Multiplex communications inventions 01/06

20060018250 - Apparatus and method for transmitting and receiving a signal in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing system: A system and method for effectively providing an adaptive modulation scheme and known-cyclic prefix (CP) technology in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) communication system. An OFDM transmission system variably generates a known CP while considering a channel state. Pilot subcarrier position information for generating the known CP is sent...

20060018247 - Method and apparatus for space interleaved communication in a multiple antenna communication system: Methods and systems are disclosed for space interleaved communication of data in a multiple antenna communication system. Data is interleaved over space by interleaving the data over a plurality of transmit branches in the multiple antenna system. The disclosed spatial interleaving increases the performance gains resulting from the spatial transmit...

20060018248 - Ofdm transmission system: With the objective of reducing noise components to thereby avoid degradation of receiving characteristics, by making an antenna arrangement having taken into consideration transfer functions for radio wave propagation in an MIMO system, the present invention provides an OFDM transmission system suitable for use between a transmitting device that performs...

20060018249 - Packet generation systems and methods: Disclosed herein are various embodiments of methods, systems, and apparatus for increasing packet generation in a digital communication system. In one exemplary method embodiment, subcarriers are added to a packet in a wireless local area network transmission to increase the data rate....

20060018251 - Apparatus and method for transmitting/receiving pilot signals in a communication system using an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing scheme: Disclosed is a method for providing a pilot symbol for base station identification in a Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) communication system having one or more transmission antennas, wherein the pilot symbol is comprised of a first sequence having a good cell identification characteristic and a second sequence for reducing a peak-to-average...

20060018252 - Load balancing in a virtual private network: A network system (10). The system comprises a plurality of nodes (PE, CE). Each node in the plurality of nodes is coupled to communicate with at least one other node in the plurality of nodes. Further, each node in the plurality of nodes is coupled to communicate to another node...

20060018254 - Statistical multiplexer having protective features from extraneous messages generated by redundant system elements: A statistical multiplexer is provided for multiplexing at least two bit streams, which each comprise video signals, into a single multiplexed encoded bit stream. The statistical multiplexer includes a plurality of primary encoders 120 each receiving one of the bit streams and generating an encoded bit stream and at least...

20060018253 - System and method for preserving multicast data forwarding during control failures in a router: A multicast non-stop forwarding (NSF) router architecture enhances high availability of a multicast router in a computer network. The router architecture further preserves multicast data forwarding through a data plane during NSF recovery of one or more failures in a control plane of the router. Various multicast components of the...

20060018255 - Defining a static path through a communications network to provide wiretap law compliance: By defining a static path through a communications network for a call placed by an IP-based telephonic device, stream of packets representing the call are rendered available for wiretapping on a communications network that includes a first and a second switching/routing element. The static path is defined using Multiprotocol Label...

20060018256 - Method and apparatus for communications traffic engineering: This invention provides for a technique for selectively off-loading traffic from congested sub-regions of a network to more lightly-loaded regions by making use of Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS). For each network element, an Interior Gateway Protocol (IGP) routing is employed to provide re-routing and to identify congested links caused by...

20060018257 - Adaptive estimation method of multimedia data transmission rate in a data communication system: A method for adaptively estimating a transmission rate of multimedia data by monitoring an RTCP network state is provided. The method comprises receiving a real-time transport protocol (RTCP) receiver report packet from a multimedia data reception unit; detecting packet loss rate from the RTCP receiver report packet; and adaptively estimating...

20060018258 - Method of optimizing portions of a frame: A method of optimizing performance in a wireless communication system are provided, the method transmitting a first parameter using a first channel before the optimization of one or more selected channels, wherein said first parameter comprises a modulation scheme used to optimize performance of one or more channels and a...

20060018259 - Mitigating ack/nack errors in mimo/sic/harq: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate mitigating effects of mismatch errors related to incorrectly decoded acknowledgments indicative of successfully decoded data packets in a wireless network environment. Misinterpretation of a cumulative acknowledgment related to a number of successfully decoded data packets can be identified, and data packet transmission mismatch...

20060018260 - High density port complex protocol: A protocol for intra-shelf exchange of SONET/SDH line and path alarm, and section and line digital cross-connect information is disclosed. The protocol encompasses a method including continual monitoring each SONET/SDH datapath channel for alarms by one or more line cards (e.g., optical line interface, electrical line interface), processing the results...

20060018261 - Optimal communication path routing in a system employing interconnected integrated circuit technology: An electronic system is described in which integrated circuits employing cornered I/O are arranged in a framework including an optional path manager and at least one updateable routing table. Packet routing options are described with solutions being provided to minimize transmission latency and pathway alternatives....

20060018263 - Method and system for monitoring network connectivity: A method for monitoring network connectivity. The method may include the act of transmitting a respective request packet from a network interface card (NIC) of a plurality of NICs in a NIC team to an external network device. The method may also include the act of receiving a respective response...

20060018262 - Method, system and program for automatically detecting distributed port scans in computer networks: A detection and response system including a set of algorithms for detecting within a stream of normal computer traffic a subset of (should focus on network traffic eliciting a response) TCP or UDP packets with one IP Source Address (SA) value, one or a few Destination Address (DA) values, and...

20060018264 - Opened network connection control method, opened network connection control system, connection control unit and recording medium: Disclosed are an opened network connection control method, an opened network connection control system, a connection control unit and a recording medium, which allow only terminal units capable of securing security to be connected to an opened network, thereby improving the security level. The connection control unit acquires connection history...

20060018265 - Method, system, and apparatus for loopback parameter exchange: A loopback test to test a communication link for a layered interface where in a master agent programs the electrical parameters for the slave agent, such as, the offset, timing, and current compensation with a loopback control register. The slave agent's transmitter and receiver are independently controlled and the master...

20060018266 - Roundtrip delay time measurement apparatus and method for variable bit rate multimedia data: An apparatus for measuring a roundtrip delay time associated with communication of multimedia data is provided. In one embodiment, the apparatus comprises a video encoder for encoding multimedia data to produce encoded multimedia data; a transmission rate controller for controlling transmission rate of the encoded multimedia data according to an...

20060018267 - Ip telephone system, enum server and method for performing telephone conference: An IP telephone system includes a plurality of IP telephone apparatuses connected to an IP network, and an ENUM server. The ENUM server stores a NAPTR resource record specifying a number which identifies a telephone conference being conducted among these IP telephone apparatuses and specifying identification data for an IP...

20060018268 - System and method for improved power efficiency in a shared resource network: A system and method for including aggregation control information in an aggregate frame that facilitates enhanced power efficiency is provided. Aggregation control information may include lengths of frames addressed to different stations and/or transmission opportunities to different stations. A receiving station is then able to calculate an offset within the...

20060018269 - Transmission of overhead information for broadcast and multicast services in a wireless communication system: To transmit overhead information for broadcast and multicast services in a system that utilizes multiple radio technologies, time slots used for OFDM in a super-frame are initially ascertained. Overhead information for multiple streams to be sent in the time slots used for OFDM is generated. The overhead information conveys the...

20060018270 - Method and system for n-way synchronization with partial or full content: A system and method for receiving a list of data item during a process synchronizing data on a mobile device. One embodiment, of the method includes replacing one or more data items if a quality factor of a corresponding data item received is higher than the corresponding data item previously...

