Multiplex communications inventions 12/05

20050286403 - Method and apparatus for the transmission of data: A method and an apparatus for the transmission of data is provided, wherein the data, in a first operating mode, are transmitted in a plurality of first frequency bands and, in a second operating mode, are transmitted in a plurality of second frequency bands. A number of the first frequency...

20050286402 - Method and apparatus for transmitting uplink acknowledgement information in an ofdma communication system: A method and apparatus for transmitting uplink acknowledge information (ACK) in a communication system using an orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) scheme. The method includes receiving a data bit for the uplink ACK; outputting codewords corresponding to the data bit; performing quadrature phase shift keying (QPSK) modulation on symbols...

20050286408 - Allocation of radio resource in orthogonal frequency division multiplexing system: An uplink capacity is increased by a method in which more than two mobile stations simultaneously use a radio resource allocated to one mobile station. A method of allocating a radio resource in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing system comprises receiving data associated with a radio resource allocation map from...

20050286406 - Hybrid type channel estimation method and system for mobile environment: Disclosed herein is a hybrid channel estimation method and system for an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) wireless communication system. The hybrid channel estimation method includes the steps of acquiring a first channel coefficient using decision-directed channel estimation; acquiring a second channel coefficient using pilot-symbol-aided channel estimation; and calculating the...

20050286405 - Method and apparatus for minimizing co-channel interference by scrambling: An approach is provided for minimizing co-channel interference in a communication system is disclosed. Non-header portions of frames, which are transmitted over the communication system, are scrambled according to respective different scrambling sequences. The above arrangement is particularly suited to a digital satellite broadcast and interactive system....

20050286407 - Method of configuring and updating connection identifier in a broadband wireless access communication system: In a method of configuring connection identifier (CID) update information in a broadband wireless access (BWA) communication system where each service between an mobile station (MS) and a base station (BS) has a unique CID, a registration request message is received from the MS, requesting updating of at least one...

20050286404 - Spatial puncturing apparatus, method, and system: Stations in a N×N multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) wireless network always puncture the weakest spatial channel. N−1 spatial channels are always used regardless of the channel state....

20050286409 - Apparatus and method for transmitting/receiving uplink random access channel in mobile communication system: An apparatus and method for transmitting/receiving an random access channel (RACH) signal in a broadband wireless communication system where a total uplink frequency band is divided into M sub-bands are provided. In the RACH transmitting apparatus, a generator generates an access code. A sub-carrier allocator divides the access code into...

20050286413 - Handling link failures with re-tagging: One embodiment disclosed relates to a method of handling link failures between switches. A failed link is detected at a detecting switch. The detecting switch determines a set of path tags whose paths are affected by the failed link. Subsequently, when packets are received with one of the path tags...

20050286410 - Link adaptation: The present invention discloses an apparatus and method for adapting a transmission parameter in a transmitting node of a data communication system to the current link quality of a data communication channel. The adapted transmission parameter is selected by the transmitting node from a set of transmission parameters in dependence...

20050286411 - Method and apparatus for designing networks to support fast restoration: Improved network design techniques are provided. More particularly, the invention provides network design techniques that support fast restoration. In one aspect of the invention, a technique for designing a protection capacity to be reserved in a network comprises the following steps/operations. Link capacities associated with a network topology and existing...

20050286414 - Method and apparatus for identifying components of a network having high importance for network integrity: A computer system (2) is provided which is arranged to receive network data (1) identifying nodes and links between nodes. The computer system (2) processes the input network data (1) to utilise the network topology to identify nodes and links having high importance for network integrity. A report (4) identify...

20050286412 - Transient notification system: A transient notification system is described. In one implementation, a Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) speaker receives a transience notification message identifying a route in a network that is no longer valid. The BGP speaker marks the route indicated by the transient notification message as not valid, and avoids using the...

20050286415 - System and method for lightweight deadlock detection: The present invention is directed to systems and methods for lightweight deadlock detection among a number of parallel transacted connections. Rather than employing an additional separate monitoring connection, the present invention enables a transacted connection to query the subscriber and determine a connection status for other connections within the same...

20050286416 - Communication system: A communication terminal (1) on a transmission side comprises means (1-10) for detecting congestion, means (1-7) for detecting a sign of congestion with reference to an ideal congestion window size and a current congestion window size, means for estimating a ratio of priority traffic with respect to traffic within a...

20050286417 - Device and method of controlling and providing content over a network: A device and method of controlling content transmission, and a device and method of providing content. The method of controlling content over a network includes generating a control command using a stateless protocol so that an AV content providing device controls transmission of an AV content using a connectionless protocol...

20050286418 - Data compression negotiation in a telecommunication system: The invention relates to a method for setting up s data link, wherein an end-to-end link comprises at least two separate legs with error correction protocols. The legs may have different physical layer connections or their error correction protocols (V.120, RLP) may be different. An interworking function IWF according to...

20050286420 - System and method of avoiding cell disposal in buffer: A cell disposal avoidance system is provided that can avoid disposal of the cells resided in the QoS buffer when a traffic of a specific QoS class in an ATM switch increases. The ATM switch includes a storage cell number monitor, a software data section 813, and a software controller...

20050286419 - System and method to improve the performance of an on demand routing protocol in a wireless network: A system and method for improving the performance of an on-demand routing protocol in a wireless network is provided. The invention provides improved system performance of a wireless network by enabling nodes following an on-demand routing protocol to process (and possibly reply to) route request messages multiple times based on...

20050286421 - Location determination for mobile devices for location-based services: Information regarding a site-specific m-commerce transaction is used to determine the general location of a mobile device with which the m-commerce transaction is conducted. All that is required for location determination of the mobile device is a location identifier. During the transaction, the user specifies the location identifier. An m-commerce...

20050286422 - Data communication device, its intermittent communication method, program describing its method, and recording medium on which program is recorded: A data communication method for a wireless communication terminal (101) that receives data transmitted intermittently from a transmitting side and plays the data in real time, includes: a step (502, 606 and 607) for requesting to a server (203) and acquiring therefrom, the data characteristics (401-405) of the data transmitted...

20050286424 - Differential delay compensation and measurement in bonded systems: A method for determining differential delay of at least two bonded links is described. The method comprises a step of providing, on the part of a transmitting entity, at least some of the data packets transmitted from the transmitting entity to a receiving entity with time stamps, the time stamps...

20050286423 - Flow logging for connection-based anomaly detection: A plurality of flow collector devices is disposed to collect flow information on a network. Duplicate flow records received from the flow collectors are eliminated by determining whether a pair of flow records has the same, source and destination flow identifiers and were received within a predefined time-period. Non-duplicated flow...

20050286425 - Route determination with differential delay compensation for virtually-concatenated data traffic: Virtually-concatenated data traffic is routed in a network comprising a plurality of nodes, the plurality of nodes including one or more nodes that are differential delay enabled and one or more nodes that are not differential delay enabled. For a given traffic demand to be routed from a source node...

20050286426 - System and method for link quality routing using a weighted cumulative expected transmission time metric: A system and method for link quality routing uses a weighted cumulative expected transmission time path metric. A system for routing in a multi-hop ad hoc network, and a method for measuring the link quality of a route in the network, include assignment of a weight to a link in...

20050286430 - Abnormal traffic eliminating apparatus: An abnormal traffic eliminating apparatus eliminates an abnormal traffic that is generated in a network through which frames including a MAC header part, an IP header part and an IP datagram part are transmitted. The apparatus is provided with a write part for writing an FCS field of an MAC...

20050286427 - Method for managing logical connections in a network of distributed stations, as well as a network station: The invention relates to the technical field of domestic networks. A domestic network based on the present UpnP-Standard allows AV connections to be set up between two network subscriber stations. Network connections such as these are set up and managed under the control of a network station which is in...

20050286431 - Multiplexer, multimedia communication apparatus and time stamp generation method: In order to allow the generation of a time stamp in consideration of a frame skip even in the case where the frame skip is generated, a PES generation section of a multiplexer detects the number of skipped frames by analyzing elementary video streams output from a video encoder to...

20050286429 - System and method for identifying a signature of a device, in a communication circuit, utilizing distortion products: A system for identifying characteristics of communication circuit devices in a communication circuit includes a stimulus signal generator configured to generate a stimulus signal at a plurality of amplitudes for the communication circuit devices. At least one of the plurality of amplitudes exceeds a first predetermined threshold. At least one...

20050286428 - Timeline management of network communicated information: A digital communication management application implemented in an electronic device, such as a digital communication device that provides for a topographic presentation or view of the quantity of digital communications associated with specific time periods. In addition, the communication view provides the capability to distinguish between different digital communications based...

20050286432 - Packet discard point probing method and device: In a relay device or the like in which a speed changes from a high speed to a low speed, a packet residence (packet transfer wait) occurs when a packet string in which packet intervals are shortened arrives. When a packet discard occurs before passing through the relay device or...

20050286433 - Built in self test: There is provided a method for Loss of Signal Built In Self Test, and corresponding apparatus comprising: a loopback driver for receiving test signals, and for directing the test signals to at least one of a first output of the loopback driver and a second output of the loopback driver;...

20050286437 - Information-processing device, information-processing method, and information-processing program product: An information-processing device for communicating with a communication device includes a RTT measurement unit configured to measure a round trip time between the information-processing device and the communication device, a RTT judgment unit configured to determine whether the round trip time exceeds a predetermined upper limit value, a unit-type information...

20050286438 - Method and system for providing cross-layer quality-of-service functionality in a wireless network: A method for providing cross-layer quality-of-service (QoS) functionality in a wireless network is provided. The method includes obtaining QoS data from each layer of an application stack for a particular application. A QoS matrix is generated based on the obtained QoS data. Packet distribution for the particular application may then...

20050286439 - Method of testing a router, and a test system: This method of testing a router in a test environment that is isolated from an operational telecommunications network comprises initially collecting data from a node of said operational network by copying data packets being conveyed thereby, and then: a step of modifying collected data packets, this step comprising at least...

20050286434 - Methods and computer programs for generating data traffic matrices: A method of monitoring traffic flow within a network of nodes, and a recordable medium containing a computer program with instructions that, when executed, performs such method, is provided. The method comprises assigning sampling points to a node or unique pair of nodes. In one method, the sampling points contained...

20050286435 - Remote management system: A remote management system includes a managed device and a management device connected via a network, where events occurring in the managed device are managed via an event system scheme which can be adapted to a number of managed devices. A management module in the managed device detects an event...

20050286436 - Signal level measurement and data connection quality analysis apparatus and methods: An apparatus that includes a coupling, a signal level measurement circuit, a communication circuit and a processing circuit. The coupling is configured to connect to and received broadband RF signals from a coaxial cable termination of a communication network. The signal level measurement circuit is operably coupled to the coupling,...

20050286440 - System and method for adaptive rate selection for wireless networks: A system and method for dynamic rate adaptation in wireless networks is presented. A dynamic adjustment scheme adapts quickly to channel variation characteristics where adjustment values depend on the target data packet completion rates that maximizes the effective throughput. The required information is an estimate of the Medium Access Controller...

20050286441 - Method for determining the relationship of a customer edge router with virtual private network: This invention discloses a method for determining the relationship of a Customer Edge Router (CE) with a Virtual Private Networking (VPN), which comprises: assigning in advance for each CE device at least one Route Target (RT) value to form the RT table of the CE, creating CE Route Communities (CERC)...

20050286442 - Multichannel ring and star networks with limited channel conversion: The ring communication network also may comprise N nodes and links coupling the nodes for carrying data in W channels such that N≧2 log2 W−1 where W is a power of 2. Each of the N nodes comprises switches connected such that each channel of a first one of the...

20050286443 - Conferencing system: A conferencing system is described which includes a plurality of conferencing devices and a hub device. Each conferencing device is operable to process near-end speech energy signals to improve the intelligibility of the near-end speech, transmit the processed near-end signals to the hub device, receive far-end signals from the hub...

20050286444 - Method and apparatus for continuously receiving images from a plurality of video channels and for alternately continuously transmitting to each of a plurality of participants in a video conference individual images containing information concerning each o: A method and apparatus is provided for video conferencing. The method and apparatus continuously receive frames from a plurality of video channels and alternately continuously transmit to each of a plurality of participants in a video conference individual frames containing information concerning each of the video channels. The method and...

20050286445 - Method and apparatus to control training for reverse direction data in a high throughput wireless network: In a high throughput wireless network, data is permitted to be transmitted in a reverse direction during a frame exchange (i.e., from a responder to an initiator). In at least one embodiment, channel training is performed in the reverse direction only if it is determined that a performance benefit may...

20050286446 - Multi channel throughput enhancement: A wireless access point includes an ability to transmit signals over a plurality of channels and receive signals over the plurality of channels and have means for synchronizing transmission on a first channel to a first station and transmission on a second channel to a second station, such that acknowledgements...

20050286447 - Wireless datagram transaction protocol system: Systems are provided for sequencing, delivery acknowledgement, and throttling of data packets over a network layer, such as UDP and SMS. To support devices with limited battery resources, the invention incorporates asymmetric retry logic and/or acknowledgements with overlapping ranges, to minimize the transmissions required for the device. The sender of...

20050286448 - Wireless local area network repeater: A repeater (200) facilitates wireless communication between a first communication device (100) and a second communication device (105) in a wireless network using a time division duplex protocol for data transmission. The repeater (200) includes a receiver (310, 315) for receiving a signal on either of at least two bi-directional...

20050286449 - Method for setting guard interval in mobile communication using time division duplexing scheme: A method for setting a guard interval for distinguishing a transition from a downlink period to an uplink period in a mobile communication system employing a time division duplexing (TDD) scheme, the mobile communication system including a plurality of base stations. The method includes the steps of, simultaneously transmitting by...

20050286450 - Deterministic communication system: The invention relates to data sources for a deterministic communications system comprising data sources, which can be connected to a data sink by means of at least one coupling node. Said system comprises a means of controlling the data sources to achieve a planned, deterministic communication between said data sources...

20050286451 - Connection identification allocating system and method in a broadband wireless access communication system: Provided is a connection identification (CID) allocating method in a Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) communication system having a medium access control protocol data unit (MAC PDU) format with a header field including control information and a payload field including user data. The header field has a first CID field of...

20050286452 - Method and system for bi-directional exchange of data based on user-defined policies for the selection of a preferred datalink: A communications channel selection device aimed at solving the problems associated with selecting a preferred channel for two-way communication between an aircraft and the ground over TCP/IP packet-based networks. The device provides a means whereby policies for the selection of a preferred datalink are associated with the communications from aircraft-based...

20050286453 - Mobile computing device to provide virtual office usage model: In one embodiment, a mobile computing device that includes an interface to communicate VOIP calls in a non-main CPU/OS state. In one embodiment, the mobile computing device includes a secondary display located on an external area of the mobile computing device, to display information related to a VOIP call. In...

20050286454 - Power saving method in wireless lan system for permitting terminal station to promptly transition to doze state by transmitting empty data frame: A power saving method in a wireless LAN system is disclosed for permitting a terminal station to promptly transition to a doze state irrespective of the presence or absence of data destined to the terminal station in a base station. Upon receipt of a PS-Poll signal from a terminal station...

20050286455 - Method and apparatus for multicast tunneling for mobile devices: The present invention provides a method and apparatus for multicast tunneling for mobile devices. The method comprises receiving a multicast packet directed to a plurality of mobile nodes, the mobile nodes being associated with a home subnet and identifying if any of the plurality of the mobile nodes are coupled...

20050286456 - System and method for broadcasting application-specific information in wireless local area networks: A system and method for a novel broadcasting scheme (NBS) in a wireless local area network are described, which can operate with or without a network connection. The system permits transmission of application-specific data through a specific field in a beacon frame, the Service Set Identity (SSID). By implementing a...

20050286457 - Method and system for handling events in an application framework for a wireless device: Methods and systems for application framework development for wireless devices are provided herein. Aspects of the method may include acquiring an MMI event from an MMI event queue within the MMI wireless framework. An identity of the acquired MMI event may be determined and the acquired MMI event may be...

20050286458 - Radio network, relay node, core node, relay transmission method used in the same and program thereof: A radio network can select a route of minimum path loss among entire relay routes and can set the relay route so as to satisfactorily resist interference. The radio network has a core node connected to a wired network, relay nodes each relaying at least one of a down-link data...

20050286459 - Apparatus and method for detecting a time division multiplexing frame in a mobile communication system: An apparatus and a method are provided for improving reception reliability for control channels by detecting time division multiple (TDM) frames transmitted through the control channels in a TDM mobile communication system. The apparatus and method include receiving the frame through the forward control channel and performing a cyclic redundancy...

20050286463 - Communications terminal, server, playback control method and program: The communications terminal comprises: a playback device which playbacks content; a reading device which reads in access information recorded on a prescribed recording medium, the access information being necessary for downloading the content which can be played back by the playback device, via a network; a communications device which downloads...

20050286460 - Device and method of dynamically assigning subgroups of spreading sequences: The present invention concerns a device and a method of dynamically assigning subgroups of spreading sequences of a set of spreading sequences to mobile terminals of a Multi-Carrier transmission network, characterised in that each subgroup comprises different spreading sequences than the spreading sequences comprised in other subgroups, each subgroup of...

20050286462 - Ofdm symbol transmission method and apparatus for providing sector diversity in a mobile communication system, and system using the same: An orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) system with a multicell or multisector structure includes a plurality of base stations and mobile stations. Each of the base stations interleaves data for transmission to the mobile station, performs space-time coding (STC) on the interleaved data into a plurality of space-time code streams,...

20050286461 - Process method about the service connection between the wireless local area network and user terminal: Disclosed is a method for processing the service connection between a user terminal and a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) applicable to a WLAN interactive network that at least comprises: a WLAN user terminal, a WLAN access unit, a service control unit and a user information storage unit. The method...

20050286464 - Routing method for mobile infrastructureless network: The present invention provides a method for selecting and routing data in an ad-hoc mobile wireless network having a plurality of Nodes including multiple sources and destinations. The method includes sending a forward control packet from a source to the destination via at least one intermediate Node at intervals of...

20050286465 - Method and apparatus for accessing a wireless communication system: Access to a wireless communication system (100) by a subscriber station (101-103) is facilitated by selecting (705) an access sequence from a set of sequences that have been identified to have a low average of peak-to-average-power-ratios of access signals generated by the set of sequences and also based on a...

20050286466 - System for providing mobile voip: A system for providing handoff for a mobile devices comprising a mobile phone programmed to automatically handover between differing data bearers and to optimally detect those bearers in a roaming environment keeping power consumption to a minimum. Repeating means for these mobile devices to extend the range of coverage and...

20050286467 - Dynamic channel assignment: This invention provides interference predictions, suitable for least interference dynamic channel assignment use or other frequency hopping uses by de-coupling the time slot assignment and the frequency hopping pattern assignment. In particular, a least interfered time slot is selected based on an aggregate interference measurement performed across an entire transmission...

20050286473 - Dynamic allocation of radio resources in a packet switched communications-system: Voice and/or image data packets are transferred by a packet handler between user stations in a GSM-type mobile communications system using a General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) data link. Control data for controlling a call is stored in a data store accessible by the packet handler. The control data identifies...

20050286470 - Method and apparatus providing context transfer for inter-bs and inter-pcf handoffs in a wireless communication system: In exemplary embodiments of this invention context transfers (static and dynamic) are optimally performed to maintain the same quality of service (QoS) for a Mobile Station (MS) during a CDMA inter-BS hard handoff, as well as during a CDMA inter-BS soft handoff. Context transfers (static and dynamic) are also optimally...

20050286469 - Method and apparatus providing context transfer for inter-pdsn handoffs in a wireless communication system: In an exemplary embodiment of this invention contexts are transferred at an appropriate time depending on the context type. As a result, link layer (PPP) delay can be substantially eliminated during Mobile IP handoff, without introducing additional packet loss. By way of example, all MS contexts (both static and dynamic)...

20050286468 - Method for configuration of a compressed mode in a mobile radiocommunication system: The invention relates to a method for configuration of a compressed mode in a mobile radiocommunication system. Said method comprises a configuration of a compressed mode defined by means of the parameters for the compressed mode, said parameters for a compressed mode including a transmission gap length (TBVL) and a...

20050286472 - Point-to-multipoint service medium access control entity structure: The present invention relates to combining point-to-multipoint service data in a mobile terminal of a wireless communication system. A mobile terminal receiving MBMS service data of a current cell in a MAC entity while concurrently receiving the same MBMS service data from a neighboring cell in a MAC entity discards...

20050286471 - System and associated mobile node, foreign agent and method for link-layer assisted mobile ip fast handoff: A system for handing off a mobile node includes a mobile node and a target foreign agent. To effectuate a handoff of the mobile node from an anchor foreign agent to the target foreign agent, a tunnel can be established therebetween such that data packet(s) sent between the mobile node...

20050286474 - Modified preamble structure for ieee 802.11a extensions to allow for coexistence and interoperability between 802.11a devices and higher data rate, mimo or otherwise extended devices: A modified preamble is used by extended devices that operate at higher rates, MIMO or other extensions relative to strict 802.11a-compliant devices. The extended devices might use multiple antenna techniques (MIMO), where multiple data streams are multiplexed spatially and/or multi-channel techniques, where an extended transmitter transmits using more than one...

20050286475 - Non-native media codec in cdma system: A method and device of sending and receiving encoded media over a CDMA channel. A plurality of speech frames are output by a media codec, and the plurality of encoded media frames are encapsulated into a packet of a first type. The packet of the first type is encapsulated into...

20050286479 - Business method and apparatus for providing wireless telecommunication services for mobile applications: A business method and telecommunications system is described which is specifically adapted to provide wireless communication services such as internet access as a vehicle moves down a predefined transportation corridor such as a highway or railroad tracks....

20050286477 - Distributed scheduling in wireless networks with service differentiation: An apparatus includes a first node configured to transmit both data frames and requests for channel reservations to a local contention neighborhood of a network. The first node is configured to compete with other nodes of the neighborhood for reservations to the channel. The first node is configured to dynamically...

20050286478 - Method and apparatus for utilizing bluetooth for wlan service authentication and discovery: A device having wireless connectivity may be coupled to Internet Protocol (IP) service available in a network, including a wireless local area network (WLAN), local area network (LAN), Ethernet or other suitable Internet access point, by broadcasting a wireless protocol service discovery query requesting information about the IP service available...

20050286476 - Portable computing device for wireless communications and method of operation: In one embodiment of the present invention, a portable computing device for wireless communications comprises a first network interface for communicating with a public wireless wide area network (WWAN), a second network interface for communicating with a private wireless local area network (WLAN), and a processor executing under control of...

20050286480 - Radio apparatus joining an ibss or ad hoc network: A radio apparatus applicable to an IBSS (Independent Basic Service Set) network includes a timing generator for generating a timing signal in accordance with the phase of a received frame. A decision circuitry acquires the source address of the received frame in response to the timing signal and received frame,...

20050286482 - Apparatus and method for supporting ofdm operation in a cdma2000 wireless network: An apparatus and method for supporting OFDM operation in a CDMA2000 wireless network, including a base station and mobile station capable of supporting OFDM symbols within a CDMA signal structure....

