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Method and apparatus for making a drink hop along a bar or counter
A method for generating a drink which appears to hop from a remote spot on the bar or counter and take one or more leaps, before landing in a patron's glass.
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| 8189620 | Communication system with cross-compatibility and associated communication frame A telecommunications frame used for remote control in home automation systems provides for protocol extension while retaining the organization and the content of the data of an old frame used in earlier generation remote control transmitters/receivers while adding a... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8170062 | Packetized interface for coupling agents In one embodiment, the present invention includes a fabric on a first semiconductor die to communicate with at least one agent on the die according to an on-chip protocol and a packetization layer coupled to the fabric to receive command and data information from th... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8155151 | Secure combined interoperable multiplexing Systems and methods for combining a plurality of transport streams into a single transport stream for transmission to, e.g., a single frequency network via a satellite. Embodiments provide receiving a plurality of original, e.g., MPEG-compliant, data streams, where ... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8139610 | Method for framing data for transmission over an encoded channel A serializer is provided to serialize combined synchronization information and data blocks for transmission over the high-speed channel. A gearbox combines synchronization information with data blocks to present to the serializer. A scrambler scrambles data blocks t... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8135039 | Method and apparatus for allocating radio resource in communication system To transmit resource allocation information on a plurality of radio resources to a terminal, a resource allocation device expresses a radio resource that is differently allocated from before the resource allocation information is transmitted among the plurality of r... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8130792 | STM-1 to STM-64 SDH/SONET framer with data multiplexing from a series of configurable I/O ports The present invention relates to a device for combining at least two data signals having an input data rate into a single data stream having an output data rate being higher than the input data rate for transmission on a shared medium or vice versa, particularly, to... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8121152 | Method for encoding broadcast channel protocol data unit based on broadcast control channel scheduling error in universal mobile telecommunications system A method for encoding a broadcast channel protocol data unit (BCH PDU) based on a broadcast control channel (BCCH) scheduling error in a universal mobile telecommunications system (UMTS) having a Node B and a radio network controller includes setting up a call betwe... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8111716 | Method and apparatus for formatting data signals in a digital audio broadcasting system A data unit for transmitting data in a digital broadcasting system includes a first payload field, and a first byte code field having a value indicating an offset of data in the first payload field with respect to an absent value. A method for formatting the data un... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8111717 | Flexible tributary interface A system and method are provided for transporting Plesiochronous Digital Hierarchy (PDH) tributaries. The method accepts a plurality of PDH tributaries; generates a serial data stream of interleaved PDH tributaries; generates a serial control stream of signals for r... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8077743 | Method and apparatus for offset interleaving of vocoder frames The disclosed embodiments provide methods and apparatus for offset interleaving of media frames for transmission over a communication network. In one aspect, a method for interleaving a stream of media frames for transmission over a communication network includes th... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8073012 | Method and related apparatus for handling packet discard in a wireless communications system A method for handling packet discard in a transmitter of a wireless communications system includes activating a “use of a special value of a header extension field” mode, discarding a plurality of service data units, wherein the last service data unit of the plu... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8050295 | Transmission circuit and method for transmitting a bit sequence to be transmitted A transmission circuit and method for transmitting a bit sequence to be transmitted is provided that includes a dividing device for dividing the bit sequence into an even-numbered bit sequence and into an odd-numbered bit sequence, a first device for forming the fir... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8018969 | Method and apparatus for constructing MAP IE using reduced CID in broadband OFDMA systems A method for transmitting burst allocation information by a base station in a broadband wireless communication system in which a transmitted frame includes symbols, and orthogonal subcarriers in a frequency axis constitute each of the symbols based on a predetermine... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8009699 | Efficient encoding of out of order data packets in a network An apparatus and system for encoding out of order data packets in a network are described. At a source unit, an out-of-order parameter is selected as the maximum out of order range value of data packets to be encoded with a minimum header size. A shifting parameter ... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7991011 | Identification of changes in broadcast database A method of acquiring repetitively broadcast data comprises acquiring the data in fragments, acquiring a document comprising information on the fragments, examining the information, and re-acquiring the fragments according to the information. ... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7983304 | Communication system provided with transmitter for transmitting audio contents using packet frame of audio data An audio frame format includes a channel field indicating a number of audio multi-channels, an ignore bit indicating whether or not an audio sample is present in a predetermined region of a packet format, and an A channel audio sample field for transmitting the audi... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7978733 | Method for generating subframe including resource distribution information A method for generating a subframe including resource distribution information is disclosed. The method for generating a subframe includes arranging resource allocation information in a subframe by sequentially allocating a localized permutation and a distributed pe... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7936787 | Technique for data compression by decoding binary encoded data This disclosure relates to the transmission of binary data over a network between a transmission host and a receiving host. The transmission host receives packets of data including data in a first format which may be ASCII formatted and contain 6 bits-per-byte words... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7916754 | Data stream recovery A method and processor for recovering a plurality of individual data streams from a composite data stream The composite data stream having been formed by first bit reordering the individual data streams with respect to themselves, combining the individual data strea... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7894482 | Method and device for mapping and demapping a client signal A method and a device for mapping and demapping a client signal are provided. The method for mapping a client signal includes: dividing a part or all of a payload area of an Optical Channel Payload Unit (OPU) or Optical channel Data Tributary Unit (ODTU) into severa... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7826486 | Selective header field dispatch in a network processing system A method and structure is disclosed for dispatching appropriate data to a network processing system comprising an improved technique for extracting protocol header fields for use by the network processor. This technique includes basic classification of a packet acco... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7817670 | Transmission apparatus and transmission method In a transmitting end, positional information indicating positions of data packets to be reproduced in a receiving end among data packets in an inputted bit stream is generated with a plurality of data packets as one unit, and generated one piece of positional infor... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7809023 | Communication system and method for sending isochronous streaming data within a frame segment using a signaling byte A communication system, network interface, and communication port is provided for interconnecting a network of multimedia devices. The multimedia devices can send streaming and/or non-streaming data across the network. The network accommodates all such types of data... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7809021 | Communication system and encoding method having low overhead A communication system processes blocks of input data that include control words and a packet of information words are received. The packet has a start preceded by ones of the control words and an end followed by others of the control words. When the block consists ... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7809022 | Mapping six (6) eight (8) mbit/s signals to a SONET frame A system (104) is provided for filling a SONET SPE (204, 300, 500, 600, 700) with bytes of digital information. The system is comprised of data input ports (1-6) configured to receive payload signals comprised of payload information. The ... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7804855 | Method and system for exploiting spare link bandwidth in a multilane communication channel A system for encoding data in a multilane communication channel may include at least one processor operable to generate, from existing control characters in a character set, expanded control characters utilized for controlling the data in each lane of the multilane ... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7792149 | Method for formatting signal in mobile communication system A method for formatting a signal in a mobile communication system by appending a plurality of medium access control headers to a plurality of medium access control-service data units for data transfer between a mobile station and network in the mobile communication ... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7787497 | System for grouping attributes in packets in a radius protocol A system for inserting data into data packets of a protocol for transmitting network information between processing systems connected to a network. The system identifies attributes of the network to be transmitted in a packet. The system then forms a group of attrib... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7773632 | Header compress/decompress framework Machine-readable media, methods, and apparatus are described. In some embodiments, a header policy for a packet to be transmitted through the network is defined based upon characteristics of the network and a header of the packet is compressed based upon whether the... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7773633 | Apparatus and method of processing bitstream of embedded codec which is received in units of packets Provided are a packet processing apparatus and method used when an output bitstream of an embedded codec is divided into a plurality of packets and transmitted accordingly, and more particularly, an efficient packet processing apparatus and method which can reduce d... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7773634 | Algorithms for constructing sets of frequently occurring strings Media and methods are provided for constructing data structures associating data segments in packets with reference identifiers to optimize bandwidth usage within a network during transmission. In one embodiment, a data structure is initialized to contain no data. A... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7764710 | Method and apparatus for processing communication protocol frame input If an input word bit includes overhead data, the input word bit is ignored. If the input word bit includes non-overhead data and the corresponding bit position in a first buffer is empty, the non-overhead data is stored in the corresponding bit position in the first... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7738495 | Method of determining a maximum transmission unit value of a network path using transport layer feedback A network element implementing a method for determining an optimal maximum transmission unit (MTU) value on a path between two nodes in a network is described. A sending node interested in learning the optimal MTU path value allows fragmentation of datagrams sent on... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7729384 | Multiple channel digital subscriber line framer/deframer system and method The framer, also referred to as the scrambler/Reed-Solomon encoder (SRS), is a part of the transmitter and accepts user and control data in the form of one or more logical channels, partitions this data into frames, adds error correction codes, randomizes the data t... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7724776 | Method and ingress node for handling fragmented datagrams in an IP network Problems caused by Internet Protocol datagram fragmentation are solved by creating a session context for the datagram fragments without actually reassembling the datagram from its fragments. The session context enables treatment of the datagram without actually reas... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7701977 | Method and apparatus to align and standardize packet based parallel interfaces A packet alignment system for pre-processing/aligning incoming packets may comprise one or more registers for receiving control signals and data signals. An aligner may cyclically shift said data signals to form a plurality of shifted data words. A plurality of pipe... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7684440 | Method and apparatus for maximizing peer-to-peer frame sizes within a network supporting a plurality of frame sizes The present invention provides a method and an apparatus to facilitate the use of larger-than-Ethernet-standard frames having different sizes in a network, such as an extended local area network, where the network can include at least one network element that cannot... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7672335 | Non-integer word size translation through rotation of different buffer alignment channels A method is described that involves loading X bits at a time into a shift register and shifting groups of older, loaded X bits up in the shift register with each new group of loaded X bits. Each group of X bits has been received from a serial data stream. The method... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7672336 | Filtering and policing for defending against denial of service attacks on a network Described are computer-based methods and apparatuses, including computer program products, for filtering and policing for defending against denial of service attacks on a network. A data packet is filtered by a multi-tiered filtering and transmission system. Data pa... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7630405 | Techniques for ensuring synchronized processing at remote fiber channel and fiber connectivity networks Techniques described use Generic Framing Procedure (GFP) to transport data across an optical transport network between near and far Fiber Channel (FC) or Fiber Connectivity (FICON) local area optical networks. Each FC/FICON edge node (FCE) on an edge of the optical ... | 12/08/2009 |
