Multiplexing Combined With Demultiplexing Patents (Class 370/535)
  • Patent number: 8406259
    Abstract: Disclosed are a Time Division Multiplexing (TDM) communication system with a parallel structure and a method for the same. A transmission apparatus of the TDM communication system with the parallel structure includes a Time Division Demultiplexer (TDDM) to perform time division demultiplexing of inputted first serial signals to thereby output the demultiplexed serial signals as a plurality of parallel signals, a plurality of modulators to respectively modulate the outputted parallel signals; a Time Division Multiplexer (TDM) to adjust a multiplexing ratio according to channel-related information, and to perform time division multiplexing of each of the modulated parallel signals in the adjusted multiplexing ratio to thereby output the multiplexed parallel signals as second serial signals, and a transmission antenna to transmit the outputted second serial signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2013
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Woo Yong Lee, Kyeongpyo Kim, Jin Kyeong Kim, Yong Sun Kim, Hyoung Jin Kwon
  • Patent number: 8406256
    Abstract: A transmitting system and a method for processing data are disclosed herein. The transmitting system includes a service multiplexer and at least one transmitter located in a remote position from the service multiplexer. Herein, the service multiplexer generates an RS frame having the size of N (row)×187 (column) bytes including at least one type of mobile service data, packetizes the RS frame into a plurality of mobile service data packets, and multiplexes the packetized mobile service data packets with a main service data packet at a predetermined data rate, thereby transmitting the multiplexed data packets. Herein, each mobile service data packet is configured of a TS header and a data region, and the data region is configured of at least one of a payload region and an adaptation field region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2013
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Chul Soo Lee, Sang Kil Park, In Hwan Choi
  • Patent number: 8400906
    Abstract: In a relay based wireless communication system, a method for transmitting an uplink backhaul sub-frame of a relay node includes obtaining scheduling information for an uplink backhaul sub-frame through a downlink backhaul control channel from a base station, and performing a rate matching and mapping of data by regarding at least one predefined symbol as a blank symbol. The predefined symbol is located at a front part or a rear part of the scheduled uplink backhaul sub-frame. The transmitting method further includes performing a multiplexing of the uplink backhaul sub-frame, and transmitting the multiplexed uplink backhaul sub-frame. This method can eliminate an overlap of transmission and reception timing in a relay node due to an RF transmission/reception switching time delay. Also, the method can make better use of wireless backhaul resources and minimize an influence on conventional systems by offering the compatibility with conventional uplink and downlink sub-frame structures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: In Ho Lee, Joon Young Cho, Jin Kyu Han, Ju Ho Lee
  • Patent number: 8400923
    Abstract: An edge router runs a Multipath Transmission Control Protocol (MPTCP) proxy to allow for a host that implements TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) to operate normally yet reap the benefits of an MPTCP connection. An upgrade of a TCPIP stack on the host is not necessary. The edge router demultiplexes packets received from the host over a TCP connection to an MPTCP connection and multiplexes packets sent to the host over an MPTCP connection to a TCP connection. As a result, higher throughput of packet communication can be realized, for example, for improved video support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2013
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventor: Sriganesh Kini
  • Patent number: 8401042
    Abstract: A broadcasting signal receiver and a method for transmitting/receiving a broadcasting signal are disclosed. An identifier of a cell is set in the broadcasting signal and, if the cell is changed, channel information of the changed cell can be obtained from program table information having the channel information of the cell. Accordingly, the broadcasting signal receiver can continuously output a program although the cell is changed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2013
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Jin Woo Kim, In Hwan Choi, Kook Yeon Kwak, Hyoung Gon Lee, Won Gyu Song, Jin Pil Kim, Jong Moon Kim, Byoung Gill Kim, Chang Sik Yun
  • Patent number: 8396088
    Abstract: A digital broadcasting system and a method of processing data are disclosed. The method of processing data of a transmitting system includes generating signaling information including service-related transmission parameters of mobile service data, packetizing the generated signaling information to a predetermined data packet format, primarily multiplexing the packetized signaling information and a mobile service data packet including the mobile service data, and secondarily multiplexing the primarily multiplexed data packets and a main service data packet including main service data, thereby transmitting the secondarily multiplexed data packets to at least one transmitter located in a remote site.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2013
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: In Hwan Choi, Byoung Gill Kim, Jin Woo Kim, Hyoung Gon Lee, Jong Moon Kim, Won Gyu Song
  • Patent number: 8396063
    Abstract: A wireless signal processor for handling a plurality of wireless sessions comprises a plurality of baseband receivers, one for each session, each receiver producing a digital output, a multiplexer for multiplexing the plurality of digital outputs into a single data stream, a digital signal processor for converting the stream of multiplexed data into a media access controller format, and a media access controller for demultiplexing and framing the stream of data into a plurality of data buffers, one data buffer for each wireless session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2013
    Assignee: Redpine Signals, Inc.
