Multiplex communications inventions 05/06

20060109779 - Method and system for split-pair reception in twisted-pair communication systems: A method and system are disclosed for improving the performance of a multiline transmission system by using one or more split-pair receivers in a multiline communications system to identify crosstalk on a pair of transceivers coupled to the split pair receivers, wherein each split pair receiver receives a signal including...

20060109780 - Ofdm transmission method, which is intended both for sporadic and for continuous data communication, for a wlan: In an OFDM-based transmission method it can be stated for the preamble (4, 7) of a data packet that its N preamble segments (B, {overscore (B)}) are obtained from the segment-by-segment multiplication of an initial segment, which is fixed for all N preamble segments, by a multiplication sequence with a...

20060109781 - System and method for frequency diversity: A system and method for frequency diversity uses interleaving. Subcarriers of an interlace are interleaved in a bit reversal fashion and the interlaces are interleaved in the bit reversal fashion....

20060109782 - Apparatus and method for redundancy control of duplex switch board: An apparatus and method for a redundancy control in duplex switch boards in a high speed network system are provided. The apparatus includes: a switching unit for switching data inputted one of the duplex switch boards to a destination line card; a state controlling unit for controlling a clock state...

20060109783 - High availability voip subsystem: A high availability VoIP system interfacing with a PSTN or other TDM network to provide higher availability and better failure recovery wherein the high availability VoIP system includes a plurality of gateways coupled to at least one hub and a proxy table and a call restoration table configured in each...

20060109784 - Closed loop method and apparatus for throttling the transmit rate of an ethernet media access controller (mac): A system and method for MAC-PHY rate matching combines carrier sense signal and rate matching techniques to implement close loop rate matching. An adapter entity responds to each carrier sense deferral to throttle the MAC until rate matching is achieved....

20060109785 - System and method for loadbalancing in a network environment using feedback information: A method for loadbalancing in a network environment is provided that includes receiving a request from an end user for a communication session at a central node. The method further includes identifying a selected one of a plurality of network nodes to facilitate the communication session for the end user...

20060109786 - Method and system for identifying degradation of a media service: A method and device for identifying degradation in service quality for a wireless media service. The wireless media service has a known expected packet generation rate, which may be determined by the device based upon the codec and payload size selected on initiating the media service. At a receiving device,...

20060109788 - Network accelerator for controlled long delay links: A communication system for providing network access over a shared communication link is disclosed. The communication system includes a user access point, a network access point and a communications link. The user access point is coupled to one or more user terminals that access a remote network. The network access...

20060109787 - System and method for providing a congestion-aware routing metric for selecting a route between nodes in a multihopping communication network: A system and method for calculating a routing metric that can select the route providing the best throughput in a multihopping network (100), based on one or more parameters including completion rates, data rates, MAC overhead and congestion. The system and method are capable of selecting a route in a...

20060109789 - System and method for buffer management in a packet-based network: A communication system for use with a packet-based network is di sclosed. A first node is configured to transmit circuit data in data packets across the network. A second node is configured to receive the data packets from the network and serialize the synchronous data The second node comprises a...

20060109790 - System and method for using a hop limited cast for internet egress point selection: A system and method for using a hop limited cast for Internet egress point selection. One aspect of the present invention includes a computer-implemented method. The computer-implement method includes casting an Internet egress announcement to a network. The announcement has a range associated therewith. A list is then created with...

20060109791 - Signal pattern generation apparatus, signal pattern generation method, program for making computer system execute the signal pattern generation method, computer-readable storage medium on which the program is stored, network endurance testing system, and: A signal pattern generation apparatus of the present invention is constituted by a root signal generation section 12 which generates a root signal of a long-tail distribution having positivity, a statistical self-similarity signal generation section SSSSG which generates a statistical self-similarity signal based on wavelet analysis from the root signal,...

20060109792 - Apparatus and method to check data integrity when handling data: An apparatus and method are disclosed to check integrity when handling data. The method provides a storage array which includes a plurality of sectors. The method defines (N) data state identifiers and (N) parity state identifiers. The method receives a command to handle data, where that command designates a target...

20060109793 - Network simulation apparatus and method for analyzing abnormal network: A network simulation apparatus and method for analyzing abnormal network traffic are provided. The network simulation apparatus includes: a traffic information collection unit, which collects traffic information in real time from a network; a simulator, which performs a simulation operation in a virtual network topology environment according to a predetermined...

