4603 results about "Broadbanding" patented technology

A method for providing network access to a shared access communications medium for a plurality of users includes the steps of conducting predictive admission control by arbitrating user requests for access to the shared medium based on predicted aggregate demands, conducting lookahead scheduling for use in making user channel assignments by forecasting schedule transmission opportunities one or more channels of the shared medium, and balancing load by making channel assignments such that a plurality users are each assigned a respective channel of the shared medium based upon a predicted need. Congestion parameters can predicted for each channel of the shared medium and mapped to a congestion measure using a mathematical function that takes into account packet loss rate, packet delay, packet delay jitter, and available capacity.

A method for automatically provisioning a broadband communication service to a subscriber having a broadband modem. The method includes the step of transmitting a service request from the broadband modem to a central office, which is associated with a network service provider. The network is configured for service in response to the service request. The method further includes automatically configuring the broadband modem by transmitting a configuration signal from the central office to the subscriber. The configuration signal may be transmitted to the broadband modem over a POTS subchannel. Alternatively, the configuration signal may be transmitted to the broadband modem over a subchannel in a broadband service, such as a DMT subchannel for ADSL service.

The present invention is a method and system for supporting a beamfonming antenna system in a mobile broadband communication network with an improved beam pattern, beam sweep pattern, pilot channel design with feedback and reporting rules, and control signaling design. Specifically, the improved beam pattern includes a method of supporting wireless communications in a wireless network forming at least two spatial beams within a cell segment where the at least two spatial beams are associated with different power levels, and separately, where at least two spatial beams can be moved across the cell segment according to a unique sweep pattern. The pilot channel design improves network bandwidth performance and improve user mobility tracking. Feedback and reporting rules can be established using a particular field designator, CQI, in the preferred embodiment.

The invention is essentially an external user supported display device for personal communication devices and wireless phones. The device is worn on the body of the user and is able to display graphic images and video not able to be displayed on the displays inherent to current mobile phones. The device is designed for use in broadband wireless environments. The device is also able to output digital stereophonic audio either alone or as an accompaniment to video content.

In a digital broadband broadcasting system, in which information is transmitted and received periodically in bursts to reduce receiver power consumption, time-slice information is provided from the transmitter to the receiver. The time-slice information can include information from which the receiver can determine when a subsequent transmission burst will be transmitted. The time-slice information can include a burst duration, an amount of time between original bursts, the time between an original burst and a copy of the burst, and numbering of original bursts. This type of time-slice information can be placed into packet headers, such as one or more bytes reserved, but not used, for media access control addressing.

An arc fault detector system detects arcing faults in an electrical distribution system by monitoring one or more conductors and producing an input signal representing one or more electrical signal conditions in the circuit to be monitored. This input signal is processed to develop signals representing the electrical current flow through the monitored circuit and broadband noise signal components. The system analyzes these signals to determine whether an arcing fault is present, and if so, outputs a trip signal which may be used directly or indirectly to trip a circuit breaker or other circuit interruption device.

A novel multi-mode vibration damper is invented by using a pair of piezoelectric patches connected with negative capacitance shunt circuit units. A piezoelectric material connected with a series resistor-negative capacitor branch circuit is capable of suppressing the vibration and / or noise amplitudes in the low frequency range. The other piezoelectric material connected with a parallel resistor-negative capacitor circuit is for suppressing the vibration and / or noise amplitudes in the high frequency range. By combining two negative capacitance shunt circuit units, a multi-mode vibration damper is capable of suppressing the whole structure modes simultaneously. In order to describe the characteristic behaviors of a multi-mode vibration damper, the stiffness ratio and loss factor with respect to the non-dimensional frequency are considered. The mechanism of a shunt damper is also described as considering a shunt voltage generated by the shunt impedance. The example results show that the multi-mode vibration damper reduces the vibration amplitudes of the vibrating system significantly across a broadband frequency range.

Embodiments of the present invention provide an apparatus with a flexible probe suitable for determining properties of in vivo tissue from spectral information collected from various tissue sites. An illumination system provides light at a plurality of broadband ranges, which are communicated to a flexible optical probe. Light homogenizers and mode scramblers can be employed to improve the performance in some embodiments. The optical probe in some embodiments physically contacts the tissue, and in some embodiments does not physically contact the tissue. The optical probe receives light from the illumination system and transmits it to tissue, and receives light diffusely reflected in response to the broadband light, emitted from the in vivo tissue by fluorescence thereof in response to the broadband light, or a combination thereof. The optical probe can communicate the light to a spectrograph which produces a signal representative of the spectral properties of the light. An analysis system determines a property of the in vivo tissue from the spectral properties.

