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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 15, 2001
Filed:
Feb. 20, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
Brent Townshend, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 1/404 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 1/404 ;
Abstract
A method of selecting a PCM codeword set. A communication system includes an encoder and a decoder. The encoder has a digital connection to the digital portion of the telephone network. The digital portion of the telephone network is connected by an analog loop to the decoder. The method includes transmitting sequence of PCM codewords from the encoder and receiving the sequence as a sequence of analog voltages. A noise level it determined and a minimum separation value is selected in response to the noise level. A set of PCM codewords is selected such that no two PCM codewords within the set are separated by less than minimum separation value.