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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7620076 | System and method for variably inserting training symbols into transmissions by estimating the channel coherence time in a wireless communication network A system and method for controlling the quantity of training symbols in a transmission sequence sent by a terminal (102, 106, 107) in a wireless network (100). The transmission sequence include training symbols and data symbols. The system and method d... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7366470 | Inter-modulation distortion compensation An Inter-modulation distortion measurement and correction method which could be applied over a communication channel that is a combination of either or both analog and digital channels. This method is applicable for a communication system between a modem pair. ... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7346048 | Efficient high density voice processor A circuit and method are presented for signal processing and routing of digital voice telephony signals, using a specialized high-density integrated circuit voice processor. The voice processor performs several essential functions required for telephony processing, ... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7317725 | System and method for implementing combined packetized TDM streams and TDM cross connect functions Apparatus implements combined packetized time-division multiplexed (TDM) streams and TDM cross connect functions. The apparatus includes an input buffer, a reassembly state machine, a frame buffer, and a segmentation state machine. The frame buffer includes multiple... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7301960 | Apparatus for and method of control and communication of multiple stations in a TDM network A system for transmitting and receiving control data in a TDM communications network includes a single master TDM multiplexor and one or more slave TDM muliplexors. The master station stimulates the one or more slave stations, and only one station can transmit contr... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7301953 | Method and system for transporting a secondary communication signal with a primary communication signal The method and system provide for transporting a secondary communication signal from a secondary carrier network with a primary communication signal from a primary carrier network. The method and system load the overhead from the secondary communication signal into ... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7263277 | Control signal transmitting and receiving techniques for video/audio processing IC and apparatus therefor Control signal transmitting and receiving methods for video/audio processing integrated circuit (IC), the method applied to a video player, and an apparatus therefor are provided. The control signal transmitting method, in a video player having an integrated circuit... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7259474 | Method and apparatus for aggregating power from multiple sources A method and apparatus for aggregating power from multiple sources generates a single direct current regulated voltage. The apparatus comprises a plurality of slave voltage converters and a master pulse width modulator circuit. Providing a plurality of direct curren... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7245635 | System and method for resizing the physical link bandwidth based on utilization thereof A method for allocating and resizing a link on a communication medium is provided. The utilization of an allocated link is monitored and an unused bandwidth thereof is determined. Upon request for allocation of a second link, at least a portion of the unused bandwid... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7224819 | Integrating digital watermarks in multimedia content A method for tracking media signals in multimedia content is provided by uniquely identifying the multimedia content with a digital watermark identifier. A video channel is preferably embedded with a first watermark identifier. The first identifier uniquely identifi... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7206587 | Communication terminal apparatus, base station apparatus, and radio communication method A communication mode determination section 201 determines the communication mode based on the CIR measured by a CIR measurement section 219; a DRC signal creation section 202 creates a DRC signal with a number corresponding to the communication ... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7203248 | Impairment sensitive selection of constellation points for communication across a channel An impairment compensation sequence for use in a communications system susceptible to one or more potential impairments each periodic in an integer number of symbols includes N phases, wherein N is selected such that each potential impairment, if present, is periodi... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7190727 | Categorization of impairments affecting a communication channel An impairment compensation sequence for use in a communications system susceptible to one or more potential impairments each periodic in an integer number of symbols includes N phases, wherein N is selected such that each potential impairment, if present, is periodi... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7180916 | Compensating for random robbed bit signaling A method for training a receiving modem connected through a telephone network to correct for differences between a transmitted and a received symbol occasioned by network impairments including robbed bit signaling which preempts a least significant bit of a customer... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7095724 | System and method for using unused arbitrary bits in the data field of a special burst A system and method for reducing the unused capacity of a wireless communication channel utilize the data fields of an special burst (SB) in order to signal physical layer control signaling for coordination between a Node B and a user equipment (UE). The control sig... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7076002 | Method and apparatus for symbol boundary synchronization The apparatus for symbol boundary synchronization in one embodiment includes on the receive path of a multi-tone modem a window synchronizer, a converter and a symbol boundary component. The window synchronizer obtains windowed portions of the received datastream wh... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7054463 | Data encoding using frail watermarks Image, video, or audio data is encoded with both a frail and a robust watermark. The two watermarks respond differently to different forms of processing (e.g., copying the object may render the frail watermark unreadable), permitting an original object to be disting... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7050603 | Watermark encoded video, and related methods Watermarks in video signals or the accompanying audio track are used to associate video objects in a video sequence with object specific actions or information. A video object refers to a spatial and temporal portion of a video signal that depicts a recognizable obj... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7010000 | Method and apparatus of determining properties of a signal transmission channel The invention generally relates to a modem connected via a digital interface to a switched public telephone network and to a method for probing the line properties. The modem communicates with a second modem also connected via a digital interface to the same switche... | 03/07/2006 |
