Multiplex communications inventions 03/06

20060067205 - Base station identification method for an fh-ofdma mimo communication system: A base station identification method for a frequency hopping-orthogonal frequency division multiple access (FH-OFDMA) based multi-input multi-output (MIMO) communication system that allocates a preamble, a pilot arrangement pattern and a pilot signal pattern per frame to each of base stations. A mobile station identifies a base station using at least...

20060067206 - Method and apparatus for communication in a system employing differing transmission protocols: A method and apparatus for communication in a system employing differing transmission protocols. It is determined whether a first time slot of one transmission protocol is adjacent to a second time slot of another transmission protocol, and if a first symbol within the first time slot is adjacent to a...

20060067207 - Radio communication apparatus and radio transmission method: In order to improve reception performance, while reducing the arithmetic amount of a receiver apparatus in a multi-carrier CDMA system, different weightings are performed for the respective spread codes (chips) included in subcarriers in addition to performing weightings for the respective subcarriers....

20060067208 - Method and device for medium-redundant operation of a terminal in a network: The invention relates to a method and device for medium-redundant operation of a terminal in a network. The device comprises: a first transmission device (6) of a physical bit transmission plane which is connected to a network component (9) via a first connection medium (8) disposed between the first transmission...

20060067209 - Universal configurable device gateway: A method and an apparatus for providing a configurable, object-oriented, protocol-neutral interface between a physical device and a server. The method includes coupling an application gateway with the physical device, where the application gateway includes a protocol gateway module configured for physical communication with the physical device, and an object...

20060067210 - Technique for identifying backup path for shared mesh protection: The Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP) is to gather outgoing interface identification information (e.g., outgoing interface ID's or IP addresses) for each node in a primary path. This information is “recorded” in an opaque object (referred to herein as the “RECORD PRIMARY PATH” or “RPP” object). In accordance with the present...

20060067211 - Node device, communication system and method for redundancy configuration: The present invention relates to a node device applied to BLSR, a communication system containing the node device and a redundancy configuration method for the node device. An object of the invention is to keep simplicity of 2F-BLSR, and implement span switching at the same level as that of 4F-BLSR....

20060067212 - Adjusting a transmission rate: In one embodiment, data is received from a plurality of token devices and the rate of transmission is adjusted to match a lowest reception rate of the plurality of token devices using the data....

20060067213 - Routing cost based network congestion control for quality of service: A method and system of congestion control in a network are provided. A required quality of service (QoS) parameter, such as a maximum allowable latency, for a packet received at a queue in the network, and a route cost metric, such as accumulated and estimated latency, are determined, and the...

20060067214 - Systems and methods to select access points on wireless networks with quality of service functionality: A client node selects an access point that can service its current and future bandwidth requirements. The client node locates one or more access points that are within range of the client node. The client node tests the located access points to determine which of them can handle its current...

20060067217 - Method and apparatus for path selection in telecommunication networks: This invention provides a method and an apparatus for selecting path in a telecommunication network. In the invention, a control strategy parameter is generated based on a control strategy, and a network condition parameter is generated based on the condition of the network, a path cost for each of a...

20060067216 - Method and system for analyzing network traffic: A method and system for analyzing network traffic are provided. A network traffic analyzer includes a plurality of data switching devices connected to a plurality of data hubs. Each data hub may have multiple input ports and multiple output ports and may be configured to broadcast all data packets received...

20060067219 - Method and system for scheduled streaming of best effort data: A system is provided for controlling the transmission of best-effort filed data or programs on channels from one of plural controllers to one or more client nodes. A program is a group of files and has program information indicating to a client node how to use the files of the...

20060067218 - Noc semi-automatic communication architecture for \"data flows\" applications: The invention relates to a data processing method in a network on chip formed of a plurality of resources (310,320) capable of communicating with one another and of processing and at least one network controller (300) capable of initialising the communications in the network by initialisation of a credit system,...

20060067215 - Preventing illicit communications: The present invention inspects packets to identify session initiation messages associated with select applications. A session initiation message may be any message used to initiate a communication session with another communication client. Once a session initiation message from a select application is identified, the intended communication session may be identified,...

20060067220 - Port tracking on dynamically negotiated ports: Techniques for tracking dynamically negotiated port connections in a network include collecting statistical information on packets that are sent between nodes on a network, inspecting packets of control connections to detect payload fragments that denote ephemeral port negotiation and producing a mapping from a ephemeral connection flow_id to a control...

20060067222 - Data communication apparatus: When data has been received by a sending and reception unit, a transmission control unit generates an ACK and outputs it to an ACK reduction unit. A reception interval measuring unit detects a time interval in the data which is received, and starts ACK reduction process by the ACK reduction...

20060067221 - Umts call handling methods and apparatus: Methods and apparatus for transparently switching a local instance of a UMTS protocol-based call from a first card or module of a media gateway to a second card or module of the media gateway, such that the remote end of the call is not aware that the call has been...

20060067224 - Network management: A computer program product comprises computer-readable instructions that cause a network management device (selected from one or more devices including one or more configured devices to which usage parameters necessary for using functions available via a network have already been set) to execute a process for managing the usage parameters...

20060067223 - Transmission band control method and transmission band control system: Inputted packets are sorted into flows and a minimum guaranteed transmission band is set up for each flow. When a back pressure signal for limiting a supply of packets to an output port is generated, in each flow containing the packets to be supplied to the output port, if the...

20060067226 - End-point based approach for determining network status in a wireless local area network: Determining the reasons for packet loss in a wireless local area network; such as an IEEE 802.11 network. The method uses the strength of received signals at a wireless station, such as the received signal strength indicator (RSSI), noise levels (e.g, non-802.11 energy in the 2.4 GHz frequency range), and...

20060067230 - Film forming method: A technique is provided that is capable of employing raw materials having no halogen, which has a high possibility of exerting a bad influence upon semiconductor elements, thereby to easily form molybdenum films (molybdenum silicide films or molybdenum nitride films) of which purity is high at a low temperature. A...

20060067228 - Flow based packet processing: In general, in one aspect, the disclosure describes a method that includes accessing a packet, determining a flow associated with the packet, and determining, based at least in part on the packet, whether to remove the flow from a list of flows to handle using page-flipping....

20060067225 - Hierarchical flow control for router atm interfaces: Presently disclosed is an apparatus and method for returning control of bandwidth allocation and packet scheduling to the routing engine in a network communications device containing an ATM interface. Virtual circuit (VC) flow control is augmented by the addition of a second flow control feedback signal from each virtual path...

20060067232 - Mobile network system for dynamically controlling communication path and method thereof: Disclosed is a mobile network system based on ad hoc on-demand distance vector (AODV) routing algorithm, including: a destination node: a source node for transmitting a data packet to the destination node by following a communication path; and a mobile node for receiving the data packet from a plurality of...

20060067231 - Packet reception control device and method: The packet reception control device includes: a load detection section for detecting a load on a processor and outputting the detection result; and a reception control section for determining whether or not the processor should receive a reception packet based on the detection result output from the load detection section...

