Qualcomm Incorporated

Intellon Corporation

Atheros Communications, Inc.

Qualcomm Atheros Inc.

Timothy Robert Gargrave

Lawrence W Yonge, Iii

Bart W Blanchard

Stanley Joseph Kostoff, Ii

William E Earnshaw

Srinivas Katar

Harper Brent Mashburn

William Edward Lawton

James Philip Patella

William Winston Williams

Lawrence W Yonge

Stanley J Kostoff

Stanley J Ii Kostoff

Iii Lawrence W Yonge

Lawrence W Iii Yonge

A method of operating in a network in which a plurality of stations communicate over a shared medium, comprising providing a physical layer (e.g., PHY) for handling physical communication over the shared medium; providing a high level layer (e.g., PAL) that receives data from the station and supplies high level data units (e.g., MSDUs) for transmission over the medium; providing a MAC layer that receives the high level data units from the high level layer and supplies low level data units (e.g., MPDUs) to the physical layer; at the MAC layer, encapsulating content from a plurality of the high level data units; dividing the encapsulated content into a plurality of pieces (e.g., segments) with each piece capable of being independently retransmitted; and supplying low level data units containing one or more of the plurality of pieces.

Medium access control layer that encapsulates data from a plurality of received data units into a plurality of independently transmittable blocks

Media Access Control (MAC) layer transmit and receive buffering with multi-level prioritization. The receive buffering allocates receive buffers for receiving frame data from a PHY interface in priority order using both a static and dynamic buffer allocation, and delivers completed buffers queued in a multi-level priority queue to a host interface highest priority first. The transmit buffering delivers completed buffers queued in a multi-level priority queue to the PHY interface in priority order. When the multi-level priority queue contains a buffer that is higher priority than one being prepared for transmit, a priority-based interruption causes the transmit processing of the buffer to be suspended at its current state with the higher priority buffer taking its place. Upon completion of the higher priority buffer, the suspended buffer is resumed at its current state.

Communication buffer scheme optimized for VoIP, QoS and data networking over a power line

A scheme for configuring an FEC encoder (including an associated interleaver) for changing data channel characteristics. Channel information specifying a modulation mode and carriers capable of supporting the modulation mode for the data channel is received by a transmitting network node for use in a data transmission to a receiving network node. The received channel information is based on a prior data transmission to the receiving network node over the data channel. Configuration values are computed from the received channel information and an amount of data to be transmitted in a data transmission. The FEC encoder is configured to operate on the data transmission data amount according to the configuration information.

Forward error correction with channel adaptation

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Ocala, FL, United States of America

Timothy Robert Gargrave