Patent: April 30, 2013Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventor: Jeong-Hwan Na
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Patent number: 8396100Abstract: A method and system for the transmission of digital data (210) over existing analog radio frequencies (230) is presented, wherein the digital data may include audio data, visual data or audio-visual data for presentation either with analog broadcast data or at a selectable time. The digital data may be transmitted over a plurality of sub-channels that have varying degrees or reliability (250). A “quality-of-service” process manages the transmission of digital data over various sub-channels based on the reliability of the sub-channel, the amount of digital data and the type of digital data to be transmitted. The digital data may further be encrypted and authenticated.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2002Date of Patent: March 12, 2013Assignee: Impulse Radio, Inc.Inventors: David Corts, Bryce Wells, Paul Signorelli, Lee Hunter, Terrance Snyder
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Patent number: 8396140Abstract: A method, system, and device for power optimization based on Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) are provided. The method includes the following steps. Service information of a subscriber is collected, and physical layer target parameters are obtained according to Quality of Experience (QoE) parameters corresponding to the service information. Line running information of the subscriber is received. The physical layer target parameters and the line running information are used as input parameters of a power optimization algorithm, and an optimized power spectrum is obtained through the power optimization algorithm. Therefore, a DSL network is optimized according to the QoE, and subscriber's experience is improved. Moreover, a least power method is adopted to optimize a transmit power spectrum, and the total power consumption and crosstalk between different DSL signals are reduced while meeting the QoE, so that the signal transmission of the system is stable, and the service transmission quality is improved.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2011Date of Patent: March 12, 2013Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventor: Jianping Tu
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Patent number: 8391346Abstract: When an operating unit is operated to designate an arbitrary width W and an arbitrary angle ?, a mask region limiting unit limits the effective range of a reference mask set for compliance measurement of the data signal to be evaluated by a reference mask setting unit to the range determined by the designated width and angle and displays the limited effective range on a display unit. When the mask region limiting unit limits the effective range of the reference mask, a quality evaluating unit performs compliance measurement and quality evaluation for the limited effective range in operative association with the limitation of the effective range.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2011Date of Patent: March 5, 2013Assignee: Anritsu CorporationInventors: Keita Masuhara, Tadanori Nishikobara
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Patent number: 8391167Abstract: A system and method for determining a propagation delay between nodes in a packet network are provided. The system and method include sending a ping packet from a source node to a destination node, determining an intermediate node delay of the ping packet at an intermediate node and recording the intermediate node delay in the ping packet and determining the propagation delay at the destination node by using the intermediate node delay.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2007Date of Patent: March 5, 2013Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hyun Surk Ryu, Geoffrey M. Garner, Cornelis Johannis Den Hollander, Fei Fei Feng, Kyu Hong Jung
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Patent number: 8385393Abstract: Transmission power relative to a propagation path having a variation in gain is controlled to increase communication channel capacity, and a data rate is controlled in accordance with the variation of the increased communication channel capacity. In order to increase the communication channel capacity, the transmission power is determined so that the sum of noise power (=received noise power/propagation path gain) converted into one at a transmitter and the transmission power becomes constant. As a result, contrary to the background art, the transmission power is controlled to be reduced when the propagation path gain decreases and to be increased when the propagation path gain increases.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2010Date of Patent: February 26, 2013Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Takashi Yano, Satoshi Tamaki
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Patent number: 8374321Abstract: This relates to a method for determining a receive bit rate over a data link. The method includes setting a receive bit rate to an initial bit rate. A bit pattern over the data link is detected using the initial bit rate. A determination is made as to whether the detected bit pattern matches one of a plurality of known bit patterns corresponding to fractional bit rates. If the detected bit pattern does not match one of the plurality of known bit patterns, then a determination is made as to whether the received data includes a framing error. If it does, then the receive bit rate is lowered to a low detection bit rate that is lower than the fractional bit rates corresponding to the plurality of known bit patterns.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2010Date of Patent: February 12, 2013Assignee: Motorola Mobility LLCInventors: Harjot S. Sidhu, Ashok C. Patel
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Patent number: 8369966Abstract: A network having a plurality of subscribers has at least one message transmitter and at least one message receiver. The at least one message transmitter sends messages at predefined time intervals. The message receiver receives the messages at the predefined time intervals. A delay time of the messages is monitored on the basis of time outs. In addition, at least one of the subscribers repeatedly estimates a current delay time using a time measurement between sending out a request message and receiving a response message. The estimated delay time is compared with a predefined threshold value. If the estimated delay time exceeds the defined threshold value, an error signal is generated.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2010Date of Patent: February 5, 2013Assignee: Pilz GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Matthias Holzaepfel, Reinhard Sperrer, Stefan Woehrle, Klaus Wohnhaas