20050286481 - Method for data transmission utlizing a portable multimedia device: A communication system for sending data between a multimedia player and a nearby receiver is described. In the described embodiment, the multimedia player includes a multimedia data file processor unit arranged to process a multimedia data file and a data transmission unit coupled to the multimedia data file processor unit...

20050286483 - Notification of control information in wireless communication system: The present invention relates to notifying updated control information of a point-to-multipoint service in a wireless communications system. An indication about whether control channel information has been updated is transmitted and received during a time interval where data of the point-to multipoint service is not transmitted between a network and...

20050286484 - Method and apparatus for transmitting signals: A storage unit stores a preamble signal defined in a legacy system and a preamble signal defined in a MIMO system. A monitoring unit in a transmitting apparatus monitors the existence of any communication apparatus which is not compatible with the MIMO system but accepts the legacy system. A channel...

20050286485 - Fast and robust timing acquisition algorithm: An algorithm identifies a line-of-sight (LOS) signal that may be used to provide an effective time-of-arrival (TOA) estimation....

20050286488 - Communications network: In a communications network, which may be a federated network such as the Internet, a tariff is distributed via the network to customer terminals. At each terminal a charge for use of the network is calculated by using the tariff. Different tariffs may be communicated for different services and a...

20050286487 - Distributed routing of data flow: A data flow is divided into multiple sub-flows. At least two of the sub-flows are routed through separate paths through one or multiple networks, and the sub-flows are received and combined to reconstruct an estimate of the original data flow. The separate paths may be result by placing different routing...

20050286486 - Versatile communication network test apparatus and methods: An analysis device includes a connector, a display, a digital communication circuit and a processing circuit. The connector is configured to connect to a coaxial cable of a communication system, the communication system including a connection to a network employing internet protocol communications. The digital communication circuit is operably connected...

20050286496 - Apparatus and method for providing communication services using multiple signaling protocols: An apparatus includes a plurality of call controllers that are capable of establishing a plurality of communication sessions over a packet network using a plurality of signaling protocols. The apparatus also includes an application controller that is capable of supporting one or more supplementary services during each of the communication...

20050286489 - Authentication system and method having mobility in public wireless local area network: The present invention discloses an authentication system and method having mobility in a public wireless LAN. The authentication system includes an access point for requesting authentication of a wireless terminal to an access point manager, enabling data transmission and reception of the authenticated wireless terminal, and requesting the access point...

20050286497 - Directional facilitator system for transferring media content between a computer and a mobile device via a data network: Disclosed is a system for managing, creating, modifying, and distributing media content. The system permits a user to customize and distribute the media content over a network from a first network device, such as a personal computer, to a second network device, such as a mobile phone. Prior to distributing...

20050286500 - Ip telephone access system, customer's terminating device thereof and ip telephone access method: An IP telephone access system preventing the use of the 0AB-J number beyond the geographically identified area transfers an existing fixed telephone economically to an IP telephone without changing the telephone number. There is provided an address management table, in the ONU, coordinating the LLID and the address of the...

20050286499 - Ip telephone apparatus, enum server, and calling method via the internet: An ENUM server stores NAPTR records including PSTN telephone numbers and the corresponding IP telephone numbers of a source IP telephone apparatus and a destination IP telephone apparatus. When the ENUM server receives an ENUM query from the source IP telephone apparatus, the ENUM query setting a domain name based...

20050286501 - Media communication system, and terminal apparatus and signal conversion apparatus in said system: Disclosed is a media communication system in which communication of media such as sound, image and the like is performed between first and second terminals, each of which is constructed so as to be capable of IP communication, via an IP network. The system includes an IP packetizing unit for...

20050286494 - Method and apparatus for dynamic voip phone protocol selection: A method and apparatus for dynamically selecting one of a plurality of VoIP phone protocols to establish a VoIP phone connection is provided. In one example, the method includes listening on a multiplicity of available IP ports associated with a first VoIP phone device for an incoming call utilizing the...

20050286490 - Method for automatically selecting lowest rate for dialing phone call via wireless telecommunication device: The present invention discloses a method for automatically selecting the lowest rate for dialing a phone call via a wireless telecommunication device, which is implemented within a wireless telecommunication device, a wireless network and at least one Internet phone service provider, and enables the wireless telecommunication device to download the...

20050286502 - Methods and systems for communicating ss7 messages over packet-based network using transport adapter layer interface: A transport adapter layer interface (TALI) includes messages, processes, and packet structures for sending and receiving SS7 information over a stream-oriented connection, such as a TCP/IP connection. For example, the TALI interface includes test messages for testing the status of a connection and allow and prohibit messages for enabling and...

20050286491 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for processing communication traffic in a router to manage quality of service in a transport network: Traffic in a communication network is processed by receiving traffic from a first network at a router. The traffic is scheduled at the router for transmission to a transport network, which supports statistical multiplexing of traffic, based on a topology of the transport network. Moreover, the router is associated with...

20050286493 - Mobile terminals, methods, and program products that generate communication information based on characters recognized in image data: Mobile terminals, methods, and program products generate information for communication from a mobile terminal. The mobile terminal can include a camera device and a controller. The camera device is configured to capture image data based on incident light. The controller is configured to recognize characters in the image data, and...

20050286495 - System and method for call routing and paging across different types of networks: A network architecture uses an Application Server Autonomous Access (ASAA) server which allows paging and call routing across different types of wireless and wireline access networks. The ASAA server provides connectivity between an external voice or data network and a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU). The external voice or data network...

20050286498 - System and method for establishing a call: A system and method for providing a voice communication service between a first user and a second user after the first user and the second user are communicating via a non-voice communication service is described. The non-voice communication service may be processed through a server in communication with the first...

20050286492 - System for facilitating parallel data transfer from a wireless caller into a communications center: A system for identifying and interacting with callers has: a telephone switch for receiving and distributing incoming calls; a messaging server for sending or receiving messages and attachments; and, a software routine for identifying wireless callers and for matching them to messages in the messaging server. The system is characterized...

20050286503 - Communication device: A communication device of the present invention performs communication over a network where a session is identified based on a source address set in a frame. The communication device comprises an interface unit for connecting to the network, a management unit for managing a plurality of addresses, a request unit...

20050286504 - Mobile terminal, session initiation protocol server, and method of controlling routing path for voice-over-internet protocol service, based on mobile internet protocol, voice-over-internet protocol, and session initiation protocol: Disclosed is a method for controlling a routing path for a voice-over-internet protocol service based on a mobile internet protocol and a session initiation protocol, the method including the steps of sensing a mobile terminals entry into a different network and performing a mobile internet protocol re-registration; the mobile terminal...

20050286505 - Method and apparatus for generating a phase dependent control signal: A phase detector generates a phase dependent control signal according to the phase relationship between a first and second clock signal. The phase detector includes first and second phase detector circuits receiving the first and second clock signals and generating select signals having duty cycles corresponding to the phase relationship...

20050286507 - Determining a time difference between first and second clock domains: Buffer circuitry receives data to be processed by electronic circuitry using a first clock signal associated with a first clock domain. The buffered data is output using a second clock signal associated with a second clock domain. The buffering of the data is associated with a buffering delay. Counting circuitry...

20050286506 - System and method for an asynchronous data buffer having buffer write and read pointers: A system and method for facilitating the adjustment of timing parameters between a memory controller operating in a first clock domain and a memory device operating in a second clock domain. A write pointer and a read pointer are monitored to provide a write-read pointer offset representing the timing between...

20050286508 - Wireless communication method and wireless communication apparatus: A receiving Bluetooth module has a buffer for sequentially storing packets received from a Bluetooth module of an audio sever. After a predetermined number of received packets is stored in the buffer, the received packets are sequentially read out from the butter while subsequently received packets are being storing in...

20050286509 - Audio/video network interface: A method for multicasting audio data in a power line communication network consistent with certain embodiments involves assigning a set of one or more time slots and one or more sub-carriers for each recipient audio client designated to receive the multicast audio data over a power line serving as a...

20050286510 - Packet transfer apparatus: A packet transfer apparatus for accommodating a plurality of hosts to transfer packets between the plurality of hosts and an ISP network. Upon receipt of a connection authentication request from a host, the packet transfer apparatus transmits ID and password information (information required for authentication) included in the request to...

20050286524 - Data packet discarding: A system for hierarchically storing packetized data and transferring the packetized data includes an input configured to receive packets of data, a memory coupled to the input and configured to store packets of data, an output coupled to the memory and configured to transfer packets of data from the memory,...

20050286518 - Device for enabling intra-edge routing-less premises internet protocol communication and communication method using the same: An intra-edge routing-less IP communication device and communication method using the same, in a multi-subnet edge network on a single. LAN segment in which there are a plurality of premises hosts some of which originally belong to subnets different from those of the others. The communication device comprises a DHCP...

20050286522 - Efficient classification of network packets: Embodiments describe a system and/or method for efficient classification of network packets. According to an aspect a method includes describing a packet as a feature vector and mapping the feature vector to a feature space. The method can further include defining a feature prism, classifying the packet relative to the...

20050286517 - Filtering and routing of fragmented datagrams in a data network: Techniques to efficiently filter fragmented datagrams and route fragments are described. For each fragmented datagram, a filtering node obtains filter parameters as fragments for the datagram are received. When all filter parameters are available, the node applies one or more filters on the filter parameters to obtain a filter result...

20050286512 - Flow processing: A method, system, network nodes and computer programs for processing a packet data flow in a packet data network is disclosed. In the invention a conventional <rule, action> pair is broken into a two-step process. The new processing follows, for example, <rule, optional-action, future-action-tag> out-of-box-processing <future-action-tag, egress-action> semantics. An important...

20050286514 - Method and apparatus for looking up configuration information for a network node: One embodiment of the present invention provides a system for looking up location-specific configuration information for a network node or a subnet. During system operation, a network node creates a query message containing a key that comprises an Internet Protocol (IP) prefix and a string, wherein the IP prefix identifies...

20050286515 - Method and apparatus for providing link-local ipv4 addressing across multiple interfaces of a network node: One embodiment of the present invention provides a system for providing link-local IPv4 addressing across multiple interfaces of a source network-node. During system operation, the source network-node broadcasts an Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) request packet on multiple interfaces, wherein the ARP-request packet asks for the hardware address of a network...

20050286511 - Method and apparatus for source authentication in a communications network: One embodiment of the invention provides a method of handling an incoming packet at a node in a network. The method includes associating at least one source identifier with a link into the node. A packet is then received at the node over the link, and a source identifier is...

20050286520 - Method, transmitter and system for providing video on demand services: A method and system for providing video on demand, the method includes: (i) sending, by a resource manager, authorized media stream identification information to a modulation and radio frequency transmitter; (ii) receiving, by a radio frequency transmitter, at least one media stream encapsulated within addressable packets; wherein the at least...

20050286523 - Robust, inferentially synchronized transmission of compressed transport-layer-protocol headers: An implementation of a technology, described herein, for transmitting compressed network transport-layer-protocol headers in a speedy, efficient, inferentially synchronized, and robust manner. An implementation, described herein, models the transmission of compressed headers to the congestion procedure of the network transport-layer protocol (e.g., TCP's). Doing so, the sender of the compressed...

20050286516 - Session multiplex protocol: Session multiplex protocol (“SMUX”) is a protocol layered above existing reliable transport mechanisms that can be used to create multiple sessions over a single connection. Data from several different SMUX sessions can be interleaved and message boundaries preserved. Because it sits on top of reliable transport mechanisms, it takes advantage...

20050286513 - Software assisted rdma: A system and method for processing a packet such as an inbound RDMA write packet in a network communication system. When processing the packet, a prefetch may retrieve a header of the next packet or, in the case of the inbound RDMA write packet, the prefetch may additionally retrieve an...

20050286519 - System and method for peer-to peer hybrid communications: An improved system and method are disclosed for peer-to-peer communications. In one example, the method includes retrieving a profile and a routing table from an access server by a first endpoint during an authentication process. The profile identifies at least a second endpoint as an endpoint with which the first...

20050286521 - Universal digital framer architecture for transport of client signals of any client payload and format type: Client signals to be transported in a transmission network, particularly an optical transmission network, may have different payload envelope rates and are digitally mapped on the client egress side into first transport frames (also referred to as iDTF frames, or intra-node or internal digital transport frames), at the client side...

20050286525 - Network element comprising a switch fabric: Switch fabrics (10) comprise first stages (11) for receiving multicast input signals (A-C) and second stages (12) for in response to the input signals generating output signals. The switch fabrics (10) are coupled to detectors (31) for detecting parameters indicating conditions of the second stages (12) per output signal and...

20050286526 - Optimized algorithm for stream re-assembly: A mechanism is provided to receive out-of-order packets and to use a table to place the out-of-order packets in a queue so that the packets are queued in order of a sequence in which the packets were sent....

20050286527 - Tcp segment re-ordering in a high-speed toe device: A method and single chip device having limited on-chip memory for processing and reordering out-of-order TCP segments in a high-speed TCP communication system, wherein in-order TCP segments are forwarded on to an appropriate application, includes storing a first out-of-order TCP segment in the limited on-chip memory, the first out-of-order TCP...

20050286529 - Method and apparatus for atm adaptation layer staggered constant bit rate cell scheduling: A method and apparatus are disclosed for ATM Adaptation Layer (AAL) staggered constant bit rate cell scheduling. Cells from a plurality of virtual circuits are scheduled. Each of the virtual circuits have a transmission characteristic and each of the plurality of virtual circuits are classified into one of a plurality...

20050286528 - Method and system for implementing an inter-working function: The area of the invention belongs to the transport technologies in UTRAN. There are two transport technologies in use in the transport networks (domains) and the Network Elements in these two different domains need to be able communicate with each other. The baseline for the invention is that the existing...

20050286530 - Method for transferring mpoa packet: A method for transferring a packet that is capable of permitting address resolution based on layer 3 packet filter information and that is further capable of preventing establishing an undesirable short cut path is provided. In a network, a server that receives an address resolution request packet from a client...

20050286532 - Method and system to efficiently manage network connection to connect a client and a resource: A method and system to efficiently allocate connections between computer systems in a network are provided. The method and system include determining the type of connections, namely static and dynamic, to be provided for a system. The method and system further include the capability of redirecting a network connection request...

20050286531 - Optimized routing between communication networks: The invention provides a method and system for routing a message or a set of messages or a session from a first equipment connected or registered to a first network, to a second equipment connected or registered to a second network. The first network includes a network entity which checks...

20050286535 - Verification of consumer equipment connected to packet networks based on hashing values: Consumer equipment that is connected to a packet switched network is verified, and a Quality of Service for communications therewith are controlled based on the verification. Information is hashed to generate a first hash value. The information in a memory of the consumer equipment is hashed to generate a second...

20050286533 - Packet radio system, base station, and method of controlling packet scheduling: A method of controlling packet scheduling in a packet radio system, a packet radio system and a base station. The packet radio system is configured to transmit data packets to more than one terminal of the packet radio system, determine reference values of the SAW channels with the highest priorities...

20050286536 - Reducing backhaul bandwidth: Methods and systems for reducing backhaul bandwidth are disclosed....

20050286537 - Frame transfer processing method and device: In a frame transfer processing method and device, information indicating a flooding destination is preset for every physical transmission line and every VLAN when a plurality of VLANs are accommodated in a single logical transmission line where physical links are aggregated, a single transmission line is set to be used...

20050286538 - Method and call server for establishing a bi-directional peer-to-peer communication link: The present invention refers to a call server for establishing a bi-directional peer-to-peer communication link between at least two user agents within a call-based environment by means of signaling messages to be exchanged between the at least two user agents. The communication link is established across a network via at...

20050286534 - Systems and methods for packet multicasting with a multi-read buffer: A multi-read buffer latches a start read address of a read pointer of multicast packet data in response to a multi-read mode signal. The read pointer is incremented during a read of the multicast packet data, and the latched start read address is reloaded to the read pointer after the...

20050286539 - Information communication system, device and method: An information communication device for communicating information among a plurality of components includes a plurality of nodes, each being of a particular node type that corresponds to a particular transmission slot of a plurality of transmission slots. Each transmission slot is formed from a communication cycle that has a prescribed...

20050286541 - Backbone provider bridging networks: An edge device is used to support a backbone provider bridging network to facilitate interconnection of a plurality of networks. The edge device is coupled between the backbone and a first one of the networks, and is operable to encapsulate data units received from the first network with a header,...

20050286540 - Controlling services in a packet data network: A method and system controls services in a packet data based communication network comprising terminal devices and service entities. In response to a change detected in the state of a connection between a terminal device and a gateway node, a service policy request for the terminal device is sent from...

20050286542 - Interface call signaling protocol: A third generation (3G) gateway (30) provides the facilities for extending a number of internet protocols (40, 64, 74, 83, 100, 110, 120 and 130) between a second generation (2G) network and a 3G network. The various messages of a session initiation protocol (SIP) are extended to provide user identification...

20050286543 - On-chip packet-switched communication system: A system for routing a data packet between N elements includes N network interfaces respectively connected to the N elements, with N being an even integer, and an on-chip packet-switched communication network arranged in a ring structure. The packet-switched communication network includes N routers respectively connected to the N interfaces,...

20050286544 - Scalable transmit scheduling architecture: In one embodiment, a method is provided. The method of this embodiment provides selecting one of a plurality of host transmit queues on a host memory by selecting an entry from a queue descriptor list on a network device, the selected entry being associated with one or more packets on...

20050286545 - Wireless communications system including an originator base station capable of notifying of channel resource reservation status: A wireless communications system including a network application server; and a base station to receive an expedited request packet from a subscriber unit by way of a radio frequency interface, attempt to reserve channel resources for a traffic channel to communicate with the subscriber unit, and notify the network application...

20050286546 - Synchronized media streaming between distributed peers: Methods and apparatus for providing synchronous playback of the same piece of time-based media on multiple devices connected over heterogenous channels consisting of varying degrees of delay. The preferred embodiment of the invention is a handheld music player that uses a Wi-Fi or Bluetooth communications link to enable users to...

20050286547 - Method and apparatus for accessing a wireless multi-carrier communication system: A subscriber station (101-103) accesses a multicarrier communication system (100) by determining (505) one or more channel characteristics that is indicative of a range of the subscriber station from a base station, selecting (510) an access code that generates an access signal having a peak to average power ratio, using...

20050286548 - Time division multiplexing communication system, time division multiplexing communication switch system, and communication control method of a communication system: A communication system includes communication devices; a switch device having coaxial terminal units to which the communication device are connected, a switch unit of entirely or individually connecting the coaxial terminal units, and a switch control unit of controlling the connection status of the switch unit; and a transmittal right...

20050286550 - Method for transmitting line signals via a line device, and transmission apparatus: The invention provides a transmission apparatus for line signals (206a, 206b) having a line device (201) for transmitting the line signals (206a, 206b) at prescribed signal levels and having a line driver device (100) which has an amplifier unit (101) and a control unit (105). A determination unit (102) is...

20050286549 - Secured peer-to-peer wireless telecommunications apparatus and method: An Apparatus and Method for Securely Transmitting and Receiving Voice and Data Peer-to-Peer Over Wireless Telecommunication Networks is Shown. In One Embodiment of the Invention a First Wireless Device is Connected to a Standard Telephone Hand Set via an RJ 11 Wireline Connector. Said Device Generates Correct Dial Tone; Receives...

20050286552 - Efficient splitting and mixing of streaming-data frames for processing through multiple processing modules: Streaming data is processed through one or more pipes of connected modules including mixers and/or splitters. The data is carried in composite physically allocated frames having virtual subframes associated with different ones of the splitters, mixers, and other transform modules. Nesting trees and pipe control tables represent the structure of...

20050286551 - Fibre channel switching fabric router: The Fibre Channel standard was created by the American National Standard for Information Systems (ANSI) X3T11 task group to define a serial I/O channel for interconnecting a number of heterogeneous peripheral devices to computer systems as well as interconnecting the computer systems themselves through optical fiber and copper media at...

20050286557 - Apparatus and method for relay between networks: A network relay apparatus and method using a software module that easily support various network protocols and new network protocols. The network relay apparatus includes a first modem unit communicating with a first network using a first protocol, a second modem unit communicating with a second network using a second...

20050286553 - Arrangement for reaching ipv4 public network nodes by a node in an ipv4 private network via an ipv6 access network: An IPv4 node is able to send an IPv4 packet to an IPv4 destination via an IPv6 access network, based on translation of the IPv4 packet into an IPv6 packet for transmission via the IPv6 access network. The IPv4 packet is translated into the IPv6 packet by a local gateway....

20050286555 - Data transfer system, communication protocol conversion cradle, address conversion method used therefor, and program thereof: The present invention provides a data transfer system that enables the number of IP addresses utilized to be reduced. When a hand-held terminal starts sending data to a server, a cradle converts a source IP address in an IP header inside an IP packet sent from the hand-held terminal to...

20050286556 - Forward baseband digitalization: Methods and apparatus are described for forward baseband digitalization. A method includes receiving a forward baseband digital optical signal from an optical fiber; transforming the forward baseband digital optical signal to a forward analog electrical signal; transmitting the forward analog electrical signal on an electrical conductor; receiving a reverse analog...

20050286554 - Integrated codec apparatus and method thereof: An integrated coder/decoder (CODEC) apparatus converts incoming data into outgoing data. The integrated CODEC apparatus includes a plurality of CODEC modules. Each CODEC module is for encoding the incoming data to produce the outgoing data or for decoding the incoming data to produce the outgoing data. A processing unit is...

20050286558 - Layer-a to mpls service mediation architecture: An architecture for providing service mediation in a network having a Layer-2 domain and an MPLS domain includes at least one Layer-2 provider edge device in communication with a first customer site; at least one Layer-2 edge device in communication with the Layer-2 provider edge device; at least one MPLS...

20050286559 - Method and system for sharing over-allocated bandwidth between different classes of service in a wireless network: A method and system for sharing over-allocated bandwidth between different classes of service in a wireless network. Traffic is transmitted for a first service class in excess of bandwidth allocated to the first service class using unused bandwidth allocated to a second class. After transmitting traffic for the first service...

20050286561 - Apparatus and method for exchanging variable-length data according to radio link protocol in mobile communication system: An information frame of a new format transmitted according to a radio link protocol (RLP), and a device and method for transmitting and receiving the information frame in a mobile communication system. The information frame is comprised of a plurality of consecutive multiplex frames each having a given length. The...

20050286560 - Processing receive protocol data units: Provided are techniques for processing a data segment by stripping a header from a transport layer segment, performing protocol data unit detection to determine data for a protocol segment that is part of the transport layer segment data, and performing marker validation and stripping. Also provided are techniques for processing...

20050286562 - Method and apparatus for transmitting signals, and method and apparatus for receiving the signals: A storage unit stores a preamble signal defined in a legacy system and a preamble signal defined in a MIMO system. A monitoring unit in a transmitting apparatus monitors the existence of any communication apparatus which is not compatible with the MIMO system but accepts the legacy system. A channel...

20050286563 - Method and apparatus for filtering section data: A method and apparatus for filtering section data are provided. The filtering apparatus includes: a mask generation unit which generates a mask to be used for filtering section data based on a section number in a digital broadcasting receiver and the mask generation unit determines whether to generate the mask...

20050286564 - Method and apparatus for placing a timestamp in a frame: Timestamp information can be placed in a frame that includes a first portion processable at a selected layer of a protocol stack and a second portion processable at a lower protocol layer of the protocol stack subsequently to the processing of the first portion, wherein the first portion is contained...

