Multiplex communications inventions 02/06

20060039270 - Method for pulse shape design for ofdm: A computationally efficient pulse shaping method for OFDM that produces mutually orthogonal transmission pulses having fast spectral decay is provided. The pulse shaping method comprises an iterative method for designing OFDM transmission pulses that satisfy prescribed time-frequency localization conditions. The iterative method may be implemented in a computationally efficient way...

20060039274 - Method for discretely indicating resource allocation information and a method for reducing load when indicating resource allocation information: A method for discretely indicating resource allocation information regardless of previous resource allocation information in an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access wireless network system is disclosed. The method includes the steps of defining at least one allocation unit having different sizes and shapes and indexing a total resource region per...

20060039272 - Multi-band wideband transmission methods and apparatus having improved user capacity: Methods and computer program products for transmitting and receiving encoded signals in a wideband communication system and for generating codes for encoding the encoded signals are disclosed. The wideband communication system includes communication slots separated in frequency and/or time. The codes include components associated with each of the communication slots....

20060039271 - Power controlled interleave-division multiple-access wireless communication systems: Transmission methods of interleave-division multiple-access (IDMA) system are disclosed. An objective of the present invention is to provide a signal structure that can substantially increase the overall transmission rate and meet the requirements of different transmission rates in wireless telecommunication systems. Such requirements arise in applications such as mixed speech...

20060039275 - Transmit diversity processing for a multi-antenna communication system: For transmit diversity in a multi-antenna OFDM system, a transmitter encodes, interleaves, and symbol maps traffic data to obtain data symbols. The transmitter processes each pair of data symbols to obtain two pairs of transmit symbols for transmission from a pair of antennas either (1) in two OFDM symbol periods...

20060039273 - Unified pulse shaping for multi-carrier and single-carrier waveforms: To transmit a multi-carrier signal, a transmitter provides zero symbols for guard subbands, performs OFDM modulation, and filters the resultant time-domain samples with a pulse shaping filter. To transmit a single-carrier signal, the transmitter partitions the single-carrier signal into segments. Each segment contains up to K samples and is padded,...

20060039276 - Failback to a primary communications adapter: Methods, systems, and program products are provided for failback to a primary communications adapter. Embodiments of the present invention include receiving, in a driver for a primary communications adapter and a backup communications adapter, a link up event for the primary communications adapter; determining that the primary communications adapter is...

20060039277 - Newtork-node for exchanging data information via a path or a detour path: Network-nodes (10) comprising data exchangers (30) for exchanging data information via a path with other network-nodes (12) forming part of the path and for exchanging data information via a detour path in response to detections of failures in the path, are provided with bandwidth exchangers (31) for, in response to...

20060039278 - Method and system for maximizing wavelength reuse in optically protected wdm networks: A method and system for maximizing wavelength reuse in an optically protected wavelength-division-multiplexed (WDM) network, the WDM network supporting a plurality of service connections, includes associating service connections supported by non-overlapping paths to form respective service channel groups, and for each service channel group, assigning at least one common wavelength...

20060039279 - Maintaining communication sessions: Communication occurs between a server and a terminal. The terminal establishes a first communication path with the server via a first allocated address. The server allocates an identification reference to a communication session upon initiation of said communication session. During the communication session the first communication path is closed and...

20060039280 - Systems, processes and integrated circuits for rate and/or diversity adaptation for packet communications: A process (111,101) of sending packets of real-time information at a sender (311) includes steps of initially generating at the sender the packets of real-time information with a source rate (s11) greater than zero kilobits per second, and a time or path or combined time/path diversity rate (d11), the amount...

20060039281 - Random medium access methods with backoff adaptation to traffic: Using low PF values in conjunction with traffic-adapted contention windows leads to substantial decreases in delay and jitter. In general, adaptation to traffic reduces contention or delay: opening up the contention window in congestion and closing it on relief. Residual backoff adaptation provides for the reduction of the already decremented...

20060039283 - Data packet transmission: Data packet transmission involves transmitting a plurality of data packets from said first station to a second station at a first rate of transmission. Acknowledgement data is returned from the second station to the first station to acknowledge the receipt of data packets at the second station. Data packets that...

20060039285 - Method and apparatus for bandwidth management of aggregate data flows: The present invention relates to a transmission device implementing a flow control mechanism for aggregate trunks. The transmission device can be implemented as a router that includes an input for receiving aggregate traffic streams, an output for releasing the aggregate traffic streams to a destination point and a control unit...

20060039284 - Method and apparatus for processing a complete burst of data: Disclosed are a method and apparatus for processing a complete burst of data by receiving said complete burst of data, storing the complete burst of data in a memory, associating the complete burst of data with a first logical channel and dispatching an egress burst of data according to one...

20060039282 - Outer loop power control for high speed data transmissions: A method is provided for controlling a traffic-to-pilot ratio (TPR) in a wireless telecommunications channel. The methodology takes advantage of a preexisting feedback process used in hybrid ARQ transmission systems. Generally, information is transmitted over the communications channel, and then the acknowledgement (ACK) signal, or negative acknowledgements (NACK) signal, is...

20060039287 - Communication apparatus and data communication method: A communication apparatus includes an arrival time estimation unit, connection selection unit, and network processing unit. The arrival time estimation unit estimates, for each block and each of a plurality of connections, an arrival time until a block generated by segmenting transmission data arrives from the apparatus at a final...

20060039286 - Method and apparatus for dynamically reducing end-to-end delay in multi-hop wireless networks in response to changing traffic conditions: A method and apparatus for deforming the network topology of a multi-hop wireless network dynamically (i.e., in real time), in response to changing network traffic conditions and in order to advantageously reduce mean end-to-end network (transmission) delay. Two illustrative embodiments of the invention deform the network topology dynamically in response...

20060039289 - Method and apparatus for improved error avoidance in a redundant data path system: A logic arrangement, method and computer program for reducing incidence of errors in a redundant path system during a process of attachment of a device to a running subsystem, comprises a control component for encapsulating the process of attachment of a device to a running subsystem; a disabling component for...

20060039288 - Network status monitoring and warning method: A network status monitoring and warning method is disclosed. A test packet is transmitted intermittently to a test host. The IP addresses of all connected devices that transmit this test packet are extracted as the path data to be compared with expert data. The different addresses are considered as the...

20060039290 - Systems and methods for automatic public switched telephone network backup of voice over internet protocol services: A backup public switched telephone network (PSTN) line is provided to a broadband network connection by detecting unavailability of the broadband network connection and automatically connecting local site wiring to the PSTN line responsive to detecting unavailability of the broadband network connection and disconnecting local site wiring from the PSTN...

20060039291 - Apparatus and methods for the communication and fault management of data in a multipath data network: An apparatus and methods are provided for the communication of a data stream and management of faults in a multipath data network having a protected ring-in-ring network architecture. The data stream is communicated over redundant paths between various nodes located throughout the network. Each node is capable of dropping and...

20060039292 - Reducing overhead when using loopback cells for fault detection in bi-directional virtual circuits: An end system (“first end system”) concluding that a bidirectional virtual circuit is operational if the other end system (at the other end of the virtual circuit) has determined that the virtual circuit is operable based on the loopback cells. In other words, the first end system may not send...

