Patents by Inventor Eric M. Rives

Eric M. Rives has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 7212598
    Abstract: A clock regeneration scheme for a digital communication receiver has a first-in, first-out (FIFO) storage buffer into which received data is clocked in accordance with an input clock signal and a data valid signal. A fixed fractional delay line is coupled to provide respectively different phase delayed versions of the input clock signal and feeds a multiplexer that is controllably operative to couple one of the outputs of the fixed fractional delay line to a regenerated clock output port. A control loop, which includes the FIFO storage buffer, the output port and a steering control input of the multiplexer circuit, is operative to selectively change which output of the fixed fractional delay line is coupled by the multiplexer to the output port, so as to controllably cause the output clock signal to track the effective frequency of the valid data signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2007
    Assignee: Adtran, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew A. Kliesner, Timothy G. Mester, Eric M. Rives
  • Publication number: 20040208263
    Abstract: A digital data demodulator employs a cordic rotator-based, digital phase locked loop for carrier frequency tracking. Digitized I and Q channels downconverted to baseband using a fixed frequency oscillator are coupled to a digital cordic rotator. The cordic rotator iteratively executes pipelined phase-rotational adjustments of its digitized in-phase and quadrature inputs, in association with a pipelined reduction of the accumulated value of a phase angle vector code generated by digital phase error detection logic circuitry to which rotated I and Q outputs of the cordic rotator are applied. The phase error representative code vector is coupled through a digital loop filter as a reference angle input to the cordic rotator. The cordic rotator iteratively rotates the I and Q channel values that reduce the accumulated phase error to zero.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2004
    Publication date: October 21, 2004
    Applicant: Adtran, Inc.
    Inventors: Eric M. Rives, Matthew F. Gann, Anthony A. Goodloe
  • Patent number: 6801539
    Abstract: A high bit rate digital subscriber line (HDSL) communications scheme employs a serialized multiplexer—demultiplexer protocol, that enables both HDSL channels to be successfully transmitted over an asynchronous, serialized communication link. A service channel supplies control information used by a far end device to extract each HDSL channel from the serialized bit stream. A data channel interface circuit combines a pair of data channel segments of two 784 kbps HDSL channels into a standard 1.544 Mbps T1 serial data stream. The data channel interface circuit contains a register bank which stores embedded operations channel (EOC) information extracted from the two HDSL channels. Auxiliary HDSL signaling information stored in the data channel interface circuit is controllably accessed by a communications control processor for application to an output multiplexer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2004
    Assignee: Adtran, Inc.
    Inventor: Eric M. Rives
  • Publication number: 20040156463
    Abstract: A system for recovering a payload data stream from a framing data stream utilizes a buffer, a first counter, a second counter, and a clock synchronization element. The buffer is configured to receive the framing data stream and to store payload bits of the framing data stream. The buffer is further configured to transmit the payload bits based on a clock signal. The first counter is configured to produce a first value and to update the first value for each of the payload bits stored in the buffer. The second counter is configured to produce a second value and to update the second value based on the clock signal. The clock synchronization element is coupled to the first and second counters. The clock synchronization element is configured to compare the first and second values and to control a frequency of the clock signal based on comparisons of the first and second values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2003
    Publication date: August 12, 2004
    Inventors: Anthony A. Goodloe, Eric M. Rives, Matthew A. Kliesner
  • Patent number: 6771715
    Abstract: A digital data demodulator employs a cordic rotator-based, digital phase locked loop for carrier frequency tracking. Digitized I and Q channels downconverted to baseband using a fixed frequency oscillator are coupled to a digital cordic rotator. The cordic rotator iteratively executes pipelined phase-rotational adjustments of its digitized in-phase and quadrature inputs, in association with a pipelined reduction of the accumulated value of a phase angle vector code generated by digital phase error detection logic circuitry to which rotated I and Q outputs of the cordic rotator are applied. The phase error representative code vector is coupled through a digital loop filter as a reference angle input to the cordic rotator. The cordic rotator iteratively rotates the I and Q channel values that reduce the accumulated phase error to zero.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2004
    Assignee: Adtran, Inc.
    Inventors: Eric M. Rives, Matthew F. Gann, Anthony A. Goodloe