20050286565 - Various methods and apparatuses for lane to lane deskewing: Various methods, apparatuses and systems are described in which a skew delay time between communication lanes is determined. A data transfer path is established which includes two or more communication lanes in a communication link. A skew delay time is determined between the communication lanes of the communication link with...

20050286566 - Versatile erasure forecasting system for impulse noise mitigation: The present invention provides a system for mitigating impulse noise effects in a digital data transmission system, particularly in a DSL-based communications system (300), by optimizing error correction systems with an erasure forecasting scheme. Within the communications system, encoding and structuring constructs form and permute data transmission units for transmission...

20050286567 - Method and apparatus for periodically retraining a serial links interface: A method and apparatus for retraining skew compensation in an interface is presented. In one embodiment, a retraining interval is determined, and counters in the transmitting agent and receiving agent count up until the retraining interval is reached. A tracking unit used to select one of several interpolated clocks may...

20050286568 - Method and apparatus to display network information of an inverse multiplexed asynchronous transfer mode network: A method and apparatus of displaying traffic information of an inverse multiplexed asynchronous transfer mode network. The traffic information of an inverse multiplexed asynchronous transfer mode network is autodetected and summarized in real time, and the summarized traffic information is displayed in a tabular form. The traffic information includes corresponding...

20050281189 - Method for transmitting/receiving data in mobile communication systems using an ofdma scheme: A method for transmitting data in a mobile communication system using an OFDMA scheme. The method includes dividing an entire frequency band of the mobile communication system into a plurality of sub-carrier frequency bands, generating a plurality of segments each of the plurality of segments having a preset number of...

20050281188 - Transmitter and receiver for fast frequency hopping based on a cyclic frequency hopping pattern in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing system: A transmitter and receiver for fast frequency hopping based on a cyclic frequency hopping pattern in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing system. The transmitter outputs a transmission signal vector having a plurality of samples. In the receiver, a first Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) processor transforms a first received signal vector...

20050281190 - Automated recovery from a split segment condition in a layer2 network for teamed network resources of a computer systerm: A computer system automatically recovers from a split segment condition in which a contiguous layer 2 network segment, comprising a plurality of contiguous paths each directly coupling one or more members of a team of network resources of the computer system to a core switch of a layer 2 network,...

20050281191 - Monitoring path connectivity between teamed network resources of a computer system and a core network: A computer system monitors connectivity between a core network and two or more paths comprising a contiguous local area network segment. Each of the two or more paths couple at least one member of a team of network resources of the computer system to the core network. Each of the...

20050281192 - Consistency between mpls forwarding and control planes: Systems and methods for assuring consistency between MPLS forwarding and control planes. The control plane can be made aware of forwarding plane anomalies and can respond appropriately. One particular application is assuring consistency between forwarding and control planes of a Fast Reroute backup tunnels used to protect an MPLS Traffic...

20050281193 - Transceiver module and integrated circuit with clock and data recovery clock diplexing: An integrated circuit. The integrated circuit is usable in a transceiver module. The integrated circuit includes an input port that is configured to receive a data stream. A clock port on the integrated circuit is configured to receive a reference clock diplexed with another signal or voltage used by the...

20050281194 - Flexible m:n redundancy mechanism for packet inspection engine: A system, mechanism and method are provided for inspecting packets. Application processing engines (ASEs) inspect an IP packet flow of subscribers. It is determined whether any of the ASEs is operating as a master and if not one of the ASEs is elected. The master forms one or more redundancy...

20050281197 - Channel control apparatus and channel control method: A channel control apparatus is arranged in a plurality of nodes on a source as a transmission side and at a node on a sink as a reception side, and changes a bandwidth of virtual concatenation (VC) between the nodes on the source and the sink using link capacity adjustment...

20050281198 - Method and apparatus for ascertaining utilization state: This invention comprises acquiring information about connection time, information about an amount of transmitted and received data during the connection time and information about line speed during the connection time for a specific user, judging whether a utilization state of a specific user is in a predetermined state by using...

20050281196 - Rule based routing in a switch: A routing module applies a plurality of routing rules simultaneously to determine routing for a Fibre Channel frame. Each rule independently determines whether the rule applies to the frame as well as a routing result for the frame. The routing result includes a port address, a zoning indicator, and a...

20050281195 - Secure content management method and system: A method of controlling transmission of content in a network. The method includes the step of applying a quality degradation procedure to content being transmitted between nodes of the network....

20050281199 - Method and system for communications routing: A method and system for communications routing provides an improved range of service quality and cost options. The method includes receiving at a host computer system an indication that a user has placed a telephone call. Next the host computer system receives from a routing database operatively connected to the...

20050281202 - Monitoring instructions queueing messages: Provided are a method, system, and program for monitoring instructions queuing messages. Execution of an operation to add a message to a queue is monitored. Debug information for the put operation indicating a program counter of the instruction and a message address of the message in the queue are accessed....

20050281200 - Qam signal analysis in a network: A system and method for maintaining an uninterrupted data flow in a communications network includes a transmitter, which transmits the data flow from a data source and a receiver, which receives the data flow. A channel interconnects the transmitter and the receiver, and communicates the data flow between the transmitter...

20050281201 - Technique for capturing wide data buses: A trace information queueing system receives a plurality of trace information signals and transmits them through a common connector. The multiple trace information signals may be multiplexed. Each edge of a clock signal may be used to enable transmission of different trace information signals. Alternatively, separate clocks signals may be...

20050281203 - Methods and apparatuses for detecting clock failure and establishing an alternate clock lane: Methods and apparatuses for determining clock failure for a multi-agent system employing a link-based interconnection scheme using a forwarded clock. For one embodiment of the invention, the cessation of the forwarded clock initiates a clock failure determination process. For one embodiment of the invention, upon a determination of clock failure,...

20050281204 - Rapid fault detection and recovery for internet protocol telephony: Techniques for performing rapid fault detection and recovery in communication networks are disclosed. For example, in one aspect of the invention, a technique for detecting one or more conditions in a communication network comprises the following steps/operations. One or more keep-alive packets are transmitted from a source node in the...

20050281205 - System and method for loadbalancing in a network environment using feedback information: A method for loadbalancing in a network environment is provided that includes receiving a request from an end user for a communication session at a central node. The method further includes identifying a selected one of a plurality of network nodes to facilitate the communication session for the end user...

20050281206 - Communications robot: A method for providing communications includes defining a communications parameter under control of a communications offering entity; implementing the communications parameter in a communications offering element; assigning the communications offering element to a target entity; providing at least a part of the communications offering element to the target entity; and...

20050281207 - Zigbee network device for separately determining network parameter and assigning addresses, and address assignment method thereof: A ZigBee network device assigns addresses to its child devices. The ZigBee network device includes a communication section that connects the ZigBee network device to other devices and which communicates with the other devices; a parameter determination section that determines at least one network parameter; a calculation section that calculates...

20050281209 - Method for radio bearer optimization through an adaptive access probability factor: A communication system (100) determines whether to establish a point-to-point or point-to-multipoint communication for conveyance of Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Services (MBMS) data based on a number of user equipments (102-104) being serviced by the communication system for MBMS service. The system broadcasts an access probability factor (154) in a control...

20050281208 - Session control using a multicast address: A method (800, 900) and apparatus (1001) for controlling a session between communication units (141-146) sharing a group Internet Protocol (IP) multicast address. The method includes determining communication units from which a response to a session initiation protocol (SIP) control message is not required and preparing the control message which...

20050281210 - Composite multiplexer circuit and chip component, high-frequency module and radio communication apparatus using the same: In a composite multiplexer circuit designed to multiplex plural frequency bands by interconnecting plural multiplexer circuits in parallel, a multiplexer circuit for extracting a frequency band of a GPS reception system includes a matching network including an inductor and a capacitor, and a surface acoustic wave filter connected in series...

20050281211 - Data transfer method and radio terminal for executing transport layer protocol on radio network: A scheme for realizing AV data transfer processing utilizing the transport layer protocol such as RTP protocol, between radio terminals in a radio system for carrying out data transfer after establishing a logical connection between radio terminals prior to data transfer between radio terminals such as Bluetooth is disclosed. In...

20050281212 - Wireless access communication system for data retransmission, data retransmission apparatus and method: An apparatus and method for re-transmitting data in a wireless access communication system are disclosed. The data retransmission method in a wireless access communication system performing a data transmission/reception operation between a terminal and a base station using ARQ (Automatic Repeat Request) includes the step of transmitting allocation information for...

20050281213 - Wireless network bridge with remote indicator circuit: A wireless network bridge with a signal indicator for use in a vehicle is disclosed. The network bridge comprises three components: an antenna assembly to receive and transmit signals to and from an internet access point; a hub to transmit data and power; and a signal indicator to provide a...

20050281214 - Multi-user detection using an adaptive combination of joint detection and successive interference cancellation: A time division duplex communication system using code division multiple access transmits a plurality of data signals over a shared spectrum in a time slot. A combined signal is received over the shared spectrum in the time slot. The plurality of data signals are grouped into a plurality of groups....

20050281219 - Method and apparatus for data transmission/scheduling for uplink packet data service in a mobile communication system: A method and apparatus are provided for scheduling uplink data transmission in a mobile communication system. The method and apparatus include a base station scheduler for efficiently allocating radio communication resources in a mobile communication system using an E-DCH or DCH. The method and apparatus further include a User Equipment...

20050281218 - Method and system for providing a transmission link for streaming traffic: m

20050281216 - Method for controlling data communication using a network node group in a communication system: The invention relates to a method, a system, a network node and a computer program for controlling data communication in a communication system. In the method a group comprising at least two serving nodes is formed in the communication network. At least one terminal node is associated with the group....

20050281217 - Method for transmitting tdd frames with increased data payload: “Method for transmitting TDD frames with increased data payload” The present invention relates to a method for transmitting through a bidirectional communication channel at least one frame CVFR split into time slots SLj (for j=1 to L) separated from each other by guard intervals G, each time slot SLj being...

20050281223 - Network system having multiple subnets for a mobile platform: A method for assigning Internet Protocol addresses in a communications system for an aircraft according to the invention includes the steps of creating an air-to-ground network (AGN), a passenger services network (PSN), and a command and control network (CCN). A first range of addresses is assigned to a first group...

20050281224 - Proximity-based automatic id code reconfiguration of wireless input/output systems: A system and method is disclosed for reconfiguring an ID code associated with a receiver to enable a receiver to respond to data packets tagged with the ID code sent from a desired transmitter. A preferred embodiment includes a transmitter, selectively responsive to an enable command, for broadcasting a data...

20050281222 - Recovery method for lost signaling connection with hsdpa/fractional dpch: A method and apparatus are provided for defining terminal behavior in a case where the terminal detects that it cannot receive the HS-DSCH from a serving cell reliably when the DCCH is mapped to HS-DSCH (e.g. does not receive any radio link control (RLC) acknowledged mode feedback for the uplink...

20050281221 - System and method for allocating an adaptive modulation and coding subchannel in an orthogonal frequency division multiple access communication system with multiple antennas: A system and method for allocating an adaptive modulation and coding (AMC) subchannel in a communication system for transmitting and receiving data through at least one antenna. A receiver examines at least one channel received from a transmitter, selects antenna transmission mode based on the examined at least one channel,...

20050281220 - Systems and methods for implementing double wide channels in a communication system: In a system utilizing double wide communication channels, if a particular CPE requires a sustained rate that is greater than the bandwidth of a single channel, data to and from the CPE may be split across Channels A and B. Also, when the bandwidth requirements of a particular CPE peaks...

20050281215 - Wireless communication system with channel hopping and redundant connectivity: A wireless system having an infrastructure node and several leaf nodes in a non-redundant version or having at least two infrastructure nodes and several leaf nodes in a redundant version. Leaf nodes may individually seek out timing information in order to be in synch with an infrastructure node. Upon receipt...

20050281226 - Apparatus and method for feedback of channel quality information in communication systems using an ofdm scheme: Disclosed is a method for MS channel quality information to feed back in a communication system which divides an entire frequency band into a plurality of sub-carrier bands and includes sub-channels representing a set of a predetermined number of sub-carrier bands. The method includes measuring channel qualities of the sub-channels,...

20050281225 - Hybrid coordination function implementation: Methods, apparatuses, and systems are presented for transmission generation at a node in a wireless network involving writing a sequence of transmission instructions to a plurality of independently accessible buffers such that each one of the sequence of transmission instructions is written to one of the plurality of independently accessible...

20050281227 - Method and apparatus fo reducing latency during handoffs in a communications system: A methodology is provided to reduce data session handoff time between 3G1x and EV-DO technologies for dual mode access terminals. Generally, a dual mode access terminal is communicating with a data network through a base station and a particular packet data service node (PDSN) using EV-DO technology. When the EV-DO...

20050281228 - System for soft handover in mimo ofdma mobile communication system and method thereof: Disclosed is a method for performing a soft handover in a Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) mobile communication system including a mobile station (MS), a serving base station (BS) and a plurality of neighbor BSs, each neighbor BS being different from the serving BS...

20050281231 - Apparatus and method for synchronization acquisition in a mobile communication system: An apparatus and method for synchronization acquisition in a mobile communication system. A user equipment (UE) communicates with any one of a first Node B of a first system mode operating in a synchronous scheme and a second Node B of a second system mode operating in an asynchronous scheme...

20050281232 - Method and apparatus for reordering uplink data packets using transmission sequence numbers and time stamps in a mobile communication system: A method and apparatus for reordering data sent from a user equipment (UE). The UE assigns transmission sequence numbers (TSNs) to medium access control (MAC)-e protocol data units (PDUs) through an enhanced uplink dedicated channel (E-DCH). A Node B assigns, to received PDUs, time stamps (TSs) indicating time points when...

20050281229 - Selection between two different coding schemes and corresponding modulation schemes according to the allowable transmission delay of the data: Transmitters comprising detectors (32) for detecting packet data to be transmitted are provided with selectors (34) for in response to detection results of real-time requirements selecting first coding schemes and first modulation schemes like convolutional codes and adaptive orthogonal frequency division modulation schemes and for in response to non-real-time requirements...

20050281230 - Support of plural chip rates in a cdma system: In a CDMA system (100), two chip rates in a TDD cell are supported by: transmitting signals in the system in a frame (400) having a plurality of timeslots; operating at least a first one (0-8) of the plurality of timeslots in the frame at a lower chip rate; and...

20050281234 - Communication terminal device: A communication terminal device includes a wireless LAN module configured to search a plurality of communication channels by channel scanning in order to find a communication channel available for communication and configured to perform wireless communication using the found communication channel through a wireless LAN. In a search process by...

20050281236 - Data transfer method and radio terminal for executing transport layer protocol on radio network: A scheme for realizing AV data transfer processing utilizing the transport layer protocol such as RTP protocol, between radio terminals in a radio system for carrying out data transfer after establishing a logical connection between radio terminals prior to data transfer between radio terminals such as Bluetooth is disclosed. In...

20050281233 - Method and apparatus for accessing a data network through a cellular communication system: Wireless access equipment provides access to a data network, such as the Internet, through a cellular communication system. A command receiver receives commands from terminal equipment in accordance with an interface protocol, which may be a dial-up protocol. A first access point identifier is stored in an APN store. When...

20050281237 - Personal profile sharing and management for short-range wireless terminals: A mobile, wireless terminal contains apparatus for creating, editing and storing user personalized profiles for access by inquiring terminals in a short-range communication system. The mobile, wireless terminal contains databases for storing standardized format profiles containing user contact information, standardized format profiles of user interests and user or manufacturer defined...

20050281235 - Voice and data wireless communications network and method: A wireless local area network that carries mixed traffic of voice and data communications may be provided. The wireless local area network may include an access point and a plurality of remote terminals that are associated with the access point. The access point may be operably coupled to a wireline...

20050281240 - Apparatus and method for efficiently transmitting broadcasting channel utilizing cyclic delay diversity: Disclosed are an apparatus and a method for efficiently transmitting a broadcasting channel by means of cyclic delay diversity in an OFDM mobile communication system. The method comprises the steps of setting each transmitter to have different delay values, the transmitter providing a service to adjacent service areas, generating OFDM...

20050281241 - Legacy compatible spatial multiplexing systems and methods: Embodiments of legacy compatible spatial multiplexing systems and methods are disclosed. One method embodiment, among others, comprises receiving long training symbols and cyclic shifted long training symbols corresponding to legacy preamble portions of packets corresponding to first and second transmit signals, receiving long training symbols and inverted cyclic shifted long...

20050281238 - Process for obtaining notches in the transmission of signals over the electricity network: This permits the transmission of signals over the electricity network in such a way that the spectral density of power is adjusted to the regulations in the current rules by means of the possibility of introducing notches in transmission in an efficient manner. It is characterised by the adjustment of...

20050281239 - System and method for signaling modes: A wireless communication device 100 is disclosed. The wireless communication device 100 consists of a transmitter 110 that can transmit an OFDM signal based on a format prescribing at least one field. The transmitter 110 can transmit at least one of the prescribed fields with data other than the data...

20050281242 - Quasi-orthogonal multiplexing for a multi-carrier communication system: For quasi-orthogonal multiplexing in an OFDMA system, multiple (M) sets of traffic channels are defined for each base station. The traffic channels in each set are orthogonal to one another and may be pseudo-random with respect to the traffic channels in each of the other sets. The minimum number of...

20050281243 - Radio link protocols for a wireless communication system: A forward link (FL) RLP and a reverse link (RL) RLP that are different in design are used for data transmission on the forward and reverse links, respectively. The asymmetric RLP designs may be quantified by, e.g., different feedback mechanisms and/or different data transmission mechanisms used for these RLPs. The...

20050281244 - Information transmission in a communications system: A method for transmitting information between a control network element and a transceiver network element in a communications system is discussed. A first connection and a second connection connecting the control network element and the transceiver network element are provided. The first connection has a higher guaranteed quality of service...

20050281245 - Mobile radio system capable of controlling base radio station without impossibility: A mobile radio system comprises first through N-th radio base stations, where N represents a positive integer which is greater than one. On a start-up sequence of an n-th radio base station, a base station control apparatus transmits an n-th individual identifier as a station identifier to the n-th radio...

20050281247 - Method and system for acquiring time sync between access points in a broadband wireless access communication system: A method and system for time synchronization between APs in a BWA communication system. According to the method, a second access point acquires a time sync in a broadband wireless access system including a first access point and the second access point. The first access point has already acquired a...

20050281246 - Synchronizing video/audio data of mobile communication terminal: The present invention relates to a method for shortening the time to synchronize video/audio data in a mobile communication terminal. The method comprises receiving video/audio data in the mobile communication terminal through a set session, determining whether a current sampling rate of the received video/audio data is consistent with a...

20050281250 - Fiber optic synchronous digital hierarchy telecommunication network provided with a protection system shared on the network: A fiber optic synchronous digital hierarchy telecommunication network provided with a protection system shared on the network is described, which comprises spans of pairs of optical fibers (N×2F) having network elements (N×2F-SDHNE) interposed therebetween, wherein the spares of pairs of optical fibers have a variable number N (N=1, 2, 3,...

20050281248 - Method, apparatus & computer program product for using a lease to manage interpersonal access through computer-mediated communication systems: Apparatus, methods, and computer program products are disclosed that use a lease to manage interpersonal communications over a computer-mediated network such as a telephone network or the Internet, whether using textual, audio, or video communication means. The use of the lease allows enables negotiated evolution and revocation of a communication...

20050281249 - Multi-instancing of routing/forwarding tables and socket api: There is disclosed a distributed platform that includes a plurality of nodes for controlling a data flow. According to this distribution platform, at least one of the plurality of nodes supports multiple instances. Also according to this platform, there is provided means for distributing classification rules for any given instance...

20050281251 - Session control system for hierarchical relaying processes: Disclosed here is a method for sending/receiving a message through a session control server disposed in each of hierarchical layers of a network system having a hierarchical structure. To achieve the above object, each of the session control servers is provided with operation mode confirming means for confirming a set...

20050281252 - Voice and data wireless communications network and method: A wireless local area network that carries mixed traffic of voice and data communications may be provided. The wireless local area network may include an access point and a plurality of remote terminals that are associated with the access point. The access point may be operably coupled to a wireline...

20050281253 - Method for transporting data in telecommunication system, and network element: A data transport method in a telecommunications system is provided. The method comprises creating a traffic channel connection between two network elements in the telecommunications system, allocating data of a number of user entities for transportation over the virtual channel using overbooking, buffering data packets into separate buffers, according to...

20050281254 - Vxs payload module having a storage module and method: A multi-service platform system (100) includes a VXS backplane (104), a switched fabric (106) operating on the VXS backplane, a parallel bus (108) operating coincident with the switched fabric on the VXS backplane, a VXS payload module (102) coupled to the VXS backplane, and a storage module (110) coupled to...

20050281258 - Address translation program, program utilizing method, information processing device and readable-by-computer medium: Disclosed is an address translation program capable of utilizing a communication adapter from a network management program for a network having a different address system and dealing with a change of an address of the communication adapter, etc. at a high speed without depending on a setting content about the...

20050281256 - Data transmission in communication system: A method for transmitting data in a communications system and a communication arrangement comprising a first network entity (10) and a second network entity (20), the arrangement being configured to transmit data in messages between the first network entity (10) and one or more third network entities (41, 42, 43)...

20050281255 - Maintaining synchronization of streaming audio and video using internet protocol: A playback system in a digital cinema network synchronizes the presentation of visual and aural content by deriving timing information for packets of information that are conveyed in video and audio data streams, examining the timing information to determine if any misalignment between the two data streams is likely to...

20050281263 - Method and apparatus for dividing communication charges: A communication charge dividing method according to the invention includes: counting a first number of packets, which is a number of packets for a specific user in a communication path through which both packets regarded as packets for business use and packets regarded as packets for private use pass; counting...

20050281262 - Method and system for supporting read operations for iscsi and iscsi chimney: Certain embodiments of the invention may be found in a method and system for performing a SCSI read operation via a TCP offload engine. Aspects of the method may comprise receiving an iSCSI read command from an initiator. Data may be fetched from a buffer based on the received iSCSI...

20050281261 - Method and system for supporting write operations for iscsi and iscsi chimney: Certain embodiments of the invention may be found in a method and system for performing SCSI write operations via a TCP offload engine. Aspects of the method may comprise receiving an iSCSI write command from an initiator. At least one buffer may be allocated for handling data associated with the...

20050281259 - Method of generating a monitoring datagram: A method of generating a monitoring datagram for a predetermined network includes generating an initial datagram and encapsulating the initial datagram with a shim header, where the shim header has a first shim entry and a second shim entry, the first and second shim entries are associated with the predetermined...

20050281260 - Methods and program products for mapping a network address translator: An exemplary method for mapping a network address translator on a packet based network that is between a client and a server comprises the steps of the client communicating a first message including a first client address to the server, the server extracting the first client address, and the server...

20050281257 - Packet forwarding device: There is provided a packet forwarding device which always carries out high-speed search in a routing table by using a TCAM. The device includes a CAM (120) which includes a first CAM entry (120-1) to set high order bits of destination address conditions and a second CAM entry (120-2) to...

