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When looking for hotels in the Bordeaux region, you can choose from country-style inns, opulent chateaus or city hotels. Any can get you great access to the wineries as the city hoteliers are happy to help hook you up with directions or tours to the vineyards. Just book way ahead of time if you plan to come in summer (and especially if you would rather stay in the countryside). Check in to one of the best Bordeaux Region hotels for an idyllic setting for your French explorations.
The Regent Bordeaux is a 232-year-old palace that sits across from the National Opera. Even with modern updating this Bordeaux Region hotel still has a fabulously ornate, 19th-century vibe, with French furniture, richly colored brocade fabrics, and luxe marble bathrooms. Even though it has neighboring buildings that date to the second century, La Maison Bordeaux is a luxury bed and breakfast with a sleek, contemporary ambiance, and excellent service.
Cinderella could have slept at Grand Barrail Château Hôtel & Spa. The Bordeaux Region hotel in St.-Emilion is located inside a Belle Époque château and sits next to the St.-Emilion vineyards. You're not far from the town's medieval village, but the hotel offers the diversions of an excellent spa and a dining room that sits beneath a stained-glass dome. Château de Sours is an immaculate Bordeaux Region hotel, located in Saint-Quentin-de-Baron. It now belongs to an English businessman who added several large rooms, cooking classes, and an art gallery.
This half-timbered Basque hotel has eight suites done up in crimson and cobalt blue. All of the rooms look out on the wide caramel-sand beach, which is flanked by the Beaux-Arts villas of the families who summer here.
For its renovation of the 232-year-old historic palace across from the National Opera, Regent tapped Jacques Garcia to revamp the 250 rooms. The whole place verges on the ornate, with 19th-century French furniture, richly colored brocade fabrics, and vast marble bathrooms.
This former bottling plant has a classic bistro with an extensive wine list from the region's best vineyards—including 30 organic vintages. The 12 guest rooms are furnished with Napoleon-era antiques and modern steel-and-bamboo campaign beds.
To mark its 10th anniversary, the renowned French hotel and spa commissioned the avant-garde fashion house Maison Martin Margiela to revamp its stand-alone suite, a favorite with local residents. Black-and-white photographs cover the walls, and white curtains are draped over cowskin floor mats.
Like a beacon on a hill, this boutique hotel sits atop a scenic cliff overlooking valley vineyards and the lights of Bordeaux. The exterior is a bit deceiving, as this Relais & Chateaux property is set inside three tobacco barn-inspired wood buildings with huge picture windows.
The property, just southwest of Pomerol, is now in the hands of Martin Krajewski, an English businessman who has added several large and immaculate guest rooms, regional cooking classes, and a freestanding art gallery filled with John Hoyland and Terry Frost canvases.


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York's historic city centre to host a day of bike racing later this month
Programme ranges from family rides through Brompton race to elite crit
The city of York is gearing up to host the inaugural York Cycling City Races event on Sunday 25 July, featuring a dozen races with competitors including everyone from local families to some of Britain's leading pros on a route through the centre of the historic city.
Organised by Cycling City York alongside British Cycling and Clifton Cycling Club, it is hoped that the event, which takes place on the same day as the finale of the Tour de France in Paris, will draw big crowds to the city.
Races include the Revenge of The Ouse triathlon, a Brompton Team Challenge in which local businesses will compete on the iconic folding bikes while wearing fancy dress, and to wrap proceedings up, an elite circuit race.
Other featured events include youth races, a family ride and a race for disabled cyclists.
The races will follow a circuit that includes Duncombe Place, Blake Street, St.Sampson's Square and Goodramgate, after which it passes York Minster to complete the lap.
Full details of the day's events can be found on the Clifton Cycling Club website, and the timetable of races is shown below.
York Cycling City Races Programme
12:30pm - Revenge of the Ouse
12:55pm - Brompton Team Challenge
1:20pm - Youth Races
3:00pm - Go Ride
4:00pm - Disability Race Event
5:00pm - Support Race (3rd/4th Catergory)
6:00pm - Elite/1st/2nd Category Race
7:15pm - Prizegiving

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Embodiments of the invention may provide a method for implementing an adaptive multimode media queue. A mode of operation may be determined for a received media stream based on a sampling rate of the media stream. The mode of operation may be a wideband mode and/or a narrowband mode. Depending on the determined mode, the adaptive multimode media queue may be partitioned into a low band media queue and a high band media queue. A wideband media stream split into a high band and a low band is buffered into the adaptive multimode media queue wherein the high band is stored in the high band media queue, and the low band is stored in the low band media queue. The high band media queue and low band media queue may be a contiguous memory block within the adaptive multimode media queue. The received media stream, which may have different sampled data rates may be buffered within the partitioned adaptive multimode media queue.
1. A system for implementing a queue, the system comprising:
a processor determining a mode of operation of a received media stream comprising determining a sampling rate of said received media stream;
said processor partitioning the queue into a first queue portion comprising a low band media queue and a second queue portion comprising a high band media queue depending on said determined mode of operation; and
buffering said received media stream in said first queue portion and said second queue portion.
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determining a mode of operation of a received media stream, comprising determining a sampling rate of said received media stream;
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This application is a divisional application of patent application Ser. No. 10/313,826 entitled "Method and System for an Adaptive Multimode Media Queue", filed Dec. 6, 2002, issued Jan. 25, 2005 as U.S. Pat. No. 6,848,012, which claims priority based on provisional application Ser. No. 60/414,492, "Method and System for an Adaptive Multimode Media Queue", filed Sep. 27, 2002, the complete subject matter of each of which is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety.
This application is also related to the following co-pending applications, each of which are herein incorporated by reference:
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Certain embodiments of the present invention relate to voice processing for broadband communication systems. More specifically, certain embodiments relate to a method and system for an adaptive multimode media queue for supporting data sampled at different rates.