20060109794 - Communication system: There is disclosed a method of testing a network access element configured for demodulating an enhanced dedicated channel, E-DCH, with hybrid automatic repeat request, HARQ, functionality, the method comprising: transmitting E-DCH packets to the network access element; and selectively autonomously retransmitting E-DCH packets to the network access element....

20060109798 - Application monitor apparatus: An application monitor apparatus is provided that enables feedback to be sent to a transmitting terminal without relay processing of application data in the application layer. A packet transmission decision unit outputs to an application monitor unit and a packet transmitting unit only packets for which transmission is authorized by...

20060109797 - Integrated management system and method for network connection means in networks having different telecommunication protocols: In accordance with the present invention, a plurality of routers in more than one network based on different protocols can be integrally managed. The management system of the present invention is capable of integrally managing a plurality of routers in a network based on IPv6 from another network based on...

20060109795 - Multicast accounting control system and broadband access server: A listening-or-viewing charge is differentiated with bit rates depending on distributed programs. A broadband access server for holding user channels by PPP and replicating and transferring multicast packets have a counter for counting the number of distributed multicast packets and the number of distributed bytes at each multicast group address....

20060109796 - System and method for providing differentiated quality of service: Described is a system and method for providing differentiated service levels. The method comprising receiving a packet stream including a plurality of packets. A level of service to be provided to the packet stream is determined. An impairment to the packet stream is determined as a function of the level...

20060109800 - Communication management network system and method for managing a communication network: A mechanism usable in a communication management network system includes a network element and an operations system portion. After the network element is physically connected to the operations system portion, adaptation information is transmitted from the network element to the operations system. The operations system configures one or more applications...

20060109799 - Methods and systems of dynamic channel allocation for access points in wireless networks: A method for dynamic channel allocation for access points in wireless networks. Communication information of wireless devices is gathered. A network topology formed by the wireless devices is derived according to the communication information. Switch channel indexes for each wireless device are calculated according to the communication information and network...

20060109801 - Method and apparatus for implementing multiple portals into an rbridge network: Shortest-path spanning trees are created outward from each portal on a Rbridge network with nodes on the network being assigned to the spanning trees. For those nodes equidistant to two portals, an election process is used to determine which tree the node should join. To enable routes associated with nodes...

20060109802 - Virtual private lan service over ring networks: A method for communication via a ring network that includes a plurality of nodes. The method includes receiving at a first node in the ring network a data packet transmitted over a virtual private LAN service (VPLS), the data packet including an identification of the VPLS. The first node reads...

20060109803 - Easy volume adjustment for communication terminal in multipoint conference: A transit control apparatus connects a plurality of terminals participating in a multipoint conference to each other for relaying and controlling speech data. A terminal connected to the transit control apparatus transmits speech data. A DTMF signal extracting instruction decoder extracts a DTMF signal from the speech data transmitted from...

20060109804 - System for parallel transmission over wlan and method therefor: Provided is a system for parallel transmission over WLAN and method therefor. The method comprises causing a first mobile station to transmit an RTS and causing a second mobile station to transmit a CTS after receiving the RTS; searching third mobile stations to find any one receiving the RTS not...

20060109805 - Packet stream arrangement in multimedia transmission: Transmitting media information from a transmitting device to a receiving device. To perform the transmission a media stream is encoded and packets are formed from the encoded media stream, the packets containing application data units, the application data units having a decoding order. At least two blocks are generated from...

20060109806 - Method and apparatus for estimating channelization codes in a wireless transmit/receive unit: A method and apparatus for estimating channelization codes in a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) using blind code detection (BCD). A WTRU receives communication bursts and detects a midamble in the received burst. A candidate code list is generated in accordance with the detected midamble. The candidate code list includes channelization...

20060109808 - Digital broadcasting in areas with poor transmitting power: The invention relates to a method, a mobile communication device, a device and a system for transmission of programs and/or data, which are disseminated by a broadcast transmitter, broadcast signals being received by a mobile communication device in a first transmission area having a first reception power and in a...

20060109807 - Multicasting using tunneling method: A tunneling method includes: managing a session entry table for storing information used for multicasting data transmitted from a first network having a first address format to a second network having a second address format different from the first address format; and tunneling multicasting data, generated by the first network,...

20060109811 - Method and apparatus for location determination of a wireless device within an environment: A method and apparatus for determining a location of a wireless device within an environment. A wireless device, which is operable in a wireless communication system, comprises a transmitter for transmitting a first signal to a transponder, where the transponder operates independent of the wireless communication system. The wireless device...

