26th week of 2010 patent applcation highlights part 36 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20100165960 | PERSONAL ACCESS POINT MEDIA SERVER - In general, media data is stored in a storage medium of a mobile base station. The mobile base station transmits the media data from the mobile base station to a handheld device through a packet data protocol context. | 2010-07-01 |
20100165961 | SOCIAL NETWORKING AND ADVERTISEMENTS IN A MOBILE DEVICE ON A LOCAL PERSONAL AREA NETWORK - Methods and apparatus are disclosed for media access control (MAC) layer processing to support social networking and advertisements over the MAC layer of a local personal area network (PAN). An application interface permits a service category corresponding to the application to be selected, and further permits service announcements corresponding to the application to be advertised. Generator logic may generate the service announcements to be advertised. The MAC layer processor inserts the service announcements into beacons in the local MAC layer of the local PAN and also receives advertisements from other devices over the MAC layer of the local PAN. Monitor logic can monitor the MAC layer of the local PAN for advertisements corresponding to the selected service category. The monitor logic is also operatively coupled with the application interface for displaying advertised services corresponding to the selected service category. | 2010-07-01 |
20100165962 | METHOD OF CONTROLLING COMMUNICATION OF DATA PACKETS BASED ON DIFFERENT COMMUNICATION STANDARDS, A DUAL PLATFORM COMMUNICATION CONTROLLER AND A WIRELESS TRANSCEIVER - A dual platform communication controller, a method of controlling communication of data packets based on different communication standards and a wireless transceiver. In one embodiment, the dual platform communication controller includes: (1) a signal interpreter configured to recognize first data packets based on a first communication standard and second data packets based on a second communication standard and (2) a traffic manager coupled to the signal interpreter and configured to dynamically control communication of the second data packets including active second data packets and allocate bandwidth for communication of the first and second data packets. | 2010-07-01 |
20100165963 | ROBUST UNICAST/BROADCAST/MULTICAST COMMUNICATION PROTOCOL - Methods and apparatus for implementing a robust unicast/broadcast/multicast protocol are provided. In one aspect, a method of avoiding collision of intra-basic service set unicast, broadcast or multicast transmissions notifies stations in the basic service set of a reserved transmit opportunity for a unicast, broadcast or multicast transmission. Transmissions from at least one station in the basic service set are deferred until after the reserved unicast, broadcast or multicast transmit opportunity. | 2010-07-01 |
20100165964 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD AND A COMPUTER PROGRAM - A wireless communication apparatus that transmits data in certain communication interval to a receiving apparatus, using one or more communication channels among a plurality of adjacent communication channels, is provided. The apparatus includes: a setting unit configured to set the one or more communication channels for transmitting the data; a transmission unit configured to transmit the data using the one or more set communication channels; and a detection unit configured to detect interference with other wireless communication apparatuses, when the transmission unit transmits the data using the one or more set communication channels; wherein the setting unit changes the number of the one or more communication channels based on a time duration that the data transmission has been restrained due to the detected interference, and the communication interval. | 2010-07-01 |
20100165965 | DATA TRANSFER BETWEEN WIRELESS DEVICES - A method of data transfer between wireless transmit/receive units (WTRUs) is performed by a sending communication device soliciting environment information relating to active communication devices operating within the local area of the WTRU. The local area of the WTRU may be determined by an environment variable that may be configured to indicate a search radius. Within the local area, information relating to active candidate WTRUs is received through a communication peripheral. User actions on the user interface are converted to electromechanical signals which act as an input along with the environment information to select a target WTRU from the candidate WTRUs to receive the data transfer. The environment information and user input are used to uniquely discriminate the target WTRU as the intended recipient of the data transfer. Transmission instructions are generated based on the solicited information and the user input. | 2010-07-01 |
20100165966 | DYNAMIC APPROPRIATION OF AT LEAST ONE MULTIMEDIA DEVICE DURING CALL SET-UP - The invention relates to a method of dynamic appropriation of at least one second multimedia device by a first device situated in a geographical area in which said at least one second multimedia device is situated in the event of a request to set up a call between the first device and a third device, the method including a step of setting up a first signaling link between a server and the first device and a step of controlling the second and third devices from said server with a view to setting up between the second and third devices at least one first payload data stream forming a first part of said call. | 2010-07-01 |
20100165967 | WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORK SYSTEM USING SPACE-TIME BLOCK CODING (STBC) HAVING BACKWARD COMPATIBILITY WITH PRIOR STANDARDS - A method of communicating data to a receiving antenna from N transmitting antennas, where N is an integer, includes the steps of determining whether a legacy transmission mode has been selected, producing N data streams from outbound data, and applying the N data streams to a space/time encoder to produce N encoded signals. When the legacy transmission mode has not been selected, the N encoded signals are transmitting from N transmitting antennas and when the legacy transmission mode has been selected, the one encoded signal is transmitted from one of the N transmitting antennas. The legacy transmission mode allows receivers to receive and process transmitted signals when the receivers are only configured to receive the transmitted signals from a single transmitting antenna. | 2010-07-01 |
20100165968 | Wireless LAN Control over a Wired Network - Apparatus for mobile communication includes a switch and a plurality of access points, which are arranged in a wireless local area network (WLAN) to communicate over the air on a common frequency channel with a mobile station using a common basic service set identification (BSSID) for all the access points. The access points are coupled by a LAN to the switch so that upon receiving at one or more of the access points an uplink signal transmitted over the WLAN by the mobile station on the common frequency channel, the one or more of the access points convey messages responsively to the uplink signal over the LAN to the switch. A manager node is coupled to the switch so as to receive the messages and is adapted to process the messages so as to select one of the access points to respond to the uplink signal. | 2010-07-01 |
20100165969 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND A COMPUTER PROGRAM - A wireless communication system of the invention comprises a plurality of communication stations decentralized-autonomously construct a network without having a relation between a control station and a station to be controlled under a communication circumstance where a plurality of channels are prepared. In this case, each of the communication stations prepares a plurality of operation modes for activating transmitting and receiving operations, informs the own operation mode, and receives information regarding operation modes of peripheral stations to manage its operation mode of each of the peripheral stations. | 2010-07-01 |
20100165970 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR FAST SYNCHRONIZATION IN A DUAL MODE SYSTEM - A method and apparatus is provided for reducing network synchronization time in a dual-mode access terminal. The dual-mode access terminal supports a first and a second network. The method includes determining if CDMA system time is available within the dual-mode access terminal. In response to determining that CDMA system time is available, the method includes forgoing acquiring the CDMA system time through a pilot acquisition procedure, reading the CDMA system time from a memory, and programming the CDMA system time into a system time unit. In response to determining that CDMA system time is not available, the method includes acquiring the CDMA system time through the pilot acquisition procedure and programming the CDMA system time into the system time unit. | 2010-07-01 |
20100165971 | SCHEDULING METHOD OF WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND APPARATUS ADAPTED THERETO - A scheduling method and an apparatus adapted thereto are disclosed that can allocate sub-carriers to a terminal at the cell edge in a wireless communication. The scheduling method includes, calculating average interference and instantaneous interference of at least two terminals for a sub-carrier, determining whether an interference for the sub-carrier is partial interference, and allocating a corresponding sub-carrier serving as transmission resource to a terminal having a higher ratio of the instantaneous interference compared to the average interference than the other terminal if an interference for the sub-carrier is partial interference. | 2010-07-01 |
