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20120195186 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PREVENTING TRAFFIC LOSS CAUSED BY WAIT-TO-RESTORE MECHANISMS IN SERVICE PROTECTION NETWORKS - A method for preventing traffic loss includes transmitting user traffic over an automatic protection switching (“APS”) connection with revertive operation between a first switch and a second switch, determining that the working path on the APS connection has failed, moving user traffic to the protect path of the APS connection, and initiating a wait-to-restore mode including a wait-to-restore time period associated with the first switch. The method also includes, upon termination of the wait-to-restore time period of the first switch, maintaining traffic on the protect path until a message designating the working path is received on the protect path. The method further includes, upon receiving a message designating the working path, switching user traffic to the working path. The APS connection includes the protect path and the working path. | 08-02-2012 |
20120195190 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SOLVING COMMUNICATION FAILURE AND TRAFFIC LOSS IN SERVICE PROTECTION NETWORKS - A method for solving communication failure includes transmitting user traffic over an automatic protection switching (“APS”) connection between a near network node and a far network node, determining that a protect path on the APS connection has failed, sending a message to the far network node that the protect path has failed, and switching user traffic to the working path at the near network node. | 08-02-2012 |
20120315030 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR REDUCING TRAFFIC DISTURBANCE IN A COMMUNICATION NETWORK CAUSED BY INTERMITTENT FAILURE - A method may include: (i) in response to clearing of a fault on a working path of a protection switching group to which a first network element is interfaced: (a) transitioning, by the first network element, its state to a first state in which a protection path of the protection switching group is active; and (b) initiating, by the first network element, a wait to restore timer, the wait to restore timer having a duration such that upon expiration of the timer, the first network element is configured to switch the working path to active; and (ii) in response to receiving a message from a second network element interfaced to the protection switching group indicating that a failure has occurred on the working path: (a) maintaining, by the first network element, its state in the first state; and (b) continuing, by the first network element, the wait to restore timer. | 12-13-2012 |
20130003528 | JOINT NEAR-END AND FAR-END STATE MACHINE FOR SERVICE PROTECTION NETWORKS - In one embodiment, a method for telecommunications includes determining the operational state of a first network switch, determining the operational state of a second network switch, determining the existence of an actionable condition, accessing information on the first switch, and changing the operational state of the first switch. The second network switch is coupled to the first network switch by a protected path. Determining the actionable condition and changing the operational state use references to the operational state of the first network switch, the operational state of the second network switch, and the actionable condition. | 01-03-2013 |
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20080232308 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN BASE AND MOBILE STATIONS - A method and system for wireless communications between base and mobile stations use reference signals transmitted from base stations prior transmission of data signals. The reference signals are used to determine propagation characteristics of communication channels between the base and mobile stations and optimize, in real time, parameters of receivers of the mobile stations for processing the following data signals. Applications of the invention include wireless communication systems compliant with OFDMA, 3GPP LTE, RFN-OFDMA, OFDM, TDMA, and the like communication protocols. | 09-25-2008 |
20090179697 | AMPLIFIER HAVING A VIRTUAL GROUND AND METHOD THEREOF - An amplifier comprises first, second, and third modulators. The first modulator includes an input for receiving a first input signal, and an output for providing a first modulated output signal corresponding to the first input signal. The second modulator includes an input for receiving a second input signal, and an output for providing a second modulated output signal corresponding to the second input signal. The third modulator has an input for receiving a third input signal, and an output for providing a third modulated output signal corresponding to the third input signal and for providing a virtual ground. A first amplifier circuit is coupled to the outputs of the first and third modulators for driving a first load. A second amplifier circuit is coupled to the outputs of the second and third modulators for driving a second load. | 07-16-2009 |
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20090313530 | Error correcting viterbi decoder - Methods and corresponding systems in a Viterbi decoder include computing a maximum likelihood (ML) path in a Viterbi trellis in response to executing a first Viterbi algorithm. Thereafter, one or more merge points are selected on the ML path in a second Viterbi algorithm, wherein the merge points each have a path metric difference, which is a difference between an ML path metric at the merge point and a non-surviving path metric at the merge point. Merge points are selected based upon relative path metric differences associated with nodes on the ML path. Next, alternate paths in the Viterbi trellis are computed based on the ML path with alternate paths substituted at corresponding merge points. A passing decoded bit sequence is output in response to passing an error check, wherein the passing decoded bit sequence is associated with one of the one or more alternate paths. | 12-17-2009 |
