Patent ID: 6625208
Filing Date: 2003-09-23
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
A modem comprising:a. an analog to digital converter for sampling an analog signal from a device on a communication line and providing line sample values at an output; and b. a processor receiving the output of said analog to digital converter and receiving digital sample values from an application and processing batches of said line sample values and said digital sample values at one time into one or more symbols wherein said processor has a memory system which stores instructions for an encoder, a transmit engine, a decoder, and a receive engine wherein said instructions comprise: sending to a device to which the modem is to communicate and batch processing, by a transmit sequencer of the transmit engine, said digital sample values; halting the sending step at an occurrence of when the transmit sequencer sends a predetermined number of said symbols derived from said digital sample values; receiving from the device and batch processing, by a receive sequencer of the receive engine, said line sample values; and halting the receiving step at another occurrence of when the receive sequencer receives the predetermined number of said symbols from said line sample values.