    Inventors: Narasimhan Venkatesh, Satya Rao, Heonchul Park
  • Patent number: 8392953
    Abstract: A broadcasting signal receiver and a method for transmitting/receiving a broadcasting signal are disclosed. An identifier of a cell is configured in second program table information or signaling information of the broadcasting signal. If the cell is changed, channel information of the changed cell can be obtained from second program table information in which transmission channel information of each cell for a broadcasting program is configured. Accordingly, the broadcasting signal receiver can continuously output the program although the cell is changed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Chang Sik Yun, In Hwan Choi, Kook Yeon Kwak, Hyoung Gon Lee, Won Gyu Song, Jin Pil Kim, Jong Moon Kim, Jin Woo Kim, Byoung Gill Kim
  • Patent number: 8385238
    Abstract: A transmitting system, a receiving system, and a method of processing broadcast signals are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Won Gyu Song, Byoung Gill Kim, Jin Woo Kim, Hyoung Gon Lee, Jae Hyung Song, In Hwan Choi, Chul Kyu Mun
  • Patent number: 8385346
    Abstract: A system and method for forming N0GBASE-T. In one embodiment, N 10GBASE-T PHYs are matched to a N×10G MAC via a shim layer. The shim layer is designed to distribute data received from a higher rate MAC to multiple lower-rate PHYs on the transmit end, and to collect data received from multiple lower-rate PHYs to a higher rate MAC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventors: Wael William Diab, Scott Powell, Kevin Clyde Brown
  • Patent number: 8379677
    Abstract: A system for combining a plurality of video streams includes a time stamp adjustment module that generates an adjusted second video stream by adjusting a plurality of time stamps of a second video stream. A video stream concatenation module generates a combined video stream by concatenating the adjusted second video stream to an end of a first video stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2013
    Assignee: ViXS Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Lewis Leung, Krzysztof Socha
  • Patent number: 8374203
    Abstract: Given a hardware platform capable of capturing framed data in a multiplexed fashion from multiple sources, a method and apparatus are shown for providing a constant frame rate for each logical stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2013
    Assignee: Winnov, L.P.
    Inventor: Harry L. Graham
  • Patent number: 8374073
    Abstract: A modulator and a modulation method for a communication device are disclosed. The modulator is configured to multiplex control symbols and data symbols for transmission in a signal based on information of the distance between the positions of at least two control symbols in a representation of symbol positions in the signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2013
    Assignee: Nokia Siemens Networks Oy
    Inventors: Zhenhong Li, Kari Pekka Pajukoski, Esa Tapani Tiirola
  • Patent number: 8374120
    Abstract: A base station (BS) apparatus in a broadband wireless communication system is provided. The base station apparatus includes at least one function board for processing a baseband digital signal; at least one processor board for controlling the at least one function board; and at least one switch for routing a signal between the at least one function board and the at least one processor board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Chang-Won Kim
  • Patent number: 8369690
    Abstract: AVClip recorded in BD-ROM is obtained by multiplexing a graphics stream and a video stream. The graphics stream is a PES packet sequence that includes 1) PES packets storing graphics data (ODS) and 2) PES packets storing control information (PCS). In each ODS, values of DTS and PTS indicate a timing of decoding start for corresponding graphics data, and a timing of decoding end for corresponding graphics data, respectively. In each PCS, a value of PTS indicates a display timing of corresponding decoded graphics data combined with the video stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2013
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Joseph McCrossan, Tomoyuki Okada, Kazuhiro Mochinaga
  • Patent number: 8365228
    Abstract: MPEG video encoders and MPEG audio encoders encode video signals and audio signals, respectively. An SI/EPG data generator generates program information. A transport stream multiplexer multiplexes the program information with video data and audio data. A system controller controls the data output rates of the encoding operations and the multiplexing ratio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yasutomo Nishina, Tomoyuki Hanai, Masahiko Sato
  • Patent number: 8364762
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for presenting information contained in messages in a terminal (MS). In the method, the message comprises at least one component. The message is transmitted to a terminal (MS) in a system for transmitting multimedia messages. In the method, a presentation model (SMIL) is formed to contain information related to the presentation of each component attached in the message. Said presentation model (SMIL) is supplemented with a reference about the location of each component in the message, and said presentation model (SMIL) is attached to said message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2013
    Assignee: Core Wireless Licensing S.A.R.L.