20060018275 - Apparatus and method for managing session information in a mobile communication service system: An apparatus and method for managing session information in a mobile communication service system are provided. When a predetermined time has lapsed into a state where a point-to-point protocol (PPP) session established between a mobile station (MS) and a packet data serving node (PDSN) in the mobile communication service system...

20060018274 - Communications within population of wireless transceivers based on common designation: A method of forming an ad hoc hierarchical communication network among a plurality of wireless transceiver includes assigning to each of the transceivers one or more common designations. A network organization routine of the transceivers operates to establish hierarchical networks based on the transceivers' common designations, resulting in a logical...

20060018271 - Distributed network address management method and apparatus: Various nodes within a communication network each have information regarding the network address that are locally supported and information regarding which network addresses (or blocks of network addresses) are supported by specified remote non-central nodes. Network address information as provided by mobile nodes when seeking to initiate a communication are...

20060018272 - Instance identification: The invention proposes a method for routing sessions in a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) used in a communication system, comprising the step of using a Globally Routable User Agent Uniform Resource Identifier (GRUU) for identifying the instance, wherein the Globally Routable User Agent Uniform Resource Identifier (GRUU) is related to...

20060018273 - Mobile node, server, and communication system: Since, in Mobile IP, the correspondence of one Mobile Node home address and a care-of address is assumed to be one to one, it is not possible to associate multiple care-of addresses with one home addresses, select an appropriate care-of address from among these and dynamically modify the forwarding destination....

20060018276 - Resource allocation method for downlink transmission in a multicarrier-based cdma communication system: In a resource allocation method in a multicarrier-based mobile communication system that includes base stations and supports multiple access of a plurality of terminals identified using codes, the service area of each base station is divided into at least two virtual cells having different radii about the base station, and...

20060018277 - Scheduling mode switching for uplink transmissions: The invention relates to a method for controlling by a base station the scheduling mode used by a mobile terminal for carrying out uplink data transmissions within a mobile communication network and to a base station performing this method. In order to provide a mechanism for scheduling mode switching on...

20060018279 - Frame structures for a wireless communication system with multiple radio technologies: Frame structures and transmission techniques for a wireless communication system are described. In one frame structure, a super-frame includes multiple outer-frames, and each outer-frame includes multiple frames, and each frame includes multiple time slots. The time slots in each super-frame are allocated for downlink and uplink and for different radio...

20060018278 - Stethoscope communication and remote diagnosis system: An apparatus and method for transmitting a signal having a first bandwidth through a telephone line having a second bandwidth, wherein the first bandwidth includes frequencies outside the second bandwidth is disclosed. The invention also provides a method and apparatus for demodulating the transmitted signal. The system also includes a...

20060018282 - Method and apparatus for scheduling user equipment in a soft handover region for uplink packet transmission: A scheduling method and apparatus are provided for soft handover in a user equipment (UE) in in a mobile communication system supporting an enhanced uplink packet data service. A receiver receives dedicated scheduling assignment information for dedicated scheduling assignment from a serving Node B, and receives at least one scheduling...

20060018281 - Roaming wireless client communication: A method of reducing tunneling in a wireless packet network. The method includes defining a home access point for a client station, determining that the client station is being serviced by an access point different from the home access point, deciding if the client station should change its home access...

20060018280 - System and associated mobile node, foreign agent and method for link-layer assisted mobile ip fast handoff from a fast-access network to a slow-access network: A system for handing off a mobile node includes a mobile node and a target agent. The mobile node can communicate with an anchor agent, and can also be handed off from the anchor agent. The mobile node can establish a physical-layer connection between the mobile node and a target...

20060018283 - Wireless router system and method: A wireless router employing a technique to couple a plurality a host services or host systems and a plurality of wireless networks. A method to route data items between a plurality of mobile devices and a plurality of host systems through a common wireless router. A point-to-point communication connection is...

20060018284 - Method and apparatus for storing mobile station physical measurements and mac performance statistics in a management information base of an access point: A method and wireless communication system for requesting and obtaining transmit power control (TPC) information. The system includes at least one access point (AP) and at least one wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU). When the AP decides to adapt the transmit power level of the WTRU, the AP transmits a TPC...

20060018285 - System and method for device co-location discrimination: A system and method for determining if a first and second device are co-located includes first and second sensors for receiving a sample signal. Each sensor is coupled to the first and second devices. The first and second devices each responsively generate a first and second signal representing the sampled...

20060018287 - Adaptive pilot insertion for a mimo-ofdm system: A transmitting entity transmits a “base” pilot in each protocol data unit (PDU). A receiving entity is able to derive a sufficiently accurate channel response estimate of a MIMO channel with the base pilot under nominal (or most) channel conditions. The transmitting entity selectively transmits an additional pilot if and...

20060018286 - Digital broadcast receiver apparatus: A digital broadcast receiving apparatus, which has a receiving circuit for receiving a transmitted high frequency signal of a plurality of time division multiplexed programs, includes a circuit for selecting a better receiving characteristic condition while a desired program is not received....

20060018288 - Systems and methods for resource allocation to multiple antenna arrays for maintaining a constant bit rate (cbr) channel: A wireless communication system configured for the efficient allocation of resources is provided. The wireless communication system can include a transmit system having a first set of one or more antennas each configured to transmit a data signal over a region to a receive system having a second set of...

20060018290 - Method and apparatus for soliciting connectivity from wireless data networks: According to the embodiments of the techniques of this application, a wireless data device or other data node sends solicitation messages periodically to a wireless gateway, such as a PDSN, when there is no data traffic between the wireless data device and a wireless data network. Each solicitation message resets...

20060018291 - Methods and apparatus for achieving route optimization and location privacy in an ipv6 network: Methods and apparatus for performing proxy registration on behalf of a node with a Home Agent supporting Mobile IP are disclosed. A first registration request is composed on behalf of the node and transmitted to the Home Agent via a first Local Mobility Anchor, wherein the first Local Mobility Anchor...

20060018289 - Requesting and controlling access in a wireless communications network: A method, a computer program product and a device for requesting access to a node (BS) of a wireless communications network (10) are described. In the network (10) identification codes are used to differentiate access requests of different network components (UE). The method comprises the step of determining information about...

20060018293 - Alternate channel for carrying selected message types: In an illustrative embodiment of the present invention, a channel is allocated to carry messages from each of multiple subscriber units to a base station. Selected messages generated by a subscriber unit that would otherwise be transmitted over an assigned reverse link traffic channel are instead encoded and transmitted to...

20060018292 - Method and system of scanning a tdma channel: A method and system for scanning a TDMA channel by a subscriber unit in a wireless communications landscape 100 is disclosed. The subscriber unit locks onto a channel that is preprogrammed in the subscriber unit. A base radio transmits a control message to the subscriber unit. The control message informs...

20060018294 - Internet high speed packet access: A system for connecting a high-speed packet access (HSPA) user equipment to an Internet node. The system includes a HSPA user equipment, a base station node for receiving signals from the HSPA user equipment and an adapter, integrated in the base station node, wherein the adapter enables the HSPA user...

20060018295 - Location tracking method in coordinator-based wireless network: A location tracking method in a coordinator-based wireless network is provided. The location tracking method in a coordinator-based wireless network includes transmitting a first frame including its own identifier and time information to the wireless network by a device associated with the wireless network in order to disclose its location...