Packet based telephony such as Internet Protocol (IP) telephony may provide an alternative to conventional circuit switched telephony, the latter of which may typically require the establishment of an end-to-end communication path prior to the transmission of information. In particular, IP telephony permits packetization, prioritization and simultaneous transmission of voice traffic and data without requiring the establishment of an end-to-end communication path. IP telephony systems may capitalize on voice-over-packet (VoP) technologies, which may provide a means by which voice, video and data traffic may be simultaneously transmitted across packet networks. The data may include video data.
Voice quality (VQ) may define a qualitative and/or quantitative measure regarding the quality and/or condition of a received voice signal. Voice clarity may be an indicator of the quality or condition of a voice signal. Voice quality may be an important parameter that may ultimately dictate a quality of service (QOS) offered by a network service provider. The following factors, for example, may affect the voice quality and/or condition of a voice signal—noise, echo, and delay or packet latency. However, the effects of these factors may be cumulative. In this regard, factors such as delay and latency may exacerbate the effects of echo. Delays that may affect the voice quality may include, but are not limited to, routing, queuing and processing delays.
Various VoP specifications, recommendations and standards have been created to ensure interoperability between various network components, and to create an acceptable QOS which may include voice quality. For example, the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) ratified H.323 specification, which may define the processes by which voice, video and data may be transported over IP networks for use in VoP networks. H.323 addresses, for example, delay by providing a prioritization scheme in which delay-sensitive traffic may be given processing priority over less delay-sensitive traffic. For example, voice and video may be given priority over other forms of data traffic.
H.323 also addresses voice quality by specifying the audio and video coders/decoders (CODECs) that may be utilized for processing a media stream. A CODEC may be a signal processor such as a digital signal processor (DSP) that may be adapted to convert an analog voice and/or video signal into a digital media stream and for converting a digital media stream into an analog voice and/or video signal. In this regard, a coder or encoder portion of the CODEC may convert an analog voice and/or video signal into a digital media stream. Additionally, a decoder portion of the CODEC may convert a digital media stream into an analog voice and/or video signal. Regarding the CODEC for audio signals, H.323 may support recommendations such as ITU-T G.711, G.722, G.723.1, G.728 and G.729 recommendations. ITU-T G.711 may support audio coding at 64 kbps, G.722 may support audio coding at 64 kbps, 56 kbps and 48 kbps, G.723.1 may support audio coding at 5.3 Kbps and 6.3 Kbps, G.728 may support audio coding at 16 kbps and G.729 may support audio coding at 8 kbps.
The voice quality of a speech CODEC may be dependent on factors such as the type of encoding and/or decoding algorithm utilized by the CODEC. In general, some CODECs may utilize compression algorithms that remove redundant information from the analog signal. Such compression algorithms may permit at least a close replication of an original analog signal. In this case, the bandwidth required for transmitting any resultant signal may be reduced. Other CODECs may utilize algorithms that analyze the signal and retain only those portions that are deemed to be of cognitive importance. These algorithms may reproduce a close approximation to the original signal. Notwithstanding, in this latter case, bandwidth utilization may be superior to the former case where redundant information may be removed. Accordingly, depending on application requirements and hardware limitations, one or more algorithms may be utilized to optimize performance.
Moreover, although economic attractiveness of VoP has lured network access providers and network transport providers away from traditional circuit switching networks, factors such as the extensiveness of embedded legacy systems and customer demands, for example, have dictated the coexistence of both packet switched and circuit switch networks. Accordingly, new technologies and techniques such as audio and video coding and decoding may be required to support various modes of operation utilized by each system.
Traditional voice telephony products are band-limited to 4 kHz bandwidth with 8 kHz sampling, known as "narrowband". These products include the telephone, data modems, and fax machines. Newer products aiming to achieve higher voice quality have doubled the sampling rate to 16 kHz to encompass a larger 8 kHz bandwidth, which is also known as "wideband" capable. The software implications of doubling the sampling rate are significant. Doubling the sampling rate not only requires doubling the processing cycles, but nearly doubling the memory used to store the data.
Doubling memory and processor cycles requirements is expensive because the memory and processing power footprints of DSPs are generally small. Implementing wideband support thus requires creativeness to optimize both memory and cycles.
Additionally, much of the software providing various functions and services, such as echo cancellation, dual-tone multi-frequency (DTMF) detection and generation, and call discrimination (between voice and facsimile transmission, for example), are written for only narrowband signals. Either software must be written for wideband signals, or the wideband signal down-sampled. Where the software is modified, the software should also be capable of integration with preexisting narrowband devices. Providing software for operation with both narrowband and wideband devices is complex and costly.
Accordingly, it would be advantageous if a scheme for seamlessly integrating services for both narrowband devices and wideband devices were provided.
Further limitations and disadvantages of conventional and traditional approaches will become apparent to one of skill in the art, through comparison of such systems with some aspects of the present invention as set forth in the remainder of the present application with reference to the drawings.
Certain embodiments of the present invention provide for the implementation of a queue. The method may include determining a mode of operation of a received media stream and partitioning the queue into a first queue portion and a second queue portion dependent on the determined mode of operation. The received media stream may be buffered in the first queue portion and second queue portion for processing.
Determining the mode of operation may further include determining a sampling rate of the received media stream. The sampling rate may be one of a first or a second sampling rate. For example, the first sampling rate may be approximately 8 KHz, and the second sampling rate may be approximately 16 KHz. The first queue portion and second queue portion may be a contiguous memory block within the queue, and the received media stream may be digitally-encoded audio. The mode of operation may be a wideband mode and/or a narrowband mode. The received media stream may include a low band stream and a high band stream. The first queue portion may comprise a low band media queue and the second queue portion may comprise a high band media queue. The partitioning may preserve the low band media queue when the mode of operation changes. The low band stream may be buffered in the low band media queue and the high band stream may be buffered in the high band media queue.