20050281264 - Method for transferring data via multicast and the system thereof: The present invention relates to a data transferring method for a multicast system. The multicast system includes a server, a switch and clients. First, the server creates a multicast group and broadcasts the data blocks of a data series sequentially and repeatedly. When clients would like to download the data...

20050281265 - Multicast packet routing arrangements for group-membership handling: A packet routing arrangement, when receiving a request to join or leave a multicast group from a host unregistered to that group, a response is sent exclusively to the unregistered host. In the packet routing arrangement, when receiving request packet from a host to join or leave a group, including...

20050281266 - Human readable and writable addressing method in a home network protocol: A human readable and writable addressing method in a home network is disclosed. A disclosed method comprises inputting a URL type, inputting the address of a gateway server, and inputting a device indicator....

20050281267 - Atm switching protocol: Described are a system and method of forwarding ATM cells among component boards in a computing platform. ATM cells received at an ingress media port of component board may be forwarded to a destination component board in a payload portion of an Ethernet data frame comprising at least one field...

20050281268 - Method and apparatus for providing high capacity, long loop broadband adsl service: Method and apparatus for providing a long loop broadband service which allows data from different ADSL users to be shared and transported across a group (possibly a group of one) of line-powered, repeatered copper pairs utilizing a symmetric transmission approach is disclosed. Multiple ADSL users are able to share the...

20050281269 - Mobile telecommunication system and method for session termination: Disclosed are a mobile telecommunication system and method which can improve the call connection rate of a mobile station and the reliability of a session establishment procedure. The session termination method for a mobile telecommunication system comprises checking base station information included in a connection release message received from a...

20050281270 - Apparatus, method and system for decision making to support network selection for multicast streams in hybrid networks: The disclosure details the implementation of an apparatus, method, and system for an network selector for datacasting in hybrid networks (NSDHN). In one aspect, the disclosure teaches an efficient delivery decision mechanism that takes into account efficiencies that may be achieved by employing one network delivery system over another for...

20050281271 - State information and routing table updates in large scale data networks: In a communication network comprising nodes and links between the nodes, a controller node disseminates link state information. A nodal routing table exists at each node comprising routes between pairs of nodes. The nodal routing table is either populated by the given node based on network information received from the...

20050281272 - Displaying virtual network properties in a graphical user interface: Virtual network properties are displayed in a graphical user interface. Link activity data that describes one or more virtual-network paths is tracked. Each virtual network path data-couples two or more data-transfer components of the network and utilizes rules for restricting data transfer based on specified relations of network switching elements....

20050281275 - High-performance reconfigurable interconnect for concurrent operation of multiple systems: The present invention generally comprises an on-chip interconnection apparatus. The apparatus, in one embodiment, includes programmable routing elements and communication segments coupled between the routing elements and multiple system units. In one embodiment, a first traffic stream is transferred between two of the system units through at least one of...

20050281273 - Switched fc-al fault tolerant topology: A computer system uses a Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop (FC-AL) network to communicate with mass storage devices. The FC-AL network provides alternative communication paths to the mass storage devices. The FC-AL communication network includes a first (60) FC-AL controller within the FC-AL switch (50). A first FC-AL mass storage drive...

20050281274 - Voip network, media proxy server, and method of providing additional services used in them: A VoIP network in which the user of a device can activate any addition service, without thinking of the device to which his or her device should be connected. VoIP media packets are transmitted between a network(A) that can provide additional VoIP services and a network(B) that cannot provide additional...

20050281276 - Data analysis and flow control system: A computer implemented method and system for analysing and identifying the flow of internal and external communications in a large enterprise by collecting and analysing data relating to the information flow. The system comprises: a capture component adapted to capture communication activity data comprising communication data relating to the type...

20050281277 - Establishing traffic priorities in a voice over ip network: A method and apparatus for establishing traffic priorities in an IP network connected with multiple communication sources is disclosed. Different types of packets such as voice packets and data packets are received for transmission over a single network access link. In order to assure quality voice transmissions, voice packets are...

20050281279 - Latency-based scheduling and dropping: In scheduling a packet, latency requirements of the packet is determined. The packet is then scheduled according to its latency requirements. Queues may be assigned latency ranges and packets are assigned to the queues according to those ranges. Within ranges, queues of different priorities may be provided....

20050281278 - Method and apparatus for adaptive delay management: Adaptive delay management means and method for allocating resources having different Quality of Service (QoS) requirements. A Forward Link (FL) scheduler prepares transmission instances by treating pending data queues according to a priority class, such as Best Effort (BE) and Expedited Forwarding (EF). Data bits from multiple queues are stuffed...

20050281280 - Method and system for supporting hardware acceleration for iscsi read and write operations and iscsi chimney: Certain aspects of a method and system for supporting hardware acceleration for iSCSI read and write operations via a TCP offload engine may comprise pre-registering at least one buffer with hardware. An iSCSI command may be received from an initiator. An initiator test tag value, a data sequence value and/or...

20050281281 - Port input buffer architecture: A system and device are disclosed for operating an interface circuit. The interface circuit comprises a buffer for buffering data, a parser interface for sending at least a portion of the buffered data to a direct execution parser, and a processing interface for sending at least a portion of the...

20050281282 - Internal messaging within a switch: A queuing mechanism is presented that allows port data and processor data to share the same crossbar data pathway without interference. An ingress memory subsystem is dividing into a plurality of virtual output queues according to the switch destination address of the data. Port data is assigned to the address...

20050281283 - Two way serial communication: The invention relates to a system of two-way packet-oriented serial communication between master and slave. Messages 20, 30 include status and request words 22, 32 which indicate the status of master and slave. Each of the master and slave determines from these words 22,32 separately whether communication is to continue...

20050281285 - Mobile ip communication scheme for supporting mobile computer move over different address spaces: A mobile IP communication scheme for supporting a mobile computer moving over different address spaces is disclosed. A packet relay device for relaying packets having an address of the mobile computer device as a destination or source is provided at a border between a private address space and a global...

20050281284 - System and method for broadcasting voip messages: The invention relates to a system and method for broadcasting VoIP messages. In one respect, embodiments of the invention utilize random delays to disguise the automated nature of the messaging source. In another respect, embodiments of the invention are configured to persist when error messages are encountered....

20050281286 - Storage structure and method utilizing multiple protocol processor units: A storage structure and method having multiple protocol processor units are disclosed. The storage structure comprises a host CPU, a main memory, a storage device, a switch fabric, and a host bus adapter module. The host bus adapter module includes a plurality of protocol processor nodes for processing frames received...

20050281287 - Control method of communication system, communication controller and program: In a control method of communication system in which primary packet output from an information processor in a transmitting end is sent to a network after fragmentation into a plurality of secondary packets in a communication controller at the transmitting end, and a plurality of secondary packets are sent to...

20050281288 - Method and apparatus for discovering path maximum transmission unit (pmtu): The present invention provides a method and apparatus for discovering a path maximum transmission unit. The method comprises receiving a data packet from a first remote device for transmission to a second remote device and determining if a size of the received data packet is greater than a maximum transmission...

20050281289 - System and method for embedding multimedia processing information in a multimedia bitstream: Systems and methods for embedding multimedia processing information in a multimedia bitstream to form a hybrid multimedia bitstream having data representing multimedia processing information as well data representing a multimedia signal. The embedded multimedia processing information may be extracted from the multimedia bitstream by an executable module to assist in...

20050281290 - Signal acquisition in a wireless communication system: Each base station transmits a TDM pilot 1 having multiple instances of a pilot-1 sequence generated with a PN1 sequence and a TDM pilot 2 having at least one instance of a pilot-2 sequence generated with a PN2 sequence. Each base station is assigned a specific PN2 sequence that uniquely...

20050281291 - Apparatus method and medium for detecting payload anomaly using n-gram distribution of normal data: A method, apparatus and medium are provided for detecting anomalous payloads transmitted through a network. The system receives payloads within the network and determines a length for data contained in each payload. A statistical distribution is generated for data contained in each payload received within the network, and compared to...

20050281292 - Methods and systems for communicating using transmitted symbols associated with multiple time durations: In at least some embodiments, a system may comprise one or more devices configurable to communicate according to a first protocol that permits interpretation of transmitted symbols associated with a first time duration. The system may further comprise one or more devices configurable to communicate according to a second protocol...

20050281293 - Detecting and logging triggered events in a data stream: A method and apparatus for detecting triggering events in a data stream, comprising extracting audio portions from the data stream, detecting a sequence of one or more Dual Tone Multiple Frequency (DTMF) signals representing the events from the extracted audio portions, and logging data representative of the sequence of DTMF...

20050281295 - Optical add/drop multiplexer having an alternated channel configuration: An optical add/drop multiplexer (OADM) adapted to route optical signals having at least two different bit rates. The OADM has at least two sets of DWDM channels with channels in a first set having a first bandwidth value, e.g., suitable for the transmission of signals having a bit rate of...

20050281294 - Packet insertion mechanism for an improved atsc dtv system: A packet insertion mechanism at the front end of a time-synchronized digital television transmission system multiplexes, along with standard packets, packets whose payload is to be transmitted with redundancy for added robustness. The multiplexer also inputs placeholder packets to accommodate duplicated content of the robust packets. Multiplexing of the robust...

20050281296 - Data transmitting apparatus and data receiving apparatus: This invention relates to a data transmitting apparatus and a data receiving apparatus, which multiplexes and transmits HD-SDI signals, and which receives the multiplexed and transmitted HD-SDI signals. The data transmitting apparatus is characterized by being equipped with a parallel data forming section which forms word string data De based...

20050276214 - Fault isolation in a network: A system to isolate a fault to a particular port from among multiple ports in a network. The network typically has a plurality of devices including hosts, storage units, and switch groups that intercommunicate via transceivers. A fault indication is received from one or more of the devices in the...

20050276215 - Network relay system and control method thereof: The network relay device of the invention makes a pair with at least a specific network device to relay data in a network. The network relay device includes: a control module that sends and receives a control frame signal to and from the specific network device, selects either of a...

20050276216 - Avoiding micro-loop upon failure of fast reroute protected links: A technique incorporates an efficient means for avoiding micro-loops on a backup path associated with a failed protected link. An intermediate node delays updating a forwarding database (FDB) contained in the intermediate node based on the intermediate node's distance from the failed link. Specifically, intermediate nodes near the failed protected...

20050276217 - Method, computer product and system for correlating events in a network: In one aspect a method for correlating network events in a network comprises correlating the events relating to paths with events relating to links traversed by paths. In another aspect, the method includes correlating the events based on whether paths traversing the network share network resources, such as links. Preferably,...

20050276218 - Resource admission control in an access network: The present invention is applicable to access networks across which virtual connections have been provisioned to meet traffic and QoS requirements. The present invention improves service integrity by controlling the right for a service instance to use the network resources that have been provisioned for its class of service. Whenever...

20050276219 - Routing of data packet traffic to a common destination egress queue from a plurality of subscribers each contracting for respective bandwidth of data flow, a method of and apparatus for fairly sharing excess bandwidth and packet dropping amongst the subsc: In the routing of data traffic to a common destination egress queue from a plurality of customer subscribers each contracting for respective allocations of bandwidth of data flow, a technique and system for fairly sharing any underutilized excess bandwidth and for data dropping amongst over-subscribers, while guaranteeing each subscriber its...

20050276220 - Network devices and traffic shaping methods: In a network device of a broadband access device, granularity of queue rates is improved by introducing intermediate rates in addition to those conventionally provided. When an intermediate rate between a first 10 Mbps queue rate and a second 5 Mbps queue rate, for instance, is desired for a traffic...

20050276223 - Bandwidth optimization in transport of ethernet frames: A method is described for optimizing the transport of Ethernet frames in a telecommunication network over different connections having different delays, in order to avoid overflow of the receiving queues. The method includes measuring of the delays of the connections, collecting the values of the delays, defining a range of...

20050276221 - Fair wred for tcp and udp traffic mix: A Weighted Random Early Detection (WRED) algorithm is described. The WRED algorithm provides fairness to responsive TCP and non-responsive UDP traffic at a buffer of a communications system. Because TCP traffic is responsive to congestion occurrences while UDP traffic is not, without controls, UDP will monopolize the buffer bandwidth. This...

20050276222 - Platform level overload control: A communication system includes overload control at a platform level. A translator module receives messages from any number of distinct networks and provides priority information regarding each of those messages to an overload control module that uses the translated priority information and arrival rate information to provide needed message traffic...

20050276224 - Multiple transmission communications method and device: A first peer successively transmits a predetermined number of more than one identical instances of a data block to a second peer. The second peer receives at least two of the predetermined number of identical instances of the data block. The second peer combines more than one corrupted received data...

20050276226 - Establishing a return path in a forward path cable television testing environment: A system and method for establishing a return path in a cable television test environment. A cable television test environment comprising a plurality of head-ends connected to a plurality of set top boxes through a one-way forward matrix switch having “M” inputs and “N” outputs is adapted to provide a...

20050276225 - Performing channel analysis over a link: In one embodiment of the present invention, a method includes establishing a communication link between a first link partner and a second link partner, causing the first link partner to transmit idle signals, and analyzing a desired channel of the communication link using the idle signals. As an example, the...

20050276227 - Network management system and method provisioning oam support for multicast communications sessions: A method for monitoring point-to-multipoint unidirectional multicast connection via exchange of OAM messages is presented. The method includes retrieving the connection record of the multicast connection from a network management system repository, determining common parent path points between the root and a selected path branch endpoint. In turning on content...

20050276228 - Self-isolating and self-healing networked devices: Techniques for self-isolation of a network device that has been identified as potentially harmful. The network device may be isolated from the network except for an out-of-band communication channel that can be used for management purposes to restore or repair the device prior to the network connection being re-established....

20050276230 - Communication statistic information collection apparatus: A communication statistic information collection apparatus comprises a unit for searching a flow table for a flow entry corresponding to a searching key, a unit for collecting statistics information for each of flows, a unit for generating a packet for notifying a collector apparatus of stored statistics information, a unit...

20050276229 - Service discovery method in a network: A centralized service discovery process performed in a data or telecommunications network collects a list of services available to user terminal equipment connected to a network based on user-specific data (e.g., the user's identification and preferences, the location and capabilities of the user terminal equipment). The list of services is...

20050276232 - Network management system, and network management method: To collectively manage user networks connected to a virtual private network (VPN) without such time and effort necessary for an operation management server to be ready for an expansion MIB for each of vendors. Provided is a network management system, including: a first edge router, an operation management server and...

20050276231 - Topology and quality of service management apparatus and methods for communication networks: A method of structuring an ad hoc network is described. A node discovers and pairs with another node to form a network link. Each node maintains a network topology based on node/link states received from other nodes. One node communicates an outbound link state to other nodes which schedule transmission...

20050276233 - Wireless architecture and support for process control systems: A wireless communication system for use in a process environment uses mesh and possibly a combination of mesh and point-to-point communications to produce a wireless communication network that can be easily set up, configured, changed and monitored, thereby making a wireless communication network that is less expensive, and more robust...

20050276234 - Method and architecture for efficiently delivering conferencing data in a distributed multipoint communication system: A novel solution is provided for preventing the top server of a multipoint communication system from being overburdened when a large number of clients are joining a conference from different locations. A distributed real time communication database architecture is defined within the multipoint communication system network topology. The distributed real...

20050276235 - Packet loss concealment based on statistical n-gram predictive models for use in voice-over-ip speech transmission: A method for performing packet loss concealment of lost packets in Voice over IP (Internet Protocol) speech transmission. Statistical n-gram models are initially created with use of a training speech corpus, and then, packets lost during transmission are advantageously replaced based on these models. In particular, the existence of statistical...

20050276236 - Separation radio information transmission system: A separation radio information transmission system comprising a host and one or multiple remote terminal; the host being integrated with microprocessor, high-capacity storage medium, memory, wireless transmission modulus; the remote terminal may being a MP3 player or a digital camera integrated with wireless transmission modulus; both of the host and...

20050276238 - Broadcast multicast mode: A broadcast/multicast transmission format includes a data portion and a cyclic prefix (CP) coupled to the traffic data portion. A method and system for providing broadcast/multicast transmissions with the application to communication systems that perform broadcast or multicast transmission is also disclosed. The addition of a pilot to the data...

20050276237 - Method and apparatus for sending a multicast message: An access point (102) conveys (202) to communication units (104) of a plurality of multicast groups, a first indication that the access point supports a method for sending a multicast message. The access point receives (204) a multicast message directed to a receiving one of the plurality of multicast groups,...

20050276239 - Antenna diversity system: A system (100) for combining satellite and terrestrial signals from spatially diverse antennas (102 and 104) includes a tuner (101) and at least first and second analog to digital converters (103, 105) for converting at least two among the plurality of satellite signals and the terrestrial signal to a first...

20050276242 - Base station, a mobile station, a radio communications system, and a radio transmission method using spread spectrum and chip repetition: A base station, a mobile station, a radio communications system, and a radio transmission method are disclosed. The base station includes a control information determining unit configured to determine control information that includes a spreading factor, the number of chip repetitions, and a phase unique to the mobile station, based...

20050276245 - Communication system, transmitting device, and receiving device: A receiving device includes a first demodulator operable to demodulate data transmitted by at least one of a plurality of propagation paths in a first channel having transfer functions which are different from one another; a second demodulator operable to demodulate data transmitted by at least one of a plurality...

20050276244 - Method and system of enhanced dual transfer mode using mobility management: A method, system, and mobile station are presented for informing a packet control unit (PCU) whether the dual transfer mode (DTM) capable mobile station has an ongoing circuit switched connection and is in dedicated mode. The packet control unit will typically be located at a base station. Upon entering the...

20050276240 - Scheme for seamless connections across heterogeneous wireless networks: A method and apparatus supporting virtual connections over heterogeneous wireless networks is disclosed. A virtual connection manager on a first device provides a communication path between an application on the apparatus and a second device via a wireless link. The virtual connection manager can change the wireless link to another...

20050276243 - Wireless communication system, wireless communication apparatus, wireless communication method, and computer program: In the case where there is a conflict over a band between communication stations that have reserved the band, the communication stations mediate and avoid the conflict of reservation use with low-load processing. In a wireless communication system, band reservation use is permitted, and a plurality of reservation types are...

20050276241 - Wireless lan with fragmentation for bluetooth coexistence: Mutual interference experienced between co-located WLAN and BT devices is minimized. An improved wireless local area network (WLAN) scheme using fragmentation, that itself mitigates BLUETOOTH™—related interference, without relying on a presumed cooperation from co-located BLUETOOTH devices. The use of fragmentation in a WLAN network allows a longer concatenated period of...

20050276246 - Method and apparatus for ranking of media services and program packages: A method for improved presentation of media information for wireless communication is described herein. Media services and program packages are ranked and ranking information is delivered to a mobile device along with the media information. The ranking information is then used by the mobile device to arrange the media services...

20050276247 - Transferring compression parameters in a mobile communication system: The invention relates to a method for transmitting compression parameters in a mobile communication system, comprising a mobile node, a first and a second packet switching node. In the method the second packet switching node is informed of the entry of the mobile node to an area controlled by the...

20050276248 - Erasure detection and power control for a transport channel with unknown format in a wireless communication system: Erasure detection and power control are performed for an intermittently active transport channel with unknown format. A receiver processes each received block and determines whether it passes or fails CRC. For each received block with CRC failure, the receiver performs erasure detection by computing a symbol error rate (SER) and...

20050276249 - Method and apparatus for overhead reduction in an enhanced uplink in a wireless communication system: Systems and methods are provided in a synchronous wireless communication system 100 which enable data to be transmitted between wireless mobile user equipment 110 and base stations 120 without identifying information embedded in the packets 401, thus reducing the transmission overhead. Packets are reordered at base stations 120 based upon...

20050276250 - Method and apparatus for uplink synchronization in wireless communications: A method and system for uplink (UL) synchronization of an uplink transmission from a plurality of wireless transmit/receive units (WTRUs) to a Node-B in a code division multiple access (CDMA) system. A Node-B receives a transmission including a UL synchronization (SYNC_UL) sequence from a WTRU. A sampler samples the transmission...

20050276252 - Medium access control for wireless networks: A system for communicating data comprising a client station adapted to connect to a server station by a wireless contention link for exchanging data between the client station and the server station, where the data exchanged has loose quality of service requirements. The client station is also adapted to connect...

20050276253 - Method and system for transmitting image data in ad-hoc mode of a wireless communication network: A method of transmitting image data in an ad hoc mode of a wireless communication network having an image forming apparatus and a plurality of hosts, the method including broadcasting a notice message indicating the presence of the image forming apparatus to the plurality of hosts, the plurality of hosts...

20050276251 - Restricted dissemination of topology information in a communication network: A communication network comprises a plurality of nodes which exchange topology information. Some of the nodes are of a conventional type, which propagate topology information in an unrestricted manner while others of the nodes are of a radius-restricted type, which propagate topology information for a restricted distance within the network....

20050276254 - Methods and apparatus for use in reducing residual phase error in ofdm communication signals: Methods and apparatus for use in reducing residual phase error (RPE) in orthogonal frequency division multiplexed (OFDM) communication signals are described. One method includes the steps of calculating a phase of each one of a plurality of channel-compensated data symbols to generate a plurality of data symbol phases; performing a...

20050276255 - Ultra wide band communication network: An ultra wide band communication network is provided. One embodiment ultra wide band network includes an industry standard transceiver and an ultra wide band transceiver communicating with the industry standard transceiver, with both transceivers communicating using at least one Time Division Multiple Access frame. Another embodiment network comprises an industry...

20050276256 - Capacity allocation for packet data bearers: The present invention relates to a method in a radio communication system providing packet data services. A radio communication system providing packet data services and a packet data scheduler (PS) are also disclosed. In accordance with the method capacity is requested for a packet data bearer, whereafter capacity is allocated...

20050276257 - Efficient message delivery in a multi-channel uni-directional communications system: A method and system for efficiently delivering messages from a service provider to individual receiving devices in a unidirectional, multi-channel communications system that provides parallel distribution of information from the service provider to the receiving devices. The messages are transferred from the service provider to the receiving device only on...

20050276258 - Method and arrangement for uplink scheduling: A mobile communication network including at least one base station for supporting at least one uplink data connection of at least one terminal that is in the audibility area of the base station, means for forming a quality target for the uplink connection of the terminal. The network comprises means...

20050276259 - Wireless packet transfer apparatus and method: An error correction encoding rate selection table is provided in an error correction processing unit of a packet transfer apparatus, and the table stores an error correction encoding rate preset to maintain a desired QoS in correspondence with a protocol type and an application type. When a transmission packet is...

20050276260 - Multiplex transmission device and system: A multiplex transmission device and system for a host to execute selected linkage to various external devices via a fixed connecting port includes a primary circuit system integrated with a signal switch loop and signal transmission circuit; a circuit linkage comprised of a port through signal control loop in the...

20050276261 - Communication channel calibration using feedback: A method for calibrating a communication channel coupling first and second components includes transmitting a data signal from the first component to the second component on the communication channel, and sensing a characteristic, such as phase, of the data signal on the second component. Information about the sensed characteristic is...

20050276262 - Rule set conflict resolution: A flow manager may receive prioritized packet flow rules from multiple prioritized network services where each flow rule may comprise a packet filter and a prioritized action list. The priority for the flow rules from each network service may be expressed as either longest prefix or ordered precedence. The flow...