20060067227 - Scheduled determination of network resource availability: A network controller of a wireless and/or wireline telecommunications network of an apparatus in one embodiment makes a scheduled determination of an availability of a network resource, of the wireless and/or wireline telecommunications network, based on a determination of success or failure in timely arrival of a message from the...

20060067229 - Transmitting data in a wireless network: This invention relates to a method for determining a transport block size for use in a data transmission comprising the steps of determining a desired code rate for transmission of the data, adjusting the transport block size if the desired code rate is associated with a reduced performance....

20060067233 - Network device with traffic shaping functions and bandwidth control method using leaky bucket algorithm: A network device with bandwidth usage control functions using a leaky bucket algorithm to provide a traffic service conforming to given user parameters. A leaky bucket counter produces a new leaky-bucket (LB) count at predetermined cell slot intervals by adding an output rate parameter to the previous count, and then...

20060067236 - Determining and provisioning paths in a network: A network provisioning system for establishing a path between two networks is disclosed wherein a common network device between those networks is modeled as a link between a first network element in one network and a second network element in a second network. A network routing graph is created by...

20060067235 - Differential delay constrained routing for virtually-concatenated data traffic: Virtually-concatenated data traffic is routed in a network comprising a plurality of nodes. For a given traffic demand to be routed from a source node to a destination node in the network, an initial candidate path set satisfying a differential delay constraint is determined by arranging a plurality of paths...

20060067234 - Method and device for designing a data network: A method of designing a transport network having a plurality of network elements and a plurality of connections between the network elements by (a) defining a first network configuration and at least one alternative network configuration for the same transport network; (b) calculating for each network configuration, a probability function...

20060067237 - Method and system for testing network connections: A novel method and system for testing network connections is provided. In an embodiment, the system includes a network, such as the Internet, which is connected to subscriber devices in a subscriber site via an service provider, a gateway in a telephone company central office, and a DSLAM in an...

20060067240 - Apparatus and method for detecting network traffic abnormality: An apparatus for detecting a network traffic abnormality includes: a pre-processing unit pre-processing traffics collected from at least one traffic collecting point in a network; a profiler modeling a normal traffic according to a characteristic of the traffic; an analysis model unit generating the thresholds based on the traffic; and...

20060067238 - Data unit management in communications: In Radio Link Control (RLC) apparatus, a mechanism is provided for detecting missing or corrupted data units at the receiving end of a transmission link, requesting retransmission and then monitoring the response to the retransmission request. Distinctively, a receiving communications entity 300 is equipped to act on a nil response....

20060067239 - System and method for fault identification: A novel method and system for fault identification is provided. A test head that is operable to generate a test signal along a pathway is employed. The test head is based on time domain reflectometry, and is thus operable to provide an estimated physical distance of where a fault occurs...

20060067245 - Adaptive duty cycle management method and system for radio transmitters: A duty cycle management system and method for use in a wireless device having a transmitter which transmits packets in the form of individual packets and/or packet bursts. A controller in combination with an instruction set limits the number of packets transmitted during each time period defined by one time...

20060067246 - Method and apparatus assigning network addresses for network devices: An apparatus and method effectively using communication resources supporting seamless automatic roaming over a wire/wireless multi-network. In the method, network addresses can be assigned to network devices which communicate to external devices via different communications routes, the method including updating state information of the network devices, and collecting the network...

20060067243 - Method and system for shared backup allocation in networks based on partial information: A method comprises allocating a respective restoration path to protect each of a plurality of primary paths in a network. Each primary path has a plurality of nodes and at least two subpaths connecting the nodes of the primary path. Each restoration path includes at least one link. Each link...

20060067242 - Packet error rate estimation in a communication system: Data communication includes an estimate of packet error rate that is useful, for example, when there is insufficient data transmission to provide a direct measurement of packet error rate. At least one pilot channel output provides a basis to determine an estimated packet error rate. One example includes using a...

20060067244 - Registration identifier reuse: A facility for generating and using a unique identifier as a key to identify a unique user agent instance among multiple user agents of the same user is provided. The facility generates an identifier for a first user agent instance, which is an instance of a user in an application...

20060067241 - Reliable file transfers using protocol scripting: System and method for providing reliable file transfers in a computing environment with a network with multiple communications protocols. A preferred embodiment comprises creating a script file containing a file to be transferred from a first device to a second device and the script file is then transferred to a...

20060067247 - Method for optimizing the frequency of network topology parameter updates: Accuracy of network topology information and efficient usage of available bandwidth when broadcasting topology updates are optimized in accordance with the principles of the present invention by collecting and utilizing locally known network usage information to update the network topology information between regular updates. This information is then used in...

20060067248 - Scalable methods and devices for computing routing paths within the internet: Routing-related scalability problems associated with the growth of the Internet are solved by assigning topologically encoded Internet addresses to each node within a network....

20060067250 - Method and apparatus for launching a conference based on presence of invitees: Methods and apparatus are provided for establishing a conference based on the presence or preferences (or both) of one or more invitees. The presence of each invitee is evaluated on one or more devices. A media type is selected based on the presence information. User preference information may be evaluated...

20060067249 - System and methods for announcing and locating services in a distributed peer-to-peer network: Systems and methods for announcing and locating services that are shared in a distributed manner within a peer-to-peer packet-based network are provided by embodiments of the invention. As opposed to every network device of the network requiring a copy of every desired service, one or more network devices maintain a...

20060067252 - Method and apparatus for providing communication tasks in a workflow: Methods and apparatus are provided for developing and processing workflows that include communication tasks. A workflow is generated according to the present invention by inserting at least one communication node in the workflow. The communication node associated is with a communication task having at least one property that is resolved...

20060067251 - Method for dynamically optimizing bandwidth allocation in variable bitrate (multi-rate) conferences: Method for dynamically optimizing bandwidth allocation in a variable bitrate conference environment. Conference means with two or more outputs are provided, where each one can output data at different rates, in order to support two or more endpoints which may have different media rates. Two or more endpoints are connected...

20060067253 - System and method for suppressing silence in voice traffic over an asynchronous communication medium: A method and system for increasing the efficiency of providing bandwidth for voice traffic to a data provider via asynchronous communication mediums is provided. This is generally accomplished by not transmitting any data during the silence periods and playing out background noise (i.e., comfort noise) at the other end, to...

20060067254 - Triband passive signal receptor network: A surface acoustic wave (SAW) triplexer receives radio frequency signals in three bands and provides output signal components for PCS, GPS, and cellular signal processing ports. The triplexer includes low pass filter and a high pass network operating with an antenna terminal for reception and separation of an incoming signal...

20060067255 - Telephone terminal, telephone system using telephone terminal and control method of telephone terminal: A telephone terminal includes a receiving detector which detects a signal level of a receiving voice signal incoming from the main device, a transmitting detector which detects a signal level of a transmitting voice signal to transmit it to the main device, an adjustment device to adjust the transmitting voice...

20060067256 - Method for the selection of forward error correction (fec)/ constellation pairings for digital transmitted segments based on learning radio link adaptation (rla): A method for the selection of forward error correction (FEC)/constellation pairings (800) for digital transmitted segments based on learning radio link adaptation (RLA) including formatting a packet transmission having a predetermined number of information bits (801). The packet is then split into a plurality of segments (803) where an RLA...

