Multiplex communications inventions 04/06

20060087961 - Apparatus and method for canceling inter-symbol interference in a broadband wireless communication system: An apparatus and method for canceling ISI in a broadband wireless communication system are provided. In a transmitter of the broadband wireless communication system, a controller acquires a CP length, a puncturing pattern, and a time sample interval according to a delay spread. A puncturer punctures coded data in the...

20060087960 - Transmitter and receiver in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing system using an antenna array and methods thereof: A new diversity scheme for orthogonal frequency division multiplexing/multi-input multi-output (OFDM/MIMO) systems. The new diversity scheme, i.e., turbo layered space-frequency coded OFDM (TLSFC-OFDM), uses the turbo principle with space hopping (SH). The TLSFC-OFDM system uses a successive interference cancellation (SIC) algorithm to reduce the number of iterations. As a result,...

20060087962 - Fault tolerant network architecture: A fault tolerant network architecture employs a network node including a first network interface to an addressable network. The first network interface is assigned a first network interface IP address defined by a first IP address range. The network node also includes at least one virtual IP address defined by...

20060087963 - Graceful port shutdown protocol for fibre channel interfaces: A port shutdown protocol coordinates among various components involved in the process of administratively bringing down a link at both ends of a link connecting two switches. Execution of the protocol avoids or reduces frame drops and/or reordering. In this protocol, peer switches perform various actions when bringing down an...

20060087965 - Method and apparatus for forwarding data in a data communications network: A method of forwarding data in a data communications network having a plurality of nodes comprises the steps, performed at a repairing node, of computing the repair path around a network component to a target node and forwarding data along the repair path. The computing step comprises the step of...

20060087964 - Method and apparatus for switching among different network paths while suppressing ghost packets: A method and apparatus are provided for switching among different network paths while suppressing ghost packets. A single path through the network for a destination endpoint is established for accepting packets from each source endpoint. Control packets are provided for changing to an alternate path through the network. Before using...

20060087966 - Transmission device: A transmission device capable of configuring a communication network over which MC packets are forwarded in a way that does not use bands with futility is disclosed. The transmission device is so configured to transmit, when receiving a multicast packet from a host, to the other transmission device the multicast...

20060087967 - Method and apparatus for bus coupling of safety-relevant processes: For this purpose, the invention proposes a method which is distinguished in that a data record which is relevant for the safety-critical process is processed via at least two redundant processing channels (1, 2), in particular on a protocol-specific basis, in accordance with identical laws for in each case one...

20060087968 - Load balancing in data networks: Load balancing apparatus for a data communications network comprises hash logic for computing a hash function on incoming data packets. A threshold detector is connected to the hash logic for triggering, in response to utilization of the downstream objects exceeding a predefined threshold, redefinition in the hash logic of parameters...

20060087969 - System and method for hierarchical policing of flows and subflows of a data stream: A system and method for policing individual flows and subflows of a data stream. Data traffic streams are classified into separate traffic flows, which in turn can be further classified into subflows, thereby providing for different priority levels of subsets of the flow. The subflows may be still further classified...

20060087970 - Method for encoding a multimedia content: The present invention relates to a method for encoding a multimedia content, and comprising the steps of: encoding the multimedia content into hierarchical elementary streams, parsing the elementary streams into data packets for further transmission through a network towards a decoding unit, receiving a request whereby the decoding unit requests...

20060087971 - Method for reserving of pt system: A method for providing a push-to (PT) service employing an invitation reservation mechanism is disclosed in which an invitation reservation function is set in a PT server so that, without an instruction of a PT client, the PT server can invite other PT clients who are available for session establishment....

20060087972 - Rate selection for an ofdm system: Techniques to determine the rate for a data transmission in an OFDM system. The maximum data rate that may be reliably transmitted over a given multipath (non-flat) channel by the OFDM system is determined based on a metric for an equivalent (flat) channel. For the given multipath channel and a...

20060087973 - Delay timers for managing internal state changes and messages in user equipment for real-time multimedia applications: Timers in push-to-talk (PTT) enabled client devices are used to regulate packet traffic to and from the client device. In one embodiment, timers are used to maximize the user experience that occurs when the presence service is enabled in the PoC System. A first timer controls the flow of presence...

20060087974 - System and method for providing quality of service provisions and congestion control in a wireless communication network: A system and method for providing a traffic control scheme for QoS provision and congestion control across multiple interfaces of wireless nodes (102, 106 and 107), such as wireless access points (107 and 106), communicating in a wireless multihopping communication network (100). The nodes (102, 106 and 107) can include...

20060087975 - Methods and systems for providing redundancy protection in a y-cable-based signal transmitter arrangement: Systems and methods for providing redundancy protection in a Y-cable-based signal transmitter arrangement having at least one first transmitter operating in an active mode and a second transmitter operating in a standby mode, wherein operating in the active mode includes transmitting data to a remote endpoint via a Y cable...

20060087976 - Method and system for network analysis: A method and system for analyzing a group of network elements in a network. One or more of the group of network elements, functionally coupled to provide a service, and a plurality of sub elements of the group of network elements are polled. A list having one or more items...

20060087977 - Method of collecting bgp routing protocol messages: BGP Route Recorder (BRR) captures and dumps Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) messages received from BGP peers. Passive links are established between the BRR and BGP peers. All incoming and outgoing BGP messages are recorded and timestamped. Rather than tear down BGP peering sessions when errors are encountered, error conditions are...

20060087978 - System and method for troubleshooting broadband connections: A method for troubleshooting broadband connections, e.g., a digital subscriber line (DSL) connections, includes detecting a problem with the broadband connection at an end device. Then, a determination is made as to whether the problem can be resolved at the end device. After determining that the end device cannot resolve...

20060087979 - System and method for collecting and presenting service level agreement metrics in a switched metro ethernet network: A method for monitoring a network includes injecting a plurality of data packets into the network. The data packets are transmitted between a source device and a destination device. A plurality of reflected data packets is collected. The plurality of reflected data packets are reflected from the destination device to...

20060087983 - Device for locally controlling one or more parameters of a connection to be set up, for an element of an ethernet communications network with a gmpls control plan: A control device (D) for a node (LCR3) in an Ethernet communications network having a GMPLS control plan and through which node a connection for setting up is to pass, comprises control means (MC) arranged, in the event of said node (LCR3) receiving a connection setup message containing at least...

20060087980 - Method and apparatus for transmitting downstream propagation path quality information in compressed mode: A compressed mode outbound propagation path quality information transmitting method and an outbound propagation path quality information transmitting apparatus are disclosed that enable a mobile station to maintain reception performance virtually equal to that of a conventional compressed mode outbound propagation path quality information transmitting method, and enable operation control...

20060087984 - Method for informing the availability of reception of traffics and a method for determination of active or inactive state in wireless communication networks using contention based distributed mac: A method for informing an availability of traffics of a wireless device configuring a wireless network. The method includes: broadcasting one of a first reception mode and a reception mode over the network. In the first reception mode, the wireless device is available or unavailable to receive the traffic depending...

20060087981 - Methods and apparatus for operating a wireless electronic device based on usage pattern: Embodiments of methods and apparatus to operate a wireless electronic device based on usage pattern are generally described herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed....