20060109809 - Method and device for receiving a packet: The present invention provides a single circuit and a method which can identify the WLAN standard of a packet or the modulation type of a packet. The single circuit includes a shift register, N determinators and decision logic. The shift register is configured to receive several periods of the preamble...

20060109810 - Preamble miss detection in transmission of multi-slot packets: A communication system (100) transmits data packets from a sender (120A) to a receiver (130A) using hybrid automatic repeat request processes. The sender redundantly encodes each packet, divides the packet into subpackets, and sends the subpackets to the receiver in a time-interlaced manner. When the receiver returns a positive acknowledgement...

20060109814 - Communicating data between an access point and multiple wireless devices over a link: The present invention provides a method and an apparatus for communicating data over a network between a communication node, for example, an access point having a first and a second antenna and a first and a second mobile station. The method comprises weighting a first data at the access point...

20060109813 - Radio packet communication method and radio packet communication apparatus: A plurality of types of available transmission rates to be used for transmission of data packets are individually managed for each receiver terminal. When there are a plurality of data packets to be transmitted onto a transmission buffer and when it is possible to transmit said plurality of data packets...

20060109815 - System and method for dynamic frequency selection in a multihopping wireless network: A system and method for dynamic frequency selection at one or more access points (APs 106) in a multihop wireless network (100). The system and method maintain at the APs (106) a table comprising end-to-end network channel information that is indicative of the degree of channel performance in the network...

20060109812 - Temporary mobile group identifier generation and distribution method: A method for creating and assigning TMGI, comprising steps of: sending a message to a SGSN when an UE joining a MBMS service group; if a MBMS TMGI has been added to SGSN records, the SGSN directly replying to the UE with the TMGI corresponding to a service; if there...

20060109816 - Wireless access control station and wireless access control method: Even in a wireless station only having a distributed coordination function, a fair connection chance can be provided. A wireless access control station comprising a determination unit which determines a wireless connection count of a predetermined access category, and a change unit which changes, in accordance with determination obtained by...

20060109819 - Method and apparatus for inter-system active handoff of a hybrid subscriber unit: A communication system provides for an active handoff of a voice call between a packet switched network and a circuit switched network. An active handoff from the packet switched network to the circuit switched network is accomplished by multicasting the call over forward links of both networks during the handoff....

20060109817 - Method and system for inter-technology active handoff of a hybrid communication device: A communication system provides for a handoff of a hybrid mobile station (MS) between a legacy network implementing a non-high rate packet data (non-HRPD) communication technology and a network implementing a high rate packet data (HRPD) communication technology. In one embodiment, the legacy network receives a handoff trigger and redirects...

20060109818 - Method and system for inter-technology active handoff of a hybrid communication device: A communication system provides for a handoff of a hybrid mobile station (MS) between a legacy network implementing a non-high rate packet data (non-HRPD) communication technology and a network implementing a high rate packet data (HRPD) communication technology. In one embodiment, the legacy network receives a handoff trigger and redirects...

20060109820 - Handoff control method and mobile station: First, the strength A of a first pilot signal currently transmitted by a base station and strength B of a second pilot signal transmitted by a base station other than the foregoing base station are measured, the correction value D of a handoff threshold value according to the multicast service...

20060109821 - Apparatus and method capable of a unified quasi-cyclic low-density parity-check structure for variable code rates and sizes: r

20060109823 - Contents transmission system and contents processing apparatus: A contents transmission system comprising a first terminal which receives a first code stream produced by compression-encoding contents and has a converter section converting the first code stream into a second code stream having a data size smaller than that of the first code stream, a transmission section transmitting the...

20060109822 - Information transmission method, mobile communications system, base station and mobile station: In an information transmission method, a radio communications system, a base station and a mobile station, a TBS size, a modulation scheme and the number of codes in a multicode are converted into identification data having a relatively smaller data size before being transmitted to a destination of communication. The...

20060109828 - Communication apparatus and method of controlling same: The distance to a communicating party is detected using whether or not an electromagnetic-coupled RF field formation is achieved or not as simple measurement means. If the distance to the communicating party is short, i.e., if it is possible to form an RF field, then transmission power is reduced. As...

20060109824 - Communication partner device for communication with another communication partner device over a first communication channel: In a communication partner device (2A) which belongs to a communication system (1) having at least two such communication partner devices (2A, 2B) and which is designed for contactless communication over a first communication channel (4), wherein one of the two communication partner devices (2A, 2B) contains a communication enable...

