Demultiplexing Single Input Channel To Plural Output Channels Patents (Class 370/542)
  • Publication number: 20130250977
    Abstract: An apparatus comprising an optical multiplexer/demultiplexer having a set of input ports and a set of output ports, the optical multiplexer/demultiplexer configured to demultiplex a wavelength division multiplexed optical signal to one port of the set of input ports, and to output a plurality of demultiplexed wavelength channels to one of a plurality of subsets of output ports within the set of output ports. The apparatus comprises an optical switch configured to route the wavelength division multiplexed signal to a selected one of the input ports, thereby causing the plurality of demultiplexed wavelength channels to be output by the optical multiplexer/demultiplexer to selected ones of the plurality of subsets of output ports.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Publication date: September 26, 2013
    Applicant: Alcatel-Lucent USA Inc.
    Inventor: Long Chen
  • Patent number: 8542709
    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: December 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2013
    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: 8514897
    Abstract: A method and a device for mapping Ethernet code blocks to an optical transport network (OTN) for transmission is provided. According to a preset mapping manner, four groups of 10 Gigabit (10G) Ethernet code blocks are uniformly mapped to a payload area of a general frame provision (GFP) frame, or each group of 10G Ethernet code blocks is interleaved into the payload area of each row of the OTN frame. Thus, specific solutions for mapping four groups of 10G Ethernet code blocks having an encoding rate smaller than the minimum payload bandwidth of the OPU3 to the OTN for transmission are provided, thereby achieving transparent transmission without changing the mature OTN architecture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Zhangzhen Jiang
  • Patent number: 8514958
    Abstract: An Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex (OFDM) communication system comprises OFDM transmitters and an OFDM receiver. The system comprises a subcarrier status data controller for transmitting subcarrier status data to the OFDM receiver. The subcarrier status data indicates the active subcarriers of the OFDM transmitters. The OFDM receiver comprises a receiver which receives a signal comprising a desired signal component from a first OFDM transmitter and interference from at least one interfering OFDM transmitter. The OFDM receiver further comprises a subcarrier status processor which receives the subcarrier status data and a channel estimator which determines channel estimates for at least an air interface communication channel from the first OFDM transmitter and an air interface communication channel from the interfering OFDM transmitter. An interference mitigation processor performs interference mitigation of the interference in response to the subcarrier status data and the channel estimates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: Nvidia Corporation
    Inventors: Alan Edward Jones, Vishakan Ponnampalam
  • Patent number: 8509330
    Abstract: Time-varying and frequency-selective channels in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) network are estimated by first storing, in a buffer at a receiver, a received signal corresponding to a set of pilot tones of a set of OFDM symbols. The pilot tones are predetermined and inserted in frequency subcarriers and time slots of the OFDM symbol. A covariance matrix of the received signal is estimated. A diagonal matrix is estimated based on the covariance matrix and a variance of noise in the received signal. The diagonal matrix indicates delays of non-zero paths in a time domain. A channel impulse response (CIR) for each OFDM symbol is estimated using the diagonal matrix, and the received signal. Then, the CIR is transformed to the frequency domain to obtain the channel frequency response (CFR).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2013
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Ramesh Annavajjala, Hobin Kim
  • Patent number: 8462635
    Abstract: The invention is directed toward techniques for Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) upstream label assignment for the Resource Reservation Protocol with Traffic Engineering (RSVP-TE). The techniques include extensions to the RSVP-TE that enable distribution of upstream assigned labels in Path messages from an upstream router to two or more downstream routers of tunnel established over a network. The tunnel may comprise a RSVP-TE P2MP Label Switched Path (LSP) or an Internet Protocol (IP) multicast tunnel. The techniques also include extensions to the RSVP-TE that enable a router to advertise upstream label assignment capability to neighboring routers in the network. The MPLS upstream label assignment using RSVP-TE described herein enables a branch router to avoid traffic replication on a Local Area Network (LAN) for RSVP-TE P2MP LSPs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2013
    Assignee: Juniper Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Rahul Aggarwal, Yakov Rekhter
  • Patent number: 8451869
    Abstract: A network device includes a substitutor and a transmitter. The substitutor receives input columns of concurrently received input symbols. Each of the input columns includes one input symbol from each of a plurality of parallel input lanes. The substitutor generates output columns corresponding to the input columns, wherein each of the output columns includes one output symbol for each of a plurality of parallel output lanes. The substitutor replaces the output symbols of a selected column of the output columns with alignment symbols. The selected column is immediately followed by a second column, and the second column is immediately followed by a third column. The substitutor replaces the output symbols of the second column with disposable symbols, and replaces the output symbols of the third column with boundary symbols. The transmitter drives data onto a communications medium in response to the output symbols generated by the substitutor module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2013
    Assignee: Marvell International Ltd.
