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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8179774 | Cross-talk coefficient updating in vector transmission Embodiments related to far-end cross-talk coefficient updating in vector transmission systems are depicted and described herein. ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8159927 | Transmit, receive, and cross-talk cancellation filters for back channelling Systems and methods are provided herein for interfacing a first digital device with a second digital device. An exemplary method includes the steps of combining one of a plurality of digital content channels and a back channel to form a composite channel, the back c... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8094546 | Device and method for compensating crosstalk in transmission links In an embodiment, a method of compensating crosstalk on a plurality of transmission links is disclosed. The method includes providing first values depending on crosstalk among a plurality of transmission links. Each first value corresponds to one of a plurality of c... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8085651 | Signal processor having a sampling arrangement In a signal processor, a sampling arrangement (SH11, S12, SH13, ADC1) samples at least a first signal (YA) and a second signal (UA, VA) so as to obtain sampled first signal (YD1) and a sampled second signal (UD1, VD1)... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8081560 | Method and apparatus for self-tuning precoder Techniques are disclosed for compensating for crosstalk using adaptation of data signals transmitted over respective channels of a communication system. For example, a method includes the following steps. A first set of estimated measures of crosstalk is obtained fo... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8068406 | Method and system for crosstalk cancellation Signals propagating in one communication channel can generate crosstalk interference in another communication channel. A crosstalk cancellation device can process the signals causing the crosstalk interference and generate a crosstalk cancellation signal that can co... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8045446 | Method, device and system for eliminating DSL crosstalk A method for eliminating DSL crosstalk is provided. The method includes steps of a coordinated transceiver device notifies an existing online opposite device of a signal sent to a new online opposite device; the coordinated transceiver device receives a calculation ... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8036098 | Wireless network and method for adaptive opportunistic clustering for interference alignment in wireless networks Embodiments of a central scheduler and method for adaptive clustering are generally described herein. In some embodiments, a cluster of transmitter-receiver pairs is selected based on minimum singular values calculated from direct channel information and the selecte... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8014263 | Cross-talk cancellation in cooperative wireless relay networks Cross-talk is canceled in a cooperative wireless relay network that includes a base station (BS), a relay station (RS), and a mobile station (MS). A coupling channel between a transmit antenna and a receive antenna colocated at the RS is estimated. Cross-talk interf... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8000219 | Method and apparatus for spectrum management A method and apparatus for spectrum management in an xDSL system are disclosed. The method mainly include: determining a transmit PSD mask according to a crosstalk status of a line; performing IWF operation using the transmit PSD mask; and dynamically managing line ... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7978591 | Mitigation of interference and crosstalk in communications systems Signals in a multi-channel, impaired communication system are post-processed at the receiver. A triangular matrix Decision Feedback Demodulator (DFD) at the receiver extracts channels without requiring delivery of receiver parameters to the transmitter. Multi-Input ... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7957254 | Concept for reducing crosstalk A device for reducing mutual crosstalk of a signal routed across a first line and a second signal routed across a second line, wherein by the mutual crosstalk at an output of the first line a first interfered signal may be obtained and at an output of the second lin... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7948862 | Crosstalk cancellation using sliding filters A crosstalk cancellation system and method is disclosed for use in a multi-channel communication system. Crosstalk which couples between channels is cancelled through use of an in-line FFE filter and in-line delay. A cross-connect system associated with each channel... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7920461 | Combined echo and crosstalk cancellation Combined echo and crosstalk cancellation is provided. Frequency domain adaptive filters are used to remove or reduce the effects of echo and crosstalk for a multi-channel and full-duplex communications system. Data from each transmit channel is buffered and converte... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7907506 | Method, system and device for xDSL crosstalk cancellation A method and system for xDSL crosstalk cancellation is provided. The method includes dividing xDSL signals into a plurality of signal sets; and connecting signals from a same signal set to a same processing unit to be processed. A digital subscriber line access mult... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7894323 | Home phone line networking enhancements for multiple dwelling unit environments A Home Phoneline system operating within a Multiple Dwelling Unit includes a Home Phoneline Access Multiplexer (HPAN) that services a plurality of Home Phoneline networks, each including at least one Home Phoneline station. The HPAN synchronizes upstream and downstr... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7864657 | Method and apparatus for performing stream weighting in an SDMA communication system A method and apparatus for performing stream weighting in a spatial-division multiple access communication system is provided herein. During operation the base station receiver receives channel information from mobiles (also known as users or nodes) and calculates t... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7852742 | Precompensation of crosstalk interference based on feedback error signal A device has a plurality of output terminals to provide a plurality of signals to a plurality of transmission links; at least one input terminal to receive information representing a projection of a complex valued error signal onto one direction; and a determination... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7843800 | Method, apparatus and system for crosstalk test on multi-subscriber communication lines A method, apparatus, and system for crosstalk test on multi-subscriber communication lines. The core of the invention is: loading a group of orthogonal spread spectrum codes to the transmitting side of each line, and testing the crosstalk of xSDL lines based on the ... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7839758 | Analog echo canceller with interpolating output A method and system are described for canceling an echo signal with an echo canceller in the analog domain. In one embodiment, a system includes an echo canceller that includes an interpolation filter unit, operating in a digital domain, that receives a first digita... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7826338 | Method and apparatus for adaptive power adjustment based on reduction of cross-talk between DSLs An adaptive power adjustment method and means based on reducing crosstalk among DSL lines includes: calculating the crosstalk power spectrum density and the crosstalk function from the neighboring line in current line; calculating the transmission power spectrum den... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7826337 | Communication node, wireless communication system and data relay method A communication node for relaying a signal between a source node and a destination node is disclosed. The communication node includes: a relay signal generation unit configured to generate a transmit signal by reducing, from a receive signal, an interference signal ... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7813259 | Electronic circuit An electronic circuit capable of reducing crosstalk to such a degree that the crosstalk can be substantially disregarded even where a plurality of communications channels are juxtaposed in close proximity to each other when achieving communications between substrate... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7804760 | Method and system for signal emulation A circuit can process a sample of a signal to emulate, simulate, or model an effect on the signal. Thus, an emulation circuit can produce a representation of a real-world signal transformation by processing the signal according to one or more signal processing param... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7801017 | Communication system for improved cross talk estimation and method thereof The present invention relates to a communication system for improved crosstalk estimation and method thereof. The communication system may include a vectoring group and a central office. The vectoring group includes a plurality of first communication lines and at le... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7782748 | Power spectrum control method for communication channels limited by disturbers and apparatus for performing such a method A method for determining at least one operational transmit power Snk over a communication channel (Ln) coupled to a disturbance causing transceiver (n) for at least one tone (k), comprises the steps of provision of at least one refer... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7742387 | Cancellation of crosstalk energy in communication loops Systems and methods for reducing crosstalk are provided. In one implementation, a method is provided. The method includes applying a pilot signal to a disturber twisted pair and measuring near end crosstalk of a victim twisted pair. The coupling characteristics betw... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7742386 | Multiple channel interference cancellation A method and apparatus for reducing crosstalk in a multi-channel communication system is disclosed. In one embodiment, outgoing signals in a multi-channel environment are manipulated into a transform domain, such as the frequency domain. Thereafter, the signals may ... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7738354 | Crosstalk identification for spectrum management in broadband telecommunications systems Crosstalk between subscriber loops used to transmit different broadband services through the same bundled telephone cable is a significant limitation to providing digital subscriber line services. A method for estimating the crosstalk, identifying the sources of the... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7733763 | Memory-efficient ADSL transmission in the presence of TCM-ISDN interferers A method of communicating data across a channel that experiences near-end cross talk (NEXT) interference and far-end cross talk (FEXT) interference in alternate intervals. In one embodiment, a first data rate is determined for a first carrier-number mode that is to ... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7697408 | Data communication system and method capable of limiting effects of crosstalk by adjusting transceiver power levels A system for adjusting transmission power levels of transceivers in order to reduce crosstalk utilizes a transmitter and logic. The transmitter is configured to transmit signals to a customer transceiver over a first communication connection that is bound within a b... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7675840 | System and method for mitigating data flow control problems in the presence of certain interference parameters A radar, or other repetitive interference, detection and data flow control system and method for RF data transmissions uses an RF detector and an omni directional antenna to detect radar or similar signals. The information from the RF detector is communicated to a h... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7649828 | Method and system for split-pair reception in twisted-pair communication systems A method and system are disclosed for improving the performance of a multiline transmission system by using one or more split-pair receivers in a multiline communications system to identify crosstalk on a pair of transceivers coupled to the split pair receivers, whe... | 01/19/2010 |
| 7646699 | Transceiver power backoff A device and method of setting transmit power backoff of a transceiver within a network is disclosed. The method includes estimating a channel loss of a channel of the transceiver, obtaining channel loss information, the channel loss information including estimates ... | 01/12/2010 |
| 7639596 | High speed multiple loop DSL system A DSL system includes a multiple loop segment where K loops are bonded to provide a multiple loop segment having up to (2K−1) communication channels on which transmissions are vectored. The segment may be a drop to a customer premises, an inter-pedestal link, or a... | 12/29/2009 |
| 7626916 | Method and system for crosstalk cancellation Signals propagating in one communication channel can generate crosstalk interference in another communication channel. A crosstalk cancellation device can process the signals causing the crosstalk interference and generate a crosstalk cancellation signal that can co... | 12/01/2009 |
| 7602695 | System and method for communicating in a multi-unit structure A method of providing communications over a plurality of sets of twisted pair conductors connected to a plurality of communication devices located in a plurality of units of a multi-unit structure is provided. In one embodiment, the method comprises coupling a data ... | 10/13/2009 |
| 7596079 | System and method for communicating in a multi-unit structure A system and method of providing communications over twisted pair conductors connected to a plurality of communication devices located in a plurality of units of a multi-unit structure is provided. In one embodiment, the system comprises an upstream device having a ... | 09/29/2009 |
| 7596078 | Method and apparatus for reducing crosstalk in a structural health monitoring system Methods and apparatus for reducing crosstalk in a structural health monitoring system. A pair of actuator input signals are sent to an actuator, each resulting in the transmission of stress waves to a corresponding sensor. The sensor then converts these stress waves... | 09/29/2009 |
| 7593315 | Cable diagnostics for 10GBASE-T transceivers A 10GBASE-T transceiver that is capable of performing cable diagnostics. The transceiver is a physical layer device (PHY) that has four transceiver sections. Each section includes an input path and an output path. The input path generally includes a receiver, an ana... | 09/22/2009 |
