Packet bearing signaling information indicative of whether to decode a primary coding or a redundant coding of the packet

• US 10,049,681 B2
• Filed: 09/13/2016
• Issued: 08/14/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 10/29/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Qualcomm, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Qualcomm, Inc.
• Inventors: Sinder, Daniel Jared, Subasingha, Subasingha Shaminda, Rajendran, Vivek, Atti, Venkatraman
• Primary Examiner(s): SHIN, SEONG-AH A
• Application Number:
  US15/263,905
• Publication Number:
  US 20170125028A1
• Time in Patent Office: 700 Days
• Field of Search: 704229, 704500
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 19/005 Correction of errors induced by the transmission channel, if related to the coding algorithm
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 19/018 Audio watermarking, i.e. embedding inaudible data in the audio signal
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 19/167 Audio streaming, i.e. formatting and decoding of an encoded audio signal representation into a data stream for transmission or storage purposes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0014 by adapting the source coding
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0045 Arrangements at the receiver end
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0057 Block codes H04L1/0061, H04L1/0064 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/007 Unequal error protection for format H04L1/0078; for codes per se H03M13/35
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0076 Distributed coding, e.g. network coding, involving channel coding coding in both space and time H04L1/0618; cooperative diversity H04B7/022
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0083 Formatting with frames or packets; Protocol or part of protocol for error control
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/08 by repeating transmission, e.g. Verdan system H04L1/1858 and H04L1/189 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/66 Arrangements for connecting between networks having differing types of switching systems, e.g. gateways
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/103 in the network
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/70 Media network packetisation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/765 intermediate
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2389 Multiplex stream processing, e.g. multiplex stream encrypting

Abstract

An apparatus includes a network interface configured to receive, via a circuit-switched network, a packet. The packet includes a primary coding of a first audio frame, redundant coding of a second audio frame, and one or more bits that indicate signaling information. The signaling information corresponds to a decode operation of at least one of the primary coding or the redundant coding. The apparatus further includes a decoder configured to decode a portion of the packet based on the signaling information.

Claims

1. An apparatus comprising:

a network interface configured to receive, via a circuit-switched network and during a first time period, a packet that includes primary coding of a first audio frame, redundant coding of a second audio frame, and one or more bits that indicate signaling information, the signaling information indicating which of the primary coding or the redundant coding is to be decoded, the circuit-switched network associated with communication of audio frames to devices during fixed time intervals;

a processor configured to determine the signaling information based on the one or more bits and to initiate an audio output based on the decoded primary coding or the decoded redundant coding;

a pre-redundancy buffer configured to store a portion of the packet; and

a decoder configured to decode the primary coding or the redundant coding based on the signaling information.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the pre-redundancy buffer comprises a memory, and wherein the memory is configured to store the redundant coding responsive to the primary coding being decoded.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the pre-redundancy buffer comprises a memory, and wherein the memory is configured to store the primary coding responsive to the redundant coding being decoded.

4. The apparatus of claim 3, wherein the decoder is further configured to:

during a time slot associated with the second audio frame, decode the redundant coding of the second audio frame based on the signaling information; and

during a time slot associated with the first audio frame, retrieve the primary coding of the first audio frame from the pre-redundancy buffer and decode the first audio frame using the primary coding of the first audio frame.

5. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the one or more bits comprise a single bit, wherein a first value of the single bit indicates the primary coding is to be decoded, and wherein a second value of the single bit indicates the redundant coding is to be decoded.

6. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the one or more bits is included in the redundant coding.

7. The apparatus of claim 6, wherein the one or more bits comprise a plurality of bits, and wherein at least some of the plurality of bits represent an offset between the first audio frame and the second audio frame.

8. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the primary coding includes the one or more bits that indicate the signaling information.

9. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the one or more bits comprise a plurality of bits, and wherein a watermarking of the plurality of bits indicates the signaling information.

10. The apparatus of claim 1, further comprising:

an antenna; and

a transceiver coupled to the antenna and to the network interface, the transceiver configured to receive the packet.

11. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the network interface, the decoder, the antenna, and the transceiver are integrated into a mobile device.

12. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the network interface, the decoder, the antenna, and the transceiver are integrated into a base station.

13. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the primary coding includes an encoded low-band core of the first audio frame and high-band parameters of the first audio frame, and wherein the redundant coding includes low-band redundant coding information of the second audio frame, high-band parameter redundant coding of the second audio frame, or both.

