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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7093172 | System and method for determining on-chip bit error rate (BER) in a communication system A test packet generator (225a) within a physical layer device (230) may generate test packets to be communicated over a closed communication path established within the physical layer device (230). The test packets may include a pseudo-ra... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7088741 | Using an auxilary channel for video monitor training In a system having a bi-directional auxiliary channel arranged to transfer information between a video source and a video display and vice versa and a unidirectional main link arranged to carry a number multimedia data packets from the video source to the video disp... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7089440 | Skew compensation for a multi-agent shared bus A data processing system includes first, second, and third agents connected to a shared bus. The third agent is able to receive information via the shared bus from the first agent or from the second agent. The third agent includes a skew compensation circuit to dete... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7085325 | Serial interface unit with transmit monitor In a serial interface unit (10) for the transmission and reception of data under the control of clock signals, the data are output from a data source to a data output (24) via an output driver (22). A transmit monitor (52) compares the da... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7085561 | Embedded channel analysis for RF data modem An embedded method for analyzing RF channel communication link parameters can include inserting data having a predetermined pattern to a transmission at a transmitter, processing the data through a waveform processor, transmitting the data across a communications li... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7085713 | Audio signal processing apparatus In an audio signal encoding apparatus, a first audio signal and a second audio signal are added into an addition-result signal. The first audio signal is subtracted from the second audio signal to generate a subtraction-result signal. A first difference signal is ge... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7085987 | Enhanced turbo product code decoder system A method and apparatus for decoding a linear block encoded string of information bits comprising: converting the string into a plurality of codewords. Performing hard and soft decisions on each codeword to generate a hard and soft decision vector. Computing the synd... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7084660 | System and method for accelerated detection of transient particle induced soft error rates in integrated circuits A method and system are provided for accelerated detection of soft error rates (SER) in integrated circuits (IC's) due to transient particle emission. An integrated circuit is packaged for accelerated transient particle emission by doping the underfill thereof with ... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7082556 | System and method of detecting a bit processing error The present invention relates generally to an improvement in the ability of test systems to test bit processing capacities of electronic devices, and in particular an improvement in their ability to test the operation of an electronic device's transmitter and receiv... | 07/25/2006 |
| 7082557 | High speed serial interface test A high speed, two-way serial interface with a scrambler and de-scrambler may be tested by sending a single word repeatedly through the scrambler to create a pseudo-random sequence. The pseudo-random sequence is then passed through the transmitter and looped back thr... | 07/25/2006 |
| 7082565 | Method for matching the bit rate in a communication device, and a corresponding communication device In order to match the bit rate in a communication device, the bits of a bit stream are punctured or repeated, in which case for each bit an updated error value is calculated on the basis of a previously determined error value and an update parameter and a judgment i... | 07/25/2006 |
| 7079612 | Fast bit-error-rate (BER) test A bit-error-rate (BER) test is a crucial test for wireless devices to pass, since a device with a high BER does not perform at its best. BER tests are both costly and difficult to perform due to a delay incurred by the device under test (DUT) 215 and the test... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7080292 | Method for testing jitter tolerance of high speed receivers A method and apparatus is presented for measuring jitter tolerance in a device under test. A device under test is established to operate at a specific frequency. A bit pattern is generated from a bit pattern generator. The bit pattern generated by the bit pattern ge... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7080294 | Threshold crossing alarm system A method for activating an alarm based on a series of error counts generated by a monitoring device, including an integrator, an accumulator, and an alarm. The integrator adjusts the error count and produces an adjusted count, which it then sends to the accumulator.... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7076401 | Method and apparatus for measuring data timing using unity time-voltage sawtooth ramps A method and apparatus for converting skew in a received signal to a low frequency voltage. A signal is received at a destination node from an original signal from a source node. A unity time-voltage sawtooth ramp signal is created at the destination node. The ampli... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7076005 | System and method for transmission format detection A system and method for detecting a correct transmission format upon encountering a decoding error in a variable-format transmission scheme, wherein the decoding error results from an unsuccessful decoding of a frame. The invention provides for prioritizing the perm... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7076173 | Method for dispersion compensation regulation A method for dispersion compensation regulation wherein, in order to transmit high-bit-rate optical signals, in a first step a bit-rate-reduced optical signal is formed from the high-bit-rate optical signal by the N-fold repetition at the transmitting end of each lo... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7076573 | Method, apparatus, and program for detecting sequential and distributed path errors in MPIO An error detection mechanism is provided for detecting sequential and distributed errors in a device I/O stream. The sensitivity of the errors is user definable. The result of the error detection is fed back into the path management software, which may use the error... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7076004 | Apparatus and method for adaptively detecting received signals for power line communication The disclosed apparatus includes a main control unit (MCU) interface unit for adjusting the timing of data transmission, a register unit for storing control data, a threshold value, an offset value, and an error rate received from the MCU interface unit, and for out... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7076698 | Vector monitor, related method of controlling a transmitter and transmitter employing the same The present invention is directed to a vector monitor for use with a transmitter employing in-phase and quadrature phase input and feedback signals, and a method of controlling a transmitter. In one embodiment, the vector monitor includes an error detection circuit ... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7072939 | Instant selective multiple soft document sharing between multiple heterogeneous computing devices A system and method for providing dynamically shared documents to multiple computing devices. In a preferred embodiment, the system includes a hub and a plurality of computing devices in physical proximity with the hub. Each of the plurality of computing devices com... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7072317 | Method and apparatus for providing soft hand-off in IP-centric wireless CDMA networks A Virtual Soft-Hand-off method for wireless IP-centric CDMA networks whose routers, hosts, and mobile stations have small group multicast (SGM) capability comprises setting up an explicit synchronous multicast session among a small group of participants with dynamic... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7068686 | Method and apparatus for efficient transmission of multimedia data packets A transmission efficient packet based display interface arranged to couple a multimedia source device to a multimedia sink device is disclosed. The transmission efficient interface includes a bi-directional auxiliary channel arranged to transfer information between ... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7069488 | Signal sampling with sampling and reference paths A signal-analyzing unit has a sampling path and a reference path both receiving a digital test signal. The sampling path has a first comparator for comparing the test signal against a first threshold value and providing a first comparison signal, and a first samplin... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7068638 | Apparatus and method for coding/decoding TFCI bits in an asynchronous CDMA communication system A method for decoding received data in a decoder which receives data from an encoder varying a length of a Walsh code according to a coding rate of transmission data, and has maximum IFHT (Inverse Fast Hadamard Transform) stages capable of decoding even the data enc... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7065159 | Compensation based bit-error-rate estimation for convolutionally encoded transmissions in wireless systems In a UMTS (universal mobile telecommunications system) based system, a wireless receiver comprises a convolutional decoder, a processor and memory. The convolutional decoder processes a received signal and provides a Yamamoto-Itoh (YI) metric to the processor. The p... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7065363 | Routing in a network A telecommunications system comprising: a first base station and a second base station, both capable of communicating by radio with a first terminal unit; a telecommunications network capable of coupling the first base station to a second terminal unit over a first ... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7065681 | Flexible method for satisfying complex system error handling requirements via error promotion/demotion A signaling mechanism associated with errors in a processor are promoted or demoted based on a set of stored values. ... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7062423 | Method and apparatus for testing a system on a chip (SOC) integrated circuit comprising a hard disk controller and read channel Apparatus for testing a system on a chip (SOC) comprises a first SOC including a first hard disk controller and a first read channel. A second SOC comprises a second hard disk controller and a second read channel. An arbitrary waveform generator (AWG) generates a ti... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7062687 | Apparatus and method for setting a data rate in a wireless communication system An apparatus and method for setting a transfer rate of information units in a variable data-rate transmission scheme for a wireless communication system is disclosed. For that, a total counter for counting a total number of received information units, an error count... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7062165 | Receiver monitoring and optimization using forward error correction information A data regenerator for regenerating a data signal, including a convertor for converting a received data signal into a binary data signal in dependence on conversion parameters, an error corrector for correcting errors in the binary data signal based on error correct... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7061856 | Data throughput over lossy communication links In a heterogeneous data network including both wired and wireless/lossy links, a transport protocol method implemented at the wireless host is fully compatible with existing wired networks and wireless gateways, and requires no modification to transport protocols at... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7061205 | Method for operating redox flow battery system An operating method of a redox flow battery system that can provide a stabilized output to a system from a redox flow battery system annexed to a wind power generator, to produce an improved battery efficiency. The redox flow battery system comprises the wind power ... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7062703 | Early detection of false start-of-packet triggers in a wireless network node An apparatus, a carrier medium storing instructions to implement a method, and a method in a node of a wireless network able to receive packets that exactly or substantially conform to a wireless network standard according to which each packet includes a header havi... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7058844 | System and method for rapid fault isolation in a storage area network A fault region identification system adapted for use in a network, such as a storage area network (SAN), includes logic and/or program modules configured to identify errors that occur in the transmission of command, data and response packets between at least one hos... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7054357 | Error rate estimating device, method, and information recording medium To reduce the size of the device for judging the error rate on a channel and reducing the amount of processing, a normalization accumulator cumulatively adds the number of times that normalization is performed within a predetermined time in an ACS circuit calculatin... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7055068 | Method for validating operation of a fibre link A method for validating operation of a fiber link when the fiber link is initialized includes the steps of entering a trial link up state upon receiving a command to initialize the fiber link so that normal commands to other devices within the fiber channel loop are... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7055084 | Method and system for regulating the decision threshold and the sampling clock phase of a data regenerator for a binary signal A method and system for regulating the decision threshold and the sampling clock phase of a data regenerator for a binary signal, wherein error correction signals for erroneous 1-bits and 0-bits are used for regulating the decision threshold of a decision stage, and... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7051268 | Method and apparatus for reducing power consumption of a decoder in a communication system A method and an apparatus for reducing power consumption of a decoder in a communication system are disclosed. In a communication system communicating a packet, the packet can be arranged among slots of a communication channel so that each slot following the first s... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7051249 | Analyzing a bit error rate of a communication link A bit error rate or other performance characteristic of a communication link is monitored using a state machine. The state machine includes at least three states — for example, a NO ALARM state, an ALARM DETECTION state, and an ALARM state. A sliding window is use... | 05/23/2006 |