The present invention relates to allocating a radio resource in a wireless communication system utilizing orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM). Preferably, the present invention comprises receiving in a mobile station data associated with a radio resource allocation map from a base station, wherein the radio allocation map comprises control parameters for transmitting an uplink channel, wherein the uplink channel comprises at least on OFDM tile comprising a first set of subcarriers associated with representing at least part of an n-bit data payload, and a second set of subcarriers associated with representing at least part of a non-pilot m-bit data payload wherein each subcarrier carries a modulated data, and the first and the second set of subcarriers are exclusive to each other, and transmitting the uplink channel from the mobile station to the base station.

An arc fault detector system detects arcing faults in an electrical distribution system by monitoring one or more conductors and producing an input signal representing one or more electrical signal conditions in the circuit to be monitored. This input signal is processed to develop signals representing the electrical current flow through the monitored circuit and broadband noise signal components. The system analyzes these signals to determine whether an arcing fault is present, and if so, outputs a trip signal which may be used directly or indirectly to trip a circuit breaker or other circuit interruption device.

A method for transmitting burst allocation information by a base station in a broadband wireless communication system in which a transmitted frame includes symbols, and orthogonal subcarriers in a frequency axis constitute each of the symbols based on a predetermined time unit. The method includes the steps of generating a reduced connection identifier (CID) by reducing a basic CID of a mobile terminal connected to the base station when the basic CID exists within a preset range, and inserting an MAP, which includes an enabled field representing the reduced CID and one of use and non-use of the reduced CID, into the frame, and transmitting the frame to the mobile terminal.

The present invention sets forth a network-centric service distribution architecture that integrates a wireless access system in the residence, SOHO, business or public environment through the use of a local broadband network, such as a Residential-Business Broadband Network (RBN), to the service provider's broadband transport network and to a service provider's broadband packet network. The system includes a Media Terminal Adapter coupled via the RBN to the access port(s) and via the service provider's broadband transport network to the service provider's broadband packet network. The access port is coupled to the Media Terminal Adapter via either an RBN (e.g., a Local Area Network—LAN) or simply via a traditional POTS line interface. The access port receives and sends wireless signals to a plurality of RBN devices, allowing the user to control these devices remotely from the residence, business, SOHO or public environments. The integration of an RBN to a service provider's broadband packet network allows a subscriber to communicate at home and at the office with one communication device anytime anywhere.

A method and apparatus for transmitting a DL-WUCH for a mode transition in a sleeping state in a broadband wireless communication system are provided. In the broadband wireless communication system, a base station (BS) transmits control information to a plurality of subscriber stations (SSs) on a common control channel. To demodulate a control channel signal received from the BS, an SS receives a wakeup channel signal which indicates whether the control channel signal includes control information for the SS, reads a wakeup channel indicator at a predetermined position assigned to the SS of the wakeup channel signal, and determines whether to demodulate the control channel signal according to the wakeup channel indicator.

An apparatus for analyzing the broadband noise content of a digital image comprising the following: a means of automatically identifying regions of originally constant color in the image by analysis of the variance of pixel values of regions of the image; a means of automatically detecting and discarding regions deemed to be unrepresentative of the true noise content of an image, including under- and over-exposed regions; a means of allowing the user to manually select some or all required constant color regions if desired; and, a means of analyzing such constant color regions to generate a parametric or non-parametric model of the noise in the image, including frequency characteristic within and between channels and other characteristics such as phase which might describe structured noise.

In embodiments of the present disclosure improved capabilities are described for increasing the bandwidth in a large area broadband network where an optimization server is incorporated within the wireless network in association with the public data network gateway, which may be deployed in regional areas, thus reducing the time-latency for applications being run from a mobile cellular device. Further, by associating additional optimization servers at base stations, application functionality may be optionally transferred from the regional optimization server to the local base station optimization server in instances where a number of mobile cellular devices are requesting the same data via their access through the same cell, and in other instances, to the effect that back haul network bandwidth utilization is reduced or eliminated.

A method and apparatus for allocating bandwidth in a broadband wireless communication system is disclosed. One embodiment uses a self-correcting bandwidth request / grant protocol. The self-correcting bandwidth request / grant protocol utilizes a combination of incremental and aggregate bandwidth requests. CPEs primarily transmit incremental bandwidth requests to their associated base stations, followed by periodic transmissions of aggregate bandwidth requests. The use of periodic aggregate bandwidth requests (that express the current state of their respective connection queues) allows the bandwidth allocation method and apparatus to be “self-correcting”. Another embodiment utilizes an abridged bandwidth request / grant protocol to allocate bandwidth. The abridged bandwidth request / grant protocol system utilizes padding packets to request a reduction in bandwidth allocation to a CPE. A base station modem alerts a base station CPU when the BS modem receives a padding packet from a CPE. After alerting the BS CPU the method can reduce the associated CPE's bandwidth allocation.