Another aspect of the invention may include machine-readable storage, having stored thereon a computer program having a plurality of code sections executable by a machine for causing the machine to perform the foregoing.
These and other advantages, aspects and novel features of the present invention, as well as details of an illustrated embodiment thereof, will be more fully understood from the following description and drawings.
Aspects of the invention provide a method and system for an adaptive multimode media queue for supporting data sampled at different rates. Referring now to
The terminals 110 are equipped to convert the user input into an electronic signal, digitize the electronic signal, and packetize the digital samples. The sampling rate for digitizing the electronic signal can be either 8 KHz (narrowband) sampling, or 16 KHz (wideband) sampling. Accordingly, narrowband sampling is bandwidth limited to 4 KHz while wideband sampling is bandwidth limited to 8 KHz.
The VoP network 100 provides various functions and services, including dual-tone multi-frequency (DTMF) generation and detection, and call discrimination between voice and facsimile, by means of a Virtual Hausware Device (VHD) and a Physical Device Driver (PXD). The foregoing services are implemented by software modules and utilize narrowband digitized samples for inputs. For terminals 110 with narrowband sampling, the digitized samples are provided directly to the software modules. For terminals 110 with wideband sampling, the 8 KHz bandwidth is split into a high band and a G.712 compliant low band. The software modules requiring narrowband digitized samples operate on the low band, while software modules requiring wideband digitized samples operate on both the high band and the low band.
The split-band approach enables straightforward support for narrow and wide band services because narrowband services are incognizant of the wideband support. They only require and operate on an 8 KHz-sampled stream of data (i.e. the low band). Generally, only wideband services understand and operate on both bands.
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The PXD 215 represents an interface for receiving the input signal from the user and performs various functions, such as echo cancellation. The order of the PXD functions maintains continuity and consistency of the data flow. The top of the PXD 215 is at the switchboard interface. The bottom of the PXD 215 is at the interpolator 220 and decimator 225 interface. For wideband operation the band-split/combine PXD function may be located generally as follows. On the switchboard side of this PXD function is split-band data. On the other side is single-band data. PXD functions that operate on single-band data, like the side-tone or high-pass PXD functions, are ordered below the split-band/combine PXD function. Other PXD functions that operate on split-band data are ordered above it.
The VHD 205 is a logical interface to the destination terminal 110 via the packet network 105 and performs functions such as DTMF detection and generation, and call discrimination. During a communication (voice, video, fax) between terminals each terminal 110 associates a VHD 205 with the terminal(s) 110 communicating therewith. For example, during a VoP network call between two terminals, each terminal 110 associates a VHD 205 with the other terminal 110. The switchboard 210 associates the VHD 205 and the PXD 215 in a manner that will be described below.
A wideband system may contain a mix of narrowband and wideband VHDs 205 and PXDs 215. A difference between narrowband and wideband device drivers is their ingress and egress sample buffer interface. A wideband VHD 205 or PXD 215 has useful data at its high and low-band sample buffer interfaces and can include both narrowband and wideband services and functions. A narrowband VHD 205 or PXD 215 has useful data at its low-band interface and no data at its high-band interface. The switchboard interfaces with narrowband and wideband VHDs 205 and PXDs 215 through their high and low-band sample buffer interfaces. The switchboard 210 is incognizant of the wideband or narrowband nature of the device drivers. The switchboard 210 reads and writes data through the sample buffer interfaces. The high and low-band sample buffer interfaces may provide data at any arbitrary sampling rate. In an embodiment of the present invention the low-band sample buffer interfaces provide data sampled at 8 KHz and the high-band sample buffer interface provides data sampled at 16 KHz. Additionally, a VHD 205 can be dynamically changed between wideband and narrowband and vice versa.
The VHD 205 and PXD 215 driver structures may include sample rate information to identify the sampling rates of the high and low-band data. The information may be part of the interface structure that the switchboard understands and may contain a buffer pointer and an enumeration constant or the number of samples to indicate the sample rate.
The split-band architecture 200 is also characterized by an ingress path and an egress path, wherein the ingress path transmits user inputs to the packet network, and wherein the egress path receives packets from the packet network 105. The ingress path and the egress path can either operate in a wideband support mode, or a narrowband mode. Additionally, although the illustrated ingress path and egress path are both operating in the wideband support mode, the ingress path and the egress path are not required to operate in the same mode. For example, the ingress path can operate in the wideband support mode, while the egress path operates in the narrowband mode. In this exemplary embodiment, the ingress path comprises the decimator 225, band splitter 230, echo canceller 235, switchboard 210, and services including but not limited to DTMF detector 240, call discriminator (CDIS) 245, and packet voice engine (PVE) 255 comprising a combiner 250 and an encoder algorithm 260.
In a wideband device, the decimator 225 receives the user inputs and provides 16 KHz sampled data for an 8 KHz band-limited signal. The 16 KHz sampled data is received by the band-splitter 230. The band-splitter 230 splits the 8 KHz bandwidth into a low band (L) and a high band (H). The low band, L, and high band, H, are transmitted through the echo canceller 235, and switchboard 210 to the VHD 205 associated with the destination terminal 110. The band-splitter 230 can comprise the band-splitter described in the co-pending application Ser. No. 60/414,491, "Splitter and Combiner for Multiple Data Rate Communication System", which is incorporated by reference in its entirety.
The VHD 205 receives the low band, L, and high band, H. In some cases, the DTMF detector 240 may be designed for operation on only narrowband digitized samples, and only the low band is passed to DTMF detector 240. Similarly, where CDIS 245 is designed for operation on only narrowband digitized samples, only the low band is provided to CDIS 245, which distinguishes a voice call from a facsimile transmission. The low band, L, and high band, H, are combined at a combiner 250 in packet voice engine 255. The combiner 250 can comprise the combiner described in the co-pending application Ser. No. 60/414,491, "Splitter and Combiner for Multiple Data Rate Communication System", which is incorporated by reference herein in its entirety.