20050276264 - System for receiving packet steam: A system including input circuitry for receiving from one of a plurality of sources at least one packet stream including a plurality of packets for providing audio, video, private data and/or associated information; at least one output for outputting at least one packet of the at least one packet stream...

20050276263 - Traffic distribution control device: A data transmission device 10 serving as a traffic distribution control device is a device which, in order to distribute traffic across a plurality of physical ports composing a logical port for link aggregation, uses a hash function to calculate a hash value from a destination address and a source...

20050276265 - Packet forwarding to a connection-oriented network: The present invention relates to a method, routing device, and access device for forwarding a data packet with multicast purpose to a connection-oriented network, wherein a predetermined broadcast address is added to the data packet if the address of the data packet to be sent is a network-layer multicast address....

20050276266 - Method and apparatus for dynamically adjusting data transmission parameters and controlling h-arq processes: In a wireless communication system including a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) which transfers data to a Node-B, data transmission parameters such as modulation and coding scheme (MCS) and transport block set (TBS) size are dynamically adjusted on a transmission time interval (TTI) basis, and hybrid-automatic repeat request (H-ARQ) processes used...

20050276268 - Communication system: A communication system including a first and second user equipment in communication over a shared floor and a server means for managing the shared floor. According to the system, the server means is arranged to detect an anonymity request from the first user equipment and, responsive to the anonymity request,...

20050276269 - Computer system: The present invention relates to a computer system connectable to a network, comprising a wireless communication part having an interface supporting a hot-swappable function and allowing the computer system to be wirelessly connected to the network; a wired communication part having an interface supporting the hot-swappable function and allowing the...

20050276267 - Transmission control method, network element, base station and radio network controller: A network element of a communication system comprises, for instance, means (316, 410) for reserving, for connections carrying information packets with non real-time traffic, a predetermined amount less of capacity than the estimated peak rate; means (316, 410) for assorting the information packets with non real-time traffic and information packets...

20050276271 - Wlan service system and method for charging based on user data flow: The invention discloses a WLAN service system for charging based on the user data flow, and the system includes: a WLAN user equipment, a WLAN access network, a Packet Data Gateway and a charging service unit that generates charging information and is connected with the Packet Data Gateway; the invention...

20050276270 - System, method, and device for recording rich media data: An automated system, device, computer program product, and method of selectively recording media data generated during a round-table meeting is provided. In the system, one or more media devices capture media data and generate three or more concurrent media inputs having various formats from the captured media data. One or...

20050276272 - Ip communications system for notifying a gateway controller of an ip address allocated to a gateway and a method therefor: A gateway device in an IP communications system can be controlled by a gateway controller even when an IP address of the gateway device is not fixed. The IP communications system includes a gateway device having a subscriber terminal interconnected thereto, a gateway controller for controlling the gateway device, provided...

20050276273 - Method and apparatus to facilitate inter-operability between a 3g1x network and a wireless packet data network: To address the need for inter-operability between 3G1X networks and wireless packet data networks, architectural and messaging embodiments are described that provide for new interfaces Ay, Az, and Ap. The Ay interface supports messaging between a 3G1x base station (BS) (103) and a packet data network access network (AN), such...

20050276274 - Method and apparatus for synchronous unbuffered flow control of packets on a ring interconnect: Embodiments of the present invention are related in general to data flow control in a network and in particular to synchronous packet flow control in a ring interconnect. An embodiment of a method may include rejecting an arriving packet at a destination node on a semiconductor chip's ring interconnect, e.g.,...

20050276275 - Network statistics processing device: A network statistics processing device comprises a port processing unit for determining an update from a forward statistic metric carried by an input PDU, an arbitration unit for placing the updates into a scheduled stream of updates, and a memory unit for storing statistic totals relating to the network operating...

20050276276 - Wireless probe: The present invention relates to the field of wireless communications and more particularly to systems and methods for monitoring wireless traffic in wireless local area networks. The present invention addresses shortcomings of the prior art by providing methods and apparatus for the calculation of more meaningful performance values for a...

20050276277 - Interactive priority discrimination apparatus and method: A method and system forming a buffer or filter between a user and a petitioner seeking access to a user. The method may include providing a database. In the database may be stored names of petitioners. Each name may be coupled to a value selected from a rating scale. Each...

20050276279 - Network unit for exchanging protocol data units through tunnels: Network units (1,2,3) for exchanging protocol data units through tunnels (7,8,9) comprise detectors (11,21,31) for detecting indications in protocol data units, associators (12,22,32) for associating tunnels to the indications, and managers (13,23,33) for managing the tunnels (7,8,9). By providing the associators (12,22,32) with retrievers (41,61) for retrieving information defining known...

20050276278 - System and method for intergration processing of different network protocols and multimedia traffics: The present invention relates to a communication system architecture which can perform integrated processing of different network protocols and multimedia traffics. The communication system for integrated processing of different network protocols and multimedia traffics comprises a common packet; a common packet switch; a plurality of channels; a common bus; a...

20050276280 - System and method for persistence-vector-based rate assignment: In a system including a resource which is shared among a number of users, it is difficult to distribute the available capacity of the resources fairly among the users and still maximize resource utilization. Additionally, it is desirable to allow at least some of the control over usage rates to...

20050276281 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for transparently controlling communications between network applications and a plurality of network communications protocol stacks using deferred protocol stack association: Methods, systems, and computer program products for controlling communications between network applications and multiple network communications protocol stacks using deferred protocol stack association are disclosed. In one method, a socket creation function call is received from an application. A socket creation function call is terminated, a pseudo communications endpoint is...

20050276282 - Method of audio-video synchronization: A method for synchronization of an audio stream and a video stream comprising the steps of (A) determining a first presentation time stamp from the video stream and generating a first handshake signal when the video stream is ready to be transmitted, (B) repeating and dropping one or more audio...

20050276283 - Positioning of network processor in a packet based access multiplexer: A packet based access multiplexer (DSLAM2) comprising an Ethernet switch (E-SWITCH2) and a single network processor (NP2) adapted to process at least part of incoming packets. The single network processor (NP2) is parallel coupled to the Ethernet switch (E-SWITCH2) in an architecture suited to process part of the packets, or...

20050276284 - Advanced, self-balancing video multiplexer system: An advanced video multiplexer system designed and optimized for next generation on-demand video distribution is described. The system optimizes identifies a multi-program transport stream best able to accommodate new seesions based upon Quality of Service (QoS) and QAM utilization ratios. MPTS channels are rebalanced via re-grouping and transrating as necessary...

20050270968 - Method and apparatus for papr reduction of an ofdm signal: An apparatus and a method for peak-to-average power ratio reduction of an OFDM signal are disclosed. The method uses the interleaved characteristics of partial transmit sequences to partition input data x[n] of length N into several disjoint subblocks in time domain, and a complete N-point signal {tilde over (x)}[n] is...

20050270969 - Apparatus and method for providing a broadcasting service in a mobile communication system: An apparatus and method for providing a broadcasting service in a mobile communication system. The apparatus and method can transmit broadcasting service data using orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols in the mobile communication system. Broadcasting service data is encoded and modulated. The modulated data is demultiplexed into data streams...

20050270972 - Efficient and robust routing of potentially-variable traffic for path restoration following link failure: A method for supporting recovery from failure of a path in a network of nodes interconnected by links comprises: (a) selecting an intermediate node between an ingress point and an egress point of the network, wherein the intermediate node minimizes the sum of (i) a capacity constraint between the ingress...

20050270970 - Failsafe service oriented architecture: A system, method and media for a service oriented architecture. This description is not intended to be a complete description of, or limit the scope of, the invention. Other features, aspects and objects of the invention can be obtained from a review of the specification, the figures and the claims....

20050270971 - Method of managing malfunctions at router level, and a router: This method of managing malfunctions in a telecommunications network is implemented in a router having a plurality of communication interfaces and a nominal operational routing plan that is duplicated on its interfaces. The method comprises the following steps that are performed during nominal operation: a step of calculating a secondary...

20050270973 - Cluster architecture communications: A cluster includes a plurality of application server instances, a central services instance that includes a message server, and a database. The application server instances each include a dispatcher, a plurality of redundant server nodes, and a socket connection between the dispatcher and each of the server nodes for handling...

20050270976 - Flow control method of man transmission equipment: A flow control method of MAN transmission equipment is disclosed wherein when congestion occurs in a data transmission port of a data transmission equipment at a receiving end, an Ethernet flow control frame is fed back to a transmission equipment at a sending end, to perform flow control of the...

20050270975 - Method and apparatus for scheduling in a wireless network: Techniques for scheduling flows and links for transmission are described. Each link is an oriented source-destination pair and carries one or more flows. Each flow may be associated with throughput, delay, feedback (e.g., acknowledgments (ACKs)) and/or other requirements. A serving interval is determined for each flow based on the requirements...

20050270974 - System and method to identify and communicate congested flows in a network fabric: The invention provides a system and method for identifying and communicating congested paths throughout a network fabric. Briefly, the present invention augments the congestion management mechanism defined in ASI to allow for the communication of congested paths through the fabric, rather than the simple congested output port notification supported today...

20050270977 - Combined queue wme quality of service management: Methods and apparatuses are provided for using a single transmit queue to transmit a plurality of access categories in an IEEE 802.11 system. To use a single transmit queue, conventional frame descriptors that are used to pass data frames between the wireless NIC and the host are modified to include...

20050270978 - Mode selection in mimo devices: A signal processing method, particularly in a MIMO wireless communications system, is capable of receiving a DATA frame and responding with transmission of an ACK frame, the ACK frame being of conventional structure in that it contains a reserved portion and an active portion, the ACK frame further containing, in...

20050270980 - Automated selection of an optimal path between a core switch and teamed network resources of a computer system: A NIC teaming intermediate driver running on a computer system binds NIC resources into teams to provide a physical interface for the computer system to the network. When configuring a team, the teaming driver assigns one of the team members to be the primary resource and the others to be...

20050270979 - Method for establishing a substitute path in a network: The invention relates to a method for establishing a substitute path in a network with corresponding network nodes for path-switching between connection runs, whereby for the switching of path between two terminal nodes, a first network resource is used for the transmission and the signal transmission is interrupted in a...

20050270981 - Method and system for providing the status of user equipment in a wireless local network interworking with 3gpp systems: The present invention is related to a method and system for providing a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) status, in providing real time services via a wireless local area network interworking with 3GPP systems. An entity such as a packet data gateway (PDG) in the 3GPP network stores and maintains the...

20050270985 - Accelerated per-flow traffic estimation: A method of estimating per-flow traffic in a network of nodes interconnected by links splits the incoming traffic stream to a node into a number of parallel sub-streams by flow assignment using a hash function. Since each flow in the incoming traffic stream constitutes a larger fraction of the traffic...

20050270986 - Apparatus and method for topology discovery among network devices: Connections included in the topology of a lower-order layer of a plurality of layers are grouped according to device setting information of a plurality of devices composing a communication network with a communication function having a hierarchical structure composed of the plurality of layers, and an information reach range in...

20050270982 - Method and apparatus for monitoring latency, jitter, packet throughput and packet loss ratio between two points on a network: A system for testing a segment of a data-packet-network has a first probe connected substantially at one end of the segment; a second probe connected substantially at the opposite end of the segment from the location of the first probe; and a process application distributed to each probe. The first...

20050270983 - Method and apparatus to manage exceptions in network processors: A method and apparatus to process exception packets is described. A signature table, secondary table and a plurality of queues are used to store exception packets which match packets that are currently being handled, such that multiple requests for exception packet handling of the same or similar packets do not...

20050270984 - Per-flow traffic estimation: A method of estimating per-flow traffic in a network of nodes interconnected by links samples an incoming traffic stream to a node. A sampling interval is derived based on a desired level of accuracy. The number of two-run occurrences for each flow is tracked in the sample stream. The number...

20050270987 - Selectable training signals based on stored previous connection information for dmt-based system: Training signals can be chosen based on stored prior connection information to reduce the use of extra tones in transmitted training signals and thereby improve receiver performance. By choosing training signals based on the stored prior connection information, it is possible to make the training signals indirectly a function of...

20050270990 - Data processing network and method for operating such: To reduce the administration complexity required for a data processing (DP) network, provided particularly for use in the medical or clinical sector, a method is proposed which specifies a DP network which is advantageous in this respect and also an associated method of operation. The DP network includes a configuration...

20050270988 - Mechanism of dynamic upstream port selection in a pci express switch: A PCI Express switch with ports defined to begin operation as upstream ports, and configured to perform a link training that determines when one port is connected to an upstream device and directs the other ports to operate as downstream ports....

20050270989 - Method and apparatus for automatically configuring wireless network device: A method and apparatus for automatically configuring a wireless network device by receiving configuration information from a configuration information server that stores and provides the configuration information of the wireless network device are provided. The method includes: searching for service sets existing within range of the wireless network device and...

20050270991 - Method and apparatus for reducing multi-user processing in wireless communication systems: A method and apparatus is disclosed for reducing multi-user processing at the receiver in wireless communication systems. Detected codes are grouped according to channel impulse response and a parent code is identified for each group of detected codes. A matrix A is constructed and joint detection is performed using the...

20050270992 - Internet protocol authentication in layer-3 multipoint tunneling for wireless access points: Enhanced tunnel communication mode creation, management and tuning in a network that includes wireless access points (APs) and user authentication. Tunnels can be dynamically managed to adapt to the changing topology of a network with APs. User devices such as mobile phones, laptop computers, personal digital assistants, or other devices...

20050270993 - Efficient partitioning of mac (media access control) functions: In one embodiment, a method is provided. The method of this embodiment provides Therefore, in one embodiment, a method may include performing real-time MAC (media access control) functions, and at least one non real-time MAC function of a plurality of non real-time MAC functions on a network device of a...

20050270996 - Apparatus and method for enhanced um rlc data handling: An unacknowledged mode (UM) radio link control (RLC) entity receives RLC protocol data units (PDUs) delivered through one or more logical channels and re-orders the received PDUs by referring to their sequence numbers and by using a receive window and a timer to minimize delivery delay time, to reduce missing...

20050270994 - Method for the broadcasting of multimedia messages to a heterogeneous fleet of terminals: So as to limit the resources required by the mass broadcasting of multimedia messages, a multimedia content is identified by a service identifier. In the MMS-C server responsible for the broadcasting, this service identifier is associated with a certain number of multimedia messages preformatted as a function of a type...

20050270995 - Mobile communication terminal and method for processing communication function during dmb output: Disclosed is a mobile communication terminal and a method for processing a communication function during DMB output. The mobile communication terminal includes a digital broadcasting data receiving unit for receiving digital broadcasting data, a communication state detecting unit for controlling storage or output of received digital broadcasting data based on...

20050270997 - Boc signal acquisition and tracking method and apparatus: A method and apparatus for acquiring and tracking a BOC signal in a satellite navigation receiver includes a synthesized acquisition test function or a discriminator for code delay provided by combining a BOC autocorrelation function and a BOC/PRN cross-correlation function....

20050270998 - Systems and methods for accessing wireless networks: Methods and systems provide access to a wireless network. A request is received from a wireless client device at a public access point located at a customer premises. Access to the public network is authorized. An account associated with the customer premises is credited as compensation for the access....

20050270999 - Synchronization on reverse link of mobile mode communications systems: Methods and apparatus are disclosed to provide orthogonal multiple access communication in a return link of a satellite communication system. In one embodiment, a closed loop control of a transmit parameter associated with transmission of signals may be performed. In addition, changes in motion of a terminal are monitored such...

20050271000 - Evaluating orthogonal codes transmitted in a wireless communications network: The invention relates to a method, a computer program product and a device for evaluating a code which is orthogonal to one or more further codes. The method comprises the steps of receiving a signal which carries a code containing a sequence of code symbols, determining for a particular symbol...

20050271004 - Method for synchronizing status information of imps client: The present invention is related to synchronizing status information of an IMPS client in a wireless communication system. A server, which manages status information using version information, compares status information of contacts stored in association with version information received from a client to current status information. The server transmits changed...

20050271002 - Radio communication terminal, radio base station, and radio communication system: Actual calculated throughput is presented to the user before the start of communications. A transmission and receiving section of a radio communication terminal transmits a first signal to a radio base station while the radio communication terminal is in an idling state to request a second signal (such as null...

20050271003 - Service based bearer control and traffic flow template operation with mobile ip: A method for updating filters, at a Packet Data Serving Node, with a care-of-address associated with at least one of a mobile station or a correspondent node. The method includes the steps of implementing a soft filtering rule at a Packet Data Serving Node and receiving, by the Packet Data...

20050271001 - Voip wlan conference calling via home wireless routers: A home wireless router establishes a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) and services a plurality of wireless terminals within the WLAN service area including at least one Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) wireless terminal. The home wireless router receives a request from the VoIP wireless terminal to establish a VoIP...

20050271005 - Cdma network and related method using adaptive coding rate to maximize walsh code usage: A base station for communicating with mobile stations in a coverage area of a wireless network. The base station adapts a coding rate of user data being transmitted to a first mobile station in a forward channel (e.g. a Supplemental Channel) in order to maximize the number of Walsh codes...

20050271008 - Channel activation messaging in an unlicensed mobile access telecommunications system: Methods and messages for performing assignment and activation of voice bearer channels for mobile stations (MSs) in an unlicensed mobile access network (UMAN). URR (UMA radio resource) channel activation messages are exchanged between an MS and a UMA network controller (UNC) operating in the UMAN to assign a voice bearer...

20050271006 - Channel assignments within a mesh network: Embodiments of methods of assigning a channel to a link of an access node within a wireless mesh network, is disclosed. The method includes the access node receiving beacons over multiple channels, from at least one upstream device, and the access node selecting an uplink channel based upon the received...

20050271009 - Frequency selection apparatus, a mobile communications system, and a multi-band frequency resource management method: A frequency selection apparatus, a mobile communications system, and a multi-band resource management method are disclosed. The frequency selection apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to collect environmental information about a mobile station for each frequency band according to system frequency bands that a mobile station can use, and a...

20050271007 - Method for reducing a false alarm probability for a notification for transmission of control information for an mbms in a mobile communications system: A notification method for informing a UE of an existence or absence of control information for an MBMS in a mobile communication system supporting the MBMS. In the method, the UE receives a notification indicator channel independently reporting the existence of the control information for the MBMS, confirms at least...

20050271010 - Priority setting scheme for a wireless terminal: First and second wireless transceiver units operate in the same portion of the RF spectrum. An arbitration device controls when the first and second wireless transceiver units can operate. An interface connects the first transceiver unit to the arbitration device and receives requests for operation. The interface permits the transceiver...

20050271013 - Configuring an interworking wireless local area network user equipment to access a 3gpp system: A method for configuring an interworking wireless local area network (I-WLAN) user equipment (UE) to access a third generation partnership project (3GPP) system begins by initiating a connection from a UE to the 3GPP system, the initiating step including indicating the UE's interworking protocol capabilities. Authentication and authorization of the...

20050271015 - Mobile communication system, access router, management device and mobile communication method: A mobile communication system comprises an access router configured to assign a routing address to a transient address when receiving a user data packet including the transient address is set to a source address from a mobile terminal connecting to the access router and store a correspondence between the transient...

20050271012 - Soft handoff for reverse link in a wireless communication system with frequency reuse: For soft handoff on the reverse link with restrictive reuse, a wireless terminal searches for pilots transmitted by sectors in a wireless system, measures the detected pilots, selects a serving sector (e.g., the strongest received sector), and identifies non-serving sectors that may receive high interference from the terminal. The serving...

20050271014 - Systems and methods for packet based handoff in wireless communication systems: Systems and methods for providing packet based handoff in wireless communication systems are provided....

20050271011 - Vertical network handovers: Establishing and controlling communication to and from a mobile terminal with multiple network interfaces that can be reached with one phone number via multiple networks. The mobile terminal simultaneously communicates with a central server over a cellular network and a WLAN to dynamically coordinate a preferred routing of a communication...

20050271016 - Beam forming apparatus and method for an array antenna system: A joint channel and Direction of Arrival (DOA) estimation apparatus and method simplified to efficiently estimate a channel impulse response associated with a spatially selective transmission channel occurring in a mobile radio channel are provided. To uniformly process all directions, angles associated with a beam are predetermined according to a...

20050271017 - Packet-switched spread-spectrum system: A system and method for encoding and transmitting data with a spread-spectrum packet-switched system. Data to be transmitted by a packet transmitter are encoded for privacy and to restrict intelligent receipt of the data to the intended recipient. The encoded data is demultiplexed into sub-data-sequence signals which are spread-spectrum processed...

20050271019 - Access control and protocol for packet switched wireless communications networks: A method transmits packets over a single channel in a wireless communication network that includes multiple nodes. Access to the channel is gained in a transmitting node. Then, a block of packets is transmitted to a receiving node via the channel. The transmitting node receives only a single acknowledgement packet...

20050271020 - Cellular network/wlan voip service interaction by home wireless router: A home wireless router establishes a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN). The home wireless router services a plurality of wireless terminals within the WLAN service area, the plurality of wireless terminals including at least one Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) wireless terminal. The home wireless router receives a request to...

20050271022 - Data transmitter, data receiver, communication system, control program of data transmitter, control program of data receiver, computer readable recording medium and infrared data transmitter: A data transmitter includes (a) first communication means performing data transmission according to IrDA Standard, (b) second communication means performing data transmission that does not comply with the IrDA Standard and (c) means for switching between a process performed by the first communication means and a process performed by the...

20050271018 - System and method for assisting handoff between wide area and local area networks: A system and method are disclosed for assisting handoff between wide area and local area networks. A system incorporating teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a wireless local area network (WLAN) base station having a wireless local area transceiver and a wide area network module. In some...

20050271023 - System and method for providing a user-definable, removable media-based device name assigner: The disclosed system and method provide a means for creating, installing and re-installing device names and unique identifiers onto one or more handheld devices using an assignment application residing on removable media in the absence of a desktop or laptop computer. A method of installing a device name on a...

20050271021 - System for enhanced capacity and quality over wlan: A method and system for controlling wireless communication between a mobile terminal and a plurality of wireless access points. Link status and quality data is determined about each communication link between the mobile terminal and each wireless access point that is currently detectable by the mobile terminal. A priority list...

20050271024 - Using call establishment signaling to request data: A mobile computer system requests data by requesting the establishment of a voice connection to a voice server, such as, for example, by selecting a telephone number. The mobile computer system provides an identifier (e.g. caller identification information) that identifies the mobile computer system and a called number that represents...

20050271026 - Method and apparatus for detecting a cell in an orthogonal frequency division multiple access system: An apparatus and method are provided for detecting via a mobile station a cell in which the mobile station is located in order to initiate communication in an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) system including a plurality of base stations transmitting signal with a pseudo-random noise (PN) code to...

20050271025 - Methods of avoiding multiple detections of random access channel preamble in wireless communication systems: In a method of avoiding multiple detection of the same random access channel (RACH) preamble in a wireless communication system, and within a given set of access slots, a given sub-set of available preamble signatures corresponding to a RACH preamble of a user may be detected, so as to avoid...

20050271027 - Apparatus and method for multiplexing packets for broadcast services in a mobile communication system based on orthogonal frequency division multiplexing: An apparatus and method for multiplexing packets for broadcast services in a mobile communication system based on orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM). The OFDM system has a transmission structure in which one slot includes at least two symbols, and each symbol includes a plurality of subcarriers. Different broadcast service packets...