20060087982 - Service provision in a communication system: A method enables obtaining parameters relating to a service provided in a communication system. The method comprises storing a first set of parameters relating to a service, the first set of parameters being valid when the service is controlled by a first network. The method further comprises determining whether a...

20060087985 - Discovering liveness information within a federation infrastructure: The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for establishing and maintaining membership within a federation infrastructure. A joining node submits a join message to an existing federation infrastructure. The federation infrastructure routes the join message to a processing node. The processing node facilitates identification of predecessor,...

20060087986 - Method for efficient construction of network overlays through interconnection topology embedding: Methods and arrangements for constructing a network overlay via embedding an interconnection network in a network overlay graph. Presented herein is one example of an approximation algorithm for efficient mapping of hypercube topology on a network overlay of N nodes such that the average network delay distance measured on the...

20060087987 - Interactive video collaboration framework: A system for providing interactive collaboration between a plurality of users. The system includes a profile respository for storing a priority level for each of said plurality of users and providing addresses for accessing each of said plurality of users. A media content server indexes audio and video data within...

20060087988 - Method for establishing an ip video-conference using a telephone network for voice transmission: A method is dedicated to video-conference establishments between audio communication equipments (ACE1, ACE2), each associated to a user and to a telephone number and connected to a telephone network (TN), and video communication equipments (VCE1, VCE2), each associated to one of these users and to an IP address and each...

20060087989 - Network device architecture for consolidating input/output and reducing latency: The present invention provides methods and devices for implementing a Low Latency Ethernet (“LLE”) solution, also referred to herein as a Data Center Ethernet (“DCE”) solution, which simplifies the connectivity of data centers and provides a high bandwidth, low latency network for carrying Ethernet and storage traffic. Some aspects of...

20060087990 - Rendezvousing resource requests with corresponding resources: The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for rendezvousing resource requests with corresponding resources. Doubly linked sorted lists are traversed using modulo arithmetic in both directions. Sorted lists can be partitioned based on a multiple proximity metrics. Node routing tables provide a logarithmic index to nodes...

20060087991 - Enabling a packet-based communication client as a mobile terminal: The present invention provides a service node to facilitate the integration of cellular and packet networks. In particular, the service node acts as a proxy for packet-based communications over a packet network for a packet communication client, and also emulates a call routing entity associated with a cellular network. In...

20060087992 - Layered architecture for data management in a wireless sensor network: A wireless sensor network comprises a plurality of nodes that communicate over wireless communication links. At least one of the plurality of nodes receives sensor data from a sensor. The wireless sensor network is queried by specifying a set of events of interest. For each event of interest included in...

20060087994 - Method for providing an mbms service in a wireless communication system: A method for providing an MBMS service in a wireless communications system comprising a mobile network communicating over a radio air interface (Al) with a plurality of UEs desiring to receive the MBMS service in a cell, the method comprising the steps of: using a point to multipoint on a...

20060087993 - Methods and apparatus for providing a communication proxy system: Embodiments of methods and apparatus to provide a communication proxy system are generally described herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed....

20060087995 - Wireless communication apparatus, communication system and wireless communication method: After a first wireless terminal device transitions to a Direct Link Protocol mode, the terminal device transmits an ICMP_echo_request signal directly to a second wireless terminal device and, upon receiving an ICMP_echo_reply signal from the second wireless terminal device within a fixed period of time, counts up the number of...

20060087996 - Power saving when using aggregated packets: In a communications packet directed to multiple addresses and having a directory of the addresses in order of transmission, a device receiving the packet may use the directory to help determine when the last frame in which the device has an interest is received, and then enter a low power...

20060087997 - Method for improving the transmission speed in multi-slot cdma wireless communication system: The present invention discloses a method for improving the performance of the CDMA TDD wireless communication system. It is a method for increasing the transmission rate in a multi-slot CDMA system. The method comprises combining a plurality of neighboring time slots to form a combined time slot with a length...

20060088001 - Communication system for an aircraft: An interface device for a communication network comprises a plurality of first communication nodes and a plurality of second communication nodes, wherein the interface device comprises a switching unit and a transmit-/receive aerial. The switching unit is capable of being coupled, so as to be able to communicate, to each...

20060087999 - Method of authenticating a mobile network node in establishing a peer-to-peer secure context between a pair of communicating mobile network nodes: Methods for authenticating peer mobile network nodes for establishing a secure peer-to-peer communications context in an ad-hoc network are presented. The methods include accessing wireless infrastructure network entities at low bandwidth and for a short time duration to obtain cryptographic information regarding a peer mobile network node for the purpose...

20060087998 - Radio packet communication method: A plurality of data packets that contain sequence numbers, respectively, are transmitted simultaneously between two STAs by using a wireless channel and MIMO. An STA receiving the plurality of data packets transmitted simultaneously by using MIMO generates a single ACK packet containing information that corresponds to a sequence number of...

20060088000 - Terminal having plural playback pointers for jitter buffer: A terminal (30, 30B) receives transmissions in a form of a media stream. The terminal comprises a jitter buffer (40) which receives data comprising the media stream and a buffer manager (80). The buffer manager (80) makes a selection between plural playback pointers as an operative playback pointer from which...

20060088003 - Method and computer program for selecting an inactivity timeout interval based on last data direction: A method and computer program for selecting an inactivity timeout interval for a mobile communications network include steps of: (a) receiving a direction of a last data transfer on a channel resource comprising a reverse link and a forward link allocated by the mobile communications network to a mobile station;...

20060088002 - Mobile equipment for providing a few of services at a same traffic channel: Provided is a mobile terminal used for a mobile communication system simultaneously providing multiple services through a wireless traffic channel by multiplexing/de-multiplexing the multiple services and a method thereof, and more particularly, to a mobile terminal used for a mobile communication system simultaneously providing multiple services through a wireless traffic...

20060088004 - User-to-user data relay systems and methods: The present invention provides systems and methods for providing mobile users with requested resources. In one such method, first and second location indicators are received for a mobile user, with each of the location indicators having a time associated therewith. The method includes calculating a mobile vector of the mobile...

20060088005 - Method for enhanced handover detection for mobile networks, a mobile terminal, an access point and program modules therefor: The invention concerns a method for determining the appropriate moment for carrying out a handover of a connection of a mobile terminal in a mobile network whereby if no user related data or no probe data have been sent for a certain time interval from an access point to the...

20060088006 - Link adaption based mmse equalization eliminates noise power estimation: Coefficients for an Minimum Mean Square Error (MMSE) equalizer may be generated without the receiver performing noise power estimation. The noise power may be inferred from knowledge of the Modulation and Coding Scheme (MCS) that is selected by the link adaptation system. The link adaptation system dynamically converges to a...

20060088007 - Multiplexing of real time services and non-real time services for ofdm systems: Transmitter and receiver units for use in an OFDM communications system and configurable to support multiple types of services. The transmitter unit includes one or more encoders, a symbol mapping element, and a modulator. Each encoder receives and codes a respective channel data stream to generate a corresponding coded data...

