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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8190957 | Utilizing a network to correct flawed media data A system and method of utilizing a network to correct flawed media data. The media device includes a processor, a memory, a network adapter, a removable media interface, an error-correction module, and a communication module. The network device enables the media dev... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8078930 | Methods and apparatus for modifying a backup data stream including logical partitions of data blocks to be provided to a fixed position delta reduction backup application In accordance with one embodiment, a backup data stream is modified to be provided to a fixed position delta reduction backup method. When a data stream is received, the data stream may be parsed into a plurality of logical components, where each of the logical comp... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8046656 | Rendering and correcting data Rendering and correcting data. Data is received. The data is stored at a memory. The data is rendered for presentation at an output device. Defects in the data stored at the memory are determined. The defects in the data stored at the memory are corrected, wherein a... | 10/25/2011 |
| 7971121 | Systems and methods for providing distributed packet loss concealment in packet switching communications networks A communications system (100) includes a packet switching network (130) configured to transfer a stream of information packets from a source (110) to a destination (120). The communications system (100) also includes at least one l... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7962824 | Memory controller, nonvolatile memory device, nonvolatile memory system and data writing method With nonvolatile memory device employing a nonvolatile memory suc h as multiple-valued NAND flash memory or the like in which each memory cell holds data in a plurality of pages, there is such a problem that, if an error occurred under writing data, data stored in o... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7770085 | Replacement messages for identifying and preventing errors during the transmission of real time-critical data The invention relates to a method for transmitting real time-critical data using data messages in a data network. The data messages have an identification, useful data and a transfer status. According to the inventive method, data messages comprising errors are repl... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7761766 | Methods and apparatus for modifying a backup data stream including logical partitions of data blocks to be provided to a fixed position delta reduction backup application When a data stream is received, the data stream may be parsed into a plurality of logical components, where each of the logical components includes one or more data blocks. Missing data blocks may also be detected in the data stream, and therefore may be detected in... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7712005 | Encoding and error correction system for enhanced performance of legacy communications networks An encoding and error correction system and method employs an adaptive multi-rate (AMR) codec by stripping header data from a plurality of legacy system frames having header and traffic channel (TCH) data blocks. Speech data is then encoded using the AMR to create b... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7676721 | Auto re-transmission request method in a wireless communication system An ARQ system and method for a BWA communication system are provided. A transmitter activates an ARQ timer if exist transmission data or retransmission data and transmits the transmission data or the retransmission data to a receiver. The transmitter then receives a... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7676720 | Method and system for program based redundancy A system that includes: (ii) at least one input port adapted to receive multiple addressable packets that include media content that belong to multiple media streams and to at least one duplicating media stream; (ii) at least one processor adapted to process the mul... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7509553 | Inter-network and inter-protocol video conference privacy method, apparatus, and computer program product A system, apparatus, method, and computer program product for detecting and correcting packet losses that adversely affect video quality. This packet loss feature may be employed as part of the secure video conference system, method and computer program product, or ... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7434132 | Method and system of configuring a software program Methods and systems are presented herein to correct a defective variable value entered into a system during configuration. In some embodiments, in response to a runtime error, a variable may be identified; help-text specific to the variable may be output; new data m... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7428685 | Cyclic error compensation in interferometry systems The invention features a method including: (i) providing an interference signal S(t) from two beams directed along different paths, wherein the signal S(t) is indicative of changes in an optical path difference n{tilde over (L)}(t) between the different paths, where... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7428684 | Device and method for concealing an error A device for concealing an error in an erroneous or potentially erroneous information unit generates output values of a forward decoder and a backward decoder which differ and thus indicate an error-concealment area. The different values for one and the same informa... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7426670 | Connecting multiple test access port controllers on a single test access port Multiple test access port (TAP) controllers on a single chip are accessed, while maintaining the appearance to an outside observer of having only a single test access port controller. By adding a single bit to a data register (212) of each of a plurality of T... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7417948 | Controlled data network error recovery A method, a system and network nodes using indication of possible duplicates (IPD) of units, so that these units can be handled differently than other units. The unit is indicated to be a possible duplicate to the entity to which it is resent because no response was... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7415642 | Method for creating defect management information in an recording medium, and apparatus and medium based on said method This invention provides a method for creating/writing defect management information of an information recording medium and an apparatus and optical disc based on the method. In the present invention, it depends on the type of data to be reproduced whether or not def... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7403893 | Method and apparatus for reconstructing voice information A communication system includes a destination that receives voice samples and a voice parameter generated by a source. The destination uses the voice samples and voice parameter to reconstruct voice information in response to a packet loss. The destination may recon... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7392450 | Method and apparatus of compensating for signal receiving error at receiver in packet-based communication system A method and an apparatus of compensating for a signal receiving error at a receiver in a packet-based communication system. In the invention, frequency offset estimation and DC offset estimation obtained in a current packet are re-used in a next packet if the recei... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7386750 | Reduced bus turnaround time in a multiprocessor architecture Systems and methods of reducing bus turnaround time in a multiprocessor architecture are disclosed. An exemplary method may include mastering the system bus within one idle bus clock cycle of a bus handoff. The method may also include bypassing data from recovery la... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7380165 | Assembly of electronic circuits comprising means for decontaminating error-contaminated parts The assembly comprises a circuit for detecting errors in data supplied by at least one of the blocks of the assembly. When an error has been detected, the assembly is decontaminated by one circuit for backup and reconstitution of past states of a latch associated to... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7369969 | Holding device for a sensor signal, method for forwarding a sensor signal and computer program A holding device for a sensor signal comprises a signal input receiving a sensor signal, a signal output and a storage device coupled to the signal input and output. The storage device is designed to store a signal value in a first state and to update it based on th... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7366241 | Data reproduction apparatus and data reproduction method In a data transmission system, a server is provided with a data storage unit which holds plural video streams having different I-frame intervals, as coded data corresponding to the same video sequence, and a data transmission unit for transmitting a predetermined vi... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7340666 | Method and apparatus for using memory compression to enhance error correction A system for improving a memory's error detecting and error correcting capabilities. During operation, the system receives a data-word. Next, the system compresses the data-word into a compressed-word. If the amount of compression is greater than or equal to a compr... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7339918 | Method for improving the quality of data transmission A method for improving the quality of data transmission in cellular radio systems utilizes time division multiple access, in which the strength of a signal received at a base station is measured and a decoder for soft decision-making is employed. The method includes... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7328137 | Methods and systems for derivation of missing data objects from test data In an embodiment, there is disclosed a system for derivation of missing data objects from test data. The system may include a data populator having code for: (1) generating data objects from the test data, (2) arranging the data objects in a tree structure, (3) deri... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7321851 | Method and arrangement in a communication system The present invention relates to the decoding-/playback part of received sound data packets in systems for transmission of sound over packet switched networks. According to the invention, the lengths of received signal frames are manipulated by performing time expan... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7320096 | System and method for testing memory at full bandwidth There is disclosed systems and methods for testing a memory where at least one bit field at certain address locations cannot be directly accessed. In one embodiment, random bits are populated into a data field at one of the certain address locations, and at least so... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7313791 | Firmware update network and process employing preprocessing techniques A network for updating firmware, drivers, or application software facilitates the access to generated update packages by electronic devices and the update of firmware, drivers, content or application software in a fault tolerant mode. A “Bubbles” technique is em... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7300707 | Aluminium composite structure having a channel therein and method of manufacturing the same To provide an aluminium composite structure having a highly airtight channel therein, including: a core material having a concave groove on a surface; a covering material made up of aluminium or aluminium alloy which covers the surface of the core material other tha... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7302396 | System and method for cross-fading between audio streams A system and method of the present invention cross-fade a first transmitted audio stream to a second transmitted audio stream, wherein both first and second audio streams represent the same original audio signal, but at different quality levels. A client computer re... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7296063 | Active stream format for holding multiple media streams An active stream format is defined and adopted for a logical structure that encapsulates multiple data streams. The data streams may be of different media. The data of the data streams is partitioned into packets that are suitable for transmission over a transport m... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7283071 | Variable length coding method and variable length decoding method An image coding apparatus provides a run-length encoding unit RLE1 that subjects quantized coefficients which are obtained by quantizing frequency components of an image signal to a variable length coding process by using a run value Run that indicates the nu... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7281186 | Error/status information management A method and apparatus for managing error/status information generated in the demultiplexing, processing, and handling of data packets from a video transport stream. Error/status information is organized into control fields of error/status packets. The error/status ... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7281188 | Method and system for detecting and correcting data errors using data permutations A method for correcting an error in a first block including detecting an error in the first block, generating a first permutation of the first block, calculating a first permutation checksum for the first permutation of the first block, and replacing the first block... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7277587 | System and method for lossless video coding A lossless video coding method is provided. The method comprises: accepting a current input macroblock (MB) of pixel information; subtracting a current prediction MB from the current input MB, creating a current difference MB; entropy encoding the current difference... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7263547 | System, method, and computer program product for customizing channels, content, and data for mobile devices Described herein are systems, methods, computer program products, and combinations and sub-combinations thereof, for enabling web content (as well as other objects) to be loaded on mobile devices (as well as other types of devices), and for users of mobile devices t... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7251760 | Method for creating defect management information in an recording medium, and apparatus and medium based on said method This invention provides a method for creating/writing defect management information of an information recording medium and an apparatus and optical disc based on the method. In the present invention, it depends on the type of data to be reproduced whether or not def... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7231556 | Data processing apparatus having error concealment function Main line data as video data and low-resolution data obtained by lowering the resolution of the video data and the data amount thereof is recorded on an optical disk. The main line data and the low-resolution data are read from the optical disk. While the main line ... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7227946 | Automated permutation method and apparatus In a computing system, a method of operation comprises receiving a first permutation specification of a first permutation of a first plurality of inputs, receiving a first permutation modifier and receiving a first interaction specification of a first interaction be... | 06/05/2007 |