20050271028 - Time-slotted data packets with a preamble: An illustrative embodiment of the present invention supports the transmission of data to a user on an as-needed basis over multiple allocated data channels. Data packets are transmitted in time-slots of the allocated data channels to corresponding target receivers without the need for explicitly assigning particular time-slots to a target...

20050271029 - Methods, apparatus and computer program products for testing a voice over internet protocol communication system: Methods, apparatus, and computer program products are provided for testing a Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) communication system. A VoIP test phone call is generated through an Internet communication link to a VoIP service provider for a called telephone number. Success of the VoIP test phone call is determined. The...

20050271030 - Adaptive piconet protocol: A method for adaptive piconet protocol begins by determining, by a master device, a number of slave devices that are currently affiliated with the master device in a piconet. The method continues by determining, by the master device, data requirements and voice requirements of each of the slave devices currently...

20050271034 - Address acquisition: In a GPRS system, a method of a mobile station acquiring an IP network address. The method comprises the steps of: the mobile station generating a link identifier and sending it to a gateway over a wireless link in a network address request together with a request to check if...

20050271032 - Communication method and apparatus in mobile station having multiple interfaces: Provided are wireless communication methods and apparatus. The communication method for a mobile station in which multiple interfaces complying with different communication standards are loaded includes obtaining an address that can be used for communication through every one of multiple interfaces based on information regarding a predetermined interface among the...

20050271031 - Method and apparatus for transmitting/receiving transmission status information and buffer state information in a mobile communication system that supports uplink packet service: Disclosed is a method and apparatus for efficiently transmitting/receiving transmission power status information (TPS) and buffer state information (BO) of a user equipment (UE). Under the assumption that an enhanced uplink dedicated transport channel (EUDCH) is used for an uplink data transmission in an asynchronous code division multiple access (CDMA)...

20050271033 - Method for header compression in packet-based telecommunication systems: A technology for transmitting compressed data packets via a packet-based communications path extending between a compressing node and a decompressing node, the technology comprises transmitting groups of one or more compressed packets wherein each two consecutive groups are separated from each other by single partially compressed packets. The compressed packets...

20050271037 - Method and system for controlling the exchange of vehicle related messages: The present invention comprises a message portal for administering and controlling the exchange of vehicle-related messages between a remote location and a vehicle and a method thereof. In one embodiment, the message portal receives a message from the remote location and determines when the message should be broadcast to a...

20050271038 - Method and system for efficient management and transport of traffic over a network: Method and apparatus for efficient management and transport of traffic over a network. The available bandwidth capacity of paths in a network may be stored in a first router. A request may be received at the first router from a network node of a second network for a signaled path...

20050271035 - Method for enabling multipoint network services over a ring topology network: A method, device, and system for providing multipoint network services over a ring topology network. According to the disclosed method point-to-point connections and point-to-multipoint connections are established between network elements (NEs) providing the same network services. These connections eliminate the need for replicating packets at a source NE and, as...

20050271036 - Method for providing efficient multipoint network services: A method, system and device for enabling efficient bandwidth utilization of a multipoint network service over an arbitrary topology network that includes a plurality of network elements (NEs). In a preferred embodiment, the method comprises the steps of setting up a full connectivity between the NEs and providing the multipoint...

20050271039 - System, method and apparatus for obtaining real-time information associated with a telecommunication network: A system, method and apparatus is disclosed for obtaining real-time information associated with a telecommunication network. The system includes a computing system including one or more computers having one or more processors for executing logic instructions associated with one or more computer programs and a first memory for storing the...

20050271040 - Centralized resource manager and resource conflicts in a home area network: A content resource manager (CRM) in a home area network is configured to determine if a conflict exists between current use of a media pipeline and a requested use of the media pipeline. If a conflict exists, the CRM requests the user to indicate if a current use of a...

20050271041 - Exchange of information in a communication system: A technique for supplying a data object to a user of a communication system includes: (a) creating a data object intended for rendering at a first communication device (e.g., a subscriber's communication device), the rendering to take place upon the occurrence of a triggering communication event, the data object providing...

20050271042 - Internet modem streaming socket method: An Internet client communicates with an Internet server such as an HTTP server or SMTP server through a TCP streaming socket on the Internet device with the Internet client. The TCP streaming sockets can be established through an Internet ready command line interface. The Internet ready command line interface includes...

20050271043 - Network element with improved lower order switching device arrangement and method for cross-connecting signals in a network element: Disclosed is a switch device arrangement for a network element cross-connecting incoming signal frames. The said arrangement comprises an input port for receiving signal frames, a first cross-connection stage and a second cross-connection stage connected to said first stage. Each cross-connection stage comprises at least one switch device with, in...

20050271044 - Method for managing a stack of switches: A method for managing a stack (1) of switches (10, 20, 30, 40) includes the steps of: constructing a stack comprising a plurality of stackable switches according to a desired topology; sending a packet comprising information on topology and priority from each switch to a neighboring switch in order to...

20050271045 - Time slot interchange switch with bit error rate testing: In accordance with the invention, time slot interchange switches (“TSIS”) with bit error rate testing are described. The bit error rate testing includes creating a channel of data appropriate for bit error rate testing and monitoring the bit error rate testing on that channel....

20050271046 - Packet switching system: In a packet switch, a switch request allocation plan is generated by reducing the number of queue requests VOQ relating to each of one or both sets of ports I1 .IN, O1 .ON, by a value such that the number of requests relating to each member of the set or...

20050271054 - Asynchronous switch based on butterfly fat-tree for network on chip application: The present invention disclosed herein is an asynchronous switch for an network on chip application making possible between IP (Intellectual Property) communication among various IPs in the network on chip. The asynchronous switch according to the present invention in which comprises a data input unit for receiving and storing a...

20050271051 - Capacity limiting platform system and method: Systems and methods limit capacity available for VoIP or other packetized data communications over a communications network. An initiator of the call is communicatively connected to the network, for example, by a gateway switch. The call has a particular destination communicatively connected to the network, such as a market gateway....

20050271058 - Cell or frame assembly method and apparatus optimizing the moving of data: In a network node, a method and apparatus for assembling fixed cell length cells resulting from the segmenting of variable length frames into cells. The hardware implementations of the preferred embodiments of the invention comprise a finite state machine which handles three processes at the same time, one for fetching...

20050271049 - Dhcp cache method and apparatus: The invention relates to a router that keeps a short-lived cache of DHCP packets. Each time the router receives a DHCP request or discover packet, the router checks to see if the packet is already in the cache. If the packet is in the cache and has already been processed,...

20050271050 - Domain-influenced prefix assignment method and apparatus: A network element (10) can retain a plurality of prefix identifiers as are used to formulate an address to be used by individual network users. Pursuant to a preferred approach, one or more of these prefix identifiers are pre-correlated to a given domain name while at least one other prefix...

20050271053 - Method and apparatus for delineating data in an fec-coded ethernet frame: One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that facilitates construction of a forward error correction (FEC) coded Ethernet frame. During operation, the system receives a conventional Ethernet frame. The system then generates a number of FEC parity bits for the conventional Ethernet frame and inserts a start sequence...

20050271047 - Method and system for managing multiple overlapping address domains: One embodiment disclosed relates to a method of configuring a network including multiple overlapping private address domains. A configuration file is created for each overlapping address domain (OAD). The configuration file includes an identifier for the OAD, a gateway address to the OAD, and mappings between private addresses in the...

20050271052 - Method and system of storage area network switch addressing: A method comprises disconnecting from a first port of a switch addressable by an address of a first address format, connecting to a second port of the switch addressable by a second address format, and accessing the second port using the address....

20050271055 - Method, network arrangement and apparatus for providing isdn services in next generation packet based telecommunication networks: The present invention relates to a method, apparatus and network arrangement for providing ISDN services in next generation packet based telecommunication networks. More particularly, the invention relates to a method and network arrangement for providing ISDN services in a NGN, wherein at least one local exchange function application server is...

20050271059 - Network protocol conversions and routing methods and apparatus: A highly flexible and scalable architecture implements a wide variety of protocol bridging, including ATM SARing (segmentation and reassembly) operations and related functions with single call granularity for network to telecom interface applications such as voice over Internet. A very small packet size minimizes packetization delay so that VOIP can...

20050271056 - Packet generation method, communication method, packet processing method and data structure: The objective of the present invention is to perform network grouping without employing a VLAN switch. Communication is performed by using the data structure for an IP packet that includes an IP data portion and an IP header that has an option area, for which a group number area for...

20050271048 - Selective internet priority service: An Internet Priority Service (IPS) provides to authorized users priority access to communication over the Internet during emergencies. Transmission of data packets from an authorized user that accesses the IPS are given priority for transmission over the Internet. The level of priority given to a data packet depends on the...

20050271057 - System, medium, and method for estimating distance in communication system having nodes: A method, medium, and system estimating a location of a node, whose location is unknown, in a communication system including both nodes having known locations and nodes having unknown locations. A first packet is transmitted and received between nodes having known locations, via a node having an unknown location to...

20050271060 - Efficient and robust routing of potentially-variable traffic with local restoration agains link failures: A method for supporting recovery from failure of a link in a network of nodes interconnected by links comprises: (a) selecting an intermediate node between an ingress point and an egress point of the network, wherein the intermediate node minimizes the sum of (i) a capacity constraint between the ingress...

20050271062 - Communication terminal and method for controlling the same: A communication terminal includes a base and a wireless handset connected to the base with a wireless connection. In the communication terminal, an audio communication channel of interactive audiovisual communication or audio communication can be transferred between the base and the wireless handset. The communication terminal performs interactive audiovisual communication...

20050271061 - Method and system for communicating in a computing system: One aspect of the invention is a method for communicating in a computing system. An example of the method includes establishing a local communications interface at a local site. This example also includes writing local site communication information to the local communications interface, which comprises storing the local site communication...

20050271063 - Data communication apparatus, data communication method, program, and storage medium: An information processing apparatus functioning as a data communication apparatus determines whether data communication with another information processing apparatus in the same local network is carried out using a global network address. If it is determined that the data communication is carried out using a global network address, the information...

20050271064 - Dual speed interface between media access control unit and physical unit: A system and method to implement a dual speed network interface. A first code is transmitted from an initiator unit to a follower unit on a first output datapath (“OUT_DP”) of multiple OUT_DPs coupling the initiator unit to the follower unit. The first code is transmitted to initiate a speed...

20050271065 - Asymmetric packet switch and a method of use: The present invention relates to a packet switch and a packet switching method. An example embodiment of the present invention comprises at least three network ports, at least one instrument port, a mux-switch, a packet switch fabric, and an address table. The embodiment updates the address table to include the...

20050271066 - Method, device and system for transmitting ethernet packets: Technique for transmitting Ethernet packets from an Ethernet source point to an Ethernet destination point via a communication link, comprising compression of the packets in such a manner that the source point transmits complete Ethernet packets, the communication link carries shortened information blocks (SIB) obtained from said complete Ethernet packets,...

20050271067 - System and method for routing data across heterogeneous private and non-private networks: The invention provides a method and system for routing data across heterogeneous networks. One embodiment comprises a specialized in-band network, an out-of-band network, and a switching platform coupled between them. In one embodiment, the out-of-band network is coupled to an external network such as the Internet via a default gateway....

20050271068 - System and method for transferring non-compliant packetized and streaming data into and from a multimedia device coupled to a network across which compliant data is sent: A communication system, network, interface, and port architecture are provided for transporting different types of data across a network. The network can be arranged by connecting the ports in a daisy chain fashion to achieve a ring architecture or topology. The network forwards data according to a specific network protocol,...

20050271071 - Method and system for accurately calculating latency variation on an end-to-end path in a network: A high-resolution, per-packet measurement tool for analyzing a computer network that operates by sending a predetermined number of packets from a sender machine to a receiver machine with measurement information inserted into the packet. The system kernel at the sending machine stamps a sequence number and the sender's local time...

20050271069 - Packet switching system: In a packet switch, a switch request allocation plan is generated by reducing the number of queue requests VOQ relating to each of one or both sets of ports I1 . . . IN, O1 . . . ON, by a value such that the number of requests relating to...

20050271070 - Radio module: The objective of the invention is the constant optimization of the sizes of buffers required for a transmission process and a reception process, and the effective use of memory resources. A contents processor includes a contents change detector. When the contents are changed, the contents change detector transmits to a...

20050271072 - High data rate interface apparatus and method: A data interface for transferring digital data between a host and a client over a communication path using packet structures linked together to form a communication protocol for communicating a pre-selected set of digital control and presentation data. The signal protocol is used by link controllers configured to generate, transmit,...

20050271074 - Method and apparatus for verifying service level in a communications network: One embodiment of the invention provides apparatus and a method for handling an incoming packet at a port in a network. The port belongs to one or more partitions, and at least one service level is associated with each of the partitions. When a packet is received at the port,...

20050271073 - Switch method and apparatus with cut-through routing for use in a communications network: One embodiment of the invention provides a method of operating a switch with cut-through routing in a communications network. The method includes receiving a packet at a first port of the switch and determining a second port of the switch from which the received packet is to be forwarded out...

20050271075 - Incentive-based dsl system: Improved DSL and/or other communication system services can be provided by motivating users, service providers and operators to implement and comply with one or more operational conditions, such as parameter value limits and/or ranges, that enhance operation of the communication system. Enhanced operation can include providing a reward such as...

20050271076 - Access systems and methods for a shared communication medium: Priority-based access systems and methods for shared communication media are provided. The priority and a corresponding weight of traffic to be transmitted on a shared communication medium are determined. This determination may be made, for example, before a first attempt to transmit the traffic, or before a subsequent traffic transmission...

20050271077 - Method for addressing the participants of a bus system: In the method for addressing the participants (1 to 4) of a bus system, the central control unit (12) connects the bus line (12) to one potential of the operating voltage, while each participant tries to pull the bus line (12) to a reference potential, normally the operating voltage, wherein,...

20050271078 - System and method for configuring communication systems: An identification system for identifying and validating selected components of a communication system and methods for manufacturing and using same. The communication system includes a host system that is configured to couple with one or more target systems. When the host system is coupled with a selected target system, the...

20050271079 - High speed interface systems and methods: Systems and methods are disclosed for providing high speed interfaces in platform management systems and in other contexts. In one embodiment, a system is provided that includes two baseboard management controllers and an interface that connects them. In one embodiment, the interface has a bandwidth that is greater than 100...

20050271080 - System and method for distributing voice and data information over wireless and wireline networks: A method and device for distributing both high-speed data service, such as digital computer, video and multimedia data, and lower speed data service, such as POTS voice telephone signals, throughout a customer premises. High-speed digital data and lower speed POTS voice signals are separated by a POTS splitter and distributed...

20050271081 - Enhanced language support for legacy call control system: This invention provides a method and apparatus for, incorporation, with a non-modifiable legacy IP telephony call control system, of additional language character support, that further, does not compromise the maturity of the call control system. A system according to the present invention comprises (A) a legacy call control system for...

20050271083 - High-speed ethernet satellite bridge: A high-speed Ethernet-satellite bridge transmits large-size data files faster and more efficiently than terrestrial networks conventionally used for this purpose. The bridge is formed by a distribution center which converts the data files from an Ethernet format into a synchronous (e.g., HSSI) format. The HSSI data is then transmitted to...

20050271082 - Transmitting system, media converter and transmitting method: If trouble or the like occurs in a central device or repeater in an Internet system, and the device becomes unable to operate normally, a link between each terminal and the central device may become invalid, and communication between terminals may become impossible. A transmitting system including an Internet connecting...

20050271084 - Automated weight calculation for packet networks: A method for communication includes setting respective overbooking ratios for multiple categories of data traffic, and assigning respective bandwidth allocations to a plurality of connections for transmitting the data traffic in one or more of the categories over a network. The data traffic from the connections is coupled into respective...

20050271085 - Data transmission line of semiconductor memory device: Disclosed are a data transmission line and a repeater connected to the data transmission line of a semiconductor memory device. The data transmission line includes the repeater capable of transmitting control signals related to even data or odd data in a DDR DRAM, so the number of transmission units used...

20050271086 - System and method for an intelligent load center with integrated powerline communications network switching and network management capabilities: In a typical powerline communications environment, all electrical outlets and branches are connected to a load center. In this type of electrical system, all communication devices will share the same frequency spectrum, limiting the maximum bandwidth of the network, where all nodes are in contention with each other. In the...

20050271087 - Trigger signal generation system frame signal waveform observation system: A trigger signal generating apparatus includes a frame synchronous circuit which receives a frame signal having a predetermined bit rate and outputs a synchronous signal in synchronism with an input timing of leading data of the frame signal, a position information output circuit which receives the synchronous signal output by...

20050271088 - Method of using guard tones in ofdm systems for increasing robustness: The present invention provides a method and system for increasing communication robustness between wireless communication devices by transmitting data on Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) guard tones. In one embodiment, punctured bits are sent on the guard tones. In an alternate embodiment, the full bandwidth provided by the guard tones...

20050265218 - Interference suppression for ofdm-based uwb communication: P

20050265221 - Mapping data tones onto guard tones for a multi-band ofdm system: A device (104, 106, 108) is provided for wireless communication. The device (104, 106, 108) includes a transmitter (200) operable to transmit an orthogonal frequency division multiplex symbol. The orthogonal frequency division multiplex symbol has a first set of copied tones adjacent a first end of the orthogonal frequency division...

20050265223 - Method and apparatus for scheduling downlink channels in an orthogonal frequency division multiple access system and a system using the same: A downlink channel scheduling method and apparatus for obtaining optimal system performance in a downlink of a wireless communication system using an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) scheme are provided. Terminals compute a plurality of channel capacities and search for a channel with a maximum capacity. The terminals send, to...

20050265222 - Method for inter-cell interference coordination with power planning for ofdm mobile communication system: A method for inter-cell interference coordination with power planning in a radio communication system employing multi-carrier techniques such as OFDM for the air interface communication between a network and a plurality of user terminals, the network comprising a plurality of base stations having means for communication with the user terminals...

20050265219 - Orthogonal frequency division multiplex (ofdm) packet detect unit, method of detecting an ofdm packet and ofdm receiver employing the same: The present invention provides an orthogonal frequency division multiplex (OFDM) packet detect unit. In one embodiment, the OFDM packet detect unit includes a correlation indicator configured to cross-correlate a received symbol and a stored standard symbol to yield a correlation result. Additionally, the OFDM packet detect unit also includes a...

20050265220 - Preamble generator for a multiband ofdm transceiver: Preamble generator for a multiband frequency division multplexing (OFDM) tranceiver of a wireless personal area network (WPAN) being switchable between a time frequency interleaving (TFI)-mode wherein data packets are transmitted by said transceiver in different frequency bands according to a predetermined frequency hopping pattern and a fixed frequency interleaving (FFI)...

20050265224 - Apparatus for generating 2d spreading code and method for the same: An apparatus for generating a 2D spreading code and method for the same are proposed. The apparatus for generating the 2D spreading code includes a column counter, a row counter, a codeword selector, and a logic unit. The logic unit performs logic operations on the output of the column counter,...

20050265227 - Method and apparatus for transmitting uplink fast feedback information in an ofdma communication system: An apparatus and method for transmitting uplink fast feedback information using a fast feedback channel in an orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) communication system. A channel encoder generates uplink fast feedback information to be transmitted, and outputs codewords designed such that a minimum Hamming distance between the codewords is...

20050265225 - Mimo system and mode table: A method for determining antenna usage in a multiple input multiple output (MIMO) wireless communication system. The method includes exchanging information between terminals concerning the number of transmit antennas and number of receive antennas. In some embodiments antenna usage is based on the number of transmit antennas, the number of...

20050265226 - Transmission apparatus and receiving apparatus: A transmission apparatus used in a radio communication system adopting the OFDM scheme is disclosed. The transmission apparatus includes: a dividing inverse Fourier transform part including plural transform parts, wherein the dividing inverse Fourier transform part divides a signal to be transmitted into plural signals, and each of the plural...

20050265228 - Automatic protection switching using link-level redundancy supporting multi-protocol label switching: A computer network has a plurality of routers that deliver data packets to the network via a plurality of links. At least one router provides automatic protection switching in the event of a link failure. The at least one router includes a plurality of data interfaces for streams of data...

20050265229 - Techniques to provide increased voltage swings in oscillators: Briefly, an oscillator device with impedance elements to prevent premature improper biasing of transistor nodes and to increase the maximum possible peak-to-peak signal swing....

20050265230 - Apparatus and method for performing state transition of backup router in router redundancy system: Disclosed are an apparatus and a method for performing state transition of a backup router in a router redundancy system comprising a master router and at least one backup router for routing hosts. The method includes the steps of determining if a master router has a fault, and shifting the...

20050265231 - Communication network connection rerouting methods and systems: Methods and systems for communication network element configuration and connection rerouting are disclosed. For a communication network connection between network elements, one of which supports a local connection rerouting function to detect a loss of continuity on the connection based on continuity check signals and to reroute the connection responsive...

20050265232 - Mutual link system, information processing device, mutual link method, and program: A mutual link system for acquiring information using a personal network mutual link is provided. The mutual link system includes a communication network, plural communication devices connected to the communication network, a registration part for registering link information consisting of at least a part of communication destinations and communication devices...

20050265233 - Virus/worm throttle threshold settings: One embodiment disclosed relates to a network device that includes at least one port to connect to a network and at least one throttle that limits a rate of connections made from the device. An auto-adaptive thresholding mechanism determines a threshold for the throttle. The mechanism may be tunable to...

20050265234 - Diffserv path object for network management: A telecommunications system includes a network. The system includes an NMS in communication with the network having ServiceOn-Data with the QOS path object attached to a route object. The system includes a plurality of nodes in communication with the network which receives the QOS path object attached to the route...

20050265236 - Method and system for transmitting reverse data in a mobile communication system: Disclosed is a method for controlling a reverse data rate by a mobile station in a mobile communication system supporting high-rate packet data transmission. The method includes receiving average loading information (FRAB) from a particular base station when the mobile station attempts an initial access to the base station; setting...

20050265235 - Method, computer program product, and data processing system for improving transaction-oriented client-server application performance: A method, computer program product, and a data processing system for processing transactions of a client-server application is provided. A first data set is transmitted from a client to a server. A second data set to be transmitted to the server is received by the client. An evaluation is made...

20050265237 - System and method of commanding a mobile phone remotely: The present invention provides a method for remotely directing a mobile phone to divert a phone call or a short message directed to the mobile phone to a designated recipient. The method comprises the following step of: sending a commanding message to the mobile phone, wherein the mobile phone has...

20050265238 - Flow control method and apparatus for single packet arrival on a bidirectional ring interconnect: Embodiments of the present invention are related in general to data flow control in a network and in particular to packet flow control in a bidirectional ring interconnect. An embodiment of a method includes sending packets on the bidirectional ring interconnect in a first direction or on the bidirectional ring...

20050265239 - Method and apparatus for forwarding data in a data communications network: A method is disclosed of forwarding data in a data communications network comprising a plurality of nodes and links therebetween, each link having an associated usage cost and a load capacity. A forwarding node identifies a lowest cost route, comprising one or more links, to a destination node. If a...