20100165972 | Physical structure and design of sounding channel in OFDMA systems - In wireless OFDMA systems, sounding channels are allocated within predefined resource blocks. In a distributed sounding channel allocation scheme, a sounding channel is allocated to meet various design considerations. First, sounding signals do not collide with original pilots transmitted in the same resource block by other mobile stations to achieve good quality channel estimation. Second, sounding pattern does not affect data transmission behavior of other mobile stations in the same resource block. Third, sounding pattern consistency among multiple tiles within each resource block is maintained so that mobile stations do not need to implement additional data mapping rules. In a symbol-based sounding channel allocation scheme, a sounding channel is allocated in the first or the last OFDM symbol of a resource block, while the remaining consecutive OFDM symbols are used for data transmission. The symbol-based sound channel naturally satisfies all design considerations. | 2010-07-01 |
20100165973 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATION - A method for operating an electronic device using a first and a second communication protocols is provided. The electronic device includes an arbitrator to determine whether to communicate in accordance with the first or second communication protocol. The method estimates a period for transmitting a trigger frame by the electronic device, a period for receiving a first acknowledgement (ACK) frame by the electronic device, a period of a backoff procedure, a period for receiving a predetermined number of delivered frames by the electronic device, and a period of transmitting a second ACK frame by the electronic device. All the above estimated periods are added to be a predetermined time period. The trigger frame is transmitted to initiate the electronic device to communicate in accordance with the first communication protocol. The arbitrator determines whether to grant the electronic device to communicate in accordance with the second communication protocol based on the predetermined time period. | 2010-07-01 |
20100165974 | INTERFACE CIRCUIT AND DATA RECEIVING METHOD - An interface circuit for use in a baseband module, and receiving data from a radio frequency module intermittently, the data including a synchronization pattern followed by a payload data, the interface circuit includes: a receiver for receiving data transmitted from the radio frequency module; a timer for indicating estimated time intervals of intermittently transmitted data from the radio frequency module; and a processor for controlling detection of the synchronization pattern in portions of the received data included in a time window designated by the time intervals estimated by the timer, the processor validating detection of the synchronization pattern when at least a part of the data within the time window matches with a predetermined pattern and validating the payload data following the validated synchronization pattern. | 2010-07-01 |
20100165975 | TECHNIQUE FOR SYNCHRONIZING NETWORK ACCESS MODULES IN A MOBILE COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A technique for synchronizing different network access modules in a mobile communication device is provided. A device embodiment ( | 2010-07-01 |
20100165976 | HANDLING EARLY MEDIA IN VOIP COMMUNICATION WITH MULTIPLE ENDPOINTS - Technologies for handling early media in VoIP communications with multiple endpoints are provided. A calling device sends an initial VoIP call request to multiple destination devices, or endpoints. The calling device then receives a provisional response from one or more of the destination devices that includes media streaming parameters regarding the destination device. The calling device creates a media context associated with the destination device that contains the media streaming parameters and stores the media context. The calling device uses the media context to establish a media connection with the destination. One of the destination devices returning a provisional response is selected to exchange early media over the media connection established with the destination device. | 2010-07-01 |
20100165977 | System for Scheduling Routing Rules in a Contact Center Based on Forcasted and Actual Interaction Load and Staffing Requirements - A system for scheduling resources and rules for routing includes a server connected to a network, a scheduling application executable from the server, and at least one programmable software agent for scheduling routing rules. The scheduling application receives statistics about forecast arrival rates for incoming interactions and current resource availability data and schedules resources and routing rules according to the forecast requirements the software agent propagating the portion of scheduling relative to the routing rules. | 2010-07-01 |
20100165978 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING AN AUTOMATED SHOPPING SERVICE IN A TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Method and apparatus for providing an automated shopping service in a telecommunication system are described. In some examples, a call is received via the telecommunication system initiated by a caller. An electronic prompt is played to the caller. An electronic response is received from the caller in response to the electronic prompt. At least one item requested by the caller is automatically detected in the electronic response. A search is performed of at least one shopping source to obtain information associated with the at least one item. The information is sent to towards the caller. | 2010-07-01 |
20100165979 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERALIZED THIRD-PARTY CALL CONTROL IN SESSION INITIATION PROTOCOL NETWORKS - In one embodiment, the present invention is a method and apparatus for generalized third party call control in session initiation protocol networks. In one embodiment, a method for controlling a media negotiation with one or more endpoints in a network includes determining, for each endpoint, a current state of a corresponding port on a third-party controller and transitioning the corresponding port to a new state in accordance with a finite state machine that tracks the state of the media negotiation. | 2010-07-01 |
20100165980 | Usage Of Physical Layer Information In Combination With Signaling And Media Parameters - A plurality of subscriber connections for a plurality of subscribers is established, where the establishment of each subscriber connection includes receiving a connection request message from a subscriber that includes physical layer information identifying a physical access connection on which the connection request message was received. A physical layer identifier is assigned for the subscriber connection that uniquely identifies the subscriber connection and is based on the physical layer information. A first signaling message is received on a first one of the established subscriber connections and includes a subscriber identifier of a subscriber. The subscriber identifier is associated with the physical layer identifier of the first subscriber connection. Subsequently, messages are received that include the subscriber identifier of the subscriber. The ones of those messages that were received on the first subscriber connection are processed. | 2010-07-01 |
20100165981 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING THE ACCESS OF A USER TO A SERVICE PROVIDED IN A DATA NETWORK - Process for controlling the access of a user to a service provided in a data network, to protect user data stored in a data base of the service from unauthorized access, the method comprising: (a) inputting, in a VoIP session, a voice sample of the user at a user data terminal which is at least temporarily connected to the data network, (b) processing, in a first processing step, the user's voice sample using a dedicated client implemented at the user data terminal, to obtain a pre-processed voice sample or a current voice profile of the user, (c) further processing, in a second processing step, the pre-processed voice sample or the current voice profile, including a comparison step of the current voice profile with an initial voice profile stored in a data base, and (d) outputting an access control signal for granting or rejecting access to the service, taking the result of the comparison step into account. | 2010-07-01 |
20100165982 | Method and Apparatus for Creating and Distributing COST Telephony-Switching Functionality within an IP Network - A system for providing and managing IP telephone calls establishes separate and distinct call legs between IP-capable appliances and routers and between routers, and creates calls, changes calls, and manages telephony functions by joining and disjoining calls legs. In some instances one or more call legs disjoined from an active call are maintained as established to be joined later to other call legs to create other active calls. By managing IP calls as separate and distinct legs functions of intelligent, connection-oriented telephony networks may be simulated in IP telephony systems. The management is provided by software running on processors coupled to routers in the IP network. | 2010-07-01 |
