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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8179927 | Method, system and gateway for negotiating the capability of data signal detector Methods and systems for negotiating the capability of a data signal detector include a sender gateway sending a first signaling containing data signal detector support capability message during voice band data transmission (301); a receiver gateway determinin... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8144735 | Transmission of signaling information for broadcast and multicast services Techniques for transmitting signaling information for broadcast and multicast services are described. A base station transmits signaling information for each service in accordance with a schedule that includes a repetition period and a modification period. The signa... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8135044 | Method for formatting digital broadcast transport stream packet for improved receiving performance, digital broadcast transmitter, and signal processing method thereof A method of formatting a digital broadcast transport stream packet, a digital broadcast transmitter, and a signal processing method thereof, includes constructing a transport stream packet that includes a stuffing region for an insertion of a known supplementary ref... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8130798 | Method for formatting digital broadcast transport stream packet for improved receiving performance, digital broadcast transmitter, and signal processing method thereof A method of formatting a digital broadcast transport stream packet, a digital broadcast transmitter, and a signal processing method thereof, includes constructing a transport stream packet that includes a stuffing region for an insertion of a known supplementary ref... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8126020 | Wireless methods using signature codes Data representing media content, such as audio data, is processed to produce a signature code therefrom. This code can be used by wireless and other devices for a variety of purposes. Some relate to cryptographic operations. Others relate to determining whether oper... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8073015 | Method, system, integrated circuit, communication module, and computer-readable medium for achieving resource sharing including space and time reuse within a power line communication system A communication system includes communication protocols that allow a single network or multiple neighboring networks to increase resource sharing and reduce mutual interference and increase their overall throughput. Various protocols apply to homogenous networks in ... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8036249 | System and method of data verification A data verification method and system is provided. The data verification method includes the steps of transmitting data from a sender to a receiver over a signaling channel, transmitting a first set of bits to the receiver over a voice channel, wherein the first set... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8009703 | Method and device for transmitting complementary data in an analog radio transmission system Method and device for transmitting complementary data in an analog radio transmission system, the complementary data including information with respect to alternative transmitting frequencies of the respective program, and the alternative transmitting frequencies re... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8000355 | Interface circuit A video signal and an audio signal are TMDS transmitted from a source device to a sink device. Through a reserved line and a HPD line provided separately from a TMDS transmission line, an Ethernet™ signal is bidirectionally transmitted, and also, a SPDIF signal is... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7953123 | Method and system for controlling the establishment of communications channels for allowing transmission of multimedia information The method allows communications means to be listed, for end-to-end broadcasting of information other than that required for managing multimedia sessions. After a selection (52) of communications channels through an infrastructure for managing multimedia sess... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7920602 | Method for formatting digital broadcast transport stream packet for improved receiving performance, digital broadcast transmitter, and signal processing method thereof A method of formatting a digital broadcast transport stream packet, a digital broadcast transmitter, and a signal processing method thereof, includes constructing a transport stream packet that includes a stuffing region for an insertion of a known supplementary ref... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7907641 | Method and apparatus for providing signal acquisition and frame synchronization in a hierarchical modulation scheme An approach is provided for supporting signal acquisition and frame synchronization in a digital broadcast system utilizing Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) codes. Hierarchical modulation is utilized to provide backward compatibility, whereby the lower layer signal i... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7860133 | Method for transferring and separating telephone call data The invention consists of equipment and a method for allowing old line capacity to provide near dsl or superior dsl quality telephone connections. A method of handling a telephone call with an associated data package over a telephone system having a power pair of li... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7852883 | Method of transmitting uplink control signals in wireless communication system A method of transmitting uplink control signals in a wireless communication system includes preparing a ACK/NACK resource for transmitting the ACK/NACK signal for HARQ of downlink data on an uplink control channel, preparing a scheduling request resource for transmi... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7835406 | Surrogate stream for monitoring realtime media In one embodiment, a separate surrogate monitor stream provides real-time media monitoring statistics for non-media savvy protocols. The surrogate monitor stream contains packet transmission parameters, such as sequence numbers and time stamps, for associated media ... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7801185 | Device control system, method, and apparatus for server-based or peer-to-peer network environments In a device control system that provides a means for controlling a variety of device types via a unified interface, such as via a handheld controller, a synchronization protocol ensures synchronization between a plurality of such controllers in a peer-to-peer networ... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7715446 | Wireless methods and devices employing plural-bit data derived from audio information Wireless devices and methods employ steganography for a variety of purposes. An exemplary application is a battery-powered cell phone, having, e.g., a microphone, a speaker, a modulator, an antenna, and an RF amplifier. In such application, steganographic techniques... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7680156 | System and method for transmitting random access data using orthogonal frequency division multiple access Disclosed is a random access data transmission system and method using OFDMA. The system includes a scheduling ID into an access grant on a preamble for a random access, and transmits it together with an acknowledgment or a non-acknowledgment of the preamble, a base... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7586956 | Intelligent event notification processing and delivery at a network switch According to the present invention, methods and apparatus are provided for intelligently processing of event notification or callhome messages at a network switch. Alert groups are provided to allow select notification of entities based on the relevance or priority ... | 09/08/2009 |