20100011279 | Error correcting viterbi decoder - Methods and corresponding systems in a Viterbi decoder include selecting an input symbol in an input block, wherein the input block has a plurality of input symbols, wherein each input symbol has a Boolean value, a quality value, and an associated stage, and wherein the selected symbol is selected based upon the quality value of the selected symbol relative to a quality value of other input symbols in the input block. Thereafter, the Boolean value of the selected symbol is complemented to produce a complemented symbol. The complemented symbol is substituted for the selected symbol to produce an alternate input block. A Viterbi algorithm is executed using the alternate input block to produce an alternate decoded bit sequence, which is then checked for errors using an error check. The alternate decoded bit sequence is output in response to the alternate decoded bit sequence passing the error check. | 01-14-2010 |
20110280208 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN BASE AND MOBILE STATIONS - A method and system for wireless communications between base and mobile stations use reference signals transmitted from base stations prior transmission of data signals. The reference signals are used to determine propagation characteristics of communication channels between the base and mobile stations and optimize, in real time, parameters of receivers of the mobile stations for processing the following data signals. Applications of the invention include wireless communication systems compliant with OFDMA, | 11-17-2011 |
20140376540 | Frequency-Domain Symbol And Frame Synchronization In Multi-Carrier Systems - Methods and systems are disclosed for frequency-domain symbol and frame synchronization for multi-carrier communication systems. Received signals are sampled and converted into frequency components associated with subcarriers within the multi-carrier communication signals. Symbol synchronization is performed in the frequency domain by performing correlation(s) between frequency components of the received signal and frequency-domain synchronization symbol(s). After symbol synchronization, frame synchronization correlation is also performed in the frequency domain between frequency components of the received signal and frequency-domain synchronization symbol(s). The disclosed embodiments are particularly useful for symbol and frame synchronization in multi-carrier received signals for power line communication (PLC) systems and/or other harsh noisy communication environments. | 12-25-2014 |
20140376648 | Frequency-Domain Amplitude Normalization For Symbol Correlation In Multi-Carrier Systems - Methods and systems are disclosed for frequency-domain amplitude normalization for symbol correlation in multi-carrier communication systems. Digital samples associated with input signals received from a communication medium are processed using a Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) to generate complex frequency components. Each complex frequency component is normalized with respect to its amplitude, and the frequency-domain, amplitude-normalized frequency components are multiplied with frequency components for reference symbol(s) to generate frequency-domain correlation values. These frequency-domain correlation values are analyzed to determine if a correlation exists between the amplitude-normalized frequency components and the predetermined reference frequency components. A correlation detection output is then generated that indicates whether or not a symbol synchronization was achieved. The disclosed embodiments are particularly useful for symbol correlation in received signals for power line communication (PLC) systems. | 12-25-2014 |
20140376667 | Frequency-Domain Carrier Blanking For Multi-Carrier Systems - Methods and systems are disclosed for frequency-domain carrier blanking in multi-carrier communication systems. When excessive energy is detected in one or more subcarriers within a received symbol for multi-carrier communications, those subcarriers are blanked for subsequent demodulation in order to avoid corruption of the demodulated data. A conversion from time-domain digital samples to frequency-domain values using an FFT (Fast Fourier Transform) and a threshold detector are utilized to detect corrupted subcarriers. Further, this frequency-domain carrier blanking can be implemented dynamically on a symbol-by-symbol basis to further improve demodulation performance by reducing decoding errors. The disclosed embodiments are particularly useful for improving demodulation performance in power line communication (PLC) systems. | 12-25-2014 |
20140376674 | Frequency-Domain Frame Synchronization In Multi-Carrier Systems - Methods and systems are disclosed for frequency-domain frame synchronization for multi-carrier communication systems. Received signals are sampled and converted into frequency domain components associated with subcarriers within the multi-carrier communication signals. A sliding-window correlation (e.g., two-dimensional sliding window) is applied to the received symbols represented in the frequency domain to detect frame boundaries for multi-carrier signals. The sliding-window frame synchronization can be applied by itself or can be applied in combination with one or more additional frame synchronization stages. The disclosed embodiments are particularly useful for frame synchronization of multi-carrier signals in PLC (power line communication) systems. | 12-25-2014 |