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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7936840 | Demodulator for a multi-pair gigabit transceiver A feedforward equalizer for equalizing a sequence of signal samples received by a receiver from a remote transmitter. The feedforward equalizer has a gain and is included in the receiver which includes a timing recovery module for setting a sampling phase and a deco... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7924345 | Method and system for deinterlacing using polarity change count A method for processing video information may include calculating a polarity change count (PCC) for a plurality of pixel pairs selected from a plurality of pixels from different fields utilizing a plurality of difference polarity values associated with the plurality... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7920697 | Interaction between echo canceller and packet voice processing System and method for processing communication signals in a communication system having a detector for detecting a parameter of a communication signal. A communication signal is provided to a non-linear processor (NLP) adapted to examine the signal and to decide whe... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7918401 | Multi-level hierarchical radio-frequency communication system Portable measuring devices which communicate by low power transceivers through a communication controller with a printer device collect weight and size data on articles to be shipped. The collected weight and size data are combined with origin and destination data, ... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7917114 | DC cancellation circuit The present invention relates to a DC offset canceling circuit. In one aspect of the invention, a DC offset canceling circuit with independently configurable gain and roll-off frequency is provided. In one embodiment of the present invention, the DC offset canceling... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7916535 | Data encoding approach for implementing robust non-volatile memories Data encoding system and method for implementing robust non-volatile memories. A data bit is stored using two memory cells. The data bit is represented by setting a voltage level of a first memory cell to a first voltage level and setting a voltage level of a second... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7912153 | System and method of performing digital multi-channel audio signal decoding A system and method are disclosed for performing digital multi-channel decoding of a BTSC composite audio signal. Each subsequent stage of the digital multi-channel decoding process is performed at the lowest sampling rate that yields acceptable performance for that... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7899423 | Method and system for a synthesizer/local oscillator generator (LOGEN) architecture for a quad-band GSM/GPRS radio A method for processing signals is disclosed and may include performing using one or more circuits in a multiband radio, functions including receiving an input signal from an oscillator that generates signals for each of a plurality of bands handled by the multiband... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7895491 | Integrated circuit with low-power built-in self-test logic An integrated circuit with low-power built-in self-test logic (“IC-LPBIST”) is disclosed. The IC-LPBIST may include combinational logic and a loading circuit enabled to load a shift test pattern of data into the loading circuit without powering the combinational... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7894800 | Method for re-establishing telephone calls after unintended termination A system for operating a wireless mobile device that automatically re-establishes a telephone call after unintended disconnection is disclosed and may include at least one processor operable to wirelessly receive, via a communication network, a first telephone call ... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7889779 | System and method for rapid generation of low PAR Q-mode signals In a data communication system, a transmitter of an ADSL modem uses a PRBS generator to generate a plurality of ADSL signals. The transmitter computes the Peak to Average (e.g., root-mean-square) (“PAR”) ratio of each of the ADSL signals generated. The ADSL sign... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7885242 | Enhanced mobility and address resolution in a wireless premises based network A mobile customer service station operating within a wireless multi-hop communication network includes a console on a wheeled chassis. The console carries and houses a number of components which are used in merchandising operations to conclude customer purchase tran... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7882743 | Method and system for noise dosimeter A personal noise dosimeter having functionality for increasing the dynamic range of the device. A microphone provides a signal to an RMS detector, which provides a DC signal to a two-stage amplifier circuit. The outputs of the amplifiers are provided to a processor ... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7881406 | Method, apparatus and system for high-speed transmission on fiber optic channel Multi-carrier modulation fiber optic systems constructed using a series of electrical carriers, modulating the data on the electrical carriers and combining the carriers to form a wideband signal. The wideband signal can then be intensity modulated on a laser and co... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7881385 | Video decoding system supporting multiple standards System and method for decoding digital video data. The decoding system employs hardware accelerators that assist a core processor in performing selected decoding tasks. The hardware accelerators are configurable to support a plurality of existing and future encoding... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7877752 | Method and system for efficient audio scheduling for dual-decode digital signal processor (DSP) Methods and systems for coordinating the handling of information are disclosed herein and may include scheduling multiple processing tasks for processing multimedia data by a processor. A portion of the scheduled multiple processing tasks may be preprocessed and the... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7877070 | Method and system for tuning an antenna using injection Certain aspects of a method and system for tuning an antenna using injection may include mixing a received DVB-H signal with a reference oscillator signal to generate an added DVB-H signal. A mixed signal may be generated from the added DVB-H signal using the refere... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7876808 | Method and apparatus for adaptive noise and/or signal filtering in an HSDPA channel quality indicator (CQI) selection Methods and systems for processing signals in a wireless communication system are disclosed. Aspects of the method may include estimating at a receiver, a rate at which a communication channel changes. A length of a filter used to average a noise power estimate and/... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7869537 | Frequency selective transmit signal weighting for multiple antenna communication systems A system and method for generating transmit weighting values for signal weighting that may be used in various transmitter and receiver structures is disclosed herein. The weighting values are determined as a function of frequency based upon a state of a communicatio... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7864806 | Method and system for transmission control packet (TCP) segmentation offload Certain aspects of the invention for packet segmentation and offload may comprise determining whether an identified packet is a large send offload packet (LSOP). If the identified packet is a LSOP, a selection may be made between a hardware process and a firmware pr... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7864689 | Method and system for automatic media dependent interface reconfiguration and repair Providing and configuring communication links may include determining a usable media pair from all existing media pairs and selecting any one channel from all existing channels. The selected channel may be assigned to any one of the media pairs. Any one or any combi... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7864681 | Method and system for a gigabit ethernet IP telephone chip with 802.1p and 802.1Q quality of service (QoS) functionalities Methods and systems for processing data are disclosed herein and may comprise receiving packetized data via at least one input port in an 802.1p and 802.1Q QoS compliant Ethernet switch integrated within a single gigabit Ethernet IP telephone chip that processes mul... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7856215 | Method and system for using a multi-RF input receiver for diversity selection Aspects of a method and system for signal processing are disclosed and may include receiving a plurality of wireless signals via a plurality of M receive antennas. Each of M phase shifters coupled to each of the M receive antennas may be set to operate in a bypass m... | 12/21/2010 |
| 7856052 | Method and system for low complexity conjugate gradient based equalization in a wireless system Methods and systems for processing signals in a receiver are disclosed herein and may include updating a plurality of filter taps utilizing at least one channel response vector and at least one correlation vector, for a plurality of received clusters, based on initi... | 12/21/2010 |
| 7856034 | Method and system for generating digital video broadcast (DVB) transport stream from direct satellite system (DSS) transport stream A system and method for packet processing are disclosed. The method may include performing using at least one processor, generating a DVB transport stream packet from a DSS transport stream packet. The generation may include mapping a prefix portion of a DSS transpo... | 12/21/2010 |
| 7856020 | TCP receiver acceleration A transport protocol receiver for receiving a packet from a network, the packet having a header, payload, and connection context. The receiver includes an analysis engine, coupled to receive the packet from the network and adapted to parse and validate the header, l... | 12/21/2010 |
| 7853254 | Modular, portable data processing terminal for use in a radio frequency communication network Modular, portable data collection terminals are disclosed for use in mixed wireless and hard-wired RF communication networks, wherein various radio transmitter modules and associated antennas may be selectively added to a base terminal unit to solve networking probl... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7852856 | System and method for providing pooling or dynamic allocation of connection context data A method and system for providing pooling or dynamic allocation of connection context data may comprise receiving data associated with a first network protocol and receiving data associated with a second network protocol. A single shared context memory may be utiliz... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7840202 | Method and system for compensation of DC offset in an RF receiver System and method for processing signals are disclosed. The method may include converting, in an RF receiver, one or more analog samples, which are selected from one of a plurality of output paths of the RF receiver, to one or more digital samples. A digital feedbac... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7836315 | Method and system for monitoring module power information in a communication device System and method for communication are disclosed and may include, in a single chip that includes one or more on-chip devices, where the one or more on-chip devices are enabled to receive wireless signals and transmit wireless signals, receiving at a first of the on... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7835292 | Method and system for secure automatic media dependent interface reconfiguration and repair Aspects of the invention include determining or choosing any usable media pair from all existing media pairs of a first device. Any channel may be selected from all existing channels and the selected channel is chosen so that it is different from a general channel a... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7830981 | Method and system for minimizing power consumption in a communication system A method and system for minimizing power consumption in a communication system is provided. The method may include adjusting the supply voltage of a linear amplifier, which may be used for amplifying a RF signal, in proportion to the envelope of the baseband of the ... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7826493 | Frequency offset correction circuit for WCDMA Methods and apparatus for acquiring and verifying a code used by a base station. Acquisition time is reduced and circuitry simplified by performing Phase I and Phase II acquisitions in series, but in parallel with Phase III acquisition and verification, which are do... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7826470 | Network interface device with flow-oriented bus interface A network interface device includes a bus interface that communicates over a bus with a host processor and memory, and a network interface that sends and receive data packets carrying data over a packet network. A protocol processor conveys the data between the netw... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7826457 | Method and system for handling out-of-order segments in a wireless system via direct data placement A method and system for handling or processing out-of-order TCP segments in a wireless system may comprise at least one of: placing a first TCP segment received by a wireless network processor in a host buffer and having a mapping between a TCP sequence number and a... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7822395 | Iterative multi-stage detection technique for a diversity receiver having multiple antenna elements An iterative multistage detection system and method for orthogonally multiplexing K channels onto a signal processing chain using N orthogonal sequences of length N. The K channels include a first set of N channels and a second set of M channels (the M channels bein... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7818028 | Modified dual band direct conversion architecture that allows extensive digital calibration A communication device may include one or more circuits in an integrated transmitter and receiver that includes a transmit path and a receive path. The transmit path may include an I processing baseband transmit path and a Q processing baseband transmit path. The re... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7814388 | System and method for interleaving data in a wireless transmitter A system and method for interleaving data in a wireless transmitter are disclosed, where bits from the input data stream are sent to downstream processing without being stored in memory. According to a first example embodiment, a first radio frame of data from an in... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7804855 | Method and system for exploiting spare link bandwidth in a multilane communication channel A system for encoding data in a multilane communication channel may include at least one processor operable to generate, from existing control characters in a character set, expanded control characters utilized for controlling the data in each lane of the multilane ... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7802308 | Media processing system supporting different media formats via server-based transcoding Methods and systems for processing media content are disclosed and may include a server operatively coupled to a network, a first communications device operatively coupled to the network, and a second communications device operatively coupled to the network. The sec... | 09/21/2010 |