14. The apparatus of claim 13, wherein the redundant coding includes a partial copy of the second audio frame, and wherein a size of the primary coding of the first audio frame is greater than a size of the redundant coding of the second audio frame.

15. A method of wireless communication, the method comprising:

receiving a packet at a network interface via a circuit-switched network and during a first time period, the packet including primary coding of a first audio frame, redundant coding of a second audio frame, and one or more bits indicating signaling information, the signaling information indicating which of the primary coding or the redundant coding is to be decoded, the circuit-switched network associated with communication of audio frames to devices during fixed time intervals;

determining the signaling information based on the one or more bits;

decoding the primary coding or the redundant coding based on the signaling information;

initiating an audio output based on the decoded primary coding or the decoded redundant coding; and

storing a portion of the packet in a pre-redundancy buffer.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the one or more bits comprise a single signaling bit, and wherein the single signaling bit is included in the redundant coding and indicates whether the primary coding or the redundant coding is to be decoded.

17. The method of claim 15, wherein the one or more bits comprise a single signaling bit, and wherein the single signaling bit is included in the primary coding and indicates whether the primary coding or the redundant coding is to be decoded.

18. The method of claim 15, wherein storing the portion of the packet comprises storing an undecoded portion of the packet in the pre-redundancy buffer in response to decoding the primary coding or the redundant coding.

19. The method of claim 18, further comprising, in response to a packet loss related to a second packet, retrieving, from the pre-redundancy buffer, the undecoded portion of the packet, wherein the second packet corresponds to a second time period that is subsequent to the first time period.

20. The method of claim 18, further comprising:

receiving a second packet at the network interface, the second packet received at a second time slot subsequent to a time slot at which the packet was received;

determining that data within the second packet is corrupt; and

based on determining that the data is corrupt, retrieving, from the pre-redundancy buffer, the undecoded portion of the packet, the undecoded portion corresponding to the data.

21. The method of claim 15, wherein the primary coding is decoded based on the signaling information.

22. The method of claim 15, wherein the redundant coding is decoded based on the signaling information.

23. The method of claim 15, wherein the packet is received at a first device that includes the network interface from a second device of the circuit-switched network, and wherein the primary coding, the redundant coding, or both originated at a third device of a packet-switched network, and wherein the packet-switched network is associated with individual routing of packets between a source device and a destination device.

24. The method of claim 15, further comprising:

storing an undecoded portion of the packet in a pre-redundancy buffer in response to decoding the primary coding or the redundant coding;

receiving a second packet at the network interface during a second time period that is subsequent to the first time period;

based on determining that the second packet is corrupt, retrieving, from the pre-redundancy buffer, the undecoded portion of the packet; and

decoding the undecoded portion.

25. An apparatus comprising:

means for receiving, via a circuit-switched network, a packet that includes primary coding of a first audio frame, redundant coding of a second audio frame, and one or more bits that indicate signaling information, the signaling information indicating which of the primary coding or the redundant coding is to be decoded, the circuit-switched network associated with communication of audio frames to devices during fixed time intervals;

means for determining the signaling information based on the one or more bits and for initiating an audio output based on the decoded primary coding or the decoded redundant coding;

means for storing a portion of the packet;

means for decoding the primary coding or the redundant coding based on the signaling information; and

means for initiating an audio output based on the decoded primary coding or the decoded redundant coding.

26. The apparatus of claim 25, wherein the one or more bits comprise a sequence of bits indicating which of the primary coding or the redundant coding is to be decoded.

27. A computer-readable storage device storing instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising:

receiving a packet via a circuit-switched network at a network interface, the packet including primary coding of a first audio frame, redundant coding of a second audio frame, and one or more bits indicating signaling information, the signaling information indicating which of the primary coding or the redundant coding is to be decoded, the circuit-switched network associated with communication of audio frames to devices during fixed time intervals;

determining the signaling information based on the one or more bits;

decoding the primary coding or the redundant coding based on the signaling information;

initiating an audio output based on the decoded primary coding or the decoded redundant coding; and

storing a portion of the packet in a pre-redundancy buffer.

28. The computer-readable storage device of claim 27, wherein the operations further comprise:

storing a non-decoded portion of the packet in a memory;

receiving a second packet via the circuit-switched network at the network interface;

determining that the second packet is corrupt; and

in response to determining that the second packet is corrupt, retrieving the non-decoded portion of the packet.