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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8185754 | Time-based storage access and method of power savings and improved utilization thereof The invention provides a method and system for time-based storage access, the method includes associating a plurality of storage volumes with specific periods of time during which they can be accessed, adjusting user fees based on access time periods of storage volu... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8179871 | Method and system for channel access control for transmission of video information over wireless channels A method and system for channel access control for transmission of uncompressed video information over wireless channels. A contention-free period (CFP) for high-rate and low-rate channels is divided into schedules in which one or multiple periodical channel time bl... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179805 | Method and system for wireless communication by spatial reuse Wireless communication between a first transmitter and a first receiver for a new transmission is established on the same wireless data channel used for ongoing transmission between a second transmitter and a second receiver. This is achieved by determining if the s... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8176524 | System and method for wireless communication of video data having partial data compression A system and method for wireless communication of video data are disclosed. One embodiment of the system transmits partially compressed video data from a transmitter to a receiver over a wireless channel. The transmitter is configured to send a plurality of groups o... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8176243 | Tape recording apparatus and method A tape recording apparatus is configured for sequentially recording files when receiving a command to write the files from an external host. The tape recording apparatus includes a buffer for temporarily storing the files, a tape on which the files are recorded, a w... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175041 | System and method for wireless communication of audiovisual data having data size adaptation A system and method for wireless communication of audiovisual data are disclosed. One embodiment of the system includes a wireless transmitter and a wireless receiver configured to change the size of audiovisual data in response to a change in the condition of a wir... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8169995 | System and method for wireless communication of uncompressed video having delay-insensitive data transfer A system and method using a medium access control (MAC) header for a wireless communication system including an application layer, a MAC layer, and a physical (PHY) layer is disclosed. The MAC header accommodates time-delay insensitive data transfer between devices ... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8165595 | System and method for multi-stage antenna training of beamforming vectors A system and method for multi-stage antenna training of beamforming vectors is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method comprises a method of acquiring a beamforming pattern in a wireless communication system, the method comprising receiving a first plurality of sig... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165050 | System and method for use of a short beacon in a wireless communication network A system and method for use of a short beacon in a wireless communication network is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method comprises generating a short beacon comprising PHY information, wherein the short beacon excludes MAC information and transmitting the short... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8156368 | Rebuilding lost data in a distributed redundancy data storage system Rebuilding lost data in a distributed redundancy data storage system including multiple nodes, is provided. User data is stored as a collection of stripes, each stripe comprising a collection of data strips and associated parity strips, the stripes distributed acros... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8155387 | Method and system for position determination using image deformation A method and system of position determination using image deformation is provided. One implementation involves receiving an image of a visual tag, the image captured by an image capturing device, wherein the visual tag has a predefined position associated therewith;... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8140491 | Storage management through adaptive deduplication One embodiment retrieves a first portion of a plurality of stored objects from at least one storage device. The embodiment further performs a base type deduplication estimation process on the first portion of stored objects. The embodiment still further categorizes ... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8139784 | Compound loudspeaker A compound loudspeaker comprises an acoustically radiating first diaphragm and an acoustically radiating second diaphragm. The first and second diaphragms are substantially coaxial and at least part of the second diaphragm is situated radially outwards of the first ... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8138954 | Method and system for efficient data transmission with server side de-duplication The invention provides a method and system for reducing redundant data blocks. The method includes reducing redundant data blocks by decoding a first data block from a first plurality of data blocks and a bitstream. ... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8135400 | Method and system for device discovery in wireless communication The present invention provides a method and a system for device discovery in wireless communication. One implementation involves scanning one or more wireless channels to discover a partner wireless station for a new transmission, by detecting peak energy and beacon... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8131677 | System and method for effecting information governance A method to manage data located on networked devices is provided. The method includes replicating objects residing on the devices and collecting information about at least one of the objects or the devices. The method further includes receiving input on desired info... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8130737 | System and method for a multiple hop wireless network A system and method for wireless communication over a multi-hop network are disclosed. One embodiment of the system includes an access point and a plurality of wireless devices. Each of the access point and the plurality of wireless devices includes a high-rate modu... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8127206 | System and method for wireless communication of uncompressed video having reed-solomon code error concealment A system and method for wireless communication of uncompressed video data includes concealing corrupted portions of video data. Video packets received are transmitted over a wireless channel. Each of the video packets includes data blocks forming video data represen... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8121966 | Method and system for automated integrated server-network-storage disaster recovery planning An automated disaster recovery (DR) planning system for a computing environment is provided. A discovery module discovers servers, networks, and storage devices in a computing environment. An expert knowledge base module captures best practices in planning, and capa... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8121330 | Phase plug for compression driver A phase plug comprises a body having an input side for receiving acoustic waves and an output side for transmitting acoustic waves, the body including a plurality of channels extending from the input side to the output side for propagating acoustic waves through the... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8121316 | Phase plug A phase plug comprises a body having an input side for receiving acoustic waves and an output side for transmitting acoustic waves, the body including a plurality of channels extending from the input side to the output side for propagating acoustic waves through the... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8111670 | System and method for processing wireless high definition video data using remainder bytes A method and system for processing high definition video data using remainder bytes is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving an information packet having the length of L bytes, wherein L=(M×n×K)+A, and where: M is the depth of an interleaver,... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8111654 | System and method for wireless communication of uncompressed video having acknowledgement (ACK) frames A wireless communication system and method for wireless communication are disclosed. One embodiment of the system includes a wireless communication device. The device includes a receiver configured to receive a data packet via a channel. The device further includes ... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8111647 | System and method for wireless communication of uncompressed video having a dual-beacon mechanism for two device types A system and method of wireless data communication over a network of devices and device types are disclosed. In one aspect, the beacons of a first device type are sent and received from devices of the first device type or a second device type, by a first device of t... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8108353 | Method and apparatus for block size optimization in de-duplication The invention provides a method and apparatus for determining sizing of chunk portions in data de-duplication. The method chunks input data into segments where each segment has a first size, assigns an identifier to each of the data segments, assigns an index to eac... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8107552 | System and method of wireless communication of uncompressed video having a fast fourier transform-based channel interleaver A system and a method of using fast Fourier transform (FFT) based tone interleaver for OFDM are disclosed. One embodiment of the system includes an OFDM transmitter, which includes an inverse fast Fourier transform (IFFT) subsystem. The IFFT subsystem includes a bit... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8107545 | Method and system for phase tracking in wireless communication systems A method and system phase tracking in a wireless communication system is provided. Phase tracking involves receiving a first Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) symbol and a second OFDM symbol which is a repetition of the first symbol, over a wireless ... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8104091 | System and method for wireless communication network having proximity control based on authorization token A system and method for providing content protection in a wireless network for transmitting uncompressed video data is disclosed. An association request is received from a new device by a domain manger. A proximity control test is conducted to determine whether the ... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8103904 | Read-other protocol for maintaining parity coherency in a write-back distributed redundancy data storage system Data storage reliability is maintained in a write-back distributed data storage system including multiple nodes. Each node comprises a processor and an array of failure independent data storage devices. Information is stored as a set of stripes, each stripe includin... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8103903 | Read-modify-write protocol for maintaining parity coherency in a write-back distributed redundancy data storage system Data storage reliability is maintained in a write-back distributed data storage system including multiple nodes, each node comprising a processor and an array of failure independent data storage devices. Information is stored as a set of stripes, each stripe includi... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8102853 | System and method for wireless communication of uncompressed video having fixed size MAC header with an extension A data structure of a MAC header for a WirelessHD communication system including an application layer, a media access controller (MAC) layer, and a physical (PHY) layer, includes, a payload data packet from the application layer; a MAC header of a fixed length; a MA... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8102835 | System and method for wireless communication of uncompressed video having a beacon length indication A system and method for efficiently communicating messages over a low-rate channel between multiple devices in a system for wireless communication of uncompressed video is disclosed. A beacon length indication and processing method is provided to solve the problem o... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8102822 | System and method for random access scheme in a wireless ad-hoc network A system and method for random access scheme in a wireless ad-hoc network is disclosed. In one aspect, the method comprises transmitting data to a receiving node in a wireless ad-hoc network in a first time block previously reserved for transmission. The method furt... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8094854 | Loudspeaker A loudspeaker comprises a horn waveguide having a waveguide surface, and a transducer located in, or adjacent to, a throat of the horn waveguide. The transducer has a substantially rigid convex dome-shaped acoustically radiating surface. A horn angle subtended betwe... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8051037 | System and method for pseudorandom permutation for interleaving in wireless communications A system and method for pseudorandom permutation for interleaving in wireless communication is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving a first ordered sequence of communication symbols having a first order, permuting the first ordered sequence o... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8042974 | Removable, rotatable gobo holder assembly The invention provides a system and method for maintaining removable, rotatable gobo holders in place on a fixed baseplate within an effects lighting fixture. In the first preferred embodiment, a gobo platform includes a rotatable baseplate having at least one apert... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8040856 | System and method for wireless communication of uncompressed high definition video data using a beamforming acquisition protocol A system and method for obtaining a transmit beamforming vector for transmission of high definition video data over a wireless medium is disclosed. In one embodiment, the system comprises at least one transceiver, a memory configured to store a first transmit beamfo... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8032833 | Home network device information architecture A method and system for providing a user interface for a user to discover and control devices that are currently connected to a network, such that at least one of the devices performs steps, by: (a) obtaining information from one or more of the devices currently con... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8031691 | System and method for wireless communication of uncompressed video having acknowledgment (ACK) frames A system and method for wireless communication of uncompressed video data are disclosed. One embodiment of the system includes a wireless communication device. The device includes a receiver configured to receive a data packet, and a transmitter configured to send a... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8023976 | Method and system for accurate clock synchronization for communication networks A high accuracy clock synchronization mechanism between a sender and a receiver in a communication network achieves time synchronization using broadcast beacons, directly at the PHY/MAC layer of the sender and the receiver, to minimize synchronization delay jitter. ... | 09/20/2011 |