20060088008 - Method and device for controlling power in mobile terminal: Disclosed is a method and device for controlling power in a mobile Internet terminal which includes a transmitter and a receiver for transmitting and receiving frames each consisting of an uplink frame and a downlink frame to and from a base station. The method includes the steps of receiving information...

20060088012 - Discreet event operators for event management in a wireless sensor network: A wireless sensor network comprises a plurality of nodes that communicate over wireless communication links. At least one of the plurality of nodes receives sensor data from a sensor. The wireless sensor network is queried by specifying a set of events of interest. For each event of interest included in...

20060088015 - Establishing membership within a federation infrastructure: The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for establishing and maintaining membership within a federation infrastructure. A joining node submits a join message to an existing federation infrastructure. The federation infrastructure routes the join message to a processing node. The processing node facilitates identification of predecessor,...

20060088013 - Event-based formalism for data management in a wireless sensor network: A wireless sensor network comprises a plurality of nodes that communicate over wireless communication links. At least one of the plurality of nodes receives sensor data from a sensor. At least one of the plurality of nodes determines when a discrete event occurs. When the discrete event occurs, transmits data...

20060088010 - Method and apparatus for allowing communication units to utilize non-licensed title spectrum: The presence of the non-television transmission within a channel is used to indicate that secondary non-licensed usage of the channel is permitted. Specifically, if secondary users incorporate the means to identify the unique modulation signature of the secondary user, decoding of a beacon signal may not be necessary. With the...

20060088019 - Method for controlling communication with mobile stations within a network: A method for controlling the communication with mobile stations within a network, preferably a WLAN (Wireless Local Area Network) according to the IEEE802.11 standard, wherein the network comprises at least one access point through which the stations are associated with the network and wherein the stations can enter a power...

20060088009 - Method for transferring data in a wireless network: The invention is directed to a process for transferring data packets through a protocol stack employed by the device for transmitting packets on a packet connection to a wireless network, said wireless network operating at least two, distinct wireless access technologies such as GSM/GPRS and UMTS. The packet transfer process...

20060088017 - Mobile network system: In a communication system, which continues the communication while a mobile node moves over local networks, mobile IP system is used as a procedure of the mobile node moving over networks, and also the mobile node requests to the server (HA in the mobile IP) for the setting of data...

20060088014 - Publish/subscribe model in a wireless sensor network: A wireless sensor network comprises a plurality of nodes that communicate over wireless communication links. At least one of the plurality of nodes receives sensor data from a sensor. A subscription for an event of interest occurring in the wireless sensor network is installed in the wireless sensor network. A...

20060088020 - Restricted wlan profile for unknown wireless terminal: According to the invention, a wireless terminal and an access point AP of a wireless local area network WLAN being part of the LAN are able to exchange data for the setup of a wireless link while the wireless terminal being unknown to the AP. The wireless terminal and the...

20060088011 - System and method for allocating and distributing end user information in a network environment: A method for distributing information in a network environment is provided that includes receiving one or more packets from a communication flow and recognizing a universal generic identification (UGI) associated with the communication flow. The UGI corresponds to an end user that is associated with the communication flow. The UGI...

20060088018 - System and method for communicating over an 802.15.4 network: A method of reducing data transfer while increasing image information over an 802.15.4 network includes obtaining an image with a sensor, modulating a representation of the image using a first 802.15.4 modem, sending the representation of the image to a coordinator, demodulating the representation of the image using a second...

20060088016 - Wireless lan medium access controller supporting mode change and mode change method thereof: A wireless LAN medium access controller supporting mode change and the mode change method thereof are proposed. A physical layer detects signal strength in the environment and writes a mode index value of the stronger signal into a register. When the written mode index value is different from a mode...

20060088021 - Qualifying available reverse link coding rates from access channel power setting: Data rate allocation decisions are made for a communications channel, such as a wireless reverse link connection. A first parameter used in this determination is a path loss, which is determined by the following process. First, a message is sent from a first station to a second station, such as...

20060088022 - Wireless transfer system: According to the invention, a wireless transfer system including a wireless transfer transmitter that converts a source signal fed thereto into a radiowave and transmits the radiowave and a wireless transfer receiver that receives the radiowave transmitted from the wireless transfer transmitter and converts the radiowave back into the original...

20060088023 - System and method for synchronizing a transport stream in a single frequency network: A single frequency network (SFN) system is provided, where the system includes a head-end and a plurality of transmitters. The head-end is capable of calculating timing information based upon a time reference having a second resolution. Thereafter, the head-end is capable of sending content including the timing information. The transmitters...

20060088024 - Method and apparatus for internet protocol transaction routing: In one embodiment, a method for providing optimal transaction routing for data packets through a network on a plurality of logical pipes includes assigning each data packet to one of the plurality of logical pipes, with each logical pipe having an assigned numerical service level, and associating a numerical priority-usage...

20060088027 - Dynamic log for computer systems of server and services: The administration of a computer system of server and services is supported by providing entries in an administration log. The log helps to track the cause of a failed service to the relevant setup change of a server. In one aspect, the steps for perform such a tracking includes receiving...

20060088026 - Message based network configuration of domain name services: Systems and methodologies that facilitate hosting of a domain name and access of users to the internet, by using a well defined protocol to interact with a plurality of Domain Name Service (DNS) providers, via employing; a purchasing component, and a configuration component. Once a user has selected a domain...

20060088028 - Method for providing services of various service providers, and central, computer-based platform for implementing such a method: A method and central computer-based platform for providing services of various service providers to one or more subscribers who can be assigned to different communications systems are provided. The method and system involve the provision of location-based services of various service providers to subscribers of various communications systems which can...

20060088025 - Portable voip service access module: A voice over IP (VoIP) softphone access module (VSAM) comprises a softphone client installed on a portable memory device (PMD). The softphone client is installed in its own read-only partition. The softphone client is adapted to autorun from the PMD when the PMD is connected to a computing device and...

20060088029 - Functional device, manufacturing method thereof, functional system and functional material: A functional device, a manufacturing method thereof, functional system and functional material are provided. A functional device is formed by coupling a first structure formed by local interaction and a second structure formed according to a predetermined global rule via a third structure having an anisotropic configuration. The third structure...

20060088030 - System and method for creating a sequence number field for streaming media in a packet-based networks utilizing internet protocol: Streaming media network streams are modified using a sequence field with the IP layer 3 protocol compatible with already deployed IP switching systems except as noted for device and system testing and operational monitoring which can be used to detect the loss or out of order delivery of packets belonging...

20060088031 - Method and apparatus for providing multicast messages within a virtual private network across a data communication network: A method and apparatus for providing multicast messages across a data communication network, the method comprising the computer-implemented steps of: receiving a multicast join message; adding to the multicast join message a next hop and an address of a router to which the multicast message is to be sent; forwarding...

20060088034 - Network service classes: The present invention describes a standard way of defining network service classes, which provide default quality of service levels required for corresponding communication applications. The network service classes provide end-to-end quality of service policies that extend across multiple, disparate communication networks, and the network elements therein. In effect, the network...

20060088032 - Method and system for flow management with scheduling: Method and System for flow management with scheduling is provided. The system includes a traffic shaper/scheduler, a system monitor, and a modification amount register (MAR) module. The traffic shaper/scheduler implements scheduling algorithm to arbitrate between flows. The system monitor monitors the flows and generates modification request for a target flow...

