Patents Issued in January 28, 2014
  • Patent number: 8638803
    Abstract: A communication apparatus in a second network, connected to a relay apparatus configured to relay a packet from a first network to the second network according to destination information of the packet from the first network, includes a receiving unit configured to receive identification information set to the communication apparatus, a processing unit configured to perform processing for enabling data provision to the first network, and a transmission unit configured to transmit to the relay apparatus, before data provision to the first network is enabled by the processing unit, a deletion request for deleting a destination information setting for relaying the packet from the first network to a destination specified by the received identification information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kensuke Yasuma
  • Patent number: 8638804
    Abstract: A broadband gateway, which enables communication with a plurality of devices, may be operable to identify an energy efficient certified device from the plurality of devices. The broadband gateway may handle at least one physical layer connection to at least one corresponding network access service provider. Information related to the identified energy efficient certified device, including usage information of the device, may be communicated to one or more entities. The broadband gateway may acquire the usage information of the energy efficient certified device by monitoring whether the device is operating in an energy efficient mode. The broadband gateway may obtain a credit and/or a reward from the one or more entities based on the usage information of the energy efficient certified device. The broadband gateway may deposit the credit and/or the reward to an account associated with the energy efficient certified device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventors: Wael William Diab, Jeyhan Karaoguz, Xuemin Chen, David Garrett, David Lundgren, Rich Prodan
  • Patent number: 8638805
    Abstract: Described embodiments provide for restructuring a scheduling hierarchy of a network processor having a plurality of processing modules and a shared memory. The scheduling hierarchy schedules packets for transmission. The network processor generates tasks corresponding to each received packet associated with a data flow. A traffic manager receives tasks provided by one of the processing modules and determines a queue of the scheduling hierarchy corresponding to the task. The queue has a parent scheduler at each of one or more next levels of the scheduling hierarchy up to a root scheduler, forming a branch of the hierarchy. The traffic manager determines if the queue and one or more of the parent schedulers of the branch should be restructured. If so, the traffic manager drops subsequently received tasks for the branch, drains all tasks of the branch, and removes the corresponding nodes of the branch from the scheduling hierarchy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: LSI Corporation
    Inventors: Balakrishnan Sundararaman, Shashank Nemawarkar, David Sonnier, Shailendra Aulakh, Allen Vestal
  • Patent number: 8638806
    Abstract: A portable data terminal (PDT) adapted to participate in a wireless mesh network including a plurality of peer PDTs can comprise: a PDT module including an encoded information reading (EIR) device, and a mesh point (MP) module communicatively coupled to the PDT module. The MP module can include a microcontroller and at least one wireless communication interface and can be configured to perform IEEE 802.11-conformant wireless station services including authentication, de-authentication, privacy, and MAC service data unit delivery, and IEEE 802.11-conformant wireless distribution system services including association, disassociation, distribution, integration, and re-association. The MP module can be further configured, responsive to receiving a MAC frame addressed to a recipient inside the wireless mesh network, to deliver the MAC frame using the distribution service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Hand Held Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Ynjiun P. Wang, William H. Havens, Huyu Qu
  • Patent number: 8638807
    Abstract: A method for managing an Ethernet ring network of a VLAN-based bridge is provided that includes: registering a major-ring VLAN ID (VID) in a ring port filtering database of a ring protection link owner node in accordance with a request for registering the major ring VID from an Ethernet Ring Protection controller mounted on the ring protection link owner node of a major ring; delivering, by the ring protection link owner node, a VID registration message to other nodes which belong to the major ring through a ring port; receiving the VID registration message through the ring port and registering the major ring VID in a ring port filtering database of each node itself, by each node belonging to the major ring; and delivering, by each node belonging to the major ring, the VID registration message to other nodes belonging to the major ring through the ring port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Dae Ub Kim, Sang Min Lee, Jeong Dong Ryoo, Jea Hoon Yu, Tae Whan Yoo
  • Patent number: 8638808
    Abstract: A particular overall architecture for transmission over a bonded channel system consisting of two interconnected MoCA (Multimedia over Coax Alliance) 2.0 SoCs (Systems on a Chip) and a method and apparatus for the case of a “bonded” channel network. With a bonded channel network, the data is divided into two segments, the first of which is transported over a primary channel and the second of which is transported over a secondary channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Entropic Communications Inc.