    Inventors: Matti Salmi, Dogu Cetin, Miska Hannuksela, Roberto Castagno, Mika Rantanen
  • Patent number: 8363576
    Abstract: Techniques for transmitting voice/data and packet data services such that packet data transmissions have less impact on voice/data transmissions. In one aspect, voice/data and packet data can be multiplexed within a transmission interval such that the available resources are efficiently utilized. In another aspect, the amount of variation in the total transmit power from a base station is controlled to reduce degradation to transmissions from this and other base stations. In a specific method for concurrently transmitting a number of types of data, a first data type (e.g., voice, overhead, and some data) and a second data type are respectively processed in accordance with first and second signal processing schemes to generate first and second payloads, respectively. First and second partitions are then defined in a transmission interval. The first and second payloads are time multiplexed into the first and second partitions, respectively, and the multiplexed payloads are transmitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2013
    Assignee: Qualcomm Incorporated
    Inventors: Serge Willenegger, Stein A. Lundby
  • Patent number: 8359615
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method and a digital broadcasting system for transmitting and receiving an Electronic Service Guide (ESG). When there are ESG fragments to be transmitted through a communication network among ESG fragments included in ESG data, a digital broadcast transmitter generates an ESG data session such that the ESG data session may include route information through the communication network of the relevant ESG fragments. Then, the digital broadcast transmitter transmits the generated ESG data session to a broadcast receiving terminal, which obtains the route information through the communication network of the relevant ESG fragments. Accordingly, a user can more easily and conveniently receive the ESG data by using the route information through the communication network obtained by the broadcast receiving terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Byoung-Dai Lee, Jae-Yeon Song, Young-Jip Kim, Jin-Woo Jeon
  • Patent number: 8358219
    Abstract: An indicator apparatus, having a pulse width modulation circuit (1), a demultiplexer (2) which has at least one signal input (21) and at least two signal outputs (22), wherein the signal input (21) is connected to the pulse width modulation circuit (1), and at least two light-emitting diodes (3) which are each connected to a signal output (22) of the demultiplexer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2013
    Assignee: e: cue control GmbH
    Inventor: Dominik Heggen
  • Patent number: 8358574
    Abstract: An IS-OFDM system for point-to-point wireless communications that suppresses narrow-band interference comprises an IS-OFDM transmitter and an IS-OFDM receiver, wherein a transmitted signal comprises a plurality of subcarriers, and further wherein each subcarrier contains more than one and potentially all symbols transmitted in a given frame. The IS-OFDM transmitted signal is at a data rate that is equal to the data rate of the input data stream via the use of P/S converters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2013
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.