20060039297 - Data network traffic filter and method: A traffic filter for a decentralised peer-to peer data network is described. The data network comprises a number of interconnected ultrapeer nodes, each ultrapeer node being arranged to accept connections from a number of leaf nodes; maintain a database identifying material available from each connected leaf node, receive search queries...

20060039298 - Logical and physical mesh network separation: A method for creating sub-networks in a wireless mesh network begins by determining whether a trigger condition for creating a sub-network exists. Nodes in the mesh network are selected to create the sub-network if the trigger condition exists. The sub-network is then created with the selected nodes. A node for...

20060039293 - Method and system to evaluate utilization of resources: A method to evaluate utilization of a plurality of resources linked by segments may include tracking a sequence of utilization of the plurality of resources in responding to a request or a set of requests and representing a quantity of occurrences of each segment linking resources in the sequence. The...

20060039295 - Transmitting data: Transmitting data over a network takes place and parameters indicating network conditions vary during the transmission. A first station identifies at least one of these parameters. The first station then adjusts the nature of the transmitted data in response to the parameter(s). Examples of network condition parameters are the rate...

20060039296 - Transmitting data in a wireless communications network: This invention relates to a communications system comprising a plurality of radio network controllers, at least one of said radio network controllers providing a controlling radio network controller function, wherein said controlling radio network controller is prohibited from causing reconfiguration of a communication parameter between user equipment and said radio...

20060039294 - Transmitting packets of data: Data packet transmission involves transmitting a first data packet from a first station over a network to create a first transmission with the intention of the first transmission being received at a second station. Said first data packet is retransmitted from the first station to the second station to create...

20060039300 - Method and apparatus for location discovery in mobile ad-hoc networks: A method and apparatus are provided for performing location discovery in mobile ad-hoc networks. In one embodiment, a method for estimating the location of a node in a network (comprising a plurality of nodes communicatively coupled by a plurality of links) includes receiving estimated distances for only a subset of...

20060039299 - Packet transmission in a wireless communication system using multiple antennas: A method of retransmitting packet data in a wireless communication system comprises receiving a link map information element from a transmitting station having three antennas to achieve space time transmit diversity, wherein first, second and third packet data are transmitted from first, second and third antenna of the transmitting station,...

20060039301 - Node apparatus and rpr network: The present invention provides a node apparatus constituting a network duplicated by a system 0 ring and a system 1 ring. The node apparatus includes: a normal mode processing section for transmitting, in the normal operation mode, a packets to an other node apparatus to a packet transmission ring which...

20060039302 - Transmitting data: A data transmission method, wherein a first station transmits packets of data to a second station and the interval between data packet transmissions from said first station to said second station does not exceed a specified time interval, and said second station transmits packets of data to said first station...

20060039304 - Method and apparatus for wireless distribution of a file using ad-hoc wireless networks: A method and apparatus for distributing a media content file wherein a file is received in a node. The received file is then shared with a recognized neighbor node. Once the file is provided by a distributor node to a neighbor node, the distributor node claims an incentive for sharing...

20060039303 - Method and apparatus for wirelessly sharing a file using an application-level connection: Ad hoc application-level connections are established between wireless devices. Autonomous selection of files on a provider device facilitates migration of a file from the file provider to a file receiver. Once a file provider and a file receiver are communicatively coupled using an application-level connection, a portion of a determined...

20060039305 - Method and system for eap encapsulation exchange for a setup configuration protocol in a wlan: Certain aspects of a method for enabling exchange of information in a secure communication network may comprise encapsulating authentication enablement information comprising data for configuring at least one 802.11 client station. One or more 802.11 client stations may be configured without disrupting access to any other 802.11 client station that...

20060039306 - Method and system for improved authentication for communications network setup: Aspects of a system for enabling secure wireless communication of information between stations in a communication system may comprise a configurator, that exchanges configuration information with a client station, in an IEEE 802.11 communication system. The exchange of configuration information may be encrypted based on information transmitted between the configurator...

20060039307 - Method and system for monitoring broadcast slot of mobile station: Disclosed is a method and system for monitoring a broadcast slot of a mobile station. The system includes a mobile station execution module, wherein the mobile station execution module comprises: a broadcast channel setup information storage unit for storing broadcast channel setup information including at least one channel identification information...

20060039308 - Mobile broadcast receiver and method for decoding broadcast service using the same: A mobile broadcast receiver and a method for decoding a broadcast service are provided. According to an aspect of the invention, the mobile broadcast receiver includes a receiver to receive a fast information channel (FIC) and a main service channel (MSC), and an FIC decoder. The FIC decoder is configured...

20060039309 - Terminal distribution control for point-to-multipoint service in wireless communication system: A method for controlling a user equipment (UE) capable of receiving a point-to-multipoint service in a wireless communication system comprises receiving a point-to-multipoint service and performing a cell reselection in response to completion of the receiving of the point-to-multipoint service. The cell reselection is performed among multiple frequencies. The cell...

20060039310 - Method of acquiring a mobile station identifier in a hybrid network: An access network obtains a non-native mobile station identifier, such as an International Mobile Station Identifier, for use in establishing a packet data call by inducing the mobile station to transmit a non-native message containing the mobile station identifier encapsulated in a native message. The access network de-capsulates and parses...

20060039311 - Wireless network system and electronic device: An electronic device including a wireless LAN module performing predetermined initialization when a predetermined setting time is passed after a channel link is disconnected, and a controller initializing the wireless LAN module when the wireless LAN module does not receive a predetermined response from an external electronic device within a...

20060039312 - Resource allocation for mimo-ofdm communication systems: Techniques to schedule terminals for data transmission on the downlink and/or uplink in a MIMO-OFDM system based on the spatial and/or frequency “signatures” of the terminals. A scheduler forms one or more sets of terminals for possible (downlink or uplink) data transmission for each of a number of frequency bands....

20060039318 - Apparatus and method for allocating frequencies in an ofdm mobile communication system supporting high speed downlink packet access service: An apparatus and method for allocating a frequency resource to a user equipment (UE) in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) mobile communication system. A base station receives feedback information including at least mobility information from the UE, and determines from the mobility information whether the UE belongs to a...

20060039324 - H.323 user, service and service provider, mobility framework for the multimedia intelligent networking: The present invention provides a method and system for assuring H.323 alias address portability to an H.323 user in real-time H.323 multimedia communications where the H.323 user is registered with a home gatekeeper for the home zone of the H.323 user. Alias address portability may be obtained using a central...

20060039315 - Macro diversity schemes for shared dedicated control channel in broadcast multicast services: A method in a wireless communication station including receiving frames (310), determining the intended recipient of the frames received (312), buffering frames (314) if required, obtaining information specifying how to decode signals received by the wireless communication station (316), combining frames (318), and decoding the combined frames as specified (320)....

20060039317 - Method and apparatus to support multi standard, multi service base-stations for wireless voice and data netwoks: An apparatus for digitally processing signals within wireless communications base-stations which includes a channel pooling signal processor and a digital signal processor. The channel pooling signal processor includes a plurality of computation units typically realized in a heterogeneous multiprocessing architecture, a test interface for testing the function of the plurality...

20060039321 - Method and system for improved communication network setup utilizing extended terminals: Aspects of a method and system for improved communication network setup utilizing extended terminals are presented. Aspects of the method may comprise configuring a wireless Ethernet terminal functioning as a client station by a configurator via a network. The configured wireless Ethernet terminal may wirelessly receives information from a wireless...