    Inventors: David Barr, Michail Tsatsanis, Arndt Mueller, Na Chen
  • Patent number: 8638809
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally pertains to systems and methods for compensating for repetitive impulse noise (REIN) affecting signals that are communicated over a telecommunication channel. A system in accordance with one exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure includes a transmitter and receiver that communicate over a telecommunication channel. The data is encoded by the transmitter using a forward error correction (FEC) algorithm, such as Reed-Solomon coding, before being transmitted over a telecommunication channel to the receiver. The REIN tracker analyzes the data received by the receiver in order to predict when future occurrences of REIN will likely affect the data being communicated over the channel. The REIN tracker then marks erasures in a received data stream based on its REIN predictions. A decoder then decodes FEC code words in the data stream based on the marked erasures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: ADTRAN, Inc.
    Inventor: Richard L. Goodson
  • Patent number: 8638810
    Abstract: In various embodiments, communication apparatuses and methods for providing robust communications are disclosed. For example, an exemplary apparatus for use in a communication system employing a plurality of different communication channels may include a first database of channel performance information embedded on a machine-readable and writable medium, wherein the first database includes a plurality of records with each record containing information relating to a wireless channel monitored by a Media Access Controller (MAC), input circuitry configured to receive information from a plurality of MACs monitoring their respective wireless channels such that each record of the first database contains channel performance information for a respective wireless channel, and output circuitry configured to provide the channel performance information to a plurality of applications-level executable programs running on one or more computers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventor: Dilip Krishnaswamy
  • Patent number: 8638811
    Abstract: An exemplary wireless commutation device and method are disclosed for configuring a plurality of radio resources including a first radio resource and second radio resource in the wireless communication device. According to one aspect, the first and second radio resources are configured for spatial multiplexing according to a first communication system type. Upon receiving a request for communication over a second communication system type, at least one of the first and second radio resources are re-configured for communication over the second communication system type. According to another aspect, a first communication link over the first communication system is maintained while establishing a second communication link over the second communication system. According to another aspect, the other of the first and second radio resources for non-spatial multiplexing are re-configured according to the first communication system type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Krishnan Rajamani, Samir S. Soliman
  • Patent number: 8638812
    Abstract: Random access operation is performed under a communication environment in which a plurality of communication modes having different transmission rate coexist with small overhead. A high-grade communication station spoofs information of a packet length and a rate in a decoding portion so that a value of (packet length)/(rate) corresponds to a duration where the communication is hoped to be stopped. The other station receiving the spoofed information receives the rest of the packet with the designated rate during the interval designated by the value of (packet length)/(rate). In this case, the packet length and the rate are not those of actually transmitted packet so that this packet is discarded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yuichi Morioka, Kazuyuki Sakoda, Shinichi Kuroda, Ryo Sawai
  • Patent number: 8638813
    Abstract: This invention relates to a method for negotiating at least one parameter of a protocol that is operated between a first protocol entity (1) and a second protocol entity (2), comprising receiving (301) a first negotiation message (3) that carries a first value for the at least one parameter, wherein the first value is an invalid value for the at least one parameter, and sending (309) a second negotiation message that carries a second value for the at least one parameter in response to the first negotiation message (3). The invention further relates to a computer program, a computer program product, a system (30) a terminal (10) and a network element (20). The protocol may for instance be a Radio Link Protocol, and the first (3) and second (4) negotiation messages may for instance be eXchange Identification XID command and response, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Nokia Corporation
    Inventor: Jukka Ala-Vannesluoma
  • Patent number: 8638814
    Abstract: A computer system and method for transmitting LAN signals over transport systems. LAN signals are generated in any client LAN compliant interface. A transceiver receives the client LAN signal in the LAN format. The client LAN signals are not converted to a SONET transmission format at any time before reaching the transceiver. The transceiver then converts the client LAN signal to an internal electrical LAN signal before re-clocking the internal electrical LAN signal. The re-clocked internal electrical LAN signal is then re-modulated into a second LAN signal. The second LAN signal is then transmitted to a transport system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Pivotal Decisions LLC