20100165983 | SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE FOR A SCALABLE AND DISTRIBUTED MULTI-STAGE SWITCH FABRIC - In some embodiments, an apparatus includes a first housing, a second housing and at least one cable. The first housing includes a first interface card of a switch fabric. The second housing includes a second interface card of the switch fabric and a third interface card of the switch fabric. The second interface card of the switch fabric is operatively and physically coupled to the third interface card of the switch fabric via a midplane. The second interface card defines a plane that is nonparallel to the a plane defined by the third interface card and a plane defined by the midplane. The plane defined by the third interface card is nonparallel to the plane defined by the second interface card and the plane defined by the midplane. The cable is configured to operatively couple the first interface card to the second interface card. | 2010-07-01 |
20100165984 | METHODS AND APPARATUS RELATED TO A MODULAR SWITCH ARCHITECTURE - In some embodiments, an apparatus includes a first housing, a second housing and at least one cable. The first housing includes a first interface card of a switch fabric. The second housing includes a second interface card of the switch fabric and a third interface card of the switch fabric. The second interface card of the switch fabric is operatively and physically coupled to the third interface card of the switch fabric via a midplane. The second interface card defines a plane that is nonparallel to the a plane defined by the third interface card and a plane defined by the midplane. The plane defined by the third interface card is nonparallel to the plane defined by the second interface card and the plane defined by the midplane. The cable is configured to operatively couple the first interface card to the second interface card. | 2010-07-01 |
20100165985 | Service Selection Mechanism In Service Insertion Architecture Data Plane - As described herein, explicit service ordering information may be associated with each of a plurality of logical services in a service path. A unique sequence number, for example, may be assigned, and associated with each service in the path. The sequence number may be assigned by a service broker in the control plane of a service insertion architecture that provides a platform-independent framework to insert services into a network. The sequence number may represent the relative ordering of the service with respect to the other services in the path. The sequence number, along with a traffic classification identifier, constitutes the shared context that is tagged to the packet injected into the chain which is used in the SIA data plane to virtualize and uniquely select series of services defined in the policy. | 2010-07-01 |
20100165986 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR STP-AWARE SUBSCRIBER MANAGEMENT - A method and system for STP-aware subscriber management is disclosed for managing redundant access ports. The STP-aware system includes Access Loop Pairs which provide continuity of subscriber management information in the event of an access port failure. The STP-aware subscriber management system is particularly useful for overcoming the requirements for extra ports within Link Access Group configured access networks known in the art. | 2010-07-01 |
20100165987 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE, SYSTEM AND METHOD TO FORM COMMUNICATION ROUTE - There is provided a communication device including a score information storage unit to store score information indicating a score as an evaluated value of a communication path; a receiver unit to receive a route connection notice including current score information; a routing unit to acquire the score information stored in the score information storage unit, and select the communication path next to the communication path based on the acquired score information of the communication path; a score updating unit to add a score of the communication path selected by the routing unit to the current score of the partial communication route indicated by the current score information, and update the current score information to the added score as a new current score; and a transmission unit to transmit the route connection notice including the current score information. | 2010-07-01 |
20100165988 | PROCESS TO PRODUCE BIOMASS AND PROTEINS BY MICROALGAE - The invention relates to a method for managing multicast traffic between routers communicating by means of a protocol integrating PIM protocol; and router and switch involved in said method. The routers send messages according to said protocol to request or to reject a type of multicast traffic. At least one of said routers is an improved router ( | 2010-07-01 |
20100165989 | BINARY TREES FOR MULTICAST TRAFFIC - A network device may include an input device and a packet forwarding engine. The input device receives a data packet. The packet forwarding engine includes logic configured to determine that the data packet is to be multicast. The logic is also configured to identify one of multiple forwarding schemes, where each of the forwarding schemes is configured such that the packet forwarding engine generates and forwards no more than two copies of the data packet. | 2010-07-01 |
20100165990 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EFFICIENT MULTICAST HANDLING - A network device constructs a notification corresponding to a received multicast data unit, where the notification includes administrative data associated with the multicast data unit that does not include a payload of the multicast data unit. The network device replicates the notification at least three different processing elements at different locations in a processing path of the network device to produce multiple replicated data items and produces a copy of the multicast data unit for each of replicated notifications. The network device forwards each copy of the multicast data unit towards a multicast destination. | 2010-07-01 |
20100165991 | SIMD processing of network packets - Executing a single instruction/multiple data (SIMD) instruction of a program to process a vector of data wherein each element of the packet vector corresponds to a different received packet. | 2010-07-01 |
20100165992 | Transmission system, device and method that prevent data loss - This specification discloses a transmission system, device and method that prevent data loss. The invention uses a first channel and a second channel to send same packet encapsulating same target data to a receiving end. After confirming the reception of the packet, the receiving end drops the duplicated packet. The receiving end only processes yet processed packet. This technique can reduce the chances of losing data. | 2010-07-01 |
20100165993 | Operator Managed Virtual Home Network - A virtual network and method for providing an operator-managed home LAN service. The access interface enables definition of the virtual network. Each user device in the home LAN is provided with an IP address within the same IP domain space. The access interface enables communication between user devices and external networks via the virtual network by providing external operator-managed service entities such as a Network Address Translator/Firewall (NAT/FW) and service gateways. | 2010-07-01 |
20100165994 | METHOD OF SELECTIVELY AND SEAMLESSLY SEGREGATING SAN TRAFFIC IN I/O CONSOLIDATED NETWORKS - Methods and apparatus for segregating traffic are disclosed. In accordance with one embodiment, a traffic splitter identifies a set of links coupled to the traffic splitter, where the set of links includes two or more uplinks, wherein each of the two or more uplinks are implemented in a common physical media. The two or more uplinks include a LAN uplink coupled to a LAN and a SAN uplink coupled to a SAN. The traffic splitter prevents SAN traffic from reaching the LAN via the LAN uplink. In addition, the traffic splitter prevents LAN traffic from reaching the SAN via the SAN uplink. | 2010-07-01 |
20100165995 | ROUTING FRAMES IN A COMPUTER NETWORK USING BRIDGE IDENTIFIERS - Methods, apparatus, and products for routing frames in a network using bridge identifiers, wherein the network includes a plurality of bridge nodes. At least one of the bridge nodes operates as an ingress bridge node through which frames are received into the network. At least one of the bridge nodes operates as an egress bridge node through which frames are transmitted out of the network. One of the bridge nodes receives, from the ingress bridge node, a frame for transmission to a destination node. The destination node connects to the network through the egress bridge node. The frame includes an ingress bridge identifier and an egress bridge identifier. The bridge that received the frame then routes the frame to the egress bridge node through which the destination node connects to the network in dependence upon the ingress bridge identifier and the egress bridge identifier included in the frame. | 2010-07-01 |
