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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6438119 | Data communication device and method for mobile communication system with dedicated control channel A CDMA communication system provides a dedicated control channel capable of efficiently communicating control messages between a base station and a mobile station. In a dedicated control channel transmission device, a controller determines a frame length ... | 08/20/2002 |
| 6434432 | Method for writing back message ID information to a match ID register and a CAN microcontroller that implements this method A method for acceptance filtering incoming CAN frames, in a CAN device that provides a plurality of message objects each of which has an associated message buffer, at least one associated match ID register, and at least one associated mask register. The m... | 08/13/2002 |
| 6430198 | Apparatus and method of reducing packet length count processing An apparatus for and a method of reducing the packet length count processing of data packets in a network device. The apparatus and method determine the length and end of a packet at the ingress point of the network computing device, e.g., a switch or rou... | 08/06/2002 |
| 6424689 | Radio communication system, transmitter and receiver therefor In a mobile radio communication system, a transmitter of a base station transmits broadcast information to receivers of mobile stations in the form of frames. The transmitter produces a long frame composed of a plurality of frames each including a first b... | 07/23/2002 |
| 6421323 | Method and apparatus for analyzing events in a telecommunications system A method and apparatus for automated sectionalization of a DS1/DS3 data path based upon information received at a single location along the path. A test and monitor device is located at a point of demarcation between an LEC and an IEC. A Remote Module is ... | 07/16/2002 |
| 6404778 | Radio communication apparatus In a mobile station apparatus and a base station apparatus in a digital mobile communication using a TDD system and a CDMA system, in the case where there is a difference in communication qualities between a revere link and a forward Link, a burst length ... | 06/11/2002 |
| 6373860 | Dynamically-assigned voice and data channels in a digital-subscriber line (DSL) A Digital-Subscriber Line (DSL) modem dynamically allocates its bandwidth to voice calls or data traffic as needed. Low-level frames are divided into several 64-Kbit/sec timeslots, each able to carry one voice call. These low-level frames are repeated sev... | 04/16/2002 |
| 6366623 | Data transmission frame and methods and apparatuses for transmitting and receiving such a frame A data transmission frame containing payload data, preceded by a synchronization pattern (F), is essentially characterized in that it does not contain any payload data sequences that imitate the synchronization pattern. The payload data sequences that imi... | 04/02/2002 |
| 6363083 | Bilevel node identifiers in control area network (CAN) protocol The 29 bit identifier field of a standard CAN protocol message format is subdivided into a message function portion, a class one node identifier portion, to identify class one nodes which must be able to communicate with each other as well as with a large... | 03/26/2002 |
| 6351456 | Method and system for an air interface for providing voice, data, and multimedia services in a wireless local loop system A method and system for implementing an air interface for a Time Division Duplex (TDD) Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) wireless local loop system that utilizes unique embedded concentrated access and embedded data access in a Wireless Local Loop (WLL... | 02/26/2002 |
| 6351472 | Serial bidirectional data transmission method for hearing devices by means of signals of different pulsewidths In a serial, bidirectional data transmission method for communication between a programming device and a service device which is to be programmed, such as a hearing device, data are transmitted from the programming device and clock pulses are transmitted ... | 02/26/2002 |
| 6349092 | BLSR node extension The present invention provides a method and structure for allowing more than 16 nodes to be configured in a single SONET BLSR network by utilizing unused portions of the transport overhead of an STS-N frame to expand the node identification field from 4 b... | 02/19/2002 |
| 6324184 | Dynamic bandwidth allocation for a communication network Bandwidth is adaptively allocated in an upstream channel of a layered data communication network such as that used for carrying messages from a number of subscriber units (250, 252, . . . , 254) to a central controller (210), for example, to allow the sub... | 11/27/2001 |
| 6317430 | ARQ protocol support for variable size transmission data unit sizes using a hierarchically structured sequence number approach The present invention permits the transmission of variable size PDUs using a Hierarchical Sequence Numbering Space approach that supports ARQ protocols in a variable transmission rate environment. Some of the key attributes of this scheme are: (1) Support... | 11/13/2001 |
| 6310891 | Method of scheduling time division multiplex (TDM) cells in a synchronous optical network (SONET) frame A method of scheduling a plurality of time multiplexed cells and a plurality of asynchronous cells in a temporal frame, which consists of first and second subframes, comprises the steps of assigning the time multiplexed cells or clusters of time multiplex... | 10/30/2001 |
| 6307835 | Method and apparatus for controlling data flow in data communication networks A method and apparatus for controlling data flow of data communications in a network are provided. A method preferably includes dynamically varying a minimum frame slot number, transmitting at least bytes of data from a frame of data of a slot, and determ... | 10/23/2001 |
| 6307867 | Data transmission over a communications link with variable transmission rates An optimal data block size is determined for use in transmitting data at variable rates over a communications link in predetermined time intervals, where each predetermined time interval has the same time duration. Rather than varying data block size acco... | 10/23/2001 |
| 6295296 | Use of a single data structure for label forwarding and imposition A router (10) in a packet-based telecommunications system receives incoming packets that may have "shim" headers between their link-layer and network-layer headers. The shim header contains one or stack entries, each of which includes a label, and the rou... | 09/25/2001 |
| 6289308 | Encoded wideband digital transmission signal and record carrier recorded with such a signal Reproduction accuracy of a digital signal, representing for example stereo audio signals, is improved by transmitting sample data which have been encoded to form transmission signals. The transmission signals are arranged in consecutive frames, each frame... | 09/11/2001 |
| 6289016 | Method for eliminating misconcatenation of partial packets in AAL2 and partial packet with channel identifier A method and data structure for preventing the misconcatenation of partial packets when an even number of packets are lost over the network. A channel identifier code is added to the head of a remainder partial packet to allow the remainder partial packet... | 09/11/2001 |
