Patrick Overs
Broadcom
5 Papers
80 Citations
Patrick Overs is an academic researcher from Broadcom. The author has contributed to research in topics: System bus & Network packet. The author has an hindex of 4, co-authored 5 publications. Previous affiliations of Patrick Overs include Georgetown University.
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Papers
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Monitoring of connection between network devices in a packet-based communication system
Alan Roger Poulter,David Law,Paul Cramphorn,Steven Brewer,Patrick Overs +4 more
- 12 Aug 1999
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an example for IEEE standard 802.3 IEEE 802.15.3 using an auto-negotiation expansion register, which monitors the execution of the negotiation sequence by counting the occurrences of a page received bit.
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Link technology detection in multiple speed physical links
Patrick Overs,Ronald Ruben Aszkenasy +1 more
- 03 Aug 1999
TL;DR: In this paper, an improvement to an auto-negotiation process for a link between network devices and in particular the avoidance of ambiguity when signals at a higher rate, such as 100BASE-Tx scrambled idle signals, resemble signals at lower rate such as 10 BASE-T link pulses was proposed.
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Communication device with circuitry to promote cascade series connection including identification of device position in the series and sensing the end device in the series
Nicholas Stapleton,Christopher Walker,David R. Smith,Patrick Overs +3 more
- 23 Jul 1997
TL;DR: In this paper, a plurality of communication devices, each having ports and a data bus interconnecting the plurality of units, are provided with means enabling the device to detect automatically its position on the data bus.
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Cascade connection of communicating devices
Patrick Overs,David R. Smith,Nicholas Stapleton,Christopher Walker +3 more
- 23 Jul 1997
TL;DR: In this paper, a plurality of communication devices, each having ports and a data bus interconnecting the plurality of units, are provided with means enabling the device to detect automatically its position on the data bus.
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Network communication device
Nigel Horspool,David John Law,Quang Tran,Patrick Overs +3 more
- 30 Nov 1998
TL;DR: In this article, the first symbols in a data packet do not carry any data and therefore do not necessarily require to be properly carried through a communications hub Rather, a known number of symbols are discarded from the start of a packet on receipt and replaced on re-transmission This discarding reduces the reception delays particularly in bussed-architecture repeaters where bus arbitration must take place for each received packet
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