H04J 3/062
Synchronisation of signals having the same nominal but fluctuating bit rates
Official title: {Synchronisation of signals having the same nominal but fluctuating bit rates, e.g. using buffers (pulse-stuffing H04J3/07; asynchronous-synchronous conversion H04L5/24; speed conversion H04L25/05; speed conversion in computers G06F5/06)}
H04J3/062 (Synchronisation of signals having the same nominal but fluctuating bit rates) appears on 1,394 US grants and 819 published applications in this corpus.
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- Communication device and interpacket gap adjustment method thereof19 May 2026US 12,634,108 B2Realtek Singapore Private Limited
- Data transmission method and apparatus, network device, system, and storage medium14 Apr 2026US 12,603,721 B2Zte Corporation
- Clock frequency synchronization method and communication apparatus7 Apr 2026US 12,598,015 B2Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
- Frame synch detection with rate adaptation31 Mar 2026US 12,592,815 B2Infineon Technologies Americas Corp.
- Frame synchronization detection with an adaptive threshold27 Jan 2026US 12,537,616 B2Cypress Semiconductor Corporation
- Frequency adjustment method and apparatus, bluetooth earbuds, storage medium, and program product23 Jul 2026US 2026/0214426 A1Guangzhou Anyka Microelectronics Co., Ltd.
- Method and System for Time Synchronization of Sensor Units25 Jun 2026US 2026/0180705 A1Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
- Synchronizing update of time of day counters using time stamp exchange over a control plane11 Jun 2026US 2026/0163665 A1Skyworks Solutions, Inc.
- Providing a Multi-Channel and a Multi-Zone Audio Environment30 Apr 2026US 2026/0122436 A1Sonos, Inc.
- Communications Between Networked Audio Devices26 Mar 2026US 2026/0088923 A1Shure Acquisition Holdings, Inc.
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- Multimedia wired/wireless content synchronization system and method1,810US 6,631,410 B1Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc. · 2003
- Apparatus and method for segmentation and time synchronization of the transmission of multimedia data435US 5,533,021 AInternational Business Machines Corporation · 1996
- Methods and apparatus for time stamp correction in an asynchronous transfer mode network401US 5,467,342 AScientific-Atlanta, Inc. · 1995
- System and method for clock skew compensation between encoder and decoder clocks by calculating drift metric, and using it to modify time-stamps of data packets325US 6,598,172 B1Intel Corporation · 2003
- Clock recovery using a double-exponential smoothing process283US 7,020,791 B1Nortel Networks Limited · 2006