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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8170167 | System and method for reducing electromagnetic interference and ground bounce in an information communication system by controlling phase of clock signals among a plurality of information communication devices A communication system including a plurality of communication devices configured to operate according to a plurality of communication clock signals, respectively, wherein the plurality of communication clock signals are based on a common reference clock signal. The ... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8126102 | Communication apparatus and control method A first communication apparatus receives, from a second communication apparatus, information indicating the number of relays from a first supplying apparatus to the second communication apparatus. The first communication apparatus receives, from a third communicatio... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8090065 | Implied clock Systems and methods providing clocking between various components or sub-components are shown. Embodiments implement an implied clock technique which reduces the number of signal lines, signaling overhead required for an encoded clock signal, and/or and power consum... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8081724 | Wireless network and wireless access terminals using SYNCID having increased granularity A wireless network comprising a plurality of base station capable of communicating with a plurality of mobile station in a coverage area of the wireless network. A first base station transmits an enhanced synchronization identifier parameter to a mobile station. The... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8059775 | Method of transmitting/playing multimedia data over wireless network and wireless device using the method A method and apparatus for efficiently transmitting large multimedia data over a wireless network are provided. A wireless device includes a device information reading unit which receives and reads information regarding available capabilities of devices included in ... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8054928 | Programmable preamble system and method A system includes a first communication device and a second communication device. The first communication device includes a programmable region. The programmable region of the first communication device is programmed so that an associated signal includes a number of... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8050373 | Phase interpolator based transmission clock control A system and method is provided for phase interpolator based transmission clock control. The system includes a transmitter having a phase interpolator coupled to a master timing generator and a transmission module. The phase interpolator is also coupled to a receive... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8045665 | Method of transmitting/playing multimedia data over wireless network and wireless device using the method A method and apparatus for efficiently transmitting large multimedia data over a wireless network are provided. A wireless device includes a device information reading unit which receives and reads information regarding available capabilities of devices included in ... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8036331 | Offset frequency estimation method and apparatus An offset frequency estimation method includes receiving an input signal comprised of complex samples, detecting phases of the complex samples, estimating a temporary offset frequency and an initial phase from the detected phases of the complex samples using a linea... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8036330 | System and method for frequency synchronization in a wireless non-hierarchical network The present disclosure relates generally to systems and methods for frequency synchronization in a non-hierarchical network. In one example, the method includes receiving, by a node in a wireless non-hierarchical network, frequency synchronization messages from othe... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8005178 | Synchronous network device A physical layer device comprises a first port that embeds a first clock into data transmitted over a first physical medium; a second port that embeds a second clock into data transmitted over a second physical medium; a first selection module that outputs the first... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7986757 | Apparatus and method of acquiring initial synchronization of terminal in mobile communication system The present invention relates to an apparatus and method of acquiring initial synchronization of a terminal in a mobile communication system. According to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, one or more auto-correlation values of a preamble constitutin... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7983373 | Clock distribution for 10GBase-T analog front end A 10GBASE-T clocking method that limits EMI and increases SNR, while reducing power and conserving chip space is provided. The method includes simultaneous clocking of transmitters in an analog front end of a 10 gigabit Ethernet. The method includes providing at lea... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7940875 | System and method for coordinating the actions of a plurality of devices via scheduling the actions based on synchronized local clocks A system and method are provided which coordinate the actions of a plurality of devices via scheduling occurrence of the actions based on synchronized local clocks of the devices. Thus, a plurality of devices are communicatively coupled via a communication network, ... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7924961 | Base station synchronization A method, implemented in a user equipment (UE), of maintaining base station synchronization, comprises receiving a measurement message from a radio network controller (RNC) directing the UE to measure a time difference of arrival (TDOA) between signals transmitted f... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7903775 | Method and apparatus for controlling transmission frequency in serial advanced technology attachment A method, a related system, and recordable media adapted to store the method. The method controlling transmission frequency for first and second transmission signals exchanged between a host and an attached device using a serial advanced technology attachment (SATA)... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7831002 | System, apparatus and method for synchronizing a spreading sequence transmitted during a plurality of time slots A system for synchronizing a spreading sequence transmitted during a plurality of time slots includes a plurality of communication stations. Each communication station includes: (a) a control unit; (b) a spreading sequence unit for originating the spreading sequence... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7826580 | Network system and audio signal processor An audio network system that performs transport of audio signals among nodes by cascading a plurality of nodes each including two sets of transmission I/Fs and reception I/Fs, and circulating among the nodes in each fixed period an audio transport frame generated by... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7822162 | Current mode differential signal transmitting circuit sharing a clock outputting unit A current-mode differential signal transmitting circuit is disclosed, including a transmitter having a first transmitting module and a second transmitting module. The first transmitting module includes a plurality of first outputting units to output first data and a... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7817761 | Test techniques for a delay-locked loop receiver interface An integrated circuit includes a variable delay circuit configured to generate at least one delayed clock signal based on a first clock signal and a first control signal. The integrated circuit includes a control circuit configured to generate a count value based on... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7801258 | Aligning timebases to share synchronized periodic signals A system and method for aligning a local timebase to a remote timebase given a timebase error value from a higher-level protocol, and using the aligned timebases to generate and distribute synchronized events and synchronized adjustable frequency periodic signals ac... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7756233 | Data receiving device and data receiving method A receiving device (50) is provided to allow appropriate clock regeneration even for a VBR TS when a stream including video and audio data, such as an MPEG2 TS, is transmitted or received in real time through a network having jitter. When the received packet ... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7702055 | Apparatus and method for tracing processor state from multiple clock domains A method of tracing processor data includes receiving a first trace stream from a first processor operating in response to a first clock and a second trace stream from a second processor operating in response to a second clock. The first trace stream is routed to a ... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7643595 | Method and apparatus for synchronizing clock timing between network elements Network elements may be synchronized over an asynchronous network by implementing a master clock as an all digital PLL that includes a Digitally Controlled Frequency Selector (DCFS), the output frequency of which may be directly controlled through the input of a con... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7609796 | Communication control apparatus and a method for freely controlling the transmission of time slots A communication control apparatus includes a signal receiver for receiving a state variable signal indicating a timing of data transmission from a neighboring node. The apparatus also includes a calculator for forming a communication timing, by varying plural phase ... | 10/27/2009 |
| 7590210 | Method and apparatus for synchronizing internal state of frequency generators on a communications network A first level of control over operation of slave Digitally Controlled Frequency Selectors (DCFSs), such as DCOs or DDSs, may occur by periodic transmission of control words from the master clock to the slave clocks. To allow enhanced control over the output of the s... | 09/15/2009 |
| 7587017 | Carrier phase synchronization system for improved amplitude modulation and television broadcast reception Systems and methods are described for carrier phase synchronization for improved AM and TV broadcast reception. A method includes synchronizing the phase of a carrier frequency of a broadcast signal with the phase of a remote reference frequency. An apparatus includ... | 09/08/2009 |
| 7542537 | Method for temporal synchronisation of at least two measuring computers cooperating over a telecommunication network such as internet, intranet or similar A method for time synchronization of a number of measuring computers cooperating over a telecommunications network includes providing a number of time sources associated with one of the measuring computers. Each of the time sources has a different accuracy and can p... | 06/02/2009 |
| 7522688 | Wireless clock system and method A wireless clock system includes a master clock or other master time source, and a plurality of slave clocks or repeater devices. Each slave clock can both wirelessly receive and wirelessly transmit time signals including current time data. To avoid conflicts among ... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7512201 | Multi-channel synchronization architecture The present invention provides a robust global timing resynchronization architecture, a multi-link communications system including the same, and a method for minimizing the effects of resynchronization signal skew, reference clock skew, and PLL static phase error va... | 03/31/2009 |
| 7502433 | Bimodal source synchronous interface Method and apparatus for a bimodal source synchronous interface for a receiver module is described. A first input cell with a first delay chain and a first register block is provided for receipt of a forwarded clock signal by the first delay chain. A second input ce... | 03/10/2009 |
| 7499512 | Clock transmission apparatus for network synchronization between systems using an even-second clock and an Unshielded Twisted Pair (UTP) A clock transmission apparatus for network synchronization between systems wherein a communication system having a main unit and a remote unit, the main unit generates an even-second (PP2S) pulse and transmits it to the remote unit and the remote unit uses the recei... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7489752 | Synchronisation of signals between asynchronous logic A data processing apparatus comprising a plurality of data processors, each data processor comprising: first logic operable in a first clock domain and further logic operable in a second clock domain, said first and second clock domains being asynchronous with each ... | 02/10/2009 |
| 7486754 | System clock distributing apparatus and system clock distributing method To provide a system clock distributing apparatus and a system clock distributing method for reducing a skew of a system clock and a synchronizing signal at low cost. The system clock distributing apparatus for matching the timing of data by using the synchronizing s... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7480360 | Regulating a timing between a strobe signal and a data signal A technique includes in response to a training mode, communicating between a device and a processor of a computer system over a data bit line of a bus. The technique includes based on the communication, regulating a timing between a strobe signal and a signal that p... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7463707 | Upstream frequency control for docsis based satellite systems A system and method for minimizing the frequency error of satellite modem signals at a satellite gateway. The gateway downstream baud (symbol) clock and the elements that control the upstream frequency (i.e., local oscillators in the conversion chain, A/D sample clo... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7436813 | Method and system for acquiring time synchronization between base stations in a broadband wireless access communication system Method and system by which a base station without a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver acquires time synchronization in a Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) communication system. The method includes scanning neighbor base stations around a first base station and ... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7433436 | Timing control configuration and method for mobile communications systems A configuration for time control of a transmitting/receiving device in a mobile station has a system clock generator for producing a standard system clock for different time patterns is supplied to a programmable clock divider which produces an output clock correspo... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7433435 | Apparatus, methods, systems, and articles incorporating a clock correction technique The present invention provides an improved clock correction scheme for multi-carrier transmission systems, based on synchronizing a local receiver with a remote transmitter using estimated phase and frequency drifts between the remote transmitter and local receiver ... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7430232 | Method and system for broadcasting a programme Method and apparatuses for broadcasting and receiving a programme are presented. A programme is broadcast from a broadcasting system. Broadcast programme-associated data is transferred from a server to a cellular radio network. The broadcast programme-associated dat... | 09/30/2008 |