The PVE 255 is responsible for issuing media queue mode change commands consistent with the active encoder and decoder. The PVE 255 ingress thread receives raw samples consisting of both low and high-band data. However, to save memory only low-band data is forwarded when the VHD 205 is operating in narrowband mode. Both low and high-band data are concatenated together and forwarded when operating in wideband mode.
At the packet voice engine 255, encoder 260 packetizes the combined signal for transmission over the packet network 105. The encoder 260 can comprise, for example, the BroadVoice 32 Encoder made by Broadcom, Inc.
The egress path comprises decoder 263, band splitter 264, CDIS 266, DTMF generator 269, switchboard 210, echo canceller 235, band combiner 272, and interpolator 220. The egress queue receives data packets from the packet network 105 at the decoder 263. The decoder 263 can comprise the BroadVoice 32 Decoder made by Broadcom, Inc. The decoder 263 decodes data packets received from the packet network 105 and provides 16 KHz sampled data. The 16 KHz sampled data is provided to band splitter 264 which separates a low band, L1, from a high band, H1. Again, where CDIS 266 and the DTMF generator 269 utilize narrowband digitized samples, only the low band is used by CDIS 266 and the DTMF generator 269.
The DTMF generator 269 generates DTMF tones if detected from the sending terminal 110. These tones are written to the low band, L1. The low band, L1, and high band, H1, are received by the switchboard 210. The switchboard 210 provides the low band, L1, and high band, H1, to the PXD 215. The low band, L1, and high band, H1, are passed through the echo canceller 235 and provided to the band combiner 272 which combines the low band, L1, and high band, H1. The combined low band, L1, and high band, H1, are provided to interpolator 220. The interpolator 220 provides 16 KHz sampled data.
The low band is stored as 8 KHz sampled data, while the high band is stored as 16 KHz sampled data. In one embodiment, both bands are not stored symmetrically as 8 KHz sampled data because the 8 KHz bandwidth is not split symmetrically down the center. This design incurs a memory cost in return for voice quality and G.712 compliance. Alternatively, if aliasing may be ignored the 8 KHz bandwidth may be split symmetrically with both low and high bands stored as 8 KHz sampled data. This alternative avoids the increased memory requirement but at the cost of voice quality. Both symmetric and asymmetric split-band architectures are similar in implementation except for the sampling rate of the media streams. In some designs, one may be more desirable. In other designs, the reverse may be true. The optimal choice depends on an acceptable memory versus performance trade-off.
An embodiment of the present invention can be under the control of a computer-based telephony application. In order to reduce the time that may be necessary for building computer-based telephony applications, a software suite containing the necessary applications, drivers and core services may be created. The software suite may be adapted to handle media streams comprising voice, video, data and any combination of services thereof.
The core services block 304 may include, for example, application programming interfaces (APIs) that may be required to implement a particular telephony service for an application within the application block 310. Accordingly, DSP server 302 may be adapted to provide connectivity to services offered by the core services block 304. The software drivers block 306 may be configured to provide the necessary software drivers that may enable an application such as a telephony application within application block 310, to implement a particular telephony service using an API provided by the core services block 304. For example, a multimedia telephony service application within the application block 310 may utilize one or more virtual drivers (VHD) within the software driver block 306 to implement a video telephone call. In this case, the multimedia telephony service application may utilize APIs provided by the core services block 304 to implement the video telephone call. User interface 308 may provide, for example, a graphical interface that may be adapted to simplify creation, testing, debugging and interfacing of applications within the application block 310.
A media stream may contain voice, video, and/or data and may be configured to operate in one or a plurality of modes. For example, a media stream may be configured to operate in a narrow band mode and/or a wide band mode and/or any other mode depending on the capabilities of the system. In this regard, one or more virtual drivers may be adapted to provide some or all of the capabilities and/or functionalities that may be required by an application needing to utilize services offered by the core services block 304.
In accordance with the present invention, in the case of a media stream that may utilize a narrowband and wideband mode, a media queue buffer may be adapted to handle data for a particular VHD. In accordance with the invention, a VHD's media queue buffer may be configured as a single media queue that may store sampled data for a narrowband mode of operation. For example, a media queue may be configured to buffer low-band data sampled at a rate of about 8 KHz. In wideband mode, the same media queue buffer may be partitioned into two media queues. As noted above, the wideband media is band split into a low band, L, and a high band, H. A first portion of the partitioned media queue may be configured to buffer the low band, L, data. A second portion of the partitioned media queue may be configured to buffer high band, H, data. For example, the second portion of the partitioned media queue may be configured to buffer high-band data sampled at a rate of about 16 KHz.
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In an illustrative embodiment of the invention, a VHD may be adapted to process data formatted in a G.723.1 format. Since the data may be sampled at a data rate of 8 KHz, it may be classified as low-band data and a narrowband CODEC may be required to process data for a media queue used to buffer the sampled low-band data. In this case, the media queue requirements may necessitate a double-buffered 30 ms media queue, although the invention is not so limited. Accordingly, a wideband VHD may not be required in this case. Notwithstanding, in one aspect of the invention, a wideband VHD arrangement may be adapted to handle the low-band data sampled at a rate of 8 KHz. In this case, there may be no need to reconfigure a wideband media queue buffer used to handle the low-band data. A wideband media queue may be allocated to process the low-band data regardless of whether a narrowband or wideband CODEC is required.
