Cirrus Logic Inc.

Cadence Design Systems, Inc.

Pushkar G Patwardhan

Sachin P Ghanekar

Dror E Maydan

Darin S Petkov

Amit P Sulakhe

Samir S Pathak

A system and method for preventing an application program, which is licensed to a customer to be exclusively executed in a processor based on a certain processor design, from being executed properly in unauthorized processors is provided. The system includes a scrambling module and a recovery module. The scrambling module scrambles a selected portion of the application program using an identifier which identifies the authorized processor design. The recovery module adds an unscrambling program to the application program such that when the program is running in a processor, it retrieves a second identifier from the processor and unscrambles the scrambled portion of the application program using the retrieved second identifier. If the second identifier does not correspond to an authorized processor design, the unscrambling operation will incorrectly unscramble the scrambled portion and the application program will not run properly.

System and method for preventing proper execution of an application program in an unauthorized processor

A method of generating comfort noise in a communications includes selecting a packet of data from a stream of packets being received across a communications network, the packet comprising a selected number of data samples. Ones of the data samples from the selected packet are played out in a sequence as comfort noise to fill a dead gap. The sequence is reversed when a randomly selected sample in the packet is reached and corresponding ones of the data samples are transmitted across the network as comfort noise after the order is reversed.

Systems and methods for improving sound quality in computer-network telephony application

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Pune, India

Pushkar G Patwardhan