20060088033 - Packet switch network link: A Packet Switch Network Link (PSNL) serves as an abstraction of a Multi-Protocol Label Switch (MPLS) core in a multi-services networking infrastructure. The networking infrastructure provides end to end connectivity between end networks that may be, for example ATM networks. The PSNL exists in a layer 2 network manager and...

20060088035 - System and method for creating multiple transportation streams of streaming media network test traffic in packet-based networks: Streaming media network transportation streams are created using an electronic system and transmitted via an electronic interface such as an existing system network conduit (i.e. Ethernet, USB, or other packet-based architectures). A scalable hardware and/or software compute engine modifies an initial stream's identifier(s) while replicating the stream content to economically...

20060088036 - Method for bandwidth profile management at the user network interface in a metro ethernet network: There is provided a method of traffic management in a communication network, such as a Metro Ethernet network, in which communication resources are shared among different virtual connections each carrying data flows relevant to one or more virtual networks and made up of data units comprising a tag with an...

20060088037 - Preventing asynchronous arp cache poisoning of multiple hosts: A method and system for preventing address resolution protocol (ARP) cache poisoning in a network system with multiple hosts. Multiple hosts representing and/or located in separate local area networks (LANS) are tapped (via a shared agreement) to utilize a trusted ARP cache for each LAN represented. Whenever a new ARP...

20060088038 - Relationship definition and processing system and method: A computer implement method of defining relationships is provided herein....

20060088039 - Maintaining membership within a federation infrastructure: The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for establishing and maintaining membership within a federation infrastructure. A joining node submits a join message to an existing federation infrastructure. The federation infrastructure routes the join message to a processing node. The processing node facilitates identification of predecessor,...

20060088040 - Virtual segmentation system and method of operation thereof: A virtual segmentation system and a method of operating the same. In one embodiment, the virtual segmentation system includes a protocol data unit receiver subsystem configured to (i) receive at least a portion of a protocol data unit and (ii) store the at least a portion of the protocol data...

20060088043 - Local area network/wide area network switch: A local area network/wide area network (LAN/WAN) switch is presented which aggregates LAN traffic onto SONET/SDH transport streams in a programmable manner. The system can concentrate Ethernet packets and map the data onto SONET streams at data rates varying from STS-1 to STS-12C. Depending on the bandwidth available in the...

20060088042 - Method, system and devices for creating spontaneous electronic information propagation and retrieval: A system and method for spontaneous electronic information propagation and retrieval. The system comprises a plurality of devices operative to propagate information and to autonomously recognize and analyze the information; and a propagation mechanism that includes a special communication protocol (SCP). The SCP and the autonomous recognition and analysis of...

20060088041 - System, device, and method to automatically disable the camera function of a wireless communication device: A system, device, and method for discretely automatically disabling a camera feature in a wireless communication client device is disclosed. The present invention provides for a wireless gateway, or similar device, on a premise which communicates with a wireless client device and disables the camera feature in the client device...

20060088044 - Node for a bus network, a bus network and a method for configuration of the network: Inter alia, the invention provides a node (16) for a bus network, which has a bus controller (30) having a receiving and transmitting circuit arrangement (32) and having a bus connection for transmitting and receiving messages via the bus (14), and has a node identification set device (34, 30) for...

20060088045 - Circuit, method and program for data queue control: After packets received by receiving latches have been divided into individual words and the words have been stored into buffer queues, the packets read from the buffer queues are stored into packet storage queues. A format determining circuit has defined in advance a plurality of types of writing formats and,...

20060088046 - Queue resource sharing for an input/output controller: Queue resource sharing for an input/output controller. A shared resource queue is associated with a plurality of ports. The shared resource queue includes a plurality of sections allocated for use by at least one of the plurality of ports based at least in part on a port bandwidth configuration of...

20060088047 - Method and apparatus for establishing connections in distributed computing systems: A method and apparatus are disclosed for establishing connections in a distributed computing system to execute a job having a group of processes. Connection acceptors associated individually with each process wait for on demand connection requests. A determination is made whether a connection is already established between a sender process...

20060088048 - Channel access scheme for use in network communications: A full service channel access protocol that supports the integrated transport of voice, video and data communications is provided by dividing a communication channel into a plurality of frames, dividing each of the frames into a plurality of slots, and dividing some of the plurality of slots into a plurality...

20060088049 - Configurable buffer arbiter: A configurable buffer arbiter is provided that combines a time-slot based algorithm, a fairness-based algorithm, and a priority-based algorithm to meet the bandwidth and latency requirements of multiple channels needing access to a buffer memory. The channels have different static and dynamic characteristics. The static channel characteristics include aspects such...

20060088050 - System for a next generation wireless intelligent services engine (wiseng): WISENG offers true convergence of multiple protocols and integrates the services offered by providers in the telecommunication industry. The system provides a seamless, efficient and real-time way to connect multiple telecommunication services on a unified platform, with an additional integration with service, billing and rating engines. Additionally, the system is...

20060088052 - Decentralized method for generating an mpeg-2 multiprogram transport stream: Methods, systems, and apparatus for generating a multi-program transport stream comprising generating an empty bitstream comprising null packets, providing the empty bitstream to a first contributor wherein the first contributor replaces a null packet with a program packet resulting in a modified bitstream, and providing the modified bitstream to a...

20060088051 - Method for lossless ipv6 header compression: The present invention provides a method to statelessly compress an IPv6 header from forty octets to as small as or at a minimum of four octets by utilizing information contained in the lower network layers so that the original IPv6 header can be reconstituted as needed without state information maintained...

20060088053 - Method and system for combining a conversion between time-division multiplexed digital signals and packetized digital signals with a switching system interface: The present invention is a switching system interface providing conversion between time-division multiplexed digital signals and packetized digital signals used to bypass a common control and switch matrix of a class 5 digital switch. The switching system interface includes a network interface for terminating a digital transmission facility that is...

20060088056 - Data packet fragmentation in a cable modem system: A number of features for enhancing the performance of a cable transmission system, in which data is transmitted between a cable modem termination system at a headend and a plurality of cable modems located different distances from the headend, are presented. The power transmission level, slot timing, and equalization of...

20060088055 - Dynamic setting of transmission scheduler algorithms: According to a scheduler algorithm setting method that is used for scheduling the transmission of packet data that are to be transmitted to mobile stations, a mobile station number threshold value setting unit sets a threshold value for the number of mobile stations that is to be used for determining...

20060088054 - Resource sharing in a telecommunications environment: A transceiver is designed to share memory and processing power amongst a plurality of transmitter and/or receiver latency paths, in a communications transceiver that carries or supports multiple applications. For example, the transmitter and/or receiver latency paths of the transceiver can share an interleaver/deinterleaver memory. This allocation can be done...

20060088057 - System and method for combining requests for data bandwidth by a data provider for transmission of data over an asynchronous communication medium: A method and system for combing requests for data bandwidth by a data provider for transmission of data over an asynchronous communication medium is provided. A headend receives one or more bandwidths requests from one or more cable modems via upstream communication. A scheduler then combines one or more bandwidths...