20060018296 - Mobile communication system and method thereof: An IP network system includes an IP network divided into a plurality of segments, an MN (mobile node) whose a Care of address is set for each segment where it is located, and a CN (corresponding node) which is a communication partner of the MN. The IP network system further...

20060018297 - Channel tracking with scattered pilots: According to the disclosure, a system adapted to estimate and track a channel for wireless orthogonal frequency division modulation (OFDM) communication is disclosed. The system utilizes scattered pilot symbols being subject to channel conditions and estimates the channel value using the plurality of received pilot symbols and in accordance with...

20060018298 - System for dynamically shifting beacons in distributed wireless network and method thereof: A system for dynamically shifting beacons in a distributed wireless network and a method thereof are disclosed. In a medium access control for a wireless personal area network based on a mobile ad-hoc network, beacons are shifted to other free lower slots in order to reduce the size of a...

20060018299 - Method and apparatus for mobile network: A method and a device to resolve the problem of long communication paths between a mobile node, and a node not supporting mobile IP wherein a plurality of home agents are established in the network and by using the anycast address as the home address, the home agent nearest the...

20060018302 - Local area network with one or more virtual groups of core equipments appropriate for layer 2 switching: A local area network comprises a peripheral equipment effecting layer 2 switching and including physical link aggregation means, and first and second core equipments effecting layer 2 switching and including physical link aggregation means. The peripheral equipment is connected to the first and second core equipments by first and second...

20060018300 - Method and system for multi-domain virtual private network configuration: Information about virtual private networks—VPNs—in each domain of a multi-domain communications system is provided. By comparing a request for a configuration of a VPN with the provided information of other connected domains, a match can be found. VPN configuration can then be performed based on the outcome of the match....

20060018301 - Method of establishing multi-homed connections in networks with address conversion: The invention relates to a method for establishing a multi-homed connection with a number n of paths between two components of a communication network. In this case the components feature at least n communication addresses, and the communication addresses of at least a first component are translated in the connection...

20060018304 - Apparatus and method for scalable call-processing system: For use in a telecommunication node, a scalable call-processing system is provided to process signaling messages in a distributed processing environment. The call-processing system includes: (i) processing nodes operable to process signaling messages, each of the processing nodes configured to monitor a respective loading factor and produce respective real-time loading...

20060018306 - Ip telephone system, ip telephone apparatus and communications method: An IP telephone system includes an IP telephone apparatus, a Web server and an ENUM server. The IP telephone apparatus is connected to an IP network. The Web server registers talk volume information corresponding to a telephone number assigned to the IP telephone apparatus. The ENUM server registers a NAPTR...

20060018305 - Location evaluation for callers that place emergency telephone calls over packet networks: In a communication system, a packet telephone obtains an internet address from an internet service provider and discovers a location of the packet telephone. The packet telephone transfers a message indicating the internet address and the location. A service node receives the message and stores the internet address and the...

20060018308 - Method and system for supporting global ip telephony system: A method for supporting a global IP telephony system in an NAT-based private network is disclosed. The disclosed method includes: establishing a special channel for exchanging information for address translation with a NAT router and identifying the type of a dynamic NAT mode of the NAT router using the special...

20060018307 - System and method for converting packet payload size: An apparatus is provided for enabling communication between telephony devices. The apparatus includes a queue operable to receive incoming media packets from the telephony devices, and a payload segmenter coupled to the queue and operable to divide an incoming payload section of each incoming packet into one or more data...

20060018303 - Wireless mesh network timed commit provisioning: Methods and systems are disclosed for managing a network. The management includes storing configuration parameters in cells within the network, sending a commit command and a commit delay time to the cells, sensing failed reception of the commit command, and aborting the commit command if a failure is sensed....

20060018309 - Home network system and a method for performing continuous data transfer in the home network system: A home network system for supporting continuity of data transfer destined for an MS (Mobile Station) when the MS moves between wireless nodes, comprising a server for storing multimedia data and a network connecting the server to the MS via the wireless nodes. A first wireless node, while transferring predetermined...

20060018310 - Data network call routing: Network architectures, methods, and operations for routing telephone calls are disclosed. A customer premise includes a conventional POTS dedicated communication line to a central office switch and a broadband connection to a data network. The central office switch and the data network are connected by a communication link. An incoming...

20060018311 - Ip telephone system, ip telephone apparatus and communications method: An IP telephone system includes a source IP telephone apparatus, a Web server and an ENUM server. The source IP telephone apparatus is connected to an IP network. The Web server stores predetermined information regarding a user of the source IP telephone apparatus and transmits, to a destination IP telephone...

20060018312 - Crossbar: A crossbar includes input queue groups and a distribution processor. The input queue groups include multi-step input queues of data packets whose data transmission destinations are “address W” and “address Y” or “address X” and “address Z” and are provided respectively at input ports A and B and input ports...

20060018317 - Communication system, router, method of communication, method of routing, and computer program product: A communication system includes a server and a router which are both connected to a first network. The server grants to a response packet destined for an anycast address sent from a communication apparatus connected to a second network, anycast address option information indicating that an anycast address of a...

20060018313 - Gmplsmpls node and ip mpls node: A network is realized having GMPLS and IP/MPLS mixed, in which an IP/MPLS node can be operated as is without replacing the IP/MPLS node with a node having a GMPLS function, even if the GMPLS and IP/MPLS are mixed. To match with the protocol of the IP/MPLS node outside of...

20060018318 - In-band set-up and configuration of transfer-related resources: This invention relates to a method for setting up transfer-related resources, comprising assigning (401) an identifier (12a, 212a) to at least one data unit (12, 212), wherein said identifier associates said at least one data unit with a first entity (10, 210, 510) in a first network node (501), transferring...

20060018315 - Method and apparatus for providing fragmentation at a transport level along a tranmission path: The present invention provides a method and apparatus for providing fragmentation at a transport level along a transmission path. The method comprises receiving a data packet from a first remote device for transmission to a second remote device, wherein the data packet includes a transport-level protocol packet encapsulated in a...

20060018314 - Method of downloading data from pc to phs or vice versa: The present invention is to provide a method of downloading data from a PC to a PHS or vice versa, which comprises the steps of commanding a PC to edit data (e.g., phonebook, picture, or ring data) by a PHS, sending the edited data complying with the data requirements of...

20060018316 - Packet relaying method and device: In a network of a variable length packet system, a bps calculator colors an inputted packet based on a peak bandwidth or a committed bandwidth of a data bit number per unit time for every flow and a packet length of the inputted packet, a pps calculator colors the inputted...

20060018319 - Multicast and broadcast data transmission in a short-range wireless communications network: Disclosed herein are techniques for the distribution of data to multiple devices in wireless networks, such as Bluetooth networks. This data may be unicast, multicast, or broadcast in nature. Designations, such as reserved addresses are used to indicate whether devices are transmitting multicast or broadcast data. These devices may be...

20060018320 - Apparatus and method for establishing network: An apparatus and a method for establishing a network by preset IP information when a host is plugged in a network, are provided. The apparatus and the method for establishing a network comprise one or more first hosts with a MAC address and an IP address as established; a second...

20060018321 - Datagram relaying apparatus with load distributing function: A datagram relaying apparatus includes a plurality of protocol terminating units, and a destination determining processor. The destination determining processor includes a path selecting section which determines a transfer destination route for a stream of packets received from any of the protocol terminating units. The path selecting section determines whether...