20060067261 - Base station apparatus comprising function for collecting information: A fixed image requesting unit periodically requests an information resource system for a fixed image. The fixed image obtained from the information resource system is held in a fixed image holding unit. Upon receiving a connection request from a user equipment to the information resource system, the congestion state managing...

20060067258 - Computing optimal channel allocations using decomposition methods and related devices: By decomposing (i.e., dividing) an interference graph into subgraphs, it becomes feasible to compute close approximations of an optimal channel allocation scheme within a reasonable amount of time. The channel allocation scheme may be used to allocate specific channels to access points (APs) in a wireless, local area network (WLAN)....

20060067257 - Method and apparatus for congestion relief within an ad-hoc communication system: A network reconfiguration protocol is provided that is initiated by the congested communication node (300). When a node (300) determines it is a bottleneck node, it will then analyze complaints from other nodes to determine which nodes are being affected by the bottleneck. The congested node will request the reconfiguration...

20060067260 - Updating associating data in a media device: A method of updating associating data in a media device is provided. The associating data relates to a service being transmitted over a radio interface of a telecommunication system and associates the service with a broadcast media stream transmitted by a broadcast system. A media device receives a broadcast media...

20060067259 - Wireless multiplex systems and methods for controlling devices in a vehicle: Methods and apparatuses for communicating wireless messages for controlling the functions of devices within a vehicle are provided. The apparatus comprises a first module having a first wireless control node positioned at a first location within the vehicle. The apparatus also includes a second module having a second wireless control...

20060067262 - Apparatus having and method for implementing a distributed architecture for receiving and/or transmitting radio frequency signals: A distributed architecture system for receiving radio frequency (RF) signals includes a receiving unit receiving a plurality of RF signals. The receiving unit includes means for combining the plurality of RF signals into a multiplexed signal. A head unit receives and separates the multiplexed signal into a plurality of information...

20060067263 - Techniques to manage multiple receivers: Method and apparatus to manage multiple receivers for a wireless device are described....

20060067264 - Method and apparatus to provide selective status information for communications channel(s): An integrated circuit maintains status information for a communications channel. The integrated circuit selects a portion of the status information maintained for the communications channel. The integrated circuit repeatedly transmits the selected portion of status information over a time-division multiplexed channel to a host....

20060067265 - Apparatus of dynamically assigning external home agent for mobile virtual private networks and method for the same: An apparatus dynamically assigns external home agent (HA) for VPNs and a method for the same is proposed. The apparatus establishes VPN between an internal network and at least one external network, whereby a mobile node (MN) can roam in the external network with security. The external HA closest to...

20060067268 - Method for controlling power and a transmission rate of a shared forward link data channel in a mobile communication system: A method for controlling power of a shared forward link data channel for multicasting in a mobile communication system. The method includes the steps of initializing a virtual gain for each mobile terminal with which the shared forward link data channel is established, receiving power control request information from each...

20060067267 - Methods and devices for approximating optimal channel allocations: Channels are allocated to access points (APs) within a wireless, local area network (WLAN) in a reasonable time period using approximation methods. One approximation method guarantees channel allocations will be no less than ⅙ of an optimal channel allocation scheme provided the interference pattern associated with APs within a given...

20060067266 - Radio control over internet protocol system: A system for augmenting the transmission of audio and data information from a console (45) to a network (48). The system utilizes a data packet format that permits the detection and capture of relatively more detailed information from raw signal data that may otherwise not be available during the course...

20060067270 - Method and system for control of capacity in a communication network: A controller (103a, 103b) provides dynamic capacity, for use in connection with a communication network (101). A processor of the controller (103a, 103b) that can be utilized in the communication network can be configured to facilitate determining whether a current load level is below a predetermined low usage, and responsive...

20060067269 - Method of scheduling users in wireless communication networks: In a method of scheduling, one or more additional users of a group may be selected, to be simultaneously scheduled with a first user of the group that has already been scheduled. The selection of the one or more users may be made based on spatial information of the users...

20060067273 - Active session mobility solution for radio link protocol: An active session mobility solution for radio link protocol (RLP) in accordance with the present invention defines two RLP migrations states. A first state is defined as a forward-link RLP state and depicts the communication of data from a home agent to an access terminal in an IP network. A...

20060067271 - Apparatus of dynamically assigning external home agent for mobile virtual private networks and method for the same: An apparatus dynamically assigns external home agent (HA) for VPNs and a method for the same is proposed. The apparatus establishes VPN between an internal network and at least one external network, whereby a mobile node (MN) can roam in the external network with security. The external HA closest to...

20060067274 - Method and apparatus for merging call components during call reconstruction:

20060067272 - Method and system for fast roaming of a mobile unit in a wireless network: Described is a method and system for fast roaming of a mobile unit in a wireless network. An access point receives a packet from a wireless computing unit which includes unit identifying data and an association request to establish communications via the access point. The packet is processed to initiate...

20060067275 - Mobile network coverage: A method for estimating cell coverage in a mobile telecommunications network. The method includes the steps of receiving signal quality and position information from the users of the network and using the information to calculate a coverage map. Update information is also received to update the coverage map. The estimated...

20060067276 - Outer loop power control in a communication system: Outer loop power control for a traffic channel includes using at least one output from another channel to determine an appropriate control threshold such as a signal-to-noise ratio when selected channel conditions exist. One example traffic channel condition comprises having insufficient data transmission to provide a direct measurement of packet...

20060067277 - Method and apparatus for mimo transmission optimized for successive cancellation receivers: A method for communicating a plurality of data streams between a transmitting device with multiple transmit antennas and a receiving device, is disclosed. The method comprises determining a list consisting of a subset of the multiple transmit antennas on which the transmitting device will transmit data, determining a set of...

20060067278 - Communication system using ofdm for one direction and dsss for another direction: A method and apparatus for wireless communication are described. In one embodiment, a method for communicating with a subscriber comprises transmitting orthogonal frequency domain multiplexing (OFDM) signals to the subscriber, and receiving direct-sequence spread spectrum (DSSS) signals from the subscriber....

20060067279 - Method of controlling transmit power for retransmission packet in uplink dedicated channel: A method of transmitting a data packet based on a transport format combination set (TFCS) using a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) is disclosed. In the method, a user equipment (UE) receives a TFCS from a base station (BS) to select a transport format combination (TFC) for retransmitting a data...

20060067281 - Partial combining method and apparatus for multimedia broadcast/multicast service: A method and apparatus for enabling partial combining on a Multimedia Broadcast/Multicast Service (MBMS) service are provided where a radio network controller (RNC) specifically informs a user equipment (UE) whether an MBMS service signal of the current cell is combinable with the same MBMS service signals received from different cells...

20060067280 - Wireless medium access control protocol with micro-scheduling: A micro-scheduling capability provides networks with the capability of dynamically managing time slots. Such time slots may be contained within a superframe that begins with a beacon transmitted by a node. One or more particular time slots are designated as micro-scheduled time allocations, the composition of which may be dynamically...