    Inventors: Jeffrey Lloyd Cox, Samir Satish Sheth
  • Patent number: 8638815
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for logical channel prioritization at a user equipment in a multiple uplink carrier system, the method receiving a set of logical channel priorities at the user equipment, the logical channel priorities being assigned on a per carrier basis; and applying the set of logical channel priorities to each logical channel for carrier selection. Further a method and apparatus for constructing an uplink medium access control protocol data unit at a user equipment in a multiple uplink carrier system, the method sorting possible logical channel and carrier pairings based on logical channel priorities; utilizing a prioritized bit rate process to allocate logical channel traffic in an order determined by the sorting; and performing a remaining resources process to allocate logical channel traffic based on a priority order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Mark Earnshaw, Mo-Han Fong, Hua Xu, Youn Hyoung Heo, Zhijun Cal
  • Patent number: 8638816
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for transceiving multiple service data from multiple communication services to a SONET/SDH communication system or network is provided. A SONET/SDH universal framer (SURF) bidirectionally provides communication between a SONET/SDH communication port and multiple service communication ports using their native data format. A provisioning register stores provisioning information describing the communication system and the communication ports. A SONET/SDH byte engine processes complex hierarchical SONET/SDH frames storing intermediate states when it changes to process a byte of data of a different STS-1 equivalent frame in a SONET/SDH STS-N frame. A service byte engine processes the multitude of service data formats and generally its intermediate states are restored, processed, and saved when it changes to process a different data stream or a different frame of data of a given service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Jay Sethuram, Amir Nayyarhabibi, Chandra Shekhar Joshi, Rajiv Kane, Richard Joseph Weber, Srinivasa R. Malladi
  • Patent number: 8638817
    Abstract: Consistent with the present disclosure, a communication system is provided in which client data is received and provided in frames for transmission within the system. The frames include an overhead portion as well as locations that include the client data. The frames further include phase data or “virtual justifications” that periodically correct the difference between the phase represented by the data locations in the wrapper and the actual accumulated client phase. The phase data or virtual justifications, however, are decoupled from the data path. Therefore, without complicating the data path, the phase data may be sent more frequently and with finer granularity than the actual justifications. Virtual justifications or phase data are communicated via a “virtual justification control channel” which may part of the frame overhead. Moreover, there is no need for an actual “virtual justification opportunity” in the frame, because no data is actually sent in conjunction with the virtual justifications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Infinera Corporation
    Inventor: Edward E. Sprague
  • Patent number: 8638818
    Abstract: An interface for providing a media service includes an encapsulation layer for encapsulating coded media data. The interface also includes a delivery layer for transmitting the encapsulated media data to another entity, and a control layer for controlling transmission of the media data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Sung-Oh Hwang, Ji-Eun Keum, Sung-Ryeul Rhyu, Jae-Yeon Song, Kyung-Mo Park
  • Patent number: 8638819
    Abstract: A wireless communication transceiver and a mode switch device thereof. The transceiver includes: a first band transmission path; a first band reception path; a second band transmission path; a second band reception path; a path switch and a control unit. In a dual band time division duplexing mode, the control unit controls the path switch so that the path switch connects a received radio frequency signal from an antenna to the first band reception path, and connects a transmitted radio frequency signal from the second band transmission path to the antenna in an odd cycle or an even cycle; and controls the path switch so that the path switch connects a received radio frequency signal from the antenna to the second band reception path, and connects a transmitted radio frequency signal from the first band transmission path to the antenna in another odd cycle or another even cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Jian Wen Chen, Lin Chen, Yong Hua Lin, Qing Wang, Rong Yan, Zhen Bo Zhu
  • Patent number: 8638820
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a voicemail system stores a voicemail message left by a first caller for a second caller. The voicemail system facilitates the transfer of a call out of a playback of the voicemail to the first caller and generates a credential that is coupled with the call. If the first caller is not available for the call, the second caller is transferred to the voicemail mailbox of the first caller where second caller records a second voicemail, which is placed in the mailbox of the first caller. The call may be transferred back to the mailbox of the first caller in response to a transfer code entered by the second caller. The voicemail system verifies the second caller based on the credential and returns the second caller to the appropriate location in the queue of voicemails.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Shmuel Shaffer, Amit Barave