20100165996 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EXCHANGING DATA BETWEEN A FIRST DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM AND A SECOND DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM VIA AN AT LEAST PARTLY PUBLIC COMMUNICATION NETWORK - Communication system for exchanging data, via a communication network at least partly accessible to the public, between a first data processing system and a second data processing system, includes a first data processing system adapted to communicate according to a communication protocol, wherein the first data processing system is linked via a first coupling to the communication network at least partly accessible to the public, and a second data processing system, includes at least one data processing system, adapted to communicate according to the communication protocol, wherein the second data processing system is linked via a second coupling to the communication network at least partly accessible to the public, characterized in that at least one of the couplings comprises a data connection inaccessible to data traffic according to the communication protocol. | 2010-07-01 |
20100165997 | PATH SWITCHING METHOD, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, COMMUNICATION DEVICE, AND PROGRAM - When switching every path which uses as a relay point a communication device including a removal target resource, to another path having a route not passing through the removal target resource, a maintenance person transmits a removal preparation request specifying the removal target resource to the relay point communication device. Upon receiving the removal preparation request, the communication device detects a path identifier and a start point communication device of each path passing through the removal target resource, and transmits a path switching request specifying the path identifier and the removal target resource, to the start point communication device. Upon receiving the path switching request, the communication device computes a route of another path not passing through the removal target resource and having the same start point and end point as those of the identified path, and after setting the other path having the computed route, disconnects the identified path. | 2010-07-01 |
20100165998 | COMMUNICATION NODE, AND RING CONFIGURATION METHOD AND RING ESTABLISHMENT METHOD IN COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A plurality of communication nodes are one-to-one connected to each other by Ethernet (registered trademark) which is duplicated with a normal-system ring and with a standby-system ring. The communication node includes an A port, a B port, and a communication processor that performs a process of receiving a frame output from the B port and a process of transmitting the frame from the normal-system ring from the B port when the communication is normal. When other communication node performs a loop-back process due to communication abnormality, the communication node performs only a process of forwarding a frame input from the standby-system ring in the B port without receiving the frame and performs a process of transmitting the frame from the A port to the standby-system ring. | 2010-07-01 |
20100165999 | METHOD OF COMMUNICATION BETWEEN A SOURCE NODE AND A DESTINATION NODE BOTH BELONGING TO A VEHICULAR NETWORK - A method of communication between a source node in motion and a destination node. The method includes the following steps implemented by the destination node: receiving a packet sent by the source node, said packet including current mobility information relating to the source node; and, for routing at least one response packet intended for the source node: predicting a location geographical area of the source node from the current mobility information relating to the source node contained in said packet received therefrom beforehand, the geographical area thus predicted purportedly being a destination geographical area; at least one step of sending to the destination geographical zone another packet containing said response packet and the destination geographical zone and, if appropriate, passing in transit through at least one intermediate node of a vehicular network. | 2010-07-01 |
20100166000 | Broadbrand Switched Multiplexer - A broadband switched multiplexer comprising an input broadband demultiplexer ( | 2010-07-01 |
20100166001 | Boundary Routers Providing Redistribution and Related Backbone Networks, Computer Program Products, and Methods - A backbone network may include first and second border routers and a route reflector. The first border router may provide data connectivity between the backbone network and a first regional network. The first border router may be configured to receive a notification of a change in status of an edge router of the first regional network, and the notification may be received according to a first routing protocol. The first border router may be further configured to redistribute the notification of the change in status of the edge router from the first routing protocol to a second routing protocol with the first and second routing protocols being different. The second border router may provide data connectivity between the backbone network and a second regional network. The route reflector may be coupled between the first and second border routers, and the route reflector may be configured to transfer the redistributed notification from the first border router to the second border router. Related routers, methods, and computer program products are also discussed. | 2010-07-01 |
20100166002 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF CONNECTING TWO NETWORKS - In accordance with an aspect of the present invention, a method is provided for establishing connection between a first local area network and a second local area network. The first local area network includes a first device and a second device. The second local area network includes a third device. The method comprises establishing a security connection between the third device and the first device; detecting a status of the second device; creating a virtual device based on the second device; and establishing connection between the second device and the third device via the virtual device. | 2010-07-01 |
20100166003 | LOCATOR RESOLUTION IN COMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS - A set of globally-reachable attachment registers is provided for objects in an internetwork of interconnected communications networks. “Objects” can be networks, hosts or terminals, or passive objects which themselves do not have a network interface. Each attachment register corresponds to an object in the internetwork. The attachment registers are not located with their respective object. Information is stored in the attachment registers that establishes one or more logical links between the attachment registers. The information is used to perform one or more network communication functions, and in particular to determine a locator by identifying a logical path, along the logical links between attachment registers, from a destination attachment register corresponding to the destination object. Other non-limiting example functions include location registration and update, name to global locator resolution, routing, multi-homing, dynamic ISP selection, and handover. | 2010-07-01 |
20100166004 | INFORMATION TRANSMISSION AND SERVICE INTEGRATION SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREOF - An information transmission and service integration system for transmitting a message between at least one information transmission device and at least one service providing terminal is provided. The information transmission and service integration system includes an interface registry repository, a device gateway, and a service gateway. The interface registry repository stores device interface meta-data (DIMD) of the information transmission device and service interface meta-data (SIMD) of the service providing terminal. The device gateway detects and adapts the information transmission device according to the DIMD information. The service gateway transforms and transmits the message between the information transmission device and the service providing terminal according to the DIMD information and the SIMD information. Thereby, the information transmission and service integration system can automatically establish an information transmission channel between the information transmission device and the server-providing terminal. | 2010-07-01 |
20100166005 | MECHANISM FOR UPDATING THE PARAMETERS OF A PSEUDOWIRE - A method is provided for communicating between first and second routers, the routers being part of a packet-switched network. The method includes a stage of transmitting data over a pseudowire set up between the first and second routers, the data being transmitted in accordance with a parameter of the pseudowire. The method includes at least one step of sending a modification request message of the parameter at the initiative of one of the two routers, to the other router, and during the stage of transmission over the pseudowire. Also, a method is provided for processing data transmitted over such a pseudowire. The method includes a stage of transmission of data over the pseudowire, the data being transmitted in accordance with a parameter of the pseudowire. The method includes, during the transmission stage, at least one of the routers receiving a modification request message of the parameter of the pseudowire. | 2010-07-01 |