20060067288 - Apparatus and method for dynamically managing sub-channels: An apparatus and method for dynamically managing sub-channels are provided. The apparatus includes a sub-channel control module, a sub-channel monitoring module, and a scheduling module. The sub-channel control module provides first channel status information on the status of a previous sub-channel for streaming data transmission and requests second channel status...

20060067282 - Link layered networks: A method and system for optimizing and keeping operational a wireless link layered network in which a system control and modifying message (SCMM) is elicited from nodes receiving information packets and based upon whether the node originating the SCMM is from a link layer level is equal to or less...

20060067283 - Method and apparatus for channel assignment within ad-hoc communication system: A method and apparatus for channel assignment within an ad-hoc communication system utilizing multiple channels is provided herein. Individual nodes receive and send route-request (RREQ) packets on all channels rather than a single channel. Each route-request packet comprises a first and a second table. The first table comprises a channel...

20060067290 - Network identifier configuration method, communication method and wireless communication terminal: A game device is provided with an SSID setting unit and a channel setting unit. The SSID setting unit sets up an SSID to include an application ID uniquely defined for an application to be executed. For example, when an application A is executed, the SSID is set up to...

20060067284 - Prepaid internet protocol-based services facilitation method and apparatus: Prepaid Internet Protocol-based services for a plurality of Internet Protocol-based services are provisioned by automatically and dynamically determining, for a given mobile node, the Internet Protocol-based services for which the mobile node has prepaid access, and then providing an authentication message (for example, to a supporting packet data serving node)...

20060067287 - Session invitation method and system: Session invitation method and system in a PTx communication system are disclosed. For session invitation, an inviting terminal adds first media information corresponding to session information in an invitation message and transmits it or transmits it through an RTP. Then, the first media information received by an invited terminal is...

20060067285 - System and method for using presence to configure an access point: A telecommunications system includes a wireless packet network; a cellular telephone network; at least one computing device including a wireless network interface card for communicating over the wireless packet network; at least one cellular telephone device, the cellular telephone device having a cellular telephone mode for communicating over the cellular...

20060067289 - Transmitting/receiving 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 the point-to-multipoint service on a physical channel from a network. The method also comprises receiving a first scheduling indicator associated with a number of scheduling periods where there is...

20060067286 - Wireless asset monitoring system and method having designations of logical place: A system for wirelessly monitoring assets using a multi-hop communications network (10) includes a group of networked communications nodes for transmitting a beaconing radio frequency (RF) signal from a group of network nodes (11, 13, 15). One or more asset nodes (17, 19) are used for receiving the beaconing RF...

20060067291 - Communication system, base station apparatus, server apparatus, mobile station apparatus, and transmission data amount determining method: It is advantageous for present invention to suitably determine amounts of transmission data for links in a multilink communication. In a mobile communication system (10) for making a multilink communication through which a communication is performed by using a plurality of links relayed by a plurality of base station apparatus...

20060067292 - Apparatus and method for detecting pilot signal in mobile communication system: An apparatus and method for detecting a pilot signal in a mobile communication system are provided by which the processing time taken to demodulate a traffic channel based on a channel estimation result can be reduced, and thus, the size of a buffer for buffering signals until the presence of...

20060067293 - Digital synthesis of communication signals: The present invention provides apparatus, systems and methods for directly digitally synthesizing communication signals or waveforms. That is, waveforms that carry data are generated by a digital-to-analog converter (DAC) at the radio frequency used to transmit the waveforms. One embodiment of the present invention comprises a digital processor configured to...

20060067295 - Method and system for automatically configuring a wireless peripheral device in a network environment: A method of automated wireless peripheral device configuration in a network environment comprises conditioning an existing networked wireless peripheral device to transmit configuration data to a new wireless peripheral device to be added to the network environment. At the new wireless peripheral device, the configuration data is received and automatically...

20060067294 - Methods and devices for selecting internet routing paths: Network convergence is greatly reduced because new routing paths are only selected when they are substantially better than pre-existing, best available paths....

20060067296 - Predictive tuning of unscheduled streaming digital content: A predictive tuning system enables a user to easily and efficiently find desired digital content among a plurality of content streams. Using a data collector, analyzer, and distributed tuning service, users may specify one or more particular items of interest, and the system, through the use of predictive algorithms, determines...

20060067307 - Architectures for clearing and settlement services between internet telephony clearinghouses: A system for routing voice telephone calls over IP networks as opposed to traditional switched circuit networks. The voice communications during the telephone call are packaged as digital data and access the Internet through gateways. The system supports the linking of a source gateway in a first clearinghouse to a...

20060067309 - Call transfer using session initiation protocol (sip): A system is provided for providing communication event routing and transfer capability in a multi-site communication-center environment. The system utilizes a presence protocol application and a routing application for determining availability of an agent or system and for setting up the transfer from a point of transfer on a network...

20060067301 - Forcing v.34 fax terminals to fallback to legacy g3 modulations over voice over intrnet protocol networks: Gracefully forcing two V.34 fax devices to use legacy G3 modulations (e,g., V.21, V.27ter, V.29, V.17) when communicating over a packet network (e.g, voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP)network). To force an originating fax terminal 10 and receiving fax terminal 18 to fallback to legacy modulation procedures, transmission of a Call...

20060067304 - Internet radio receiver with linear tuning interface: A system for supplying streaming media or other media sources to clients, said system providing for selection of internet based audio content providers based on arbitrarily assigned numbers that function as proxies for the URL or IP address of the audio content providers....

20060067305 - Ip telephone system, ip telephone apparatus and communications method: A CPU of an IP telephone apparatus transmits, to an ENUM server, a message “Request the NAPTR record” corresponding to the destination terminal. The CPU also receives a message “Respond to the NAPTR information” in response to the message “Respond to the NAPTR record”. Further, the CPU automatically transmits, from...

20060067298 - Method for management of voice-over ip communications: Method for admitting new voice calls to a VoIP network. Various points in the network are polled to generate a link utilization parameter. Parameters denoting threshold values of link utilization in the network are compared to the link utilization parameter. A first comparison is made between a first (current) link...

20060067302 - Methods and devices for achieving parallel operation between ip and analog phones: An IP bridge phone for operatively coupling one or more analog phones to a digital communications network to support parallel communications is disclosed. The IP bridge phone includes a phone handset interface adapted to connect to a phone handset, an analog phone interface, and a network interface. A mixing module...

20060067308 - Providing subscriber information in voice over ip (voip) system: Subscriber information is provided in a Voice over IP (VoIP) system by transmitting multimedia data (e.g., graphics data or image data) depending on Caller Identification (CID) information of respective IP terminals connected to the VoIP system to a called IP terminal, or to broadcast multimedia data to the respective IP...

20060067306 - Space diversity receiver: The space diversity receiver having first and second reception antennas 4, 5 that receive packet data in which a predetermined frame synchronous pattern is inserted in every fixed period to be compared with the predetermined frame synchronous pattern so that whether to employ packet data X1 received by the first...

20060067300 - System and method for bridge call appearance in distributed peer-to-peer network: A Bridge Call Appearance (BCA) Group including a plurality of peer-to-peer packet-based devices and methods for operating the BCA Group are provided by embodiments of the present invention. In the BCA Group at least one peer-to-peer packet-based device is designated as a primary device and remaining peer-to-peer packet-based devices are...

