Abstract: Certain aspects of a method and system for wireless communication are disclosed. Aspects of one method may include a receiver that handles wireless communication. The receiver may be enabled to dynamically vary spacing between two or more pilots and/or the size of one or more pilots within at least one frame based on a determined symbol rate.

Abstract: Disclosed are various embodiments for communicating information between various electronic components. A local device may comprise a transmitter to convert communication signals into modulated signals. Modulated signals are injected into a shared power supply line. The remote device may comprise a receiver for identifying the injected signal, demodulating the injected signal, and processing the demodulated signal.

Abstract: A wireless power transfer system is disclosed that allows for directed power distribution. A power station that transmits the power can also transmit a distribution instruction that authorizes and/or prohibits various systems/components within a receiver device to receive power. A manager and power router within the receiver device route the power as directed by the distribution instruction. When multiple components/systems are authorized to receive the power, the receiver device can monitor power need and route as needed between authorized components/systems. In addition, the receiver device can act as a transmitter to wireless flash power to another device. The flash consists of bursting a large amount of power over a relatively short time. Several constraints, configurations, and considerations are required to perform this function.

Abstract: Network devices facilitate flow management through packet marking. The network devices may be switches, routers, bridges, hubs, or any other network device. The packet marking may include analyzing received packets to determine when the received packets meet a marking criterion, and then applying a configurable marking function to mark the packets in a particular way. The marking capability may facilitate deadline aware end-to-end flow management, as one specific example. More generally, the marking capability may facilitate traffic management actions such as visibility actions and flow management actions.

Abstract: Techniques described herein are directed to performing back-end single-channel suppression of one or more types of interfering sources (e.g., additive noise) in an uplink path of a communication device. The back-end single-channel suppression techniques may suppress types(s) of additive noise using one or more suppression branches (e.g., a non-spatial (or stationary noise) branch, a spatial (or non-stationary noise) branch, a residual echo suppression branch, etc.). The non-spatial branch may be configured to suppress stationary noise from the single-channel audio signal, the spatial branch may be configured to suppress non-stationary noise from the single-channel audio signal and the residual echo suppression branch may be configured to suppress residual echo from the signal-channel audio signal. The spatial branch may be disabled based on an operational mode (e.g.

Abstract: A method for color blending prevention in video coding may include selecting, in a mode decision phase of an encoding of a current video frame, to encode an output bitstream in skip mode, wherein the skip mode includes altering encoding of the coding unit by setting luma component transform coefficients for the coding unit to zero, revaluating the selection of the skip mode based on quantized chroma coefficients, the quantized chroma coefficients generated from transformed and quantized residual chroma components, confirming the selection of the skip mode when there are no non-zero quantized chroma coefficients, and revoking the selection of the skip mode when there are non-zero quantized chroma coefficients, wherein the non-zero quantized chroma coefficients are transmitted when the selection of the skip mode is revoked.

Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a system and method for compressing keys of key-data item pairs for storage in a hash table to reduce power and/or area requirements of the memory used to implement the hash table. The system and method of the present disclosure use the hash function to compress a key of a key-data item pair. More specifically, the system and method of the present disclosure effectively remove information from the key that can be predicted using in the hash value of the key to generate a compressed key. Information in the key that is not predictable using the hash value of the key can be included in the compressed key to allow for recovery of the key.

Abstract: A media playback device may be operable to determine whether replacement media content corresponding to at least a portion of a received broadcast media stream is available during reception of the broadcast media stream from one or more broadcast sources. At least some of the replacement media content may then be retrieved when personal video recording (PVR) operations are requested during play of the received broadcast media stream, to enable seamless performance of the requested PVR operations using at least a portion of the retrieved replacement media content. Exemplary PVR operations may comprise pausing, fast forwarding, and/or rewinding. The replacement media content may be retrieved from a plurality of local and/or remote replacement servers. Availability of replacement media content, from remote replacement servers, may be determined based on programming data in said broadcast media stream, routing information provided by a broadcast source, and/or by inquiry via one or more cataloguing servers.

Abstract: Methods and systems for enabling coexistence of multiple potentially interfering wireless components in a device are provided. A device may include a wireless module using a proprietary protocol and one or more modules using standardized protocols. The device further includes a coexistence arbitration module configured to arbitrate access to a shared communication medium among the wireless modules based on assertion of medium access requests by the modules and the associated priority of the asserted medium access requests. When multiple medium access requests have the same priority, precedence for access to the shared medium is determined based on additional criteria. The coexistence arbitration module may be a separate module or may be integrated into another module or distributed among the modules. The device may include a host processor for altering transmission characteristics of a module to increase the likelihood that another module can receive data within a reasonable time period.