  • Patent number: 8638821
    Abstract: A communication network includes a plurality of communication nodes, each node arranged for communicating frames of data with the other nodes during a dynamic segment having dynamic communication slots with respective communication slot numbers. Each of the plurality of communication nodes includes a time base having consecutive timeslots, associated with the dynamic communication slots; a communication slot number controller, for adjusting a communication slot number, a minislot counter for counting minislots while the adjusting of the communication slot counter is suspended and a control unit for controlling the communication slot number controller to either continue adjusting of the slot number if the determined duration of the reception is above a certain threshold or to continue adjusting of the slot number using the value obtained with the minislot counter if the determined duration of the reception is below a certain threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Temple, Mathias Rausch
  • Patent number: 8638822
    Abstract: A network node, a communication system, and a method for transmitting a clock packet through a tunnel are disclosed. The method includes: encapsulating a tunnel ingress clock packet received at an ingress of a tunnel in an encapsulation mode corresponding to the tunnel, and performing clock correction for the encapsulated clock packet; and sending the corrected clock packet to an egress of the tunnel. The network node for processing a clock packet includes an encapsulating module and a sending module. The communication system includes the network node for processing a clock packet, and further includes an intra-tunnel network node and a tunnel egress network node. According to the present invention, a clock packet is re-encapsulated and transmitted through a tunnel. In the subsequent process of transmitting the clock packet transparently, the node itself serves as a clock reference point, and all network nodes do not need to synchronize time absolutely.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jiangsheng Wang, Zhichang Lai, Suolin Chang
  • Patent number: 8638823
    Abstract: A transmission system is provided in a synchronous network, for establishing synchronization with a degree of precision and at a speed being comparable levels as a conventional technique, and further decreasing the probability of out-of-synchronization occurrence. In the present invention, a synchronization signal is detected without performing error correction until synchronization is established, and after the synchronization is established, it is monitored whether or not out-of-synchronization occurs, according to the synchronization signal that has been subjected to the error correction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Takeuchi, Koji Takatori, Yasuyuki Fukashiro, Kohei Mandai, Hidemasa Narita
  • Patent number: 8638824
    Abstract: High-efficiency method and device, to produce coherent Smith-Purcell radiation. A conductive diffraction grating, delimited by two conductive walls, is used, and an electron beam is passed above the grating to generate the radiation. According to the invention, the speed of the electrons is sufficiently low in order that, in a diagram (wave number k, frequency f), the beam line (I) intersects a portion (V) of a branch of the dispersion relationship, located in the first Brillouin zone, and corresponding to the grating's fundamental mode, at a point (P) located outside the zone delimited by the light lines (III, IV), and the current density of the beam is sufficiently high to excite the grating's fundamental mode which is radiated towards the outside thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives
    Inventors: Jacques Gardelle, John-Thomas Donohue
  • Patent number: 8638825
    Abstract: A wavelength tunable laser diode (LD) is disclosed. The LD provides a SG-DFB region and a CSG-DBR region. The SG-DFB region shows a gain spectrum with a plurality of gain peaks, while, the CSG-DBR region shows a reflection spectrum with a plurality of reflection peaks. The LD may emit light with a wavelength at which the one of the gain peaks and one of the reflection peaks coincides. In the present LD, both the gain spectrum and the reflection spectrum are modified by adjusting the temperature of the SG-DFB region and that of the CSG-DBR region independently.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd
    Inventor: Toshimitsu Kaneko
  • Patent number: 8638826
    Abstract: The laser device includes a semiconductor laser element having an emission surface from which laser light is emitted, an optical fiber having an end part facing the emission surface, and an optical fiber supporting member which (i) supports the optical fiber and (ii) has a bonding pad to which the optical fiber is fixed by solder. The optical fiber supporting member includes a beam part having (i) a first main surface on which the bonding pad is provided and (ii) a second main surface opposite to the first main surface, and a pillar part which is fixed to a base and is joined to the beam part on an end portion of the beam part such that the second main surface and the base face each other while being spatially away from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Fujikura Ltd.