20060039322 - Method and system for testing a signal path having an operational signal: A technique for testing a signal path while an operational signal is present is disclosed. The technique may be performed without injecting a test signal into the signal path by using an operational signal already present in the signal path. A method of testing a signal path includes receiving an...

20060039313 - Method and system of network management and service provisioning for broadband wireless networks: A method and system for network management and service provisioning for broadband wireless networks. The method and system employ a network management system (NMS) to manage nodes corresponding to base stations (BS) and subscriber stations (SS). A service flow database is used to store data relating to pre-provisioned dynamic service...

20060039314 - Router reachability verification in ipv6 networks: A method of router reachability verification for hosts in computer networks such as IPv6 networks is presented where hosts transmit router solicitations including information identifying a current router, and possibly one or more previous routers. A router that receives the router solicitations may then determine if it is the current...

20060039323 - System and method for reallocating a traffic channel in soft handoff state: There is disclosed, for use in a CDMA wireless network, a channel resource allocator for reallocating a data traffic channel in a soft handoff state to handle incoming calls from new mobile stations. The channel resource allocator includes an overhead channel controller for reconfiguring a data traffic channel as an...

20060039320 - System and method for updating a sleep id of a mobile station in a bwa communication system: A system and method for updating a sleep identifier (SLPID) of a mobile station (MS) in a broadband wireless access (BWA) communication system having a sleep mode in which there is no transmission data and an awake mode in which there is transmission data. Upon recognizing a need to update...

20060039319 - Uplink scheduling method in voip: A method of scheduling uplink resources in a wireless communication system supporting VoIP service is provided. A BS allocates an identical amount of the resource continuously until an uplink data rate is changed by an SS's request for a data rate change. When the data rate is changed, the SS...

20060039316 - Wireless communication system: In a wireless communication system, a utilization of a global ID having a long bit length, which is useful for linking with an external system, is compatible with a reduction of a communication amount of a wireless terminal. The wireless terminal transmits the global ID only when the wireless terminal...

20060039326 - method and apparatus for uplink data transmission in handover area using transport channels for uplink service: A method and an apparatus for uplink data transmission using an enhanced uplink dedicated channel (E-DCH) in a mobile telecommunication system which employs a code division multiple access (CDMA) scheme are provided. User equipment (UE) located in a handover area related to a cell supporting the E-DCH and a cell...

20060039325 - System and method for decoding signalling messages on flo hr channels: A method for decoding signalling messages on Flexible Layer One (FLO) half rate channels, wherein soft values of blocks that are incorrectly received are stored in a buffer. When the cyclic redundancy check (CRC) data of a received block fails, the soft values of the block are stored along with...

20060039327 - Soft vertical handovers in wireless networks: The present invention provides a method is provided for soft vertical handovers. The method includes requesting a handover from a first wireless network that operates according to a first protocol to a second wireless network that operates according to a second protocol, the first protocol being different than the second...

20060039328 - Data communication in a wireless communication system using space-time coding: A method of controlling data communication in a wireless communication system comprises measuring channel quality from data received from a base station having multiple antennas, wherein the base station and a mobile station are in a closed loop space-time coding (STC) communication. The method also comprises determining a first weight...

20060039329 - Detecting a wireless network air interface: The present invention provides methods for detecting a wireless air interface. The method includes receiving information indicative of at least one wireless access type, determining whether the information indicative of the at least one wireless access type is within an expected range, performing at least one first measurement associated with...

20060039330 - High speed downlink packet access co-processor for upgrading the capabilities of an existing modem host: A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) for processing code division multiple access (CDMA) signals. The WTRU includes a modem host and a high speed downlink packet access (HSDPA) co-processor, which communicate over a plurality of customizable interfaces. The modem host operates in accordance with third generation partnership project (3GPP) Release 4...

20060039331 - Multi-carrier cdma radio transmitting method and apparatus, and channel estimation method and apparatus for multi-carrier cdma radio transmitting system: A multi-carrier CDMA radio transmitting method replicates each information symbol and disposes thus-obtained information symbols along a frequency axis, multiplies the thus-obtained information symbols with a spreading code along the frequency axis, spreads the information symbols into components of a plurality of sub-carriers having different frequencies. The transmission rate of...

20060039335 - Communication device simultaneously using plurality of routes corresponding to application characteristics: A communication device capable of communicating with a receiving device by simultaneously using a plurality of network media existing between the receiving device and the communication device, comprises a determining section determining, from within the plurality of network media, at least one network media satisfying a request condition of a...

20060039333 - Information handling system including wireless bandwidth management feature: A wireless network is provided including a wireless access point (WAP) information handling system (IHS) that communicates with client IHSs via wireless information links. The WAP IHS determines the priority of a communication request from a client IHS and the link rate of that client IHS. The WAP IHS also...

20060039338 - Integration of a wireless wide-area network (wan) data terminal with a network processor for interfacing with local-area network (lan) nodes: A wireless data terminal apparatus, comprising: a wireless wide-area network (WAN) data terminal configured to provide data communication over a wireless wide-area telecommunication network, the wireless WAN data terminal including at least a data processor and an RF section; and a network processing module configured to provide access to a...

20060039332 - Mechanism for hand off using subscriber detection of synchronized access point beacon transmissions: A WLAN access point (111) is synchronized with a Wide Area Network (WAN) (105) via either a backhaul connection (115), or via hardware of the WLAN access point (111) suitable for receiving and decoding a synchronization timing signal from the WAN (105). The mobile station (101) transmits a WLAN beacon...

20060039339 - Method and system for automatic registration security: Aspects of a method and system for automatic registration security are presented, and may comprise registering a client station with an access point without requiring a user to enter configuration information at the access point and at the client station. The method may comprise activating a button at an access...

20060039341 - Method and system for exchanging setup configuration protocol information in beacon frames in a wlan: Certain aspects of a method for enabling exchange of information in a secure communication system may comprise configuring at least one 802.11 client station via authentication enablement information comprising data that specifies a time period during which configuration is allowed. The data that specifies a time period during which configuration...

20060039340 - Method and system for transporting configuration protocol messages across a distribution system (ds) in a wireless local area network (wlan): Aspects of a method and system for transporting configuration messages across a DS in a WLAN are presented. Aspects of a method for enabling communication of information in a secure communication system may comprise configuring a wireless client station located in a client network based on configuration information received from...

20060039342 - Multiplexing storage element interface: Cameras, radios, televisions, set top boxes, telephones, kitchen appliances, and other electrical devices have their own IP address, and communicate using an internetworking protocol. Of particular interest are those devices that utilize some form of mass storage. Communication of the packets between or among elements can occur using any suitable...

20060039336 - Wireless communication system, communication device, communication controlling method, and communication control program: A wireless communication system for effecting communication between wireless terminals by structuring an ad hoc network without using an access point, wherein each of the wireless terminals comprises: a receiving unit which receives a beacon signal generated periodically from a wireless terminal of a communication party; an extracting unit which...

20060039337 - Wireless lan system, wireless lan access point, wireless lan terminal and activation control method for use therewith: To provide a wireless LAN system in which a wireless LAN terminal that is shut down or on standby can be controlled and activated from a remote site even in the environment where the connection is attested by an authentication server, using the security technology for wireless LAN, a different...