20060018322 - Dedicated service class for voice traffic: An optical communication system according to one embodiment of the invention transmits traffic into an ATM network (e.g. a passive optical network) according to a per-class queuing scheme, wherein a separate CBR queue is dedicated to voice traffic....

20060018323 - Systems and methods for dynamically adjusting qos parameters: A method for dynamically adjusting QoS parameters associated with a virtual circuit is disclosed. The virtual circuit includes a first end connected to a first router and a second end connected to a second router. The method includes receiving an offer message at the second router, and sending a request...

20060018324 - Method and apparatus for interfacing applications to lcas for efficient sonet traffic flow control: The present invention provides methods and apparatuses for interfacing high-layer applications to Link Capacity Adjustment Scheme (LCAS) on Synchronous Optical Network/Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SONET/SDH) edge nodes. These applications include high-level control protocols, such as Generalized Multiprotocol Label Switching (GMPLS) and Optical Switching and Routing Protocol (OSRP), and user-initiated cross-connect creation...

20060018325 - Method and system for generating ranges of internet protocol addresses: Exemplary embodiments are directed to generating Internet Protocol (IP) addresses using a mask that is applied to a plurality IP addresses to generate plural groups of IP addresses. A range of IP addresses is generated for each of the groups when the plurality of groups is less than or equal...

20060018326 - Lsp path selection: A telecommunications system in a DiffServ aware Traffic Engineering (DS-TE) environment includes a plurality of source nodes from which LSPs arise. The system includes an MPLS network having DS-TE compliant routers and links with available bandwidth between the routers. The links having equal cost paths. Each router adding an LSP...

20060018327 - Method for the transmission of data telegrams in a switched cyclical communication system: A method for the transmission of data messages in a switched cyclical communication system (38, 39) with a linear or ring arrangement of the users. Real-time critical data messages are transmitted in a first segment (20) of a transmission cycle (31), without the need to first plan the send and...

20060018328 - Method and system for powerline networking: A method and system for powerline networking. The method and system include an adapter and a gateway connected to powerlines. The gateway is operable for configuring the adapter for powerline networking by communicating configuration signals to the adapter over the powerlines. A powerline network is defined by the configuring of...

20060018329 - Network interconnect crosspoint switching architecture and method: A network switching system includes transceiver devices respectively provided for a plurality of input line cards. The switching system also includes transceiver devices respective provided for a plurality of output line cards. The switching system further includes a switch device communicatively coupled to each of the plurality of input line...

20060018330 - Method, system, and program for managing memory requests by devices: Provided are a method, system, and program for managing memory requests for logic blocks or clients of a device. In one embodiment, busses are separated by the type of data to be carried by the busses. In another aspect, data transfers are decoupled from the memory requests which initiate the...

20060018331 - Inter-module communication apparatus: The inter-module communication apparatus comprises: a first module and a second module which operate individually on a processor; a common memory interposed between the first module and the second module for functioning as a communication medium; a plurality of communication paths provided to the common memory for connecting the first...

20060018332 - System and method for increasing data throughout using a block acknowledgement: The techniques described increase data throughput by aggregating block acknowledgements. These embodiments provide a single block acknowledgement for multiple traffic identifiers in data communication with a communication station. One method includes providing a multiple start sequence number corresponding to each traffic identifier of a plurality of traffic identifiers and providing...

20060018334 - Communication/broadcast multiplexer and demultiplexer used in communication/broadcast-integrated system: A communication/broadcast multiplexer and demultiplexer for multiplexing and demultiplexing communication and broadcast signals using a specific transmission standard in an optical network system that integrates broadcast and communication services using a channel selection technique. The multiplexer comprises a broadcast data input unit, a communication data input unit, and a synchronous...

20060018335 - Multicast to unicast traffic conversion in a network: Techniques are described for converting multicast traffic to unicast traffic at an optical network terminal (ONT) on a passive optical network (PON). A traffic conversion technique, in accordance with the invention, involves formatting a multicast frame of a multicast packet stream transmitted to the ONT to include a MAC destination...

20060018333 - Multiple multicast forwarder prevention during nsf recovery of control failures in a router: A technique prevents multiple multicast forwarders from forwarding multicast packets for a route over a link in a computer network during non-stop forwarding (NSF) recovery of one or more failures in a control plane of a multicast router. The multicast router has a functional infrastructure that allows data traffic forwarding...

20060018336 - Efficient signaling over access channel: An apparatus and method for transmitting an indicator of channel quality while minimizing the use of a broadcast channel is described. A metric of forward link geometry of observed transmission signals is determined. An indicator of channel quality value is determined as a function of the observed transmission signals. An...

20060018337 - Apparatus and method for automatically bypassing a load coil in a digital subscriber line circuit: An apparatus and method are provided for bypassing a load coil in a Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) circuit. An interface is provided for making a connection with the DSL circuit and receiving a combined multichannel signal. The combined multichannel signal includes a high frequency or DSL signal and a low...

20060018338 - Local area network of serial intelligent cells: An outlet for coupling a data unit and an analog telephone set to in-wall wiring that simultaneously carries a bi-directional serial digital data signal multiplexed with a telephone signal. The outlet includes: a wiring connector operative for connecting the outlet to the in-wall wiring; a data interface connector coupled to...

20060018339 - Local area network of serial intelligent cells: A device that is part of, and is addressable in, a local area network in a building for coupling a digital data signal to a data unit, the network including at least part of an existing telephone wire pair terminated by an outlet, the wire pair carrying a frequency multiplexed...

20060018340 - Transport stream processing apparatus: In a transport stream processing apparatus which executes a plurality of processings to thereby separate desired data from a transport stream (TS) according to the present invention, a hardware transport stream separating device executes a part of the plurality of processings using a hardware constitution; a software transport stream separating...

20060018341 - Method and apparatus for shared i/o in a load/store fabric: An apparatus and method is provided for allowing I/O devices to be shared and/or partitioned among a plurality of processing complexes within the load/store fabric of each of the processing complexes without requiring modification to the operating system or driver software of the processing complexes. The apparatus and method includes...

20060018342 - Method and apparatus for shared i/o in a load/store fabric: An apparatus and method is provided for allowing I/O devices to be shared and/or partitioned among a plurality of processing complexes within the load/store fabric of each of the processing complexes without requiring modification to the operating system or driver software of the processing complexes. The apparatus and method includes...

20060018343 - Method for transmitting data packets between nodes of a communication network: Data packets are aggregated to form a burst in an aggregation buffer of an ingress node. A header of the burst containing information about the burst length is sent to a destination node, and after an offset time the burst is sent to the destination node. The burst length is...

20060018344 - Approximate bit-loading for data transmission over frequency-selective channels: A high-speed communications system utilizes approximate bit-loading during data transmission in a channel. In one embodiment, a plurality of parallel data preparation circuits in a data transmission circuit receive respective subsets of a data stream, each of the respective subsets of the data stream having a data rate that is...

20060018345 - System and method for distributing dbs content to multiple receivers in the home over a single coax: A satellite transponder switch (STS) maintains a table that maps set-top boxes (STBs) to carrier frequencies. The STS receives a first request from a first STB for a first transponder band and a second request from a second STB for a second transponder band. The STS accesses a first satellite...