20060067303 - System and method for recording call details and memory product: The present invention provides a system, method and a memory product storing a computer program for recording call details that allows inexpensive recording of voice data of a phone call on the IP phone system, while easily maintaining high sound quality of the call. A CDR system is provided with...

20060067299 - System and method for setting presence status based on access point usage: A telecommunications system includes a wireless packet network; a cellular telephone network; at least one computing device including a wireless network interface card for communicating over the wireless packet network; at least one cellular telephone device, the cellular telephone device having a cellular telephone mode for communicating over the cellular...

20060067297 - System and method for supporting concurrent communication over multiple acces points and physical media: A system and method for enabling communication concurrently over multiple access points and multiple physical media including but not limited to: cellular, network (e.g., Ethernet), broadband wireless, audio communication schemes....

20060067310 - Apparatus and method for controlling communication, and computer program product: A communication control apparatus includes a storing unit that stores terminal information including respective identifiers of a plurality of communication terminals, respective user identifiers, and respective media types, each media type indicating data format processed by each communication terminal. The apparatus also includes a selecting unit that selects second and...

20060067311 - Method of processing packet data at a high speed: To provide a packet processing method which is able to prevent data loss to transfer data fast, a communications system includes a FIFO buffer that stores received packet data and a cache memory that caches the received packet data stored in the FIFO buffer. After storing the received packet data...

20060067312 - Apparatus and method capable of improved coexistence of multiple wireless communication techniques: An embodiment of the present invention provides an apparatus, comprising a first transceiver capable of wireless communication using a first technique, the first technique including the use of control packets; a second transceiver capable of wireless communication using a second technique, the second technique capable of establishing a transmission priority...

20060067317 - Arrangement and a method relating to access systems: The present invention relates to an arrangement for providing communication between end users, and/or end users and service providers, over an access network supporting communication of packet data in frames according to Ethernet technology. It comprises means for, at least for establishment of a packet connection between an end user...

20060067315 - Building packets in a multi-protocol environment: Assembling packets includes determining portions of the packets in parallel. Determining portions of the packets in parallel includes determining a first header portion of the packets in parallel with determining a second header portion of the packets. Corresponding ones of the determined portions are combined to form the packets....

20060067313 - Method and apparatus for extraction and insertion of plesiochronous overhead data: The invention comprises a method and apparatus for adapting plesiochronous hierarchical layered data to produce synchronous hierarchical layered data. Similarly, the invention comprises a method and apparatus for adapting synchronous hierarchical layered data to produce plesiochronous hierarchical layered data....

20060067316 - Method and apparatus for tracking costs associated with propagating a data packet: Cost information is tracked for a data packet propagated through a node by receiving a data packet, creating a cost carrier descriptor and then forwarding the data packet to another node....

20060067314 - Overhead processing and generation techniques: Techniques to allocate overhead processing and overhead generation among at least data and overhead processors. The data processor and overhead processor may be provided in separate integrated circuits. The data processor and overhead processor may be provided in separate line cards. Multiple data processors may share use of one or...

20060067319 - Communication system and master apparatus: In a slave station, the reception terminal and the transmission terminal can be connected to the reception terminal and the transmission terminal of the extension connector of a master station. Two-byte data is transmitted and received between the master station and the slave station as one packet. The master station...

20060067318 - Low latency communication via memory windows: A high performance computer system has compute nodes interconnected by an inter-node communication network. The compute nodes include local packetized interconnects. Shared memory between compute nodes is emulated by tunneling packetized interconnect packets between the compute nodes. A memory region on one of the compute nodes is used as a...

20060067320 - Method of transferring messages: The present invention concerns a server and a method for transferring a message originating in a telecommunication network to an addressed subscriber. A telecommunication terminal sends a message to a server. The server inserts an address allocated to a TV set of the address subscriber to the message or encrypts...

20060067321 - Subscriber line accommodation apparatus and packet filtering method: In a subscriber line accommodation apparatus, subscriber line termination units individually terminate a plurality of subscriber lines. An address information acquisition unit successively acquires, as address information, a dynamic address dynamically assigned to each of the communication terminals connected to the subscriber lines terminated by the subscriber line termination unit....

20060067322 - Automatic setting method for atm network: An automatic setting method for ATM network is used in an information device for automatic connecting to an ATM network of an ISP office. At first an automatic configuration table is provided and includes a plurality sets of setting parameters of virtual path identifier (VPI)/virtual channel identifier (VCI) and encapsulation...

20060067323 - Method and apparatus for providing fault tolerance to intelligent voice-over-ip endpoint terminals: When an intelligent VoIP endpoint terminal on a VoIP network becomes inoperative for any reason and can't respond to a service request that it had been programmed for, rather than leaving that service request unfulfilled, a VoIP network-hosted instance of that primarily endpoint terminal-provided service is invoked to handle that...

20060067324 - Method and apparatus for supporting voice service through radio channel in mobile telecommunication system: A method and an apparatus for supporting a voice service through a radio channel in a mobile telecommunication system are provided, wherein the method includes the steps of determining a voice codec mode, byte-alignment information about a byte-alignment scheme of a voice packet, a requested bandwidth and a codec type...

20060067329 - Method and apparatus for measuring quality of service in voice-over-ip network applications based on speech characteristics: A method and apparatus for measuring Quality-of-Service (QoS) in packet-based communications networks for Voice-over-IP applications is advantageously based not only on packet loss information but also on particular characteristics of the speech data itself. Measurement of failures of the “quasi-stationary” (QS) property of speech—that is, the assumption that both the...

20060067330 - Method and arrangement for routing data packets in a packet-switched data network: The invention relates to a method, whereby between two adjacent network nodes which together comprise at least two parallel connecting paths and each comprise one routing table containing path information, said connecting paths are operated as independent transmission paths by means of corresponding entries in the routing tables....

20060067326 - Base band board and method of thereof processing multi-standard services: The present invention discloses a base band board supporting multiple standards, the base band board comprises only one DSP cluster, a plurality of DSPs of the DSP cluster being connected together via a bus for providing resources for uplink and downlink processing of various services of each standard, the base...

20060067325 - Method and apparatus for sorting packets in packet schedulers using a connected trie data structure: A method and apparatus for sorting packets by packet schedulers using a connected trie data structure is described. According to one embodiment of the invention, the packet scheduler receives a packet on a network and assigns the packet a time stamp value. The packet is inserted into a trie data...

20060067331 - Method for routing traffic using traffic weighting factors: The invention comprises a method for routing traffic from a first node towards a plurality of intermediate nodes according to respective traffic weighting factors associated with the plurality of intermediate nodes....

20060067327 - Information distribution system, method and network devices: A method involves, at a network device, receiving information; storing the information; and sending the information to at least one other network. The information is adapted for use by the network device and the at least one other network device in providing local facilitating related functionality. In some implementations the...

20060067328 - Method and apparatus for offset interleaving of vocoder frames: The disclosed embodiments provide methods and apparatus for offset interleaving of media frames for transmission over a communication network. In one aspect, a method for interleaving a stream of media frames for transmission over a communication network includes the acts of defining a plurality of packets and interleaving a stream...