20060039334 - Wireless network communication control apparatus and network system: A wireless network communication control apparatus and a network system wherein wireless network client connection control information with identical contents can be set in a simple manner and at low cost in a plurality of wireless network communication control apparatuses (wireless LAN access points). A parent LAN access point prestores...

20060039343 - Intra-frame code diversity: Provided are methods and apparatuses to encode portions of user data with corresponding spreading sequences within a frame wherein the user data is associated with a single user....

20060039344 - Multiplexing scheme for unicast and broadcast/multicast traffic: A method is provided for efficiently multiplexing interlaced broadcast traffic over a wireless network. The multiplexing scheme organizes unused slots in at least some base stations so that unicast traffic employing hybrid ARQ may be delivered therein....

20060039345 - Method for optimizing energy consumption of a station in a wireless network: A method to optimize the energy consumption of a station (STA)—as for example a laptop, palmtop or a mobile phone—in a network, preferably a WLAN according to the IEEE 802.11 standard where a station (STA) sending Power Save (PS) polls to an Access Point (AP) is characterized—regarding an efficient energy...

20060039346 - Transmitting information through a communication link and monitoring link quality: A method transmits information from a transmitting device to a receiving device through a communication link. The method includes monitoring a link quality of the communication link at the receiving device, sending a respective link quality notification from the receiving device to the transmitting device, and adapting, at the transmitting...

20060039347 - Synchronous transmission network system: A synchronous transmission network system has a plurality of nodes including a plurality of clock supply nodes and all the nodes synchronize with a clock supplied from one of clock supply nodes as a master, wherein each clock supply node includes a transmission module for transmitting a quality request message...

20060039351 - Computer system for controlling routed data amount: A computer system having a work computer, first storage systems, and second storage systems also has a network, a network routing device, and a management computer. Upon receipt of the update data from the work computer, the first storage system stores the update data in a first storage volume and...

20060039350 - Data transmission over a network: Re-establishing a transmission of data from a first station to a second station involves pausing transmission of data from a first station to a second station following an indication that a communication session is inactive. The first station receives an indication to the effect that the inactive session has been...

20060039349 - Extended cellular telephony protocol: The present invention provides a method for transmitting voice packet data over a selected one of a first network in which multiple devices belonging to a defined set communicate with each other according to a first protocol and a second network in which multiple devices communicate with each other according...

20060039348 - System, device and method for data transfer: A device, system and method for data transfer. Embodiments of the present invention may include receiving a Bluetooth Device Address; receiving an identifier token corresponding to the Bluetooth Device Address; and initiating a data transfer using the identifier token. The identifier token may be an IP address. The data transfer...

20060039353 - Extended voice over internet protocol: The present invention provides a method for transmitting time-sensitive packet data over a network in which multiple devices belonging to a defined set communicate with each other. The method includes receiving at least one first packet containing voice data, processing the at least one first packet using a real-time packet-enabled...

20060039359 - Managed mobile voice over internet protocol (voip) overlay method and architecture: A managed mobile voice over internet protocol (VoIP) overlay network for use by public carriers for managing the connectivity and transport of media over the Internet is disclosed in accordance with an embodiment and method of the present invention....

20060039362 - Method and apparatus for creating and distributing cost telephony-switching functionality within an ip network: A system for providing and managing IP telephone calls establishes separate and distinct call legs between IP-capable appliances and routers and between routers, and creates calls, changes calls, and manages telephony functions by joining and disjoining calls legs. In some instances one or more call legs disjoined from an active...

20060039358 - Method and apparatus for transmitting/receiving voice over internet protocol packets with a user datagram protocol checksum in a mobile communication system: A method and apparatus for transmitting/receiving a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) packet on a radio link in a mobile communication system which provides a voice service over a packet network connected to the Internet. To transmit a VoIP packet, a VoIP packet comprising a user datagram protocol (UDP) checksum...

20060039360 - Method and system for distribution of configuration information among access points in a wireless local area network (wlan) across a distribution system (ds): Aspects of a method and system for distribution of configuration information among access points (AP) in a WLAN across a distribution system (DS) are presented. An AP, performing in a role of an AP-configurator may configure another AP, performing in a role of AP-client. The AP-configurator may distribute configurator configuration...

20060039357 - Optical communication system capable of providing analog telephone service: An optical communication system for transmitting telephone voice data to a subscriber terminal using an optical line is disclosed. The system includes an OLT (Optical Line Terminal) multiplexing the telephone voice data together with the broadcasting data and communication data, converting the optical signals transferred upward into electric signals, demultiplexing...

20060039361 - Receiving apparatus and control method therefor: The tuner unit of a digital broadcast receiving apparatus receives a digital broadcast and generates a data stream from a digital broadcast signal having a desired modulation frequency. A data stream of a digital broadcast is also input from an external digital broadcast receiving apparatus via an external I/F. A...

20060039352 - System and method for designating a priority access order of domain name service servers: A method and a system for designating a priority access order of one or more DNS servers. DNS servers are accessed in the designated order until an IP address is found or until there are no more DNS servers to access. The DNS servers' IP addresses may be received from...

20060039365 - System and method for routing and communicating in a heterogeneous network environment: An improved system and method are disclosed for peer-to-peer communications. In one example, the method is for connecting an endpoint that is separated from another endpoint by a symmetric network address translation device....

20060039354 - Systems and methods for client-side application-aware prioritization of network communications: The present invention is generally directed towards a remote access architecture for providing peer-to-peer communications and remote access connectivity. In one embodiment, the remote access architecture of the present provides a method for establishing a direct connection between peer computing devices via a third computing device, such as a gateway....

20060039355 - Systems and methods for communicating a lossy protocol via a lossless protocol: The present invention is generally directed towards a remote access architecture for providing peer-to-peer communications and remote access connectivity. In one embodiment, the remote access architecture of the present provides a method for establishing a direct connection between peer computing devices via a third computing device, such as a gateway....

20060039356 - Systems and methods for facilitating a peer to peer route via a gateway: The present invention is generally directed towards a remote access architecture for providing peer-to-peer communications and remote access connectivity. In one embodiment, the remote access architecture of the present provides a method for establishing a direct connection between peer computing devices via a third computing device, such as a gateway....

20060039364 - Systems and methods for policy-enabled communications networks: Embodiments of the present invention relate to systems and methods for policy-based management of a multiprotocol label switching (“MPLS”) network. In an embodiment, a system includes a policy-based network administration system, and the policy-based network administration system includes a plurality of policies. The system also includes an MPLS network, which...

20060039363 - Voice architecture for transmission over a shared, contention based medium: A control terminal such as a CMTS is initialize to receive packets of voice calls having parameters including a bit rate, a packetization interval, and a call identification. A plurality of queues is created to define a corresponding plurality of phases at a sub-multiple of the packetization interval. Voice calls...

20060039366 - Port aggregation for fibre channel interfaces: According to the present invention, methods and apparatus are provided to allow efficient and effective aggregation of ports into port channels in a fibre channel network. A local fibre channel switch can automatically identify compatible ports and initiate exchange sequences with a remote fibre channel switch to aggregate ports into...

20060039367 - Sip-based session control: These exemplary embodiments utilize Sessions Initiation Protocol (SIP) for admission control. The use of the SIP allows a SIP server itself to perform the admission control function. The use of RSVP linkages is reduced. The use of SIP for admission control allows an application to communicate, or “talk,” to a...