20060018346 - Digital service hierarchy level 3 (ds3) application detection: A method and apparatus for detecting the C-bit parity application of DS3 makes use of the relative state of the CP-bits and the P-bits in one or more M-frames alone or in combination with the state of the AIC signal. In one implementation, the invention is a detector circuit that...

20060018347 - Shared signaling channel for a communication system: A shared signaling channel has multiple segments, and parameters for this channel may or may not be sent to users in advance. For example, the number of segments, the size and rate of each segment, and so on may be broadcast to the users via an overhead channel. The transmit...

20060013121 - Method and apparatus for adding auxiliary channels in an existing transmission system: A unique new modulation scheme is employed to add the auxiliary channel. This is realized, in one embodiment of the invention, in a quadrature phase shift keying (QPSK) transmission system, by utilizing a “large” phase variation component to modulate the primary channel and a relatively “small” amplitude variation component to...

20060013120 - Method and apparatus for providing local channels in a global satellite/terrestrial network: In a transmission system that employs terrestrial repeaters to supply signals to mobile receivers, an auxiliary channel is added in addition to a primary channel, at the terrestrial repeaters to transmit data of a local nature. The auxiliary channel can carry local data, which could be different at each terrestrial...

20060013123 - Method and apparatus for processing transmission error in dmb system: Provided are a method and apparatus for detecting and processing transmission errors of various types of data which are transmitted in MPEG-2 transport streams. The transmission error processing method includes: detecting an error for an individual PES (packetized elementary stream) after detecting transmission error information from a received MPEG-2 transport...

20060013122 - Method and apparatus for recovering a communications connection: A method and apparatus for recovering a communications connection by storing a state variable that pertains to the status of a connection. When there is a need to restore the connection, the state variable is retrieved and used to restore the state of a protocol stack....

20060013124 - Module firmware recovery: A network access server (NAS) for use in a communications system utilized by users of telephone, fax, or modem calls, the NAS having more than one processor with a plurality of processors forming a module, each processor for performing various functions by executing code stored in memory device accessible by...

20060013125 - Dynamic forwarding adjacency: A technique treats a protected forwarding adjacency (FA) as a dynamic entity in that it allows a backup tunnel associated with the FA to carry traffic for the FA, when it's primary tunnel has failed, up to a predetermined amount of time. If after the predetermined amount of time has...

20060013126 - Tunnel failure notification apparatus and method: When a failure occurs in the line of a communication network for transmitting packets using a tunnel, the disconnection messages of a plurality of tunnels which pass through the line are unified, and the occurrence of the failure is notified to an adjacent node for each line. Then, the tunnels...

20060013127 - Mpls network system and node: Respective nodes on an MPLS network includes a priority path management section that manages a label, which has been advertised by a neighboring node on a priority path, is designated as a priority transmission label, and is paired with a label advertised by the node itself, a detour path management...

20060013130 - Apparatus, methods and computer program products for transmission of data over an adjustable synchronous radio channel: A data link, e.g., an audio and/or video data link, is established from a data source, such as an audio and/or video encoder, to a data recipient via an adjustable synchronous radio channel, such as an extended Synchronous Connection-Oriented (eSCO) channel between first and second Bluetooth™ devices. A quality of...

20060013129 - Maximal resource utilization in networks: A network device includes a scheduler and a transmitter. The scheduler creates a media access plan (MAP) that has overlapping transmission opportunities and the transmitter transmits the MAP. Another network device includes a carrier sensor and a transmitter. The carrier sensor senses the availability of a network medium for transmission...

20060013128 - Method, system, and program for managing congestion in a network controller: Provided are a method, system, and program for managing congestion in a network controller, which in one embodiment, substantially all packets having an assigned priority value below a selected priority level are culled. In another embodiment, selected flows of packets into a network controller are culled at selected culling rates....

20060013132 - Nonlinear adaptive control of resource-distribution dynamics: Nonlinear adaptive resource management systems and methods are provided. According to one embodiment, a controller identifies and prevents resource starvation in resource-limited systems. To function correctly, system processes require resources that can be exhausted when under high load conditions. If the load conditions continue a complete system failure may occur....

20060013131 - Selecting downloading site of data element in telecommunications system: A method for selecting the downloading site of at least one downloadable data element in a telecommunications system comprising at least one telecommunications network, at least two terminals that have established a telecommunications link with each other through the telecommunications network, and a unit comprising at least one data element,...

20060013133 - Packet-aware time division multiplexing switch with dynamically configurable switching fabric connections: A packet-aware time division multiplexing (TDM) switch includes one or more ingress ports, one or more egress ports, a TDM switching fabric, and a bandwidth manager. Ingress ports are capable of distinguishing packets. The TDM switching fabric has persistent connections which provide connectivity between each ingress port and each egress...

20060013134 - System and method for performing capacity planning for enterprise applications: A system and method for capacity planning for enterprise networks, such as identifying bottlenecks and removing or replacing the bottleneck device are provided. The device utilization for one or more network devices are measured or read from measured data. A relative load is calculated from the device utilization data and...

20060013136 - Distributed flow enforcement: A flow manager may receive packet flow rules from one or more network services and may generate a unified rule set according to the received packet flow rules. A flow manager may additionally split the unified rule set into subsets for enforcement by one or more flow enforcement devices and...

20060013135 - Flow control in a switch: A flow control mechanism is presented that provides XON/XOFF flow control for each virtual channel in an interswitch link. The entire interswitch link remains under standard Fibre Channel BB_Credit flow control. Each virtual channel in the interswitch link can submit data to multiple ports in the downstream switch. The XOFF...

20060013137 - Network interface unit: Briefly, in accordance with one embodiment of the invention, a system includes: a network interface unit (NIU). The network interface unit (NIU) is adapted to monitor bandwidth utilization of the network interface unit and adjust the minimum interval for the transmission of a flow control packet, based, at least in...

20060013138 - Method and apparatus for dynamic bandwidth allocation in an ethernet passive optical network: In a passive optical network that includes a plurality of optical network units (ONUs) coupled to an optical line terminal (OLT), dynamic bandwidth allocation (DBA) methods and algorithms designed to support a short delay as well as best effort services, while maintaining fairness between subscribers. In a preferred embodiment, a...

20060013139 - Traffic management for a passive optical network terminal: Techniques are described for managing traffic flow to an optical network terminal (ONT) on a passive optical network (PON) to prevent an individual ONT from being overrun. Specifically, the techniques involve reducing a transmission rate of a unique traffic flow and selectively denying access to a common traffic flow. By...

20060013141 - Loop frame detecting device and method for detecting loop frame: A loop frame detecting devise includes a frame receiving and transmitting unit and a loop detecting unit. The frame receiving and transmitting unit receives and transmits the Layer 2 frame. The loop detecting unit monitors contents of the frame that is received or to be transmitted by the frame receiving...

20060013140 - Predictive, intelligent routing of calls to users: A network device includes a user interface to allow users to specify at least one contact device during a period of time. The network device also includes a predictor that predicts a probability of contact the user through at least one contact device. A first port allows the device to...

20060013142 - Obtaining path information related to a virtual private lan services (vpls) based network: Path information is obtained in a VPLS-based network by generating special Layer 2 frames (referred to herein as “trace-request frames”), performing source MAC filtering to identify the trace-request frames, and generating a special frame (referred to herein as a “trace-reply frame”) when the source MAC filtering identifies a trace-request frame....