20060067333 - Architecture for dynamically adaptive transport protocols: Systems and methods for reconfiguring a transport-layer protocol are disclosed. The transport-layer protocol is implemented by a plurality of transport-layer mechanisms. Each transport-layer mechanism resides in a dynamically loadable module and implements a specific area of transport-layer functionality. One method comprises: performing an initial load of a first plurality of...

20060067332 - Method and device for detecting connectivity termination of internet protocol version 6 access networks: The present invention discloses a method and device for detecting connectivity termination in an IPv6 access network based on a DHCP service model. The method for detecting connectivity termination according to the invention comprises the steps of: creating an entry of the subscriber connectivity cache list corresponding to the subscriber...

20060067334 - System and methods for dynamic generation of point / tag configurations: A system and methods for implementing tag synchronization routines providing automated tag definition and management functionalities. Tag configurations are highly configurable to obtain information from multiple back end systems and able to support data access from many different sources. Additionally, the tag configurations provide convenient mechanisms by which to control...

20060067335 - Method of managing a network system for a storage system: Provided is a method of managing a network system including a computer device which processes data, a storage system which is used in the computer device to store data, and a switch which connects the computer device and the storage system to each other. The storage system sets VLANs and...

20060067336 - Parameter setting system, device and parameter setting program: A parameter setting system includes a setting device and setting target devices. The setting device includes a protocol inquiry mechanism that inquires the setting target device about a communication protocol acceptable to the setting target device; and a setting command mechanism that commands the setting target device to set the...

20060067338 - Method and apparatus for providing distributed slf routing capability in an internet multimedia subsystem (ims) network: A routing technique for supporting an internet protocol (IP) Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) Subscriber Locator Function (SLF) is provided. It is, in part, based on using a user's identification information, e.g. a user's realm, to facilitate the routing of information. This technique enables the implementation of a distributed subscriber location function...

20060067337 - Methods and devices for generating a hierarchical structure for the internet: A hierarchical structure for the Internet only requires designated nodal elements, each within its own associated cluster of nodal elements, to compute routing paths to other similarly designated nodal elements outside of its cluster. In this manner, the number of routing paths needed to be computed by a given element...

20060067339 - Swapping a nonoperational networked electronic system for an operational networked electronic system: A method of switching a network access configuration associated with a first electronic system to a second electronic system via a network is described. The first electronic system is inoperable. The second electronic system replaces the first electronic system such that a user seamlessly transitions from the first electronic system...

20060067343 - Address information display system and address information display program: When a management PC (as an address information display device in an address information display system) displays IPv6 addresses that have been assigned to a device in the system, the addresses may be displayed in a pull-down menu, for example. The display order in the pull-down menu may be determined...

20060067342 - Method and system in an ip network for using a network address translation (nat) with any type of application: The present invention is based on a dual dynamic Network Address Translation (NAT) one Network Address Translation (NAT) is executed close to the client stations of customers (to NAT), and one Network Address Translation (NAT) is executed close to the application server (to un-NAT). The networks between the client stations...

20060067341 - Method, system and computer program using standard interfaces for independent device controllers: A system, method and computer program for controlling devices in a control area network that includes providing a first application programming interface containing a first set of functions in a control area network and coupling one or more functions of the first set of functions with a physical device. The...

20060067340 - Methods and apparatus for managing tls connections in a large soft switch: Methods for efficiently establishing TLS connections include detecting the proximity of a user relative to a communication device and establishing a TLS connection between the switch and the communication device based on the proximity of the user. An apparatus according to the invention may include one or more proximity sensors...

20060067344 - Network system, gateway, radio terminal, and recording medium: A radio terminal belonging to an internal network can communicate with a radio terminal belonging to another internal network via the Internet. Each radio terminal has a callsign, and a gateway has a global IP address and a table which associates each radio terminal with the global IP address of...

20060067347 - Cell-based queue management in software: A system and method to implement cell-based queue management in software. Packets are received from a packet-based medium. In response, packet pointers are enqueued into a virtual output queue (“VOQ”). When a dequeue request to dequeue a cell for the VOQ is received, one of the packet pointers is speculatively...

20060067349 - Dynamically assigning packet flows: In general, in one aspect, the disclosure describes a method includes accessing data of an egress packet belonging to a flow, storing data associating the flow with at least one queue based on a source of the data of the egress packet. The method also includes accessing an ingress packet...

20060067345 - Packet processing device and method: There is provided a packet processing device for, when decoding variable length data that is split into packets, realizing a reduction in processing load at a decoder, by providing information for identifying a start position of the data. A header analyzing section (11) determines whether data stored in a packet...

20060067348 - System and method for efficient memory access of queue control data structures: A system that queues data packets includes efficient memory access of queue control data structures....

20060067346 - System and method for placement of rdma payload into application memory of a processor system: A system and method for placement of RDMA payload into application memory of a processor system. Under one embodiment, a network adapter system is capable of use in network communication in accordance with a direct data placement (DDP) protocol, e.g., RDMA. The network adapter system includes adapter memory and a...

20060067350 - Method of assigning network identifiers by means of interface identifiers: A method is dedicated to dynamically assigning interface network identifiers for interfaces of network equipments connected to an Internet Protocol communication network including a DHCP network identifier server. In this method, when a network equipment requires an interface network identifier for one of its interfaces, designated by an interface identifier...

20060067351 - Method and system for network emulation using bandwidth emulation techniques: A method and system for emulating a network bandwidth condition includes maintaining a queue for holding packets that are received, maintaining a virtual time that is updated whenever a packet timer is scheduled, and, for a selected packet waiting in the queue, calculating a timer expiration time based on the...

20060067352 - Method and apparatus for providing a virtual assistant to a communication participant: Methods and apparatus are disclosed for providing a virtual assistant to at least one party of a communication. The virtual assistant is injected into the communication, for example, by a VXML engine. The operation of the virtual assistant is controlled by one or more software modules that are obtained from...

20060067353 - Providing information in a cellular communication network: A method provides information in a cellular communication network. The method comprises broadcasting a point-to-multipoint service in at least one cell. The method further comprises providing an indication for determining a time point on which requesting a point-to-multipoint service session of the point-to-multipoint service is to be stopped in the...

20060067354 - Method and apparatus for managing communications: Controlling a signal transmitted from a device in a vacant channel in a spectrum....

20060067355 - Binding information for telecommunications network: Various binding information techniques are provided for a telecommunications network (20) having separated call and connection layers. In a first embodiment of the invention, binding information is associated with connection endpoint information for a first connection end point (36A) at a first end node (22A) of the network. In a...

20060067356 - Method and apparatus for network direct attached storage: An apparatus and method for providing a storage medium accessible across a network to a host. The storage medium's operation is generally controlled by a network disk controller. The network disk controller may receive a packet from a remote host, decapsulate the packet, and act on the packet to either...

20060067357 - Automated power management for servers using wake-on-lan: A system and method for managing power in a network. The method including a client accessing a desired resource listed in a lookup table. Accessing the resource causes an operating system to retrieve a network address for a server hosting the resource. A specially formatted packet is sent to the...