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Patent number: 8369792Abstract: Infrastructure network service measurements of time needed to complete data transfers are used to determine the capacity of a technology sector of a wireless packet data communication base station, such as a 1xEV-DO sector, using infrastructure network service measurements. The process, for example, may predict when the radio-frequency link between wireless data subscribers and a wireless base station becomes sufficiently congested that each user experiences reduced data speeds. The determination of capacity can be made down to the sector-carrier (a single carrier within a base station sector) level. The prediction can be cast in terms of time, which allows network service providers to plan the growth of their base stations to meet subscriber needs.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2011Date of Patent: February 5, 2013Assignee: Cellco PartnershipInventors: Scott Anthony Townley, Derek Hongwei Bao
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Patent number: 8363771Abstract: Provided are a transmission device, a receiving device, and a communication system having a simple configuration and capable of reliably executing the confirmation of a changed bit rate. The communication system 1 sends, to the receiving device 3, a serial data signal Sdata that is set as a constant value across a period of a constant multiple of a cycle of the clock when a bit rate of a serial data signal Sdata in the transmission device 2 is changed. The receiving device 3 that received the serial data signal Sdata receives training data Tdata from the transmission device 2 when it is determined that the serial data signal Sdata is a constant value across a period of a constant multiple of a cycle of the clock, and proceeds to the processing of confirming the changed bit rate.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2009Date of Patent: January 29, 2013Assignee: Thine Electronics, Inc.Inventors: Hironobu Akita, Seiichi Ozawa, Yohei Ishizone, Satoshi Miura
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Patent number: 8355342Abstract: A packet loss frequency calculation unit (102) which counts, from an extracted packet loss pattern, packet losses generated in a predetermined interval representing the interval of a plurality of continuous IP packets as a packet loss of one time, thereby calculating the value as a packet loss frequency. The packet loss frequency calculation unit (102) also calculates a burst packet loss length representing the number of continuously lost packets from the packet loss pattern. An average burst packet loss length within a quality estimation interval is calculated from the burst packet loss length. A packet loss variation index calculation unit (106) derives a packet loss variation index from the average burst packet loss length. On the other hand, an encoding quality calculation unit (103) calculates an encoded video quality value based on the extracted encoding bit rate and frame rate.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2008Date of Patent: January 15, 2013Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone CorporationInventors: Kazuhisa Yamagishi, Takanori Hayashi
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Patent number: 8345736Abstract: A sampling point detection circuit 1 comprises: means 11 for setting amplitude division lines along a time axis and time division lines along an amplitude axis of an eye diagram; means 12 for calculating a virtual circle that is inscribed in a divided region having the smallest area among divided regions obtained when a region that is defined by segments each connecting intersections of a bit error rate contour line of the eye diagram and the amplitude division line and intersections of the bit error rate contour line and the time division line and that contains an intersection of the amplitude division line and the time division line is divided by the amplitude division line and time division line; and means 13 for determining, as a sampling point, the intersection of the time division line and the amplitude division line that are set when the largest virtual circle among the virtual circles is calculated.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2010Date of Patent: January 1, 2013Assignee: Shinko Electric Industries Co., Ltd.Inventor: Kenji Ikedo
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Patent number: 8331503Abstract: A receiving level control apparatus includes an amplifier to receive a signal and to amplify the signal based on a gain control signal, a memory to store an accumulated level of the amplified signal at every sampling period, and a gain control section to judge whether or not the accumulated level, which has been accumulated from a first time instant, exceeds a first reference value at a predetermined timing, and to control the gain control signal for the amplifier in response to a length of a time period defined from the first time instant up to a second time instant in a case that the accumulated level exceeds the first reference value, the second time instant defined as a time instant when the gain control section judges that the accumulated level exceeds the first reference value.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2009Date of Patent: December 11, 2012Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventor: Hidekazu Matsunobu
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Patent number: 8331431Abstract: According to an aspect of the embodiment, According to an aspect of the invention, a signal transmission apparatus transmits a first signal to a transmission line. The apparatus measures a reflection characteristic of the transmission line based on a signal resulting from reflection of the first signal, and measures a transmission characteristic of the transmission line based on a signal resulting from transmission of the first signal through the transmission line. The apparatus determines a transmission clock frequency and a multi-value number based on the reflection characteristic and the transmission characteristic, and modulates information using the transmission clock frequency and the multi-value number to transmit a second signal resulting from the modulation to the transmission line. The apparatus receives the second signal through the transmission line and demodulates the received second signal.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2009Date of Patent: December 11, 2012Assignee: Fujitsu LimitedInventor: Makoto Suwada
