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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8176378 | Method and system for a transmitting antenna selection failure recovery mode Aspects of a method and system for a transmitting antenna selection failure recover mode are presented. Aspects of the system may include a transmitting mobile terminal that enables selection of a sequence of protocol data units (PDU), for example a sequence of soun... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8122313 | Acknowledgment packet Various example embodiments are disclosed. According to an example embodiment, a receiving station in a wireless network may receive a plurality of Medium Access Control Packet Data Units (MPDUs) from a transmitting station. Each of the plurality of MPDUs may includ... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8091005 | Wireless broadcast protocol In a keyboard-video-mouse (“KVM”) system in which a target computer may be wirelessly accessed by a plurality of remote stations, a method includes, by the target computer: obtaining a frame of video data; transmitting packets for the frame; transmitting a query... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8065581 | Feedback for data transmissions Methods and apparatus are presented for dynamically controlling the re-transmission scheme of acknowledgment signals. A source transmits a first data packet over a slot s1. If channel conditions are favorable, source transmits a second data packet over sl... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8010862 | Multimedia content delivery using pre-stored multiple description coded video with restart An embodiment of the present invention includes a buffer, a selector, and an analyzer. The buffer stores at least a default stream coded by a multiple description (MD) coding and a restart stream coded by a predictive coding. The default and restart streams correspo... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7818647 | Method for switching between asynchronous and synchronous HARQ retransmission mode The present invention relates to method for controlling the transmission timing of data retransmissions in a wireless communication system wherein a HARQ retransmission protocol, is used to retransmit data from a transmitting entity to a receiving entity via a data ... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7676724 | Feedback for data transmissions Methods and apparatus are presented for dynamically controlling the re-transmission scheme of acknowledgment signals. A source transmits a first data packet over a slot s1. If channel conditions are favorable, source transmits a second data packet over sl... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7526707 | Method and apparatus for encoding and decoding data using a pseudo-random interleaver A pseudo-random bit interleaver and de-interleaver comprising a source for generating pseudo-random numbers and transformation logic that transforms each pseudo-random number generated by the source into a plurality of different pseudo-random numbers. Each of the tr... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7444578 | Data unit sender and method of controlling the same A data unit sender and method of controlling a data unit sender are presented, in which a time-out monitoring procedure implements a first, longer time-out period (SRTO), and a second, shorter time-out period (QRTO), where a retransmission is executed after the shor... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7426599 | Systems and methods for writing data with a FIFO interface Application Specific Integrated Circuit (“ASIC”) devices, such as Field Programmable Gate Arrays (“FPGAs”), may be interconnected using serial I/O connections, such as high speed multi-gigabit serial transceiver (“MGT”) connections. For example, serial I... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7404133 | Error detection and correction employing modulation symbols satisfying predetermined criteria A method for error detection and correction comprising performing a first modulation error scan of said modulation symbol, marking data that fails to comply with a predetermined criteria, demodulating said modulation symbols, computing a first error syndrome using s... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7400689 | Data reception method and apparatus including reception of data in a first transmission and a retransmission P/S conversion section 302 performs parallel/serial conversion of data sequences #1 through #4 input in parallel, in accordance with control by assignment control section 303, so that data to a higher-priority communication terminal is as... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7392451 | Packet data retransmission control method and system A packet data retransmission control method, where a base-station upper-level control system transmits downstream packet data, which is terminated at a terminal station, to a plurality of base stations. A specific base station that is one of the base stations transf... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7392452 | Medium access control-high speed A medium access control-high speed (MAC-hs) comprises a hybrid automatic repeat request (H-ARQ) device configured to receive data blocks over a wideband-code division multiple access (W-CDMA) high speed-downlink shared channel (HS-DSCH). The H-ARQ device generates a... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7389469 | Bus systems, apparatuses, and methods of operating a bus Data transmission between transmitting/receiving nodes in a bus system may be controlled based on an error check of received data. When an error in the received data is detected, the transmitting node may cease data transmission, and other nodes, which may not have ... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7356751 | Error handling and audience measurement in datacast network with return channel A data broadcast network with a return channel providing a guaranteed error-free data delivery simultaneously to multiple receiving devices. The network transmits data in packets and uses the return channel for audience measurement and packets recovery. Whenever a c... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7353447 | System and method for representing compressed information The present invention provides a system and method for storing re-synchronization, error correction and/or error detection data within an existing communication protocol, while still maintaining full compliance to a standard, such as the MPEG-2 AAC standard. By doin... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7334176 | Determination of the presence of additional coded data in a data frame An mp3-standard bitstream is formatted into a sequence of fixed-length data frames. These include headers, side information, main information and a remaining data field without generally defined information denoted as ‘ancillary data’. The mp3PRO format is an ex... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7327218 | Electronic identification system with forward error correction system An electronic radio frequency (RF) identification system 10 is disclosed and claimed. The system includes an interrogator 11 and a plurality of RF transponders 12.1 to 12.n. In use, each transponder is operative in response to an i... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7327792 | Digital video system and control method thereof A digital video system for wirelessly transmitting a signal to a display device, including a receiver that analyzes a packet of the signal wirelessly received through a first transmitting/receiving unit to check the transmission error rate. The receiver externally s... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7315573 | Channel monitoring for improved parameter selection in a communication system A method is provided for automatically improving throughput of an active channel in a communication system comprising: receiving input from one or more modules that identify and characterize impairments in the active channel; monitoring the input to track changes in... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7310746 | Method for transmitting messages between bus users A method is provided for transmitting messages between bus users that are each linked with a communication bus for the purpose of exchanging messages and with a diagnostic device for detecting the failure of the communication bus. In a diagnostic operation mode that... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7310499 | Method, apparatus and system for handling unreliable feedback information in a wireless network The present invention provides a method, apparatus and system for handling unreliable feedback information in a wireless network. The present invention adjusts one or more communications (202) with a receiving unit (272) in a wireless communication net... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7266608 | System for punctually sending and receiving serial data and a method for sending and receiving the serial data This invention provides an apparatus for sending and receiving serial data without losing the real time characteristics even in case of a plurality of errors. According to this invention, an overhead of the communication can be reduced, and the time for the communic... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7266758 | Network monitoring program, network monitoring method, and network monitoring apparatus A network monitoring program automatically sorts fault producing locations on a network. A memory unit stores a fault location determining table containing events indicative of failures of communications via the network, the events being associated with classified e... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7242289 | Method and system for synthetically reproducing a random process A method and system are provided for synthetically reproducing a random process. A test apparatus is coupled to a data-collection apparatus. The data-collection apparatus collects status data corresponding to several alarm points. The test apparatus generates at a r... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7239610 | Methods and devices for partial upper layer frame loss detection based retransmission The present invention is aimed at techniques for detecting the “partial loss” of an upper layer frame. One technique envisions a detection platform adapted to determine whether a packet is a final packet for a particular upper layer frame. A comparator platform ... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7228482 | Communication system, communication control method, and program for implementing the method A communication system that can quickly perform the processing of the data re-transmission when error occurs in the data. The communication system includes an automatic original feeder and an image reader that transmit and receive data simultaneously. A CPU provided... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7212534 | Flow based congestion control A method for selectively controlling the flow of data through a network device is discussed. The network device has a plurality of ports, with each port of the plurality of ports having a plurality of priority queues. Congestion at one priority queue of the pluralit... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7185256 | Communication system and method employing automatic repeat request A communication system and method includes the steps of: a) transmitting an ACK signal indicating a received packet includes no error or a NACK signal indicating the received packet includes error from a reception end to a transmission end, and performing automatic ... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7177968 | Data transmission system In a data transmission system for carrying out data transmission/reception between a primary board and secondary boards by using a data transmission path, which employs a same signal line as an address bus and a data bus mutually, there are provided steps of informi... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7171359 | Speech recognition over lossy networks with rejection threshold Recognizing a stream of speech received as speech vectors over a lossy communications link includes constructing for a speech recognizer a series of speech vectors from packets received over a lossy packetized transmission link, wherein some of the packets associate... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7155578 | Method and system for transferring files using file transfer protocol The method and system of the invention provides a technique for transferring files from a first location to a second location using the File Transfer Protocol (FTP). That is, the invention provides a method of transferring files using FTP from a first memory associa... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7145876 | Method and apparatus incorporating adaptive datalink framing for message communication A communication device (300) operates in a training mode to develop parameters based on estimates related to at least two different instances of channel conditions, such as indicated by bit error rates for channel transmissions (610, 620, 710, 720). Th... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7136929 | Broadcast in a wireless communications system A reliable data communications protocol for the broadcast of long messages over a noisy medium, such as a frequency hopping communications link with multiple interferors. Long length messages are divided into a plurality of subpackets, each of which incorporates an ... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7095250 | Single wire bus communication system with method for handling simultaneous responses from multiple clients A single wire bus communication system comprises a bus wire, a host device, and at least one client device, with each host and client device having pull-up and pull-down transistors to pull the bus wire “high” or “low”, respectively. The system is arranged s... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7088687 | Managing packet transmissions between a device in a limited connectivity network and a device residing outside the limited connectivity network The invention makes possible remote control of devices in a piconet by remote users communicating over the Internet and the like by providing a proxy-bridge device. The proxy-bridge device is a bridge for sending packets to and from between an external device and a ... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7079856 | Data flow control between a base station and a mobile station A method of data flow control between a mobile and base station of a wireless communication system where the mobile is transferring wirelessly part or all of the data received from the base station to a local device in accordance with a standard such as Bluetooth or... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7035894 | Method for retransmitting data efficiently in mobile communication system A method for retransmitting data between two sides including a reception side and a transmission side in a mobile communication system including one or more mobile stations and one or more radio networks includes the steps of: by the reception side, storing data rec... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7028235 | Test method and test circuit for electronic device A method of testing an electronic device including first and second semiconductor devices connected to each other with a plurality of bus lines. First, the first semiconductor device supplies a selected one of the bus lines with a first logical output signal. Then, ... | 04/11/2006 |