20060088059 - Apparatus and method for processing data in a communication system: A data processing apparatus connected to a core network in a communication system and a data processing method therefor are provided. In the data processing apparatus, at least one slow packet processing shelf performs a lower layer operation on traffic received through the low-rate data line. At least one fast...

20060088058 - Data link layer protocol unit, mobile radio devices, mobile radio network control unit and method for reading data from a plurality of data link layer protocol buffer storages: Each transport format contains control parameters according to which data are mapped from at least one logical channel onto at least one transport channel by a data link layer protocol unit, with the control parameters in the transport formats containing information regarding that or those data link layer protocol buffer...

20060088061 - Mapping arbitrary signals into sonet: A synchronizer/de-synchronizer maps continuous format signals of an arbitrary rate into frames of pre-selected single common rate, such as SONET frames, with no bite changed and very little jitter or wander added. In this way, the continuous format signal may be carried transparently as a tributary of a SONET network....

20060088060 - Signature field in a latency measurement frame: Information is added to an encapsulated payload in a data field of a frame subsequently to placing a checksum into a checksum field of a header encapsulating the payload, wherein the checksum has been determined from byte values of the header and the payload, yet having the checksum remaining detectable...

20060088062 - Dynamic mapping of broadcast resources: In a data communication system such as a high capacity DBS system, dynamic mapping of broadcast resources is provided to exploit occasional redundancy in the program content of two or more input data streams, freeing at least one broadcast resource to carry alternate bitstreams, such as additional programs or existing...

20060088063 - Network architecture for real time delivery of video over lossy networks from remote locations: A method for content delivery comprising transmitting content via a first network to a content aggregation point and transmitting the content from the content aggregation point via a second network to a receiver at the request of the receiver. A system for content delivery comprising a content provider, a content...

20060088064 - Trejon interlink system: The Trejon Interlink System will allow you to watch the same movie on the big screen simultaneously right on your Rear-Seat Entertainment System or a video screen. This system will be built upon a wireless network that will include a database where the movies in digital format will be stored....

20060088065 - Method of scheduling data and signaling packets for push-to-talk over cellular networks: A method and device for scheduling signaling and data packets during PTT sessions. An exemplary embodiment of the invention includes scheduling data packets and signaling packets during a push-to-talk session by detecting periods of silence in the talk-burst, inserting signaling packets between the data packets in the periods of silence...

20060083160 - Apparatus and method for estimating uplink frequency offset in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing communication system: An apparatus and method for estimating and correcting an uplink frequency offset in an OFDM communication system are provided. A subscriber station (SS) once repeats an OFDM symbol including a ranging code allocated from a BS and transmits the repeated OFDM symbols to the base station (BS). The BS demodulates...

20060083161 - Methods and apparatus for determining, communicating and using information which can be used for interference control purposes: Methods and apparatus for collecting, measuring, reporting and/or using information which can be used for interference control purposes. Wireless terminals measure signals transmitted from one or more base stations, e.g., base station sector transmitters. The measured signals may be, e.g., beacon signals and/or pilot signals. From the measured signals, the...

20060083157 - Multi-carrier transmission device, multi-carrier reception device, and multi-carrier radio communication method: A mutlicarrier transmitting apparatus, a multicarrier receiving apparatus and a multicarrier radio communication method, which are capable of improving a throughput of a whole multicarrier radio communication system. Based on receiving SNR values of users 1 to 4 for all of the subcarriers 1 to 4 in a receiving SNR...

20060083158 - Portable storage device with multiple data interfaces: The present invention relates to a portable storage device with multiple data interfaces coupled to an electronic device for performing data access. The portable storage device has a casing, a circuit board, a first data interface and a second data interface. The casing contains a cavity, and a first opening...

20060083159 - Wireless terminal methods and apparatus for use in wireless communications systems supporting different size frequency bands: More efficient utilization of available bandwidth is implemented in an OFDM wireless communication system. The partitions of bandwidth may be of different sizes and may be different from the original system design parameters. Basic system structure such as the number of tones used and the number of OFDM symbol times...

20060083162 - Failure tolerant high density dial router: A Fault Tolerant Dial Router (FTDR) includes redundant subsystem resources that operate independently of telephone line interface connections. The redundant resources are switched active when a failure is detected in an activated dial router subsystem. Switching out subsystem failures is fully automated under software control, providing uninterrupted service to users...

20060083164 - Infrared adapter with data packet throttle: A method for controlling data packet flow through an infrared adapter is provided and includes receiving a data stream from an infrared device. The data stream has a first data transmission rate. Further, the rate of transmission of the data stream is modified within the infrared adapter to produce an...

20060083165 - Link analysis method and system: A method and computer program product for performing a latency analysis to determine one or more latency statistics for one or more network links within a distributed computing network. The one or more latency statistics are compared to one or more benchmark latency criteria to determine if at least one...

20060083163 - Method and apparatus to adaptively manage end-to-end voice over internet protocol (voip) media latency: A method and apparatus for adaptively managing communication latency, including processing one or more data frames in a communication network; sampling the one or more data frames in accordance with a first sampling time; interpolating the sampled one or more data frames; and forming a play-out waveform using the one...

20060083167 - Method and system for managing network traffic based on matching criteria: Methods and systems are provided for managing network traffic in a network device based on matching criteria. The method includes providing a plurality of objects associated with a packet of the network traffic; creating a set of criteria corresponding to the type of objects; and accepting the packet if the...

20060083168 - Power-efficient data reception in a communication system with variable delay: To conserve power, a terminal operates in a “power save” mode in which the terminal is in a “doze” state when there is a low probability of receiving an incoming packet and in an “awake” state when an incoming packet is expected. In the doze state, the terminal powers down...

20060083166 - Strict priority distributed coordination function in wireless networks: A system and method for prioritizing the transmission of packets in a wireless local area network. A station selects a packet from local priority queuing and identifies the priority bits of the packet. The station declares the priority of the selected packet based on the binary value of the priority...

20060083171 - Media communication apparatus and media communication program product: There is provided a media communication apparatus including an automatic selection unit which automatically selects a telecommunications carrier by preset criteria on the address of a speech terminal serving as a communication destination input at the time of call origination and a communication system which identifies the communication conventions of...

20060083170 - Method and apparatus for automatically determining the manner in which to allocate available capital to achieve a desired level of network quality performance: A method and apparatus for simulating a modification to or expansion of a communications network and for determining whether the simulated modified or expanded network meets cost criteria. First logic forecasts an increase in network traffic. Second logic simulates a modification to or expansion of the network based on the...

20060083169 - Method and/or system for transferring/receiving audio and/or video signals and minimizing delay time over internet networks and relating apparatuses: A method and system for transferring/receiving audio and/or video signals and minimizing delay time over Internet networks including, in transmission, converting, analog audio and/or video input signal to digital form by means of an A/D converter, processing the digital audio and/or video signal in order to manipulate, control, adapt or...

20060083172 - System and method for evaluating the performance of an automotive switch fabric network: A system and method for evaluating the performance of an automotive switch fabric network using a diagnostic interface. A diagnostic device and interface is connected to an automotive switch fabric network, comprising of a plurality of communication nodes, through one of the nodes in the switch fabric network. The diagnostic...

