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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8189619 | Systems and methods facilitating high throughput control in wireless communications Embodiments include systems and methods for frame tunneling in a wireless communications system comprising digital beam forming. Embodiments comprise a first and second frame control field with the second frame control field comprising a High Throughput Control (HTC... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8184663 | Multi-format stream re-multiplexer for multi-pass, multi-stream, multiplexed transport stream processing A device for transport stream processing is provided. The device includes a plurality of data inputs and a transport stream re-multiplexer for receiving a plurality of data streams from the plurality of data stream inputs and multiplexing the data streams into a tra... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184662 | Communication system, communication apparatus, and control method thereof Data is transmitted by using continuous frames each of which includes a variable-length part having a length that varies depending on an input period and a fixed-length part containing data of one input period. The transmitted continuous frames are received, a frame... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184661 | Apparatus, system and method for the transmission of data with different QoS attributes A novel apparatus, system and method for transmitting data flows having different quality of service (QoS) attributes over a network link structured in two or more channels is provided. The method classifies arriving packets to determine their required/assigned QoS ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8179920 | High efficiency preambles for communications systems over pseudo-stationary communication channels A method includes appending a preamble to a data packet and transmitting the preamble and data packet over a communication channel in the network. The preamble may be a Beacon, Admission, Broadcast, or High-Throughput Preamble. The Beacon Preamble includes the follo... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179919 | Method and apparatus for data package in broadcast networks Disclosed relates to a method and apparatus for data transmission in broadcast networks, in which N×K pieces of inputted application data are segmented into a matrix BN×K formed by N blocks B1-BN. Each of N blocks contains K pieces... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179921 | Method and apparatus for processing padding buffer status reports A method and system for processing buffer status reports (BSRs) such that when BSR triggering is performed, the size(s) of the necessary sub-header(s) are also to be considered together in addition to the BSR size. The steps of checking whether any padding region is... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8175119 | Efficient physical layer preamble format A method for generating a preamble of a data unit includes generating a short training field (STF) of the preamble to include one of a repeating series of a sequences or a repeating series of b sequences, such that a and b are complementary sequences, a sum of out-o... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175118 | Efficient physical layer preamble format A method of generating a data unit preamble includes generating a first field associated with at least one of packet synchronization information or frame boundary indication, and generating a second field associated with channel estimation, including generating a fi... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8170061 | Communication device A device including: a receiving unit receiving a packet; a packet determining unit determining whether the received packet is a head fragment packet or an intermediate or last fragment packet; a search control unit using search data registered previously for searchi... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8165162 | Method and system for optimizing fragment size for aggregation at the physical layer Aspects of a system for optimizing fragment size for aggregation at the physical layer may include one more switch ICs and/or physical (PHY) layer ICs that enable reception of data packets via a medium access control layer protocol entity. Each received data packet ... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165164 | In-system reconfigurable circuit for mapping data words of different lengths A mapping circuit is provided for mapping first data words into frames of second data words, wherein the first and second data words are of different length. In addition, a de-mapping circuit is provided for de-mapping the frames of second data words into the first ... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165161 | Method and system for formatting encoded video data Described herein is a method and system for formatting encoded video data. The encoder core makes use of unit structures with types that are undefined. These units are inserted into the encoder core output to carry additional information to a transport module. The t... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8160105 | Apparatus and method for processing IP packet fragmentation in routing system using network processor An apparatus and method for processing IP packet fragmentation in a routing system using a network processor includes an ingress network processor receiving a packet, and if the received packet is greater than MTU, fragmenting the packet rather than sending the pack... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8160103 | Method and apparatus for generating preamble of data packet Provided are a method and apparatus for generating a preamble of a data packet. The method includes operations of generating a first field, a second field, and a third field; generating a synchronization sequence for synchronization between a data packet transmitter... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8160104 | System and method for communicating using an in-vehicle system A method to be used with first and second devices where the first device communicates with the second device via numbered data packets where the second device needs to know the number of each received packet upon reception, the method comprising the acts of at the f... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8160102 | Method and apparatus for upper level protocol message Upper level protocol message transmitting method and apparatus are provided based on a new management message to be used in a portable Internet system. When a base station receives the upper level protocol message to be broadcast, it includes the same in the managem... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8155149 | Packet assembly in a communication network supporting virtual networks In a first node, through which optical packets are able to input to the communication network, optical packets coming from the virtual network are assembled in packet field. The first node constructs a burst comprising the packet field and a label preceding the pack... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8155148 | Telecommunications transport methods and systems for the transparent mapping/demapping of client data signals The present invention provides telecommunications transport methods and systems for the transparent mapping/demapping of client data signals without the insertion/deletion of idle characters for client data signal rate adaptation. These methods and systems include m... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8139609 | Method and apparatus for supporting segmentation of packets for uplink transmission A method and apparatus for segmenting medium access control (MAC) service data units (SDUs) creates enhanced MAC-es PDUs in the enhanced MAC-e/es sub-layer by concatenating MAC SDUs received from the logical channels. An enhanced transport format combination (E-TFC)... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8135034 | Digital broadcast system for transmitting/receiving digital broadcast data, and data processing method for use in the same The present invention is directed to a digital broadcast system and a data processing method. A broadcast signal in which mobile service data and main service data are multiplexed is transmitted and received. Then, in a broadcasting receiver, the program table infor... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8135035 | Video over cable modem Disclosed is a system including a plurality of modulators for receiving at least one of first data signals from a termination and for receiving at least one of second data signals from other than the termination and for combining the at least one of first data signa... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8135036 | Unified data packet for encapsulating data packets having diverse formats Embodiments of the present invention described and shown in the specification and drawings facilitate the transportation of data packets having diverse formats through a general packet switching system. Due to the diverse formats of the data packets used by various ... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8135037 | Method and apparatus to encode and synchronize a serial interface The present disclosure is generally directed to a method and apparatus to communicate data between two or more semiconductor devices. In an embodiment, a method includes synchronizing a master device with a slave device, where the master device includes a semiconduc... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8135038 | Digital broadcast system for transmitting/receiving digital broadcast data, and data processing method for use in the same The present invention is directed to a digital broadcast system and a data processing method. A broadcast signal in which mobile service data and main service data are multiplexed is transmitted and received. Then, in a broadcasting receiver, the program table infor... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8130791 | Receiver and method for processing a stream of data packets when an error occurred on the physical layer A receiver which receives a stream of data packets including video data packets over a physical data link and drops data packets when an error on a physical communication layer is detected, wherein the receiver comprises a processor, configured so that it is able to... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8126015 | Multi-stream communication processing The processing of multi-streaming communication includes an association between a sender and a receiver established over a communications network. The processing also includes identifying each of more than one independent multi-streamed messages transferred over the... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8126016 | Method and apparatus for information dissemination A system and method for transmitting information to a group of recipient devices according to a transmission schedule is provided. A sequence of M blocks of information are transformed into N transformed blocks, where M and N are integers and N≧M. Each of the N tr... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8111715 | Method and apparatus for transferring a frame of data from a first network to a second network A method and apparatus for transferring a frame of data from a first network to a second network. The method includes adding a first steering header to a frame of data received by a first port that is destined for the second network. The method further includes sele... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8102881 | Streamlined guest networking in a virtualized environment Networking speed in a virtualized environment can be improved by utilizing an enhanced protocol and parallel stack to bypass restrictions of a conventional network stack that complies with standard networking protocols. In one embodiment, an enhanced TCP protocol en... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8102880 | Method and apparatus for packet segmentation and concatenation signaling in a communication system The invention relates to a data packet structure for conveying data of service data units (SDU) using protocol data units (PDU). The data packet comprise a data packet payload comprising at least one protocol data unit (PDU), wherein a protocol data unit (PDU) compr... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8098689 | Systems and methods for frame tunnelling in wireless communications Embodiments include systems and methods for frame tunneling in a wireless communications system comprising digital beam forming. Embodiments comprise a first and second frame control field with the second frame control field comprising a High Throughput Control (HTC... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8094682 | Method and apparatus for generating radio link control protocol data units A method and apparatus are used to generate radio link control (RLC) protocol data units (PDUs). A data request for a logical channel is received as part of an enhanced dedicated channel (E-DCH) transport format combination (E-TFC) selection procedure in a medium ac... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8094683 | Adaptive clock method and system A device and method are disclosed for correctly restoring a read clock when there are a plurality of STM data stream transmission sources. In a CES device of an ATM communication system, ATM cells from respective connections, which are to be delivered to the same ou... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8081662 | Methods of transmitting data blocks in wireless communication system Disclosed is a method for generating a data block to be transmitted from a specific layer in a transmitting side to a receiving side in a wireless communication system. The method includes receiving an upper layer datei block from an upper layer and generating a low... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8077742 | Data transmission using address encoding An apparatus includes an input circuit to receive a frame of data. The frame of data includes an address field. The address field includes an address. An encoder encodes a portion of the address into an encoded address. The encoded address includes at least two fewe... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8064483 | Protocol processing apparatus and processing method thereof A protocol processing apparatus determines a unit size of a bitmap table to be used in reassembly based on the size of a received fragmented IP datagram. A bitmap table is generated according to the determined unit size, and the received fragmented IP datagram is re... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8059684 | Method and apparatus for signal splitting and combining A method and apparatus for splitting an asynchronous signal are provided. The method includes: buffering, according to frame sequence, an asynchronous signal to be split; and sending n frames of data respectively on n channels in parallel whenever n frames of data h... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8054857 | Task queuing methods and systems for transmitting frame information over an I/O interface Data-processing systems and methods are disclosed, including an I/O interface for managing the transfer of data between a processor and at least one memory. A processor can be associated with the I/O interface, such that the processor generically assembles a first o... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8050293 | Apparatus and method for constructing a data unit that includes a buffer status report An apparatus and method for constructing a data unit that includes a buffer status report (BSR) such that when BSR triggering is performed, the size(s) of the necessary sub-header(s) are also to be considered together in addition to the BSR size. There is a checking... | 11/01/2011 |
