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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7127734 | System and methods for home network communications The present invention provides the ability to use existing cable TV wires for home networking. ... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7096471 | Apparatus for resource management in a real-time embedded system An apparatus is disclosed for allocating processing resources, such as instruction execution which can be measured in MIPs or memory capacity, or other resources of a processor itself or resources used in the process of performing operations, such as memory resource... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7088791 | Systems and methods for improving FFT signal-to-noise ratio by identifying stage without bit growth Systems and methods are provided for performing signal processing on communication data utilizing scale reduced Fast Fourier Transform computations. The present invention provides scaling in a Fast Fourier Transform computation at stages where it is determined that ... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7082170 | Spectral power management for constrained transmissions using constellation shaping In frequency channel communications, constraints on transmit power characteristics can be complied with by implementing constellation shaping (15, 71) in the transmitter. In transmitters which use transmit filtering (91) to comply with constraints on t... | 07/25/2006 |
| 7082558 | Increasing possible test patterns which can be used with sequential scanning techniques to perform speed analysis A non-robust test pattern, which causes a transition on a path of interest as well as off-paths, may be selected as being suitable for performing delay analysis of the path of interest (e.g., critical path) if the transitions caused on the off-paths would not overla... | 07/25/2006 |
| 7079646 | ADSL receiver high pass filter architecture An ADSL receiver HPF architecture 300 that reduces the number of Op Amps below that required for known ADSL receiver HPFs. The ADSL receiver HPF 300 is implemented as an active RC filter to provide a single fifth-order Elliptic filter instead of the mo... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7078885 | DC-DC CMOS converter A DC—DC CMOS converter including when the supply voltage is low, the current limit is automatically reduced to the maximum possible value that maintains the comparator operative, rather than simply switching off the converter. ... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7079549 | Method and apparatus for coordinating multi-point to point communications in a multi-tone data transmission system A variety of bi-directional data transmission systems that facilitate communications between a plurality of remote units (15) and a central unit (10) using a frame based discrete multi-carrier transmission scheme are disclosed. In each of the systems, ... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7076628 | Microprocessor memory space allocation management A method for identification of memory assignment conflicts in the assignment of memory location addresses to a set of buffers. Programs run in embedded processors using buffers in a fixed storage space need to be mapped to addresses which do not overlap or create co... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7075999 | Multicarrier modulation with data dependent frequency-domain redundancy A modem (10) for transmitting a discrete multitone modulated (DMT) signal over a communications channel (H) is disclosed. In the encoding of an input bitstream, unloaded subchannels in the DMT spectrum are assigned signal values so that a trailing portion of ... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7068678 | Method and apparatus for coordinating multi-point to point communications in a multi-tone data transmission system A variety of bi-directional data transmission systems that facilitate communications between a plurality of remote units (15) and a central unit (10) using a frame based discrete multi-carrier transmission scheme are disclosed. In each of the systems, ... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7065147 | System and method of data communication using turbo trellis coded modulation combined with constellation shaping with or without precoding A technique that combines a turbo trellis coded modulation (TTCM) coding scheme with constellation shaping and precoding schemes to implement a binary coded communication system and method that can achieve high performance (high coding gains achieved in combination ... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7065166 | Wireless receiver and method for determining a representation of noise level of a signal A wireless receiver for receiving an incoming signal having spatial and temporal diversity. The receiver uses noise-based prescaling of multiple receiver chain signals for optimally combining the receiver chain signals in a composite equalized signal and uses noise-... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7062680 | Expert system for protocols analysis An expert system that provides an analysis of protocol exchanges and protocol relationships across multiple data units, such as packets, of a network and within data units themselves is described. The system collects a number of facts and based on rules governing th... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7062037 | Generic line impedance matching circuit using decomposed configurable transfer functions A technique for implementing impedance matching circuits 100 that use the transfer functions of each line impedance model. This technique allows implementation of an impedance match for a diverse number of line impedances reusing the same circuit 100 t... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7058074 | Unified channel access for supporting quality of service (QoS) in a local area network Contention communications often requires a station to wait an inordinate amount of time before the station is able to transmit its data successfully. In many applications, an extended delay is not acceptable. Contention-free communications in a contention period all... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7054393 | Short and long sequence boundary detection algorithm for wireless LAN modems A method for detecting a boundary between two sequences in a wireless local area network is presented that permits rapid detection of the boundary. The method includes provisions for proper operation when significant interference and multi-path can degrade the recei... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7050552 | System and method to mitigate pots ringing interference in DSL A system and method are disclosed to mitigate the interference on DSL due to high frequency components associated with a change in a POTS condition, such as POTS ringing. In response to detecting that a potentially disruptive POTS condition is to about to occur, dow... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7050576 | Double talk, NLP and comfort noise A state machine for attenuating the transition into and out of NLP state to reduce voice clipping and to reduce echo leak in a voice over packet signal transmission. The state machine interposes two additional transitional states between the NLP active state and the... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7050768 | Signal field controller, method of controlling and MIMO transmitter employing the same For use with a multiple-input, multiple-output (MIMO) transmitter, a signal field controller, a method of controlling signal fields and a MIMO transmitter incorporating the controller or the method. In one embodiment, the controller includes: (1) a primary signal fi... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7050187 | Real time fax-over-packet packet loss compensation A device and method for providing real time compensation for packet loss in the transmission of facsimile data over packet networks to avoid the generation of page loss data and the termination of facsimile transmission. Facsimile devices have a low tolerance for in... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7046069 | Method to reduce inductive effects of current variations by internal clock phase shifting Modularized clock decoupling and signal delay management is provided for the purpose of reducing simultaneous binary signal switch-induced inductive voltage transients in lower voltage synchronous semiconductor devices. The voltage levels in low-voltage devices must... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7047268 | Address generators for mapping arrays in bit reversed order A method and apparatus to reduce the amount of required memory and instruction cycles when implementing Fast Fourier Transforms (FFTs) on a computer system is described. The invention optimizes FFT software using in-place bit reversal (IPBR) implemented on a process... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7043428 | Background noise estimation method for an improved G.729 annex B compliant voice activity detection circuit A method of initializing an ITU Recommendation G.729 Annex B compliant voice activity detection (VAD) device is disclosed, having the steps of (1) determining a first set of running average background noise characteristics in accordance with Recommendation G.729B; (... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7042833 | Modem transmission over packet networks A system for transmitting modern signals across a packet network with improved resistance to bursty network packet loss that includes a first and a second processor, which connect a first and second V.32 and above modem to a first and a second side of the packet net... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7039038 | Adaptive fragmentation for wireless network communications A wireless local area network (LAN) adapter (20) that optimizes the length of message packets, for example according to the IEEE 802.11 standard, and in an environment having interfering transmissions (BL1 et seq.), is disclosed. The disclosed adapter ... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7039017 | System and method for detecting and locating interferers in a wireless communication system A system and method is provided for monitoring interference in a wireless communication system. The system and method monitor error statistic data at one or more devices in a wireless communication system. The error statistic data can be utilized to determine the lo... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7032159 | Error correction code parameter selection in a communication system A method is disclosed for providing data for automatically estimating channel performance if different parameters of a Reed-Solomon (RS) code are used in a communication system while transmission is occurring in the communication system without changing the current ... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7031916 | Method for converging a G.729 Annex B compliant voice activity detection circuit A method of initializing an ITU Recommendation G.729 Annex B voice activity detection (VAD) device is disclosed, having the steps of (1) extracting a set of parameters from a signal that characterize the signal; (2) calculating an energy measure of the signal from t... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7031457 | Programmable peak detector for use with zero-overhead Class G line drivers A digital input signal is analyzed by a peak detector (210) configurable to trigger a first logic signal (260) if the peak detector detects the digital input signal level crossing a certain threshold. The threshold value can be modified by an overhead.... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7031400 | Method of selecting a PCM modem signal constellation in relation to channel impairments Disclosed are methods of selecting a multi-dimensional signal constellation in relation to impairments in a communication system having a data frame consisting of a fixed number of symbols. The methods make use of impairments detected from a Digital Impairment Learn... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7031379 | Time domain equalizer for DMT modulation A method for deriving coefficients for a time domain equalizer function (24) as implemented by a digital signal processor (35) in a DSL modem (20) is disclosed. A transmitting modem (10), such as at a central office, issues a pseudo-rando... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7031380 | Multi-client ADSL modem A multi-client ADSL modem network (10) that can be configured for a home or office network when multiple ADSL client modems (18) are installed in different communication terminals (22). One ADSL modem (14) at a central office (12) ... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7027589 | Single-ended loop test circuitry in a central office DSL modem A central office modem (50) that includes the capability of single-ended loop testing (SELT) is disclosed. The modem (50) includes a digital signal processor (54), a codec (56), line driver and receiver circuitry (58), and a hybrid... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7027447 | Communications interface between clock domains with minimal latency A network switch system (10) is disclosed, in which a plurality of switch fabric devices (20) are interconnected according to a ring arrangement, each of the switch fabric devices (20) including therein switch interfaces (22) coupled to c... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7023931 | System and method for soft slicing Methods and systems for performing iterative soft slicing methods are disclosed. A data signal is received and processed into individual data tones. A noise estimator provides noise estimates for each data tone. A beamformer utilizes the noise estimates to provide f... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7023927 | Constellation design for PCM upstream modulation A method for constellation design in a telecommunications network using pulse code modulation to transmit data signals upstream between client and server voice-band modems. The invention selects a constellation for transmission over an analog channel of an equivalen... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7023937 | Receiver window design for multicarrier communication systems A receiver window design algorithm (210) is developed which minimizes the noise power of the demodulated multicarrier signal. The windows are effective on a variety of different channels and noise sources. Receiver windowing is a computationally efficient technique ... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7020222 | Efficient method and system for offset phasor determination Systems and methods for determining offset phasors are disclosed. An offset vector is computed from a current channel impulse response and a previous channel impulse response. A first vector and a second vector are simultaneously and iteratively rotated in opposite ... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7020257 | Voice activity identiftication for speaker tracking in a packet based conferencing system with distributed processing A distributed conferencing system has a plurality of conferencing nodes to connect groups of participants to a conference. Each of the conferencing nodes provides for the connection of one or more participants to the conference. Each node includes a DSP for distribu... | 03/28/2006 |
