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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8184657 | Reliable audio-video transmission system using multi-media diversity A system and method for switching data packet traffic distribution across diverse transmission medium according to detected quality of service characteristics for a given data packet rate from server to client. It should be recognized that diverse medium are not int... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8139603 | Architecture for multiple MIH users Currently, the I.E.E.E. 802.21 specification allows multiple MIH (Media-Independent Handover) Users in a single MIH Function. However, the specification is not clear about how multiple MIH Users are supported by a single MIHF (MIH Function) under a constraint in whi... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8107492 | Cooperative writes over the address channel of a bus A processing system and method for communicating in a processing system over a bus is disclosed. The processing system includes a receiving device, a bus having first, second and third channels, and a sending device configured to address the receiving device on the ... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8098683 | Method and system for implementing a single weight (SW) single channel (SC) MIMO system with no insertion loss In a RF communications system, aspects for implementing a single weight single channel MIMO system with no insertion loss may comprise generating at least one control signal that is utilized to control at least one of a plurality of received signals in a WCDMA and/o... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8094676 | Flexible upstream PHY burst profile parameters to improve performance of short bursts in impulse noise A single carrier cable modem can be initialized on multiple channels. By initializing a cable modem on more than one channel, the error rate performance of short data packets in cable modems in an impulsive noise environment is improved. The advantage of low symbol ... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8081652 | Integrated universal input-output interface circuit A circuit for enabling communication between a micro-controller device and a number of data networks using different network protocols comprises a switch circuit and a number of interface circuits. The switch circuit is configured to connect input-output terminals o... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8073005 | Method and apparatus for configuring signal lines according to idle codes A method and apparatus for configuring signal lines with idle codes is disclosed. According to one embodiment, data transmission system (100) may include encoders (112, 114, 116 and 118) that transmit data over signal line lanes (Lane 0 t... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8064477 | Multi-channel generating system on wired network The present invention relates to a multi-channel provision system for a wired network. The multi-channel provision system of the present invention includes a tap-off unit (330) for dividing a frequency band, assigned to a wired network for network communicati... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8059675 | Application ping Network transport management methods and tools are used to provide compositional service assembly and management such that processing (i.e., computing) capacity is handled in a manner analogous to handling transport quality of service. The memory, speed of operation... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8059676 | Method of communication using frame A device and method for communicating by a mobile communication terminal in communication with a base station. The method according to an embodiment includes exchanging a frame of data with the base station. The frame of data includes a) a plurality of first subfram... | 11/15/2011 |
| 7974307 | Methods and apparatus for data decoding/encoding and for searching for/inserting stuffing bytes In a method of decoding data that contains payload data, start codes and stuffing data that prevents emulation of start codes within the data, and correspondingly in a method of encoding data that contains payload data and start codes, data is read or written. Subst... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7970005 | Channel bonding receiving apparatus and method for expanding channel bonding receiving band Provided is a channel bonding receiving apparatus and method for expanding a channel bonding receiving band in a cable modem. The channel bonding receiving apparatus includes a channel bonding dividing unit for dividing a channel bonding broadband signal into a plur... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7936778 | Method and system for 10GBASE-T start-up Certain aspects for the start-up procedure of transceivers supporting higher data rates over twisted-pair copper cabling are provided for 10 Gbit/sec Ethernet links (10GBASE-T). During a PMA (physical medium attachment) training period of the start-up procedure, lon... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7933289 | Cooperative writes over the address channel of a bus A processing system and method for communicating in a processing system over a bus is disclosed. The processing system includes a receiving device, a bus having first, second and third channels, and a sending device configured to address the receiving device on the ... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7912083 | Techniques for reducing a cell identification falsing rate in a wireless communication system A technique of operating a wireless communication device includes selecting, from a primary sequence group that includes respective primary sequences, one of the respective primary sequences as a first portion of a cell identification (ID). In this case, the respect... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7903684 | Communications architecture for transmission of data between memory bank caches and ports A serial communications architecture for communicating between hosts and data store devices. The Storage Link architecture is specially adapted to support communications between multiple hosts and storage devices via a switching network, such as a storage area netwo... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7894470 | Systems, methods and computer products for pooling of wireless collection bandwidth Systems, methods and computer products for pooling of wireless collection bandwidth. Exemplary embodiments include a bandwidth management method, in a wireless device, the method, including querying for additional wireless devices within a communication range of the... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7894471 | Content distribution system, content distribution method, terminal apparatus in content distribution system, and recording medium on which program is recorded To provide a content distribution system, method, and the like wherein, in a distribution aspect in which, being made a tree-shaped hierarchical structure, content data are forwarded from a content distribution apparatus at an apex to a downstream terminal apparatus... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7889758 | Method for allocating subchannel in wireless network A subchannel scheduling method in a multi-user MIMO-OFDM environment modifies proportional fairness scheduling specifications and maximizes a system throughput under conditions that a minimum data transmission rate required by a multimedia user be ensured. In a meth... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7885288 | Method and system for channel estimation in a single channel (SC) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system comprising two-transmit (2-TX) and multiple-receive (M-RX) antennas for WCDMA/HSDPA) In a wireless system, a method and system for channel estimation in a single channel MIMO system comprising two-transmit and multiple-receive antennas for WCDMA/HSDPA are provided. A first receive antenna and at least one additional receive antenna may receive a plu... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7881331 | Method and system for utilizing a reserved and/or out of band channel for maintaining a network connection Aspects of a method and system for utilization of an reserved and/or out of band channel for maintaining a network connection are provided. In this regard, information relating to training of one or more link partners communicatively coupled to an Ethernet link may ... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7873069 | Methods and apparatus for controlling audio characteristics of networked voice communications devices Methods and apparatus for controlling the audio characteristics of a networked voice communications device (NVCD) are presented. One method presented includes receiving a settings file, extracting at least one audio control parameter from the settings file, deriving... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7869458 | Relay connection unit and junction connector This invention provides a relay connection unit that relay message and make sufficient number of branches to be able to connect a plurality of ECUs. The relay connection unit includes: reception connectors to which a plurality of insertion connectors of communicatio... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7869459 | Communicating instructions and data between a processor and external devices A mechanism for communicating instructions and data between a processor and external devices are provided. The mechanism makes use of a channel interface as the primary mechanism for communicating between the processor and a memory flow controller. The channel inter... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7860123 | Method for transmitting packets in a wireless communication system and an apparatus using the same A wireless communication apparatus includes a first interface, a packet memory, a shift register set, and a second interface. The first interface receives a plurality of packets and stores the plurality of packets in the packet memory. The addresses of the plurality... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7848350 | Record boundary preservation protocol enhancement In one embodiment, a method to exchange Q-bit data packets between TCP/IP and X.25 devices includes receiving an incoming packet sequence and translating the incoming packet sequence into at least one outgoing packet. A Q-bit indicator in the first packet of the inc... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7843958 | Resolving a layer 3 address in a processor system with a unified IP presence Resolving a Layer 3 address includes maintaining an address resolution table at each slave processor of a number of slave processors. The slave processors have a master processor, and the master processor and the slave processors are associated with a unified addres... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7835388 | Communication method for interworking of local heterogeneous link layer protocols and apparatus thereof A communication method for interworking of local heterogeneous link protocols, includes the following steps: when the type of an input interface of a data packet is a predefined type, remove link layer information of the data packet according to a link protocol of t... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7830908 | Systems and methods of reducing delay in decoding In one embodiment, a method includes inserting a packet containing an interpolated timestamp into a burst media stream. The insertion is responsive to a channel change request. The burst media stream includes a series of cached frames. ... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7809013 | Channel scanning A method of operation in a communications node is disclosed. The method of operation includes the communications node scanning a plurality of channels simultaneously during a period of time, with the communications node selecting for signal processing a first signal... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7804846 | Robust deframing of MAC layer packets for mobile multimedia multicast system Finding errors in the fragment headers of the fragments of service layer packets without depending on the erasure indicators of Medium Access Channel (MAC) layer packets of a wireless signal in a wireless communication system includes determining if length of the fr... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7804845 | Method to confirm the server identity for server-initiated services A system and method for providing server identification to accept a server request in a vehicle wireless communications system. If the server wishes to send a request for a certain function to the vehicle, it will transmit the request and the vehicle will receive th... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7778271 | Method for communicating instructions and data between a processor and external devices A method for communicating instructions and data between a processor and external devices are provided. The method makes use of a channel interface as the primary mechanism for communicating between the processor and a memory flow controller. The channel interface p... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7760757 | Service executing apparatus The present invention is comprised of: the service execution unit 5701 that executes a service in the ServiceContext for Abstract service 2108; a method 6112 that associates the ServiceContext 2108 with resource set information indicating... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7751428 | System and method for accessing SMASH-CLP commands as a web service Systems and methods for accessing Systems Management Architecture for Server Hardware (SMASH)-command line protocol (CLP) commands as a web service are provided. In one form, an information handling system having access to CLP commands within a SMASH includes an app... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7720093 | Modulation multiplexing Systems and techniques are disclosed relating to communications. The systems and techniques involve communicating over a physical channel having a plurality of modulation channels each having a channel capacity by allocating a plurality of data streams among the mod... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7706400 | Transport stream processing device and transport stream processing method A processor detects a data error in the TS packet by utilizing a value of “adaptation_field_control” and a value of “adaptation_field_length” included in the TS packet of a transport stream. A TS packet filter of the processor deletes the relevant TS packet ... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7701965 | Communication device, communication method and program The communication device according to the present invention includes a communication condition detection unit that detects communication conditions with regard to communication with other communication devices, a link adaptation decision-making unit that makes a dec... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7649906 | Method of reducing buffer usage by detecting missing fragments and idle links for multilink protocols and devices incorporating same A method of detecting missing fragments and idle links in a link bundle for a multilink protocol, and devices provisioned with program instructions for performing the method, employs a plurality of masks to track the links in the bundle that are active. Idle links a... | 01/19/2010 |
| 7630396 | Multichannel signal coding equipment and multichannel signal decoding equipment Multichannel signal coding equipment is provided for presenting a high quality sound at a low bit rate. In the multichannel signal coding equipment (2), a down mix part (10) generates monaural reference channel signals for N number of channel signals. ... | 12/08/2009 |