20100166006 | METHOD, MEDIA GATEWAY AND SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING REDUNDANT DATA PACKET TRANSMISSION - A method for controlling redundant data packet transmission is provided, which includes: transmitting data packets between media gateways; and controlling whether to transmit redundant data packets between the media gateways according to a packet loss condition of the data packets detected by the media gateways during the transmission of the data packets. A media gateway and a system for controlling redundant data packet transmission are also provided. Accordingly, the function of redundant data packets is fully achieved and it is controlled in real time whether to transmit redundant data packets according to the packet loss environment of the network. Thus, when it is detected that packet loss occurs, the quality of service is guaranteed by sending the redundant data packets, and when it is detected that no packet loss occurs, the network bandwidth resources are effectively saved by sending ordinary data packets carrying no redundant data. | 2010-07-01 |
20100166007 | Advanced Elastic Time Recovery Mechanism Using Wildcard Searches - A scheduler for a server includes a timestamp associative array for storing timestamps. The scheduler includes an advanced elastic time recovery mechanism having a processor in communication with the associative array which uses a wildcard search to find at least one timestamp in the associative array to schedule for service by the server in a single search, and to increment operational time by more than 1 in a given clock cycle. A method of using a scheduler for a server includes the steps of storing timestamps in a timestamp associative array. There is the step of using a wildcard search of an advanced elastic time recovery mechanism having a processor in communication with the associative array to find a timestamp in the associative array to schedule for service by the server in a single search. There is the step of incrementing operational time by more than 1 in a given clock cycle. | 2010-07-01 |
20100166008 | DIGITAL DATA TRANSMITTING APPARATUS AND DIGITAL DATA RECEIVING APPARATUS - To provide a digital data transmitting apparatus and a digital data receiving apparatus that can realize, even when a transmission channel characteristic changes because of aged deterioration or the like of a relay, improvement of a reception performance following the change. | 2010-07-01 |
20100166009 | VARIABLE-FREQUENCY NETWORK DEVICE AND VARIABLE-FREQUENCY NETWORK CONNECTION ESTABLISHING METHOD - A variable-frequency network connection establishing method is adapted for establishing a connection between a local network device and a remote network device. The variable-frequency network connection establishing method includes the steps of: providing a plurality of local communications protocols including a local standard communications protocol and a local variable-frequency communications protocol to the remote network device; receiving a remote communications protocol provided by the remote network device; generating an indicator signal in accordance with the remote communications protocol and the plurality of local communications protocols; and operating in one of a standard mode and variable-frequency mode according to the indicator signal. | 2010-07-01 |
20100166010 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE, INTEGRATED CIRCUIT, TRANSMISSION RATE CONTROL METHOD, AND TRANSMISSION RATE CONTROL PROGRAM - A signal transmitted to an STA | 2010-07-01 |
20100166011 | Method, apparatus and system for realizing dynamic correlation of control plane traffic rate - The present disclosure relates to the field of communications, and more particularly to a method, an apparatus and a system for realizing dynamic correlation of control plane traffic rate. The method includes: receiving a punted-to-control-plane bandwidth rate value currently required by at least one protocol, the control plane traffic bandwidth rate value currently required by the at least one protocol being obtained from current status information of the at least one protocol; and assigning a bandwidth for the at least one protocol in accordance with the punted-to-control-plane bandwidth rate value currently required by the at least one protocol. The method ensures that the bandwidth assigned by the forwarding engine module for each protocol conforms to the practical circumstance of the protocol, and makes it possible that normal operation of the protocol is not only satisfied, but the bandwidth of the CPU channel is also not wasted due to excessive assignment. | 2010-07-01 |
20100166012 | Method and Apparatus for Assigning And Allocating Network Resources to Layer 1 Virtual Private Networks - Network resources are assigned as dedicated, shared, or public network resources. The resources are then allocated to L1-VPN subscribers on demand. Splitting assignment of the resources from allocation of the resources enables resources to be assigned to more than one subscriber on the network. Temporary physical dedication of the resources to one of the subscribers may be accomplished by allocating the assigned resources on demand, so that particular subscribers are provided with dedicated resources on an as-needed basis. Dedication of the network resources allows the network resources to be configured, managed, and controlled by the customers. The network resources may be optical resources and the links may be time slots on particular fibers. Optionally, by enabling prioritization to cause displacement of link allocations, additional flexibility may be obtained in allocating links to L1-VPNs such as by allowing the use of private and shared resources by other subscribers. | 2010-07-01 |
20100166013 | RECOGNITION SYSTEMS BASED ON PATTERN MATCHING - A recognition system for recognizing a data packet includes a data memory for storing data units in a predetermined order. A first data unit includes an instruction for determining a characteristic of the data packet. The first data unit also includes the total number of the data units, and a corresponding sequence number for the first data unit. The recognition system further includes a matching processor coupled to the data memory. The matching processor can execute the instruction in the first data unit to generate a result. The matching processor can also provide an address pointer according to the execution result, the total number of the data units, and the corresponding sequence number of the first data unit. | 2010-07-01 |
20100166014 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR RECOMBINING MULTI-PROTOCOL ENCAPSULATION (MPE) PACKETS - Provided is an apparatus and method for recombining multi-protocol encapsulation (MPE) packets. The apparatus includes the steps of: a buffer for buffering transport stream (TS) packets; a first memory for temporally storing residue data; a second memory for storing a residue data existence flag and length information of data; a MPE recombination processor for analyzing header information, storing the length information of an MPE packet, creating an asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) cell header, reading packet data, creating and outputting an ATM adaptive layer 0 (AALO-ATM) cell and the read packet data, updating the length information of the data, reading the residue data, reading insufficient data and creating an AALO-ATM cell; and a segmentation and reassemble (SAR) processor for buffering the AALO-ATM cell, and transporting the AALO-ATM cell. | 2010-07-01 |
20100166015 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DYNAMIC FRAGMENTATION OF PACKETS BY COMMUNICATION NETWORK NODES - Methods and devices are disclosed for dynamically fragmenting packets transmitted in a communications network. Fragments are generated by splitting a packet based on a value of a fragment size parameter. A first fragment is sent to a receiving node. As the sending node, a transmission success parameter is determined that indicates whether the first fragment was successfully received. Based on the value of the transmission success parameter, a link quality parameter value representing a chance a second fragment having the same size as the first fragment will be successfully received by the receiving node is updated. The sending node compares the value of the link quality parameter and a value of a quality threshold parameter and changes the value of the fragment size parameter based on a result of the comparison. | 2010-07-01 |
20100166016 | PACKET HEADER STRUCTURE - The present invention relates to a data packet header comprising a first bit field consisting of a first sequence of bits with identical values and a second bit field consisting of a second sequence of bits, the second sequence of bits being subject to a run-length restriction, and located immediately after the first sequence of bits in the order of transmission. The number of bits in the first sequence is equal to or exceeding the run-length restriction and the bits of the second sequence have opposite identical values to the value of the first bit of the second sequence of bits. The invention equally relates to a correlator for detecting a data stream and arranged to determine a correct clock phase for the data stream. | 2010-07-01 |
20100166017 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING PACKET - Provided is a packet processing apparatus and method for audio/video (AV) data transmission, in which a simple protocol optimized for AV data transmission is used. Information distinguishing a data packet from a control packet may be included in a data link layer packet header, so that a data packet and a control packet may be distinguished from each other and thereby may be processed according to different procedures. | 2010-07-01 |
20100166018 | Method for generating multimedia files intended to be transmitted by packets in a peer-to-peer network - The present invention relates to a method for generating multimedia files intended to be transmitted via a peer-to-peer network by packets of the same size, each of these multimedia files being obtained from an intermediary file comprising:
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20100166019 | SUBSCRIBER LINE INTERFACE CIRCUITRY WITH INTEGRATED SERIAL INTERFACES - Methods and apparatus for communicating include communicating frames of data having a first timeslot allocation of s timeslots serially from a first device to a second device using a first unidirectional data line at a frequency f | 2010-07-01 |
20100166020 | MLPPP SEQUENCE NUMBER SYNCHRONIZATION BETWEEN THE ACTIVE AND STANDBY TRANSMITTERS - A method and system for MLPPP sequence number synchronization between the active and standby side transmitters is disclosed. The MLPPP sequence number synchronization system includes a method for the standby side to associate transmit frame fragment numbers used by the active side to those generated by the transmitter on the standby side. The association is used to produce an offset which is used to synchronize the active and standby transmitters. The MLPPP sequence number synchronization system is particularly useful for overcoming the drawbacks of high bandwidth signaling between active and standby sides of switches known in the art. | 2010-07-01 |
20100166021 | SUBSCRIBER LINE INTERFACE CIRCUITRY WITH INTEGRATED SERIAL INTERFACES - Methods and apparatus for synchronizing communications between a first and a second device include serially communicating a frame having a first format from a first device to a second device, wherein only a frame synchronization timeslot (F1) is asserted. The serially communicated frame having the first format is sampled by the second device until the asserted F1 timeslot is detected. The second device serially communicates a frame having a second format to the first device, wherein only a frame synchronization timeslot (R1) is asserted. The serially communicated frame having the second format is sampled by the first device until the asserted R1 timeslot is detected. The first device establishes synchronization when these steps are successfully repeated. On the second sampling to detect the F1 timeslot, however, the sampling is windowed to less than one timeslot within the expected occurrence of the F1 timeslot. | 2010-07-01 |
20100166022 | SYNCHRONIZATION CONTROL DEVICE OF SLAVE DEVICES CONNECTED TO NETWORK AND METHOD THEREOF - The present disclosure relates to a synchronization control device and method of slave devices connected to a network capable of synchronizing operations of the slave devices, wherein a communication module generates a first synchronization signal and a second synchronization signal according to a distributed clock function, generating, by a processor, a control data for driving an actuator according to the first synchronization signal, outputting to a driver the control data if a synchronization interrupt is generated by the first synchronization signal, and inputting and processing, by the processor, a reception data of the communication module to generate the control data, and generating a timer interrupt on a period set up by a timer according to control of the processor, and generating, by the processor, the control data to output the generated control data to the driver if the first synchronization signal is not generated but the timer interrupt is generated. | 2010-07-01 |
20100166023 | PCR Clock Recovery in an IP Network - An IP network includes a central entity and at least one customer premises equipment (CPE) device. The central entity generates a program clock reference (PCR) clock and provides audio-visual packets to a CPE based on the PCR clock. The CPE sets a first clock based on the PCR clock for decoding operations. The CPE sets a second clock that is independent from the first clock for audio and video output operations. For example, the CPE can process the audio-visual packets using the second clock. | 2010-07-01 |
20100166024 | DATA TRANSMITTING APPARATUS AND DATA RECEIVING APPARATUS - This invention relates to a data transmitting apparatus and a data receiving apparatus, which multiplexes and transmits HD-SDI signals, and which receives the multiplexed and transmitted HD-SDI signals. The data transmitting apparatus is characterized by being equipped with a parallel data forming section which forms word string data De based on HD-SDI signals DHS of n channels, a data multiplexing section which obtains multiplex word string data Dm based on De, a multiple channel data forming section which forms bit string data DSX of m channels from Dm, a data multiplexing and P/S converting section which forms bit string data DTG based on DSX and in which a bit rate is set to 10 Gb/s or more, and an electric photo converting section which sends away DTG. | 2010-07-01 |
20100166025 | High-power short-wavelength fiber laser device - A high-power, short-wavelength fiber laser device combines the known advantages and well-developed technology of long-wavelength fiber lasers with the concepts of both non-linear frequency doubling and non-linear sum frequency mixing to generate visible blue laser light at a wavelength of about 427 nm. The device includes a thulium fiber laser emitting light at a wavelength of 1900 nm, and an erbium fiber laser emitting light at a wavelength of 1550 nm. The light from each of the fiber lasers is frequency doubled in respective non-linear converters, resulting in respective light sources at 950 nm and 775 nm. The resulting 950 nm and 775 nm light is combined and mixed in a non-linear sum frequency mixer to produce a single short-wavelength beam of light having a wavelength of about 427 nm. | 2010-07-01 |
20100166026 | High-power narrowed-linewidth fiber laser system - A high-power narrow-linewidth fiber laser system includes a seed oscillator with multiple resonant cavities and an amplifier stage. The seed oscillator includes a gain fiber, a pump source to introduce pump light into the gain fiber, a single-mode output fiber arranged at the end of the active gain fiber, a first resonant cavity including the active gain fiber, and a second resonant cavity including the active gain fiber. The first and second resonant cavities cooperate to minimize the synchronization of longitudinal modes and thereby reduce modal beating. The amplifier preferably includes an active multimode gain fiber capable of supporting a single fundamental mode at the signal wavelength, wherein the single mode output fiber of the seed oscillator and the multimode gain fiber of the amplifier are mode-matched and coupled without a mode converter. | 2010-07-01 |
20100166027 | LASER APPARATUS WITH ALL OPTICAL-FIBER - A laser apparatus with all optical-fiber includes a plurality of pumping light sources in different wave bands and an optical-fiber laser system. The optical-fiber laser system includes an optical fiber at least doped with erbium (Er) element and doped with or not doped with ytterbium (Yb) element according to a need. The optical-fiber laser system outputs a laser light through the pumping light source. | 2010-07-01 |
20100166028 | LASER APPARATUS AND OUTPUT CONTROL METHOD OF LASER APPARATUS - A laser apparatus includes: a laser light source; an output member for receiving and transmitting a laser light flux generated by the laser light flux, and outputting a laser light flux; an optical aligning member for positioning the laser light flux generated by the laser light source to the output member; a drive for driving the optical aligning member; a drive controller; an output detector for outputting a detected output representing an intensity of a laser light flux outputted from the output member; and an output controller. The drive controller controls the drive to drive the optical aligning member and the output controller changes a power of the laser light flux generated by the light source, based on the detected output. | 2010-07-01 |
20100166029 | Apparatus for selectively distributing energy from a laser beam - An assembly for distributing laser energy is provided that is formed using a compact rigid housing with a sealed beam path contained therein. The assembly employs a monolithic housing with modular collimator and mirror switching components installed therein to reduce its size while maintaining a sealed beam path thereby reducing the possibility of contamination of the beam path. Other than the optics and mirror, there are no elements of the distribution device contained within the beam path. In one embodiment, the assembly distributes incoming energy from a single source to one or more outputs. In another embodiment, the assembly operates as a beam combiner to direct energy from one or more sources to a single output. | 2010-07-01 |
20100166030 | EXPOSURE APPARATUS, LIGHT SOURCE APPARATUS AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING DEVICE - An apparatus exposes a substrate via a pattern of a reticle using pulsed light generated by a light source, and includes a controller configured to control the light source so that the oscillation frequency of the light source changes periodically while the apparatus exposes the substrate. The oscillation frequency is the number of times of emission of the light source per unit time. | 2010-07-01 |