    Inventors: Akira Sakamoto, Nozomu Toyohara, Yohei Kasai
  • Patent number: 8638827
    Abstract: A high-power semiconductor laser includes a support block, an anode metal plate, a cathode metal plate and a chip. The support block has a step, and the two ends of the support block have bosses, in which there are screw holes. The chip is welded to an insulation plate, which is attached to the support block. The anode metal plate and the cathode metal plate are, respectively, welded with an anode insulation plate and a cathode insulation plate, which are welded on the step of the support block. The cathode of the chip is connected with a metal connecting plate. The metal connecting plate is connected to the anode metal plate and the cathode metal plate. The insulation plate and the anode metal plate are bonded using a gold wire in press-welding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: XI'AN Focuslight Technologies Co., Ltd
    Inventor: XingSheng Liu
  • Patent number: 8638828
    Abstract: A system and method for providing laser diodes with broad spectrum is described. GaN-based laser diodes with broad or multi-peaked spectral output operating are obtained in various configurations by having a single laser diode device generating multiple-peak spectral outputs, operate in superluminescene mode, or by use of an RF source and/or a feedback signal. In some other embodiments, multi-peak outputs are achieved by having multiple laser devices output different lasers at different wavelengths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Soraa, Inc.
    Inventors: James W. Raring, Mathew C. Schmidt, Yu-Chia Chang
  • Patent number: 8638829
    Abstract: A semiconductor laser includes a columnar lamination structure including a first multi-layer reflection mirror, a first spacer layer, an AlxGayIn1-x-yP (where 0?x<1 and 0<y<1) based active layer, a second spacer layer, a second multi-layer reflection mirror, and a lateral mode adjusting layer on a substrate in this order from the substrate and including a current narrowing layer. The current narrowing layer includes an unoxidized region in an in-plane central region and a circular oxidized region in the circumference of the unoxidized region. The later mode adjusting layer includes a high reflection region to correspond to the unoxidized region and a circular low reflection region in the circumference of the high reflection region. On the assumption that a diameter of the unoxidized region is Dox and a diameter of the high reflection region is Dhr, the diameters Dox and Dhr satisfy an expression of 0.8<Dhr/Dox<1.5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Osamu Maeda, Takehiro Taniguchi, Takahiro Arakida
  • Patent number: 8638830
    Abstract: A semiconductor light emitting device, including: a heterojunction bipolar light-emitting transistor having a base region between emitter and collector regions; emitter, base, and collector electrodes for coupling electrical signals with the emitter, base, and collector regions, respectively; and a quantum size region in the base region; the base region including a first base sub-region on the emitter side of the quantum size region, and a second base sub-region on the collector side of the quantum size region; and the first and second base sub-regions having asymmetrical band structures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignees: Quantum Electro Opto Systems Sdn. Bhd., The Board of Trustees of The University of Illinois
    Inventors: Nick Holonyak, Jr., Milton Feng, Gabriel Walter
  • Patent number: 8638831
    Abstract: A diode-laser bar stack includes a plurality of diode-laser bars having different temperature dependent peak-emission wavelengths. The stack is arranged such that the bars can be separately powered. This allows one or more of the bars to be “on” while others are “off”. A switching arrangement is described for selectively turning bars on or off, responsive to a signal representative of the temperature of the diode-laser bar stack, for providing a desired total emission spectrum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Coherent, Inc.
