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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8189626 | System and method for multicast and broadcast synchronization in wireless access systems In a method for multicast and broadcast synchronization a data payload frame is generated from a data payload. A frame number is assigned to the data payload frame, wherein the frame number includes a generating time of the data payload frame. The data payload frame... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8179924 | Timer with network synchronized time base A system and method are provided for synchronizing a programmable timer time base and an external time signal. The method either accepts or supplies an external time signal (e.g., IEEE 1588) at an external interface, links a synchronized time base to the external ti... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8165174 | Method and device for demapping a tributary recovering lower order synchronism In a method of demapping a tributary from a first frame into a second frame, the first frame has a plurality of tributary words and a synchronization word, and first and second counters are provided. The first counter is increased by a first value at each dock cycle... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8107504 | Synchronising serial data signals A method and apparatus for synchronising a serial data signal to a reference clock signal, the data signal comprising frames of equal length each comprising a known frame alignment word (FAW) and a payload, the frame alignment word being in a consistent position wit... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8098693 | Method of early starting the operation of a descrambler The present invention provides a method of early starting the operation of a descrambler. The method comprises the steps of receiving a, synchronous byte of a transport packet in a group of m packets, where m is an integer, generating an alignment index to indicate ... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8085818 | Frame synchronization and structure detection method in DVB-S2 system Provided is a method for detecting frame sync and frame structure in a satellite broadcasting system. The method for detecting frame sync and frame structure includes the steps of: calculating differential correlation values of reception symbols; generating index se... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8045590 | Radio communications system, radio network controller and base station The present invention relates to a radio communications system which transmits same downlink information to a plurality of cells by using downlink common channels. The radio communications system includes a radio network controller and a base station. The radio comm... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8018975 | Method and system for performing synchronization in OFDM systems A method and apparatus are provided for performing acquisition, synchronization and cell selection within an MIMO-OFDM communication system. A coarse synchronization is performed to determine a searching window. A fine synchronization is then performed by measuring ... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8005120 | Base station apparatus of mobile communication system A base station including a transmitting and receiving amplifier for amplifying CDMA signals exchanged with a mobile station; a radio stage connected to the transmitting and receiving amplifier for carrying out D/A conversion of a transmitted signal that undergoes ba... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7986718 | Discovery phase in a frequency hopping network The present technology relates to protocols relative to utility meters associated with an open operational framework. More particularly, the present subject matter relates to protocol subject matter for advanced metering infrastructure, adaptable to various internat... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7974315 | Method for implementing synchronization of link state database, router, line card and master board A router is provided including a line card (LC), an active master board (AMB), a standby master board (SMB) and a LC for implementing a simple synchronization of a link state database (LSDB). ... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7940807 | Methods, decoder circuits and computer program products for processing MPEG audio frames Methods of searching for a sync word in an MPEG compressed audio bitstream including a plurality of MPEG audio frames can include determining whether first data in the bitstream has a value equal to a sync word value. It can be determined whether the first data is a... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7924888 | Method for exchanging data between stations from different networks The invention relates to a method for exchanging data between stations or nodes (111, 121, 122, 123, 131, 132, 133, 141, 142, 143) from different realtime capable networks (120, 130, 140) and from non-realtime capable networks (110). To this end... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7920599 | Methods and systems for synchronizing wireless transmission of data packets Methods and systems for synchronizing wireless transmission of data packets is provided. Signals having a data packet frame format including a preamble (with a pattern of symbol sequences) and data are received, and patterns of symbol sequences are correlated. A fir... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7920598 | Scrambling methods for synchronization channels Systems and methods are provided that facilitate generation and detection of synchronization channels in a wireless communication system. A one-to-one relationship is established among a set of scrambling codes (SCs) and a set of primary synchronization channel (P-S... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7894487 | Time synchronization in a network A method and corresponding system for communicating between stations in a network is presented. The method includes providing repeated beacon transmissions from a coordinator station for coordinating transmissions among the stations; transmitting a signal from a fir... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7885297 | Synchronization devices and methods An exemplary embodiment of a synchronization device is provided. The synchronization device includes a memory, a demultiplexer, a comparator, and a sampling rate converter. The synchronization device has a system time clock (STC) and generates an output data with a ... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7881346 | Method and apparatus for transmitting terrestrial digital signal An apparatus for transmitting terrestrial digital data using a synchronous-optical-network system or a synchronous-digital-hierarchy system includes a synchronous-difference calculating unit that calculates a synchronous difference between a standard signal used in ... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7869467 | Receiving device including packet output circuit for outputting control signal A clocking circuit of a receiving unit performs a clocking operation synchronously with a network clock. A packet output circuit of the receiving unit outputs a second packet included in a first packet and outputs a control signal indicating normality/abnormality of... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7864815 | Methods and apparatus for performing protocol data unit header re-synchronization in a communication system A method for performing protocol data unit (PDU) header re-synchronization in a communication system includes: when a header check sequence (HCS) fail occurs, detecting whether there exists a valid HCS in a first portion of first data by utilizing at least one detec... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7852881 | Inverse multiplexer with TDM bonding The present invention discloses one or more network components within a telecommunication network wherein said network is a serial bitstream network and the network components are comprising one or more inverse multiplexers, wherein said multiplexer(s) is/are TDM bo... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7848362 | Real time clock distribution and recovery The present technology relates to protocols relative to utility meters associated with an open operational framework. More particularly, the present subject matter relates to protocol subject matter for advanced metering infrastructure, adaptable to various internat... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7843974 | Audio and video synchronization The present invention relates to media synchronization. The invention is mainly addressed to synchronization of continuous media streams that are provided in data transfer systems. In a sending device, at least one of media components being transferred is provided, ... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7835404 | Method for synchronization in a redundant communication system With a method for synchronization in a redundant communication system that includes a central participant and at least one further participant, at least one of the further participants being synchronized with the central participant, and, to this end, at least two t... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7830925 | Signal processing apparatus and methods A unified system of programming communication. The system encompasses the prior art (television, radio, broadcast hardcopy, computer communications, etc.) and new user specific mass media. Within the unified system, parallel processing computer systems, each having ... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7826492 | Communication system, cycle master node and communication method A communication system carrying out an isochronous transfer, includes a cycle master node and nodes connected with each other through a system bus. The cycle master node sets a cycle time of the isochronous transfer and transfers a cycle start packet onto the system... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7822071 | Method and system to enable the transport of sysplex timer protocols over generic frame procedure networks Disclosed are a method of and system for enabling the transport of timer protocols over a generic frame procedure (GFP) network. The method comprises the steps of transmitting a defined optical initialization sequence to a GFP mapper, and using that GFP mapper to de... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7809027 | Network clock synchronization floating window and window delineation A network component comprising at least one processor configured to implement a method comprising initiating a synchronization window, and promoting the transmission of a frame comprising a control symbol, wherein the control symbol delineates a beginning of the fra... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7787499 | Maintaining synchronization of multiple data channels with a common clock signal Maintaining synchronization when sending/receiving multiple channels of data with a corresponding common reference clock signal. Synchronization signals (e.g., pulses) are generated periodically and the timing of channels is adjusted. In an embodiment, multiple sequ... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7778285 | Method and apparatus for extraction and insertion of plesiochronous overhead data The invention comprises a method and apparatus for adapting plesiochronous hierarchical layered data to produce synchronous hierarchical layered data. Similarly, the invention comprises a method and apparatus for adapting synchronous hierarchical layered data to pro... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7738506 | Method and system for communication The present invention relates to a method for synchronization of real-time signals between core network and air interface in a UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access Network (UTRAN). The synchronization of the signals is needed to make a feasible connection between user equi... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7738507 | Network relay system and control method thereof The network relay device of the invention carries out data transmission to and from an opposite device to relay data in a network. The network relay device includes: multiple ports connecting with corresponding multiple ports of the opposite device via multiple link... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7733918 | System for live audio presentations In a live audio presentation system, a stage rack and a front of house rack are interconnected by a transmission medium that transmits digital audio data and control information between them. Packets of digital audio data and control information are sent at the audi... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7724780 | Synchronization of one or more source RTP streams at multiple receiver destinations In one embodiment, a method includes synchronizing to a common reference timeframe between a sender node and a plurality of receiver nodes connected over a packet-based network. The sender node sends Real-Time Protocol (RTP) frames to the receiver nodes, and also se... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7724779 | Transmission system and control method This invention provides a transmission system and control method capable of reliably transmitting real-time data. A switching device and router each serving as an intermediate device mediate an iso-data packet sent from each iso-data server to a predetermined termin... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7706413 | Synchronization system using redundant clock signals for equipment of a synchronous transport network A synchronization system (D) for equipment of a synchronous transport network comprises, firstly, a first synchronization module (MA) comprising i) a first submodule (SM1A) delivering a first intermediate clock signal derived from a first external reference c... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7668208 | Method for synchronizing packet based digital data streams The present invention relates to a method for synchronizing packet-based digital data streams. Key idea of the inventive method is to perform a state machine process (S3) with respect to received primary digital data streams (D1-1, D1-... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7649912 | Time synchronization, deterministic data delivery and redundancy for cascaded nodes on full duplex ethernet networks A method and circuit for precisely synchronizing clocks in separate nodes on a communication network is provided by adjusting timestamps and related data in network messages. The circuit will allow a daisy-chain connection of the nodes and will forward time synchron... | 01/19/2010 |
| 7639716 | System and method for determining clock skew in a packet-based telephony session A method for determining clock skew in a packet-based telephony session is disclosed. A telephony device receives RTCP SR packets from a remote telephony device transmitting RTP packets in a telephony session. Each control packet includes an NTP time-stamp and a RTP... | 12/29/2009 |
| 7633975 | Synchronization circuitry writing test data in a shift register in a short time period Synchronization circuitry includes a switcher controlled by a central processing unit to select either received data or an output of the last stage of a shift register to input the selected data to the input of the first stage of the shift register. The central proc... | 12/15/2009 |