20060067358 - Transceiver module: A transceiver module is provided with a transceiver IC (PHY IC) having an XENPAK register group including an status register, and a DCU having an XENPAK register group which emulates the XENPAK register group. The PHY IC has an operation mode in which it does not reply to access to...

20060067359 - Detection of looping communication channels: A method is disclosed that enables a data-processing system, such as a private branch exchange, to detect and disconnect looping communication channels, without some of the costs, disadvantages, and limitations of techniques in the prior art. The illustrative embodiment of the present invention provides detection of looping communication channels at...

20060067360 - System, device, method and computer program product for managing devices: A system for managing a communication device having a first function of using a first communication protocol and a second function of using a second communication protocol is provided. The communication device is connected to a network including a first device using the first communication protocol and a second device...

20060067361 - Communicating control messages 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 subscribing to the point-to-multipoint service. The method also comprises receiving modified point-to-multipoint control information during a certain period from the network, wherein point-to-multipoint control information is separated into at least...

20060067362 - Statistical remultiplexer performance for video on demand applications by use of metadata: The present invention improves the performance of video on demand (VOD) in a digital cable system. A statistical remultiplexer (stat mux) acquires metadata that statistically describes the bandwidth characteristics of each VOD channel. When the metadata indicates that the VOD channel will require more bandwidth than is available, the stat...

20060067363 - Wireless repeater, the method for wireless repeating, and data communications system: A wireless repeater on a communication line has a structure that includes a plurality of wireless communication media, and a band control unit that changes the first bandwidth of the communications line according to increase and decrease in the number of wireless communication media by an operation dividing the first...

20060067364 - Method of processing data in a medium access control (mac) layer: A method of processing data in a Medium Access Control (MAC) layer through which at least one first channel is mapped to a second channel in a transmitting end of a wireless communication system is disclosed. More specifically, a MAC layer data block is configured by including at least one...

20060067365 - Initialization seed to allow data padding for cyclic redundancy code calculation: Embodiments include determining seed codes for various numbers of padding bits to be used to pad least significant bit (LSB) positions of a variable length message. Thus, a transmitter having a uniform length cyclic redundancy code (CRC) calculator may accept variable length messages and pad them with various numbers of...

20060067366 - Time division multiplexed transport emulation using symbol encoded physical layer: Embodiments of methods, apparatuses, and systems to transport Time Division Multiplexed (TDM) utilizing symbol encoded physical layer are disclosed. The embodiments of the invention provide a low cost solution to exchange data between TDM data elements while retaining guaranteed performance. A media access control layer generates framed data and the...

20060067367 - Method for selecting timing master in synchronous ethernet system: Disclosed is a method for establishing a synchronization in a synchronous Ethernet system. Devices are classified according to the type of the devices, and a device having a highest class in the synchronous Ethernet system is detected, then it is determined if the device having the highest class is able...

20060067369 - Method and apparatus for multi-modulation frame synchronization in a digital communication system: A method and apparatus for frame synchronization in digital communication systems using multiple modulation formats perform a search for a differential frame alignment sequence (FAS) to frame-align the received digital stream and determine the polarity of the stream. Embodiments of the invention are compatible with Differential Phase Shift Keying (DPSK),...

20060067368 - Method and apparatus for providing frame synchronization in a digital communication system that supports multiple modulation formats: A method and apparatus for frame synchronization in digital communication systems using multiple modulation formats, including the Differential Phase Shift Keying (DPSK), Duobinary Signaling (DBS), and ON/OFF Keying (OOK) modulation formats, perform a search for both a frame alignment sequence (FAS) and the inverted FAS and determine the polarity of...

20060067370 - Method and apparatus for sdh/sonet frame alignment: The invention discloses a frame alignment method. Based on time-sharing structure of SDH/SONET data, the methods use one common circuit to complete functions like pointer interpretation, pointer generation and payload interception and storage, etc. The method stores information of every channel which is being processed respectively, and then controls reading...

20060067371 - Method and apparatus for signaling transmission code set in data broadcasting: A method of and an apparatus are provided for signaling a transmission code set in data broadcasting. A client using the transmission code set signaling method includes a demultiplexer demultiplexing a packetized elementary stream (PES) packet corresponding to a program selected by a user from the broadcasting stream received by...

20060056278 - Devices and methods of modulation and demodulation enabling the extension or replacement of a communications link, corresponding sender and receiver: A modulation device comprises for each carrier frequency: means of discrimination between a signal coming from a first channel of a communications link and a signal coming from a second channel of said link, so as to obtain differentiated first and second signals; first assigning means, enabling the assigning of...

20060056279 - Shared medium communication system: In a shared medium communication system (100), a common measure for avoiding collisions of application data is a request grant mechanism. Secondary stations (104) contending for upstream bandwidth send requests on a shared medium (106) that are each answered by a grant (110) from the primary station (102). The efficiency...

20060056283 - Interference mitigation in a wireless communication system: By virtue of one embodiment of the present invention, dynamic signal to noise ratio measurements made on received signals are used to identify degraded segments of a channel. The degraded segments are then no longer used for transmitting payload data. In the context of an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM)...

20060056281 - Method and system for time-domain transmission diversity in orthogonal frequency division multiplexing: A method of provided for transmitting and receiving OFDM data signals via multiple outputs of a channel including multiple sub-channels. Transmit data streams are modulated by de-multiplexing the data streams into multiple parallel frequency-domain sub-channel data for conversion into time-domain data; and frequency-domain data for each sub-channel is converted into...

20060056282 - Method of scheduling and forward link resource allocation in ofdm systems: A method of bandwidth allocation is provided for the forward link of an OFDM wireless communication system. Bandwidth is allocated to users in discrete blocks, but variable numbers of blocks are allocated to individual users. Multiple users can be served in one timeslot. The allocation is advantageously subjected to a...

20060056280 - Ofdm signal receiver device and ofdm signal receiving method: The present invention relates to a OFDM signal receiver device that performs weighting for branch metrics based on average noise power or signal-to-noise power ratio and conducts Viterbi decoding based on the result of the weighting. In the present invention, based on a demodulated signal, electric power corresponding to a...

20060056285 - Configuring redundancy in a supervisory process control system: A redundant host pair runtime arrangement is disclosed for a process control network environment. The environment includes a primary network through which process control information is transmitted. An active partner of a fail-over host pair operates on a first machine communicatively connected to the primary network, and the active partner...

20060056286 - Method for protecting and restoring link using optical label merging and dynamic resource sharing with network load: Disclosed herein is a method for protecting and restoring a link in an OBS network. The method includes a step of transmitting/receiving a liveness-confirming message for confirming liveness of the link between an up-node and a down-node respectively connected to both ends of the link at a predetermined message transmission...

20060056284 - Secure fallback network device: A network device may provide secure fallback operations. The device includes a port allowing the device to communicate with a network and a processor to generate a security credential, provide the security credential to a call manager during initialization, and provide the security credential to a secondary device during fallback...

20060056288 - Network graph for alternate routes: Routes between cells in an interconnection network are represented with a graph using graph theory; Failed links are identified, and using the graph, alternative routes between cells in the graph are found....