    Inventor: Diakoumis Gerakoulis
  • Publication number: 20130010816
    Abstract: A method for transmitting first data to a first decentralized unit in a communications network from a central unit via a distribution point and via a first subscriber line serving the first decentralized unit and at least one other subscriber lines serving at least one other decentralized unit includes: splitting the first data at the central unit; transmitting the split first data from the central unit to the distribution point using the first subscriber line and the at least one other subscriber line; and merging, at the distribution point, the split first data on the first subscriber line for transmission of the first data to the first decentralized unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2011
    Publication date: January 10, 2013
    Applicant: DEUTSCHE TELEKOM AG
    Inventor: Walter Keller
  • Patent number: 8351450
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a rate adaptation device comprises one or more input/output (I/O) ports coupled to a first network operating at a first data transmission rate, a first physical coding sublayer (PCS) receiver to receive a stream of PCS blocks from the first network, an idle symbol remover to remove a sequence of idle symbols from the first PCS block and combine the one or more non-idle PCS symbols in a buffer with one or more non-idle PCS symbols from a second PCS block to form a third PCS block, and a PCS transmitter to transmit the third PCS block to a second network operating at a second data transmission rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Michael Kauschke, Michael Riepen, Heiko Woelk
  • Patent number: 8351437
    Abstract: A source communication device includes a source network clock to control timing of communicating with other devices in a network, a source streaming clock associated with processing of audio or video data, a time stamp generator to generate a time stamp that includes a source network clock value and a source streaming clock value, and a time stamp insertion mechanism that incorporates the time stamp into a data unit that is to be transmitted to one of the other devices in the network. A sink communication device includes a sink network clock synchronized with the source network clock, a sink streaming clock associated with processing of audio or video data, and a sink time stamp mechanism to compare a sink streaming clock value with the source streaming clock value, and adjust the sink streaming clock based on the comparison.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Mobile Communications AB
    Inventors: Jacobus Cornelis Haartsen, Geert Hendrik Weinans, Dick De Jong
  • Patent number: 8351323
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for transmitting/receiving a continuous pilot code in a multi-carrier system. The method for transmitting comprises: performing a time-frequency domain two dimensional encoding on an information bit stream to be transmitted; mapping the encoded bit stream to obtain a continuous pilot carrying encoding information; multiplexing a load, a discrete pilot and the mapped continuous pilot carrying the encoding information based on distribution of the load, the discrete pilot and the continuous pilot on a sub-carrier, to generate a frequency domain signal; and performing a frequency-time domain transforming on the generated frequency domain signal, to obtain a time domain sample. The method for receiving comprises: extracting the continuous pilot from an active carrier of a multi-carrier signal; and performing a time-frequency domain decoding on the extracted continuous pilots to obtain the decision of transmitted information bits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: TIMI Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Guanbin Xing, Dong Bai, Yibin Liang, Qihong Ge, Wen Chen
  • Patent number: 8340138
    Abstract: A video signal and an audio signal are TMDS transmitted from a source device to a sink device. Through a reserved line and a HPD line provided separately from a TMDS transmission line, an Ethernet™ signal is bidirectionally transmitted, and also, a SPDIF signal is transmitted from the sink device to the source device. The Ethernet™ signal bidirectionally transmitted between Ethernet™ transmitter/receiver circuits is differentially transmitted by an amplifier and is received by the amplifier. The SPDIF signal from a SPDIF transmitter circuit is common-mode transmitted from an adder and is received by the adder to be supplied to the SPDIF receiver circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Gen Ichimura, Hidekazu Kikuchi, Yasuhisa Nakajima
  • Patent number: 8340133
    Abstract: A digital broadcast transmitting/receiving system and a method for processing data are disclosed. The method for processing data may enhance the receiving performance of the receiving system by performing additional coding and multiplexing processes on the traffic information data and transmitting the processed data. Thus, robustness is provided to the traffic information data, thereby enabling the data to respond strongly against the channel environment which is always under constant and vast change.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Jin Pil Kim, Young In Kim, Ho Taek Hong, In Hwan Choi, Kook Yeon Kwak, Hyoung Gon Lee, Byoung Gill Kim, Jin Woo Kim, Jong Moon Kim, Won Gyu Song
  • Patent number: 8331393
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method comprising determining, by a processor, at least an indication of a size of a de-interleaved symbol from a frame within a frame buffer, estimating, by the processor, a target transport channel buffer in a channel buffer for the de-interleaved symbol, and writing, by the processor, the de-interleaved symbol in the channel buffer based on the estimated target transport channel buffer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Marvell International Ltd.