    Inventors: David Schleuning, Mark M. Gitin, R. Russel Austin
  • Patent number: 8638832
    Abstract: An electronic device comprising a multilayer semiconductor structure formed by a periodic structure having a first semiconductor layer and a second semiconductor layer, wherein in at least a portion of the multilayer semiconductor structure, the first semiconductor layer and the second semiconductor layer have different conduction types. The first semiconductor layer and the second semiconductor layer have different refractive indexes, and the multilayer semiconductor structure functions as a multilayer reflective mirror. As a result, an electronic device, a surface emitting laser, a surface emitting laser array, a light source, and an optical module with decreased parasitic capacitance can be realized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Furakawa Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hitoshi Shimizu, Yasumasa Kawakita
  • Patent number: 8638833
    Abstract: A system is disclosed with a first transceiver configured to communicate with a second transceiver. The first transceiver includes a message encoded by a spreading code and a transmitter configured to use beam forming to send the message as a beamformed transmit message to the second transceiver in one of multiple regions repeatedly targeted by the beam forming. The transceivers include a receiver configured to operating without beam forming in receiving to decode the message using the spreading code with a spreading length to compensate for the lack of beam forming. Other embodiments may include an integrated circuit with a processor operating a transmitter and a receiver of the first or the second transceiver. The integrated circuit may act as a central point, a base station and/or an access point communicating with a client, or operate the transceiver as the client, a station or as a cellular phone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Sundar G. Sankaran, Tevlik Yucek, Paul Petrus, Matthew Smith
  • Patent number: 8638834
    Abstract: Energy in a frequency band is received at a wireless communication device and data is generated representing samples of a received time domain waveform from the received energy. Data for groups of samples of the received time domain waveform is processed to transform the data for the received time domain waveform to produce data for an intermediate domain signal that is in neither the time domain nor the frequency domain. The data representing the intermediate domain signal is analyzed to determine whether a sequence having a predetermined pattern from a set of possible sequences is present in the received energy, and ultimately to determine a sequence of the predetermined pattern whose presence is detected in the received energy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Ahmadreza Hedayat, Mohammad Janani, Hang Jin
  • Patent number: 8638835
    Abstract: A wireless repeater incorporates a gain management block to implement a multi-parameter gain management algorithm. The gain management algorithm receives gain settings from at least a gain control metric for stability and output signal quality and signal headroom values associated with circuitry of the repeater. The gain management block provides secure and robust boot-up of the repeater as well as oscillation detection and prevention. Furthermore, the gain management block implements repeater stability control, output signal-to-noise level control, uplink and downlink gain balance control and compensation for device constraints.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Qualcomm Incorporated
    Inventors: Michael Mao Wang, Gwendolyn Denise Barriac, Dhananjay Ashok Gore, Tao Tian
  • Patent number: 8638836
    Abstract: A transceiver mitigates signal leakage into a receive path from a transmit path. A subtraction circuit determines a difference between a receive signal and a compensation signal to produce a compensated receive signal prior to demodulation by a demodulator. An equalizer both amplitude adjusts and phase adjusts orthogonal baseband transmit signals based on the difference from the subtraction circuit to produce the compensation signal. A digital tuning circuit determines at least one amplitude adjust coefficient to be used by the equalizer. The equalizer can have a polarity switch or a variable attenuator or a variable delay.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.
    Inventors: Pallab Midya, Rakers L Patrick, William J Roeckner
  • Patent number: 8638837
    Abstract: A disclosed radio communication apparatus includes an amplifier configured to amplify a signal received via one of multiple channels including a channel where frequency hopping is conducted; a signal strength measurement circuit configured to measure signal strength of the received signal; and a gain value computation unit configured to compute a gain value for the amplifier based on the signal strength measured by the signal strength measurement circuit. The gain value computation unit is configured to use values specific to the respective channels as coefficients of a function to compute the gain value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Takeshi Ejima
  • Patent number: 8638838
    Abstract: An apparatus for communicating data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Teradici Corporation
    Inventors: Kevin Howard Betts, Victor Lee, Herman Hok Man Leung
  • Patent number: 8638839
    Abstract: A intelligent backhaul radio is disclosed, which can operate by zero division duplexing for use in PTP or PMP topologies, providing for significant spectrum usage benefits among other benefits. Specific system architectures and structures to enable active cancellation of multiple transmit signals at multiple receivers within a MIMO radio are disclosed. Further disclosed aspects include the adaptive optimization of cancellation parameters or coefficients.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: CBF Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin J. Negus, James A. Proctor, Jr.
  • Patent number: 8638840
    Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention provides a transceiver for wireless communication. The transceiver includes a transmitting circuit, a receiving circuit, a power amplifier coupled to the transmitting circuit, and a looping mechanism configured to establish a closed loop that couples an output of the power amplifier to an input of the receiving circuit in response to a linearity compensation need, thereby facilitating cost-effective linearity compensation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Aviacomm Inc.