| 7539220 | Data discard signalling procedure in a wireless communication system The invention provides a data discard signalling procedure in a wireless communication system. If data is discarded by the transmitter, the transmitter needs to notify the receiver of the discard. A shortened move receiving window super-field is used to request the ... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7502389 | Signaling control method and signaling-based communication apparatus furnished in communications network system A communications network system, which is comprised of a management network, a control network, and a user transmission network, includes signaling-based communication apparatuses, each consisting of a control node and a communication node, and non-signaling-based c... | 03/10/2009 |
| 7477662 | Reducing power consumption in data switches A data switch 1 includes a switching engine 7, and input/output interfaces 5 which each connect the switching engine 7 to one of a number of channels. The input/output interfaces 5 and the switching engine 7 are each made up... | 01/13/2009 |
| 7460562 | Uplink frame at the transcoder rate adaptation unit/base transceiver station interface in a cellular mobile radio network An uplink transmission frame transmitted from a base transceiver station to a transcoder rate adaptation unit in a cellular mobile radio network includes in the conventional way an information area in the form of at least one data field and at least one control fiel... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7443888 | Transparent sub-wavelength network An arrangement that allows transmission of client signals with higher clock fidelity is achieved by developing a phase offset measure at an ingress node, communicating it to the egress node, and recovering the client's clock from the received data and from the recei... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7436850 | Ultra-wideband (UWB) transparent bridge System and method for transparently attaching wireless peripherals to a computer using an UWB wireless network. A preferred embodiment comprises an interface (for example, interface 630), a communications bus (for example, a USB 620), and an UWB wirele... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7430200 | Arrangement and method for controlling communication connections Arrangements and methods for controlling communication connections in a packet-oriented communication system are provided. A communication master computer controls communication connections based on exchanged signaling messages of a respectively preset communication... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7423968 | Systems and methods to convey additional signaling information in a wireless local area network A high-throughput communication station conveys additional signaling information by transmitting a high-throughput packet with a time offset between some portions of the packet transmitted on a first subchannel and some portions of the packet transmitted on a second... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7417943 | Dynamic compression training method and apparatus An apparatus for communicating between an access endpoint and a mobile device endpoint comprising a network service center attached to the access endpoint. A memory stores a prototype corpus representing historical communication information. The network service cent... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7412208 | Transmission system for transmitting RF signals, power and control signals via RF coaxial cables A transmission system for RF signals, power and control signals over RF coaxial cables is disclosed. A coaxial cable line interconnects two devices, such as an instrument and a remote coupler. A control signal (e.g., data bit) and RF signals are multiplexed onto the... | 08/12/2008 |
| RE40451 | Procedure for ensuring the operation of signalling channels in a V5 interface The present invention relates to a procedure for ensuring the operation of signalling channels in a V5 interface between a local exchange (LE) and an access node (AN). The interface includes at least two links (L), in conjunction with redefinition of the interface c... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7406106 | Method of sharing information among a plurality of stations in a frame-based communications network A method of sharing information among a plurality of stations on a communications network, each of the stations being capable of transmitting and receiving frames over the communications network. A group of agreed-upon flags is established, periodic timing is provid... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7397824 | Inter-node synchronization method in radio network system, radio control server, and radio bearer server When a control message for indicating transfer of a new call is exchanged between a serving radio control server and a serving radio bearer server, time information held by the serving radio control server and time information held by the serving radio bearer server... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7388849 | Low-power transmitting apparatus and transmission method in wireless personal area network A low-power transmitting apparatus and transmission method in a wireless personal area network (WPAN). A length of a fragment, a data rate, and a transmission power is selected to transmit a frame with minimum energy consumption in a contention period and a contenti... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7376155 | Method and apparatus for delivery of metadata synchronized to multimedia contents A metadata transmitter synchronized with multimedia contents comprises: a multimedia contents authoring unit for generating and editing multimedia contents; a multimedia contents format converter for compressing the multimedia contents, converting them into a transm... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7372876 | Method for setting up a useful data link between terminals in a VoIP system At least one switching instance is provided in a VoIP system in order to set up a useful data link between a calling terminal and a called terminal. A first signaling link is set up between each terminal and the at least one switching instance for interchanging info... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7372953 | Methods and systems for default routing in a signaling network Methods and systems for routing SS7 messages based on DPC-based routing rules and non-DPC-based routing rules are disclosed. For a message containing signaling system 7 (SS7) information, a message routing function at an SS7 signaling message routing node searches a... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7369489 | Unbiased token bucket The present invention defines a method of unbiased policing of data flow in a network device. According to an embodiment of the present invention, the token bucket policer of the network device ‘permits’ (forwards) incoming packets even when the size of the toke... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7366116 | Network telephone system and methods therefor One embodiment of the present invention includes a telephony interface, a network interface and a local area network (LAN). The telephony interface provides connectivity between one or more netphones and an external telephone network such as a PSTN telephone system.... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366162 | Reception apparatus and reception method A multiformat-compatible receiving apparatus is quickly compatible with a change in the signal type of a received signal. Responsive to the detection of a stream change to an invalid data stream (ancillary no data), a signal processing means is controlled to ... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366163 | Method for providing local and toll services with LNP, and toll-free services to a calling party which originates the call from an IP location connected to a sip-enabled IP network A method for providing combined local, toll, toll free services, and number portability, to a calling party originating calls from an IP-based communication devices which are coupled to an IP-based multi-media service provider. The method includes receiving a SIP IN... | 04/29/2008 |