    Inventor: William Lo
  • Patent number: 8437372
    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: September 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2013
    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: 8428090
    Abstract: The invention provides a method and apparatus that addresses and resolves the issues currently affecting the ability to offer Enhanced TV, in particular, those issues concerning timing and synchronization, interaction with other modules in the STB, and distribution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2013
    Assignee: TVWorks, LLC
    Inventors: Brian Bulkowski, Carolyn Wales, Sam Hsu, James Helman, Joseph Decker, Brock Wagenaar, Mark Vickers
  • Publication number: 20130070791
    Abstract: A MIMO transmitter has a modulator (40,41,42, 120, 122) a demultiplexer 100 arranged to divide the information into one or more demux streams for transmission over different ones of the channels, and a diversity splitter (110) to derive one or more sub-streams of the same information. A decorrelator (120) such as a scrambler (150, 155) decorrelates the sub-streams before or after the modulation. The arrangement is configurable to vary in use a ratio of demultiplexing and of diversity splitting. This balances between the gains from diversity and spatial multiplexing, without needing major changes to the transmit and receive processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2012
    Publication date: March 21, 2013
    Applicant: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
    Inventor: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
  • Publication number: 20130070792
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to techniques for denoising of physiological signals. A signal (e.g., physiological signal) comprising at least two signal channels can be decomposed (e.g., using independent component analysis (ICA)) into at least two independent components. Then, independent component (IC) denoising can be applied to estimate which of the at least two independent components belong to a signal space and which of the at least two independent components belong to a noise space using a statistical metric associated with the at least two signal channels. A de-noised version of the signal can be generated by preserving in the signal only one or more independent components of the at least two independent components belonging to the signal space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2012
    Publication date: March 21, 2013
    Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Mohammed Shoaib, Gene Wesley Marsh, Harinath Garudadri, Somdeb Majumdar
  • Patent number: 8401038
    Abstract: Systems, devices, processors, and methods are described which may be used for the reception of a wireless broadband signal at a user terminal from a gateway via a satellite. A wireless signal may include a series of physical layer frames, each frame including a physical layer header and payload. The received signal is digitized and processed using various novel physical layer headers and related techniques to synchronize the physical layer frames and recover data from physical layer headers for purposes of demodulation and decoding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2013
    Assignee: ViaSat, Inc.
    Inventors: Donald W. Becker, Matthew D. Nimon, William H. Thesling
  • Patent number: 8363684
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a method of detecting and correcting skew across a plurality of transmitting lanes. Through the use of an N framer system, including a frame start signal and a frame synchronization signal, skew can be detected and corrected by writing data from a plurality of framers into offsetting bit locations of a plurality of buffers. The present invention also provides a method of transmitting data in a multiple lane distribution (MLD) transmission system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2013
    Assignee: Altera Canada Co.
    Inventor: Wally Haas
  • 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: 8351428
    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: January 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    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: 8341679
    Abstract: A plurality of intelligent device systems for use with a wideband signal distribution network, and methods for transmitting digital information and receiving digital and non-digital information onto and off of an RF carrier through a wideband signal distribution network, are disclosed. The intelligent device systems provide networks of intelligent devices that modulate and demodulate digital video, IP video/data/voice and digital wireless onto, and off of, a wideband signal distribution system, such as an analog carrier system, using existing EIA/TIA 568 standard wiring infrastructure. The methods modulate and demodulate digital video, IP video/data/voice and digital wireless onto, and off of, a wideband distribution system, such as an analog carrier system, and separate IP portions from non-IP portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: CBV, Inc.