    Inventors: Gadi Mazuz, Alex Margulis
  • Patent number: 8331357
    Abstract: Apparatus for placing a plurality of computer-assisted compressed-voice subscriber calls using a circuit-switched signal path in a distributed telecommunications network. A plurality of vocoders receive voice data from respective subscriber voice devices and output substantially continuous compressed-voice data signals which are arranged by a plurality of packetizers into compressed-voice data packets. A plurality of network adapters send the compressed-voice data packets to a circuit-switched telephone network. A plurality of sequencers remove the substantially continuous compressed-voice data signals from the compressed-voice data packets. A multiplexer coupled to the sequencers combines the compressed-voice data signals into a compressed-voice data package and a signal injector injects the compressed-voice data package into a prearranged time slot of a conventional circuit-switched signal path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventor: Yangling Zhang
  • Patent number: 8325609
    Abstract: This invention provides a data processing device capable of operating a plurality of processing modules in parallel. Processes following a processing flow are assigned to the plural processing modules, respectively, and at least two of the processing modules are capable of running a same process. A network includes an arbitration circuit that, upon receiving a packet from a processing module, according to a process number attached to the packet, selects a processing module out of the processing modules capable of running the process, and outputs the packet to the selected processing module. This thus allows for autonomous transfer of a packet between each processing module and makes it possible to operate the processing modules in parallel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Masami Nakajima, Yoshihiro Okuno
  • Patent number: 8325769
    Abstract: A method of transmitting a data stream over a communication channel, the method comprising: providing symbol sets having different numbers of symbols; modulating data in the data stream that warrant different degrees of protection against noise onto symbols from symbol sets having different numbers of symbols, wherein which symbol set given data in the stream is modulated onto is independent of symbol sets onto which other data in the data stream is modulated onto; and transmitting the symbols.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: Valens Semiconductor Ltd.
    Inventors: Eyran Lida, Nadav Banet, Gaby Gur Cohen
  • Patent number: 8325768
    Abstract: In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method for receiving a first portion of a first packet at a first agent and determining whether the first portion is an interleaved portion based on a value of an interleave indicator. The interleave indicator may be sent as part of the first portion. In such manner, interleaved packets may be sent within transmission of another packet, such as a lengthy data packet, providing improved processing capabilities. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Aaron T. Spink, Herbert H. J. Hum
  • Patent number: 8315279
    Abstract: A system connects a plurality of CSTA Clients to a communications system that supports only one CSTA Client at a time, such as a PBX. The system includes a server or other processor programmed to provide a CSTA dialog with each of the plurality of CSTA Clients, and a single CSTA dialog with the PBX.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: Poltys, Inc.
    Inventors: Alexandru Ionescu, Christian-Ionut Lup
  • Patent number: 8311064
    Abstract: A transmitter including an analog front end configured to receive a serial signal; a control circuit configured to generate a first gain signal and a second gain signal based on a characteristic of a serial channel; a first amplifier is configured to amplify the serial signal to generate a first amplified signal based on the first gain signal; a first delay device configured to delay the serial signal to generate a first delayed signal; a second amplifier configured to amplify the first delayed signal to generate a second amplified signal based on the second gain signal; and at least one summer is configured to sum the first amplified signal and the second amplified signal to generate an output signal. The output signal is transmitted on the serial channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Assignee: Marvell International Ltd.
    Inventors: Lei Wu, Timothy Hu
  • Patent number: 8306067
    Abstract: The invention discloses a dual frequency multiplexer by which a first and second coaxial harmonic oscillator type band pass filters are disposed in a box. The box includes a base body, a cover plate and a cover body. The two coaxial harmonic oscillator type hand pass filters are located on the base body and spaced each other by a metal plate; the multiplexer port, first and second ports are positioned on lateral side of the base body. The blocking capacitors are contained in the coaxial chamber of the two coaxial harmonic oscillator type band pass filters. The cover plate is secured on the base body; the first and second direct current circuits are placed on the cover plate; the low pass filters of the first and second direct current circuits are fixed on an edge of a top surface of the coaxial chamber by means of a support member; the cover body and the base body are fastened with each other. The blocking capacitors each are of distributed parameter capacitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Comba Telecom System (China) Ltd.