20060013145 - Loopback capability for bi-directional multi-protocol label switching traffic engineered trunks: A system and method for introducing a loopback capability for Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) bi-directional traffic trunks are discussed. MPLS is an emerging technology, which integrates Internet Protocol (IP) routing with label switching techniques. MPLS intends to provide new capabilities in the area of traffic engineering for IP networks. These...

20060013143 - Network looping detecting apparatus: A network looping detecting apparatus has an increased real-time operation capability for network looping detection and also has scalability. The network looping detecting apparatus has a count information acquiring unit for periodically acquiring count information which is counted up when the lifetime of a packet has elapsed, from a network...

20060013144 - Optical switch: An optical switch includes a controller controlling the switch such that a plurality of switching matrixes operate in parallel to switch optical data bursts across the switch....

20060013146 - Distributed base station test bus architecture in a wireless network: A distributed test architecture of transmitting boundary scan Test Access Port (TAP_signals over a serial channel is disclosed. The architecture facilitates the system testing and remote field update of distributed base stations in a wireless network. The distributed test architecture enables system testing as if the distributed units are on...

20060013148 - Method and apparatus for executing a communication session between two terminals: A method and apparatus for determining session parameters for a communication session between a first terminal (A) and a second terminal (B). At least the first terminal has stored at least one default set of session parameters. An identifier (404) corresponding to a proposed default set of session parameters is...

20060013147 - Registration redirect server: Systems and methods for dynamically registering a communication device are disclosed. As one example, a communication network architecture is disclosed that includes multiple feature servers, multiple registration redirect servers (RRSs), and multiple communication devices. The feature servers provide services to the communication devices. The RRSs each service a shared virtual...

20060013150 - Method and apparatus for identifying network device corresponding to internet protocol address, and method and apparatus for allocating internet protocol address: Provided are a method and apparatus for identifying a network device corresponding to an Internet protocol address. The method comprises the steps of detecting network devices over a network using a detection message, extracting media access control addresses from Internet protocol addresses of network devices which respond to the detection...

20060013149 - Suprvisory channel in an optical network system: There is provided an optical network element for use in a node of an optical network including a plurality of nodes which are interconnected so as to be capable of carrying traffic between selected nodes, comprising a local network management system including means for building up a supervisory connection between...

20060013151 - Tstd apparatus and method for a tdd cdma mobile communication system: Disclosed a transmission apparatus in a CDMA mobile communication system. Transmission frames each have a plurality of time slots, and each of the time slots includes two data parts having the same length, a midamble intervening between the data parts, and a guard period for dividing the consecutive time slots....

20060013152 - Method and apparatus for mobile based access point name (apn) selection: A procedure is provided wherein a serving general packet radio service (GPRS) support node (SGSN) receives a request for an access point name (APN) the SGSN making a determination if the requested packet data protocol (PDP) and APN are the same as subscribed information. In the event that the requested...

20060013153 - Method, system and network entity for providing digital broadband transmission: A method, a system, a transmitter and a receiver for identification of a time sliced elementary streams using PSI/SI tables. This identification provides a way to separate time-sliced elementary stream from non-time-sliced elementary streams by defining two descriptors in PSI/SI tables. A time slice identifier descriptor is defined, which can...

20060013154 - Directional flooding method in wireless sensor network: The present invention relates to a directional flooding method in a wireless sensor network. Transfer of a packet between respective sensor nodes and a sink node in a wireless sensor network is made with the directivity. To this end, when the packet is transmitted from the sensor nodes to the...

20060013155 - Method and system for identifying a defective cable modem in an s-cdma environment: Using a statistics-based assumption that a defective user device and a non-defective user device are not likely to transmit upstream data bursts during a given S-CDMA frame, a bad-burst count is incremented for each of a plurality of user devices that transmit an upstream burst during a frame when all...

20060013163 - Apparatus and method for detecting traffic channel signal transmission in a rake receiver: An apparatus and a method for detecting traffic channel signal transmission in a rake receiver may advantageously ensure stable and accurate detection performance in performing continuous/discontinuous transmission detection of traffic channels with a rake receiver in a mobile communication system based upon CDMA 2000 standards by making sufficiently spaced distribution...

20060013161 - Communications device: A mobile station and wireless communication device avoids needless waiting for retransmissions. The mobile station utilizes H-ARQ, is compatible with HSDPA, and comprises a controller operable to release a receive-waiting status for a retransmission when a connection that exceeds a predefined amount of time is detected....

20060013159 - Generic client for communication devices: A Generic Client (GC) operates multiple virtual network interfaces that communicate simultaneously to different networks. Each virtual interface is capable of independent communication over an associated network through the same physical interface. In one implementation, the GC provides simultaneous communication with both infrastructure and ad-hoc networks in compliance...

20060013158 - Method for domain name service (dns) in a wireless ad hoc network: In a wireless ad hoc network comprising a plurality of nodes, a primary node receives a domain name service (DNS) query from a node. The primary node determines whether the query can be resolved based on cached information. If the DNS query can be resolved based on cached information, the...

20060013160 - Peer connectivity in ad-hoc communications systems: A terminal that is capable of communicating on a first system that is an ad-hoc communication system, and a second system that is a mobile communication system is operated by receiving one or more dynamically changing values from a network part of the second system; and using the one or...

20060013162 - Portable digital device and service system having iscsi-based remote storage service function in wireless environment: The present invention relates to a portable digital device and service system having an Internet over Small Computer Systems Interface (iSCSI)-based remote storage service function in a wireless environment. The object of the present invention is to overcome the problem in which a conventional iSCSI network storage system in a...

20060013156 - Receiving apparatus, transmitting apparatus and communication method: Scheduler 304 performs scheduling such that the communication terminal apparatuses to transmit packets to are determined according to the order in CIR information output from demodulator 303, and determines the modulation schemes and coding rates of the packets. Command detector 305 detects an ARQ command transmitted from the communication terminal...

20060013157 - System and method for managing access of a communication network to a mobile terminal: A system for managing access from a plurality of communications networks (20, 21, 22) to a mobile terminal (10) connected to a mobile telecommunications network. The system is adapted to set up a connection from at least one of the communications networks (20, 21, 22) to the mobile terminal (10)....

20060013164 - System and method for accessing a multi-line gateway using cordless telephony terminals: According to the present invention, simultaneous call-handling and data transfer is achieved between a terminal and a multi-line gateway in a cordless telephony environment. Multiple logical channels are established and used as signaling resources for calls on the multiple lines, and also for data transfers between the gateway and terminal....

20060013165 - Handoff method in cdma communication system: A handoff method in a CDMA system is performed when a mobile station with dormant packet data call is handed off to an area where the packet zone identifier is changed. The method includes call connection handoffing first information from first base station to second base station by a mobile...

20060013166 - Method for determining the distance between a first and second transmitting and receiving station: According to the novel method, a transmission signal (S1, S2) respectively is generated in the transmitting and receiving stations (1, 2) and transmitted as a series of microwave pulses having a predefined pulse repetition frequency (fp1, fp2) to the other respective transmitting and receiving station (2, 1) and received thereby...