In certain VoP applications, for example, data may be sampled at a rate of 16 KHz. Since the data may be sampled at a data rate of 16 KHz, it may be classified as wideband data and a wideband CODEC may be required to process data for a media queue used to buffer the sampled wideband data. In this case, the media queue requirements may necessitate a double-buffered 5 ms media queue. In order to accommodate a periodic double-buffered 5 ms media queue, each media queue buffer may be configured to have a minimum of 240 words. To support a narrowband CODEC for G.723.1A, 480 words may be required for double-buffered 30 ms 8 KHz sampled data. A VoP application may simultaneously support a G.723.1 A (30 ms) CODEC, and a wideband CODEC such as BroadVoice32 (5 ms). The former codec may require 30 ms double-buffered media queues with narrowband or 8 khz sampled data (therefore, 480 words of memory). The latter may require 5 ms doubled-buffered media queues with wideband or 16 khz sampled data (for example, 80 words for low-band+160 words for high-band=240 samples). The total memory requirements to support both CODECs simultaneously would be enormous unless a dynamic reconfiguration of the media queue is done. Advantageously, the ability to reconfigure the media queue buffer into two or more media queue partitions may significantly reduce memory utilization. Accordingly, any supported thread block rates may be determined by the size of the media queue buffer. The thread block rate may define a number of samples that are to be processed within each thread of operation. In this regard, a media queue buffer may store double-buffered 5 ms 8 KHz sampled low-band data and doubled buffered 5 ms 16 KHz sampled high-band data. In a case where 10 ms threads are preferred, then 480 words may be utilized per media queue buffer.
In accordance with the invention, the VHD mode of operation may be determined by a status of a currently active CODEC. During transitions between narrowband and wideband VHD modes, the low-band data may be retained to minimize glitches that may occur due to the transitions. This may be particularly important in the case of wideband voice, where the VHD mode may change in order to avoid injecting artificial phase reversals into signals comprising the data stream.
In one aspect of the invention, the media queues may be configured to store block samples for services and there may be a one-to-one correspondence between a service and a media queue. In a split-band architecture where a single incoming data stream for a particular service may be split into two or more bands, for example, a low band, L, and a high band, H, data stream, the media queue-may be adapted to store both the low band, L, and the high band, H, data streams. However, to reduce memory utilization, the media queue buffer may be adapted so that it may not have to store high band, H, data when the VHD is operating in narrowband mode. For example, in a case where G.723.1 may be the active voice compression algorithm, 30 ms media queues may be required. Since the algorithm may be processing low-band data, it may not be necessary to store any high-band data. Accordingly, the media queue buffer may be dynamically reorganized based on the VHD mode. In a case where there are more than two modes, the media queue may be adapted to be dynamically repartitioned as the mode of the VHD changes.
As the mode of the VHD changes and the media queue is repartitioned, discontinuities in the data stream may occur, for example, when the frame rate changes. In accordance with the invention, it may be desirable to replace transient fluctuations with periods of silence. For example, when a VHD transitions between a narrowband mode and a wideband mode, and vice versa, silence may be achieved by properly clearing a filter history associated with buffered data in the media queue. In another aspect of the invention, thresholds may be established during the transitions between the various VHD modes of operation. Once these thresholds have been met, a comfort noise generator may be configured to inject comfort noise into any resulting data stream.
In accordance with an embodiment of the invention, an API function may be created to support media queue mode transitions. A mode transition may be defined as either a switch between the VHD modes, for example a switch between wideband and narrowband mode, or a frame rate change, although the invention is not so limited. The following may be an exemplary function prototype for an API function in accordance with the invention.
In another aspect of the invention, memory descriptors may be utilized to access pointers to the high-band media queue. Exemplary memory descriptors may include, but are not limited to, HSF_MEDQ—16KHZ_INGRESS and HSF_MEDQ—16KHZ_EGRESS. Their definitions may be added to a HSF_DESC and HSF_MEDQ enumerations.
Accordingly, the present invention may be realized in hardware, software, or a combination of hardware and software. The present invention may be realized in a centralized fashion in one computer system, or in a distributed fashion where different elements are spread across several interconnected computer systems. Any kind of computer system or other apparatus adapted for carrying out the methods described herein is suited. A typical combination of hardware and software may be a general-purpose computer system with a computer program that, when being loaded and executed, controls the computer system such that it carries out the methods described herein.
The present invention also may be embedded in a computer program product, which comprises all the features enabling the implementation of the methods described herein, and which when loaded in a computer system is able to carry out these methods. Computer program in the present context means any expression, in any language, code or notation, of a set of instructions intended to cause a system having an information processing capability to perform a particular function either directly or after either or both of the following: a) conversion to another language, code or notation; b) reproduction in a different material form.
Notwithstanding, the invention and its inventive arrangements disclosed herein may be embodied in other forms without departing from the spirit or essential attributes thereof. Accordingly, reference should be made to the following claims, rather than to the foregoing specification, as indicating the scope of the invention. In this regard, the description above is intended by way of example only and is not intended to limit the present invention in any way, except as set forth in the following claims.
While the present invention has been described with reference to certain embodiments, it will be understood by those skilled in the art that various changes may be made and equivalents may be substituted without departing from the scope of the present invention. In addition, many modifications may be made to adapt a particular situation or material to the teachings of the present invention without departing from its scope. Therefore, it is intended that the present invention not be limited to the particular embodiment disclosed, but that the present invention will include all embodiments falling within the scope of the appended claims.
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Sorry for delay, I was out riding on the weekend, copped a Laos monsoon in the middle of the dry season getting home yesterday- no wet weather gear of course
SS, Thanks for defining your own understanding of this,
however, working with your definition:
If I put a certain weight on my handlebars that put 10Kg extra weight down through the forks, it will move my forks through their travel a given amount, for my linear wound .65Kg/mm springs in my WP50 forks, lets say this is around 8mm. If I wanted to reset my sag to where it was before the addition of the weight, I'd need to put an extra 8mm preloading spacer in. Add another weight and another 10Kg force down through the forks (making an extra 20Kg force on the forks) I'd get another of the exact same extra 8mm suspension travel and need another 8mm spacer to reseat the sag. Every 10Kg extra weight through the forks, regardless of where it is in the range of the travel moves the suspension 8mm through this travel.