20060083173 - System and method for reprogramming nodes in an automotive switch fabric network: A system and method for reprogramming nodes in an automotive switch fabric network using a diagnostic interface. The switch fabric network includes a plurality of nodes joined by communication links for the transmission of data there between. The plurality of nodes includes at least one target node. The target node...

20060083174 - Collision avoidance manager, method of avoiding a memory collision and a turbo decoder employing the same: The present invention provides a collision avoidance manager for use with single-port memories. In one embodiment, the collision avoidance manager includes a memory structuring unit configured to provide a memory arrangement of the single-port memories having upper and lower memory banks arranged into half-memory portions. Additionally, the collision avoidance manager...

20060083175 - Media client emulation tool: The Media Client Emulation (MC-E) Tool is a media software utility used to emulate Media Terminal Adapter (MTA) functionality for positive and negative testing of Call Management Server (CMS) devices. The MC-E communicates with the CMS devices in a variety of protocols. The MC-E can be configured to override correct...

20060083176 - Deterministic communications system: The invention relates to a deterministic communications system comprising data sources, which can be connected to a data sink by means of at least one coupling node. Said system comprises a means of controlling the data sources to achieve a planned, deterministic communication between said data sources and the data...

20060083177 - Listener mechanism in a distributed network system: A method of controlling a packet flow in a distributed network system comprising a plurality of network nodes having the same destination address is disclosed. Network nodes each having an application running that waits for connections on a given destination port are registered in a flow table. This registration information...

20060083180 - Packet analysis system: A packet analysis system captures packets propagating through a network, and analyzes the captured packets. The packet analysis has a plurality of terminal node type sensors and a server. Each of the terminal node type sensors captures packets propagating through the network, and classifies the captured packets. A server acquires...

20060083179 - Probe apparatus and metod therefor: A probe for a communications network is arranged to implement an aggregate test constituted from a plurality of individual tests, and to optimise modifications to the aggregate test with respect to an optimisation goal....

20060083178 - System and method for processing performance management data using single table: The invention relates to a system and method for processing performance management (PM) data using a single table, by which the PM data created from a number of base stations in a high capacity network system can be stored as a database. In the PM data processing system, a data...

20060083181 - Method, an access point, a telecommunication device, a server and an information system for providing and for retrieving within a telecommunication network available network connection types: And a method for providing within a telecommunication network available network connection types at a given location provided by access points by means of a telecommunication network device, where an access points provides its coverage (C1, . . . , C5) and its connection type in an information system for...

20060083182 - Capability management for automatic dialing of video and audio point to point/multipoint or cascaded multipoint calls: In various embodiments, a management system may query connection devices for their capabilities and store the information in a data structure. In some embodiments, the data structure may be in a form of a Deducible Capability Numbering (DCN) number. In some embodiments, the DCN number may describe the capabilities of...

20060083183 - Efficient transmission of signaling using channel constraints: To transmit signaling, a base station obtains signaling (e.g., ACKs) for a group of channels used for data transmission and selected from a set of channels having constraints on usage. The base station compresses the signaling based on the channel constraints and obtains at least one message. If multiple messages...

20060083184 - Method and apparatus for the transmission of packets of data: A method of transmitting packets of data in a communication network comprising at least first to third stations, the method comprising the steps of sending a first number of the data packets from the first station to a second station; identifying which of the first number of packets are correctly...

20060083185 - Method and apparatus for generic interface, packet cut-through, overbooking, queue concatenation, and logical identification priority for a system packet interface device: A method and apparatus for generic interface, packet cut-through, overbooking, queue concatenation, and logical identification priority for a System Packet Interface device have been disclosed....

20060083186 - Method and apparatus for improving quality of service over meshed bachaul facilities in a wireless network: Redundant wireless links in a meshed backhaul network may be used to improve quality of service on the backhaul network by confining knowledge of the duality to the attached network elements. Globally, an aggregate bandwidth of the redundant wireless links may be advertised to allow network level routing to treat...

20060083187 - Pairing system and method for wirelessly connecting communication devices: A method for establishing a communication connection with a target device over a short-range wireless communication protocol is provided. The method comprises initiating a pairing request for connecting to the target device, the pairing request comprising a first wireless device address associated with a requesting device; and forwarding the pairing...

20060083188 - Synchronous ethernet network and time allocation method used therein: Disclosed are a synchronous Ethernet network and a time allocation method used therein. The synchronous Ethernet network includes a gateway having a plurality of ports, and a plurality of network points having one-to-one connection with the ports of the gateway in a star topology, the gateway allocating time to the...

20060083189 - Enhanced beacon signaling method and apparatus: Methods and apparatus for using high power narrow signals, e.g., tones, for communicating transmitter information without putting the full transmission power available into the transmitted tone or tones are described. User data is transmitted in parallel with transmitter information in many embodiments with the user data being allocated more than...

20060083190 - Method for configuring a telecommunication system: A method and system for configuring a CDMA telecommunication system having at least one sending entity and at least one receiving entity, each entity configured to transmit data on at least one physical channel (DPDCH) via a transport channel composite (CCTrCH) of multiple transport channels. At least one entity includes...

20060083191 - Communication system, communication device, communication terminal, and communi- cation method: According to a communications method according to the present invention, data is transmitted from a base station to two or more terminals via a common channel, and transmission power, with which the data is transmitted from the base station to the two or more terminals, is controlled according to a...

20060083192 - Communication traffic control methods and systems: Communication traffic control techniques are disclosed. Targeted communication traffic control may be established in accordance with traffic control rules generated at a mobile communication device which is operating within a service area of a traffic control system. Communication traffic destined for or originating at the mobile communication device is then...

20060083193 - Method and apparatus for routing calls: A communication unit (CU) (109, 111) network controller (113) and corresponding methods (603-609) are described that facilitate selectively routing calls. The CU includes a transceiver (403) suitable to support an air interface with a local area network (LAN) (101) and with a wide area network (WAN) (105) and a controller...

20060083196 - Method and system for a channel selective repeater with capacity enhancement in a spread-spectrum wireless network: The present invention relates to a system and method for extending the coverage area and communication capacity of a spread-spectrum based wireless network through the use of intelligent repeaters. The system comprises a wireless communication network augmented with low cost channel selective repeaters that is capable of repeating only desired...

20060083195 - Mimo communication system using an adaptive transmission mode switching technique: A multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) wireless communication system. A transmitter that includes a plurality of transmit antennas selects one of a spatial multiplexing scheme and a spatial diversity scheme, processes a signal in the selected transmission scheme, and transmits the signal through the plurality of transmit antennas. A receiver that includes...

20060083194 - System and method rendering audio/image data on remote devices: The present invention discloses a system and method for rendering multimedia data received by a wireless communications device via a wireless communications network over one or more external multimedia rendering devices. In one embodiment, the present invention receives multimedia data that includes image and audio data from one or more...

20060083197 - Channel assigning method for ad-hoc network: A channel assigning method for ad-hoc networks, which uses an intra-cluster bandwidth reserving procedure, including six phases of reservation request RREQ, reservation response RRSP, code assignment CASN, code conflict detection CCD, code conflict report CCR and code confirmation CCFM, and an inter-cluster RTS-CTS (request to send-clear to send) dialogue protocol...

