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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8190960 | Guaranteed inter-process communication A multiprocessor system includes multiple processors executing multiple processes that send messages to each other. The system uses a connectionless single-window inter-process communication (IPC) protocol to avoid the high message-processing overhead of a connectio... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8176379 | Apparatus and method for processing received data in a broadband wireless communication system A method for processing data of a received frame in a receiver of a broadband wireless communication system. The received data processing method includes extracting, from control information for data of one frame having multiple bursts, burst sizes of bursts constit... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8151158 | Method and system for decoding a data burst in a communication system The present invention provides methods and systems for decoding a data burst in a communication system. A data burst, including a plurality of forward error correction (FEC) blocks, is received. At least one FEC block of the data burst is decoded. Thereafter, it is ... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8151159 | Data communications system and data communications method between distributed controllers connected by serial bus A data communications system having a plurality of processing devices connected to a serial via a serial bus interface. The processing device provides a communication control line which connects each processing device in order and performs the transfer of transmissi... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8145970 | Data puncturing ensuring orthogonality within communication systems Data puncturing ensuring orthogonality within communication systems. Puncturing is employed within communication systems to ensure orthogonality (or substantial orthogonality) of various transmissions between communication devices within communication systems. Any o... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8132071 | Transmitting device, receiving device, packet transmission method, packet reception method, and programs for same A network interface unit of a server determines whether the transmission method of transmitting a packet is multicast transmission or unicast transmission; adds to the packet a second FEC when the transmission method of the packets is determined to be multicast tran... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8127196 | Server and client for determining error restoration according to image data transmission, and method of determining error restoration according to image data transmission Provided are a server and client for determining error restoration according to image data transmission, and a method thereof. The server includes a forward error correction (FEC) mode performer to output image data in which a redundant bit for error correction is a... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8108748 | Modulation symbol to outer codeword mapping The subject matter disclosed herein provides an outer coding framework that, in some implementations, provides frequency diversity to outer codewords that are mapped to modulation symbols. In one aspect, there is provided a method. The method may include inserting a... | 01/31/2012 |
| RE43101 | Method and transceiving device for retransmitting erroneous information units in radio links The present invention is related to an error handling in transmission of information units in radio links and in particular it is related to an error handling using automatic repeat request (ARQ) and transmission of information units in mobile communication. To redu... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8074141 | Method and device for transmitting data according to a hybrid ARQ method To achieve a greater flexibility when transmitting data according to a hybrid ARQ method, preferably when used in a mobile radio system, a channel-coded bit stream is divided into at lest one first bit stream (A) and one second bit stream (B, C), whereby these paral... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8060802 | Automatic repeat request (ARQ) apparatus and method of multiple input multiple output (MIMO) system Automatic Repeat reQuest (ARQ) apparatus and method of a Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO system are provided. The ARQ method includes decoding, when one or more packets are received, the received packets and trying to detect the decoded packets; and storing, wh... | 11/15/2011 |
| 7979770 | Method and apparatus for controlling an amount of information in retransmission data packets using hybrid automatic repeat request protocol The present invention relates to a method for transmitting data packets from a mobile terminal to a base station using a hybrid automatic repeat request protocol and soft combining of received data. Further, the present invention provides a base station and a mobile... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7975199 | Relay-assisted HARQ transmission system A method for transmitting data from a source to a destination. The method includes: transmitting the data from the source to both the destination and a relay station within a first transmission; decoding the data in the first transmitting at both the relay station a... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7949924 | Apparatus and method for transmitting/receiving high speed shared control channel in wideband wireless communication system Provided is an apparatus and method for transmitting/receiving an HS-SCCH in a wideband wireless communication system. In a method for transmitting control information in an HARQ wireless communication system, an ACK/NACK fed back from a receiver is monitored to det... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7941724 | Embedded retransmission scheme with cross-packet coding An H-ARQ system wherein the transmission of two consecutive, or sequential, blocks of information bits are considered jointly; i.e., one of the blocks of information being embedded within the other one of the blocks of information. If a retransmission for the first ... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7934137 | Message remapping and encoding Techniques for remapping messages prior to encoding to improve performance are described. L designated messages among K total messages are remapped to L remapped messages, which are associated with L codewords having larger relative distance between these codewords,... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7934138 | Low density parity check code-based hybrid automatic repeat request method A transmission method based on a Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) scheme for in a communication system. A codeword is generated using a Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) code. Parity bits of the codeword are classified on a basis of a transmission priority. Pari... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7921348 | Time monitoring of packet retransmissions during soft handover The present invention relates to a method for scheduling data retransmissions, a method for use in a data retransmission scheme and a method for updating a soft buffer of a base station in a mobile communication system during a soft-handover. The present invention r... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7913145 | Re-transmission control method and communication device A re-transmission control method for a transmitting device that transmits a codeword generated based on a first parity-check matrix to a receiving device, and re-transmits a k-th additional parity generated based on a k-th parity-check matrix to the receiving device... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7904779 | Forward error correction and automatic repeat request joint operation for a data link layer A method and apparatus are provided for error correction of a communication signal. Joint operation of forward error correction (FEC) techniques and automatic repeat request (ARQ) techniques are conducted above a physical layer of a communication network. Forward er... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7882413 | Method and/or system for space-time encoding and/or decoding Time-space encoding and/or decoding may employ time variant linear transformations. Turbo coding and/or decoding may be used in conjunction with the use of time variant linear transformations. Such time variant linear transformations may be unitary in nature. ... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7877660 | Transmitting additional forward error correction (FEC) upon request Systems and methods for providing forward error correction are disclosed in the present disclosure. In one embodiment, among others, a method comprises transmitting a stream of data packets to a receiver and transmitting a first amount of forward error correction (F... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7853853 | Device, system, and method of multi-level feedback Device, system, and method of multi-level feedback. In some embodiments, an apparatus includes: an estimator to estimate a likelihood of correctly decoding an incoming encoded Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request packet of an incoming wireless communication signal by one... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7836373 | Method and apparatus for receiving data in a communication system A method and apparatus is provided for receiving data in a receiver of a communication system. In the receiver, a first calculator calculates a Log Likelihood Ratio (LLR) value of data transmitted from a transmitter, a decoder performs iterative decoding on the tran... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7831882 | Memory system with error detection and retry modes of operation A memory system includes a link having at least one signal line and a controller. The controller includes at least one transmitter coupled to the link to transmit first data, and a first error protection generator coupled to the transmitter. The first error protecti... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7823040 | Method and apparatus for optimal redundancy version (RV) selection for UMTS HSDPA transmissions A method and apparatus for identifying optimal redundancy version (RV) sequences for HSDPA transmissions based on extensive search. In a first embodiment of the present invention, in HSDPA QPSK mode, the transmitter retransmits according to the RV sequence [0 7 3 4 ... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7783949 | Method and apparatus for controlling a transport format of a retransmission The present invention relates to a method for transmitting data packets from a mobile terminal to a base station using a hybrid automatic repeat request protocol and soft combining of received data. Further, the present invention provides a base station and a mobile... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7774672 | Requesting additional forward error correction Systems and methods are disclosed herein for requesting additional forward error correction, when needed, in a communication system. In one exemplary embodiment, among others, a method includes receiving a first set of data packets and a first amount of forward erro... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7761767 | Method and apparatus for retransmission management for reliable hybrid ARQ process A method for transmitting a packet from a transmitter to a receiver in a wireless communication system begins by building a packet by a transport format combination (TFC) selection process, and the packet is transmitted from the transmitter to the receiver. If the t... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7734980 | Mitigating silent data corruption in a buffered memory module architecture Embodiments of the invention are generally directed to systems, apparatuses, and methods for mitigating silent data corruption in a fully-buffered memory module architecture. In an embodiment, a memory controller includes a memory channel bit-lane error detector hav... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7725796 | Allocating data bursts and supporting hybrid auto retransmission request in orthogonal frequency division multiplexing access radio access system The present invention relates to allocating data regions in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing access system. The present invention comprises receiving a message comprising information for locating a data region of a data map allocated to a mobile station... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7725797 | Buffer for storing data and forward error correction (FEC) Systems and methods are disclosed herein for transmitting data packets through a communication system. In one of several embodiments, a communication device in the communication system comprises a buffer configured to store a stream of data packets and forward error... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7698617 | Intelligent switch and method for retransmitting a lost packet to decoder(s) An intelligent switch and method are described herein which help to effectively retransmit a lost packet that is associated with a television broadcast stream to one or more set-top boxes. ... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7685493 | Buffer compression in automatic retransmission request (ARQ) systems A method and system for improving buffer compression in automatic retransmission request (ARQ) systems includes both a compander and decompander for further processing data. A received data string k bits in length is first companded according to a predetermined comp... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7669103 | Encoded transmission Significant improvement in Raptor codes and punctured LDPC codes are obtainable by use of the invention. In both a transmission scheme for Raptor-encoded or LDPC-encoded information, a dynamic adjustment approach is employed. A fraction of a codeword or information ... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7620872 | Apparatus and method for selecting redundancy version An apparatus and method for maximizing throughout for HARQ transmissions is provided. Systematic and prodeduralized RV selection is facilitated by determining the parameter “s” by using two important factors affecting the system throughout, specifically the codi... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7620871 | Method and measuring device for determining an error rate without incremental redundancy A method and device are described for determining an error rate during transmission from a transmitter/receiver station to a transmitter/receiver device and a measuring device. A first data block and at least one other and different redundant block is received by th... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7613979 | Network communication protocol for large scale distribution of streaming content Forward error correction may be implemented in a network having first, second and third nodes. The second node receives streaming media message packets and one or more check packets from an upstream first node. The second node transmits the message packets and check... | 11/03/2009 |
| 7600172 | Method and device for decoding packets of data within a hybrid ARQ scheme A device for decoding an incident FEC encoded packet of data within an ARQ scheme. The device includes a processor or processing means for performing successive decoding processes of successive intermediate FEC code encoded packets related to the incident FEC code e... | 10/06/2009 |
| 7600171 | Method of controlling FEC in EPON A method of controlling a Forward Error Correction (FEC) operation including: configuring a FEC frame to be transmitted between an OLT and an ONU comprising a FEC frame identifier indicating whether FEC should be performed, data, a first flag indicating that FEC sho... | 10/06/2009 |