The rate of the spring is not changing with preload, instead at a given weight on the front suspension, the sag or the position of travel at rest through the potential travel is changed.
back to what you said on page 2
So long as the spring doesn't bind, 10Kg weight still moves the suspension 8mm regardless of 10mm or a 100mm preload.
[QUOTE]Changing the rate of the spring takes a different spring but you can have different springs that take different amounts of weight to move at the same rate as a lighter spring. Something that, to a degree, preload alone can do.[QUOTE]
Clear as mud to me
I tried breaking this down into individual sentences and claims and whatnot but it is not worth it as it is far from clear to me what you are saying and I can read it in a few ways. You seem to be using 'weight' and 'rate' in ways that don't add up. Please explain this carefully if you would I think this comes to the heart of the matter than seems contradictory to me.
Regarding this kind of virtual change of spring rate that you seem to be talking about, what is it exactly, that changing preload, to a degree, can do alone?
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You are right though, for most use, "in the ballpark is good enough" - problem is that working that out is a serious PITA and expensive if you are going to work through a dealers supply of fork oil one bottle at a time.
Starting with something that's probably too heavy (say ATF), confirming that with a test ride, pulling halt out and replacing with 2.5 --- repeat going heavier or lighter came up with something vanishingly close to 7.5 wt.
Next time, I just brought 7.5.
Not so much going for the perfect mix like 7.6543 - but finding out which of the stock weights is closest it works and is a lot cheaper.
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Ok, now make those flat bars into round bars. Again, same section, alloy and hardening. One twice as long. One end of each restrained. Again lift the free end 2". Which is stiffer? The short one.
If it isn't intuitive yet, imagine two strips of ordinary mild steel. Each is 1" wide and 1/4" thick. But one is 6' long and the other only 3". Fasten one end of each to the bench and lift the other end 2". You can do the long strip with a finger tip. The short one takes some hydraulics. inch for inch, the longer strip has less metal displacement and thus requires less force.
Now coil those round bars (still spring steel) around a 3/4" shaft. Remove the shaft. Same cross section, alloy, hardening and distance between coils. One was twice as long as the other and coiled is still twice as long as the other. Compress each 2". Which is stiffer? The short one.
Now connect the short and long coils end to end and compress the stack with some force. What happens? The force on the stack is transmitted to both coils so BOTH experience some displacement. The long softer coil compresses more (inch per inch) than the short stiffer coil. But both compress. The long softer coil doesn't have to bottom out before the short stiffer coil compresses. This is a variable rate spring and it has a complex spring rate. As the long spring compresses more and more it gets up on it rate curve and more force is transmitted to the stiffer spring which then compresses more and more.
Formally, the spring rate is the slope of the curve of displacement vs. force on the spring.
Go back to the flat spring bar on the table. If you measure the force required to lift one end 1", then 2" then 3" etc, and graph this against the force required, you don't get a strait line. The rate is not a constant. This is due to the properties of metals in deflection. But in practice you can get it pretty constant by making the bar long enough. Make the bar round and coil it up and the effect holds. Enough coils and you can get a "good enough" constant rate. Engineering is applied physics. "good enough" counts.
Vary the spacing of the coils so there is more metal here than there and you can accentuate a variable rate. How you vary the coils (different wire diameter, coil spacing or coil diameter) affects the final "rate" you get. "rate" in this last instance is "rate" at some given compression of the spring. The real "rate" is a curve and you can only evaluate it at points, so the real rate become the derivative of the curve at some point. You hardly care. You want to know what is happening in the first couple of inches of spring travel and the last couple. For the motorcycle you want the fist couple soft to soak up road bumps and the last couple real stiff to prevent bottoming out and to support heavy braking.
Preload on a spring means you start out with it squashed some amount to get you up on the rate curve some known amount starting off. You might preload a fork spring to give you a good initial stiffness for the weight of the bike and rider and then things get stiffer from there depending on the shape of the rate curve.
For the road bike. you screw around with preload and variable rate springs (including multiple springs) to give you a nice ride and anti-dive performance.
Your fork valve "jetting" and fork oil viscosity also effect the fork movement in compression. You change the speed at which the fork can move. Fat jets and a thin oil means the fork can move fast and all the compression work is on the springs. The converse is true. Different jets control the rebound (in some forks ) but you only get to use one fork oil.
Then you can add some compressed air acting as a spring...
Disclaimer: I working from old memory and I'm almost too drunk to type so I might have missed (or screwed up) some things.
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Simpler to put a spring in a jig and measure what happens.
And if you do you will find that the rate only changes when some of the spring becomes coilbound, and for some reason the coils are reluctant to do that.
So the progressiveness in a spring is next to nothing, which is why Ohlins, Traxxion Dynamics, Maxton and most others who know something about suspension dont use them.
And Ontic , you are overthinking this thing, again the theory just doesnt match reality. As you increase preaload the spring reacts less to a given load, and this applies not only when the bike is static, but also when the suspension is moving , both ways, as you move along the road.
So it fells stiffer and reacts less to and imposed load, like a bump in the road.
It is because of this two way movement that suspension needs some preload in order to work at its best.
Most people have found that somewhere between 16 and 20 mm preload works well , and if you get the can get the suspension working to your liking with the preload in this range you have the correct spring.
But the balance , front to rear, is the critical setting - you can set up a bike soft, hard or anywhere else that suits and it will still handle reasonably well, if you get the front/rear spring and damper balance correct. Which is why quite a few bikes only have fine tuning provision at one end.