20050265246 - Application specific traffic optimization in a wireless link: A packet data system such as a TCP/IP network transmits packets containing a variety of data types along links in the network. Packets are transmitted in a stream between nodes interconnected by the links, which conform to a transport layer protocol such as TCP, UDP, and RSTP, and include wireless...

20050265240 - Broadband network and application service testing method and apparatus: A method and system for testing broadband networks and broadband applications. The system performs customer-centric, subscriber-initiated broadband network and broadband application service testing by validating network setup and gateway configuration for broadband application(s); characterizing application service performance; and identifying faults while recommending remedial actions. The method and system optionally pushes...

20050265242 - Communication monitoring method and apparatus of semiconductor devices: A communication monitoring method and apparatus of semiconductor devices for receiving messages transmitted between a host and an equipment. The method includes receiving a message, recording the message, determining if the message is a control character EOT, setting a flag to be true if the message is the control character...

20050265243 - Inverse multiplexing of digital data: In ATM networks, digital data in ATM cells are sent to a destination node over more than one transmission link in round robin fashion. This is called inverse multiplexing. At connection start-up, the source node informs the destination node of the specific round robin fashion of the transmission links so...

20050265241 - Method and apparatus for providing voice path assurance testing through a packet network: A method and apparatus for voice path assurance (VPA) testing in a packet network such as an Internet Protocol (IP) network is provided. More specifically, the invention relates to a voice path assurance (VPA) testing technique that is initiated by the terminating side of a logical connection through an IP...

20050265245 - Method of transferring data in a local household network: A method transfers data in a local household network. The local household network has at least one network-capable domestic appliance and at least one gateway to at least one other network. The network-capable domestic appliance can be integrated in a local household network and the local household network contains at...

20050265244 - Overload protection of a tmn system: To protect an overloading of a central controller OS of a TMN system, messages N received by network elements are assigned to different classes, thereby resulting in class specific loads. Those messages N which are assigned a class K with a class specific load overloading the controller are protected. Messages...

20050265247 - Method and software tools for intelligent service pack installation: A software tool and method are provided for selectively installing service packs in a computer system according to dependency information and whether or not an upgrade to an application is scheduled. The method comprises prompting a user for desired setup information and installing the service pack associated with an existing...

20050265248 - Asymmetric packets switch and a method of use: The present invention relates to a packet switch and a packet switching method. An example embodiment of the present invention comprises at least three network ports, at least one instrument port, a mux-switch, a packet switch fabric, and an address table. The embodiment updates the address table to include the...

20050265254 - Decoder device: A decoder device is provided which is able to output audio and video in sync without a counter synchronized with a clock reference value. The decoder device retrieves PES and PCR from TS, and decides the timing of an audio output section and a video output section, referring to PTS...

20050265255 - Efficient and robust routing of potentially-variable traffic in ip-over-optical networks with resiliency against router failures: A method for supporting recovery from failure of a node in a network of nodes interconnected by links, wherein the failed node is in a path providing a service level between an ingress point and an egress point of the network, comprises: (a) selecting a set of one or more...

20050265252 - Enhancing ephemeral port allocation: Methods, systems, and media to sub-divide an ephemeral port range and allocate ports from the sub-divided ephemeral port ranges to facilitate communication with another destination, or target, application are contemplated. Embodiments involve a client computer system having one or more source applications. Embodiments also include hardware and/or software for categorizing...

20050265251 - Link delay determination using virtual concatenation: Link delay is determined in a network comprising a plurality of nodes by identifying pairs of nodes associated with a given link, and, for each of the identified pairs, setting up a virtually-concatenated group (VCG) between the nodes of that pair. The VCGs are utilized to make delay measurements, and...

20050265249 - Methods of detecting signaling information in a wireless communication system: In a method of detecting signaling information in a signal received in a wireless communication system, signaling information for a signal received in a subsequent time instant may be detected using an estimated value for the subsequent time instant. The estimated value for the subsequent time instant may be determined...

20050265250 - Methods of wireless communication: In a method of wireless communication, signaling information in a received signal may be detected using a detection parameter. The detection parameter may be determined based on at least one of a probability of false alarm and a target probability of false alarm. Another method may detect signaling information using...

20050265253 - System and method for automatically determining a recommended committed information rate: A system and method are disclosed for using tolerances obtained from a user together with historical information about a communication network to analyze the network's performance and to calculate and recommend a specific change to the committed information rate (CIR) over a given permanent virtual circuit (PVC). The historical information,...

20050265258 - Efficient and robust routing independent of traffic pattern variability: A scheme for a carrier to route one or more packets of traffic to their destination after ensuring that they pass through a pre-determined intermediate node also in the carrier's domain permits the carrier to handle all permissible traffic patterns without knowledge of the traffic matrix, subject to edge-link capacity...

20050265256 - Mobile temporary incident area network for local communications interoperability: An ad hoc emergency interoperability communication network is established by providing universal temporary incident area network modules that communicate with each other on an open network, with the network being established when vehicles containing the temporary incident area network modules are within range of each other. The temporary incident area...

20050265257 - Networking apparatus and method: A method and apparatus for configuring network apparatus is disclosed. Preferably, the method and apparatus eliminate the need for a user to manually set the operation mode of various apparatus. In one embodiment, the network apparatus may be connected to a network and is capable of selecting a network connecting...

20050265259 - Arrangement for providing network prefix information from attached mobile routers to a clusterhead in a tree-based ad hoc mobile network: Mobile routers establish a tree-based network topology in an ad hoc mobile network, the tree-based network topology having a single clusterhead and attached mobile routers. Each attached mobile router has a default egress interface configured for sending messages toward the clusterhead, and ingress interfaces configured for receiving messages from attached...

20050265261 - Neighbor discovery in cable networks: A network device has a communications link to allow the device to communicate with customer devices and a processor. The processor is to receive neighbor discovery messages from requesting customer devices, examine the neighbor discovery messages to determine if the neighbor discovery message should be forwarded to other of the...

20050265260 - Optimizing flooding of information in link-state routing protocol: A router executes a flooding algorithm. The router maintains a list of neighbors within an area data structure. When a new neighbor arises on an interface belonging to an area served by the router, the router updates the neighbor data structure describing that adjacency by linking it to a corresponding...

20050265262 - Data transmission device, data transmission system, and method: A data transmission device (1) includes a controller (2), a reception section (5), a transmission section (6), and an MPU (3). The reception section (5) receives an electric signal sent from a preceding device, and outputs its data to the controller (2). The transmission section (6) converts a result of...

20050265263 - Method of providing resources with restricted access: The present invention relates to a method of providing within an IP network (1) resources (51 to 58) with restricted access and an access server (21 to 27) to execute this method. A user logs on an access server (23) via the IP network (1). The access server (23) stores...

20050265265 - Hand-held terminal and server for multimedia communication: A hand-held terminal such as the hand-held information terminal (PDA) (1-1) and hand-held telephone set (1-2) used in the IMT-2000 mobile system or the like and the multimedia home server system (1-3) are incorporated, the functions of the multiple function telephone terminal (1-31), printer (1-32), video communication apparatus (1-33), personal...

20050265264 - Meeting effectiveness indicator and method: A meeting effectiveness indicator provides information to participants of a meeting. The information includes messages that the meeting has gone off topic, and resources are being wasted. Participants within a room or local vicinity of the indicator used wired or wireless transmitters to send indications that the meeting is going...

20050265266 - Optical disc drive that downloads operational firmware from an external host: An optical disc drive includes a microprocessor, a control IC, an RF IC, and an interface unit. The microprocessor is electrically coupled to the control IC. The control IC is electrically coupled to the RF IC, a volatile RAM, an optional non-volatile ROM, and to a bus interface for communications...

20050265267 - Processing of medical signals: The present invention is directed to a system and method in which real-time ubiquitous imaging is feasible in local areas, such as inside a clinic, hospital room or doctor office. This is achieved by designing a wireless network having a central processing server with, for example, distributed broadband acquisition and...

20050265270 - Radio communication system using timeout control with flexible timeout interval setting: In a radio communication system in which packet communications are carried out by setting up one or more connections between the radio base station and radio terminals, a radio base station or a radio terminal carries out the timeout control in which any packet that cannot be received completely through...

20050265268 - Return link adaptation algorithm: An apparatus, system, and method of improving the ES/N0 ratio performance of a wireless device. The apparatus, system, and method include measuring an ES/N0 ratio in a communicated return link burst, and, upon failure of the ES/N0 ratio to meet a predetermined threshold, probing for an available switch to a...

20050265269 - Signal transmission apparatus: A signal transmission apparatus, to which at least one field device is connected and which transmits a signal obtained from the field device to a host computer, has at least one input terminal to which a signal transmitted from the field device is inputted, a signal processing unit which generates...

20050265271 - System and method for constructing a distributive wireless controller: This invention provides a system and method for constructing, establishing and deploying a distributive wireless command and control system utilizing the internet to facilitate that command and control. Each and every aspect of this system is designed to provide alternative means of maintaining the complete command and control communication link...

20050265272 - System and method for tracking individuals: A system and method of tracking individuals divided into flocks by means of radio communication and positioning systems is disclosed. A flock leader is provided with a first electronic device (1) comprising a first transceiver (2) operating in a public radio communication network, e.g. GSM or GPRS, a position tracker...

20050265273 - Integrated or autonomous system and method of satellite-terrestrial frequency reuse using signal attenuation and/or blockage, dynamic assignment of frequencies and/or hysteresis: A cellular communications system comprising a space based system comprising a first set of cells, and a ground based system comprising a second set of cells. The space and ground systems can optionally function substantially autonomously, with each using spectrum from at least one predetermined frequency band....

20050265274 - Apparatus and method for improving signal-to-noise ratio in a multi-carrier cdma communication system: For use in a multi-carrier CDMA receiver, a noise reduction circuit for improving a signal-to-noise ratio of a multi-carrier signal corresponding to a predetermined sequence of chips. Each chip has a value of Logic 0 or Logic 1. The noise reduction circuit comprises a Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) circuit for...

20050265279 - Apparatus and messages for interworking between unlicensed access network and gprs network for data services: Methods for performing various operations via unlicensed mobile access (UMA) radio link control (URLC) messages in an unlicensed mobile access network (UMAN). The UMAN comprises a first radio access network that may be employed for accessing data services provided by a core network comprising a second radio access network. URLC...

20050265276 - Communication system and communication control equipment: Mobile IPv6 assigns MN (Mobile Node) with a fixed home address in order to guarantee an arrival to MN 7. A SIP process of HA (Home Agent) 2 is provided with a unit for notifying Binding information of MN to a presence server 1. Alternatively, the presence server 1 is...

20050265275 - Continuous beamforming for a mimo-ofdm system: A transmitting entity performs spatial processing on data symbols for each subband with an eigenmode matrix, a steering matrix, or an identity matrix to obtain spatially processed symbols for the subband. The data symbols may be sent on orthogonal spatial channels with the eigenmode matrix, on different spatial channels with...

20050265281 - Method and apparatus for determining power allocation in a mimo communication system: In a MIMO communication system (100) with limited power for each antenna, a method, apparatus and a processor (420) provide for determining bin energy level allocation to each OFDM frequency bin at each transmit antenna. An estimate of a solution vector including elements of the allocation bin energy level to...

20050265278 - Multimedia communication using co-located care of address for bearer traffic: In a wireless communications system in which a mobile node seeks a communication session with a correspondent node by first signaling for initialization of the communication session through a first data path via an intermediate node. Thereafter, contents of the communication is established through a second data path in which...

20050265280 - Ofdm symbol transmission method and apparatus for providing sector diversity in a mobile communication system, and a system using the same: A method and apparatus for transmitting an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol from a base station to a mobile station in a wireless mobile communication system with a multicell/multisector structure formed by a plurality of base stations. The base station receives a plurality of complex symbols to be transmitted...

20050265277 - System and method for sending ip packets to a mobile station transitioning from dormant state to active state: A method for sending IP packets from a base station to a mobile station during transition of the mobile station from a dormant state to an active state is provided. The method includes receiving a lagging feature request from the mobile station. A physical layer of a traffic channel is...

20050265282 - Method for adaptive channel signaling: This method (110) adaptively sends control messages and a predetermined number of fast repeats of the control messages on the traffic channel of a mobile communication system. For a control message which has already been lost (118), the system sends the control message again with a first number of fast...

20050265284 - Apparatus, and associated method, for facilitating communication handoff in multiple-network radio communication system: Apparatus, and an associated method, for facilitating inter-working between a wireless local area network and a cellular system network. A manner is provided by which to compress, or not compress, packet header parts of packet data communicated between a mobile station and a correspondent node when handoff is performed between...

20050265286 - Communication system for connecting a communication apparatus to a specific connecting apparatus: A wireless communication device can be wirelessly connected uniquely to a specific single wireless communication access point among a plurality of these access points in a roaming environment. Wireless LAN terminals input a connection ID for identifying a specific access point among access points and transmit the entered connection ID...

20050265285 - Method and medium for handing over mobile nodes between service areas of wireless lan and wired lan: A handover method and medium of a mobile node that moves between service areas of wireless LAN and wired LAN. The mobile node carries out semi-soft handover when moving from the service area of the wireless LAN to that of the wired LAN. The mobile node carries out soft handover...

20050265283 - Ping-pong avoidance load balancing techniques and structures for wireless communication: Techniques and structures for performing load balancing in a wireless network in a manner that prevents the occurrence of ping pong are disclosed....

20050265287 - Seamless handoff method in wireless local area network: A handoff method is provided in a communication network including a plurality of fixed nodes attached to a router connected to at least one external network, and at least one mobile node associated with a current fixed node. The method detects movement of a mobile node; prepares a handoff of...

20050265288 - Apparatus and method capable of automatic allocation of operating channels in a wireless network: Briefly, in accordance with one embodiment of the invention, an apparatus, comprising at least one access point (AP) in a wireless network; and the access point (AP) capable of channel allocation based on predetermined criteria. The wireless network may be a wireless local area network (WLAN) and the channel allocation...

20050265289 - Modified power control for reduction of system power consumption: Systems and techniques are disclosed relating to gating transmissions in a wireless networks. Transmissions are gated based on a duty cycle. The duty cycle in turn is determined by the requirement to maintain an original application data rate rinitial given increased transmit power....

20050265293 - Apparatus and method for transmitting and receiving a cell identification code in a mobile communication system: An apparatus and method for generating an octal code for identifying cells in a mobile communication system. In the octal code generating apparatus, a binary code generator generates a binary code with a predetermined minimum Hamming distance. A column permutator permutes the order of columns of the binary code in...

20050265291 - Equal ber power control for uplink mc-cdma with mmse successive interference cancellation: For a given decision order, MMSE successive interference cancellation (MMSE-SIC) can simultaneously maximize SIRs of all users. To further increase its efficiency, a power control (PC) algorithm, under equal BER criterion, is disclosed for uplink MC-CDMA. In frequency-selective Rayleigh fading channels, the MMSE-SIC integrated with the equal BER PC suppresses...

20050265290 - Feedback method for channel state information of a wireless link: The user terminals of a wireless communication system transmit forward channel state information (CSI) to a base station having two or more antennas. The user terminals concurrently transmit pilot signals to the base station in the form of predetermined time sequences of values. The pilot transmissions of respective user terminals...

20050265292 - Transmission signal generating circuit and radio base station communication apparatus using the same: In a transmission signal generating circuit, spreading processing circuits spread transmission data to output spread transmission signals. Power class selecting circuits categorize the spread transmission signals into power classes. First adding circuits add/combine the spread transmission signals. Multipliers adjust transmission powers of the spread transmission signals for the respective power...

20050265294 - Wcdma mobile communication system: A WCDMA mobile communication system that makes it possible for a mobile device to use the minimum radio resources more directly (that is, at the level of an earlier stage) by controlling the states of the uplink and downlink separately, wherein the mobile station includes monitoring unit for monitoring the...

20050265295 - Server apparatus, client apparatus, and communication control method: An access point determines a wireless communication channel used for stations to transmit and receive data directly to and from each other and informs each of the stations of an instruction to switch to the channel. Thereafter, the access point waits for each of the stations to give notice of...

20050265296 - Method, a system and a terminal for realizing presenting information interaction of the wireless lan users: A method for implementing presence information interaction of WLAN (Wireless Local Area Network) subscriber and the system and terminal thereof, wherein, the method comprises setting one or more than one presence information monitoring unit, detecting the presence information by the presence information monitoring unit, and transmitting this presence information to...

20050265297 - Wireless communication apparatus: A wireless communication apparatus includes a transmitting device configured to transmit burst data of a plurality of transmission data, a receiving device configured to receive an acknowledgement status of the burst data transmitted by the transmitting device, a retransmitting device configured to control the transmitting device to retransmit any of...

20050265298 - Wireless communication system and wireless terminal: A wireless communication system includes first and second wireless terminals capable of performing transmission by at least one of a first transmission scheme and a second transmission scheme. The first wireless terminal performs transmission of a first frame to the second wireless terminal by using the second transmission scheme. The...

20050265299 - System and method for dimensioning a cdma network: The present invention a network based on code division multiple access techniques or CDMA for input parameters representing coverage requirements and/or capacity requirements and/or quality requirements able to provide at least per cell (ηMAX) given a plurality of services provided, comprising the steps of: determining a load factor per cell...

20050265300 - System and method for maximizing throughput in the forward packet data channel of a 1xevdv wireless network: A base station for use in a wireless network that communicates with wireless mobile stations. The base station comprises: 1) a transceiver for transmitting forward channel data to a first mobile station via a beam-forming antenna array; and 2) a beam-forming circuit for maximizing data throughput to the first mobile...

20050265304 - Common subscriber managing apparatus and method based on functional modeling of a common subscriber server for use in an all-ip network: A common subscriber managing apparatus and method for use in an all Internet Protocol network integrating a circuit network for voice and a packet network for data. The apparatus comprises a portable user terminating unit satisfying media standards supported in the network, a wireless interfacing unit controlling wireless resources of...

20050265303 - Method for combining multiple frames of data into a single medium access: A method of combining multiple frames of data into a single access to a shared communications medium improves network efficiency transmitting in a fashion compatible with legacy network equipment. An increase in the efficiency of use of a shared communications medium is realized by amortizing the overhead of fixed elements...

20050265301 - Method of transmitting scheduling information on an enhanced uplink dedicated channel in a mobile communication system: An apparatus and method of transmitting scheduling information from a UE to a Node B to request Node B controlled scheduling in an asynchronous CDMA communication system supporting an E-DCH packet data service is provided. The UE generates a MAC-e PDU including only scheduling information representing a buffer status and...

20050265305 - Radio network, relay node, core node, relay transmission method used in the same and program thereof: A radio network can select a route of minimum path loss among entire relay routes and can set the relay route so as to satisfactorily resist interference. The radio network has a core node connected to a wired network, relay nodes each relaying at least one of a down-link data...

20050265302 - Wireless communication apparatus and wireless communication method: A wireless communication apparatus includes a main queue to store MAC frames, a plurality of subqueues related to the main queue and used to control retransmission of the MAC frame, each of the subqueues having different priority for transmission of the MAC frame, respectively, an extracting device configured to extract...

20050265306 - Offset beacon for distributed management and control of wireless networks: Using this methodology, a wireless network can be self-forming or “ad-hoc” in nature. That is, the formation of the network does not depend upon the presence of a pre-determined central coordinator. Second, it can accommodate relatively rapid changes in network configuration, including changes in the number and location of the...

20050265307 - Apparatus and method using vector table indirection to maintain forwarding tables in a router: A router for interconnecting external devices comprising: 1) a switch fabric; and 2) R routing nodes coupled to the switch fabric. Each of the R routing nodes exchanges data packets with the external devices via network interface ports and with other routing nodes via the switch fabric. A first routing...

20050265309 - Local area network services in a cable modem network: A network device has a network interface to allow the device to send and receive traffic across a network. The device also has a cable connection to allow the device to exchange data with at least one other device across a cable network. The device has a processor to receive...

20050265308 - Selection techniques for logical grouping of vpn tunnels: At a service provider edge router in a service provider network, a logical grouping of one or more virtual private network tunnels through the service provider network is associated with a given value of a classification criterion. The receipt of a packet leads to a determination of a value of...

20050265318 - Apparatus, system, and method for rejecting a session establishment request: Rejecting a session request initiated via a session establishment protocol involves receiving, at a first network terminal, a session initiation request sent from a second network terminal via the session establishment protocol. A rejection message of the session establishment protocol is formed based on a presence state of the first...

20050265316 - Audio distribution: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for audio distribution. In one aspect, a system includes a client, the client uploading a set of audio files to a server, and the server capable of maintaining multiple sets of audio files and generating multiple unique streams of the audio files to...

20050265313 - Communication system: A communication system that includes a group of user equipment in communication over a shared floor. The system also includes a server for managing the shared floor, wherein at least one of the group of user equipment is provided with information from the server identifying the group when the server...

20050265320 - Communications system and communications method: When voice communications are to be established using the telephone having the telephone number displayed on the application during the data communications, a temporary line disconnection unit disconnects a line being used for the data communications. The application is not notified of this, and the line is connected between the...

20050265310 - Email waiting notification on request: The present invention relates to EWI (email waiting indication) queries of a mail server (MS) in a packet-switched network (IPNET) via a PSTN terminal device (TEL). The subscriber to the EWI service requests EWI information by entering a service access code (SAC(E.164)) at the PSTN terminal device. The subscriber's input...

20050265322 - Enabling quality voice communications from web page call control: A system and method of bypassing the regulated portion of the Public Switching Telephone Network (PSTN) to establish carrier-grade voice transmissions and/or IP data communications between an Internet Calling Person having a first telephone and a first PC coupled to a first Local Service Access Provider (LSAP) and an Internet...

20050265317 - Managing the flow of data traffic: Flow of data traffic between at least one server and a plurality of clients is managed. Client-side connections are provided and server-side connections are provided. An isolated processing environment is created responsive to instructions specific to the environment. Isolated environment specific instructions are received, defining a traffic management rule. A...

20050265319 - Method and apparatus for destination domain-based bounce profiles: A method and apparatus for managing the delivery of electronic messages using bounce profiles is provided. A bounce profile is a set of data that may be used by a mail server in redelivering an electronic message that was not successfully delivered (i.e., bounced) to a recipient of an electronic...

20050265314 - Method for establishing a voice communications link through the internet community: A method, which establishes a voice communications link through the internet community, includes the step of configuring a gateway to use a mapping table to translate input identification data of a called party to a corresponding internet protocol address of another gateway associated with the called party. The method is...

20050265311 - Method for establishing packet-switched connection, and cellular network utilizing the method, and cellular terminal: The invention relates to method applicable in a packet-switched cellular network for voice connections, by which method a new dedicated channel can be established quickly using the existing dedicated channel of the voice connection. The establishment of the new dedicated channel utilizes the previous dedicated channel the existence of which...

20050265321 - System and method for design, tracking, measurement, prediction and optimization of data communication networks: A system and method for design, tracking, measurement, prediction and optimization of data communications networks includes a site specific model of the physical environment, and performs a wide variety of different calculations for predicting network performance using a combination of prediction modes and measurement data based on the components used...