    Inventors: Hans Wang, Binglei Zhang, Tao Li, Shih Hsiung Mo
  • Patent number: 8638841
    Abstract: A transmitting/receiving system includes two transmitting/receiving apparatuses connected through a transmission cable having two one-direction signal lines. Each apparatus includes a transmitting unit that transmits a signal, a receiving unit that receives a signal, a calculator, a controller, a storage, and an estimating unit. The calculator calculates an Signal to Noise (S/N) ratio of the received signal. The controller controls the calculation by obtaining, as a first value, a strength of a signal caused by a check signal transmitted during absence of a check signal being received, obtaining, as a second value, a strength of a check signal received during absence of a check signal being transmitted, and dividing the second value by the first value. The storage stores relationship between a predetermined transmission-cable S/N ratio and temporal signal fluctuation. The estimating unit estimates temporal signal fluctuation from the calculated S/N ratio and the relationship.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yasuaki Konishi
  • Patent number: 8638842
    Abstract: Provided is an equalization device which receives a signal transmitted from a transmission side of the signal as an input signal, and equalizes the deterioration of a wave shape of the received input signal, wherein a bit value indicated by the input signal is judged in accordance with a clock on the basis of the wave shape of the input signal. From judged signals which result from the judgment and which are composed of a plurality of bits, a two-bit transition signal is detected so that the two-bit transition signal has two adjacent bit values having the same value, and bit values located before and after the two adjacent bit values are different from the bit value of the two adjacent bit values, and the phase of the clock is synchronized with the phase of the detected two-bit transition signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Hideyuki Hasegawa
  • Patent number: 8638843
    Abstract: To optimize an adaptive equalizer with a simple controlling circuit, the receiving device includes a number counting part counting, in a range of detection having a predetermined width, a sampling result corresponding to the input signal being shaped by an equalizer circuit at a determination timing indicated by a clock signal obtained in a CDR circuit, a zone scanning part scanning the range of detection in a scanning zone including a variation range of the input signal; a coefficient altering part altering an equalizer coefficient set to the equalizer circuit; a peak detecting part detecting a peak value of a number of appearances of the sampling result according to alteration of the equalizer coefficient and scanning of the range of detection; and a coefficient specifying part specifying the equalizer coefficient being used when detecting the peak value in the peak detecting part as a first coefficient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignees: Fujitsu Limited, Fujitsu Semiconductor Limited
    Inventors: Hisakatsu Yamaguchi, Yasumoto Tomita, Satoshi Kawahara
  • Patent number: 8638844
    Abstract: A method for storing decoded moving pictures with a reduced memory requirement includes: decoding header information in a bitstream; storing a decoded moving picture as a buffered picture; determining a less important portion of the buffered picture; and performing a post-processing operation on the less important portion of the buffered picture according to the header information. An associated apparatus for storing decoded moving pictures with a reduced memory requirement is further provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Mediatek Inc.
    Inventor: Kun-Bin Lee
  • Patent number: 8638845
    Abstract: A channel state information compressing apparatus includes a time-to-frequency region converter that converts a region for channel state information which indicates a state of each communication channel from a time region to a frequency region; and an adaptive selector that selects each frequency component to be included in compressed data based on electric power of the frequency component from among frequency region data obtained by the time-to-frequency region converter. The channel state information compressing apparatus outputs the compressed data consisting of each selected frequency component, and information for identifying each frequency component which forms the compressed data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: KDDI Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuyuki Hatakawa, Tadayuki Fukuhara, Riichirou Nagareda
  • Patent number: 8638846
    Abstract: Systems and methods for encoding/decoding a video stream. Animated talking heads are coded using partial offline encoding, multiple video streams, and multiple reference frames. The content of a face animation video that is known beforehand is encoded offline and the remaining content is encoded online and included in the video stream. To reduce bit rate, a server can stream multiple video sequences to the client and the video sequences are stored in the client's frame store. The server sends instructions to play a particular video sequence instead of streaming the particular video sequence. Multiple video streams can also be streamed to the client. Positional data and blending data are also sent to properly position one video stream relative to another video stream and to blend one video stream into another video stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.