Around 10% stiffer at the rear is a good starting point, but the final percentage is dependent on factors you aint ever going to read about in a set up guide, or a suspension thread.
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I've never cooked up any spring myself. I pick ones out of catalogs. In the book, the constant rate springs have a displacement and a force value. The force is constant within some tolerance over that displacement.
The variable rate springs have a graph of the rate. You eyeball up the one you want.
On something like a shock, you might use a constant rate. It isn't truly a constant rate, that is a physical impossibility. But it is so close over a listed displacement that it does the job and is considered constant rate.
The reason the coils on a variable rate are resistant to becoming "coilbound" is because some force is always being transmitted to the stiffer section and that stiffer section is compressing even without the softer section bottoming out. Put that sucker in a vice and yeah, you can compress it solid. But it's not like these coils work and then those coils work. They ALL work at the same time. The soft coils just move a whole lot further than the stiff coils. So the first 3" of fork travel are soft while the soft coils compress a lot and the stiff coils compress a little, then the the stiff coils really kick in and the next 3" of travel are a lot stiffer.
Tricky to visualize. The force applied to the spring is distributed to the whole thing and it compresses the whole thing...just more here than there.
Go back to the flat spring lying on the bench. Suppose the first 12" of spring steel are 1/4" thick...pretty stiff...but then there is a 12" section welded on that is only 1/8" thick..more flexible. Fasten the thick end to the bench and lift up on the thin end. What happens? The thin end lifts up plenty but the thick material lifts up some. Force and hence displacement is distributed over the whole thing.
This visualization comes from another ones used to explain the force exerted by screws. A screw is simply a wedge wrapped around a cylinder. Turning a screw and pushing a wedge in a strait line are the same thing. The pitch of the screw and the angle of the wedge are analogous. It can be easier to visualize things in their simpler form. lifting one end of a flat chunk of spring steel off a bench can be simpler to visualize than compressing a coil. But they are the same thing. look under cars and you will see both flat bar springs and coil springs. Exactly the same action, different geometry.
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Cook up something that looks likely, load it, ride it for an afternoon and if it doesn't suit drain into your antiseptically clean pan after sterilizing the drain area on the bottom of your legs, reformulate it and try again.
I actually go through this BS with wax formulations for candles. When I am looking for a particular formula that works well with a particular wick at a particular diameter I blend again and again and again, keeping track of the ratio of each of 3 types of wax in the current batch. Do a test burn, melt it down and adjust the ratios, recast, test burn, melt it down again, etc. Pain in the wahzoo but when I finally get my ratios I'm done forever.
You might start out with something that you know is too thick and then do a couple rounds of thinning it until it is just right. When you get done you have a nice jug of just the right stuff and a formula to make more. Just don't store it at cold temperature. Keeps forever..or long enough anyway.
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You can determine the viscosity of your base blend. Paint shops (like auto paint) have the little viscosity measuring cups you need. Dunno if the range is appropriate however. I image they should be, I've cooked some very thin lacquers with them.
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[QUOTE=ontic;20859514]Sorry for delay, I was out riding on the weekend, copped a Laos monsoon in the middle of the dry season getting home yesterday- no wet weather gear of course
SS, Thanks for defining your own understanding of this,
It is clear to me how you could use 'weight' and 'rate' talking about suspension travel, but is not clear to me how you are using 'weight' and 'rate' to talk about a spring... especially through how you then go on below to talk about them...
however, working with your definition:
This makes perfect sense to me and is exactly how I understood it.
If I put a certain weight on my handlebars that put 10Kg extra weight down through the forks, it will move my forks through their travel a given amount, for my linear wound .65Kg/mm springs in my WP50 forks, lets say this is around 8mm. If I wanted to reset my sag to where it was before the addition of the weight, I'd need to put an extra 8mm preloading spacer in. Add another weight and another 10Kg force down through the forks (making an extra 20Kg force on the forks) I'd get another of the exact same extra 8mm suspension travel and need another 8mm spacer to reseat the sag. Every 10Kg extra weight through the forks, regardless of where it is in the range of the travel moves the suspension 8mm through this travel.
The rate of the spring is not changing with preload, instead at a given weight on the front suspension, the sag or the position of travel at rest through the potential travel is changed.
back to what you said on page 2
This is incorrect to me. 'Rate' for starters seems the wrong word for the shock. To me, preload doesn't change the rate of the shock from the beginning of its travel to the end, it changes the range that this same rate operates within. Putting in an extra 16mm preload spacer in my WP50 front end moves the range of the potential suspension travel 20Kg heavier (ie with 16mm more preload it will take 20KG more weight/force for the suspension to bottom out). It is the exact same spring, and as far as the fork is concerned it is exactly the same rate spring- not higher like you've said.
So long as the spring doesn't bind, 10Kg weight still moves the suspension 8mm regardless of 10mm or a 100mm preload.
[QUOTE]Changing the rate of the spring takes a different spring but you can have different springs that take different amounts of weight to move at the same rate as a lighter spring. Something that, to a degree, preload alone can do.
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On progressive springs? I think both camps are right at the same time. I think it works both ways to some degree but I think the coil binding side of the story holds the most weight.
16-20mm preload means you have the right spring? You can have have way more than that and have a spring that works just as well as one with less.
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Thanks for the explanation,
(and sorry for the thread drift from oil- I'll stop after this)
I'm just killing a little time, when I have it (in spades for two days at least now), and don't consider thinking and conversing in an attempt towards clarification of opinion and experience as overthinking. I don't post much on forums but occasionally I do like to hash things out a bit, apologies for anyone I've annoyed.
Again, I have not and am not arguing for using nor aiming to use a spring with no preload. Of course not. All I am emphasising is to first use a spring that is the right rate- then use preload. It seems many consider the stock springs too light, including myself, and consider 'progressives' too heavy (including myself again, though I find them preferable)- thus it was a point I thought deserved making.
