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20150032520 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING ONLINE AUCTIONS WITH SWEEPSTAKES ENTRIES - A system for allowing a player to participate in an auction event via a user computing device is described herein. The system includes a gaming controller, an auction controller, and a bid unit award controller. The gaming controller generates and displays a wagering game on the user computing device, generates an outcome of the game, and provides an award to the player as a function of the outcome. The auction controller generates and displays an auction on the user computing device, retrieves an auction list including a plurality of auction items, and displays the plurality of auction items on the user computing device. The bid unit award controller is configured to determine if the player has placed a wager on the wagering game and responsively provide a bid unit to the player for use in placing bids associated with auction items displayed in the auction. | 01-29-2015 |
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20100054274 | Method for clock synchronization in a communication network, and communication network - A method for clock synchronization in a communication network, in particular one based on packet switched data transmission, is provided. A first clock signal from a first network element is used as a reference signal for synchronization of a respective second clock signal from one or more second network elements. The first clock signal is transmitted at a transmission frequency intended exclusively for the clock signal or at a transmission frequency band intended exclusively for the first clock signal to the one or the more second network elements. The first clock signal is processed in the respective second network element in order to adjust the second clock signal such that the second clock signal matches the first clock signal. | 03-04-2010 |
20100142965 | DATA TRANSMISSION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING DATA IN A DATA TRANSMISSION SYSTEM - A data transmission system has a light-emitting transmitter, a light-receiving receiver and a data transmission channel based on incoherent light. A pre-equalization device connected upstream of the transmitter is provided for the purpose of pre-equalizing a data signal which is to be transmitted from the transmitter to the receiver via the data transmission channel. The data transmission channel has constant transmission conditions within prescribed limits. The data signal to be transmitted is transmitted using a prescribed maximum bandwidth of the transmitter. | 06-10-2010 |
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20130230312 | CORRECTION OF A LOCAL-OSCILLATOR PHASE ERROR IN A COHERENT OPTICAL RECEIVER - In a representative embodiment, a disclosed receiver of an optical multicarrier offset-quadrature-amplitude-modulated (MC-OQAM) signal is configured to track and compensate for the phase error in the local-oscillator (LO) signal with respect to a carrier wave of a modulated subcarrier of the optical MC-OQAM signal by tracking a minimum of a cost function that is sensitive to crosstalk between in-phase and quadrature components of the modulated subcarrier and/or crosstalk between the modulated subcarrier and at least one other modulated subcarrier of the optical MC-OQAM signal. The receiver can operate based on pure feed-forward processing and compensate the phase error in real time and without relying on pilot symbols or a PLL circuit coupled to the LO source. | 09-05-2013 |
20140186024 | OPTICAL RECEIVER HAVING A MIMO EQUALIZER - An optical receiver comprising an optical-to-electrical converter and a digital processor having one or more equalizer stages. The optical-to-electrical converter is configured to mix an optical input signal and an optical local-oscillator signal to generate a plurality of electrical digital measures of the optical input signal. The digital processor is configured to process the electrical digital measures to recover the data carried by the optical input signal. At least one of the equalizer stages is configured to perform signal-equalization processing in which the electrical digital measures and/or digital signals derived from the electrical digital measures are being treated as linear combinations of arbitrarily coupled signals, rather than one or more pairs of 90-degree phase-locked I and Q signals. The latter feature enables the digital processor to more-effectively mitigate the receiver-, link-, and/or transmitter-induced signal impairments because various orthogonality-degrading effects can be mitigated in a relatively straightforward manner. | 07-03-2014 |
20140356003 | OPTICAL RECEIVER HAVING A CHROMATIC-DISPERSION COMPENSATION MODULE WITH A MULTIBRANCH FILTER-BANK STRUCTURE - An optical receiver having an electronic dispersion-compensation module with two parallel signal-processing branches configured to provide a greater range of dispersion compensation than that provided by a prior-art device of comparable implementation complexity. In an example embodiment, each of the signal-processing branches includes a respective bank of finite-impulse-response filters that are configured in accordance with a different respective approximation of the group delay that needs to be compensated. The two group-delay approximations used by the filter banks rely on different respective step functions, each having a respective plurality of quantized steps, with the transitions between adjacent steps in one step function being spectrally aligned with the flat portions of the corresponding steps in the other step function. The filter banks may be further configured to apply different respective frequency-dependent phase-shift and/or amplitude-scaling profiles designed to reduce signal distortions associated with the transitions between adjacent steps in the step functions. | 12-04-2014 |
20150256267 | OPTICAL RECEIVER HAVING A DIGITAL CHROMATIC-DISPERSION COMPENSATOR BASED ON REAL-VALUED ARITHMETIC - An optical receiver comprising an optical-to-electrical converter and a digital processor having first and second equalizer stages. The optical-to-electrical converter is configured to mix an optical input signal and an optical reference signal to generate a plurality of electrical digital measures of the optical input signal. The digital processor is configured to process the electrical digital measures to recover the data carried by the optical input signal. The first equalizer stage in the digital processor is configured to perform chromatic-dispersion-compensation processing in a manner that does not mix different electrical digital measures prior to signal-equalization processing in the second equalizer stage, which enables the first equalizer stage to operate using real-valued arithmetic. These characteristics of the first equalizer stage enable the second equalizer stage to more-effectively mitigate signal impairments for signals received through CD-impaired optical-transport links because various orthogonality-degrading effects can now be tracked and compensated more accurately therein. | 09-10-2015 |