20060039368 - Data processing information feeder framework: A framework is configured for publishing data from a data processing arrangement coupled to a network. Data objects are provided from one or more application programs of the data processing arrangement. An information feed of the data processing arrangement is defined. The information feed provides a collection of data objects...

20060039369 - Multiplexing system having an automatically configured topology: A switch encapsulates incoming information using a header, and removes the header upon egress. The header is used by both distributed ingress nodes and within a distributed core to facilitate switching. The ingress and egress elements preferably support Ethernet or other protocol providing connectionless media with a stateful connection. Preferred...

20060039373 - Information processing device, control method thereof, and program: An information processing device which can communicate with an image processing device on a network is characterized by comprising a search indication unit for issuing a search indication for searching the image processing device on the network, a first transmission unit for transmitting a request for changing a power saving...

20060039370 - Low latency switch architecture for high-performance packet-switched networks: A low latency switch architecture for high performance packet-switched networks which is a combination of input buffers capable of avoiding head-of-line blocking and an internal switch interconnect capable of allowing different input ports to access a single output simultaneously....

20060039372 - Method and apparatus for providing multi-protocol, multi-stage, real-time frame classification: A multi-protocol, multi-stage, real-time frame classifier is disclosed. A preliminary multi-protocol frame composition analyzer is provided for performing preliminary multi-protocol frame classification for incoming frames. A parsing instruction generator is provided for processing at least the incoming frame and the preliminary multi-protocol frame classification to provide parsing instructions. A multi-stage...

20060039371 - Network routing: To reduce the dependency of overlay networks on underlay networks to route messages, a virtual ring routing architecture may be formed that leverages the design of the overlay network to achieve their desirable scaling and robustness properties but also reduce the dependency on any underlay network to setup and maintain...

20060039374 - Pipelined packet switching and queuing architecture: A pipelined linecard architecture for receiving, modifying, switching, buffering, queuing and dequeuing packets for transmission in a communications network. The linecard has two paths: the receive path, which carries packets into the switch device from the network, and the transmit path, which carries packets from the switch to the network....

20060039375 - Method, communication system and communication device for trainsmitting broadcasting information via a communication network: According to the invention, in order to transmit information which is specific to a subscriber connection, apart from virtual connections which are specific to a subscriber connection, at least one other virtual connection is established between a central communication unit and at least one decentralised communication unit by means of...

20060039377 - Address converter for gateways interconnecting networks of different address formats: In a gateway, a packet received from a first network contains first address data conforming to the first network in the packet header and second address data conforming to a second network in an auxiliary header. The first address data of the packet is then rewritten with the second address...

20060039376 - Method and structure for enqueuing data packets for processing: A method and structure is provided for buffering data packets having a header and a remainder in a network processor system. The network processor system has a processor on a chip and at least one buffer on the chip. Each buffer on the chip is configured to buffer the header...

20060039378 - Vlan protocol: A generally full-wire throughput, switching Ethernet controller used within an Ethernet network of other switching Ethernet controllers connected together by a bus. The controller comprises a plurality of ports including at least one bus port associated with ports connected to other switching Ethernet controllers. A hash table stores MAC addresses...

20060039379 - Processing method of fragmented packet and packet transfer equipment using the same: The present invention provides a method of high speed assemble process capable of dealing with long packets with effective buffer memories usage. A processing method of fragmented packets in packet transfer equipment for transmitting and receiving packet data between terminals through network, includes, receiving fragmented packets, identifying whether the received...

20060039381 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for modifying bandwidth and/or quality of service in a core network: Bandwidth and/or Quality of Service (QoS) may be modified in a Regional/Access Network (RAN) that includes a core network, the RAN facilitating differentiated end-to-end data transport between an enterprise, a Network Service Provider (NSP), and/or an Application Service Provider (ASP) and a customer Premises Network (CPN). Application Programming Interface (API)...

20060039380 - Very high speed cable modem for increasing bandwidth: A flow bonder at a CMTS and another at a cable modem distribute packets of a service flow over multiple channels and collect them in the downstream direction respectively; vice versa in the upstream direction. The collector uses a service flow identifier and a sequence number identifier inserted by the...

20060039382 - Telecommunication network comprising an sdh/sonet-subnet, where the gmpls function is incorporated in a gmpls software server: A telecommunications network comprises SDH/Sonet sub-network constituting a transport network and with SDH/Sonet Add/Drop multiplexers, DVDM multiplexers, where the GMPLS function for a SDH/Sonet sub-network is collected in one single GMPLS software reserver....

20060039383 - Scalable vlan grouping in a provider metro ethernet: A method (20) of routing packets in network system (10). The network system comprises a plurality of edge nodes (ENx) and a plurality of core nodes (CNx). Selected core nodes are coupled to communicate with selected edge nodes. The network system also comprises a plurality of external nodes (CSTa,b) external...

20060039385 - Method and system for router aggregation: One embodiment disclosed relates to a method of routing a packet by way of a router aggregation. A packet is received from outside the aggregation by an initially receiving router/switch unit. Router functions are performed by the initially receiving router unit, including modification of the packet. The packet is then...

20060039384 - System and method for preventing erroneous link aggregation due to component relocation: Various methods and systems for preventing erroneous link aggregation due to component relocation are disclosed. Such methods include a method for changing the identifier used by a network device and communicating the identifier change to a peer network device without disrupting an aggregated link. In one embodiment, a method involves...

20060039387 - Frame generator: An object of the present invention is to provide a frame generator in which no variable range of the field of a transmission frame required to measure a network is restricted by the capacity of a memory. The invention is a frame generator for outputting a transmission frame generated on...

20060039386 - Internet protocol installer: Provided is a private Internet Protocol (IP) installer for a home network. The Internet Protocol (IP) installer includes a network interface connected to an IP sharing router, a user interface which receives a user's command, an IP installing unit which assigns private IP addresses to products constituting a home network...

20060039388 - Method and system for a unicast endpoint client to access a multicast internet protocol (ip) session: Unicast endpoint clients (110, 111, 115) on an IP Unicast network (107, 108) are provided access to Multicast sessions on an IP Multicast network (101) through a Multicast-Unicast gateway server (120, 121). The server obtains information about sessions on the Multicast network and makes such information available to a Unicast...

20060039389 - Remote control of device by telephone or other communication devices: A communication device, such as a telephone or a personal computer, controls one or more remotely controlled devices solely over a signaling path, without necessarily establishing an audio path, thus eliminating the need for the remotely controlled device, or its controller, to include DTMF detection hardware or software or an...

20060039390 - Method and apparatus for facilitating differentiated service qualities in an ethernet passive optical network: One embodiment of the present invention provides a system for forwarding packets in an Ethernet passive optical network (EPON) which includes a central node and at least one remote node. During operation, the system associates a logical link identifier (LLID) to a logical link between the central node and a...

20060039391 - Computing inter-autonomous system mpls traffic engineering lsp paths: Systems and methods for computing the paths of MPLS Traffic Engineering LSPs across Autonomous System and/or area boundaries. A distributed path computation algorithm exploits multiple path computation elements (PCEs) to develop a virtual shortest path tree (VSPT) resulting in computation of an end-to-end optimal (shortest) path. In some implementations, the...

