Did You Know...
...that in the early 1940s GE engineer James Wright was charged with a task of utmost importance to the war effort: develop a cheap substitute for rubber that could be used to produce tires, gas masks and a whole host of military gear. Wright tackled the task diligently -- and wound up inventing Silly Putty.
PatentStorm News
Make the Most of Our Site
See this month's Top Inventors and Most Cited Patents.
Stay on top of the latest innovations by subscribing to an RSS feed.
Registered users: Manage your profile.
| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8189628 | Mapping multiple services into a single radio bearer in LTE and single tunnel GPRS In a wireless communication system, a wireless transmit receive unit (WTRU) adapted to bundle a plurality of services into radio access bearer (RAB) in an uplink signal and unbundle a plurality of services from a RAB in a downlink signal. The WTRU is adapted to comm... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8189627 | System and method for digital communications using multiple parallel encoders A system for processing wireless high definition video data to be transmitted in an uncompressed format over a wireless medium is disclosed. In one embodiment, the system includes i) a Reed Solomon (RS) encoder configured to encode a video data stream, ii) a parser ... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8184666 | Robust digital communication system Normally ordered robust VSB data are reordered in accordance with a first interleave to produce reordered robust VSB data. The reordered robust VSB data and ATSC data are reordered in accordance with a second interleave to produce normally ordered robust VSB data an... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8170069 | Method and system for processing signals from a local collection facility at a signal processing facility A system and method for processing signal in a remote facility includes an IP network and a first local collection facility that includes a first plurality of receiving circuit modules receiving a first plurality of channel signals and generating a first plurality o... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8165176 | System and method for generating a frequency rich spectrum in a data stream A system and method for generating a frequency rich spectrum in a data stream is disclosed. A network interface comprises a substitutor module, a symbol replacement module, and an encoder module. The substitutor module replaces idle streams in a first data stream wi... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8144736 | Fiber optic multiplex modem A fire alarm network fiber optic multiplex modem includes plural local interfaces, a fiber optic interface, a multiplexor, a fiber optic modem, and a demultiplexor. The multiplexor combines data received at the local interfaces into an outgoing data stream. The fibe... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8135046 | Method and apparatus for demultiplexing, merging, and duplicating packetized elementary stream/program stream/elementary stream data Presented herein are system(s) for demultiplexing, merging, and duplicating packetized elementary stream/program stream/elementary stream data. In one embodiment, there is presented a system for processing data. The system comprises a first circuit and a memory. The... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8126022 | Electronic multimode data shift device, in particular for coding/decoding with an LDPC code An electronic device includes N inputs to receive R input data, R being able to take values from 1 to N, and N outputs. A configurable shift circuit is coupled between the N inputs and N outputs and has a cascade of shift stages, each shift stage comprising at least... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8107505 | Method and apparatus for generating information signal to be recorded A compressively-encoding-resultant video signal resulting from compressively encoding a video signal, a first compressively-encoding-resultant audio signal resulting from compressively encoding a first audio signal having a synchronized relation with the video signa... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8102884 | Direct inter-thread communication buffer that supports software controlled arbitrary vector operand selection in a densely threaded network on a chip A computer-implemented method, system and computer program product for retrieving arbitrarily aligned vector operands within a highly threaded Network On a Chip (NOC) processor are presented. Multiple nodes in a NOC are able to access a single Compressed Direct Inte... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8085820 | Digital broadcast signal multiplexing apparatus and digital broadcast signal multiplexing method A digital broadcast signal multiplexing apparatus includes buffers store the number x of data X, a comparator determines a cumulative sum SX of the data X and a cumulative sum SA of the data A, and compares these cumulative sum SX and cumulative sum SA, a first proc... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8081666 | Robust digital communication system Normally ordered robust VSB data are reordered in accordance with a first interleave to produce reordered robust VSB data. The reordered robust VSB data and ATSC data are reordered in accordance with a second interleave to produce normally ordered robust VSB data an... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8081665 | Virtual concatenation of PDH signals Asynchronous/plesiochronous digital hierarchy (PDH) signals, such as DS1 and E1, are transported using virtual concatenation. The packetized data signals are frame encapsulated and subsequently inverse multiplexed into a plurality of PDH frames. An overhead packet i... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8077746 | Method and apparatus for generating information signal to be recorded A compressively-encoding-resultant video signal resulting from compressively encoding a video signal, a first compressively-encoding-resultant audio signal resulting from compressively encoding a first audio signal having a synchronized relation with the video signa... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8073016 | Apparatus and method for channel coding and multiplexing in CDMA communication system A channel coding and multiplexing apparatus and method in a CDMA communication system is disclosed. In the channel coding and multiplexing apparatus, each of a number of radio frame matchers (equal in number or greater than the number of transport channels) has a ra... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8068517 | Digital E8-VSB reception system and E8-VSB data demultiplexing method A method of processing a digital television (DTV) signal is disclosed. Herein, the DTV signal is generated by performing Reed-Solomon (RS) encoding on additional data, multiplexing the RS-encoded additional data with main data. RS encoding the multiplexed additional... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8050299 | Data transmitting apparatus and method A ground station multiplexes audio digital data of a plurality of audio broadcasts, GUI data, and download audio data and transmits the multiplexed signal to a receiving side through a satellite. The receiving side displays a GUI screen corresponding to an audio bro... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8045591 | Broadcasting signal receiver and method for transmitting/receiving broadcasting signal A broadcasting signal receiver and a method for transmitting/receiving a broadcasting signal are disclosed. An identifier of a cell is set in the broadcasting signal and, if the cell is changed, channel information of the changed cell can be obtained from program ta... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8036250 | Method and apparatus of mutliplexing media streams An apparatus and method for generating a multiplex of media streams, the method includes the steps of: (i) receiving a set of media streams that comprises first type media stream components and second type media stream components; (ii) applying a modification proces... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8023535 | Broadcasting signal receiver and method for transmitting/receiving broadcasting signal A broadcasting signal receiver and a method for transmitting/receiving a broadcasting signal are disclosed. An identifier of a cell is configured in second program table information or signaling information of the broadcasting signal. If the cell is changed, channel... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8005121 | Apparatus and method for re-synthesizing signals The disclosed embodiments relate to an apparatus and a method for re-synthesizing signals. The apparatus includes a receiver for receiving a plurality of digitally multiplexed signals, each digitally multiplexed signal associated with a different physical transmissi... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8000356 | Connecting system, inverse multiplexer, data communication network, method and computer program Throughput between personal computers and the Internet is increased by using inverse multiplexing over local loop telephone lines of different users. The different personal computers share the multiple intersubnetwork connections with each other, so that the efficie... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7974316 | Receiving apparatus for digital broadcasting signal and receiving/recording/reproducing apparatus thereof In a digital broadcasting signal receiving/recording/reproducing apparatus, a recorded program can be immediately reproduced without performing complicated operations. Only a desired program and information related to the desired program are separated to be extracte... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7974317 | Systems and methods for controlling the voltage of signals used to control power amplifiers A method for controlling the voltage of signals used to control power amplifiers is described. A first multiplexer and a second multiplexer are set to an enabling signal. The first multiplexer is on a first integrated circuit and the second multiplexer is on a secon... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7965744 | Transmission system with apparatus for transmitting and receiving audio data auxiliary data A transmission system includes a transmission apparatus and a receiving apparatus for repeatedly transmitting and receiving a frame with plural time slots at a constant frequency, in which digital audio data of plural channels and auxiliary data required to playback... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7957428 | Methods and apparatuses to effect a variable-width link Embodiments of the invention provide an algorithm for dividing a link into one or more reduced-width links. For one embodiment of the invention, a multiplexing scheme is employed to effect a bit transmission order required by a particular cyclic redundancy check. Th... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7953124 | Mobile station, base station, communication system, and communication method A scrambler performs IQ multiplexing of output signals from a spreader and a distributor in order to generate a complex signal (I signal and Q signal), amplitude coefficients βcc(I) and βcc(Q) are determined in accordance with signal powers on I axis and Q axis. | 05/31/2011 |
| 7944951 | Broadbrand switched multiplexer A broadband switched multiplexer comprising an input broadband demultiplexer (2) comprising a broadband input port (4) for receiving an input broadband signal and at least one output port (5) having a passband; an output broadband multiplexer ( | 05/17/2011 |
| 7940813 | Demultiplexing digital data into a 3X mode An apparatus and method for demultiplexing sampled data at a first data rate on a data line using a non-standard demultiplex mode is achieved by first demultiplexing the sampled data using a standard, factor of two, demultiplex mode, to produce n data lines at 1/n t... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7940814 | Heterogeneous transceiver architecture for wide range programmability of programmable logic devices High-speed serial data transceiver circuitry on a programmable logic device (“PLD”) includes some channels that are able to operate at data rates up to a first, relatively low maximum data rate, and other channels that are able to operate at data rates up to a s... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7933297 | Network combining wired and non-wired segments A local area network (60) within a residence or other building, including both wired (5) and non-wired segments (53). The wired segments are based on new or existing wires (5a, 5b, 5c, 5d, ... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7920603 | Method and system for switching elementary streams on a decoder with zero delay Presented herein are system(s), method(s), and apparatus for rapid switching between streams of data. In one embodiment, there is described a circuit for providing media. The circuit comprises a multiplexed stream processor, a queue, and a decoder. The multiplexed s... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7912097 | System and method for transporting multiple client data signals via a single server signal Systems and methods for conveying multiple low-bit-rate data streams over a data transport medium which is configured to transport data in a single, high-bit-rate data stream. In one embodiment, a plurality of low-bit-rate signals are received and a corresponding da... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7912096 | Add/drop multiplexer and interface An add/drop multiplexer where a first signal converter converts first-low-order-group signals received from DSn network, into high-order-group signals, which are transferred to SDH (SONET) network and to which second-low-order-group signals, slower in transmission s... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7899087 | Apparatus and method for frequency translation The disclosed embodiments relate to an apparatus and method for performing frequency translation. The apparatus includes a receiver for receiving and digitizing a plurality of first signals, each signal containing channels and for simultaneously recovering a set of ... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7873078 | Screen multiplexing There is provided a screen multiplexor for processing graphical display data and an associated distribution method. A plurality of graphical display data streams is received at the multiplexor, processed and directed to one or more network-connected display devices.... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7869468 | Transport of multilane traffic over a multilane physical interface A system and method are provided for transporting a serial stream via a lower speed network using multiple parallel paths. At a transmitter, an optical or electromagnetic waveform is accepted representing a serial stream of digital information, and unbundled into n ... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7848366 | Data-transmission device and method for transmitting data with a reduced outage risk A data-transmission device has a number of N uplink interfaces routable to an output element over a processing line provided with data-processing components. A first processing line and a second processing line are provided each having two separate processing rows f... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7826498 | Digital broadcasting system and method of processing data A digital broadcasting system and a method of processing data are disclosed. The method of processing data of a transmitting system includes generating signaling information including service-related transmission parameters of mobile service data, packetizing the ge... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7826497 | Data receiving circuit that can correctly receive data, even when high-speed data transmission is performed, using small amplitude clock A data receiving circuit has a data input terminal, a conversion circuit converting an input signal received via the data input terminal, and a decision circuit making a decision on an output of the conversion circuit. The conversion circuit has a demultiplexer conv... | 11/02/2010 |
