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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:
Jan. 18, 2011
Filed:
Aug. 07, 2006
Applicants:
Jeffrey D. Alderson, Austin, TX (US);
William W. Hong, Austin, TX (US);
Inventors:
Jeffrey D. Alderson, Austin, TX (US);
William W. Hong, Austin, TX (US);
Assignee:
SigmaTel, Inc., Austin, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A system and method of synchronizing to a frame sequence in an input signal includes tolerating data errors within certain error thresholds. In an embodiment, a Hamming distance between data included in a frame alignment word field and an expected value is compared to a predetermined Hamming distance to determine a synchronization event.