20060039392 - Method and system for prioritizing initial maintenance of cable modems: A user device connected to a CMTS over a network is configured such that upon power-up it can use a universal broadcast SID or a predetermined multicast SID to obtain an initial maintenance during a maintenance window. The predetermined multicast SID is assigned to the device at manufacture based on...

20060039395 - Method for improving quality of service in a wireless network: A method to improve the Quality of Service (QoS) in a wireless network, preferably in a WLAN according to the IEEE proposal 802.11e comprising an Access Point (AP) and at least one mobile station (STA) with different Access Categories (ACs) being defined for the transmission of frames depending on their...

20060039394 - Method for prioritizing grouped data reduction: Nodes of a network may be allocated to a number of logical groups thereof, and storage space within a network traffic monitoring device coupled to the network then allocated so as to ensure network traffic data for at least a minimum number of the nodes of each of the logical...

20060039393 - Traffic multiplexing using timestamping: Multiplexed traffic in a system where the maximum rate of all inputs exceeds the maximum rate of the output is processed via a separate queue for each input, and at any given forwarding clock cycle the earliest enqueued packet is forwarded via the output. In the event of congestion, a...

20060039396 - Communication system, communication apparatus and method for accommodating subscriber line: A communication system for accommodating a subscriber line includes main apparatus accommodating a plurality of subscriber lines, a plurality of remote apparatuses disposed in a radial pattern from the main apparatus and accommodating a plurality of subscriber lines, and a duct disposed in radial pattern in each of the plurality...

20060039397 - Sagacious routing engine, method of routing and a communications network employing the same: The present invention provides a sagacious routing engine for use with a session initiation protocol (SIP) call. In one embodiment, the sagacious routing engine includes a request manager configured to receive a routing request for an integrated routing target set for the SIP call within a network. Additionally, the sagacious...

20060039399 - Communication device and communication mode setting method: A disclosed first communication device includes a communication mode detecting part for detecting a predetermined communication mode with respect to a second communication device, a communication mode setting part for setting a communication mode of the first communication device, and a jam signal detecting part for detecting a jam signal...

20060039398 - Isochronous transmission for ip-oriented network: A method and apparatus for communicating streaming data, such as audio and video streams, isochronously over a network. The invention may be utilized with power-line communication (PLC) networks or other IP-based networks. Hardware is configured for packetizing the streaming data, such as MPEG streaming data, which is communicated at the...

20060039400 - Pause frame reconciliation in end-to-end and local flow control for ethernet over sonet: Whenever a PAUSE frame is generated locally, a pause refresh timer is set with the pause parameter from the PAUSE frame. PAUSE frames which are received from a remote data sink are trapped and the value of the pause parameter is evaluated. If the value is smaller than the current...

20060039401 - System and method for communicating asynchronously with synchronous web services using a mediator service: A system and method for mediating communication between a mobile device and a data source over a network. The system and method comprising: an asynchronous message receiver configured for receiving an asynchronous request message from the device over the network, the asynchronous request message containing a first message field of...

20060039402 - Express power load center: A power load center comprises a first terminal block adapted to receive multiple high voltage DC power feeder pairs, a protector block adapted to receive the multiple high voltage DC power pairs from the first terminal block and to aggregate them, a DC to DC voltage converter adapted to receive...

20060039404 - Systems and methods for adjusting the maximum transmission unit for encrypted communications: The present invention is generally directed towards a remote access architecture for providing peer-to-peer communications and remote access connectivity. In one embodiment, the remote access architecture of the present provides a method for establishing a direct connection between peer computing devices via a third computing device, such as a gateway....

20060039403 - Transmitting data: Transmitting packets of data from a first station to a second station. Each data packet conveys information of a first information type or a second information type thereby giving each an information type. Each data packet is transmitted using at least a first transmission process or a second transmission process...

20060039407 - Session continuity: Session continuity is supported by placing suitable functionality in a communications device and a communications system. In a communications device, a first interface is provided for transmitting data via an access network. A virtual interface corresponding to the first interface also is provided. Communications via the access network take place...

20060039405 - Systems and methods for frame ordering in wide port sas connections: Methods and structures for assuring proper sequencing of processing of SAS frames received over multiple physical ports of a SAS wide port. A frame scheduler element is communicatively coupled with a SAS transport layer and with a corresponding plurality of link layers operable as a SAS wide port. The frame...

20060039406 - Systems and methods for tag information validation in wide port sas connections: Methods and structures for validating tag information received in SAS frames by any of a plurality of ports comprising a SAS wide port. Each port may have a dedicated transport layer processing element. A tag information table is shared by all of the one or more transport layer processing elements....

20060039408 - Budget sensor bus: A single-wire bus protocol named Budget Sensor Bus (BBUS) for simplified system management. The BBUS may transmit information packets in NRZ format from a monitored device/circuit to a host. In one embodiment, each packet comprises a start sequence, a data type, a device or register number, device data, and a...

20060039409 - Code domain bit interleaving and reordering in ds-cdma mimo: A method for use in channel coding for cellular communication in case of a transmitter using a plurality of antennas to convey respective low-rate data streams each of which is modulated by a plurality of spreading codes so as to provide a respective plurality of code channels—some of which are...

20060039410 - Distributed device identifier numbering and total device counting algorithm with smart time division multiplexed serial port: A distributed method and apparatus for assigning a unique identifier number to devices connected in a sequential fashion and determining a total device count is presented. Additionally, a method and apparatus for enabling the support of a variable number and type of time slots within a time division multiplexed serial...

20060039411 - Sonet/sdh frame synchronization in the presence of high bit error rates: A SONET/SDH frame synchronization method uses one framing pattern to find the frame and a second framing pattern to monitor the frame after it is acquired. The first framing pattern uses twenty-four bits selected from the A1 and A2 bytes. After acquisition, the second framing, pattern uses only twelve bits,...

20060039412 - Method and device for compensating for runtime fluctuations of data packets: In a buffer (10) to compensate for runtime fluctuations of data packets (1) transmitted over a transmission line (40), in order to be able to set optimally an additional retransmission delay by the buffer (10) it is proposed to calculate the probable hold time of a data packet (1) immediately...

20060039413 - Apparatus and method for compression-transmitting and decoding picture information and storage medium stored its control programs: The present invention provides a real-time live picture information compression-transmission apparatus and method using a connection-less type protocol for a computer network. The compression-transmission apparatus is constituted to divide frame data output from a real-time encoder compressing live picture information into packets, and to transmit the live picture information in...

20060039414 - Digital modulating and demodulating device which is compatible with both pdh and sdh signals by dividing input signal in multiple directions and combining input signals from multiple directions with matrix switching unit: A digital modulating and demodulating device is compatible with both PDH and SDH signals by dividing and combining input signals in many directions with a matrix switching unit. The digital modulating and demodulating device is provided as a combination of two conventional PDH device with an SDH mapping circuit, an...

20060039415 - Sonet/sdh spe/virtual container retiming with adaptive dual pointer leak rate computation: Methods for retiming SONET signals include demultiplexing STS-1 signals from an STS-N signal, buffering each of the STS-1 signals in a FIFO, determining the FIFO depth over time, and determining a pointer leak rate based in part on FIFO depth and also based on the rate of received pointer movements....