| 6987782 | Method and apparatus for detecting robbed bit location in PCM modems and the like A method and apparatus for detecting the location of robbed bits by a digital communications network. A complete echo cancellation circuit also is disclosed employing the robbed bit detection method and apparatus in which the coefficients of the echo cancellation FI... | 01/17/2006 |
| 6977970 | Data reproducing apparatus and method for improving detection performance by adjusting decision levels used in data detector A data reproducing apparatus and method for improving data detection performance by adjusting decision levels used in a data detector. The data reproducing apparatus includes an equalizer which equalizes an input digital signal, a data detector which detects data fr... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6965608 | Method and apparatus for transmitting data in a public network A method and apparatus are described for transmitting data in a network between first and second single-line digital subscriber line (SDSL) modems using a standard high data rate digital subscriber line (HDSL) frame format. The frame format includes at least one fie... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6965682 | Data transmission by watermark proxy A media object sensed at one location is delivered at a second remote location, or an application associated with the object is made available at the second location. In some embodiments, the delivered object is of a higher quality than the sensed object. In other e... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6928083 | CAS data processing apparatus of STM-1 interface block A CAS data processing apparatus of an STM-1 interface block which is capable of processing CAS signaling data in real time is disclosed. The CAS data processing apparatus of the STM-1 interface block preferably includes a plurality of framers, which separately read ... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6920154 | Architectures for a modularized data optimization engine and methods therefor A data optimization engine disposed inline with a first communication channel and a second communication channel. The data optimization engine comprises a transmit interface circuit configured to receive a first data stream from the first communication channel and t... | 07/19/2005 |
| 6920156 | Method and system for transporting synchronous and asynchronous traffic on a synchronous bus of a telecommunications node A synchronous bus for a telecommunications node includes a frame repeating at a defined interval. Each frame includes a plurality of service channels. In at least one frame, a service channel individually transports traffic for a DS-0 connection. A set of service ch... | 07/19/2005 |
| 6917691 | Substituting information based on watermark-enable linking OLE-like principles are implemented using watermark data in digital objects in order to effect object linking or embedding. In one embodiment, a photocopier scans an original paper document to produce image data. This image data is analyzed for the presence of water... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6891853 | Frame matching method A frame of digital data with L symbols is matched to a frame with N symbols by making that number of copies of the original L symbols that results in N symbols. In particular, M=floor(N/L) is computed. L2=N−ML is computed. (L1=L−L2 where L1 and L2 solve the simu... | 05/10/2005 |
| 6888851 | Frame matching method The present invention pertains to a frame matching method for digital systems. Excess bits are deleted from a frame of data in a single iteration through the data, thereby creating a reduced length frame, wherein the deleting step is performed such that the distance... | 05/03/2005 |
| RE38678 | Method and apparatus for synchronizing a data communications system to a periodic digital impairment A pulse code modulation modem system is configured to transmit data from a first modem to a second modem over the public switched telephone network (PSTN). The PSTN employs robbed bit signaling (RBS) such that symbols affected by RBS arrive at the second modem in a ... | 12/28/2004 |
| 6826404 | Tone signalling with TFO communication links The invention provides method and apparatus for transporting tone signalling information through a GCME link in a GSM network supporting TFO and speech compression modes for the passage of signals through the link, respectively using TFO frames and TRAU-like In a da... | 11/30/2004 |
| 6816511 | Transcoding device provided with a derivation Transcoder apparatus is designed to transcode a receive signal (UR) into a transmit signal (UE). For this purpose, it includes a signaling transmitting member (14) for producing a signaling message and for introducing it into the transmit signal by stealing b... | 11/09/2004 |
| 6801510 | System and method for using unused arbitrary bits in the data field of a special burst A system and method for reducing the unused capacity of a wireless communication channel utilize the data fields of an SB in order to signal physical layer control signaling for coordination between a Node B and a UE. The control signaling may include improved recep... | 10/05/2004 |
| 6792004 | Systems, methods and computer program products for averaging learned levels in the presence of robbed-bit signaling based on proximity Methods, systems and computer program products for averaging measured levels from differing intervals and differing code points based on their proximity with other measured levels are provided. Such proximity averaging may be provided by methods, systems and compute... | 09/14/2004 |
| 6788678 | Interface between channel units of multiple local exchange carriers In accordance with the invention, an interface between an incumbent local exchange carrier's central office terminal and a competitive local exchange carrier's remote terminal is provided by an Integrated Services Digital Network interconnection. Such a connection p... | 09/07/2004 |
| 6785557 | Method of transmitting data, in particular GSM data The data stream between the transcoders (TCE1, TCE2) of a mobile wireless system is subdivided into a first data stream with samples for transmission and a second data stream with signal parameters for reconstruction of user data and/or for signaling. ... | 08/31/2004 |
| 6782066 | Method and system for detecting frame slips in a digital communications channel A method and system for detecting frame slips due to loss of synchronization in a digital communication channel is described. In an illustrative embodiment, a synchronization bit pattern is periodically embedded in the digital data stream. In a described embodiment,... | 08/24/2004 |
| 6778597 | Distinguishing between final coding of received signals in a PCM modem A method for determining the encoding law of an incoming signal in a network which possibly contains an A-μ or μ-A conversion includes obtaining digital impairment learning (DIL) probing data, generating an ordered table of levels therefrom, using the table to fin... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6775303 | Dynamic bandwidth allocation within a communications channel A communications device is presented that allows dynamic bandwidth allocation of an unswitched data path based upon the current utilization of one or more switched data channels. The device operates over the local loop of a digital communications carrier, such as a ... | 08/10/2004 |
| 6751260 | Detecting superimposed information channels for modem connections A first transceiver transmits a set of test levels to a second transceiver as a signal through a communication channel as encoded samples and subjected to one or more of a plurality of line encoding algorithms. An information channel is superimposed in the signal tr... | 06/15/2004 |
