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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7359276 | Multi-port system for communication between processing elements An aspect of the invention relates to communication between a first processing element and a second processing element. A first-in-first-out circuit (FIFO) includes a data input port, a data output port, an object-sent port, an object-end port, a memory, and control... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7359376 | Serial compressed bus interface having a reduced pin count There is provided a serial compressed bus interface having a reduced pin count. The interface includes a serial-to-parallel converter having a single serial data input line adapted to receive time-division multiplexed serial data from a plurality of data sources. En... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7356618 | Method and system for synchronizing platform clocks in a distributed wireless platform According to one embodiment of the present invention, a novel method and system are disclosed. In one embodiment, a first node records a first node local time of receiving a wirelessly transmitted packet, the first node local time recorded with a monotonically incre... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7356036 | Method providing distribution means for reference clocks across packetized networks Disclosed is a method of distributing a number of reference clocks across a packet network. The packet network has a master node and one or more slave nodes, the master node and each slave node having basis clocks. A sender sends time-stamped synchronization packets... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7355999 | Method and apparatus for carrying packetized voice and data in wireless communication networks A method and apparatus for reducing transmission delay in a wireless communication system that carries packetized voice and data information. Interruptions in the traffic channels cause loss of synchronization between a header compressor and a header decompressor. R... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7356043 | Network channel access protocol—slot scheduling Network channel access protocol is disclosed. More particularly, a distributed, locally determined, channel access protocol that adapts to load, avoids interference and controls access by a group of nodes to a set of shared channels is disclosed. Shared channel spac... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7353322 | System and method for providing dynamic configuration ROM using double image buffers A dynamic configuration ROM which may be updated while linked to the serial bus and with little or no risk of publishing inconsistent configuration ROM information to the other nodes on the bus. The dynamic configuration ROM comprises first and second configuration ... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7352779 | System for multi-frame alignment A bidirectional communication system is provided. In one embodiment, a system comprises a host; and a plurality of remote units, wherein a plurality of tones is shared among the plurality of remote units in order to communicate with the host using orthogonal frequen... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7353284 | Synchronized transmission of audio and video data from a computer to a client via an interface A method for controlling data transmission between a computer and a video client via an interface, the method comprising: the computer polling the interface a first time to determine the size of the buffer on the interface; receiving a first buffer size value from t... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7352715 | Time synchronization using dynamic thresholds Methods and apparatus for time synchronization using dynamic thresholds. A method for synchronizing network elements includes receiving at a network element a time synchronization message sent from a master clock element. The network element includes an internal clo... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7352708 | Method and apparatus for border node behavior on a full-duplex bus A method and apparatus relating to the behavior of border nodes within a high performance serial bus system is disclosed. A method for determining and communicating the existence of a hybrid bus is disclosed. A method for determining a path to a senior border... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7352777 | Data framer Frames of data comprised of frameword bytes and a payload are processed by identifying a start of a first frame and a phase of the first frame concurrently based on the frameword bytes, and aligning data in a second frame, based on the phase of the first frame, to m... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7352778 | Synchronizing method and apparatus A method and apparatus is disclosed for performing a synchronization of an incoming series of complex samples of an incoming signal with a known sequence of a plurality of coefficients which represents a pattern within the incoming signal, known to the synchronizer,... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7349441 | Method for optimizing communication within a wireless network A system and method for providing a MAC protocol that optimizes communication within a wireless network. Specifically, the system and method operates with Mobile Terminals, Fixed References and at least one Main Control, wherein a method defines the sequence of mess... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349440 | System and method for broadcasting information over a network A system and method that enables broadcasting of data in packets across a network using network coding is described. This system and method enables a network to broadcast information in packets without full knowledge of the network's topology. Further, it enables br... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349457 | Broadband frequency agile signal characterization A signal analyzer to characterize the RF signal transmitted by a frequency hopping radio transmitter. The transmitted signal is analyzed while hopping across a broad frequency band without knowledge of the hop frequencies, timing or signal bandwidth. A wide range of... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349960 | Throttling distributed statistical data retrieval in a network device The present invention provides a method and apparatus for managing distributed statistical data retrieval in a network device. Periodically, statistical data is gathered by processes on one or more remote cards in a network device and transferred to a central proces... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349446 | Signal superimposition A method and apparatus are provided in which control data for a generator system is multiplexed onto a synchronization signal. ... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349499 | Accurate signal detection in a wireless environment A method for accurate signal detection begins by receiving a radio frequency signal, which is then converted into baseband signals. The processing then continues by performing a normalized auto correlation on the down-converted baseband signal to produce a normalize... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349331 | Procedure and system for scheduling a shared recourse between multiple information packet flows Each synchronous flow (h=1, 2, Ns) is associated to a respective synchronous capacity value (Hh) indicative of the maximum amount of time for which a synchronous flow can be served before relinquishing the token. Each asynchronous flow (I=1, 2,... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349370 | Method for managing neighbor nodes and setting a routing path in a mobile ad-hoc network environment and network apparatus using the same A method and network apparatus for setting a routing path and managing a neighbor node in mobile ad hoc, network environment are provided. The method for setting a routing path in mobile ad hoc network environment includes receiving a packet periodically broadcast f... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349500 | Coarse frequency synchronization method and apparatus in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) system An apparatus and method for performing coarse frequency synchronization in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) receiver includes cyclically shifting a received signal X(k) by a predetermined shift amount d, determining the length of a summation inte... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7346107 | VSB transmission system for processing supplemental transmission data A VSB communication system or transmitter for processing supplemental data packets with MPEG-II data packets includes a VSB supplemental data processor and a VSB transmission system. The VSB supplemental data processor includes a Reed-Solomon coder for coding the su... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7346011 | Scheduling calls based on frame-offset selection A wireless communication network has radio resources for use to support calls over circuit switched (CS) and packet switched (PS) channels. The network uses such radio resources to first support CS calls and thereafter uses the leftover radio resources to support PS... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7342944 | Method and apparatus for decoding a coded digital audio signal which is arranged in frames containing headers With audio data reduction on the basis of ISO/IEC standard 11172-3, a frame length varying by 8 bits is used at a sampling frequency of 44.1 kHz in order to arrive, on average, at a particular fixed data rate. The lengthening of a data frame is signalled by a paddin... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7342934 | System and method for interleaving infiniband sends and RDMA read responses in a single receive queue A system and method for processing interleaved Sends of encapsulated communications and responses to RDMA Reads in a single InfiniBand queue pair receive queue. The queue is implemented as one or more linked lists of memory buckets, and stores Send commands (contain... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7339947 | Network channel access protocol—frame execution Network channel access protocol is disclosed. More particularly, a distributed, locally determined, channel access protocol that adapts to load, avoids interference and controls access by a group of nodes to a set of shared channels is disclosed. Shared channel spac... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7340133 | Configurable dispersion compensation trimmer The invention pertains to optical fiber transmission systems, and is particularly relevant to transmission of large volumes of data over long distances at high rates. An improved apparatus achieving precise dispersion compensation in a fiber span is disclosed. In pa... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7339956 | System and method for the synchronization and distribution of telephony timing information in a cable modem network A method for synchronizing clocks in a packet transport network. The method comprises, receiving an external network clock at a central packet network node and transmitting timing information to a plurality of packet network devices, the timing information based upo... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7336646 | System and method for synchronizing a transport stream in a single frequency network A single frequency network (SFN) system is provided, where the system includes a head-end and a plurality of transmitters. The head-end is capable of calculating timing information based upon a time reference having a second resolution. Thereafter, the head-end is c... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7336627 | Digital subscriber line transmission method, apparatus and system A digital subscriber line transmission (xDSL) system includes a transmitting side which transmits training symbols by adding some data that is contained in a training symbol sequence onto at least one of the beginning and the end of this symbol sequence and then tra... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7336610 | Scheduling a shared resource among synchronous and asynchronous packet flows Each synchronous flow (i=1, 2 . . . , Ns) is associated to a respective synchronous capacity value (Hi) that is related the period of time for which a synchronous flow can be serviced before the server moves on. This value can be selected eithe... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7336936 | Radio signal receiving apparatus and radio signal receiving method Herein disclosed is a radio signal receiving apparatus for receiving radio signals each having a base band signal component, comprising: radio signal amplifying means for amplifying the radio signals each having a signal level; base band signal producing means for p... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7337441 | System and method for prepreparing a transaction process involving a chain of servers in a circular flow The invention provides a mechanism for allowing a transaction callback processing to be synchronized or to take effect prior to completion of a transaction or message. Additional Synchronization objects that will take part in the transaction can be registered on any... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7336644 | Method for synchronization of data transmission comprising at least one first radio system and at least one additional radio system The invention relates to a method and an assembly for synchronizing data transmission, comprising at least one first radio system and at least one additional radio system. According to said method, the transmission behavior of the first radio system or systems is ev... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7334147 | Method and architecture for synchronizing a path generator and/or extractor to a processor An apparatus comprising a first circuit and a second circuit. The first circuit may be configured to synchronize at least one transport overhead byte with a pulse on an external pin. The second circuit may be configured to synchronize the transport overhead byte to ... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7334065 | Multiple data bus synchronization Disclosed is a method and circuit for synchronizing dual data buses. In one embodiment, the method includes a receiving circuit receiving first and second streams of multibit data portions transmitted via first and second parallel data buses, respectively, coupled t... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7334176 | Determination of the presence of additional coded data in a data frame An mp3-standard bitstream is formatted into a sequence of fixed-length data frames. These include headers, side information, main information and a remaining data field without generally defined information denoted as ‘ancillary data’. The mp3PRO format is an ex... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7333838 | Method for reducing power consumption in bluetooth and CDMA modes of operation Techniques are provided for synchronizing a wakeup schedule for a first module and a wakeup schedule for a CDMA module in a wireless mobile unit operable in a synchronous communication system. In one embodiment, a next CDMA wakeup time is determined. A new wakeup ti... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7333519 | Method of manually fine tuning audio synchronization of a home network A method is provided for manually synchronizing the playback of a digital audio broadcast on a plurality of network output devices. The method is applicable for use with methods such as those that use a time code, insert a control track pulse, or use an audio wavefo... | 02/19/2008 |
