Network communication system with node energy reduction packet protocol

    公开(公告)号:US10693778B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-06-23

    申请号:US16101649

    申请日:2018-08-13

    Abstract: A method of communicating a packet between a first node and a second node, the packet comprising a data payload and a portion of information preceding the data payload. The method comprises: (i) first, identifying a quality of a channel between the first node and the second node; (ii) second, in response to the quality of the channel, selecting a manner of communication of the information preceding the data payload; (iii) third, encoding the selected manner of communication in the portion of information preceding data payload; and (iv) fourth, transmitting the packet from the first node to the second node.

    HEART RATE ESTIMATION APPARATUS WITH STATE SEQUENCE OPTIMIZATION

    公开(公告)号:US20190298198A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-10-03

    申请号:US16442845

    申请日:2019-06-17

    Abstract: Disclosed examples include heart rate monitor systems and methods to estimate a patient heart rate or rate of another pulsed signal, in which rate hypotheses or states, are identified for a current time window according to digital sample values of the pulsed signal for a current sample time window, and a rate change value is computed for potential rate transitions between states of the current and previous time windows. Transition pair branch metric values are computed as a function of the rate change value and a frequency domain amplitude of the corresponding rate hypothesis for the current time window, and the pulsed signal rate estimate is determined according to a maximum path metric computed according to the branch metric value and a corresponding path metric value for the previous time window.

    Methods and apparatus for low cost voice activity detector

    公开(公告)号:US10339962B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-07-02

    申请号:US15485165

    申请日:2017-04-11

    Abstract: In described examples, a method for detecting voice activity includes: receiving a first input signal containing noise; sampling the first input signal to form noise samples; determining a first value corresponding to the noise samples; subsequently receiving a second input signal; sampling the second input signal to form second signal samples; determining a second value corresponding to the second signal samples; forming a ratio of the second value to the first value; comparing the ratio to a predetermined threshold value; and responsive to the comparing, indicating whether voice activity is detected in the second input signal.

    METHOD TO USE A PREAMBLE WITH BAND EXTENSION IN POWER LINE COMMUNICATIONS

    公开(公告)号:US20190140693A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-05-09

    申请号:US16239732

    申请日:2019-01-04

    Abstract: Embodiments include methods of powerline communications using a preamble with band extension is provided. A method may include receiving a packet data unit PDU. Bit-level repetition is applied to at least a portion of the PDU to create a repeated portion. Interleaving is performed per a subchannel. Pilot tones are inserted in the interleaved portion. Each data tone is modulated with respect to a nearest one of the inserted pilot tones. The PDU is transmitted over a power line.

    Multi-length cyclic prefix for OFDM transmission in PLC channels

    公开(公告)号:US10236934B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-03-19

    申请号:US15695983

    申请日:2017-09-05

    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide multiple cyclic prefix lengths for either both the data-payload and frame control header or only the data payload. Frame control header (FCH) and data symbols have an associated cyclic prefix. A table is transmitted in the FCH symbols, which includes a cyclic prefix field to identify the cyclic prefix length used in the data payload. A receiver may know the cyclic prefix length used in the FCH symbols in one embodiment. In other embodiments, the receiver does not know the FCH cyclic prefix length and, therefore, attempts to decode the FCH symbols using different possible cyclic prefix lengths until the FCH symbols are successfully decoded.

    ADAPTIVE TONE POWER CONTROL IN PLC NETWORKS
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    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20190052313A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-02-14

    申请号:US16160864

    申请日:2018-10-15

    Abstract: In a powerline communications (PLC) network having a first node and at least a second node on a PLC channel utilizing a band including a plurality of tones, based on at least one channel quality indicator (CQI), the first node allocates for a tone map response payload only a single (1) power control bit for each of a plurality of subbands having two or more tones. The power control bit indicates a first power state or a second power state. The first node transmits a frame including the tone map response payload to the second node. The second node transmits a frame having boosted signal power for the tones in the subbands which have the first power state compared to a lower signal power for the tones in the subbands which have the second power state.

    Network communication system with node energy reduction packet protocol

    公开(公告)号:US10050878B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-08-14

    申请号:US14953683

    申请日:2015-11-30

    Abstract: A method of communicating a packet between a first node and a second node, the packet comprising a data payload and a portion of information preceding the data payload. The method comprises: (i) first, identifying a quality of a channel between the first node and the second node; (ii) second, in response to the quality of the channel, selecting a manner of communication of the information preceding the data payload; (iii) third, encoding the selected manner of communication in the portion of information preceding data payload; and (iv) fourth, transmitting the packet from the first node to the second node.

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