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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8135020 | Packet schedule timestamp for a compressed bitstream A packet schedule timestamp is provided. A schedule information packet includes a packet schedule timestamp that represents the relative timing of data packets in a particular bitstream of a multiplexed transport stream. The schedule information packet further provi... | 03/13/2012 |
| 7995587 | Time stamp adding device, time stamp adding method, and time stamp adding program A time stamp adding device includes: PCR_PID detecting means for detecting a PCR_PID included in a PMT by searching TS packets included in a TS from the head of the TS including TS packets having no time stamp, input from the outside and transmitted in a MPEG2-TS fo... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7924851 | Method of processing traffic information and digital broadcast system 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 i... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7843947 | System and method for providing unequal error protection to priority labeled datagrams in a DVB-H transmission system An improved system and method for transmitting a multiplexed service stream over an error prone DVB-H channel. Media IP packets are priority labeled. For each time slice burst, the IP packets are grouped based upon the priority labels. MPE-FEC matrices are made for ... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7787473 | Transcoding apparatus, method and medium A transcoder is provided for converting copyright information. The transcoder includes a separator configured to extract a video transport stream packet including a first video stream having copyright information, a non-video transport stream packet, and timing info... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7733877 | Method for transporting variable-length packets in temporal circuit frames A procedure is provided for transmitting packets of variable length, such as AAL2 packets and permitting the transmission of cells such as ATM cells, in time-division circuits such as E1/T1 frames, each divided into a number of time slots, each occupied by an eight-... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7729358 | Transcoding apparatus, method and medium A transcoding apparatus and associated methodology of transcoding a first video stream into a second video stream, is provided. A separator extracts a video transport stream packet including the first video stream, a non-video transport stream packet, and timing inf... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7710982 | Sound packet reproducing method, sound packet reproducing apparatus, sound packet reproducing program, and recording medium The present invention prevents a receiving buffer from becoming empty by: storing received packets in the receiving buffer; detecting the largest arrival delay jitter of the packets and the buffer level of the receiving buffer by a state detecting part; obtaining an... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7668179 | Dynamic adjustment of AAL2 timerCU in voice and data multiplexing over AAL2 connections A method for determining at least one parameter for a particular AAL2 channel identifier (AAL2-CID), according to which the behavior of the transmission of the user information stream is determined per application. Preferably, the present invention enables the QOS (... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7646774 | Method of processing traffic information and digital broadcast system 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 i... | 01/12/2010 |
| 7639697 | Facilitating digital subscriber line services via a subscriber premise network interface device Various aspects of apparatuses and methods for enabling a subscriber premise network interface device (NID) to facilitate communication services including digitally derived voice services to be facilitated between a central office and a subscriber premise are disclo... | 12/29/2009 |
| 7590124 | Encapsulation technique Various techniques for encapsulation are described. A variable length frame is encapsulated into at least one fixed length codeword. The at least one fixed length codeword comprises an integer number of bytes. A first byte of the at least one fixed length codeword i... | 09/15/2009 |
| 7586924 | Apparatus and method for coding an information signal into a data stream, converting the data stream and decoding the data stream More customization and adaptation of coded data streams may be achieved by processing the information signal such that the various syntax structures obtained by pre-coding the information signal are placed into logical data packets, each of which being associated wi... | 09/08/2009 |
| 7580416 | System for data stream processing A method for processing a data stream including receiving a transport stream (TS), storing at least a portion of the TS, the at least a portion of the TS having a beginning and including a plurality of TS packets, determining, from among the plurality of TS packets,... | 08/25/2009 |
| 7577152 | Method and apparatus for modification of connections in a communications system which is based on data compression The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for modification of a connection between a transmitting subscriber and a receiving subscriber in a communications system, which is based on data compression, within a switching center, with a data frame which a... | 08/18/2009 |
| 7466709 | ATM switching equipment having a switching network An ATM switching equipment is provided comprising a switching network (ASN) and at least one server switching unit (SSC). The server switching unit (SSC) contains an AAL2 switcher (ASW) that is configured for simultaneous processing of a maximum plurality (m) of inc... | 12/16/2008 |
| 7463636 | ATM communications system and method Traffic from a number of different service type users is multiplexed into minicells for transmission over an ATM link. Service type information is transmitted in a service specific field and is stored. This stored information is used to derive length information to ... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7423964 | Apparatus and method to set the signaling rate of a network disposed within an information storage and retrieval system A method is disclosed to set the speed of a network. The method supplies a network interconnected with a system controller and a plurality of switch domains, where each of those plurality of switch domains comprises one or more information storage devices and a swit... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7411962 | Method and apparatus for dynamic bandwidth allocation for voice and data multiplexing over AAL-2 connections In some embodiments of the present invention, applications presenting user information streams at a service access point (SAP) to AAL-2 above the Common Part Sublayer (CPS) may provide values for predefined parameters that may determine how frames of information in ... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7391773 | Data processing apparatus and method and computer readable storage medium A data processing apparatus and method and a computer readable storage medium storing data processing programs realizing the data processing method, capable of preventing transmission of unnecessary redundant data and efficiently utilizing a transmission path. In th... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7379463 | Data transmission device and data transmission method A data transmission device and a data transmission method are adapted to add an RTP time stamp accurately synchronized with the PCR when sequentially transmitting data stored in a recording medium in advance with the MPEG2-TS format or data sequentially formatted to... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7376148 | Method and apparatus for improving voice quality in a packet based network Some embodiments adaptively adjust to the current call load in a packet based virtual circuit to minimize the delay experienced by the first packets of any talk spurt for a particular active call. Some embodiments minimize the jitter introduced by multiplexing voice... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7372858 | Data transmission device and data transmission method A data transmission device and a data transmission method are adapted to add an RTP time stamp accurately synchronized with the PCR when sequentially transmitting data stored in a recording medium in advance with the MPEG2-TS format or data sequentially formatted to... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7373079 | Method and an apparatus for stream conversion, a method and an apparatus for data recording, and data recording medium For encoding externally input AV signal to MPEG-TS that enables quickly conversion from MPEG-TS to MPEG-PS, data unit (Multiplexing Unit) is defined which includes a plurality of packet and has data size corresponding to data amount of one pack in MPEG-PS, and MPEG-... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7369824 | Receiver storage system for audio program A receiver contains a demodulator system that can deliver a stream of digital data comprising at least a first and a second set of audio data. In a first time interval, a memory is used to store either the first or the second set of audio data. In a subsequent time ... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7369857 | Processing transport format information to prevent MAC header redundancy Processing transport format information to prevent MAC header redundancy, by providing a transmitting side that attaches one header to received data blocks, transmits the data blocks with the header attached thereto during one transmission interval on a data channel... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7369491 | Regulating data-burst transfer The invention discloses methods and apparatus for regulating the transfer of data bursts across a data network comprising electronic edge nodes interconnected by fast-switching optical core nodes. To facilitate switching at an electronic edge node, data bursts are o... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7370125 | Stream under-run/over-run recovery Machine-readable media, methods, and apparatus are described to recover from stream under-run and/or over-run conditions. In some embodiments, an audio controller may discard any partial sample block of the stream. ... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7366175 | ATM packet scheduler A packet scheduler controls dispatch of packets containing constant bit rate (CBR) or real time variable bit rate (rt-VBR) at an ingress operation of multiplexing the packets into payloads of an asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) bearer virtual circuit connection. Pac... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7359006 | Audio module supporting audio signature A system and method embed an audio signature in a video frame. An audio signature is generated from one bit a buffer input data. Two registers store an audio signature and reference count. According to an embodiment, the audio signature is generated left/right (L/R)... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7356051 | Digital visual interface with audio and auxiliary data cross reference to related applications One embodiment of the present invention uses an abbreviated blanking period, in comparison to the standard VESA and CEA-EIA blanking periods, in order to send data, including low bandwidth, non-timing information, over one or more channels of the digital video link.... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7352719 | Method and mobile communication terminal for communicating voice message using packet-switched scheme Disclosed are a mobile communication terminal for and a method of transmitting/receiving voice messages using a packet-switched scheme. According to the present invention, it is possible to allow mobile carriers to promote the use efficiency of communication channel... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7349404 | Method and system for connection set-up in a communication system comprising several switching units and several processing units The invention provides a method and system for connection set-up in a communication system which comprises a plurality of first processing units, e.g. switching units, and a plurality of second processing units, and transmits information as a stream of information c... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349410 | Data transmission device and data transmission method A data transmission device and a data transmission method are adapted to add an RTP time stamp accurately synchronized with the PCR when sequentially transmitting data stored in a recording medium in advance with the MPEG2-TS format or data sequentially formatted to... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7346060 | AAL-2 switched voice wan networking A scheme for using a virtual UNI (user network interface) to allow standards-based signaling protocols (e.g., Q.2931) to be used to manage the addition and deletion of AAL2 channel identifiers (CIDS) associated with sub-multiplexed AAL2 common part sub-layer cells i... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7342921 | Method for connecting exchanges via a packet-oriented communication network A method for connecting exchanges via a packet-oriented communication network wherein the exchanges are connected via a respective conversion device to the packet-oriented communication network, in which data transmission involves data packets subdivided into substr... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7336605 | Bandwidth allocation for link aggregation A method for establishing a connection with a guaranteed bandwidth for transmitting data over a logical link that includes a plurality of parallel physical links between first and second endpoints. A link bandwidth is allocated on each of the physical communication ... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7336667 | Apparatus, method and program product to generate and use CRC in communications network The CRC for the CPS Header of an ATM AAL2 cell is generated by a CRC generator which uses the 8 bits of the CID field to generate partial 5 bits CRCs which are loaded in a first table. The 6 bits LI field and 5 bits UUI field are added to the partial 5 bits CRC to f... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7336680 | Multi-carrier frequency-division multiplexing (FDM) architecture for high speed digital service An architecture for providing high-speed access over frequency-division multiplexed (FDM) channels allows transmission of ethernet frames and/or other data across a cable transmission network or other form of FDM transport. The architecture involves downstream and u... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7333495 | Method for scheduling upstream communications A system and method is provided for scheduling transmissions from a plurality of services operating over a widely distributed communications network. A headend communications device (such as a cable modem termination system) arbitrates bandwidth among a plurality of... | 02/19/2008 |