    Inventors: Earl Hennenhoefer, Richard Snyder, Robert Stine
  • Patent number: 8331407
    Abstract: An apparatus and a method for providing a white board service in a mobile communication system are provided, wherein a bit stream received from a counterpart node is demuxed into data of a logic channel and data of a control channel using a demuxing protocol. The demuxed data is decoded for output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Mi-Ra Choi
  • Patent number: 8320386
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for aggregating parallel data links connecting two end-point devices into a logical link. If one of the parallel data links is a multi-point link, then an end-point device can still access that link to route traffic to an end station on the link (that is, to a device other than the other end-point device of the logical data link). In the terminology of this disclosure, the logical aggregated link is accessed through an “aggregated port” on an end-point device, while the constituent multi-point link is accessed directly through a “singleton port.” By assigning a smaller cost to the aggregated port than to the singleton port, embodiments avoid creating routing loops. In some embodiments, the aggregation is performed at Layer 2 of the Open System Interconnection seven-layer protocol model. Then, the methods of the present invention work well with existing IEEE 802.1 bridging architectures and protocols.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Motorola Mobility LLC
    Inventors: Qi Bao, George A. Harvey, Gerald R. Johnson, Whay C. Lee, Ted R. Michaud
  • Patent number: 8295308
    Abstract: A resource pool aggregator is disclosed. The resource pool aggregator facilitates a faster data communication between resource pools. The resource pool aggregator includes a plurality of network interfaces to receive and send data packets. A packet collector module couple of the plurality of network interfaces is included to process and route the data packets. A data store coupled to the packet collector module is provided to store IP addresses of computers in the resource pools.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignee: VMware, Inc.
    Inventor: Ranganath Gorur Kirshna Iyengar
  • Publication number: 20120257643
    Abstract: A system has a first transmitter for transmitting a first wireless signal within a first frequency. A second transmitter is for transmitting a second wireless signal with overlapping frequency. The first transmitter and the second transmitter are disposed sufficiently proximate to another such that the wireless signals substantially interfere resulting in a combined wireless signal with negative SNR for each of the first wireless signal and the second wireless signal, the negative SNR being a result of at least the other of the first wireless signal and the second wireless signal. A receiver is located for receiving a received wireless signal comprising substantially interfering encoded data signals having negative SNR. The receiver is for selecting from the substantially interfering encoded data signals a signal of interest and for decoding said signal of interest relative to at least the other substantially interfering data signal within the received wireless signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2012
    Publication date: October 11, 2012
    Applicants: the Communications Research Centre of Canada
    Inventors: Yiyan Wu, Bo Rong, Gilles Gagnon, Khalil Salehian, Sébastien Lafléche, Charles Nadeau, Benoit Ledoux, Robert Gagnon, Douglas Prendergast
  • 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: 8254291
    Abstract: An Ethernet device having multiple lanes and a method of operating the lanes are provided. In one general aspect, it is possible to allocate a dummy block to each of one or more lanes such that the lanes do not selectively participate in communications. In addition, on a receiving side, the dummy block can be removed from among the genuine data blocks to enable data to be decoded. In this case, an Ethernet device on a transmission side and an Ethernet device on a receiving side can exchange information of a lane to which the dummy block is allocated by use of a lane status message, and the lane status message may be based on a link fault message specified by Ethernet standards.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Kye-hyun Ahn, Seung-hwan Kim, Yong-tae Kim, Kyeong-eun Han, Kwang-joon Kim
  • Publication number: 20120201258
    Abstract: An asymmetrical transformer output demultiplexing (ATODEM) circuit is disclosed. The ATODEM circuit of the present disclosure includes N input windings, wherein N is a natural number. Each of the N input windings have input terminals that couple to output terminals of N PAs. The ATODEM further includes M output ports wherein M is a natural number, each of the M output ports having N series coupled windings coupled between a load terminal and a return terminal. The physical attributes of the N input windings, and the N series coupled windings of the M output ports are asymmetrical such that in an Nth operation mode an Nth PA first-load line impedance matches an output impedance of an Nth PA coupled to the input terminals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2011
    Publication date: August 9, 2012
    Applicant: RF MICRO DEVICES, INC.
