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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. 29, 2001
Filed:
Feb. 24, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
David J. Lindbergh, Reading, MA (US);
Jeffrey G. Bernstein, Middleton, MA (US);
Assignee:
PictureTel Corporation, Andover, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04K 1/10 ; H04L 2/728 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04K 1/10 ; H04L 2/728 ;
Abstract
A system and method communicate a single stream of data using an arbitrary and time-varying number of channels of arbitrary, differing, and time-varying bit-rates. A transmitter and a receiver both including finite state machines capable of synchronizing the pattern by which data is sent onto and read from the channels. The finite state machines are capable of dynamically adjusting for changes in the number and data rate of the channels.