20100166031 | LASER DIODE DRIVER ARCHITECTURES - Laser diode driver architectures are disclosed. Some example current drivers are described, including a current channel to provide an output current. The current channel includes a current mirror with emitter degeneration, a startup transistor coupled to the current mirror to generate a DC bias on the current mirror, a beta helper circuit coupled to the current mirror and the startup transistor, to maintain the DC bias on the current mirror, and a cutoff transistor coupled to an emitter terminal of a current mirror transistor and to a reference voltage, to selectively couple the emitter terminal to the reference voltage to conduct the pre-determined output current. The example current drivers also include an output stage coupled to the output of the current mirror and to an output device, wherein the output stage provides a current gain in response to the cutoff transistor coupling the emitter terminal to the reference voltage. | 2010-07-01 |
20100166032 | Buried Aperture Nitride Light-Emiting Device - A buried aperture in a nitride light emitting device is described. The aperture is formed in an aperture layer, typically an amorphous or polycrystalline material over an active layer that includes a nitride material. The aperture layer material typically also includes nitride. The aperture layer is etched to create an aperture which is filled with a conducting material by epitaxial regrowth. The amorphous layer is crystallized forming an electrically resistive material during or before regrowth. The conducting aperture in the electrically resistive material is well suited for directing current into a light emitting region of the active layer. | 2010-07-01 |
20100166033 | SEMICONDUCTOR LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE - A semiconductor light-emitting device includes a substrate, a first cladding layer over the substrate, an active region on the first cladding layer, and a second cladding layer on the active region, wherein the active region includes a first type barrier layer that is doped and a second type barrier layer that is undoped, the first type barrier layer being closer to the first cladding layer than the second type barrier layer. | 2010-07-01 |
20100166034 | SURFACE EMITTING LASER - When configuring a surface emitting laser by a semiconductor material not capable of largely extracting a refractive-index difference, the surface emitting laser using a photonic crystal capable of forming a waveguide is provided. | 2010-07-01 |
20100166035 | TEMPERATURE MEASURING DEVICE - A temperature measuring device includes an IPTAT generator for generating an IPTAT for generating a band gap reference voltage, and a voltage forwarder for generating an analogous temperature voltage corresponding to a mirror current which is a mirrored current of the IPTAT, thereby permitting to embody the temperature measuring device with SOC techniques using a digital CMOS process such that the temperature measuring device occupies small overall area. | 2010-07-01 |
20100166036 | System and method for remote temperature sensing - An apparatus and method are disclosed for temperature measurement that includes performing a first ΔVbe measurement of a first temperature of a diode circuit comprising a transistor and, subsequently, performing a first Vbe measurement of a second temperature of the diode circuit. A temperature difference is calculated between the second temperature and the first temperature. If the temperature difference is not greater than a predetermined amount, a second Vbe measurement of a third temperature of the diode circuit is subsequently performed. If the temperature difference is greater than the predetermined amount, a second ΔVbe measurement of the second temperature of the diode circuit is performed. | 2010-07-01 |
20100166037 | UWB TRANSMISSION APPARATUS AND UWB TRANSMISSION METHOD - A UWB transmission apparatus that, in a system using a mixture of amplitude and phase modulation schemes, can support both of the amplitude and phase modulation schemes, while preventing the signal powers of amplitude-modulated signals from degrading. In this UWB transmission apparatus, if the modulation mode is of QPSK, a mapping part ( | 2010-07-01 |
20100166038 | DEVICE AND METHOD OF FEEDING BACK CHANNEL INFORMATION - Provided is a channel information feedback method for a multiple input multiple output (MIMO) communication system. A terminal may provide feedback information generated by manipulating estimates of downlink channels using a plurality of spreading sequences. A base station may processes the feedback information provided from the terminal, and recognize channel information for each downlink channel. | 2010-07-01 |
20100166039 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR GENERATING SMALL-SIZE SPREAD SPECTRUM CLOCK SIGNAL - An apparatus and method for generating a small-size spread spectrum clock signal that can include generating a reference clock signal by dividing an external clock signal, detecting frequency and phase differences between a reference clock signal and a comparison clock signal as error signals, modulating a controlled voltage corresponding to the current in accordance with a modulation control signal, outputting an oscillation clock signal having a frequency oscillated according to the modulated controlled voltage as a spectrum-spread version of the external clock signal, and generating the comparison clock signal by dividing the oscillation clock signal, and then compensating for the modulation of the controlled voltage in accordance with a demodulation magnitude that is generated for use in compensating for the modulation magnitude. | 2010-07-01 |
20100166040 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ADAPTING AN EFFECTIVE SPREADING SEQUENCE IN A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM USING DIRECT SEQUENCE SPREADING - A method and system for adapting an effective spreading sequence in a wire-line or a wireless communication system using direct sequence spreading system is described. A station of the communication system determines a state of a communication channel, represented by, e.g., an impulse response, a step response, or any other characteristic known to one skilled in the art. The station determines the channel state by measurements of a received signal or by receiving a feedback signal comprising an information enabling the station to determine the plurality of linearly related phases The station then determines a plurality of linearly related phases in accordance with the state of the communication channel, and then applies at least one of the plurality of linearly related phases to at least one sample of the effective spreading sequence. | 2010-07-01 |
20100166041 | COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM EMPLOYING ORTHOGONAL CHAOTIC SPREADING CODES - Methods for code-division multiplex communications. The methods involve generating orthogonal or statistically orthogonal chaotic spreading codes (CSC | 2010-07-01 |
20100166042 | Synchronization of Separated Platforms in an HD Radio Broadcast Single Frequency Network - A broadcasting method includes: using a first transmitter to send a signal including a plurality of frames of data synchronized with respect to a first GPS pulse signal, receiving the signal at a first remote transmitter, synchronizing the frames to a second GPS pulse signal at the first remote transmitter, and transmitting the synchronized frames from the remote transmitter to a plurality of receivers. A system that implements the method is also provided. | 2010-07-01 |
20100166043 | MC-CDMA SYSTEM, TRANSMITTER AND RECEIVER - A MC-CDMA transmitter and an MC-CDMA receiver are provided, which use a novel orthogonal spreading code that allows an effect by a delay wave to appear in only a specific user. An MC-CDMA system includes: a transmitter which multiplies a transmitting signal by a sinusoidal signal which has an amplitude of r and is orthogonal as a result that the frequency periods are different among users, in a frequency domain to be spread and split into orthogonal sub-carriers, and multiplexes the sub-carriers; and a receiver for receiving a transmitting signal from the transmitter in a manner that a sinusoidal signal, which has an amplitude of r and is orthogonal as a result that the frequency periods are different among users, is multiplied by the transmitting signal in a frequency domain, and the resultant is inversely spread. | 2010-07-01 |
20100166044 | PHASE BASED MEASUREMENT CORRECTIONS - A method for providing correction values for phase based measurements. Where averaging techniques are employed for exploiting redundancy in multiple measurements, by constraining the phase ambiguity in a correction value to be an integer multiple of the carrier wavelength, carrier phase based measurements can be used. | 2010-07-01 |
20100166045 | METHOD FOR OBTAINING PRECISE SAMPLING FREQUENCY OF GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM (GPS) - A method for obtaining a precise sampling frequency of a global positioning system (GPS) is applied in a GPS receiver. First, a radio frequency (RF) module of the GPS receiver is used to receive a satellite signal from at least one satellite. Then, a plurality of code delays of the satellite signal is calculated at a fixed time interval, and time differences between all adjacent two code delays among all the obtained code delays are calculated to obtain a plurality of time differences. Next, a mean value of all the obtained time differences is calculated. At last, a ratio between 1000 times of the mean value and the fixed time interval is calculated to obtain an error value, and the error is added to a standard sampling frequency of the RF module to obtain a new sampling frequency. | 2010-07-01 |
