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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120131358 | COMPUTER STORAGE COMPONENTS THAT PROVIDE EXTERNAL AND INTERNAL ACCESS A primary computing device and a secondary computing device couple with an internal storage component of the primary device powered by, and data accessed by either the first or secondary computing device. The internal storage component includes multiple connectors for c... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120129606 | MULTI-MODE MOBILE COMMUNICATION DEVICE WITH MOTION SENSOR AND METHODS FOR USE THEREWITH A mobile communication device includes a motion sensor for generating motion signals in response to motion of the mobile communication device. A motion data generation module generates motion data based on the motion signals. At least one transceiver sends the motion da... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120129573 | POWER CONSUMPTION MANAGEMENT IN A MIMO TRANSCEIVER AND METHOD FOR USE THEREWITH A mobile communication device includes a first wireless transceiver that receives a first inbound RF signal and that transmits a first outbound RF signal based on a first power supply signal. A second wireless transceiver receives a second inbound RF signal and that tra... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120129533 | HANDOFF OF A MULTIMEDIA CALL SESSION USING BACKGROUND NETWORK SCANNING A method and system supporting handoff of a multimedia call session using background network scanning is disclosed. A mobile multimedia handset may engage in the exchange of a multimedia information stream via a first wireless network, and may sniff a portion of radio f... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120128108 | Method and System for a Sliding Window Phase Estimator for Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (WCDMA) Automatic Frequency Correction Aspects of a method and system for a sliding window phase estimator for wideband code division multiple access (WCDMA) automatic frequency correction are presented. Aspects of the system may include one or more circuits that enable adjustment of a current demodulation f... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120128063 | CHANNEL ADAPTIVE VIDEO TRANSMISSION SYSTEM FOR USE WITH LAYERED VIDEO CODING AND METHODS FOR USE THEREWITH A video transmission system includes a transceiver module that transmits a video signal to a remote device over at least one communications channel wherein the video signal is transmitted as at least one separate video layer stream chosen from, an independent video laye... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120128008 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DEMULTIPLEXING, MERGING, AND DUPLICATING PACKETIZED ELEMENTARY STREAM/PROGRAM STREAM/ELEMENTARY STREAM DATA 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 fir... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127962 | DETECTION AND MITIGATION OF TEMPORARY (BURSTS) IMPAIRMENTS IN CHANNELS USING SCDMA Systems and methods are disclosed for detecting and mitigating temporary high-level impairments, in a communications channel, and subsequently, mitigating the deleterious effects of the dynamic impairments. The system includes a transmitter and a receiver. The transmitt... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127885 | Multiple Independent Pathway Communications A system and method for utilizing multiple independent communication pathways for communication. Various aspects of the present invention may comprise receiving a first signal directly from a first communication network, where the first signal communicates a first repre... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127852 | RF TRANSCEIVER SYSTEM WITH ADJUSTABLE TRANSMISSION PARAMETERS AND METHODS FOR USE THEREWITH A circuit includes a transceiver coupled to transmit an outbound signal in accordance with a plurality of transmit parameters to at least one remote station and receive an inbound signal from the at least one remote station. The transceiver detects a packet transmission... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120126612 | AC-DC POWER SUPPLY UNIT AND ASSOCIATED DEVICE An external power supply unit (PSU) for an appliance includes rectification circuitry operable to convert an AC voltage from mains power lines to a DC voltage output, decoupling circuitry operable to decouple a broadband data signal from the mains power lines, timing ci... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120126396 | DIE DOWN DEVICE WITH THERMAL CONNECTOR Methods and apparatuses for a die down device with a thermal connector are provided. In an embodiment, an integrated circuit (IC) device includes an IC die having opposing first and second surfaces, a thermal connector coupled to the first surface of the IC die, and a s... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120110356 | PROVIDING POWER OVER ETHERNET WITHIN A VEHICULAR COMMUNICATION NETWORK A power distribution system within a vehicle operates to provide power over Ethernet to a plurality of network node modules coupled to a vehicular communication network of the vehicle.... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120109447 | VEHICLE BLACK BOX A vehicle black box includes a memory device for receiving and storing real-time data associated with the vehicle during a recording time window. Upon determining that an accident has occurred, circuitry freezes the recording time window and stores the real-time data wi... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120109446 | VEHICLE CONTROL MODULE A vehicle control module includes a vehicle device and a vehicle network interface. The vehicle device is operable to perform a vehicle function. The vehicle network interface facilitates communication regarding the vehicle function between the vehicle device and a vehi... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120109407 | POWER MANAGEMENT WITHIN A VEHICULAR COMMUNICATION NETWORK Power management within a vehicle is achieved by maintaining individual and/or power island power saving options for each of a plurality of devices coupled to a vehicular communication network of the vehicle. Upon determining that power savings should be enabled for a d... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120109406 | UNIFIED VEHICLE NETWORK FRAME PROTOCOL A vehicle communication network includes a network fabric, a plurality of vehicle control modules, memory, one or more multimedia processing modules, and a network manager. The network manager is operable to coordinate communication of packets, via the network fabric, a... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120108183 | CONFIGURABLE RF SECTIONS FOR RECEIVER AND TRANSMITTER AND METHODS FOR USE THEREWITH A transceiver includes an RF receiver section having a plurality of RF receiver stages configured in parallel, and a configurable RF transmitter section. The plurality of RF receiver stages are selectively enabled in response to a control signal. The configurable RF tra... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106678 | METHOD AND APPARATUS TO IMPROVE ACQUISITION OF A QUADRATURE AMPLITUDE MODULATED (QAM) SIGNAL HAVING A FREQUENCY OFFSET A method and apparatus are described that result in an improved acquisition of a received communication signal containing a large frequency offset. The method and apparatus raises a derotated sequence of data to a power of an integer provide a sinusoidal spectral compon... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106658 | Mixed-Mode Wireless Device Operation Systems and methods to operate wireless devices are provided herein. In an exemplary system a first wireless device coupled to a consumer electronics device is operated in a sleep mode. It is determined whether there is a second device is operating in the same bandwidth... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106653 | MULTIMEDIA PROCESSING WITHIN A VEHICULAR COMMUNICATION NETWORK A head end unit for performing multimedia processing within a vehicle is capable in one embodiment of overlaying video graphics onto video streams to produce enhanced video streams. The head end unit is further for converting a high-resolution file to a low-resolution f... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106640 | Decoding side intra-prediction derivation for video coding Decoding side intra-prediction derivation for video coding. Just decoded pixels within a given picture (image) (e.g., such as a given picture (image) within video data) are employed for decoding other pixels within that very same picture (image) using prediction vectors... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106603 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR BEAMFORMING IN A MULTIPLE USER MULTIPLE INPUT MULTIPLE OUTPUT (MIMO) COMMUNICATION SYSTEM USING A CODEBOOK A method and system for beamforming in a multiple user multiple input multiple output (MIMO) communication system using a codebook may include a processor in a node B that enables generation of an interference cancellation matrix (WR). The interference cancel... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106573 | Flexible Upstream PHY Burst Profile Parameters to Improve Performance of Short Bursts in Impulse Noise A single carrier cable modem can be initialized on multiple channels. By initializing a cable modern on more than one channel, the error rate performance of short data packets in cable modems in an impulsive noise environment is improved. The advantage of low symbol rat... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106565 | DATA BRIDGE A data bridge controls the transfer of packets between different priority network fabrics of a closed network, e.g. high and low priority network fabrics a vehicular network. Processing circuitry determines first priority routing of a first packet from the first network... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106551 | DATA BRIDGE A data bridge controls packet transfers between network fabrics forming a closed network, such as a vehicular network. The data bridge includes two or more sets of modules, each of which communicates with a different network fabric. When a packet is to be delivered betw... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106550 | VEHICULAR NETWORK WITH CONCURRENT PACKET TRANSMISSION A vehicular network is a closed network with known sources, destinations, and network connections that can be mapped in advance, and used to identify network resources needed to transmit a packet from a source to a destination. A network module can determine the source ... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106549 | NETWORK MANAGEMENT MODULE FOR A VEHICLE COMMUNICATION NETWORK A network management module includes a network interface module, memory, and a processing module. The network interface module is operable for coupling the network management module to a vehicle communication network. The processing module is operable to manage a global... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106544 | VEHICLE NETWORK LINK MODULE A vehicle network link module includes network fabric ports, a port, a switching circuit, and a link manager. The network fabric ports are operable for coupling to corresponding network fabric ports of another vehicle network fabric link module. The port is operable for... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106537 | VEHICLE NETWORK NODE MODULE A vehicle network node module includes device buffers, a network buffer, a switch circuit, and a processing module. The device buffers temporarily store outgoing device packets from, and temporarily store incoming device packets for, vehicle devices in accordance with a... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106526 | SWITCH MODULE A switching module can route packets between a network fabric and a local network, both of which form a closed network such as a vehicular network. The switching module provides local network management functions, and handles packet transfers between the local network a... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106469 | VEHICLE COMMUNICATION NETWORK INCLUDING WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS A wired and wireless vehicle communication network includes network node modules, switch modules, bridge-routing modules, and a network manager. The network manager is operable to determine a wired packet communication mode and/or a wireless packet communication mode. W... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106457 | COOPERATIVE TRANSCEIVING BETWEEN WIRELESS INTERFACE DEVICES OF A HOST DEVICE A method and/or apparatus for cooperative transceiving between wireless interface devices of a host device includes processing that begins by providing an indication of receiving an inbound packet from one wireless interface device (e.g., Bluetooth compliant radio trans... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106448 | UNIFIED VEHICLE NETWORK FRAME PROTOCOL A network node module includes a processing module and memory. The processing module is operable to generate a header section of a frame for transmission within a unified vehicle communication network. The header section includes a preamble, routing information, and a v... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106447 | PRIORITY PACKET PROCESSING A network node in a vehicular network processes packets based on a prioritization scheme. The prioritization scheme uses packet type, priority, source, destination, or other information to determine a priority of the packets. Packets can be stored in one of multiple que... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106446 | Managing Devices Within A Vehicular Communication Network A network node module within a vehicle operates to manage devices coupled to a vehicular communication network of the vehicle based on a use mode defining rights and privileges for operating in the vehicular communication network. Upon being configured in accordance wit... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106419 | COOPERATIVE TRANSCEIVING BETWEEN WIRELESS INTERFACE DEVICES OF A HOST DEVICE WITH SHARED MODULES A circuit includes a first wireless interface circuit that transceives packetized data between a host module and a first external device in accordance with a first wireless communication protocol, wherein the first wireless protocol carries wireless telephony data for c... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106363 | Auto-Aware Dynamic Control Policy for Energy Efficiency An auto-aware dynamic control policy for energy efficiency. A discovery node in a network can be designed to transmit periodically discovery traffic to a plurality of other network nodes in the network. Responses to the discovery traffic can be used by the discovery nod... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106350 | BRIDGE ROUTING MODULE A bridge routing module can be incorporated into a closed network fabric, such as a vehicular network. The bridge routing module includes an interface circuit to be coupled to other elements of the closed network fabric, for example other bridge routing modules or switc... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120105637 | Multi-Level Video Processing Within A Vehicular Communication Network A system for performing multi-level video processing within a vehicle includes a pre-processing module for determining an encoding mode and enabling one or more levels of encoding based on the encoding mode. The pre-processing module further receives a video stream from... | 05/03/2012 |