20060083198 - Satellite routing protocol with dynamic ip addressing: A method for establishing routing for communications using a satellite in a Demand Assigned Multiple Access (DAMA) Wide Area Network (WAN) is disclosed. In one step, Routing Information Messages (RIMs) are received from a plurality of subscriber terminal (ST) nodes at a Network Control Station (NCS). A network map of...

20060083201 - Method and apparatus for extending a mobile unit data path between access points: Fast transitions between access points (APs) in a wireless network may be accomplished when a mobile unit (MU) moves between the APs, by causing a first tunnel to be established between the APs, and causing a second tunnel to be established between the new AP and the MU. A data...

20060083200 - Method for performing authenticated handover in a wireless local area network: A wireless local area network system (100) supporting mobile radio telephony reduces the time to complete an authenticated handover from one access point (104) to another (108) by a mobile station (102) by performing some of the steps normally performed upon leaving one access point while still associated with that...

20060083199 - System, method, and device for handing off between voice over internet protocol over wireless access sessions and cdma circuit switched voice sessions: Provided are improved systems, methods, and devices for handing off VoIP sessions and CDMA voice calls between wireless access networks and CDMA networks, thereby providing a user of a mobile device the ability to roam between wireless access networks and CDMA circuit switched voice networks during ongoing communication sessions. Provided...

20060083202 - Method and system for implementing a single weight spatial multiplexing (sm) mimo system without insertion loss: Certain aspects of the method and system for implementing a single weight spatial multiplexing multi-input multi-output (MIMO) system without insertion loss may comprise receiving a plurality of spatially multiplexed communication signals for processing in a first reference processing path and at least a second processing path. At least one control...

20060083204 - Method and device for multiplexing a transport channel in flexible position: B1) calculating, for the first and second lists (L, R), a list criterion vector having a robustness index (xi,2) depending on the transport channel robustness of the channels contained in the list, and B2) distributing the current transport channel into the list having the current greatest robustness index, and by...

20060083203 - Method of successively providing packet data service in a dual-mode mobile communication terminal: Disclosed herein is a method of successively providing/receiving packet data service in a dual-mode mobile communication terminal. The dual-mode mobile communication terminal activates a Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) modem when a request for a change of system connection is received from a Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (WCDMA) system...

20060083205 - Method and system for wireless networking using coordinated dynamic spectrum access: A method and system for coordinated dynamic access to radio spectrum for wireless networking includes defining a coordinated access band (CAB) from which radio access network (RAN) managers may request spectrum allocations in the form of time bound spectrum leases for their respective requesting base stations. In one embodiment of...

20060083208 - Method for establishing network connections between stationary terminals and remote devices through mobile devices: A technique is provided for a seamless and transparent handoff from a user's mobile device to the user's stationary terminal of a network address of a remote device for the purpose of establishing a direct communication channel between the stationary terminal and a remote device, where the remote device first...

20060083209 - Roaming in a communication network: Communicating over a network includes establishing a communication path between a mobile-device in a first communication area and a server through a home-agent, and maintaining the communication path through the home agent when the mobile-device moves to a second-communication-area....

20060083206 - Sub-access point, system, and method for adjusting power of transmission signal: A sub-access point (AP), system, and method for adjusting a power level of a transmission signal, and more particularly, in which the power level of a transmission signal output from the sub-AP is adjusted based on received signal strength indicator (RSSI) readings and frame error rate (FER) of a main...

20060083207 - System and method for personal data backup for mobile customer premises equipment: A method for backing up data stored on a mobile customer premises equipment comprising the steps of formatting the data at the mobile customer premises equipment into fields, transmitting the data with a user ID from the mobile customer premises equipment across a mobile network to a server. The server...

20060083211 - Methods and apparatus for adjusting bandwidth allocation in a wireless communications system: More efficient utilization of available bandwidth is implemented in an OFDM wireless communication system. The partitions of bandwidth may be of different sizes and may be different from the original system design parameters. Basic system structure such as the number of tones used and the number of OFDM symbol times...

20060083210 - Ofdma with adaptive subcarrier-cluster configuration and selective loading: A method and apparatus for subcarrier selection for systems is described. In one embodiment, the system employs orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA). In one embodiment, a method for subcarrier selection comprises each of multiple subscribers measuring channel and interference information for subcarriers based on pilot symbols received from a...

20060083212 - Method and apparatus for network-initiated packet data service reactivation: One or more entities of a wireless communication network distribute address information for a source Packet Data Serving Node (PDSN) to the packet zones involved in reactivation paging of a dormant mobile station for network-initiated packet data delivery. A target Packet Control Function (PCF) supporting the packet zone in which...

20060083213 - Communication system and method for synchronization of the same: With a method for synchronization in a communication system that includes a central participant and at least one further participant, at least one of the further participants being synchronized with the central participant, and, to this end, a telegram with synchronization information being transmitted by the central participant to the...

20060083217 - Element management method and system in multiple networks: In an element management method or system for use with multiple networks having a plurality of network elements, each network element is provided with a specific identifier, and the specific identifier of each network element and connections between respective network elements are stored in a configuration table, while aliases of...

20060083214 - Information vault, data format conversion services system and method: A system and method for providing a secured information vault so that individual owners of personal data may control and manage the access and dissemination of the personal data and provides for the owner of the personal data to receive compensation for the use of the personal data, thus, in...

20060083215 - Method and apparatus for providing a scalable route reflector topology for networks: Method and apparatus for implementing a route reflector topology that comprises a plurality of sets of route reflectors. Each set of route reflectors establishes a peering relationship with all PEs (Provider Edges), e.g., Provider Edge Routers in the network. In one embodiment, each PER designates one set of route reflectors...

20060083216 - Method and system for transmitting traffic in communication system: In a method and system for transmitting traffic in a communication system having a main access point and a sub-access point, a determination is made as to whether simultaneous transmission by the main access point and the sub-access point is possible without causing an error during a transmission period of...

20060083221 - Communication in a distributed system: A method and device are provided for conducting a real-time, voice over IP media type of communication session between at least two peer users, each associated with a platform comprised in a distributed communication network. The method and device comprise providing at least one replication of at least one data...

20060083218 - Information transmission method and device, information recording or reproduction method and device, and recording medium: An information transmission method capable of reproducing the atmosphere of a concert hall or a live performance hall, wherein bio-information of a speaker, player, actor or conductor, who serves as a source of speech, sounds or music and/or bio-information of a performer included within an image are multiplexed with respect...

20060083222 - Ip telephone apparatus: A source IP telephone inputs, from its numeric keypad, a telephone number of a call destination and obtains, from an ENUM server, a NAPTR record of the destination IP telephone based upon the input telephone number of the call destination. By referring to a search table, the source IP telephone...

20060083223 - Packet communication node apparatus for authenticating extension module: A module type node apparatus for packet communication of this invention includes an extension module for executing predetermined processing and a node apparatus main body for forwarding packet data to the extension module, the extension module including a memory for storing connectivity authentication data, and a module controller for transmitting...