    Inventors: Yingjie Di, Tao He, Bin He, Mengmeng Shu, Jingmin Huang
  • Patent number: 8302148
    Abstract: To improve transmission of digital broadcast information, there is proposed a method of transmitting digital broadcast information from a main transmitter (12) to at least one repeater (14). There is generated a composite digital broadcast signal carrying first digital broadcast information according to a first digital broadcast specification (DVB-T) and second digital broadcast information according to a second digital broadcast specification (DVB-H). The composite digital broadcast is then broadcasted such that the second digital broadcast information (DVB-H) is sent in a transmission mode used for transmission of the first digital broadcast information (DVB-T).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventors: Jörg Huschke, Ralf Tönjes, Uwe Horn
  • Publication number: 20120269206
    Abstract: A deserializer circuit includes demultiplexer circuitry configured to receive serial data from an input and output a plurality of divided data outputs, and multiplexer circuitry configured to receive a first logic level at a first input of said multiplexer circuitry, and receive a second logic level at a second input of said multiplexer circuitry and receive one of said divided data outputs at a control input of said multiplexer circuitry. The outputs of the multiplexer circuitry produce the received serial data in a parallel form.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2012
    Publication date: October 25, 2012
    Applicants: STMICROELECTRONICS S.A., UNIVERSITE DE MONASTIR, STMICROELECTRONICS SRL
    Inventors: Mounir Zid, Alberto Scandurra, Carmelo Pistritto, Rached Tourki
  • Publication number: 20120269207
    Abstract: A receiver is provided. The receiver includes a first receiving unit which receives a first stream over a broadcasting network; a second receiving unit which receives a second stream over a communication network; a data processing unit which detects aggregation information from at least one of the first and second streams, and which assembles and processes data of the first stream and data of the second stream according to the aggregation information; and an output unit which outputs the data processed by the data processing unit. Thus, relevant data can be assembled and processed easily.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2012
    Publication date: October 25, 2012
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yong-seok JANG, Hong-seok PARK, Jae-jun LEE, Hee-jean KIM, Dae-jong LEE, Yu-sung JOO
  • Patent number: 8279893
    Abstract: A system and method are provided for communicating data over a network. In some embodiments relating to data transmission, data is divided into a plurality of portions, such that the portions may be transmitted utilizing a plurality of different types of data connections. In other embodiments relating to data receipt, a plurality of portions of data is received utilizing a plurality of different types of data connections, after which the portions may be reassembled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: NVIDIA Corporation
    Inventors: William Samuel Herz, Andrew C. Fear
  • Patent number: 8279747
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus includes, an encoding section for encoding a bit string to generate a data signal having an amplitude of a1 and a transmission speed of b; a signal generation section for synchronously adding a clock having a frequency of b/K (K is a predetermined natural number), an amplitude of a2 (>a1), and a small duty ratio to the data signal generated by the encoding section to generate a transmission signal; and a signal transmission section for transmitting the transmission signal generated by the signal generation section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Kunio Fukuda
  • Patent number: 8280230
    Abstract: AVClip recorded in BD-ROM is obtained by multiplexing a graphics stream and a video stream. The graphics stream is a PES packet sequence that includes 1) PES packets storing graphics data (ODS) and 2) PES packets storing control information (PCS). In each ODS, values of DTS and PTS indicate a timing of decoding start for corresponding graphics data, and a timing of decoding end for corresponding graphics data, respectively. In each PCS, a value of PTS indicates a display timing of corresponding decoded graphics data combined with the video stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Joseph McCrossan, Tomoyuki Okada, Kazuhiro Mochinaga
  • Patent number: 8279866
    Abstract: A method for switching packets in a communication network is provided. The method includes dividing a data stream into at least two sub-streams in a first application card received in a first application card slot of a packet switch. A first sub-stream is sent through a first application port associated with the first application card slot to a first switch port associated with a switch port slot of the packet switch. The switch port slot is operable to receive a switch card for the packet switch. A second sub-stream is sent through a second application port associated with the first application card slot to a second switch port associated with the switch port slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Pradeep Samudra
  • Patent number: 8275003
    Abstract: An aspect of the invention relates to a method and apparatus for multiplexing content. In one example, a first transport stream is received. The first transport stream includes a sequence of burst cycles, each of the burst cycles having a plurality of packet bursts respectively associated with a plurality of primary services. In one example, a primary service is a national service. A packet burst stream is received that is associated with a secondary service. In one example, a secondary service is a regional service. The first transport stream is multiplexed with the packet burst stream to produce a second transport stream. The second transport stream includes a deterministic relationship between the plurality of packet bursts in each of the burst cycles and packet bursts of the packet burst stream. Additional packet burst streams associated with additional secondary services may be received and multiplexed in a similar manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignee: General Instrument Corporation
    Inventor: Erik Elstermann
  • Patent number: 8275005
    Abstract: The invention relates generally to a receiver unit in a digital broadcast system for receiving a broadcast signal comprising content segments and control data, and generating an output signal using the content segments and previously stored content segments. The previously stored content segments are retrieved from a local memory device using the control data and inserted among the received content segments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignee: Sirius XM Radio Inc.