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Publication number: 20120307879Abstract: A network including powerline adapters (“PLAs”) of the HomePlug Alliance variety or similar implementations such as the European in Opera standard provides for diagnostic capability and software enhanced powerline adapters. The diagnostic capability includes collecting network performance data and either analyzing or forwarding data for analysis. In addition, mechanical design for the PLA with an isolating filter provides for secure mounting while blocking access to a second wall outlet of a duplex unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 17, 2012Publication date: December 6, 2012Applicant: Adaptive Spectrum and Signal Alignment, Inc.Inventors: Paul Baran, Eugene R. Wilson, Robert S. Parnell, Hugo Haselhuhn
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Publication number: 20120307878Abstract: An interface for use in a local device includes a transmitter portion programmably configurable to at least three data rates, a receiver portion programmably configurable to those at least three data rates, and an automatic speed negotiation module operatively connected to the transmitter portion and the receiver portion to configure the transmitter portion and the receiver portion for communication with a remote device at a single data rate that is a best available one of those at least three data rates. The date rate can be adjusted by adjusting transmitter data path width and receiver data path width, adjusting a frequency of said transmitter data path and said receiver data path, and oversampling. Byte serialization or deserialization can be enabled or disabled to alter the width of the data, depending on the data rate, for transfer to/from the remainder of the local device.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 20, 2010Publication date: December 6, 2012Applicant: ALTERA CORPORATIONInventors: Divya Vijayaraghavan, Chong H. Lee
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Patent number: 8315295Abstract: The present invention provides method and apparatus for designing modulation and coding set of communication System. The method for designing modulation and coding set designs a proper set of modulation and coding schemes (MCS), based on probability distribution of the quality of received signal in the communication system, so as to optimize the whole performance of the communication system. The method comprises the steps of: acquiring the probability distribution of the quality of the received signal in the communication system; performing a calculation on the target performance of the communication system based on the acquired probability distribution of the quality of the received signal and a plurality of MCSs, to design a proper set of MCSs for the communication system, so that a region where the probability of the quality of the received signal appears more frequently are provided with more levels of the MCSs.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2009Date of Patent: November 20, 2012Assignee: Fujitsu LimitedInventors: Hua Zhou, Jun Tian, Yuantao Zhang, Jinyin Xue
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Patent number: 8311776Abstract: The Data Throughput Tester (“DTT”) provides efficient and reliable methods to characterize the performance capabilities of electronic data systems. Embodiments of the DTT may allow test organizations to find the throughput limitations of a data system under test to the nearest whole packet in both an efficient and reliable manner. Embodiments of the DTT may allow determination of the throughput of a data system under test under the requirement that data output obtained from the data system is identical to the data input provided to the data system. Further embodiments of the DTT may allow determination of the throughput of a data system under test under the condition that specific performance characteristics of the data system under test satisfy pre-defined benchmark parameters.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2009Date of Patent: November 13, 2012Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.Inventor: Robert Blackledge
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Patent number: 8271842Abstract: Systems, methods and apparatuses for reducing HARQ retransmissions using peak power management techniques are presented. In one example, a receiver may perform multi-level error correction for reducing HARQ retransmissions. The receiver may include a Peak-to-Average-Power Ratio Management Module (PAPR MM) decoder configured to perform a first level of error correction utilizing retransmissions originating at a front end of a distal transmitter. The receiver may further include a symbol demapping module connected to the PAPR MM decoder, a deinterleaver connected to the symbol demapping module, and a decoder connected to the deinterleaver and the PAPR MM decoder, where the decoder may be configured to perform a second level of error correction utilizing retransmissions originating at a back end of the distal transmitter. A transmitter for reducing HARQ retransmissions using PAPR techniques is also presented.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2008Date of Patent: September 18, 2012Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventor: Nagendra Nagaraja
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Patent number: 8254996Abstract: Systems and methods for maintaining base stations are provided. In this regard, a representative system, among others, includes a base station that is configured to receive transmitted signals from one or more mobile stations, calculate one or more data rates based on the transmitted signal associated with the one or more mobile stations, respectively, and generate data rate signals based on the calculated one or more data rates. The base station includes a dithering unit that is configured to apply dithering noise to the data rate signals, and memory that includes channel assignment logic configured to assign access channels to the one or more mobile stations based on the dithered signals, respectively.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2008Date of Patent: August 28, 2012Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventor: Zhen Zhong Frankie Shuai