    Inventors: Jeppe Korshøj Bendixen, Ruediger Bauder
  • Patent number: 8233466
    Abstract: A system and method are provided for more effectively utilizing modems in a WiMAX environment, so as to improve network connectivity while providing access for both fixed as well as portable computing devices. The apparatus connects one or more computing devices to a network-based information system through at least a first WiMAX modem that is located within the apparatus. A second WiMAX modem can be removably coupled to the apparatus so as to improve network connectivity and operability. In the event, the second WiMAX modem is removed and coupled to a portable computing device, network connectivity provided by the first WiMAX modem is maintained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Assignee: Clearwire IP Holdings LLC
    Inventors: Doug A. Olding, Warren B. Cope, Shane Robert Werner, Ahsan Habib, Arun Santharam
  • Patent number: 8233507
    Abstract: A transmitter including a plurality of input lanes, a substitutor module, and an interleaver module. The plurality of input lanes is configured to receive input symbols including data symbols and idle symbols, wherein the input symbols are arranged into columns of concurrently received input symbols, and wherein each of the columns includes one input symbol from each of the plurality of input lanes. The substitutor module is configured to, at intervals, replace one of the columns with a column of alignment symbols. The substitutor module is further configured to replace an immediately subsequent one of the columns with a column of disposable symbols; and replace one or more immediately subsequent ones of the columns with columns of boundary symbols uninterrupted by disposable symbols. The interleaver module is configured to interleave symbols from the substitutor module between a first transmit lane and a second transmit lane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Assignee: Marvell International Ltd.
    Inventor: William Lo
  • Patent number: 8208501
    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: August 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 26, 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: 8199782
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a method of detecting and correcting skew across a plurality of transmitting lanes. Through the use of an N framer system, including a frame start signal and a frame synchronization signal, skew can be detected and corrected by writing data from a plurality of framers into offsetting bit locations of a plurality of buffers. The present invention also provides a method of transmitting data in a multiple lane distribution (MLD) transmission system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2012
    Assignee: Altera Canada Co.
    Inventor: Wally Haas
  • Patent number: 8174983
    Abstract: There is provided apparatus including at least one pre-capture filter, operative to receive at least some of a plurality of packets transmitted in a network, and to identify an application type of each of the received packets and a plurality of application-type specific post capture filters, each associated with at least one of a plurality of application-type specific monitoring stations, the plurality of application-type specific post capture filters being operative to receive from the at least one pre-capture filter packets of a specific application type and to transmit the packets of the specific application type to the at least one of the plurality of application type specific monitoring stations associated therewith.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2012
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Afaq Khan, Catherine McLachlan
  • Patent number: 8170421
    Abstract: A clock recovery method and apparatus is provided. The high-order demultiplexing-demapping unit (102) demultiplexes and demaps the high-order OTN frame (101) into N low-order ODTUjk frames (103), and transmits the N low-order ODTUjk frames (103) to the low-order demapping unit (104); the low-order demapping unit (104) respectively demaps the N ODTUjk frames (103) into N ODUj frames (105), and writes the ODUj frames from memory unit 1 (106) to memory unit n (108) into memory unit n+1 (109) to memory unit 2n (111) by using the clock signal whose gaps are uniformly distributed; and the ODUj frame clock generating unit (113) adjusts the read out clock in memory unit n+1 (109) to memory unit 2n (111), i.e. ODUj frame clock (114), according to the data volume stored in memory unit n+1 (109) to memory unit 2n (111).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2012
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jianchang Li
  • Patent number: 8155158
    Abstract: The invention discloses a network aggregation system, apparatus and method for creating aggregated network connections to provide high availability and increased throughput where the plurality of network connections may possess diverse physical and logical characteristics. Increased throughput on the aggregated network connection equals the sum of the available throughput on the aggregated network connections. Aggregation is performed in a transparent fashion, independent of any physical or logical characteristics of the individual connections. Network connectivity over the aggregated connection is managed such that the loss or gain of connectivity in an individual connection among the aggregated group does not result in the loss of data from the data stream aggregation device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Inventor: Patricio Humberto Saavedra