A system designs a thin and relatively flat microwave focusing lens that can produce multiple simultaneous beams, using readily-available isotropic dielectric materials, and having a gradient-index (GRIN) profile. The design optimizes the lens to achieve beam scanning and / or multiple beams over a wide field of regard (FOR) with broad bandwidth and a very short focal length compared with conventional lenses. The lens can be used individually or as an element in a more complex antenna having multiple lenses in various orientations that are independently switched, selected and / or excited simultaneously as elements in a phased array. The antenna terminal incorporates such lens into an array of lenses along with one or more feeds to produce single or multiple beams covering a broad field of regard for such applications as satellite communications on-the-move, cellular, broadband point-point or point-multipoint and other terrestrial or satellite communications systems. The lens and array design support multiple simultaneous independently steerable beams as well as null placement for interference cancellation.

An electrically small broadband antenna comprises a plurality generalized contrawound toroidal helical antenna elements, each made from a single continuous conductor divided into two length portions each of which are substantially the same length and which have a generalized helical pattern, wherein the helical pitch senses the two length portions are opposite to one another, and the two length portions are insulated from one another and overlap one another on the surface of a generalized toroid. Each antenna element incorporates a signal coupler with an impedance matching network, wherein the first ports of the plurality of signal couplers are in proximate location to one another and are connected together to a common signal input port, and the second ports of the respective signal couplers are connected to the respective signal feed ports at the node locations where the respective length portions join one another, or at a diametrically opposite location.

A process for managing usage on a broadband network, said process comprising: (a) monitoring a subscriber's broadband usage; (b) determining if said usage rises to a level indicative of an event; (c) determining if said event is consistent with heavy usage or with a security incident; (d) if said event is consistent with heavy usage, offering said subscriber at least one of a plan for an upgraded subscription, or an incentive to concentrate usage in nonpeak time; and (e) if said event is consistent with a security incident, exercising security measures to minimize unintended usage.

An apparatus and method for switching between an AMC mode and a diversity mode adaptively according to a channel environment in a broadband wireless communication system are provided. According to the present invention, a transmitter (a base station) determines a transmission mode according to frequency-domain and time-domain channel measurement information received from a receiver (a mobile station). If the transmission mode is the AMC mode, the transmitter selects a coding and modulation scheme according to a frequency-domain CQI received from the receiver. If the transmission mode is a diversity mode, the transmitter selects a predetermined coding and modulation scheme.

A broadband access connection carried over a wireline link is backed-up by a wireless connection to create a high availability communication channel. This protection system comprises a wireline link processor for connecting a user site to a provider network over a broadband access connection and a wireless link processor for connecting the user site and the provider network over a backup connection. A link monitoring mechanism supervises operation of the wireline link and generates a fault signal upon detection of a specified under-performance, failure, or overloading condition of the broadband wireline access connection. A data switching mechanism switches the user traffic received over the user interface between the wireline and the wireless link according to the fault signal. A method for protecting the wireline link is also provided.

Disclosed are a system and a method for selecting a new serving base station when a drop occurs in a mobile subscriber station in a broadband wireless access communication system including the mobile subscriber station, a serving base station communicating with the mobile subscriber station, and a plurality of neighbor base stations, different from the serving base station. The mobile subscriber station receives information related to the neighbor base stations from the serving base station communicating with the mobile subscriber station. The mobile subscriber station monitors the frequency bands of the neighbor base stations included in the information related to the neighbor base stations if the drop is detected in order to detect target base stations capable of serving as a new serving base station for communicating with the mobile subscriber station when the drop occurs in the mobile subscriber station according to a monitoring result for the frequency bands of the neighbor base stations. The mobile subscriber station selects the new serving base station from the detected target base stations so that the it is possible for the mobile subscriber station to reestablish the communication with regard to the new serving base station within a short period of time.

The present invention provides an FMCW broadband life detection radar breathing and heartbeat signal extraction algorithm. Compared with the prior art, the algorithm has the advantages that breathing and heartbeat signals of multiple persons can be obtained simultaneously, the boundaries and energy of reconstructed breathing signals can be very well kept by using Coiflets wavelets compared with traditional frequency-domain filtering, especially processing conducted on short-time signals is obvious, higher harmonics of the breathing signals are filtered out by adopting a double-coefficient based LMS self-adaptive filtering algorithm, and the self-adaptive filtering algorithm does not need additional reference signals. Due to the fact that a degressive search step size coefficient is adopted in the algorithm, the heartbeat signals can be better retained while breathing signal harmonics are filtered out, the heartbeat signals can be rapidly converged by selecting the appropriate search step size coefficient and adopting the double-coefficient based LMS self-adaptive filtering algorithm, and smaller stable imbalance is kept in longer time, so that finally separated heartbeat signals are more accurate in frequency component within a long time.