| 6285682 | Method and apparatus for determining the frame rate of a frame Because prior-art rate determination algorithms are prone to falsing, a sub-rate discrimination metric generator (160) is provided herein. The generator (160) correlates a received frame with known characteristics of sub-rate frames to generate additional... | 09/04/2001 |
| 6282207 | Method and apparatus for storing and accessing multiple constant bit rate data A method of defining extent for storing a plurality data streams having different bit rates. The method calculates the size of the extent for a given data stream then periodically inserts at least one null packet into the extents to enable any bit rate to... | 08/28/2001 |
| 6275494 | Packet switching system, packet switching network and packet switching method Upon initialization, a VPC is set up between edge nodes. A control processor of each node creates an IP address/VPC mapping table using IP routing information and an address mapping table mapping correspondence between IP addresses and ATM addresses and s... | 08/14/2001 |
| 6263033 | Baud rate granularity in single clock microcontrollers for serial port transmissions A microcontroller provides an asynchronous serial port with a serial clock derived from the processor clock. Although the serial clock cannot be exactly programmed to yield an ideal frame length at a particular baud rate, an additional register is provide... | 07/17/2001 |
| 6252888 | Method and apparatus providing network communications between devices using frames with multiple formats A method and an apparatus providing data communications among network devices using tagged and untagged frame formats. In one embodiment, a virtual local area network (VLAN) is implemented using frames that may be transferred among network devices in both... | 06/26/2001 |
| 6236663 | Information reproduction apparatus and information reproduction method An information reproduction apparatus for performing special reproducing operations including fast forward and fast reverse operations on an audio-video material. The information reproducing apparatus is capable of reading and reproducing information havi... | 05/22/2001 |
| 6236643 | Multiport data switch having variable maximum packet length A multiport data network switch includes a programmable Management Information Base (MIB) configuration register that serves as a reference for the Media Access Controller (MAC) at each port. The register is programmable for maximum packet length in two c... | 05/22/2001 |
| 6212190 | Method and system for generating data packets on a heterogeneous network An improved method and system for generating packets for transmission over different routes on a network is presented. In a large network such as the Internet, each route over the network carries different size packets which are not compatible unless they... | 04/03/2001 |
| 6212205 | Methods of generating a data stream, methods of validating an integrated circuit, and methods of communicating a data stream The present invention provides a method of generating a data stream comprising: generating a first slot having a first data field; generating a second slot; and providing the second slot within the first data field of the first slot. The present invention... | 04/03/2001 |
| 6172965 | Duplex transmission scheme This invention relates to duplex and to half duplex transmission schemes and more particularly to the application of such schemes in TDMA and other multiple access environments. In accordance with a first aspect of the invention, there is provided a metho... | 01/09/2001 |
| 6169747 | Variable code frame length for multistream applications The invention dynamically compensates for differences in data rates for multistreamed systems. Any or all of the streams in a multistreamed system may be individually compensated at one time. In one embodiment, the status of an input buffer is monitored a... | 01/02/2001 |
| 6167057 | Data communication system and electronic control unit used therein In a data communication system in which many nodes are connected to a common data bus so that each node can communicate with other nodes, a data frame to be transmitted from a node to other nodes includes a message having a variable length interposed betw... | 12/26/2000 |
| 6167032 | System and method for avoiding host transmit underruns in a communication network A system and method to avoid transmit underruns from a host system to a communication network using an adjustable threshold on a frame basis. The host system includes a device driver, host descriptors and host buffer. The host descriptor define the number... | 12/26/2000 |
| 6144645 | Method and system for an air interface for providing voice, data, and multimedia services in a wireless local loop system A method and system for implementing an air interface for a Time Division Duplex (TDD) Code Division multiple Access (CDMA) wireless local loop system that utilizes unique embedded concentrated access and embedded data access in a Wireless Local Loop (WLL... | 11/07/2000 |
| 6130891 | Integrated multiport switch having management information base (MIB) interface temporary storage An integrated multiport switch having an interface connected between the MAC of each port and a MIB report bus, whereby MIB reports for the plurality of switch ports are transmitted individually to a switch MIB engine, fed by the MIB report bus, on a time... | 10/10/2000 |
| 6118793 | Method for adjusting inter-frame gap in ratio The present invention discloses a method for adjusting an Inter-Frame Gap (IFG) in a desired ratio. Based on the method, the lengths of the first part and the second part of an Inter-Frame Gap are adjusted in such a way that their increased amount or decr... | 09/12/2000 |
| 6097732 | Apparatus and method for controlling transmission parameters of selected home network stations transmitting on a telephone medium A physical layer transceiver of a home network station connected to a telephone medium has an architecture enabling adaptation of detection circuitry based on received network signals to enable reliable recovery of data signals. The physical layer transce... | 08/01/2000 |
| 6094441 | Apparatus and method for controlling transmission parameters of home network stations transmitting on a telephone line medium A physical layer transceiver of a home network station connected to a telephone medium has an architecture enabling adaptation of detection circuitry based on received network signals to enable reliable recovery of data signals. The physical layer transce... | 07/25/2000 |
| 6078789 | Wireless peripheral interface A method and apparatus for establishing a standardized communications protocol for wireless communications between a host and one or more peripheral devices such as joysticks, mice, gamepads, remote controllers or other devices including establishing a st... | 06/20/2000 |
| 6075787 | Method and apparatus for messaging, signaling, and establishing a data link utilizing multiple modes over a multiple access broadband communications network The specification relates to a broadband multiple access protocol for bi-directional hybrid fiber/coax (HFC) networks and other shared media networks. The protocol supports downstream broadcast transmission from headend to cable modem, and also provides f... | 06/13/2000 |