As far as 'theory' vs 'reality', I understand that there is probably a grey area that is being talked about here- where the riders reality (say adding more preload giving a 'feel' of a higher spring rate) is the most important factor (even if it contradicts the physical reality). However in appreciation of actual theory and laws of science and so on, I also understand that even though the rider may feel like the spring is operating at a higher/heavier rate, it is not. If there is something else at play here I be happily corrected.
Within the recommended range (itself a very interesting debate), if extra preload gets the job done, then all well and good, and the spring is probably within that grey band of what is suitable for that rider/bike/application. Could a slightly heavier spring without the 'extra' preload (but still with preload) have also got the job done? IMO probably. Which one would be better? I wouldn't have a clue, and no doubt in side by side use it would come down to the rider preference- at least both these examples are talking about being in the range of what is OK.
Personally I do not like the feel of a spring that is too light- not at all- and I do feel that I can differentiate between the rate and preload.
I've felt it obviously on the first springs that came in my WP50 forks, they were way too light for an airhead and significantly heavier springs feel excellent- I'd love to test side by side slight differences in rate, but that will have to wait for a bit.
Anyway, thanks for the conversation all.
Back to oil,
I'm using Pentrite full synthetic ATF fluid in the WP50's and it feels pretty good. Rated as equivalent to 10W fork oil (by them). Cheaper than good fork oil, is available at any oz auto junk supermarket (repco et al)- as is commonly a problem for me when I need it.
Penrite used to have a page on their site last year with a lot of details of various fluids of theirs (with other names such as ATF or powersteering fluid) that are usable for fork oil, with proper product specs and equivalent weights. I started a brief thread on it here but they have since changed all the links I made (and I failed to note the actual products they listed) and have now bottled and marketed actual fork oil. I highly suspect these oils are actually just the previous equivalent product they used to recommend, rebottled and labled, and I highly suspect that the price advantage has now disappeared. I am going to try to talk to a Penrite rep when back in oz to figure it out, as eventually I want to play with different weight oils in my WP50 fork legs with their independent adjustable rebound and compression legs.
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You might find a preload that makes it work the way you want except you had to give up too much travel. So then you would go looking for a spring that had the same stiffnes/progression but didn't cost you so much travel.
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I didnt say preload outside 16- 20 mm didnt work acceptably well , just that 16- 20 mm seemed to be the optimum.
This is based on every spec sheet I have ever seen for a new shock - all have been supplied with 18 mm preload, and the instruction not to change it by any more than 2mm either way.
All have worked very well this way, and even better when I dialed in the front to match.
I once bought an almost new Ohlins GS shock for $200-, which the owner couldnt get to work , and he replaced it with a cheap and nasty WP which worked much better, for him.
Problem with the Ohlins was the spring - although marked as a 450 lb it actually measured almost 475, and he had reduced the preload to 6mm in an attempt to make it work.
It didnt.
But with a actual measured 450 lb spring and 16 mm preload it was just about perfect, with stock HPN insert front springs.
Good result, and I was left with the feeling Ohlins just might know what they were talking about.
Even if they couldnt make a spring to withing 25 lbs, or wind one to close enough tolerances to make it progressive ----.
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Okay Jack.... it's cold and your here reading ride reports cause you dont' want to take your candy ass out in it... Fair enough.... ( he rode to Alaska last year and made me endure his ride report.... Perfect .. sit back Jack... my turn)
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LAWRENCEVILLE -- At least four local men are believed connected to an alleged ring manufacturing and distributing fake identification documents for illegal immigrants, officials said.
Vincent Picard, spokesman for Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Georgia, said Tuesday he was not at liberty to discuss many details about the case but did confirm that several Gwinnett County arrests were part of an "ongoing investigation related to document manufacturing." Earlier this week, warrants were issued out of Gwinnett magistrate court for suspects Jesus Olvera, 35, of Lawrenceville; Raul Mario Blancas, 56, of Norcross; and Hector Antonio Fuentes and Amador Kikroz, both with birthdates unknown at the time of filing.
Online records show Olvera was booked into the Gwinnett County Detention Center at about 12:10 p.m. Tuesday, roughly 30 minutes after Fuentes was booked. Both were charged with single counts of felony first-degree forgery and false identification documents.
Picard said the other two men, as well as a fifth whose warrant had not been obtained yet, were in custody too.
According to the warrants, the suspects "did commit the offense of manufacture, alter, sell a fraudulent identification document" on several different dates between January and mid-April. The various documents included social security and permanent resident cards.
Picard confirmed the "different types of identity documents" were distributed to illegal immigrants, but could not comment on the believed scope of the alleged forgery ring.
"That's something we'll still be sorting out," he said.
Warrants described vague incident locations in southern Gwinnett, including "Buford Highway, Norcross" and "Pleasant Hill Road, Duluth."
The investigation is being carried out by ICE's Document and Benefits Fraud Task Force, which includes a member of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation that Picard said "really made the case." A GBI spokeswoman directed inquiries to Picard.
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Send these Bozos back where they came from.
notblind 2 years, 2 months ago
Just doing the jobs Americans won't do.
allamerican 2 years, 2 months ago
What job would that be?????? Producing fake documents??
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I am glad to see the Daily Post still calling illegal aliens, illegal aliens. The left is trying to change the language and now calls them undocumented immigrants.
This is why I read the Daily Post.
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I agree with you completely but someone tell us why this is not on the front page of the paper instead of the last?
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Or just "immigrants". People that do this show a basic level of dishonesty that means you can't believe anything they say.
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This is the kind of trash you throw stones at or hang. They will just get out of jail and do the same things. Hopefully one day they will confront a person carrying a gun and justice will be served.


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