In a broadband switching system for the switching of asynchronously transferred cells of data, a dynamic bandwidth controller (DBC) controls the application of data cells to an input port of the system. Data cells are supplied by a number of transmitting end-systems. When an end-system begins transmitting data cells, the DBC detects the presence of incoming cells and requests bandwidth from a connection admission control (CAC) forming part of the system. The switching system stores a table associating a number of signal sources connected to the ingress with respective predetermined transmission bandwidths and, preferably also, maximum delay times. When arrival of cells from one of the sources at the input port is detected, the DBC sends a request signal for the relevant predetermined bandwidth to the CAC and delays transmission of the cells until at least the predetermined bandwidth is allocated. This delay is typically effected by sending a cell rate indicator signal back to the input port for placing the source in a halt mode. If no allocation of bandwidth has occurred before the respective maximum delay time, bandwidth is allocated by robbing bandwidth form other signal sources.

The invention provides a compact patch antenna having a cavity underneath the driver patch, so that the electromagnetic volume of the antenna is expanded without increasing the overall area of the antenna. More specifically, the compact patch antenna comprises a base layer having a cavity, a ground plane located on the base layer, and having an opening over at least a portion of the cavity, a substrate located on the ground plane, and a driver patch located on the substrate. The invention further provides a method for constructing a compact patch antenna, comprising the steps of providing a base layer having a cavity, providing a ground plane located on the base layer, and having an opening over at least a portion of the cavity, providing a substrate located on the ground plane, and providing a driver patch located on the substrate.

A method and apparatus to segment video data files within a video distribution system to facilitate the transfer of the video data files from a file server computing system to client computing system within a video distribution system. The data files are fragmented as a function of demand for the data files, size of each data file of the plurality of data files, amount of retention space available on each of the plurality of data storage devices, and available bandwidth for communication with the client computing systems.

A method of receiving the uplink region allocation information is disclosed. In a broadband wireless access system, in which a mobile terminal receives uplink region allocation information, the present invention includes the steps of receiving an uplink map message from which an uplink map information element (UL-MAP IE) for a ranging region or an uplink bandwidth request region is omitted from a base station and receiving information for a region for a ranging region or uplink bandwidth request using a message periodically transmitted for a control information transmission for an uplink channel. By transmitting uplink region allocation information via a periodically transmitted message, the uplink region allocation information can be efficiently transmitted.

The invention discloses a measuring method and device for measuring the particle granularity, consistency and density, which relates to the technical field of ultrasonic measurement. The invention aims at solving the technical problem of increasing the commonality and the precision of the ultrasonic measurement. The measuring device includes a computer, a signal process circuit, a pulse wave launch / receive circuit and a broadband transducer, which are orderly connected together; the broadband transducer is arranged at the external side of a baffle plate. The process procedures of the computer are as follows: ultrasonic amplitude phase spectrum is obtained after the rapid Fourier transformation of the signal, and then the phase spectrum is converted to obtain a reflection coefficient, the acoustic characteristic impedance, the acoustic attenuation coefficient and the sound velocity; the compound density can be calculated by the measuring value, and the consistency can be calculated through the known particle and the density of the continuous medium; the frequency analysis of the direct reflection wave and the transmission echo is carried out to obtain difference between the acoustic attenuation spectrum and the theoretical acoustic attenuation spectrum, and the difference is then regarded as the objective function, and then is optimized with optimization method to calculate the distribution of the particle granularity. The invention has the advantages of measuring and analysis basing on the reflecting ultrasonic, great commonality and precise measuring result.

A dielectric resonator antenna (DRA) includes: an electrically conductive ground structure; a plurality of volumes of dielectric materials disposed on the ground structure comprising N volumes, N being an integer equal to or greater than 3, disposed to form successive and sequential layered volumes V(i), i being an integer from 1 to N, wherein volume V(1) forms an innermost volume, wherein a successive volume V(i+1) forms a layered shell disposed over and at least partially embedding volume V(i), wherein volume V(N) at least partially embeds all volumes V(1) to V(N−1); and a signal feed disposed and structured to be electromagnetically coupled to one or more of the plurality of volumes of dielectric materials.

Systems and methods for customizing broadband content based upon passive presence detection of users are provided. A user device in proximity to a customer premise device may be detected. The customer premise device may be configured to output programming content received from a service provider. An identifier of the detected user device may be determined. Based at least in part on the identifier, an identity of a user may be determined. Based at least in part on the identity of the user, content that is output by the customer premise device may be customized.