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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8170047 | Data transmission with efficient slot and block formats in a wireless communication system Techniques for transmitting data and training sequence efficiently using new slot and block formats are described. A transmitter processes (e.g., encodes, interleaves, and partitions) a data block to obtain multiple output blocks. For each output block, the transmit... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8155138 | Training sequences for very high throughput wireless communication Methods and systems for communications that generate a plurality of spatial streams, wherein each of the spatial streams comprises a data packet with a training sequence; and multiply at least a portion of the training sequence in each of the spatial streams with a ... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8149861 | Method and transmission apparatus for transmitting data in a coax network A method and apparatus for transmitting data in a coax network, a coax distribution network including an access point and a plurality of coaxial terminals connected to the access point through splitters, a same physical transmission channel is adopted for transmitti... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8135027 | Communication apparatus enabling temporal coexistence of systems A communication apparatus, which is capable of allowing a plurality of communication systems respectively having different types of communication modes to coexist with one another on a single communication medium, satisfying Qos requirements with the use of only a s... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8130782 | Control system using a mini slot signal in a passive optical network A passive optical network including: a parent station OLT (optical line terminal); and a plurality of child stations ONU (optical network terminating unit), wherein the parent station and the plurality of child stations transmit an upstream frame and a downstream fr... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8107489 | Turbo decoding module supporting state n metric value normalization operations A baseband processing module for use within a Radio Frequency (RF) transceiver includes a downlink/uplink interface, TX processing components, a processor, memory, RX processing components, and a turbo decoding module. The RX processing components receive a baseband... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8089980 | Method for protection switching of geographically separate switching systems A protocol is provided being executed with a redundancy of 1:1. As a result, an identical clone, with identical hardware, identical software and an identical data base, is allocated to each switching system to be protected, as a redundancy partner. Switching is carr... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8073001 | Wireless terminal baseband processor high speed turbo decoding module supporting MAC header splitting A baseband processing module for use within a Radio Frequency (RF) transceiver includes a downlink/uplink interface, TX processing components, a processor, memory, RX processing components, and a turbo decoding module. The RX processing components receive a baseband... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8005111 | Method for the phase-related scheduling of data flow in switched networks There is described a method for communicating a real-time data traffic in a collision-preventing communications network, during which the following steps are carried out before a real-time data traffic, which is composed of real-time messages and which cyclically re... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7986709 | Systems and methods for increasing the capacity of a channel in a communications system In accordance with a method for increasing the capacity of a channel in a communications system, characteristics of a channel may be evaluated. The channel may include a plurality of slots, and the slots may have a slot format among a set of slot formats. A slot for... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7983292 | Base station, mobile station, and communications method A base station carrying out communications with a mobile station with an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) method by using a predetermined frequency band out of a transmission band is disclosed. The base station includes an allocation portion that al... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7970003 | Low power telemetry system and method A telemetry system is described in which a plurality of channels are coupled to a bus. A control subsystem controls the channels so that one of the channels presents to the bus during its designated time period a channel characteristic. The control subsystem interro... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7961751 | Multiplexed data stream timeslot map A network component comprising a processor configured to implement a method comprising promoting the communication of a frame within a synchronization window, wherein the frame comprises a plurality of data types assigned to a plurality of timeslots, and a timeslot ... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7936774 | Method and devices for multicasting information over a network that applied a distributed media access control scheme A method for multicasting information, the method includes: utilizing a distributed media access control scheme for allocating at least one timeslot for a transmission of information from a first device to a group of peer devices and for a transmission of acknowledg... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7933288 | 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... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7920586 | System and method for selecting a medium access technique for transmitting packets over a network A system and method for transmitting packets in a network (100). A node (102, 106, 107) in the network (100) accesses uses one of a plurality of medium access techniques for transmitting packets on the network (100). The node (102, 106... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7920587 | Method for establishing a global time base in a time-controlled communications system and communications system A method for establishing a global time base in a time-controlled communications system comprising a network and multiple subscribers connected to it. At least one of the subscribers of the communications system is defined as a time master with which the remaining s... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7912080 | Cyclical time-based communication system, user in such a system and transmission method The invention relates to a cyclical time-based communication system, for the transmission of useful data (DATA) between users of the system, which comprises a databus and users connected thereto. The data transmission occurs within cyclical repeating timeframes, eac... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7864794 | Method and system for managing an energy efficient network utilizing audio video bridging Aspects of a method and system for managing an energy efficient network utilizing Audio Video Bridging are provided. In this regard, an Audio Video Bridging timeslot may be designated for handling an energy efficient networking (EEN) transaction and the EEN transact... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7852871 | System for real-time change of slot duration within a wireless network A supervisory communications device, such as a base station within a wireless network, monitors and controls communications with a plurality of remote communications devices, such as mobile nodes, throughout a widely distributed network, including the Internet. The ... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7852870 | Method for real-time change of slot duration within a wireless network A supervisory communications device, such as a base station within a wireless network, monitors and controls communications with a plurality of remote communications devices, such as mobile nodes, throughout a widely distributed network, including the Internet. The ... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7826471 | Multi-beam cellular communication system A cellular communication system comprising a plurality of geographically spaced base stations (2) each of which comprises an antenna arrangement (4, 6, 8) per base station sector, each of which antenna arrangements has an antenna element for generating... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7822059 | Managing contention-free time allocations in a network A method and corresponding system for communicating between stations in a network are presented. The method includes providing repeated beacon transmissions from a coordinator station for coordinating transmissions among a plurality of the stations; transmitting fro... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7787486 | Method and system for achieving low jitter in real-time switched networks A method and system for increasing the precision of time synchronization among a plurality of host nodes in a packet-switched network by reducing transmission delay variation in the network. Each host node is provided with a distinct set of transmission times select... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7782892 | Method and an apparatus for consistency verification of traffic engineering link timeslot status The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for consistency verification of traffic engineering link timeslot status, including: the transmitting end transmits a timeslot status verification request message containing the timeslot status object class ... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7769041 | Scheduling of transfers in a communications network The invention relates to the scheduling of data transfers in a multi-hop packet network. The nodes of the network are adapted to schedule their transmissions according to a common time sequence, recurring in time domain and comprising a control portion for transmiss... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7760753 | Method for data transmission A method for data transmission between participants communicating by means of a data bus, in which as high a transmission likelihood for additional data as possible is to be assured by providing that in the exchange of data telegrams between the participants within ... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7756152 | Managing contention-free time allocations in a network A method and corresponding system for communicating between stations in a network are presented. The method includes providing repeated beacon transmissions from a coordinator station for coordinating transmissions among a plurality of the stations; transmitting fro... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7742495 | System and method for retransmitting packets over a network of communication channels A system for transmitting packets over a network of communication channels, the system comprising a set of nodes comprising at least first and second nodes and a network access coordinator operative to coordinate the access of the set of nodes to a synchronous netwo... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7729372 | Communicating in a network that includes a medium having varying transmission characteristics A method and corresponding system for operating in a network in which stations communicate over a shared medium are presented. The shared medium has at least one varying channel characteristic that varies approximately periodically. The method includes providing rep... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7720088 | Method for time division multiplexing data transport A method for TDM data transport is disclosed. Configure a TDM logical port in the transmitting and receiving side respectively, and create a relationship between the TDM logical port of the transmitting side and that of the receiving side. When transmitting the TDM ... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7688843 | Operations method in an ethernet passive optical network that includes a network unit with multiple entities A method for registration of multiple entities belonging to a specific optical networks unit (ONU). In one embodiment, the multiple entity registration method comprises checking by an optical line terminal (OLT) if a registration request message received from the sp... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7664130 | Wireless communication system, wireless communication apparatus, wireless communication method and computer program The present invention eliminates a transmission-waiting operation which is unnecessary while accommodating a prioritized traffic. Although a communication station enters a transmission-disallowed state in response to detection of a signal addressed to another statio... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7656891 | Method and apparatus enabling concurrent processing of contiguously and virtually concatenated payloads A method and apparatus for processing at least two types of payloads received at varying intervals in a communications network using a single processing path is provided. The two types of payloads may include virtually and contiguously concatenated payloads accordin... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7653080 | Station side communication device An allocation determining unit determines a bandwidth allocation for each of a plurality of subscriber devices in each data-collection cycle. A history managing unit takes a history of a request increment from a bandwidth request amount acquired from more than one t... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7593422 | Method of operating a media access controller having pseudo-static guaranteed time slots A transmitter and a receiver are both initially assigned a starting time slot from a plurality of active time slots in a superframe structure. A controller sends instructions to the transmitter and receiver during a first superframe. These instruct the transmitter t... | 09/22/2009 |
| 7590139 | Method and apparatus for accommodating TDM traffic in an ethernet passive optical network One embodiment of the present invention provides a system for accommodating time-division multiplexing (TDM) traffic in an Ethernet passive optical network (EPON). During operation, the system receives data from an upstream TDM channel at a remote node and stores re... | 09/15/2009 |
| 7586931 | Wireless terminal turbo decoding module supporting packet splitting and decoding A baseband processing module of a wireless terminal includes a Turbo decoding module. The Turbo decoding module decodes a Turbo code word to produce one or more Media Access Control (MAC) packet(s) carried by the turbo decode word. Each MAC packet includes a MAC pac... | 09/08/2009 |
| 7586930 | Multicast data communication method and network The communication method and system include wirelessly transmitting a data packet from a first node to a plurality of second nodes to define a wireless multicast transmission. Each second node determines whether the data packet was received with errors and if so tra... | 09/08/2009 |
| 7561591 | TDMA communications apparatus If own station detects that a slot S2 previously reserved for own transmission has been occupied by another station when transmitting a message at a current slot S3, the own station sets the occupied slot to a time-out value of zero S0 upon tran... | 07/14/2009 |
