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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8170070 | Method and circuit for interleaving, serializing and deserializing camera and keypad data A system for interleaving high speed data and slower data that is serialized and delivered to a microprocessor. The typical source of the high speed data is a camera and the source of the slower data is a keyboard. The high speed data and the slower data, illustrati... | 05/01/2012 |
| 7991020 | Quad rate transmitter equalization An integrated circuit includes current mode drivers that provide equalized outputs. A parallel-to-serial converter circuit receives data at less than one fourth the output data rate, and provides main data and equalization data at one fourth the output data rate to ... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7978736 | Efficient provisioning of a VT/TU cross-connect A method and apparatus for efficient provisioning of a VT/TU cross-connect includes checking a state of a control bit that specifies whether to assemble an output from multiple virtual tributary (VT1.5/VT2) or tributary unit (TU11/TU12) connections or handle the out... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7697575 | Remultiplexing apparatus and method based on reallocated decoding time The remultiplexing apparatus includes a control information selector that selects a packet containing program control information from the inputted bit stream, a program control information editor that edits contents of the selected program control information and g... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7590153 | Protocol independent sub-rate device A protocol independent multiplexer is described that allows for multiple different protocols that operate at different bit rates to be combined and output in a format that may have yet another bit rate. The multiplexer includes a series of inputting devices that are... | 09/15/2009 |
| 7567592 | Packet based video display interface enumeration method An enumeration method providing the link rate and a pixel/audio clock rate is described. ... | 07/28/2009 |
| 7499474 | Efficient HARQ control and channel quality feedback reporting for multicarrier systems A method comprising receiving a plurality of data packets each associated with one of a plurality of carriers, deriving an input bit stream indicative of the receipt of the plurality of data packets, utilizing an output block code to convert the input bit stream int... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7499475 | Broadcast station, base station control device, receiver, control method, receiving method, broadcast system, reception program, transmission program, distribution program, and storage medium A portable terminal includes: a radio frequency receiving section for receiving main broadcast data and sub broadcast data; an electric field strength measuring section for measuring an electric field strength corresponding to a receiving condition of the radio freq... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7447242 | Method for real time protocol media recording In the face of data loss on connections between a content source and a content consumer, additional connections therebetween are opened. These additional connections are preferably opened between the content source and a proxy disposed between the content source and... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7426179 | Method and apparatus for signaling path restoration information in a mesh network A method and apparatus are disclosed for monitoring and signaling a path restoration using pre-computed restoration paths following a detected fault on a primary service path in a communications network. A fault occurring inside the restorable portion of a network i... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7424228 | High dynamic range radio frequency to optical link A communication system includes an optical transmitter which is differentially driven and an optical receiver that outputs a differential signal. The optical transmitter creates the differential drive signal from an input signal and delivers the differential drive s... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7403139 | Electronic apparatus and control method thereof using sample rate converter An electronic apparatus reads a digital data stream including a video signal and/or an audio signal outputted from an external apparatus according to a transmission clock different from a clock for the data stream, and outputs the video signal and/or audio signal wi... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7400657 | 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... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7397827 | Systems and methods for switching multi-rate communications A method for switching multi-rate communications is described. The method includes filling a first set of p timeslots with p sets of data from a first data collection of a first type, where the first data collection includes m sets of data and p is less than m. The ... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7369575 | Bandwidth matching device and method for operating the same Broadly speaking, a bandwidth matching device is provided for transforming a number of incoming data streams each having a first bandwidth into an outgoing data stream having a second bandwidth. More specifically, the bandwidth matching device provides an assembler ... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7363371 | Traffic flow management in a communications network Admission of rapidly varying traffic flows to a communications network is controlled by sampling the traffic flows each at an ingress, and sampling an aggregate flow of said flows at some or all of the resources used by the aggregate flow. From this sampling, a mean... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7363417 | Optimized topographies for dynamic allocation of PCI express lanes using differential muxes to additional lanes to a host Many Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIE) lanes are available between a root complex host and peripherals inserted into slots. Each PCIE lane is a bi-directional serial bus, with a transmit differential pair and a receive differential pair of data lines.... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7356024 | Communication apparatus and communication method A correlation memory section 105 stores a prescribed table in which each control data is grouped for each kind of it (for each message unit) to be correlated to each other. A control data synchronization section 104 successively accumulates input contr... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7349449 | Multiplexer cell and multiplexer circuit arrangement and coding device for use in a multiplexer circuit arrangement of this kind A multiplexer cell (1) for converting an input signal (D0, D1) with a data input rate (fD) into an output signal (E) with a data output rate (fE), which in particular is twice the size of the data input rate, is pro... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349387 | Digital cross-connect Two or more cross-connect ICs are interconnected. Each IC directly receives some, but not all, of the system inputs, and outputs to some, but not all, outputs. Each cross-connect IC has a switch matrix that has the same number of inputs as the system, and a lesser n... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349466 | Parallel interface transmission using a single multi-frequency composite signal A parallel interface modem for simultaneous transfer of a plurality of parallel signals across a medium is disclosed. In a preferred embodiment, the parallel interface modem includes a modulation circuit for qualifying each of the plurality of parallel device interf... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349460 | MC/MC-DS dual-mode adaptive multi-carrier code division multiple access (CDMA) apparatus and method thereof Provided are multi-carrier (MC)/multi-carrier direct sequence (MC-DS) dual-mode adaptable CDMA apparatus, the method thereof, and a computer program that implements the method. The apparatus can vary the user modulation degree and the transmission repetition degree ... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7339945 | System and method for partitioning streaming data coded with fine granularity scalability of use in a cable network System and method for partitioning data on a SCDMA cable network use methods of creating data streams to transmit to a head end. Further, the data streams transmitted to the head end are coded with fine granularity scalability features and contain divisions which ar... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7337386 | Digital transmitter/receiver system having a robust error correction coding/decoding device and error correction coding/decoding method thereof An error correction coding device includes a time divider for dividing field data of L packets into N data packets and (L-N) parity packets, a first RS (Reed-Solomon) encoder adding parities of a predetermined number of bytes to the data packets, respectively, a sto... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7330636 | Portable video recorder system The invention relates to a portable video recorder system. This system comprises a video shooting part including an image capturing device, video compression means, a buffer memory filled by the output of the video compression means and low data rate wireless transm... | 02/12/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7318017 | Collecting and exporting on-chip data processor trace and timing information with differing collection and export formats Data processor emulation information that has been collected and arranged into a plurality of first information blocks during the collection process is re-arranged into a plurality of second information blocks which differ in size from the first information blocks. ... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7310354 | Synchronous data link signal generator A synchronous data link signal is generated for supply between digital television equipment in a studio and an RF transmitter. The synchronous data link signal includes first data to be encoded at a first data rate, second data to be encoded at a second data rate le... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7305699 | Method and apparatus for generating carousels An apparatus for generating one or more carousels. A carousel includes a plurality of modules, at least one of which exhibits multiple instances, that are arranged in a module schedule. The apparatus may create, through multiple iterations, two or more module schedu... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7301971 | Method and apparatus for continuous synchronization of a plurality of asynchronous data sources An apparatus and method for continuous synchronization of a pair of independently clocked asynchronous data streams (100, 101) consisting of raster data from independent imaging acquisition systems comprises a means for acquiring individual rasters from a fir... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7292554 | Apparatus and method for transmitting a voice frame in an ALL-IP-based mobile communication system A method for transmitting voice traffic in an ALL-IP-based mobile communication system. A mobile terminal first transmits header information using a signaling frame, and then separately transmits only a voice frame. A Node B detects the header information from the s... | 11/06/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7289530 | System and method for coding a digital wrapper frame A system and method are provided for coding a frame in a packet communications system using a G.709 Digital Wrapper Frame format. The method comprises: accepting digital information; outer encoding the digital information with a Reed Solomon (RS) encoding scheme; in... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7289532 | Voice playout buffer for dual-PHY based integrated access device A voice playout buffer for a dual PHY-based integrated access device platform has a plurality of voice signal buffer sections. A respective buffer section has a capacity in excess of the number of digitized voice signal bytes contained in a respective cell-based com... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7278043 | System, method, and apparatus for overload detection in real-time data processing applications A method for overload detection according to one embodiment of the invention includes a control process and a data process. In response to a timing signal, the control process sets a state of a timing indicator. Upon execution of a time-constrained operation, the da... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7274862 | Information processing apparatus Audio data is prevented from not synchronizing with video data when splicing. A first GOP of a video stream of a second program is spliced to a last GOP of a video stream of a first program. A first GOP of an audio stream of the second program is spliced to a last G... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7274716 | Multiplexed sigma-delta interface An improved digital interface circuit that allows a plurality of data streams and other digital information to be output over a single channel. The digital interface circuit includes a plurality of data inputs, at least one control input, at least one clock input, a... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7269836 | System and method for providing multiplexing and remultiplexing of MPEG-2 streams A system and method for multiplexing and remultiplexing whereby multiplexed programs from an input stream are only demultiplexed if they are to be copied or modified locally. Any multiplexed programs which are part of an input stream and which are intended to be par... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7266132 | Flexible memory allocation for data transmission Described herein are data transmission systems and methods that employ flexible memory usage techniques. The techniques allocate memory to include a plurality of block pools, where each block pool includes a set of blocks having a memory size common to the block poo... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7262716 | Asynchronous sample rate converter and method An asynchronous sample rate converter interpolates and filters a digital audio input signal to produce a filtered, up-sampled first signal. A FIFO memory receives the first signal and stores samples thereof at locations determined by a write address and presents sto... | 08/28/2007 |