  • Patent number: 8139615
    Abstract: A data processing apparatus includes a channel demultiplexing circuit, a bus, a memory controller and a memory. The channel demultiplexing circuit has a first delay circuit which delays first channel data only of multi-channel data by one cycle and outputs first delayed channel data, a second delay circuit which delays second channel data only of the multi-channel data by one cycle and outputs second delayed channel data, and a channel data holding circuit which stores first coupled data obtained by coupling the first channel data and the first delayed channel data for multiple cycles and stores second coupled data obtained by coupling the second channel data and an output of the second delay circuit for multiple cycles. The channel demultiplexing circuit selectively outputs a first channel data group and a second channel data group to the bus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2012
    Assignee: Oki Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoshihiro Murakami
  • Patent number: 8135046
    Abstract: Presented herein are system(s) for demultiplexing, merging, and duplicating packetized elementary stream/program stream/elementary stream data. In one embodiment, there is presented a system for processing data. The system comprises a first circuit and a memory. The first circuit receives transport packets carrying the data. The memory stores data and comprises at least one context. The first circuit maps the data associated with at least one channel to the at least one context.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2012
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventors: Stephane W. Rodgers, Daniel Z. Simon
  • Publication number: 20120044958
    Abstract: A programmable frequency receiver includes a slicer for receiving data at a first frequency, a de-multiplexer for de-multiplexing the data at a second frequency, a programmable clock generator for generating a clock at the first frequency, and first and second resonant clock amplifiers for amplifying clock signals at the first and second frequencies. The resonant clock amplifiers include an inductor having a low Q value, allowing them to amplify clock signals over the programmable frequency range of the receiver. The second resonant clock amplifier includes digitally tunable delay elements to delay and center the amplified clock signal of the second frequency in the data window at the interface between the slicer and the de-multiplexer. The delay elements can be capacitors. A calibration circuit adjusts capacitive elements within a master clock generator to generate a master clock at the first frequency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2011
    Publication date: February 23, 2012
    Applicant: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventors: Bharath Raghavan, Jun Cao, Afshin Momtaz
  • Patent number: 8098695
    Abstract: A multiplexed audio data decoder apparatus is provided in which integration of an audio decoder is easy, and has a high flexibility when the number of the formats to be processed is increased or when the specification is changed. In an external ROM 60 there are accumulated a plurality of decoding program codes corresponding to respective plural methods for compressing and encoding. A controller 50 transfers the decoding program code corresponding to the method for compressing and encoding after changing thereof, from the external ROM 60 to an internal RAM 25. A DSP 22 starts decoding processing by using the decoding program code which is transmitted into the internal RAM 25.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2012
    Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Video and Information Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Yukio Fujii, Shinichi Obata, Hiroaki Shirane, Eiji Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 8098694
    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: May 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 17, 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: 8045592
    Abstract: Exemplary embodiments are provided of apparatus and methods relating to antenna multiplexers and demultiplexers are disclosed. In exemplary embodiments, antenna multiplexers include two or more inputs for receiving a corresponding number of signals from multiple antennas. The antennas may include world cell antennas, AM/FM antennas, SDARS antennas, GPS antennas, and/or antennas combining the preceding. Exemplary antenna multiplexers also include an output for simultaneously outputting the combined signals received by the multiplexer. Demultiplexers for receiving such combined signals and outputting each signal via a separate output are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2011
    Assignee: Laird Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph Michael Combi, Ayman Duzdar, Gary Keith Reed
  • Patent number: 8045536
    Abstract: A transmitter/receiver system for high data transfer in a wireless communication system includes a physical layer processor that comprises an FEC coder, a demultiplexer and a plurality of modem processors. The FEC coder applies error correction codes to the high data rate signal. Thereafter, the demultiplexer distributes portions of the coded high data rate signal to the modem processors. Each modem processor processes its respective portion of the coded signal for transmission in an independent channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2011
    Assignee: IPR Licensing, Inc.
    Inventor: James A. Proctor, Jr.