Abstract: A systems and method of channel estimation can be used in wireless environments. The systems and method can: (a) determine, by a transmitter, a number of receivers with which to communicate wirelessly, the number of receivers being at least one and corresponding to at least a first receiver; and (b) generate, by the transmitter, a frame to transmit to the first receiver, the frame generated based on a total number of receivers that is higher than the determined number of receivers.

Abstract: A system for load balancing allocation of flows to egress links in a link aggregation is provided. The system includes an input port to receive a packet corresponding to a flow, a plurality of egress ports, a frame distributor coupled to the egress ports, a processor, and a memory coupled to the processor and configured to store bandwidth requirements of the flow. The system also includes a packet parsing unit configured to receive the packet from the input port, receive a first signal from the processor that programs an association of the flow the packet belongs to with an egress port based on bandwidth requirements of the flow stored in the memory, and send a second signal to the frame distributor to direct the packet to the egress port based on the association of the flow with the corresponding egress port.

Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods provided for ping-pong charge pumps. Flying capacitors present in ping-pong charge pumps are operated out of phase to increase equalization periods. Out-of-phase operation also decreases voltage differences between flying capacitors during equalization periods thus decreasing ping-pong charge pump output voltage ripple and snapback. The voltages of the flying capacitors may be equalized without the use of an equalization switch. Differential control currents that are based on the voltage difference between the flying capacitors are used to enable or disable the flying capacitors from driving an output load of the ping-pong charge pump during certain phases of operation. A capacitor with a lower voltage may be disabled, thus providing for voltage equalization as the enabled capacitor sources current to the output load. The flying capacitors are also equalized during overlapping time periods in which the flying capacitors are charging.

Abstract: An integrated circuit (IC) device is provided. The IC device includes an IC die having opposing first and second surfaces, a carrier coupled to the first surface of the IC die, a laminate coupled to the carrier and the second surface of the IC die, and a trace located on a surface of the laminate and electrically coupled to a bond pad located on the second surface of the IC die. The trace is configured to couple the bond pad to a circuit board.

Abstract: A method for deep-packet inspection of packets flowing through an end unit in a point-to-multipoint network. The method comprises classifying packet flows through the end unit using their flow-identification (ID) to determine which of the packet flows should be deep-packet inspected, wherein the packet flows include incoming packets received from a central unit and outgoing packets sent to the central unit of the point-to-multipoint network; duplicating packets determined to be deep-packet inspected; saving all duplicated packets in a memory; upon collection of a predefined number of duplicated packets belonging to a certain flow-ID, performing deep-packet processing based on at least one deep-packet inspection application; and saving the deep-packet processing results in the memory.

Abstract: A global navigation satellite system (GNSS) enabled device that is configured to distinguish reflected GNSS signals from direct GNSS signals utilizing three-dimensional models of the terrain in the proximity of the GNSS enabled device. By utilizing the identification of reflected GNSS signals, the reflected GNSS signals can be excluded and/or weighted to achieve a more accurate location determination.

Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a system and method for creating overlapping bonded groups of downstream channels that can provide increased channel capacity to improve packing densities, while at the same time limiting complexity and cost increases of new receivers and allowing the continued operation of legacy receivers.

Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a system and method for performing the outphasing technique without using a combiner at the output of two power amplifiers to reduce loss and distortions.

Abstract: User equipment (UE) includes an architecture for locating femtocells. The architecture implements a phased search approach. The phased search helps the UE find the correct femtocells in a time and power efficient manner, by performing the search in a way that matches the likely changes to femtocell configurations.

Abstract: An IP multimedia gateway (IMG) receives content sharing service profiles generated by a service manager for communication devices that are coupled to the IMG. Content and/or content information that is received for communication to a first device, is communicated to other devices in response to a request. Content sharing profiles comprise permissions, group members, user preferences, device capabilities and security profiles. Content streams communicated to the first device may be shared with a second device based on the profiles. The second device may share additional streams with the first device. The first device or other devices may communicate the request. The content may be received from a service manager network device. The IMG and a communication device that may display the content may be integrated in a set-top-box or digital TV. Login access is enabled to devices for requesting content. Cooperation with other IMGs may enable discovery and/or content communication.

Abstract: In some aspects, the disclosure is directed to methods and systems for encoding and sharing media clips via a social networking provider responsive to a user interaction via a single “like” or “share” button. Media may be constantly buffered as the user watches the program, such that the user need not initiate recording, enabling the user to quickly share amusing or media clips as they happen live. The device may decode, scale or subsample, and compress or re-encode the media to take up less space in a buffer of the device and/or to comply with copyright fair use requirements. Responsive to the user interaction or “share” command, the device may transfer the contents of the buffer to a social media service along with instructions to generate a post to the social network identifying the user, media, and/or buffer contents.