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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 28, 1996
Filed:
May. 29, 1992
Gang Huang, Highlands, NJ (US);
Jean-Jacques Werner, Holmdel, NJ (US);
AT&T Corp., Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Abstract
A synchronization scheme for bidirectional data applications where the customer supplies data for transmission at a rate which is customer controlled. In accordance with the present invention, in each transmission direction, the customer data is converted into data symbols in a predetermined constellation. In response to these data symbols, additional symbols are added. In the disclosed embodiment, the additional symbols added are symbols lying outside of the constellation and are not used to represent customer data. The additional symbols added raise the symbol rate in each transmission direction to one higher than that provided by the symbols representative of the customer data alone. This higher symbol rate in each transmission direction is preferably the same, or the higher symbol rate in one direction is related to the higher symbol rate in the other direction by a rational number. At each receiver, the additional symbols are removed and customer data is recovered from its representative data symbols.