20060083220 - Transport of dtmf tones over voatm/voip networks: A communication device, such as a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) gateway, determines a duration for Dual Tone Multi-Frequency (DTMF) tone portions of telephony signal. If the duration is less than a pre-determined amount, a minimum duration is enforced during DTMF playback at a remote end of a network connection...

20060083219 - Using information about dialup access numbers in a service region to support customer service interactions: A method for automatically providing output for a communication related to dialup Internet services. The method includes the step of determining an in-progress customer communication is related to dialup connectivity. A service region for the customer can be ascertained. A plurality of currently published dialup access numbers for the service...

20060083224 - Intelligent voip telephone system and communication method thereof used in a restaurant: An intelligent VOIP telephone system and communication method thereof used in a restaurant utilizes a VOIP telephone network to assist the management of the restaurant. The system comprises a main server and at least one VOIP telephone. The main server comprises a document database and a check module. The communication...

20060083225 - Systems and methods for call center load balancing: Systems and methods are disclosed for load balancing call centers and for providing remote receptionist service....

20060083235 - Channel navigation method of digital broadcast and digital broadcast receiver to be applied to the same: A channel navigation method of a digital broadcast and a digital broadcast receiver to be applied to the channel navigation method, select a program map table (PMT) using an identifier of an input source and a PMT packet identifier. A virtual channel table having a PMT packet identifier corresponding to...

20060083237 - Communication apparatus and communication method: By transmitting such an extended Echo request packet that device setting information was written in a payload of an ICMP-Echo packet, to an terminal 10b equipped with ICMP function which does not has a special function, the extended Echo request packet collect device setting statuses of relay devices 110 equipped...

20060083233 - Communication apparatus and method: A communication apparatus includes a receiving device configured to receive a physical frame in which a plurality of MAC frames, each having a sequence number, are aggregated. A reception buffer which stores MAC frames of the physical frame received by the receiving device. A determination device determines whether or not...

20060083239 - Method and apparatus for efficient transmission of multimedia data packets: A transmission efficient packet based display interface arranged to couple a multimedia source device to a multimedia sink device is disclosed. The transmission efficient interface includes a bi-directional auxiliary channel arranged to transfer information between the multimedia source device and the multimedia sink device and vice versa, wherein the information...

20060083230 - Method and apparatus for transferring data: A method for transferring plural pieces of packet data from a plurality of terminal devices to a host device with an IEEE 1394 serial bus. The method includes transferring the plural pieces of packet data from the terminal devices to a transfer controller, storing the plural pieces of packet data...

20060083234 - Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving data via wireless universal serial bus (wusb): A method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving data via a WUSB. The method includes creating an integrated header used to transmit data to an external device, wherein the integrated header has a minimum number of fields selected from a plurality fields of headers; and transmitting a packet including the...

20060083232 - Method and apparatus for transmitting isochronous stream: Provided are a method and apparatus for transmitting an isochronous stream in an Internet protocol (IP) over Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 1394. The method includes: requesting isochronous stream transmission over a predetermined serial bus; and receiving an isochronous stream through the predetermined serial bus using a service...

20060083236 - Method and system for loss-tolerant multimedia multicasting: A method and system are provided for ordering datagrams within an encoded datastream. The system includes a parser for separating headers from each respective datagram. A decoder decodes the separated headers to determine a frame group, a frame number within the frame group, a datagram number within the frame; and...

20060083231 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for modeling and simulating application-level traffic characteristics in a network based on transport and network layer header information: Methods, systems, and computer program products are disclosed for determining application-level traffic characteristics in a network based on transport and network layer header information. Transport and network layer header information is collected from packet traffic in a network. Packets are classified to different connections based on the transport and network...

20060083228 - One time passcode system: The invention relates to a system for securing access to resources or computer systems by means of a self modifying, single use password that limits access to a system and automatically changes each time it is used. Independent computer systems, or clients, are utilized by users to generate one time...

20060083226 - Queueing technique for multiple sources and multiple priorities: A method of dealing equitably with traffic from multiple VPNs feeding into a single router utilizes the weighted fair queueing (WFQ) technique of the prior art in combination with a “service level” queue comprising a set of tokens defining the class of service (COS) with the next packet to be...

20060083238 - Resource reservation method using multiple interfaces in mobile environments: A resource reservation system and method in a multihoming environment are disclosed. The method includes: transmitting query messages from the mobile node to multiple adjacent access routers using a plurality of care of addresses (CoAs) stored in the mobile node; transmitting the query messages from the adjacent access routers to...

20060083227 - Selecting one of a plurality of adapters to use to transmit a packet: Provided are a method, system, and program for selecting one of a plurality of adapters to use to transmit a packet. A packet is generated by a protocol driver having connection information in a packet header. A determination is made as to whether there is one value in a table...

20060083229 - System and method for streaming sequential data through an automotive switch fabric: A system and method for streaming sequential data through a vehicle switch fabric network. This is particular useful in areas such as reprogramming nodes in the automotive switch fabric network where relatively large records or messages need to be transmitted through the switch fabric, although the invention may be used...

20060083240 - Broadcasting data over multiple dissimilar wireless networks: A method is provided for broadcasting a packet over multiple dissimilar wireless networks, at least one of the networks natively supporting broadcasting and at least one of the networks not natively supporting broadcasting. The method includes determining whether the packet is to be broadcast; and when the packet should be...

20060083242 - Address modification in application servers: The present invention relates to a method and system for modifying of address information in a message routed in a packet data network, wherein the address information is changeable along a routing path of the message. In case of a change of the address information, information specifying a reason for...

20060083241 - Method and apparatus for implementing direct routing: A method and apparatus are provided for implementing direct routing. An Internet Protocol (IP) packet sent from a first mobile node to a second mobile node is received at a foreign agent for a foreign network, wherein both the first and second mobile nodes are visiting the foreign network. It...

20060083243 - Mobile terminal, control device and mobile communication method: A mobile terminal includes; a first wireless interface configured to perform communication through a public mobile communication network; a second wireless interface configured to perform direct communication with another mobile terminal; an update information transmitter unit configured to transmit update information including identification information and communication state information of the...

20060083245 - Method for dynamically establishing logical link in pon systems and an optical network unit for the method: The invention is applied to a PON system including an optical line terminal (OLT) at a center station, a plurality of optical network units (ONUs) at subscribers' sites, and an optical transmission line shared by the plurality ONUs to optically connect between the OLT and the plurality of ONUs. Each...

20060083244 - Method for sessions including multiple resources: A method of setup and management of multiple resources in multiparty multimedia conference sessions. The method can include accepting a multiple resource session initiation request from a client, the multiple resource session initiation request requesting initiation of the multiple resource session, the multiple resource session including multiple resources. The multiple...

20060083246 - System and method for processing rx packets in high speed network applications using an rx fifo buffer: A system and method are provided for processing packets received via a network. In use, data packets and control packets are received via a network. Further, the data packets are processed in parallel with the control packets....

20060083247 - Prefix lookup using address-directed hash tables: A method for inserting a prefix, including traversing a trie node block structure to obtain a trie node block in which to insert the prefix, determining whether the trie node block is associated with a hash table, if the trie node block is not associated with a hash table: calculating...

20060083248 - Apparatus and method for internet protocol allocation: An Internet protocol (IP) alloca