20060039416 - Time multiplexed sonet line processing: Time multiplexed processing of multiple SONET signals uses the same shared circuitry for framing, descrambling, maintenance signal processing, control byte processing and extraction, pointer tracking, retiming, and alarm indication. The signals are deserialized and multiplexed onto a byte-wide bus from which they are processed in a shared pipeline. Additional pipelines...

20060034162 - Multiple channel interference cancellation: A method and apparatus for reducing crosstalk in a multi-channel communication system is disclosed. In one embodiment, outgoing signals in a multi-channel environment are manipulated into a transform domain, such as the frequency domain. Thereafter, the signals may be combined and modified based on a weighting variable to create a...

20060034166 - Apparatus and method for symbol alignment in a multi-point ofdm/dmt digital communications system: A multi-point communications system that is set forth herein. The communication system comprises a head end unit disposed at a primary site and a plurality of receivers disposed at remote sites. The head end unit includes a transmitter for transmitting OFDM/DMT symbols over a predetermined number of bins across a...

20060034165 - Channel sounding for improved system performance: A transmitter generates and transmits a low rate signal to its intended receiver. Upon receiving the low rate signal, the intended receiver generates and transmits a channel sounding response (CSR), said CSR being a short burst having a predefined transmit format and carrying predetermined information. The transmitter then analyzes the...

20060034164 - Per stream rate control (psrc) for improving system efficiency in ofdm-mimo communication systems: A transmitter splits a user-data stream into a plurality of sub-streams. The transmitter then adaptively selects a modulation scheme and coding rate for each of the sub-streams based on current channel conditions. Next, a plurality of sub-carriers are modulated and encoded with the sub-stream data according to the selected modulation...

20060034163 - Pilot transmission schemes for a multi-antenna system: Efficient pilot transmission schemes for multi-antenna communication systems are described. In general, MISO receivers prefer a pilot transmitted in one spatial direction, and MIMO receivers typically require a pilot transmitted in different spatial directions. In one pilot transmission scheme, a first set of T scaled pilot symbols is generated with...

20060034167 - Communication resource reservation system for improved messaging performance: A system and method are provided for facilitating zero-copy communications between computing systems of a group of computing systems. The method includes allocating, in a first computing system of the group of computing systems, a pool of privileged communication resources from a privileged resource controller to a communications controller. The...

20060034169 - Device for preventing process collision based on plural inputted signals: A device for preventing a process collision based on plural of input signals includes an input block for receiving a first and a second input signals to thereby generates a first and a second process request signals, a collision controller for controlling the process collision in accordance with a predetermined...

20060034168 - Method for data flow control in a mobile communications system: A method for controlling the flow of data between an RNC and a base station of a UMTS mobile communications system with HSDPA capability via an Iub interface, where an HS-DSCH Frame Protocol mechanism is implemented in the Iub interface to provide control and data services for the communication of...

20060034170 - Networking device and content transmitting method using the same: A networking device and content transmitting method using the same are provided. The networking device includes a transmission path determining unit to determine a transmission path in order to transmit predetermined content to a device having requested the content, a priority determining unit to determine the priority of the content...

20060034174 - Communication apparatus and communication method: A communication apparatus includes a receiving device configured to receive one physical frame in which a plurality of MAC frames are aggregated. This physical frame includes one acknowledgement request frame for the plurality of MAC frames. The apparatus includes an acknowledgement frame forming device configured to form an acknowledgement frame...

20060034172 - Data credit pooling for point-to-point links: A system includes a first device and a second device interconnected with a point-to-point link and operable to transmit data to each other via the point-to-point link. The first device is operable to provide data credits to the second device which facilitate transmission of the data to the first device...

20060034171 - Forwarding of network traffic in respect of differentiated restricted transit network nodes: There is provided a method of forwarding a traffic flow in a communications network having at least one network node for which network traffic is selectively prevented from transiting the network node. The method includes the step of selecting a specified category of network traffic that is to be prevented...

20060034173 - Method of providing a gap indication during a sticky assignment: A method and apparatus are provided to manage the assignment transmission resource of forward and reserve link that is assigned to transmitting entity for a period of time. An indication of a gap is provided whenever the transmitting entity is not transmitting actual data packets (e.g. whole or part of...

20060034176 - Network adapter with tcp windowing support: A network adapter and corresponding method for its use are disclosed. The network adapter has an operational mode that allows a host CPU to offload transmission of a block of data to the adapter. The adapter segments the block into fragments, and builds a data packet for each fragment. The...

20060034177 - System for distributing decoy content in a peer to peer network: A system for generating and distributing decoy data for a work in a Peer to Peer network. The system is included in software providing a Peer to Peer connection for a processing system. The processing system receives data for a work over a Peer to Peer connection. The system then...

20060034175 - Transmission of data packets in containers: In case a transmission of a MAC-hs PDU is aborted and all the RLC PDUs contained therein are discarded, delays may occur since these lost PDUs have to be retransmitted on RLC protocol level resulting in considerable delay since the Iub and Iur text interfaces have to be passed. According...

20060034178 - Wireless lan communication method and apparatus: A wireless local area network (WLAN) communication method and apparatus are provided. The WLAN communication method includes allowing a receiving station to receive a multi input multi output (MIMO) frame, allowing the receiving station to determine whether the MIMO frame is erroneous and whether the MIMO frame is destined for...

20060034180 - Cable adapter port module: A cable adapter port module (CAPM) for providing test access to communication circuits associated with a digital subscriber line access multiplexer (DSLAM) includes a first plurality of ports for coupling the CAPM to the DSLAM. The CAPM includes a second plurality of ports for coupling the CAPM to a distribution...

20060034179 - Privileged network routing: Techniques are provided for establishing privileged paths for data packets over a network. A data packet is received with a header; the header includes a route selector. The route selector assists in resolving a privileged path for the data packet. The data packet is injected into the network over the...

20060034181 - Network system and supervisory server control method: A network system which facilitates the task of replacing switches pertaining to a detected link failure. A server network is formed from a plurality of switches and links. The link state of each port on the switches is being monitored by a link-down detector, and a switch port that has...

20060034186 - Frame transmission method in wireless environment and system thereof: A frame transmission method performed by a transmitting end in a video reproduction system having the transmitting end for wirelessly transmitting frames and a receiving end for receiving the frames transmitted from the transmitting end and reproducing a video signal. The transmitting end receives information about a state of a...

20060034187 - Method for measuring network performance parity: A method for measuring network performance parity includes the steps of computing a call completion ratio for at least one network provider, and determining whether the call completion ratio passes a first test. These steps may further include computing a first call completion ratio for a first network provider, a...

20060034183 - Method for minimizing collision during data broadcasts in ad hoc networks: A method determines a delay for rebroadcasting a packet received in a node via a channel of a wireless network. After the packet is received, the node measures a quality of the channel of the network. A broadcast degree of the receiving node is determined, and a delay for rebroadcasting...

20060034182 - Module to module signaling utilizing amplitude modulation: A method and apparatus configured to incorporate system data for transmission as part of or concurrently with network data. The system data may comprise communication system data for use in controlling or monitoring a communication system. The system data may be is utilized to control or adjust the amplitude or...

20060034184 - Multiple independent pathway communications: A system and method for utilizing multiple independent communication pathways for communication. Various aspects of the present invention may comprise receiving a first signal directly from a first communication network, where the first signal communicates a unit of information. A second signal may be received from a second communication network,...

