Phonex Broadband Corporation

Other

Thomson Licensing S.a.

Wavetronix LLC

Michael J Miller

Douglas M Grover

Lyman D Horne

W Paul Willes

Bradley Curtis Giles

Eric R Southam

Samuel Charles Kingston

Ronald S Leahy

Alan K Walbeck

Grant W Dearden

The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for monitoring signalized traffic flow. A processor in a sensor system or traffic controller interface estimates the time-of-arrival and other traffic flow estimates of one or more vehicles to an intersection stop bar, while the vehicles are within a continuous range of one or more transducers view of the sensor system. A level of efficiency and safety within the signalized traffic flow is estimated by the sensor system based upon one or more of the estimated time-of-arrival and other flow variables estimates and then communicated to the control unit of the traffic signal system. Other flow estimates for each vehicle include but are not limited to: position relative to the stop bar, lane position, velocity, acceleration, time headway and classification.

Monitoring signalized traffic flow

A data networking system designed to provide efficient, yet reliable, transportation of data across a time division multiplexed network. This invention allows for redundantly sending data segments wherein if bad data segments are received, they can be resent in a dynamic manner depending on the network condition and segments can be fragmented, resized and sent with low overhead due to dynamic header sizes, segment sizes, forward error correction, and cyclic redundancy checks. The result is a very adaptive network that meets the demanding requirements of networks such as power line and wireless while still being able to transport data for voice, audio, video, computer, control, and the like.

Reliable method and system for efficiently transporting dynamic data across a network

A scalable networking protocol that allows multiple nodes to communicate via a multi-channel network medium is described. The networking protocol allows any node on the network to assign itself as the active network server. The active network server polls client nodes based on a lineup card. The lineup card includes a high priority queue for low-latency devices, and a low priority queue for devices that can tolerate higher latencies. Network information is sent on the channels as fragments. The protocol provides bad-channel detection and retransmission of fragments in a fragment-by-fragment basis. Support for streaming data or asynchronous data is provided by allocating time slots on the network and allowing two intelligent nodes to talk directly to each other during count-limited token sessions, as arbitrated by the active network server. The network node serving as the active network server can be changed on a dynamic basis, and is typically determined by the first node initiating a transmit request on a sleeping network. Client nodes are addressed by dynamic-polling using an address isolation scheme.

Multi-channel power line exchange protocol

A network synchronization method designed to provide synchronization of multiple networks and devices. This invention provides a specific method for determining which nodes are responsible for network synchronization as nodes fail or cannot see each other due to conditions on the network. This allows for fault tolerance in a network in which conditions change dynamically. In addition, this invention uses synchronization codes and network numbers to isolate separate networks using the same physical medium, thus allowing sharing of network resources.

Method and system for network synchronization and isolation

A multi-channel transmission system that provides dynamic mapping of data to channels is described. In one embodiment, a packet of data to be transmitted is broken up into a number of fragments. Fragments are loaded into transmit buffers. Active buffers are indicated by bits in an active-fragment register and active channels are indicated by bits in an active-channel register. A transmit buffer to channel mapping is provided by multiplexers. The multiplexers are controlled by a channel mapping table that uses the data in the active-fragment register and the active-channel register to decide which transmit buffers are mapped to which channels. Each transmit buffer can be simultaneously mapped to more than one channel in order to allow the same data to be simultaneously transmitted on more than one channel, thereby increasing the likelihood that the data will be successfully transmitted even if some of the channels are rendered inoperative. In one embodiment, an acknowledgement sent by a receiver indicates which channels are operative and which channels are inoperative.

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Pleasant Grove, UT, United States of America

Michael J Miller