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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8165165 | Apparatus for dynamic header compression and method thereof Provided are an apparatus for a dynamic header compression and a method thereof. The method for a dynamic header compression includes: receiving a received packet having a header from an upper layer; comparing header information of the received packet with header in... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8160106 | Method, device and system for transmitting Ethernet packets Technique for transmitting Ethernet packets from an Ethernet source point to an Ethernet destination point via a communication link, comprising compression of the packets in such a manner that the source point transmits complete Ethernet packets, the communication l... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8160107 | Data transmission method, data transmission apparatus, data reception apparatus, and packet data structure A data transmission apparatus for sequentially transmitting data in units of packets each containing transmission data to the receiving end. The apparatus including a reception unit receiving the transmission data as an input signal, a packet formation unit receivin... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8155152 | Apparatus and method of encoding and decoding audio signal In one embodiment, the method includes receiving audio frame data having at least first and second channel data. The first and second channel data include a plurality of blocks, where the blocks are classified by a block type. The first and second channel data are p... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8155154 | Apparatus and method for coding an information signal into a data stream, converting the data stream and decoding the data stream More customization and adaptation of coded data streams may be achieved by processing the information signal such that the various syntax structures obtained by pre-coding the information signal are placed into logical data packets, each of which being associated wi... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8155153 | Apparatus and method of encoding and decoding audio signal In one embodiment, the method includes receiving audio frame data having at least first and second channel data. The first and second channel data include a plurality of blocks, where the blocks are classified by a block type. The first and second channel data is pr... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8149878 | Apparatus and method of encoding and decoding audio signal In one embodiment, the method includes receiving audio frame data having at least first and second channel data. The first and second channel data includes a plurality of blocks, where the blocks are classified by a block type. The first and second channel data is p... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8149877 | Apparatus and method of encoding and decoding audio signal In one embodiment, the method includes receiving audio frame data having at least first and second channel data. The first and second channel data includes a plurality of blocks, where the blocks are classified by a block type. Block information indicating the block... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8149876 | Apparatus and method of encoding and decoding audio signal In one embodiment, the method includes receiving audio frame data having at least first and second channel data. The first and second channel data includes a plurality of blocks, where the blocks are classified by a block type. The embodiment further includes obtain... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8139611 | Apparatus and method for coding an information signal into a data stream, converting the data stream and decoding the data stream More customization and adaptation of coded data streams may be achieved by processing the information signal such that the various syntax structures obtained by pre-coding the information signal are placed into logical data packets, each of which being associated wi... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8077744 | 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, mobile service data ide... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8045589 | Radio communication system with data structure change Provided is a radio communication method including: notifying a reception-side radio communication apparatus of omitted-source-address information indicating a first source address permanently assigned to a source device of a first data frame to be transmitted to th... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8005116 | System and method for mitigating the effects of bit insertion in a communications environment A method for communicating data is provided that includes receiving a plurality of bits associated with a communications flow and determining whether one or more samples included in the flow should be suppressed. The method also includes suppressing a selected one o... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7991012 | Apparatus and method of encoding and decoding audio signal In one embodiment, a channel in a frame of the audio signal is subdivided into a plurality of blocks according to a subdivision hierarchy. The subdivision hierarchy has more than one level, and each level is associated with a different block length. At least two of ... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7983305 | Apparatus and method for transmitting and receiving wireless packet data An apparatus and method for transmitting and receiving wireless packet data are provided. In a wireless packet data transmitter for transmitting to a wireless packet data receiver data packet on a transport channel and control information for supporting the transpor... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7974312 | Compressed medium access control (MAC) header structure for MAC overhead reduction in mobile worldwide interoperability for microwave access (WiMAX) systems A packet data structure comprising a compressed medium access control (MAC) header structure capable of significantly reducing MAC header overhead for small payload applications, such as Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and interactive gaming and to increase the ... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7970015 | Method for transmitting a message by compressed data transmission between a sender and a receiver via a data network A method for transmitting a message by compressed data transmission between a sender and a receiver using connectionless or connection oriented protocols. The sender gateway assures that the appropriate handling of the message data is made by knowing the transmissio... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7965742 | Methods and apparatus for enhancing wireless data network telephony including a personal router in a client A data network telephony (DNT) wireless communication system has a base station connected to a DNT-capable data network and to a plurality of wireless transceivers, each transceiver transmitting to a distinct area, the base station adapted to operate the transceiver... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7957424 | Systems and methods for compressing packet headers A system processes data units in a network. The system receives a data unit that includes a group of headers and suppresses one or more of the headers to form a reduced data unit. The system suppresses one or more other headers of the reduced data unit to form a fur... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7949014 | Apparatus and method of encoding and decoding audio signal In one embodiment, at least first and second channels in a frame of the audio signal are independently subdivided into blocks if the first and second channels are not correlated with each other. The first and second channels are corresponding subdivided into blocks ... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7929571 | System and method for implementing a preemptive retransmit for error recovery in a communications environment A method for communicating data is provided that includes receiving a plurality of bits associated with a communications flow and determining whether one or more samples included in the flow should be suppressed. The method also includes suppressing a selected one o... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7912089 | Methods, systems, and products for condensing messages Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for condensing a message. The message is processed, and a portion of a header is removed. The removed portion is stored in memory. A reference is inserted into the header, and the reference references the stored portion. ... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7912090 | Bi-level and full-color video combination for video communication Systems and methods for video communication are described. In one aspect, network bandwidth conditions are estimated. Bi-level or full-color video is then transmitted over the network at transmission bit rates that are controlled as a function of the estimated bandw... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7885294 | Signaling compression information using routing protocols An ability to compress packets is announced from a customer edge router (CE) to other CEs through a routing protocol packet. An announcement of that ability is received from another CE through a routing protocol packet. A compression technique is then matched. The C... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7848355 | Resource allocation in peer-to-peer streaming A system and method for resource allocation in peer to peer streaming includes steps of: inferring global properties of a neighborhood made up of peer nodes, wherein the global properties are inferred from a summarization of information obtained locally at each peer... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7830921 | Apparatus and method of encoding and decoding audio signal In one embodiment, at least first and second channels in a frame of the audio signal are independently subdivided into blocks if the first and second channels are not correlated with each other. The first and second channels are corresponding subdivided into blocks ... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7830920 | System and method for enhancing audio quality for IP based systems using an AMR payload format A method of enhancing audio quality for Internet protocol (IP) based systems using an adaptive multi-rate (AMR) payload format is presented. If a network buffer indicative of network congestion exceeds its threshold a determination is made whether to place a NO DATA... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7826487 | Coalescing acknowledgement responses to improve network communications A system, apparatus, and method are directed to managing network communications by, in part, reducing a number of packets between a client and a server communicating through another device, such as a traffic management device (TMD). The invention reduces the number ... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7822067 | Header compression enhancement for broadcast/multicast services Methods and apparatus for compression of headers in broadcasting BCMCS services in a wireless communication system are described. Techniques used in BCMCS systems without feedback include sending static context information during BCMCS service initialization for use... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7813379 | Apparatus and method for transmitting and receiving wireless packet data An apparatus and method for transmitting and receiving wireless packet data are provided. In a wireless packet data transmitter for transmitting to a wireless packet data receiver data packet on a transport channel and control information for supporting the transpor... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7792150 | Methods, systems, and computer program products for supporting transcoder-free operation in media gateway Methods, systems, and computer program products for providing transcoder-free operation in a media gateway are disclosed. In one method, first and second lists of media encoding rates and corresponding indices used by first and second media endpoints of a media stre... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7778278 | System and method for implementing dynamic suppression and recreation of suppressed data in a communications environment A method for communicating data is provided that includes receiving a plurality of bits associated with a communications flow and determining whether one or more samples included in the flow should be suppressed. The method also includes suppressing a selected one o... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7746903 | SONET management and control channel improvement Method of using existing SONET transport overhead bytes (202) to provide additional bandwidth for increased management traffic, without the need to make use of SONET payload capacity (204). Overhead bytes that are undefined by the SONET Telecommunicati... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7733915 | Minimizing buffer requirements in a digital video system According to some embodiments of the invention, a method of minimizing buffer requirements, in a packet based multimedia system having a multimedia source device coupled to a multimedia display device by way of a bi-directional auxiliary channel arranged to transfer... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7715439 | Systems and methods for shifting the position of a symbol to reduce transmission overhead A method for shifting the position of a symbol to reduce transmission overhead is described. A frame with a plurality of symbols is provided. A determination is made whether the frame includes an indication of an event. At least one symbol of the plurality of symbol... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7664141 | Method and device for decreasing a transmission delay in a multi-channel data transmission The present invention relates to a method and a device to improve the transmission characteristics of physical layer (PHY) hybrid automated repeat request (HARD) in multi subchannel frequency division duplex (FDD) links. The present invention provides a method for d... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7653088 | Method for concatenated convolutional encoding and interleaving A method and apparatus encode a source data stream via convolutional encoding. Plural encoded data streams are interleaved and transmitted on plural transmission channels. Data groups generated via convolutional encoding are interleaved via time-interleaving functio... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7649909 | Adaptive tunnel transport protocol An exemplary embodiment provides a method for use in a data compression device wherein optimal compression is maintained in response to network characteristics by switching between a first compression mode, including use of a stateful compression algorithm and a rel... | 01/19/2010 |
| 7646792 | Dynamic mapping of broadcast resources In a data communication system such as a high capacity DBS system, dynamic mapping of broadcast resources is provided to exploit occasional redundancy in the program content of two or more input data streams, freeing at least one broadcast resource to carry alternat... | 01/12/2010 |
| 7623550 | Adjusting CODEC parameters during emergency calls The CODEC adjustment system is used when an incoming call is received for emergency services and the received audiovisual data does not reflect the information useful to the emergency services operator. The operator may want to hear background noise or increase the ... | 11/24/2009 |