20100166046 | Method of processing a digital signal derived from a direct-sequence spread spectrum signal - In a GNSS receiver data sequences derived from a digital signal each with an internally generated correlation sequence derived from a basic sequence and mixed with frequency signals corresponding to various Doppler frequencies and in various phase positions with respect to the data sequence are correlated and the correlation values evaluated. In difficult conditions, e.g., RF levels of the signal of −145 dBm and less, correlation values produced with the same correlation sequence and phase position but with a plurality of data sequences are evaluated together in that, in an evaluator ( | 2010-07-01 |
20100166047 | METHOD FOR DETECTING SATELLITE NAVIGATION RECEIVED SIGNAL AND APPARATUS THEREOF - Provided are a method for detecting a received signal and an apparatus for detecting a satellite navigation received signal using the same. The present invention provides cells where a correlation value obtained through parallel signal detection is a predetermined signal detection threshold value or more are selected and time domain correlation is performed on the cells so that the correlation value is verified. The cells having the predetermined verified threshold value or more are detected as a final received signal. | 2010-07-01 |
20100166048 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MULTI-TRANSMITTER POWER CONTROL | 2010-07-01 |
20100166049 | RECEIVER I-Q BALANCE CALIBRATION - In an I-Q receiver, I-Q baseband mixer receives a real signal, and outputs an in-phase baseband information signal and a quadrature baseband information signal, a decoupling compensator multiplies in-phase baseband information signal and the quadrature baseband information signal by a trained decoupling matrix that, based on adaptive training in response to purely in-phase and purely quadrature phase training signals, decouples the in-phase baseband information signal from a quadrature component of the I-Q signal, and decouples quadrature-phase baseband information signal from an in-phase component of the I-Q signal. Optionally, a trained I-arm-Q-arm imbalance compensator performs a filter compensation on one or both of the decoupled in-phase baseband signal and the quadrature-phase baseband signal output by the trained decoupling matrix. Optionally, the filter is trained based on training signals generated by inputting equal in-phase and quadrature phase training signals to the I-Q baseband mixer, and multiplying the result by the trained decoupling matrix. | 2010-07-01 |
20100166050 | TIME ERROR ESTIMATION FOR DATA SYMBOLS - The invention relates to a method and a system for estimating a symbol time error in a broadband transmission system, comprising: determination a timing error signal of an input-signal of a discrete Fourier-transformation block ( | 2010-07-01 |
20100166051 | Video Streaming Diagnostics - A video stream DSL analyzer receives at least non-physical layer management data and physical layer management data and in response generates metric information. The generated metric information is used to characterize the performance of the video stream information and diagnose any problems if necessary. In response to the metric information, the video stream DSL analyzer changes one or more DSL configuration(s) in order to improve performance. | 2010-07-01 |
20100166052 | ENCODER, DECODER, ENCODING METHOD AND DECODING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An encoder includes a separation unit separating image data into a plurality of data blocks, a variable length encoding unit variable-length-encoding the data blocks separated by the separation unit so as to generate variable length code sequences, a code block generating unit generating code blocks variable-length-decoded in parallel from a start end and a termination end by combining two variable length code sequences generated by the variable length encoding unit, and a bit stream generating unit generating a bit stream such that a boundary between the code blocks is recognized. | 2010-07-01 |
20100166053 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD - The present invention relates to an information processing device and method, program, and communication system, whereby encoded data can be transmitted with low delay. A data control unit | 2010-07-01 |
20100166054 | HYBRID VIDEO ENCODER INCLUDING REAL-TIME AND OFF-LINE VIDEO ENCODERS - A method and apparatus is provided for encoding a video signal stream. The method includes receiving a video signal stream, identifying a plurality of individual segments within the video signal stream and encoding, off-line, recurring ones of the individual segments that recur with at least a first frequency to produce encoded recurring segments. The video signal stream is also encoded in real-time to generate a real-time encoded video stream. Segments in the real-time encoded video stream are replaced with their corresponding encoded recurring segments to thereby produce an encoded video output stream that includes some segments encoded in real-time and other segments encoded off-line. | 2010-07-01 |
20100166055 | Face Detection System for Video Encoders - Embodiments include a codec for use in a videoconferencing or similar system includes a video encoder pipeline that has a pre-processor component that is optimized to detect faces and compress the facial video data in an optimum manner. The codec has a pre-processing step that analyzes each frame on a per macroblock basis to determine the mathematical activity level per block. The activity level calculation is used as a parameter to the bitrate control module of the encoder to control the quantization, and thus the fine grained quality of the output data. An object detection module (e.g., a face detector) is placed in the pre-processing step. The object detection data is then combined with the activity level and object detection certainty value through a combinatorial algorithm comprising a weighted average or normalized multiplication process. | 2010-07-01 |
20100166056 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENCODING VIDEO USING A SELECTED TILE AND TILE ROTATION PATTERN - A computer-implemented system and method are described for encoding video. For example, a method according to one embodiment comprises: selecting a tile size for subdividing each image in a sequence of images based on a specified type of encoding algorithm to be used for encoding the tiles, wherein M tiles are encoded for each image, each tile being encoded according to a first encoding format or a second encoding format, each tile having a designated tile location within each image; specifying a rotating pattern to be used for encoding the tiles over a sequence of N images, the rotating pattern comprising encoding only certain tiles of each image using the first encoding format, and rotating the tile locations selected for the first encoding format over the N images to ensure that all M tiles have been encoded according to the first encoding format across the N images; and encoding the sequence of N images using the rotating pattern. | 2010-07-01 |
20100166057 | Differential Data Representation for Distributed Video Coding - The invention relates to improving the performance of DVC systems using a differential adaptive-base representation of video data to be transmitted, wherein frame data are truncated to the least significant digits in a base-B numeral system, wherein the base B is adaptively determined at the DVC receiver based on a side information error estimate. | 2010-07-01 |
20100166058 | Temporary Decoder Apparatus and Method - A computer-implemented system and method for streaming video from a server to a client are described. For example, a method according to one embodiment comprises: receiving at the server a request for video content from the client; in response to the request, determining the hardware/software configuration of the client; generating and/or selecting a temporary decoder based on the hardware/software configuration of the client; transmitting the temporary decoder to the client, the client installing the temporary decoder; encoding and streaming the requested video content from the server to the client, the video content being encoded based on the capabilities of the temporary decoder, the video content being decoded by the temporary decoder and rendered on the client; detecting that the client has ended the session with the server; and in response to detecting that the client has ended the session, temporarily disabling and/or removing the temporary decoder from the client. | 2010-07-01 |
20100166059 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR VIDEO COMPRESSION - A unified solution to coding/decoding of different video formats such as 4:2:0, 4:2:2 and 4:4:4 is provided. A method of video coding includes transforming a first m×n macro block of residual chrominance pixel values of moving pictures by a first integer-transform function generating a corresponding second m×n macro block of integer-transform coefficients, further transforming DC values of the integer-transform coefficients by a second integer-transform function to generate a third block of integer-transformed DC coefficients. The method further includes generating the second m×n macro block of integer-transform coefficients by utilizing a k×k integer-transform function on each k×k sub-block of the first m×n macro block, wherein n and m are each a multiple of k, and generating the third block of coefficients by utilizing a second ixj integer-transform function on the DC values resulting in a (m/k)×(n/k) third block of integer-transformed DC coefficients. | 2010-07-01 |