    Inventors: Eric Cosatto, Hans Peter Graf, Joern Ostermann
  • Patent number: 8638847
    Abstract: An encoder comprising an input for inputting video signal to be encoded to form an encoded video signal comprising pictures of at least a first coded video sequence and a second coded video sequence, a hypothetical decoder for hypothetically decoding encoded video signal, an encoded picture buffer, and a decoded picture buffer, and a definer for defining a parameter indicative of the temporal difference between the last picture of the first coded video sequence and the first picture of the second coded video sequence in output/display order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Nokia Corporation
    Inventor: Ye-Kui Wang
  • Patent number: 8638848
    Abstract: The method of transmitting a video stream over a network between a transmission device and at least one reception device comprises: —a step (502) of encoding so-called “primary” data of the video stream according to a first type of encoding, —a step (516, 518) of obtaining so-called “secondary” video data, dependent on the primary data, by the simulation of transmission errors potentially suffered by the video stream and at least one method of masking losses due to said transmission errors able to be implemented by a reception device able to decode the primary video stream encoded according to the first type of encoding, —a step (520, 522) of encoding secondary data according to a second type of encoding different from the first type of encoding, and —a step of transmitting, by means of the network, primary data encoded according to the first type of encoding and at least some of the secondary data encoded with the second type of encoding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Xavier Henocq, Patrice Onno, Fabrice Le Leannec
  • Patent number: 8638849
    Abstract: The present invention provides a transcoder having a MPEG decoder and a MPEG encoder, for changing a GOP structure and the bit rate of an encoded bitstream obtained as a result of an encoding process. The MPEG encoder receives a past encoding parameters generated at a past encoding process as a history information, and performs a present encoding process by using the past encoding parameters selectively so that the present encoding process is optimized. Furthermore, the encoder describe the past encoding parameters into the encoded bitstream as the history information so as to reuse the history information in advance encoding process. The picture quality of the video data does not deteriorate even if decoding and encoding processes are carried out repeatedly by the transcoder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Katsumi Tahara, Yoshihiro Murakami, Takuya Kitamura, Kanji Mihara
  • Patent number: 8638850
    Abstract: A digital processor for recovering a source bitstream from an encoded bitstream that has been encoded according to a context adaptive binary arithmetic coding (CABAC) algorithm. The processor includes a first execution unit and a second execution unit. The first execution unit generates first execution data by operating on a first register and a second register, and stores the first execution data in the first register. The first execution data includes a current output bit, a temporary range value and a temporary offset value. The current output bit corresponds to a bit of the source bitstream. The second execution unit generates second execution data by operating on the first register and the second register, and stores the second execution data in the second register. The second execution data includes a normalized range value and a normalized offset value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
    Inventor: Michael Frank
  • Patent number: 8638851
    Abstract: A video coding system and method for increasing a transmitted output bit rate of a video encoding system by altering the content of the bit stream. A video encoder may receive a coding mode signal from a computer application for coding source video data, the coding mode signal indicating a target bit rate having a risk factor related to transmission error associated to the target bit rate. The coded bitstream may be modified based on the risk factor indicated in the coding mode signal. A modified coded bitstream may be outputted at the target bit rate and at a reduced coding efficiency, and the channel may be tested for transmission errors. Based on the test results, a revised coding mode signal indicating the same target bit rate, but a revised risk factor may be provided. The coded bitstream may be revised by removing the modifications previously made to the coded bitstream and a revised coded bitstream having greater coding efficiency may be output at the target bit rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Hyeonkuk Jeong, Xiaosong Zhou, Joe Abuan, Xiaojin Shi, Hsi-Jung Wu, James Oliver Normile
  • Patent number: 8638852
    Abstract: This disclosure recognizes and exploits the fact that some of the filter coefficients defined at the encoder may possess symmetry relative to other filter coefficients. Accordingly, this disclosure describes techniques in which a first set of the filter coefficients are used to predictively encode a second set of the filter coefficients, thereby exploiting any symmetry between filter coefficients. Rather than communicate all of the filter coefficients to the decoding device, the encoding device may communicate the first set of filter coefficients and difference values associated with the second set of filter coefficients. Using this information, the decoder may be able to reconstruct all of the filter coefficients. In some cases, if exact symmetry is imposed, the need to send the difference values may be eliminated and the decoder may be able to derive the second set of filter coefficients from the first set of filter coefficients.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Marta Karczewicz, Yan Ye