| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 370436000 | Combined time and frequency assignment | 16 |
| 20080232389 | Distributed Overlay Multi-Channel Media Access Control for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks - Systems and methods for distributed overlay multi-channel MAC for wireless ad hoc networks are described. In one aspect, the systems and methods divide channel frequencies defined by a wireless network protocol into a single home channel and multiple guest channels that are orthogonal to the home channel. Each of the network nodes in the ad hoc network operates on the home channel for respective variable and overlapping amounts of time to maintain network connectivity with other respective network nodes. Additionally, each of the network nodes determines whether and when to switch from the home channel to a particular guest channel of the guest channels for a variable amount of time to increase data throughput over one or more corresponding communication links in the ad hoc network with other network node(s). | 09-25-2008 |
| 20090052464 | Method and Apparatus for Establishing Circuit Connections Over Local Area Networks with Frequency Selective Impairments - A method for establishing a circuit connection over a network. Determining a channel quality profile of a medium connecting a source node and a destination node. Determining a throughput required to support a data rate requirement of an application that sources data. Determining a modulation type and modulation density at one or more frequency according to the channel quality profile. Selecting one or more of a set of frequencies, modulation types and modulation densities to support the throughput. Communicating the selection to nodes attached to the medium. | 02-26-2009 |
| 20090161687 | Medium Access Control Method for Data Transmission Through CATV Access Network - The present invention relates to a medium access control method for data communication through CATV access network over coaxial cable, wherein the method comprises transmitting downstream data frames from a central device to network terminals in downstream time slots of super frames and receiving upstream data frames from said network terminals to said central device in upstream time slots of the super frames over a same carrier frequency, said super frame being divided into multiple time slots comprising at least one downstream time slot intended for transmitting data frames, and one or more upstream time slots which are assigned respectively by said central device to said network terminals for transmitting upstream data frames, each one upstream time slot being allocable to one network terminal. Advantageously, the data is transmitted through a CATV access network over coaxial cable by using this access control method with guaranteed QoS. | 06-25-2009 |
| 20100111096 | Methods and Systems for Frequency and Time Division Access - Aspects of the present invention relate to methods and systems for managing and allocating bandwidth in a communication medium. Some aspects relate to the determination of bit usage patterns for use in allocating bandwidth. Some aspects relate to the further determination of a derived usage pattern from the bit usage patterns and allocation of tone-slots within the derived usage pattern. | 05-06-2010 |
| 20100135316 | FRAME AND DATA PATTERN STRUCTURE FOR MULTI-CARRIER SYSTEMS - The present invention relates to a transmitting apparatus ( | 06-03-2010 |
| 20110134935 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OPERABLE TO FACILITATE SIGNAL TRANSPORT OVER A NETWORK - A method and system operable to implement a multiple range, and optionally one-dimensional, transport scheduling process suitable to facilitate signal transport over a network for a variety of traffic types with different service requirements where two-dimensional mapping across frequency and/or time is required. | 06-09-2011 |
| 20110216781 | Method and Apparatus for Asynchronous Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access - A method of transmitting orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) signals includes transmitting, at a first transmitter of a network, a first stream of data having a first number of symbols over a first time interval using a first set of one or more OFDMA subcarriers. At a second transmitter of the network, a second stream of data is transmitted having a second number of symbols over a second time interval, different in duration than the first time interval and overlapping the first time interval. The second burst of data is transmitted using a second set of one or more OFDMA subcarriers. The first time interval and first set of subcarriers define a first time-frequency grant, the second time interval and second set of subcarriers define a second time-frequency grant, and the first and second time-frequency grants are granted by a network coordinator node of the network. | 09-08-2011 |
| 20110268131 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM ALLOWING NODE IDENTIFICATION - A communication system is provided that enables a node to be identified by a controller. To establish a communication link from the node an alignment signal is received from the controller. Upon receiving the controller alignment information, the node sends a response including information the node randomly generated. The controller then responds by sending back at least a portion of the information the node randomly generated indicating that the node has been recognized by the controller. | 11-03-2011 |