  • Patent number: 8040924
    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: October 5, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2011
    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: 8027369
    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: October 5, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2011
    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: 8018976
    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: May 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2011
    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: 8018978
    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: May 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2011
    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: 8018977
    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: May 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2011
    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: 8000285
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a reverse link overhead channel power gain for an access terminal is determined based on the service activity of the access terminal. In association therewith, or independent thereof, the reverse link overhead channel power gain may be dynamically adjusted based on the services activated and/or deactivated. The dynamic adjustment may also take into account the load on the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2011
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Pi-Chun Chen, Qinqing Zhang
  • Patent number: 7995522
    Abstract: A base station and a router are interactively connected by a multilink group which transmits VoIP packets and a multilink group which transmits data packets other than VoIP packets. The base station and the router split transmission lines by referencing the ToS area of received packets and transmit only VoIP packets by way of a dedicated line. In this way, VoIP packets can be transmitted without being affected by other data packets, and the quality of VoIP can be warranted on the mobile network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2011
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shuji Otsubo, Tomoya Yokota, Kingo Miyoshi
  • Patent number: 7965722
    Abstract: Multiplexing of information from a plurality of information flows into fixed-length packets such as, but not limited to, MPEG packets allows efficient utilization of bandwidth and also can be used to reduce transmission latency. In addition, utilizing MPEG packets and transport streams for octet multiplexing allows the packets carrying octet-multiplexed data to easily be integrated with other MPEG packets for other services that are commonly found in cable transmission networks of all coax, hybrid fiber coax, and/or all fiber. The multiplexing/demultiplexing of octets using MPEG packets generally is described by mappings that specify the use of octets in MPEG packets. Changes to allocations in a map generally should be propagated in a way that reliably ensures that both the transmitter and receiver have a consistent view of the octet mappings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2011
    Inventors: Richard J. Futch, Thai-Bao H. Kien, Bin Yang, Christopher J. Topazi
  • Patent number: 7957429
    Abstract: In order to increase the efficiency of large-capacity transmission, the continuity of divided signals generated by dividing a multiplexed signal is maintained and the original large-capacity multiplexed signal is restored. A signal dividing section divides a multiplexed signal to generate a plurality of divided signals in the STS or STM transmission interface format. A guarantee information adding section adds guarantee information for guaranteeing the continuity of the divided signals to each of the divided signals to generate transmission signals. A signal sending section sends the transmission signals via a transmission line in the transmission interface format. A signal receiving section receives the transmission signals. A signal restoring section restores the multiplexed signal by constructing the divided signals on the basis of the guarantee information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2011
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Koji Takeguchi, Ryuchi Moriya, Nobuhiro Rikitake, Hideki Matsui, Hirotaka Morita
  • Patent number: 7948295
    Abstract: A demultiplexer includes an input terminal for providing an input signal, a plurality of output terminals for outputting the input signal, and a switching circuit coupled among the input terminal and the plurality of output terminals, and outputting the input signal selectively from the plurality of output terminals according to a plurality of control signals provided to a plurality of control terminals. For miniaturizing the demultiplexer, the switching circuit includes one or more switch elements connected between the input terminal and each of the output terminals in series, wherein at least two of the switch elements coupled to different output terminals are simultaneously switched in response to one control signal from the plurality of control terminals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2011
    Assignee: Chimei Innolux Corporation
    Inventor: Keitaro Yamashita
  • Patent number: 7944953
    Abstract: The invention provides a method and apparatus that addresses and resolves the issues currently affecting the ability to offer Enhanced TV, in particular, those issues concerning timing and synchronization, interaction with other modules in the STB, and distribution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2011
    Assignee: TVWORKS, LLC
    Inventors: Brian Bulkowski, Carolyn Wales, Sam Hsu, James Helman, Joseph Decker, Brock Wagenaar, Mark Vickers
  • Patent number: 7944943
    Abstract: A channel inverse multiplexer/multiplexer (IMUX/MUX) (14a) of a MAC sublayer (14) of a UTRAN RNC (11) for providing to a UE (18) traffic (communication signals including in general both control and user data) at a higher rate than the UE can accept over a single channel. The channel IMUX/MUX performs inverse multiplexing of traffic for downlink, and multiplexing of traffic on uplink, and does so in a way that is transparent to all other layers/entities of the UTRAN (11 17) and to the UE (18).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2011
    Assignee: Spyder Navigations L.L.C.
    Inventors: Sami Kekki, Jari Isokangas, Woonhee Hwang, Sinikka Sarkkinen
  • Patent number: 7941822
    Abstract: A plurality of intelligent device systems for use with a wideband signal distribution network, and methods for transmitting digital information and receiving digital and non-digital information onto and off of an RF carrier through a wideband signal distribution network, are disclosed. The intelligent device systems provide networks of intelligent devices that modulate and demodulate digital video, IP video/data/voice and digital wireless onto, and off of, a wideband signal distribution system, such as an analog carrier system, using existing EIA/TIA 568 standard wiring infrastructure. The methods modulate and demodulate digital video, IP video/data/voice and digital wireless onto, and off of, a wideband distribution system, such as an analog carrier system, and separate IP portions from non-IP portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2011
    Assignee: CBV, Inc.
    Inventors: Earl Hennenhoefer, Richard V. Snyder, Robert D. Stine