20060013168 - Coding and modulation for broadcast and multicast services in a wireless communication system: Techniques for transmitting data in a wireless communication system are described. Physical channels to be sent in a super-frame are identified and allocated time slots in the super-frame. The coding and modulation for each physical channel are selected based on its capacity. The data for each physical channel is selectively...

20060013167 - Slow-fast programming of distributed base stations in a wireless network: A slow fast programming method for efficient remote field update in distributed base stations overcomes significant fiber propagation delay associated with a remote unit by applying programming data at two clock frequencies. A fast clock frequency is used for programming data phases that do not require a response from the...

20060013169 - Reliable message distribution in an ad hoc mesh network: A Data Distribution Service (DDS) transfers information between nodes in an ad hoc mobile mesh network. The DDS includes many different novel features including techniques for coalescing retransmit requests to minimize traffic, providing a reasonable level of reliability for event oriented communications, multicasting retransmissions for use by many nodes,...

20060013179 - Channel decision system for access point: A terminal having an application function of intercommunicating with each of multiple access points is arranged within a wireless LAN system to transmit an interference amount measurement request of the access point to each of multiple access points. Each access point sends out a beacon of the access point and...

20060013175 - Computer, access point, network and control methods thereof: A network system including a host having a first network module, and a first controller checking a data transmitting/receiving state of the first network module and outputting operation state data corresponding to the data transmitting/receiving state through the first network module, and a client having a display, a second network...

20060013180 - Frame detection method for 802.11b/g based wlan systems: A method (and algorithm) for detection of 802.11a and 802.11b frames in an 802.11 transmission, calculates DCC (delayed copy correlation) and LCC (local copy correlation) magnitudes and compares their normalized values with threshold values. When a signal is detected, (i.e., AGC locks) the algorithm checks for a valid 802.11a frame,...

20060013176 - Method and device for managing simultaneous connections of a mobile telecommunications device to different networks: Method for managing simultaneous connections of a mobile telecommunications device to at least a wireless local area network and a mobile telephone network via a single terminal of the mobile telecommunications device, the method comprising the steps of: (a) establishing a first wireless connection of the terminal with the wireless...

20060013178 - Method for optimizing resource allocation in a telecommunication system including multiple local networks such as an ad-hoc: The method according to the invention includes a section creation step for generating at least one section to be included in a given frame, e.g. FR1, which section includes multiple slots, e.g. SLT32, each slot being allocated to a given terminal for enabling said terminal to transmit information. The invention...

20060013171 - Method of dynamic management of a virtual local area network (vlan) in a wireless ad hoc network: In a wireless ad hoc network comprising a plurality of nodes (102), when a method of the present invention determines that a source node and a destination node belong to a common virtual local area network (VLAN), information is routed to the destination node using only nodes that belong to...

20060013173 - Method, system, and devices for joint handling of at least two users over one logical radio connection: A method and system handles at least one connection to at least one terminal in an access network. The access network includes a radio interface and at least one router. A link layer address is assigned to the at least one terminal, and a cell-specific radio link identifier is used...

20060013170 - Roaming method between wireless local area network and cellular network: The present invention relates to a roaming method between a WLAN and a cellular network which can interwork the WLAN and the cellular network on the basis of a mobile IP system for smooth roaming. In data communication in the WLAN and/or the cellular network using the mobile IP system,...

20060013172 - Rssi threshold selection for channel measurements based on rssi of the received packets: A device for communicating via a radio communications channel, having a frequency that can hop between a plurality of frequencies, in a network comprising a plurality of devices, the device comprising: a radio transceiver for communicating with a first one of the plurality of devices via a first radio link...

20060013174 - Wireless communication system: A mobile node (MN) 100 selects an AP 302 in a subnetwork 300 as the next AP to which it is wirelessly connected, while it is present within a cell 203 corresponding to a subnetwork 200 and wirelessly connected to an AP 202 in the subnetwork 200. The MN 100...

20060013177 - Wireless communication system, wireless communication apparatus, wireless communication method, and computer program: A wireless communication system for performing multi-hop transmission between stations includes: a requesting station for requesting multi-hop transmission; a destination station which receives the request from the requesting station; and neighbor stations, wherein the requesting station determines a communication capacity for each neighbor station and transmits a routing request message...

20060013181 - Apparatus, and associated method, for allocating communications in a multi-channel communication system: Apparatus, and an associated method, for allocating communication data for communication in a multi-channel communication system, such as an OFDM system. An adaptive bit, power, and code rate scheme for a sending station that utilizes LDPC codes selects together bit, power, and code rates of data that are to be...

20060013183 - Multi-path interference removing for wireless relay system apparatus and method using by same channel frequency: Embodies of peripheral a wireless relay system apparatus and method for a multi-path interference removing using by same channel frequency is shown and described, which purpose of the present invention is to overcome extension of service coverage and a dead spot with amplifying same channel frequency, a problem in doing...

20060013182 - Selective multicarrier cdma network: A multicarrier CDMA system allows the number of carrier frequencies supporting a connection to be dynamically varied. The packet stream is divided into one or more substreams depending on the selected number of carrier frequencies and each substream is transmitted on a corresponding carrier frequency. The number of carrier frequencies...

20060013185 - System and method for trasmitting uplink control information in an ofdma communication system: A method for transmitting uplink control information in a communication system using an orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) scheme is provided. A mobile station (MS) selects a target anchor base station (BS) with which the MS desires to communicate through a fast feedback channel, and transmits a codeword allocated...

20060013184 - Wireless communication system and wireless communication apparatus: A wireless communication system having wireless terminal stations to perform direct communication without passing through a wireless base station. This system includes a wireless communication device which performs either a first wireless communication using a first channel having a first frequency band or the second wireless communication using a second...

20060013186 - Wireless communication system with improved broadcast coverage: Techniques to transmit data with cyclic delay diversity and pilot staggering are described. For cyclic delay diversity, OFDM symbols having different cyclic delay durations are generated. The cyclic delay durations for the OFDM symbols may be selected to be time varying with respect to the cyclic delay durations for OFDM...

20060013187 - Methods for establishing wireless network communication and device utilizing same: Method for establishing wireless networks between devices is disclosed. When a first device is activated to establish a wireless network with other devices, a first activation reference time is recorded. At least one second device that has at least one compatible networking capability is searched for and identified. When the...

20060013188 - Method and system for providing access to a channel for voice transmission: In a TDMA system whereby the TDMA system comprises a plurality of subscriber units and a plurality of base radios, a method and system for providing access to a channel for voice transmissions where the first subscriber unit determines whether it is provisioned for polite access to the channel. In...

20060013189 - Packet transmission system in wireless lan: A plurality of wireless terminals 2 are connected to a wireless LAN base station 1 through the wireless LAN. Data packets are transmitted from the wireless LAN base station 1 to the respective wireless terminals 2 in a signal form of frame burst packets without an ACK. A series of...

20060013190 - Method to transport an internet packet and related network elements: A method for use in a Generic Packet Radio System backbone network to transport an internet packet destined to a terminal from a gateway support node via a serving support node to a radio network controller. The method comprises for the downstream transportation the steps of: transforming the header into...

20060013191 - Method, security system control module and policy server for providing security in a packet-switched telecommunications system: A method, security system control module and policy server for providing security for Mobile Stations (MSs) in a Packet-Switched Telecommunications System. When an MS accesses the system, its identity is sent to a security system control module that retrieves a security profile associated with the MS. A policy server of...