20060034185 - Systems and methods for monitoring and evaluating a connectivity device: The end-to-end services provided to an end-user by a service provider in a communications network can be tested by a system including a testing agent embedded within a connectivity device and a receiving server for receiving and analyzing test data from the connectivity device. The testing agent performs one or...

20060034192 - Apparatus and system for coupling and decoupling initiator devices to a network using an arbitrated loop without disrupting the network: The present invention enables the coupling and decoupling of multiple processing devices to a network without disrupting the network. In an embodiment, the invention provides a switch having a network port and several initiator ports each configured for coupling to a processing device. The switch is configured to route data...

20060034189 - Apparatus, system, and method for controlling link status changes: An apparatus, system, and method are provided for controlling link status changes across multiple independent control modules. The apparatus includes a copy services module configured to control multiple link adapters, each configured to establish multiple communication links between a source and a target storage device. The adapter transmits a link...

20060034188 - Method and apparatus for analyzing a media path in a packet switched network: No-op media payload packets are used to analyze a media path in a packet switched network. In one embodiment, the no-op packets are Real Time Protocol (RTP) payload packets that contain no media content. A Real Time Control Protocol (RTCP) report is generated for the received RTP no-op packets. A...

20060034191 - Method, system, node, computer program product and communication packet for communicating information in an ad-hoc hierarchically addressed communication network: A method of communicating information in a communication network with a plurality of hierarchically addressed nodes includes receiving communication packets identifying 1-hop neighbor node addresses, a number of on-tree neighbors of neighbor nodes transmitting the received packets, and forwarding node addresses of forwarding nodes from which information in the received...

20060034190 - Receive load balancing on multiple network adapters: Systems, methodologies, media, and other embodiments associated with network load balancing are described. One exemplary system embodiment includes a load balancing logic configured to cause different portions of network traffic to be transmitted from a transmitting node to different network adapters in a receiving node to cause the network traffic...

20060034194 - Identifying connected components of a graph in parallel: A method and system for finding connected components of a graph using a parallel algorithm is provided. The connected nodes system performs a search algorithm in parallel to identify subgraphs of the graph in which the nodes of the subgraph are connected. The connected nodes system also identifies which subgraphs...

20060034193 - Method and apparatus for operating an ad-hoc communication system: An ad-hoc communication system is established where each node within the system may have multiple children nodes and parent nodes. An address scheme is proposed where each node may comprise more than one address, each address being based upon one of the parent's address. Because each node may have more...

20060034195 - Sip message extension for push to watch service: A PTW (Push To Watch) server inside an IMS platform implements a SIP-based protocol to deliver real time media streaming contents inside a PLMN coverage area. The PTW server adopts alternative use and definition of the SIP MESSAGE request and a new mimic for the interaction scheme. Three different labels,...

20060034197 - Electric apparatus and data recording and/or reproduction apparatus: An apparatus on the reception side for receiving a control signal in a wireless fashion is disclosed which achieves significant reduction of the standby power. The apparatus includes a wireless communication section for communicating, when the communication section is in an operation state, with a remote control apparatus to render...

20060034196 - Wireless code-passing system for stateful connection monitoring: A stateful connection is monitored between wireless communications devices. A first code packet is generated at a first wireless communications device. The first code packet is transmitted from the first wireless communications device to a second o wireless communications device. A determination is made whether a second code packet generated...

20060034198 - Informing a lawful interception system of the serving system an intercepted target: The present invention proposes a method for informing a lawful interception system of the serving system serving an intercepted target (MS) roaming within a communication network system, the communication network system comprising at least one serving system each serving system comprising at least one serving system node, (SGSN) serving the...

20060034199 - Method and system for providing a priority-based, low-collision distributed coordination function using a super-frame structure: A method for providing a priority-based, low-collision distributed coordination function (DCF) in a wireless network is provided. The network includes an access point and a plurality of stations. The method includes receiving at a first station a super-frame from the access point. The super-frame is operable to define a service...

20060034201 - Taxi dispatching system and dispatching method: A taxi customer requests a taxi dispatch using a mobile phone. A control center acquires the request and authenticates the telephone number by an incoming call log thereof, and then sends an e-mail with a URL to the e-mail address of the taxi customer. The taxi customer accesses the URL...

20060034200 - Wireless communication system, control station, and terminal station: The present invention provides a wireless communication system, a control station, and a terminal station whereby a direct link (DL) protocol can be initiated from the control station. A processor has a DL request AP packet generation unit (direct communication request generation instruction unit), which issues an instruction so that...

20060034204 - Establishment of radio resource control connection in wireless communication system: A method for controlling a user equipment (UE) having at least an upper layer which is above a radio resource control (RRC) layer, wherein the UE is capable of receiving a point-to-multipoint service and performing cell reselection in a wireless communication system comprises receiving an establishment parameter from the upper...

20060034203 - Mobile communication system and service control device: In a mobile communication system, an upper service control device transmits broadcast data to a plurality of mobile stations through a plurality of lower service control devices, based on a tree structure including a plurality of service control devices. The upper service control device is configured to stop only transmitting...

20060034205 - Reception in dedicated service of wireless communication system: The present invention is directed to receiving a point-to-multipoint service while receiving a dedicated service in a wireless communication system. A mobile terminal receives radio link configuration information from a network for establishing a radio link with a cell in order to receive the dedicated service. While receiving the radio...

20060034202 - Transmitting data to a group of receiving devices: A data transmission method transmits data to a group of receiving communication devices in a communication system comprising at least one cellular network. The method includes defining, by an application server situated beyond a cellular network, a group of receiving communication devices in the cellular network, the application server having...

20060034206 - Method for determing the distance between two transmitting and receiving stations and transmitting and receiving stations for carrying out said method: 1. Method for determining the distance between two transmitting and receiving stations and transmitting and receiving stations for carrying out the method. 2.1. In automotive engineering transmitting and receiving stations are usually used in keyless locking systems as electronic key modules or evaluation units for identifying the key module. Deactivation...

20060034218 - Cancellation of pilot and traffic signals: A method for removing selected signals from a received signal prior to decoding begins by receiving communication signals from a transmitter over a CDMA air interface. The received communication signals are input to a traffic signal cancellation system for canceling unwanted traffic signals, thereby producing an output (O). The received...

20060034211 - Communication apparatus, communication control unit, communication method and computer-readable storage medium: A communication apparatus makes a wireless communication with a communication control unit that is coupled to a network. The communication apparatus includes a part to make a call with respect to another communication apparatus on a called end, a part to receive an address of the other communication apparatus on...

20060034212 - Dynamic compression training method and apparatus: An apparatus for communicating between an access endpoint and a mobile device endpoint comprising a network service center attached to the access endpoint. A memory stores a prototype corpus representing historical communication information. The network service center includes a processor to train the prototype corpus and create a plurality of...

20060034217 - Method and network device for enabling mimo station and siso station to coexist in wireless network without data collision: Provided are a method of enabling a multi-input multi-output (MIMO) station and a single input single output (SISO) station to coexist in a wireless network and a wireless network device. The method includes receiving information on a station when the station accesses a wireless network, setting coexistence information by comparing...

20060034210 - Method and system for providing a priority-based, low-collision distributed coordination function: A method for providing a priority-based, low-collision distributed coordination function in a wireless network that includes a plurality of stations is provided. The method includes determining a priority for a first station and selecting a back-off time for the first station based on the priority....

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