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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8165175 | Gap support measuring method Disclosed is a gap support measuring method which performs autonomous gap allocation without lowering the data transfer rate or the throughput. ST301 acquires various kinds of parameters decided by a network so as to execute a gap support measurement task. ST... | 04/24/2012 |
| 7949016 | Interactive communication system, communication equipment and communication control method Communications from a transmission side to a reception side neither changing the format of voice code data nor requiring another transmission path or increasing the transmission quantity of control information are controlled utilizing information obtained on the rec... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7944950 | Mobile communication system, communication control method, and base station and mobile station to be employed in the same In the communication system performing transmission with generating the vacant period in the slotted mode during data transmission in order to perform various process, such as different frequency carrier quality measurement or so forth, the control signal for mainta... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7940810 | Encoding/transmitting apparatus and encoding/transmitting method An encoding/transmitting apparatus that is used to transmit moving-picture data from a transmitting side to a receiving side through a transmission path and to subject the moving-picture data to streaming in the receiving side has an external-output request determin... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7940811 | Mobile communication system, communication control method, and base station and mobile station to be employed in the same In the communication system performing transmission with generating the vacant period in the slotted mode during data transmission in order to perform various process, such as different frequency carrier quality measurement or so forth, the control signal for mainta... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7848364 | Exploitation of null packets in packetized digital television systems A system and method for adding auxiliary data DA to an output data stream from a statistical multiplexer is disclosed. An auxiliary multiplexer accepts a statistically multiplexed data stream, and substitutes auxiliary data packets for null data packets. ... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7756166 | Transmission system for transmitting a main signal and an auxiliary signal In a transmission system with a transmitter coupled to a receiver a main signal encoded according to a coding property is transmitted together with an auxiliary signal (AUX). In order to transmit the auxiliary signal without needing additional space in the tr... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7751450 | Voice over internet protocol marker insertion A watermark is inserted or overwritten into a packetized voice stream in a VoIP environment to characterize the voice data stream for various functions, such as providing certain in-band audible information or markers for detection. A visual type of marker can be in... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7715448 | Network device for embedding data in a data packet sequence A network device is deployed in an in-line fashion, preferably at a data traffic point along a network. Depending on the constraints of data packets in a data packet sequence from a website, the network device is configured to modify some of the data packets or fabr... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7688866 | Communication system and communication method In the communication system which performs the data communication by the discrete multi-tone modem scheme between a plurality of data communication units using the time-division half-duplex communication function, the ratio between the data transmission time suitabl... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7643518 | Method for transferring and separating telephone call data The present subject matter relates to apparatus and methodologies for allowing old telephone 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 syste... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7599401 | Transmission device and transmission method A GI insertion section 105 inserts a guard interval into transmission data. Delay addition sections 107-1, 107-2 set a delay time in the transmission data. An arrival time calculation section 115 calculates for each directivity an ... | 10/06/2009 |
| 7593431 | Method and system for monitoring a MAC extra IPG count and adjusting the PHY transmit IPG A device for controlling interpacket gaps in a data stream of packets. A receiver to receive the data stream of packets. A controller to monitor the data stream of packets and to selectively delete interpacket gaps. A transmit buffer to buffer packet data in the dat... | 09/22/2009 |
| 7420982 | Method and system for keeping a fibre channel arbitrated loop open during frame gaps A method and system for keeping an arbitrated loop open during a frame gap using a fiber channel switch element is provided. The switch element includes a port control module having a receive and transmit segment, wherein the transmit segment activates a timer whose... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7406096 | Tandem-free intersystem voice communication Techniques are presented herein to provide tandem-free operation between two wireless terminals through two otherwise incompatible wireless networks. Specifically, embodiments provide tandem-free operation between a wireless terminal communicating through a continuo... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7382805 | Method and apparatus for aggregating Ethernet streams Embodiments of a method and apparatus for aggregating Ethernet streams are generally described. According to but one example embodiment, implementations of a physical coding sublayer (PCS) modify one or more Ethernet streams to uniquely distinguish at least one of t... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7379473 | Method and system for providing integrated data services to increase spectrum efficiency A method and system of sending supplemental information during a telecommunications session includes the step (305) of detecting a period of silence within the telecommunications session. The period of silence can be detected from at least one member of the t... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7376159 | Exploitation of null packets in packetized digital television systems A system and method for adding auxiliary data DA to an output data stream from a statistical multiplexer is disclosed. An auxiliary multiplexer accepts a statistically multiplexed data stream, and substitutes auxiliary data packets for null data packets. ... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7350001 | Method and apparatus for automatic word length conversion Methods and Apparatuses are provided for automatically converting a word length of sample data being transmitted over a serial link. A serial interface transmits and/or receives one or more data words comprising digital signals, a bit clock synchronizes transmission... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7340180 | Countermeasures for idle pattern SRS interference in ethernet optical network systems Optical networks as defined by the IEEE 802.3ah standard suffer from Stimulated Raman Scattering (SRS) that causes data transmission at a first optical wavelength to interfere with broadcast video transmission at a second optical wavelength in single mode optical fi... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7333518 | Transmission method and transmission system as well as communications device A transmission method according to the present invention is capable of transmitting and receiving a data signal and information signal among a plurality of devices by full-duplex operation, wherein, when the information signal consecutively repeats a single pattern,... | 02/19/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7321600 | System, method, and article of manufacture for initializing a communication link using GFP data frames A system and a method for initializing a communication link for transmitting a data stream from a first computer through a synchronous optical communication network to a second computer are provided. The method includes transmitting a first request message in a firs... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7313686 | Method and apparatus of integrating link layer security into a physical layer transceiver An apparatus for providing link layer security in a Physical Layer Transceiver (PHY) is disclosed. In one embodiment, the apparatus may comprise analog circuitry configured to interface with a data transmission medium, digital circuitry configured to interface with ... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7304977 | Implementation for a 5 sample guard interval for multi-band OFDM A sequence of data samples and a sequence of non-data samples are provided. Four input samples from one of the data samples and the non-data samples are selected based on a clock signal. At least a portion of contents of a first group of memory cells are stored in a... | 12/04/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7298757 | Enhanced channel access mechanisms for an HPNA network A method and a system provide access to a communications medium that is suitable for allowing use of a plurality of Home Phoneline Network Association (HPNA) v2 frames in a centralized manner. Each HPNA v2 frame is timed to allow an Inter-Frame Gap (IFG) portion hav... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7295627 | Digital broadcast transmission system of improved receptability and signal processing method thereof A digital broadcast transmission system and a signal processing method thereof offers improved receptability. The digital broadcast transmission system includes an error correction encoding unit for encoding an input signal according to a predetermined error correct... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7292553 | Method and apparatus for maximizing the use of available capacity in a communication system A method and apparatus for maximizing the use of available capacity in a communication system. The forward link in the mobile radio system includes a plurality of traffic streams sent on at least one channel from the base station to the mobile stations. A first outp... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7292597 | Method and apparatus for transparent implementation of link-suspend capabilities in network devices A method and apparatus for transparent implementation of link-suspend capabilities in network devices is presented, which is capable of operating in full or substantially full power operational mode, as well as in a low power “link-suspend” operational mode. The... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7277452 | Signalling TDM channel changes A method of updating a lookup table associated with a TDM transmit unit which is coupled to a packet network to receive data therefrom, the lookup table mapping packet network contexts to TDM channels. The method includes priming a controller with data for updating ... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7248581 | Method and apparatus for injecting information assets into a content stream A method and apparatus for transport encoded asset data and content data, multiplexing the transport encoded content data with a plurality of NULL transport packets to provide “place holder” for the asset data transport packets, and replacing the NULL transport ... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7245640 | Packet origination A method, apparatus, and system for originating a packet. ... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7240270 | Method of transmitting signaling messages in a mobile telecommunications network A method of transmitting inband signaling messages in a mobile telecommunications network using SACCH burst. In order to avoid puncturing a fixed amount of bits out of every SACCH burst for inband signaling, the 40-bit FIRE code of the SACCH is replaced with a short... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7239813 | Bit synchronization circuit and central terminal for PON systems A bit synchronization circuit composed of a multiphase data sampling unit for converting each received burst data sets to multiphase data trains, a phase determination unit for generating a control signal indicating an optimum phase data train, an output data select... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7236503 | Short range RF communication for jet engine control A method transmitting a message over at least one of a plurality of radio frequency (RF) channels of an RF communications network is provided. The method comprises the steps of detecting a presence of jamming pulses in the at least one of the plurality of RF channel... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7233594 | Apparatus for transmitting/receiving wireless data and method thereof A method for transmitting and/or receiving wireless data and an apparatus therefor are provided. The method includes the steps of (a) when the length of a collection of data in an application layer is longer than the length of the payload of a protocol which the low... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7233605 | Method and apparatus for minimizing delay induced by DTMF processing in packet telephony systems The invention solves the problem of DTMF delay by shifting the delay and in-band signal processing to the receiving packet gateway. The transmitting gateway continues to process and transmit voice packets while also detecting DTMF signals. The receiving gateway's ji... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7231653 | Method for delivering transport stream data According to one embodiment, a system is disclosed. The system includes a transmission device that converts a transport stream in to a transport stream file (TSF), a transmission medium coupled to the transmission device and a set top appliance, coupled to the trans... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7218648 | Method and apparatus for communicating control data in an asynchronous communications channel A communication system communicates control data in unused segments in the data stream of an asynchronous channel. The communication system includes a transmitting unit and a receiving unit. The transmitting unit transmits communications data to the receiving unit v... | 05/15/2007 |
