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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7742505 | Systems and methods for enabling clock signal synchronization An interworking function (IWF) is coupled to a switch of a packet network and communicates with the network switch based on an Ethernet clock signal or some other type of clock signal. A primary reference clock (PRC) of the network generates a PRC signal, and a timi... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7738499 | Audio/video synchronizing system and monitor apparatus An audio/video synchronizing system and a monitor apparatus can provide a set of contents where the images and the sounds of the contents show lip synchronization to the user so that the user may not have any strange and uneasy feeling if only the images are transmi... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7738503 | Multi-way, peer-to-peer synchronization A method of synchronizing data elements between devices can include receiving at a first device, from only one of multiple peer devices with which the first device is configured to synchronize, a request to synchronize data between the first device and the only one ... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7738496 | Device that provides the functionality of dual-ported memory using single-ported memory for multiple clock domains A device that provides the functionality of dual-ported memory using single-ported memory for multiple clock domains is described. In one embodiment, a memory device comprises two or more port synchronization logic devices, a port multiplexing logic, and a single-po... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7738498 | Sharing a digital phase-locked loop across multiple packet streams A system including a memory (storing a set of data records), a digital phase-locked loop (PLL) and digital circuitry. Each of the data records is allocated to one packet stream in a set of packet streams. The digital circuitry is configured to: invoke a read operati... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7738497 | System and method for dynamically modifying synchronized business information server interfaces One or more embodiments of the invention enable data that is synchronized between businesses to be transferred to any desired data pool or data pool version in a format that may be declaratively specified and dynamically altered to meet the needs of the specific dat... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7738502 | Signal noise filtering in a serial interface A noise filtering system provides adaptive noise filtering in the physical layer of serial and parallel interfaces for storage protocol applications. The system provides adaptive noise filtering for both hot plug and hot removal applications. ... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7738504 | Method of establishing and updating master node in computer network A method of establishing and updating a master node in a computer network by scoring each node in the network as a function of its physical attributes, designating the highest scoring node as the master node, sending a periodic message by the master node with its sc... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7738501 | Method of recovering timing over a granular packet network A method is disclosed for recovering timing information between master and slave nodes interconnected over a packet network having an underlying time grid with a distinct granularity. A series timing packets are exchanged between said master and slave nodes to measu... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7738500 | TCP timestamp synchronization for network connections that are offloaded to network interface devices A host computer running a TCP connection transfers the connection to a TCP offload network interface device (NID) which performs certain network processes, thereby reducing the load on the host CPU. The NID later transfers the connection back to the host. The host a... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7720107 | Aligning data in a wide, high-speed, source synchronous parallel link A source-synchronous parallel interface divides a wide data bus into clock-groups including a sub-group of the data lines and a clock line carrying a copy of the transmit clock. The traces in a clock-group are located physically close together to minimize skew betwe... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7720108 | Apparatus and method for inserting synchronization headers into serial data communication streams An apparatus for transmitting synchronization headers into multiple high-speed serial data communications streams comprising an input channel receiving B symbols, a first output channel outputting A symbols, a second output channel outputting B symbols, a header seq... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7720105 | Method and arrangement for local synchronization in master-slave distributed communication systems For switching or transmitting data packets, one can provide communication systems which consist of several modules —operating in parallel on segments of a packet —to increase speed and handling capacity. One module acts as master, others are slave modules contro... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7720106 | Circuit for synchronizing symbols of OFDM signal A circuit for synchronizing symbols of a received OFDM signal includes a unit configured to detect cross-correlation of a received signal to generate a value of the cross-correlation, a unit configured to obtain synchronous summation of the value of the cross-correl... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7715442 | Method, apparatus, and system of wireless transmission with frame alignment Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, apparatus, and system of wireless transmission with frame alignment. For example, a method in accordance with demonstrative embodiments of the invention may include synchronizing between a transmitter using a fi... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7711009 | Methods and apparatus for timing synchronization in packet networks Methods and apparatus for synchronizing a first clock of a transmit node and a second clock of a receive node in a packet network are provided. Receive time stamps are generated for transferred packets at a receive node in-accordance with the second clock. Propagati... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7711008 | Quasi synchronous transmission in cellular networks Aspects of the invention include a root node of a wireless communication infrastructure that buffers data packets for transmission by base stations over an air interface. The root node determines a time delay for transmission of a data packet from the root node to e... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7701979 | Residential ethernet node apparatus for maintaining starting point of superframe and method for processing same Disclosed is a Residential Ethernet node apparatus for maintaining a starting point of a superframe, the Residential Ethernet node apparatus comprising a synchronous queue for receiving and temporarily storing synchronous data, in order to transmit the synchronous d... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7701978 | Method and apparatus for maintaining synchronization in a communication system A central entity and/or a remote device in a communication system are designed to address the problem of maintaining upstream synchronization in the remote device after loss of the downstream signal. The system maintains upstream transmissions from the remote device... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7697571 | System and method for effectively performing an audio/video synchronization procedure A system and method are disclosed for effectively performing an audio/video synchronization procedure in a receiver device that is embodied in a computer that receives input data from a source device and provides output data to a destination device. The receiver dev... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7697572 | Survey controller multiplexer A multiplexer includes a body having a mechanism, incorporated into the body, for receiving more than one incoming data stream and converting the more than one data stream into a single output stream. An integral time clock is incorporated into the body and is adapt... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7693190 | Lip synchronization for audio/video transmissions over a network In one embodiment, a system includes a video mixer coupled with an audio mixer for exchange of information that includes a first set of delay values respecting input audio streams received by the audio mixer from a plurality of source endpoints, and output audio str... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7688862 | Systems and methods for the synchronization of a real-time scheduled packet network using relative timing A node of a real-time scheduled packet network synchronizes an internal frequency reference to a master node by receiving first heartbeat packets that are transmitted by the master node at a predetermined frequency. The node calculates a link phase of a link over wh... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7684443 | PCR clock recovery in an IP network An IP network includes a central entity and at least one customer premises equipment (CPE) device. The central entity generates a program clock reference (PCR) clock and provides audio-visual packets to a CPE based on the PCR clock. The CPE sets a first clock based ... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7684441 | Automated precision alignment of data in a utility monitoring system A data alignment algorithm that automatically aligns data from multiple monitoring devices to the same zero-crossings at the same point in time. Cycle-by-cycle frequency data is received from each monitoring device and a cross-correlation algorithm is performed to d... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7684442 | Method and circuit for processing data in communication networks A method and circuitry for detecting a pattern in received data such as the A1A2 boundary in a SONET frame after deserialization. Two consecutive pluralities of bytes of incoming data are stored and compared with the A1 and A2 values (or bit shifted versions of the ... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7680152 | Method for establishing a user of a data network as a pilot master A method is described for establishing one user from multiple users of a data network as a pilot master for emitting a pilot signal, to which the other users of the data network may synchronize themselves. In the related art, a pilot signal is typically generated by... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7680153 | Method and device for stream synchronization of real-time multimedia transport over packet network A method for stream synchronization of real-time multimedia transport over a packet network, in which the multimedia includes a first stream and a second stream which are buffered and played through buffers. The method includes: measuring average transport delays of... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7675943 | Synchronous play-out of media data packets A media source, including a sending unit that sends out time-stamped media data packets to one or more receiving media sinks. A timestamp of one of the time-stamped media data packets indicates a time of creation of the one of the time-stamped media data packets. Th... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7675944 | Method and system for communicating content on a broadcast services communication system An outer decoder and an inner decoder encode a block of information to be transmitted, to improve protection by adding redundancy. The redundancy permits decoding of the information from less than a complete encoded block of information. Time re-alignment of two tra... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7675945 | Multi-component compatible data architecture A backbone network, comprising a first switch comprising a first port configured to communicate a data stream via an Ethernet interface, and a second port configured to communicate the data stream via a SONET/SDH interface, and a second switch comprising a third por... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7672339 | Method of resolving overlaps in data transmission and user equipment therefor A method of adjusting transmission timing, a method of continuously transmitting packets, and a mobile station are provided. The method of adjusting the transmission timing includes adjusting the transmission timing according to a transmission timing adjustment comm... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7668207 | System, method, and article of manufacture for synchronizing time of day clocks on first and second computers A system, method, and article of manufacture for synchronizing first and second time-of-day clocks on first and second computers, respectively, are provided. The first and second computers have first and second network interface cards with third and fourth clocks, r... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7668206 | Method for automatically setting time and digital broadcast receiving apparatus using the same A method for automatically setting a time includes receiving a time set by a user and corresponding to a geographic region where a digital broadcast receiver is located, and then determining if a broadcast signal received by the digital broadcast receiver includes t... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7664144 | Packet-switched network synchronization system and method A synchronization system and method for use in a packet switched communication network are provided. The synchronization system comprises a transmitter-identification system, a packet-boundary detection system and a storage-access system. The transmitter-identificat... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7660331 | Method and apparatus for aligning communication signals A pilot signal is prepended to a communication signal to form a test signal. The test signal is transmitted through a communication network and received from the communication network. A temporal marker in the pilot signal portion of the received test signal is iden... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7660330 | Clock synchronization and distribution over an optical Ethernet network A novel clock synchronization mechanism for recovering and distributing a centralized clock source synchronously over asynchronous networks such as optical Ethernet. A clock conversion scheme is provided whereby multiple clocks having diverse rates are converted to ... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7656907 | Method and apparatus for reducing clock speed and power consumption A system for reducing clock speed and power consumption in a network chip is provided. The system can have a core that transmits and receives signals at a first clock speed. A receive buffer can be in communication with the core and be configured to transmit the sig... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7656905 | Apparatus and method for aggregation and transportation of gigabit ethernet and other packet based data formats The invention provides an apparatus and method for transparently transporting four plesiochronous Gigabit Ethernet, Fibre Channel or other packet-based data signals over a network. Multiple plesiochronous Gigabit Ethernet data streams are aggregated onto an independ... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7656906 | System and method for communicating a timing signal between backplanes In one embodiment, an electronic system comprises a first backplane for distributing timing signals, power, and control signals to electronic circuitry coupled to the first backplane, wherein the first backplane comprises a first clock module for generating the timi... | 02/02/2010 |