    Inventors: Paul D. Marko, Craig P. Wadin
  • Patent number: 8275006
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method for binding transmission lines and the method includes the following steps: first decide a transmission speed supported by all the transmission lines to be bound, activate all the transmission lines to be bound at the transmission speed supported by all the transmission lines and then bind all the transmission lines. Apparatus for binding transmission lines is also disclosed in the embodiments, which includes a speed reselecting module, a reactivating module and a binding module. According to the embodiments of the present invention, transmission lines with different transmission speeds are bound together in such a way that transmission lines with different transmission speeds could be activated at one transmission speed. Therefore, the bound transmission line may provide wider bandwidth for the user because all the bound transmission lines have the same transmission speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Haijun Wu
  • Patent number: 8275004
    Abstract: A digital broadcasting transmitter, a turbo stream processing method thereof, and a digital broadcasting system having the same. The digital broadcasting transmitter includes a first compressor, forming a normal stream by compressing audio and video signals in a first compression format, a second compressor, forming a turbo stream by compressing the audio and video signals in a second compression format, a transport stream (TS) constructor, compressing the turbo stream in an H.264 format and forming the dual transfer stream by multiplexing the normal stream and the turbo stream, and a TS processor, robustly processing the dual transfer stream transmitted from the TS constructor, thus enhancing the transmission efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dong-il Song, Hae-joo Jeong, Jung-pil Yu
  • Patent number: 8270433
    Abstract: A sending method, a receiving and processing method and an apparatus for adapting a payload bandwidth for data transmission are provided. In the method, N coding blocks containing 64B are acquired, in which N is an integer greater than or equal to 2, and the acquired N coding blocks are converted into a (64*N+1)B coding block, so that a required linear rate is reduced after conversion, thereby reducing requirements for the payload bandwidth of a bearer layer, and satisfying the payload bandwidth required for transmitting 40 Gigabit Ethernet (40 GE) or 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10 GE) MAC frames in an optical transport network (OTN).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Zhangzhen Jiang
  • Patent number: 8265104
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for performing multiplexing of video or other content (e.g., programs) within a network using feed-back from a subsequent digital program insertion stage, and/or feed-forward information from a prior multiplexing stage. In one embodiment, the network comprises a hybrid fiber coax (HFC) cable network having headend and hub-based statistical multiplexing stages, and communication between the two stages is used to improve the visual quality performance and bandwidth utilization of the output multi-program stream during conditions where downstream content is inserted into the transport stream. Business methods associated with the various multiplexing features described above are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: Time Warner Cable Inc.
    Inventors: William L. Helms, Paul D. Brooks
  • Patent number: 8265103
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for flexible visibility in an integrated circuit are disclosed. As one example, an apparatus for flexible visibility in an integrated circuit is disclosed. The apparatus includes a switch unit disposed in the integrated circuit, the switch unit configured to receive a plurality of signals associated with a plurality of visibility points in the integrated circuit, and output the received plurality of signals in a serial form. Also, the apparatus includes a formatter unit disposed in the integrated circuit and coupled to the switch unit, the formatter unit configured to receive the plurality of signals in the serial form, and output a plurality of formatted signals including the received plurality of signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: William M. Hurley
  • Patent number: 8259750
    Abstract: A method and a device for mapping Ethernet code blocks to an optical transport network (OTN) for transmission are provided. In the method, 10G Ethernet code blocks are mapped to an OTN frame corresponding to an optical channel payload unit 2 (OPU2) as a bit stream within a justification range according to an asynchronous bit-stream mapping manner, an identifier for indicating the asynchronous bit-stream mapping manner is set at an overhead (OH) portion of the OTN frame, an offset of a certain code block in the bit stream relative to a certain position of the OTN frame is recorded, and an indicator for indicating the offset position is set. Thus, specific solutions for mapping 10G Ethernet code blocks having an encoding rate lower than a minimum payload bandwidth of the OPU2 to the OTN for transmission is provided without changing the mature OTN architecture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Zhangzhen Jiang