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| 8175123 | Collection window positioning using time tracking information A method for positioning a collection window for a Fourier transform function is disclosed. A first orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol and a second OFDM symbol are received. The first OFDM symbol comprises a plurality of frequency division mult... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8121153 | Devices and system for fiber access Devices and a system for synchronizing time between a centralized controller device and at least one subscriber device on a fiber access network. The control layer of a network device is expanded, and additional messaging control is added via the transmission of dat... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8054861 | Primary, secondary, and tertiary codes synchronizing slots in a frame A method of processing data comprises the receiving a frame of data having a predetermined number of time slots (502,504,506). Each time slot comprises a respective plurality of data symbols (520). The method further comprises a primary (508), a... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8040922 | Apparatus and method of frame synchronization in broad band wireless communication systems The present invention relates to an apparatus and method of frame synchronization in broad band wireless communication systems. In an apparatus of frame synchronization in a mobile station, a time variant phase rotation compensator eliminates time variant phase rota... | 10/18/2011 |
| 7991017 | Deterministic communication system The invention relates to a communication system and a method for controlling a communication system for communicating audio data between each of a plurality of terminal units (T1-T3). In order to provide a deterministic communication protocol with lowe... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7860132 | Comma free codes for fast cell search using tertiary synchronization channel A method of processing data comprises the receiving a frame of data having a predetermined number of time slots (502,504,506). Each time slot comprises a respective plurality of data symbols (520). The method further comprises a primary (508), a... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7817676 | System, method, and computer program product for fiber access A system, method, and computer program product for synchronizing time between a centralized controller device and at least one subscriber device on a fiber access network. The control layer of a network device is expanded, and additional messaging control is added v... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7801184 | Adaptive method for training a source synchronous parallel receiver Disclosed is an adaptive method for training a source synchronous parallel receiver. The adaptive method for training, or aligning, parallel data channels permits a parallel communication receiver to adaptively adjust the timing of data channels to align the data ch... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7792156 | ATSC transmitter identifier signaling Apparatus having corresponding computer programs comprise: a code generator adapted to generate a transmitter identification block, wherein the transmitter identification block comprises 32 rows and 82 columns, wherein the first 66 symbols in each of the rows compri... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7764713 | Synchronization watermarking in multimedia streams Synchronization of related packet data network streams is provided. Synchronization is achieved by inserting synchronization packets into data streams that are to be aligned with one another after transmission of those data streams across a network. More particularl... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7724781 | Receive virtual concatenation processor A receive virtual concatenation processor (processor) is adapted to receive time-slot interleaved data carried over SONET/SDH frames. The processor first generates per time-slot data and subsequently generates per channel data. The processor supports virtual concate... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7630408 | Simultaneous primary, secondary, and tertiary synchronization codes over separate channels A method of processing data comprises the receiving a frame of data having a predetermined number of time slots (502,504,506). Each time slot comprises a respective plurality of data symbols (520). The method further comprises a primary (508), a... | 12/08/2009 |
| 7613212 | Centralized clock synchronization for time division multiplexed traffic transported over Ethernet networks A centralized clock distribution mechanism for synchronous TDM communications traffic transported over asynchronous networks such as Ethernet networks. The centralized clocking mechanism of the present invention distributes a high accuracy central clock source to a ... | 11/03/2009 |
| 7555017 | Low latency digital audio over packet switched networks Method and Apparatus for delivering audio signals from a source node to a destination node on a network. The apparatus uses a number of switches that transmit prioritized data on a packet network. The switches are coupled to a number of send/receive nodes for sendin... | 06/30/2009 |
| 7542486 | Method of processing an incident pulsed UWB signal received by an independent data device of a wireless data communication system of the WPAN type, and corresponding independent data device A method for processing an incident pulsed signal of an ultra wide band type received over a channel by a data device operating in a wireless data communications system is provided. The incident pulsed signal carries information within a super-frame structure. Upon ... | 06/02/2009 |
| 7539219 | Method and apparatus for synchronization of digital multimedia packets A method and apparatus is provided for synchronizing both the initiation of playback of digital multimedia data in one or more receivers and the rate of playback of the digital multimedia data in the one or more receivers, all receiving the digital multimedia data f... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7477660 | Data processing unit A system and method for frame detection and generation. Each incoming clock-data stream is divided into two independent data streams: a clock path which preserves the timing of the individual clock domains and a data path which multiplexes an arbitrary number of dat... | 01/13/2009 |
| 7428250 | System and associated method for receiving data telegrams in communication systems having redundant network paths A method for receiving data messages in communications systems having redundant network paths. Received data of a peripheral representation or image is routed to a node along at least two different network paths. This makes it possible to store a consistent peripher... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7426219 | Method and apparatus for reducing packet data mixer delay The present invention is directed to the reduction of delays introduced in connection with packet data mixing operations. In particular, in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, communication endpoints providing packet data to a mixer are provided ... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7421280 | Wireless network and wireless access terminals using enhanced SYNCID parameter A mobile station capable of determining a SYNC_ID parameter for a base station serving said mobile station comprises: (i) a memory capable of storing prefix information and an associated SYNC_ID parameter; (ii) a transceiver capable of receiving identity information... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7415002 | Circuit synchronization over asynchronous links A device that synchronizes circuits over asynchronous links is disclosed. Some embodiments of the invention include a device that comprises a plurality of circuits. One of the plurality of circuits is designated as a “master” circuit. The master circuit is confi... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7394801 | Cell search method suitable for initial cell search and target cell search A wireless device generates a peak profile for a primary synchronization channel (PSCH), and has a synchronization stage for performing code group identification and scrambling code identification. A first peak from the peak profile is chosen. The first peak has a f... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7386006 | Process and device for synchronization and codegroup identification in cellular communication systems and computer program therefor In a first step, slot synchronization may be obtained by setting in correlation the received signal with a primary sequence, which represents the primary channel, and storing the received signal. During a second step, the correlator may be re-used for correlating th... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7386081 | Timing control circuit and method thereof A timing control circuit includes a synchronous detecting portion which detects a synchronous pattern data of a received signal which has been demodulated based on a first control signal and generates a detection result, a first counter portion which generates a fir... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7376120 | Radio base station synchronizing responsive to conditions being met In the case of radio base stations of different kinds, a synchronization in a radio section cannot be established so that the efficiently effective use of electric waves cannot be retained. According to the invention, therefore, there is provided a TDMA type mobile ... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7372820 | System and method for striping delay-sensitive data over multiple bursty channels Embodiments of the present invention include a method for striping data comprising accessing data to be striped over a plurality of wireless channels, accessing time sensitivity information associated with the data and mapping the data to the plurality of wireless c... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7366192 | Methods and system for fast session establishment between equipment using H.324 and related telecommunications protocols A method of processing a call with reduced call set-up times using one or more telecommunication networks includes providing one or more preferences for a call associated with a first terminal and a second terminal. The one or more preferences are associated with an... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7363359 | Element management system with automatic remote backup of network elements' local storage An element management system that can itself be used to perform automatic remote backup of the network elements. A backup procedure is launched on a programmed schedule, to maintain a centrally located copy of the local data stored in the network elements (or their ... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7362779 | Transmission of data frames as a plurality of subframes over a plurality of channels A data communication system includes a rotating deinterleaver that reformats incoming data frames into a plurality of data subframes. The data contained in the incoming data frames is deinterleaved according to a protocol that distributes frame alignment signals per... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7355984 | Method and system for finding network neighbor information A method and system for discovering peer node information at a path terminating equipment node in a computer network are disclosed. The method generally includes transmitting from an originating node to a peer node a request for information in at least one SONET pat... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7352777 | Data framer Frames of data comprised of frameword bytes and a payload are processed by identifying a start of a first frame and a phase of the first frame concurrently based on the frameword bytes, and aligning data in a second frame, based on the phase of the first frame, to m... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7352758 | Dynamic bandwidth management using signaling protocol and virtual concatenation A communication system (10) employs switching circuits, such as an add/drop multiplexer (70) and another add/drop multiplexer (110). The bandwidth of a circuit switched connection between the switching circuits is altered without taking down the... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7349400 | Method and system for transport protocol reconstruction and timer synchronization for non-intrusive capturing and analysis of packets on a high-speed distributed network A transport protocol data flow reconstruction method delays determination that a missing packet is lost for a period of time. For an evaluated TCP packet in a first direction, the method determines if a TCP packet is missing in a second direction, in which case the ... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7346107 | VSB transmission system for processing supplemental transmission data A VSB communication system or transmitter for processing supplemental data packets with MPEG-II data packets includes a VSB supplemental data processor and a VSB transmission system. The VSB supplemental data processor includes a Reed-Solomon coder for coding the su... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7336637 | CDMA communication device for improving the usability of frequencies and suppressing the occurrence of call loss The CDMA communication device of the present invention includes a spreading unit, radio transmitters, and a control device that includes a setting unit and a determination unit. The spreading unit spreads and multiplexes user data of users. The radio transmitters ar... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7333422 | Optimized FFT/IFFT module The present invention discloses an optimal hardware implementation of the FFT/IFFT operation that minimizes the number of clock cycles required to compute the FFT/IFFT while at the same time minimizing the number of complex multipliers needed. For performing an N-po... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7324549 | Synchronisation communication systems A method and apparatus of transmitting data at a line rate to a bus operating at a bus rate includes transmitting the data in a packet format having a plurality of frames each having a plurality of time slots. Each time slot has successive message groups, and each m... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7321602 | Apparatus and method for inserting null packet in digital broadcasting transmission system A null packet insertion apparatus including a null packet remover for removing an irregularly inserted null packet from an externally received video/audio transport stream; a null packet bit rate calculator for calculating a bit rate of the removed null packet; a GU... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7302268 | System and method for radio transmitter acquisition A method of a receiver determining the timing of a signal transmitted in a time-slotted manner, the signal comprising a sequence of information which is repeated at a known interval and has at least a known minimum length. The method performs correlation operations ... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7295554 | Word Multiplexing of encoded signals into a higher bit rate serial data stream A method of data communication that includes receiving a plurality of 8b/10b encoded data streams. The method also includes multiplexing, on a word by word basis, each of the plurality of data streams and forming a new encoded data stream. The method also includes g... | 11/13/2007 |