20050265315 - System, method, and computer program product for optimization and acceleration of data transport and processing: A system, method, and computer program product for optimization and acceleration of data transport and processing in a communication system or computer network. The system comprises one or more client devices each running a client application module, one or more communication server modules, a launcher module, and a controller module...

20050265312 - Voip service threshold determination by home wireless router: A home wireless router establishes a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) that supports wireless communications within a WLAN service area. The home wireless router establishes broadband communications via a broadband connection with a VoIP service accumulator. The home wireless router services a plurality of wireless terminals within the WLAN service...

20050265323 - Home wireless router voip bandwidth management: A home wireless router establishes a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) that supports wireless communications within a WLAN service area. The home wireless router further establishes broadband communications via a broadband connection with a VoIP service accumulator. The home wireless router services a plurality of wireless terminals within the WLAN...

20050265325 - Voice conference with scalability and low bandwidth over a network: A system and method to allow voice conference to pass through Internet/Intranet, which include network address translator (NAT). The system also includes an Internet Phone device, a regular PSTN phone, a VoIP gateway and a conference server. The server sends command and data either using transmission control protocol (TCP) or...

20050265324 - Wireless transmission data access device with integrated charging function: The present invention is related to a wireless transmission data access device with integrated charging function, which integrates a charger in wireless transmission devices with network wireless device function such as wireless transceivers, wireless routers, or wireless gateways. The device can charge the mobile wireless network devices and transmit voice...

20050265331 - Apparatus method and medium for tracing the origin of network transmissions using n-gram distribution of data: A method, apparatus, and medium are provided for tracing the origin of network transmissions. Connection records are maintained at computer system for storing source and destination addresses. The connection records also maintain a statistical distribution of data corresponding to the data payload being transmitted. The statistical distribution can be compared...

20050265329 - Application of an ethernet/mpls half bridge to provide ethernet multiplexing functions (emf) in sonet network elements (nes): A system and method for providing an application of an Ethernet/MPLS half bridge to provide Ethernet multiplexing functions (EMF) in SONET network elements (NEs). In one embodiment, a virtual private network includes a core network. The core network includes a SONET over shared label switching network. A plurality of Virtual...

20050265332 - Data frame construction method and data processing method according to data frame in synchronous ethernet: Disclosed is a method for constructing a frame of data for transmission by each Ethernet device in a synchronous Ethernet, which comprising the steps of receiving the data for transmission and confirming whether or not the data for transmission are synchronous data, when the received data are synchronous data, marking...

20050265336 - Data processing apparatus and data transfer control method: An apparatus includes a unit which forms N (N≧2K) packets corresponding to N data blocks, an end flag and an identifier which identifies a data transfer process being attached to each of the last K (K≧2) packets among the N packets, K (K≧2) memory control units which control K (K≧2)...

20050265328 - Data structure identifying for multiple addresses the reverse path forwarding information for a common intermediate node and its use: Disclosed are, inter alia, methods, apparatus, data structures, computer-readable media, mechanisms, and means for maintaining and using a data structure identifying for multiple addresses the reverse path forwarding information for a common intermediate node. A data structure includes an address lookup data structure for identifying leaf nodes of multiple leaf...

20050265338 - Downstream remote physical interface for modular cable modem termination system: A modular Cable Modem Termination System (CMTS) includes a packet shelf operating a Data Over Cable Service Interface Specifications (DOCSIS) Media Access Control (MAC) framer. One or more downstream Physical Interface (PHY) shelves receive DOCSIS data from the packet shelf over a packet switched network and modulate the DOCSIS data...

20050265337 - Filtering apparatus, digital broadcast receiving apparatus and filtering method: According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a filtering apparatus comprising: one or more first filters each assigned a first number and detecting a packet having a previously specified identifier; one or more registers disposed in correspondence with the first filters and storing a predetermined number...

20050265335 - Method and system for prioritizing ip traffic in a wireless network based on a type-of-service identifier: A method for prioritizing IP traffic in a wireless network based on a type-of-service (TOS) identifier is provided. The method includes receiving an IP datagram. The IP datagram comprises an original TOS identifier. An IP message is formed by adding an IP header to the IP datagram. The original TOS...

20050265326 - Method and system for routing emergency data communications: Methods and systems are provided to locate, route, and/or otherwise process an emergency communications signal from a VoIP communication device equipped with a location positioning system and an emergency communications computer software product. The software identifies an emergency Internet Protocol-based communications address, activates the location positioning system, and communicates location...

20050265333 - Method for enabling efficient multicast transmission in a packet-based network: A communication receiver 52 is disclosed, the receiver operable to receive packets 150, each packet comprising at least a header field 152, a plurality of overhead fields 154, and a plurality of data fields 156, with the overhead fields 154 received contiguous in time to each other and the data...

20050265341 - Methods and systems for communicating ss7 messages over packet-based network using transport adapter layer interface: A transport adapter layer interface (TALI) includes messages, processes, and packet structures for sending and receiving SS7 information over a stream-oriented connection, such as a TCP/IP connection. For example, the TALI interface includes test messages for testing the status of a connection and allow and prohibit messages for enabling and...

20050265340 - Network address-port translation apparatus and method: A network address-port translation (NAPT) method includes: selecting a set of server IP and port from the server port table according to an external-to-internal packet; performing NAPT of the external-to-internal packet according to the selected set of server IP and server port; selecting a storage element from the translation table...

20050265330 - Network relay system and control method thereof: The network relay device of the invention carries out data transmission to and from an opposite device to relay data in a network. The network relay device includes: multiple ports connecting with corresponding multiple ports of the opposite device via multiple links; and a link aggregation control module that aggregates...

20050265327 - Secure federation of data communications networks: Techniques for secure federation of data communications networks are provided. The techniques employ an edge proxy server to route messages depending on a federation mode. In Direct federation mode, an edge proxy server of a network is configured to exchange messages with a specified set of entities, such as other...

20050265339 - Server, contents processor, contents processing system, contents processing method, program for executing contents processing and recording medium for recording the program: A server (3) recognizes a contents transmission request from a terminal (4) and judges whether family tag of the terminal (4) is identical with that of the server (3). Only when the family tag is identical, according to license conditions for executing contents, the contents encoded by the family tag...

20050265342 - System and method for transforming configuration commands: A system and method for generating network device-specific configuration commands from device-neutral configuration commands is described. To generate a device-specific configuration command from a device-neutral configuration command, the described device, in one embodiment, determines a target network device's characteristics. Using that characteristic data, a lookup key is generated for the...

20050265334 - Time stamp correction apparatus and time stamp correction system: There is provided a time stamp correction apparatus for being used in an apparatus which receives a packet including real time data and a time stamp based on network time from a network and reproduces the real time data on the basis of the time stamp, the time stamp correction...

20050265347 - Message transfer service: A message transfer service is provided. A transfer system is configured to provide a message transfer service in a mobile communication system and includes an origination terminal configured to create a message and send the message to a destination terminal. The transfer system also includes a server communicatively coupled to...

20050265345 - Method and apparatus for content delivery to a mobile device: Methods and apparatus for content delivery to a mobile device. A method is provided for receiving content in a wireless data network. The method includes initiating a content download over a first connection that supports a first data rate, wherein the content has a selected quality level, and establishing a...

20050265343 - Packet filtering apparatus, packet filtering method, and computer program product: A packet filtering apparatus includes a first network interface which receives a first packet from a communication device located in a first network, and a sender information acquiring unit which acquires sender information including at least one of security information about the communication device and authentication information about a user...

20050265346 - Router and routing protocol redundancy: A router and routing protocol redundancy are disclosed to reduce service outage or degradation for a network device and thus to increase service availability on a network due to software and hardware failures of the network device. A network device such as router includes a redundancy platform having an active...

20050265344 - Slave node and local interconnect network (lin network) having same: A slave node for use with a Local Interconnect Network (LIN network) receives incoming messages from the LIN network in a manner that reduces operating current, power consumption and/or operating temperature. The slave node generally includes an input circuit, an electronic processing device, associated components such as an Integrated Glass...

20050265348 - Active/standby switching system: In a normal state before active/standby switching between an active system and a standby system, in an AAL2 cell assembling/disassembling processor 11 as the standby system, an ATM cell transmission/reception control portion 6 sends ATM cells to an AAL2 cell disassembling portion 8 and an AAL2 cell assembling portion 9....

20050265350 - Concurrent packet data session set-up for push-to-talk over cellular: This concurrent packet data session set-up for Push-to-talk over Cellular (PoC) services decreases the connection set-up time for a PoC call by using processes that are circuit-switched-based to locate and page a called communication device, and to initiate traffic and packet data session set-ups for the called communication device. A...

20050265349 - Method for real-time transport protocol (rtp) packet authentication: A method for Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP) packet authentication on a packet data network. In particular, the invention relates to a method for preventing toll fraud, privacy compromise, voice quality degradation, or denial of service (DoS) on Voice over IP networks. The Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP) is susceptible to several...

20050265351 - Network administration: A method of managing access by a transient computing entity to a computing network via a virtual private network (‘VPN’) gateway, the method comprising the steps of: authenticating, at the VPN gateway, the identity of the transient entity and establishing a VPN connection between the gateway and the transient entity;...

20050265354 - Method and apparatus for enabling link local address system to communicate with outer system: A method and an apparatus are provided which enable a local system using a link local address to communicate with an external system. The local system can communicate with the external system by using a MAC address of a router found through an ARP packet. The local system transfers an...

20050265352 - Recovery from mss change: A method for performing Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA), the method including creating Direct Data Placement (DDP) segments of data using a Maximum Segment Size (MSS), called the original MSS, using the DDP segments as a payload for TCP (Transport Control Protocol) segments, TCP transmitting data including the TCP segments,...

20050265353 - Sub-segment based transport layer protocol for wireless medium: The invention enables the use of TCP protocol for reliable transport of data over a wireless network, resolving the problems associated with frequent packet loss. Additional benefits include delivery of significant performance improvement, bandwidth saving and backward compatibility compared to the wire-line TCP protocol, and contribution to power savings in...

20050265355 - Application of an ethernet/mpls \"half bridge\" to provide emulated ethernet lan functions in sonet networks: A system and method for providing emulated Ethernet LAN functions in a SONET network are provided. In one embodiment, a virtual private network includes a core network. The core network includes a shared label switching over SONET network. A plurality of Virtual Local Access Networks (VLANs) are each coupled to...

20050265356 - Method and apparatus for keeping track of virtual lan topology in network of nodes: An arbitrary node that belongs to a virtual LAN sends a request packet including a count value indicating the number of communication hops across nodes to each of its adjacent nodes that belong to the virtual LAN and are adjacent. Upon receiving the request packet, each of the adjacent nodes...

20050265357 - Memory caching: There are disclosed apparatus and methods for achieving maximum data transfer. Memories and interfaces between the memories are provided. An actively determined number of data units having an actively determined unit size are transferred between the memories to provide the maximum data transfer....

20050265358 - Intelligent stacked switching system: A plurality of data switches such as Ethernet switches 1, 2, 3, 5 are connected to each other using their ports for receiving and transmitting packets. A given one of the switches 5 operates as a master switch, which transmits instructions to the other switches 1, 2, 3 as command...

20050265360 - Ip addressing to support ipv4 and ipv6: A broadcast dedicated connection identifier is used for broadcasting certain types of Internet Protocol (IP) control messages to allow proper IP address establishment for IPv4 and IPv6....

20050265359 - Optimizing switch port assignments: An embodiment of a method of designing an interconnect fabric for a set of nodes begins with a step of identifying the set of nodes, a switch, and a set of data flows. The switch comprises a set of ports. The data flows comprise transmissions between the nodes. The method...

20050265364 - Asymmetric packet switch and a method of use: The present invention relates to a packet switch and a packet switching method. An example embodiment of the present invention comprises at least three network ports, at least one instrument port, a mux-switch, a packet switch fabric, and an address table. The embodiment updates the address table to include the...

20050265361 - Channel reallocation method and device: In a communication system comprising a gateway node between a communication network 1 and a circuit-switched communication network 2 via a plurality of circuit-switched channels ch1, . . . , chn associated with the gateway node and comprising at least two control entities to which respective groups of said channels...

20050265362 - Message relay program and message relay device: A message relay program which increases the multiplicity of message-relay processing functions before the number of concurrently processed processing-request messages becomes too great. Message-relay processing units receive processing-request messages from clients, and transform each processing-request message so as to have a predetermined data structure, and transfer the transformed processing-request messages...

20050265363 - Methods and apparatus for data transfer in a packet-switched data network: Apparatus for and methods of enabling a gateway node of a first packet-switched data network to select a first channel for transferring a data packet to a destination packet data protocol address of a correspondent node provided service in the first network are disclosed. The gateway node is configured to...

20050265365 - Ring bearing network and method of implementing service bearing thereof: The present invention discloses a ring bearing network and a method of implementing service bearing thereof; said ring bearing network comprises a plurality of network nodes and physical links or logical links connected the network nodes, designed to bear service data at different nodes in a manner of label switched...

20050265367 - Universal naming scheme for peer-to-peer resources: Peer devices register with a resource locator service so that the peer devices can be uniquely identified in a networking environment. An addressing scheme addresses a peer resource in the networking environment based on the unique identifier of a peer device that is a master publisher of the resource. Based...

20050265366 - Virtual private network system, communication terminal, and remote access communication method therefor: A method comprising performing an authentication between a communication terminal and a gateway via a first Internet protocol (IP) network according to a configuration method. Configuration data and an IP address belonging to a second IP network is issued from the gateway to the communication terminal. The second IP network...

20050265369 - Network receiving apparatus and network transmitting apparatus: A network picture receiving apparatus is a network picture receiving apparatus that is connected to a network 100 and includes: a network I/F 107 as a receiving unit configured to receive an MPEG picture stream from the network 100; a buffer 109 having a predetermined capacity and configured to perform...

20050265368 - Packet storage system for traffic handling: A method of queuing variable size data packets in a communication system comprises generating from an incoming data packet a record portion of predetermined fixed size and containing information about the packet, the data in the packet being in a data portion; storing data portions in independent memory locations in...

20050265370 - Preemptive retransmission of buffered data in a network: An apparatus for data transmission over a network includes a buffer and a timer mechanism for timing an optimum interval (less than the round-trip error response delay) for retransmission of data. A first accessor accesses data in the buffer for transmission and starts a first timeout clock. Second or further...

20050265371 - Method and system for acknowledging the receipt of a transmitted data stream in a wireless personal area network: A method and system for acknowledging the receipt of a transmitted data stream in a wireless personal area network (WPAN) are disclosed. In one embodiment, a plurality of medium access control (MAC) protocol data units (MPDUs) are transmitted from a transmitting party to a receiving party, and the receiving entity...

20050265372 - Method for communication in coordinator-based wireless network and method for communication between coordinator-based wireless networks connected through backbone network: A method for communication between first and second coordinator-based wireless networks connected through a backbone network is provided. The method includes receiving a frame indicating data transmission containing information needed for remote channel time allocation (CTA) from a repeater connecting the second coordinator-based wireless network with the backbone network, sending...

20050265374 - Broadband telecommunication system and method used therein to reduce the latency of channel switching by a multimedia receiver: A broadband telecommunication system with several content servers (BS1-4) providing channels of multimedia data to subscribers (TV1-4) coupled thereto via a access unit, preferably an Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL) Subscriber Access Multiplexer (ASAM). The content servers are also coupled to the ADSL Subscriber Access Multiplexer (ASAM) via a Zapping...

20050265373 - Method of reducing overhead in data packet communication: A method of data packet communication. The method includes the step of transmitting CQI in response to an inactive state. The step of transmitting CQI may include receiving an incoming signal associated with one or more real time duplex services, such as voice over IP (“VoIP”), gaming and/or two-way video...

20050265375 - System and method for identifying target systems: An identification system for identifying and validating selected components of a communication system and methods for manufacturing and using same. The communication system includes a host system that is configured to couple with one or more target systems. When the host system is coupled with a selected target system, the...

20050265376 - Wideband upstream protocol: Some embodiments of the present invention may include a method to stream packets into a queue for an upstream transmission, send multiple requests for upstream bandwidth to transmit data from the queue and receiving multiple grants to transmit data, and transmit data from the queue to the upstream as grants...

20050265377 - Storage system, computer system and interface module: An interface module comprises a serial signal transceiver to be connected to an external transmission path and an interface processing unit connected to the transceiver. The interface processing unit comprises a serializer/deserializer circuit, an encoder/decoder, a protocol processing unit having at least two kinds of selectable protocol processing functions, and...

20050265378 - Streaming input-output ports in a digital device: A digital device comprising a digital processor, a streaming input-output (I/O) port module, and an interface port module having an independent data and control bus may be independently coupled to the streaming I/O port module. The streaming I/O port module may also be coupled to the digital processor, wherein the...

20050265380 - Home agent system: The home agent system of the present invention performs not only the process of managing the position information of a mobile node, but also the process of transferring a packet to the mobile node using the position information. The home agent system comprises one or more position processing devices processing...

20050265381 - Method of allocating uplink transmission channels in a communication system: A method of allocating channels in a user equipment is disclosed. In particular, a method of allocating a plurality of Dedicated Physical Channels (DPCHs) and Enhanced Dedicated Channels (E-DCHs) in a user equipment of a multicode transmission system. The method includes determining whether a High Speed Downlink Shared Channel (HS-DSCH)...

20050265379 - Multiple channel flow control with first-in-first-out (fifo) read/write random access memory (ram): According to embodiments of the present invention, a data source provides data on multiple channels to a data sink. In embodiments, each channel shares the same random access memory (RAM)-based flow control and has first-in-first-out (FIFO) read/write....

20050265383 - Method and system for communicating video data in a packet-switched network, related network and computer program product therefor: A method for communicating video data on a wireless channel in a packet-switched network includes the steps of operating at a wireless terminal a compression in packets on the video data during a video coding operation, detecting wireless channel conditions and adapting control parameters of the video coding operation to...

20050265382 - Providing control information for a protocol: A method for providing control information for a protocol is discussed. In the method, information indicating at least one timer value is sent to at least one communications device for configuring at least one timer relating to the protocol used in the at least one communications device. A communications device...

20050265384 - Method and apparatus for negotiating link protocols for link aggregations: A method, apparatus, and computer instructions for negotiating a protocol for a conversation in which data packets are transmitted. Responsive to establishment of a link aggregation with an endpoint for the conversation, an algorithm for processing the data packets in the conversation is selected to form a preferred algorithm. A...

20050265386 - System and method for providing packetized video over an optical network: System and method for distributing IP video are described. One embodiment is a method for distributing IP video comprising transmitting an optical data stream in a designated optical band to an optical network terminal (“ONT”), wherein the optical data stream comprises a broadcast IP video signal provided as a packetized...

20050265385 - Virtual usb communications port: A method and system for accessing a remote real communication port (“COM port”) from a server blade in a server blade chassis by creating a virtual COM port in the server blade. A basic input/output system (BIOS) controller monitors an internal COM port in the server blade for communication traffic....

20050265387 - General code design for the relay channel and factor graph decoding: A system and method of relay code design and factor graph decoding using a forward and a backward decoding scheme. The backward decoding scheme exploits the idea of the analytical decode-and-forward coding protocol and hence has good performance when the relay node is located relatively close to the source node....

20050265388 - Aggregating mote-associated log data: Methods and/or systems relating to mote networks having one or more logs....

20050265390 - Apparatus and method for transmitting data in broadband wireless communication system and apparatus and method for receiving data in the same: Disclosed is a method for transmitting and receiving MAC PDUs in a broadband wireless communication system. A transmitter generates a MAC PDU and determines if an empty area exists in the PDU. If the empty area exists, the transmitter determines if there exists a complete SDU for transmission having a...

20050265389 - Error control mechanism for a segment based link layer in a digital network: There is disclosed a method of transmitting data packets from a transmitter to a receiver -each having a stack of communication protocol layers which comprises a data Link Layer (LL), by using a Segmentation And Re-assembly (SAR) mechanism implemented within a SAR layer intermediate between the LL and an upper...

20050265391 - Apparatus, system, and method for concurrent high-performance transport of variable-length messages: An apparatus, system and method of concurrent high-performance transport of variable-length messages are provided. The invention overcomes the problem of transporting a message comprising more bits than the maximum allowable group transmission on a network, by fragmenting the message into a plurality of data packets and transmitting the data packets...

20050265393 - Network time reservation cancellation: Methods and systems that support, for example, canceling or trimming reservations of a shared communication medium are described. In one embodiment, a method that adapts a network time reservation in a communication network may include, for example, one or more of the following: transmitting a preamble field; transmitting a legacy...

20050265392 - Wideband cable downstream protocol: A network device has a communications port to provide communication with a data network and a cable port to provide communication with a cable network across multiple channels. The network device also has a processor to receive data from the data network, format the data into packets for transmission across...

20050265394 - Wideband cable modem with narrowband circuitry: A hybrid cable modem includes wideband circuitry configured to receive data over multiple different downstream channels at the same time. The wideband circuitry demodulates signals on the different downstream channels and then formats the demodulated signals back into packets or frames for sending out over an Internet Protocol (IP) home...

20050265395 - Multimedia service system for portable devices using hardware transcoder: The present invention relates to a system for providing a multimedia service to a portable device. The multimedia service system of the present invention includes a multimedia source, a hardware transcoder, an interface unit, a storage unit and a portable device. The multimedia source provides multimedia contents including video and/or...

20050265396 - System for broadcast play verification and method for same: A method for capturing a broadcast is disclosed. The method for capturing a broadcast includes receiving the monitored broadcast upon selection of a frequency, determining a start time of the monitored broadcast based on received data related to the monitored broadcast, determining an end time of the monitored broadcast, recording,...

20050265397 - Upstream physical interface for modular cable modem termination system: A modular Cable Modem Termination System (CMTS) includes a packet shelf operating a Data Over Cable Service Interface Specifications (DOCSIS) Media Access Control (MAC) framer. One or more downstream Physical Interface (PHY) shelves receive DOCSIS data from the packet shelf over a packet switched network and modulate the DOCSIS data...

20050265398 - Tunneling scheme for transporting information over a cable network: A cable network includes a Data Over Cable Service Interface Specifications (DOCSIS) set-top gateway (DSG) server connected to an Internet Protocol (IP) network and a DSG client operating in a set-top device connected to a cable network. A DSG agent operates in a cable modem termination system (CMTS) coupled between...

20050265399 - Re-formatting variable-rate vocoder frames for inter-system transmissions: Methods and apparatus are presented for supporting the transmission of variable-rate vocoder frames over non-compatible communication channels. Variable-rate vocoder frames are re-formatted as cargo in multi-rate vocoder frames. At the receiver, a determination is made as to whether a received multi-rate vocoder frame carries a variable-rate vocoder frame cargo. If...

20050265400 - Demultiplexer,display apparatus using the same, and display panel thereof: A display device having a display area including a plurality of data lines for applying data signals for displaying an image and a plurality of pixel circuits coupled to the data lines. The display device also includes a plurality of signal lines, a data driver and a demultiplexer. The data...

20050265401 - Digitally controlled filter tuning for wlan communication devices: A digitally controlled filter tuning method and corresponding WLAN (Wireless Local Area Network) communication devices and integrated circuit chips are provided. A WLAN communication signal is filtered by a tunable filter. A cut-off frequency of the tunable filter is tuned by a feedback loop. Tuning the cut-off frequency includes comparing...