20060056287 - Reporting dial-up access problems using a real-time automated system: A method for reporting and responding to dial-up connectivity problems can include the step of establishing a voice connection between a caller and an automated response system. The caller can be automatically prompted for a dial-up access number that is problematic for the caller. A determination can be automatically made...

20060056290 - Advanced processor with implementation of memory ordering on a ring based data movement network: An advanced processor comprises a plurality of multithreaded processor cores each having a data cache and instruction cache. A data switch interconnect is coupled to each of the processor cores and configured to pass information among the processor cores. A messaging network is coupled to each of the processor cores...

20060056289 - Communication network: A network has a plurality of nodes, wherein at least one of the plurality of nodes includes a switch arranged to carry out a Simple Transit Core Function and three or more of the plurality of nodes include a Single Link Interface which Single Link Interface has associated Output Attributes...

20060056293 - Device and method for port assignment: A port assignment device capable of properly distributing loads on each of a plurality of ports is provided. The device assigning a plurality of ports, storing data from external devices via a network in a plurality of storage modules and managing the data in the storage modules by a plurality...

20060056292 - Fast credit system: The invention provides an improved architecture for credit based flow control. Briefly, the memory space within the receiving switch is separated into two parts, a statically allocated portion and a dynamically allocated portion. Packets are first placed in the dynamically allocated portion, and the credits are returned immediately. When the...

20060056291 - Mechanism to improve preemption behavior of resource reservations: A technique is provided for one or more network nodes to deterministically select data flows to preempt. In particular, each node employs a set of predefined rules which instructs the node as to which existing data flow should be preempted in order to admit a new high-priority data flow. The...

20060056294 - Methods and apparatuses for switching system modules in computer systems: Methods for switching system modules in a computer system. The computer system includes a first system module, a second system module, and system programs. The system programs include a first and a second system program, corresponding to the first and second system modules respectively. A switching component, such as a...

20060056295 - Distribution compartments for an efficient and failsafe traffic distribution in a packet-switched network: The invention relates to a method for establishing a distribution compartment in a packet-switched network. A classification of the network nodes is carried out according to output nodes of the network during which the class of a node is determined according to the minimum number of hops between the network...

20060056297 - Method and apparatus for controlling traffic between different entities on a network: A method for controlling traffic between different entities on a network in which packets of received data are inspected, and if encapsulated, are decapsulated layer by layer and, after each layer is decapsulated, the packet is inspected to determine if the packet is to be acted upon or discarded. Apparatus...

20060056298 - Multiplexing several individual application sessions over a pre-allocated reservation protocol session: Apparatus and methods are provided for multiplexing application flows. According to one embodiment, a predetermined portion of available bandwidth is reserved over a path through a network communicatively coupling a first network device associated with a first set of terminals and a second network device associated with a second set...

20060056296 - System and method for using a scheduler based on virtual frames: Disclosed is a method and system based on virtual frames for enabling a QAP to seamlessly operate between granting polls for upstream and sidestream traffic while sending downstream frames. A key feature of the scheduling method of the invention is that the scheduling method generates virtual frames to create transmission...

20060056300 - Bandwidth control apparatus: A bandwidth control apparatus in an IP network such as the Internet eliminates a packet discard for each user, and equally assigns bandwidths to the user. A bandwidth measuring portion measures a total bandwidth of a single or a plurality of TCP sessions for each user, and a window size...

20060056299 - Method for determining limits for controlling traffic in communication networks with access control: The invention relates to a method for determining limits for the access control of traffic that is to be transmitted via a communication network. The limits are fixed in such a way that no overload situation can occur in the network; the probability of rejection of traffic flows is, wherever...

20060056301 - Object-based operation and maintenance (oam) systems and related methods and computer program products: Object-based operation and maintenance (OAM) systems and related methods and computer program products are disclosed. One exemplary system includes a computer comprising a memory. The computer is in communication with a network comprising a network-attached components operating in an OAM system. The system can also include an object-based representation of...

20060056302 - Apparatus for implementation of adaptive routing in packet switched networks: An apparatus is invented for implementing adaptive routing in packet switched networks. The hardware structure of the apparatus is based on the AntNet, which is an adaptive routing algorithm for selecting an optimized network route using a mobile agent that simulates an ant. The AntNet-based hardware structure can be applied...

20060056303 - Increased availability on routers through detection of data path failures and subsequent recovery: Methods and systems for monitoring a data path on a network routing device are described. The data path includes a plurality of devices on the network routing device and an interface. Data packets are moved on the network routing device using the devices and communicated to and from a network...

20060056305 - Adaptive communication systems and methods: Methods and communication systems are presented, in which impulse noise is monitored on a communication channel, and impulse noise protection parameters are adjusted according to the monitored impulse noise without interrupting communication service....

20060056310 - Bisect de-embedding for network analyzer measurement: Techniques for bisecting a symmetric, substantially transmissive two-port network (a THRU structure) through an optimization solution of the relevant equations defined by transmission matrix mathematics are described. Bisect de-embedding may be performed using a single substantially symmetric THRU structure, a first half of a first substantially symmetric THRU structure and...

20060056312 - Communication apparatus and control method thereof: A communication apparatus includes a discrimination unit which discriminates the current communication mode and a changing unit which changes a time out value for communication in accordance with the communication mode....

20060056306 - Communication device suitable for setting ip address of server connected to network, network parameter setting method and network parameter setting program product: In order to easily set IP addresses required for communicating with apparatuses connected to a network, an MHP includes a port scan unit for acquiring, by port scanning, an IP address of a server having a predetermined port open from one of the servers connected to the network, and a...

20060056307 - Method and entity for monitoring traffic: This invention relates to a method of monitoring traffic comprising the steps of creating a traffic flow on receipt of data; determining if further data is received within a predetermined time; and terminating said traffic flow when no further data is received in said predetermined time....

20060056308 - Method of switching fabric for counteracting a saturation tree occurring in a network with nodes: Method and Switching fabric for ccounteracting a saturation tree occurring in a network with nodes An example of a method comprises the steps of generating at a local node where a congestion emerges a first congestion information; sending the first congestion information to at least one upstream node; responsive to...

20060056304 - Methods, systems, modems, and computer program products for connection speed selection: Methods, systems, modems, and computer program products provide a selection of different connection speeds and a service over a network at the selected connection speed. The service is billed according to the selected connection speed. For example, a user can select a connection speed for Internet access that is more...

20060056311 - Mobile terminal and controlling method thereof: A control method for a mobile terminal which connects to a router linked to an external network through at least one interface, including receiving a router advertisement message from the router through a first interface, determining whether prefix information of the received router advertisement message is identical with prefix information...

20060056309 - Selecting a data transfer method: The invention relates to a method for selecting a data transfer method in a telecommunication system wherein several data transfer methods exist for selection. The method comprises determining a message to be transmitted on the basis of inputs received from a user. At least one piece of property information concerning...

20060056314 - Discovery of virtual private networks: A method is described of discovering at least one Virtual Private Network (VPN) automatically within a network comprising a plurality of network elements including the steps of: discovering the network elements which provide functionality for VPNs within the network; discovering the role of each network element, as identified in the...

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