20060013192 - Obtaining and notifying middle box information: Signaling between a terminal equipment and a session server is provided which carries information on an expected media stream to or from the terminal equipment via a middle box for optimizing the performance of data communications between the terminal equipment and a correspondent node. On the basis of this information...

20060013193 - Prefix delegation system and method of ad-hoc network: A method, medium, and system for connecting to a communication system in a network having a plurality of nodes capable of communicating with each other. The node requests an identifier to a foreign network when a router advertise (RA) message is received from the foreign network, and then the node...

20060013197 - Automatic remote services provided by a home relationship between a device and a server: A method is provided for automatically providing remote services for a mobile device having an established relationship with a server of a home network. After the relationship between the mobile device and the server has been set-up and the device detects a local network that is separate and remote from...

20060013205 - Client-based message protocol translation: A system and method are presented in which a plurality of transport protocol objects (TPOs) are instantiated at an IM user agent. In one embodiment, each of the plurality of TPOs is adapted to provide a translation between a first IM protocol and a different IM protocol....

20060013202 - Content reproducing device, server and content distribution system: A content reproducing device includes an IP telephone unit that conducts IP telephone communications using a predetermined protocol, an internet communication unit that communicates with a content server storing content data through the Internet, a content reproducing unit that reproduces the content data, and an authentication request unit that requests...

20060013200 - Distributed telecommunications architecture providing redundant gateways and ip device integration: A telecommunications platform that provides redundant interfaces to a telecommunications system for multiple IP based telecommunication devices. The telecommunications platform includes a gateway cluster with two or more signaling gateways. Each signaling gateway is assigned a point code for being accessed by devices in the telecommunications system. The gateway cluster...

20060013196 - Method and apparatus for integrating multi-media messaging and image serving abilities: A method and apparatus for providing a user inbox on an multi-media service center (MMSC), the user inbox using a central repository for storing multimedia content on the MMSC....

20060013198 - Method and system for a gigabit ethernet ip telephone chip: Methods and systems for processing Ethernet data are disclosed and may comprise receiving packetized data by an Ethernet switch integrated within a single gigabit Ethernet IP phone chip. A first portion of the received packetized data may be switched within the single gigabit Ethernet IP phone chip, between a first...

20060013199 - Method and system for a gigabit ethernet ip telephone chip with integrated security module: Methods and systems for processing Ethernet data are disclosed and may comprise receiving Ethernet data via a single gigabit Ethernet IP telephone chip. A secure application key may be received from a secure server by an OSM integrated within the gigabit Ethernet IP telephone chip for processing the received Ethernet...

20060013203 - 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...

20060013204 - 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...

20060013206 - Multiple-access scheme for packet voice that uses voice activity detection: A packet transmission arrangement maintains a certain minimum bandwidth for a call. When a silence period is detected, the bandwidth that is allocated to the call is reduced. When a speech period is detected, the reduced bandwidth remains in force, unless there is spare capacity, in which case a full...

20060013194 - Support for fax and modem in sip/sip-t networks and the interworking of these networks with isup+/bicc: The invention relates to a method for the transmission of call control parameters for switching over between a voice transfer mode and a data transfer mode between two media gateway controllers (6, 7), which are used by way of an IP network between two telecommunication terminal devices separated from any...

20060013201 - Telephony protocol server and telephony protocol client in a distributed ip architecture telecommunications system: A telephone system architecture enabling various components of a telephone system to be distributed geographically yet operates as a seamlessly integrated system. A signaling gateway interfaces to the PSTN and through an SS7 interface. The signaling gateway includes a telephony protocol server. At least one other component of the telephone...

20060013195 - Terminal connection device, connection control device, and multi-function telephone terminal: The VoIP gateway 50a in accordance with the present invention serves to send a connection request to either the IP network 2 or the PSTN 1 on the basis of the information stored in the VOIP gateway 50a and the destination telephone number contained in the connection request as sent...

20060013207 - Reconfigurable, fault tolerant, multistage interconnect network and protocol: A multistage interconnect network (MIN) capable of supporting massive parallel processing, including point-to-point and multicast communications between processor modules (PMs) which are connected to the input and output ports of the network. The network is built using interconnected switch nodes arranged in 2 [logb N] stages, wherein b is the...

20060013222 - Apparatus and method for internet protocol data processing in a storage processing device: A system including a storage processing device with an input/output module. The input/output module has port processors to receive and transmit network traffic. The input/output module also has a switch connecting the port processors. Each port processor categorizes the network traffic as fast path network traffic or control path network...

20060013211 - Apparatus and method for mapping overlapping internet protocol addresses in layer two tunneling protocols: A method and system are described for resolving problems created by implementing multiple networks using private IP addresses and layer two tunneling protocols is described. A network processing system is operable to map flows from private IP addresses and ports on layer two tunneling protocol networks to public IP addresses...

20060013216 - Apparatus and method for supporting real-time services in a wireless network: A system and method for supporting real-time services in a wireless network that uses ARQ. The system provides for discarding a packet before all the prescribed subpackets have been transmitted, and transmitting the next packet....

20060013209 - Apparatus and methods for handling shared services through virtual route forwarding(vrf) -aware- nat: Methods and apparatus for performing NAT are disclosed. Specifically, NAT is performed at a service provider network device associated with an interface of a service provider network. When a packet is sent from a VPN to a node outside the service provider network (e.g., to access a shared service), the...

20060013223 - Apparatus for and method of predictive time stamping of isochronous data packets transmitted over an ieee 1394-1995 serial bus network: In order to predictively time stamp isochronous data packets transmitted over an IEEE 1394-1995 serial bus network, an application, which is to send a stream of isochronous data packets to a receiving node, first transmits a number of dummy frames each consisting of a number of packets. Preferably, these isochronous...

20060013224 - Computer readable record medium on which data communication load distribution control program is recorded and data load distribution control method: Highly flexible trunking is actualized by using a switching hub without a trunking function. A computer generates a distribution algorithm notification packet including physical addresses of communication interfaces and a distribution algorithm used for distributing data sent from a computer at the other end to the computer among the communication...

20060013220 - Control method of communication apparatus, communication apparatus, and control program of communication apparatus: A communication apparatus generates an IP network communication path on a local interface, which is constituted of a USB between a computer and the communication apparatus, and the like, using a PPP or the like, and communicates through the IP network communication path with the computer. The computer uses a...

20060013213 - Data output control apparatus: In a data output control apparatus, a data replacement unit performs replacement of information packets so as to reflect the contents of a partial TS after the transfer status thereof has changed, and outputs a replacement signal as information relating to the replaced packet data to a controller. Therefore, the...

20060013225 - Dedicated bandwidth data communication switch backplane: A LAN switch has a backplane matrix in which each controller has a dedicated packet bus for propagating packet data. Each bus has a root interfacing with the transmitting (root) controller and a plurality of leaves interfacing with receiving (leaf) controllers. This configuration enables each controller to simultaneously transmit packet...

20060013210 - Method and apparatus for per-service fault protection and restoration in a packet network: A method and apparatus are disclosed for per-service flow protection and restoration of data in one or more packet networks. The disclosed protection and restoration techniques allow traffic to be prioritized and protected from the aggregate level down to a micro-flow