| 20120263189 | Beacon-Enabled Communications for Variable Payload Transfers - Systems and methods for designing, using, and/or implementing beacon-enabled communications for variable payload transfers are described. In various embodiments, these systems and methods may be applicable to power line communications (PLC). For example, a method may include implementing a superframe having a plurality of beacon slots, a plurality of intermediate slots following the beacon slots, and a poll-based Contention Free Period (CFP) slot following the intermediate slots. Each of the beacon slots and each of the intermediate slots may correspond to a respective one of a plurality of frequency subbands, and the poll-based CFP slot may correspond to a combination of the plurality of frequency subbands. The method may also include receiving a poll request over a first of the plurality of frequency subbands during the poll-based CFP slot, and then transmitting a data packet over a second of the plurality of frequency subbands during the poll-based CFP slot. | 10-18-2012 |
| 20130034110 | BROADCAST TRANSMISSION FOR MULTI-TONE MASK MODE OPERATION - A method of Multi-Tone Mask (MTM) mode communications in a PLC network including a first router associated with a plurality of nodes. A super-frame spanning a time period is received within the subnetwork. The super-frame includes beacon frames in beacon slots within a beacon period, with each beacon frame in one of N TMs, a contention access period (CAP) including a plurality of CAP slots provided for each TM, and a poll-based contention-free period (CFP). The beacon frames provide time assignments within the super-frame including time assignments for the CAP slots and for the CFP, and TM assignments for the TMs in the CAP slots. One of nodes, another router in the subnetwork, or a router in another subnetwork transmits a broadcast frame on the PLC channel. The first router forwards the broadcast frame on the PLC channel in each of the N TMs within the time period. | 02-07-2013 |
| 20130121342 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING SIGNALS IN MULTI-ANTENNA COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method for transmitting a signal in a multi-antenna system is provided. The method includes designating an analog beam to a plurality of generated modulation symbol sequences corresponding to a plurality of antenna ports, for each antenna port of the plurality, multiplexing signals, to which a beam is designated by the beam assignment, to a plurality of beam groups each having the same antenna beam combination, mapping beam group signals generated by the beam multiplexing, to at least one Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) symbol and time and frequency resources, generating OFDM symbol signals corresponding to one or more antenna beams by OFDM-converting the beam group signals according to the resource mapping, converting the OFDM symbol signals into analog Radio Frequency (RF) signals, and transmitting the analog RF signals via a plurality of antenna elements by carrying the analog RF signals on associated antenna beams by analog beamforming. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130243010 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OPERABLE TO FACILITATE SIGNAL TRANSPORT OVER A NETWORK - A method and system operable to implement a multiple range, and optionally one-dimensional, transport scheduling process suitable to facilitate signal transport over a network for a variety of traffic types with different service requirements where two-dimensional mapping across frequency and/or time is required. | 09-19-2013 |
| 20140169385 | MODULATION AND EQUALIZATION IN AN ORTHONORMAL TIME-FREQUENCY SHIFTING COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM - A system and method of providing a modulated signal useable in a signal transmission system. The method includes transforming, perhaps with respect to both time and frequency, a data frame including a plurality of data elements into a transformed data matrix. The transformed data matrix includes a plurality of transformed data elements where each of the plurality of transformed data elements is based upon each of the plurality of data elements. The method further includes generating the modulated signal in accordance with the transformed data elements of the transformed data matrix. | 06-19-2014 |
| 20140348179 | Allocating Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) Resources In Data Over Cable Services Interface Specificaton (DOCSIS) Networks - A Cable Modem Termination System (CMTS) comprising a receiver configured to receive a plurality of upstream transmission request messages from a plurality of coaxial units via an electro-optical network, wherein the upstream transmission request messages each request permission to transmit a specified amount of data, a processor coupled to the receiver and configured to allocate Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing (OFDM) minislots to each coaxial unit based on the amount of data requested in the associated upstream transmission request message, and a transmitter coupled to the processor and configured to transmit at least one Uplink Allocation Map (UL-MAP) message to indicate minislot allocations to the coaxial units. | 11-27-2014 |
| 20140362869 | NETWORK NODE TRANSMISSION METHOD, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM - Embodiments of the present invention provide a network node transmission method, apparatus, and system. The method includes: receiving a downlink optical signal sent by an OLT, where the downlink optical signal is obtained through digital-to-analog conversion and electrical-to-optical conversion performed by the OLT on a first downlink multiplexing digital signal, and in the first downlink multiplexing digital signal, multiple customer premises equipments CPE correspond to respective OFDM symbol timeslots and/or subcarriers; and performing optical-to-electrical conversion and analog-to-digital conversion on the downlink optical signal to obtain a second downlink multiplexing digital signal, demultiplexing the second downlink multiplexing digital signal to obtain downlink OFDM symbols for each CPE of the multiple CPEs, and performing digital-to-analog conversion on the downlink OFDM symbols of each CPE to obtain a downlink analog signal of each CPE. | 12-11-2014 |
| 20160013922 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM FOR TRANSMITTING DATA IN ETHERNET | 01-14-2016 |