20060109829 - Messages and control methods for controlling resource allocation and flow admission control in a mobile communications system: Methods and apparatus for aggregating IP packets over an access link between a wireless access router and a core node and for managing resource allocation to access link packet aggregates, e.g., as a function of the status of wireless communications links used to couple mobile nodes to the access router...

20060109825 - Method and system for predicting service drop in a wireless network: A mobile wireless device for use in a wireless network, wherein the wireless network includes regular access points and border access points. The border access points are those access points situated at the edge of the campus or other physical facility associated with the wireless network and they define the...

20060109827 - Method for transmitting service data to wireless local area network users: Disclosed is a method for transmitting service data to wireless local area network (WLAN) users. A service notification unit is set in the network for use in transmitting service access notices to WLAN users. After accessing the network, a WLAN user terminal immediately establishes a continuous connection between itself and...

20060109826 - Method of user access authorization in wireless local area network: The present invention discloses a method of user access authorization in wireless local area networks. The method comprises: when a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) user terminal is accessing a WLAN operational network, the WLAN operational network, while authenticating this WLAN user terminal, judging whether to allow this WLAN user...

20060109830 - Method and device for dynamically scheduling radio resources of streaming media services: The invention discloses a radio resources scheduling method for dynamically scheduling the radio resources of streaming media services in a multi-carrier radio communication system including multiple sub-carriers, the method comprising steps of: obtaining from a physical layer the information of the quality of radio channel on each sub-carrier for each...

20060109831 - Method for assigning slots in a mobile network: A method of acquiring transmit and receive slots in a peer-to-peer network comprising acquiring data about a plurality of nodes in the network, the data including a code corresponding to send slots and receive slots for the plurality of nodes; finding an available code based upon the data about the...

20060109832 - Apparatus and method of aggregation of data packets streams: Briefly, a method and apparatus to aggregate at least first polling service of a first data traffic stream with a second polling service of a second data traffic stream into an aggregated service by aggregating service time periods and polling intervals of the at least first and second services....

20060109833 - Method for processing packets and scheduling superframe in polling-based wlan system: A method for processing packets in a polling-based WLAN system comprises: scheduling a superframe to include a first period in which only a terminal receiving a polling message from an access point (AP) is allowed to access a medium without contention, the AP transmitting the polling message to arbitrary terminals,...

20060109834 - Arrangement for input multiplexer: An input multiplexer, for which the high circuit order bandpass filters are connected by means of a low loss busbar of conducting pieces of optimized length into an IMUX....

20060109835 - Radio-corrected timepiece: To make so as to be capable of being easily tuned to a standard wave signal. A reception means extracts a time code from a radio signal received by an antenna, thereby outputting it to a control means. The control means obtains an information of a present time instant from...

20060109837 - Composite voice applications and services using single sign-on across heterogeneous voice servers: A framework is provided to offer composite voice applications and services. A composite application and service begins from the user dialing in via phone and ends by the user hanging up the phone. The composite interactive voice services architecture includes a session initiation protocol session service unit is in the...

20060109838 - Dynamic voice over internet protocol endpoint mapping: A method, apparatus and computer program product for performing dynamic Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP) endpoint mapping is presented. At least one on net endpoint of a VOIP call is determined. An endpoint data structure is used to store, for each on net endpoint of the call, a key and...

20060109836 - Multimedia message center and telecommunication device for accessing stored multimedia messages: A multimedia message service center and telecommunication device for accessing deposited multimedia messages. The forwarding and receipt of multimedia messages transmitted in networks that are configured for the Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) independent of the communication between the networks and the infrastructure and the topology of the respective network from...

20060109839 - User terminal connection control method and apparatus: A user terminal connection control method to limit the number of sessions simultaneously connectable to the Internet, wherein an access server or authentication server has a user management table for specifying the maximum number of connections and a preferential terminal identifier indicating a user terminal to be preferentially connected to...

20060109840 - Method for providing advanced services for traditional pstn residential endpoints: The present invention provides a method for providing advanced services to traditional PSTN residential endpoints. An end office routes a call request to an application server. The application server receives the call request and routes the call request to the PSTN residential endpoint....

20060109841 - Integrated programmable device for safety critical applications: An integrated programmable device has a plurality of signal inputs (P1, P2, P3) connected to respective ones of a plurality of switching elements (S1, S2, S3). Each switching element (S1, S2, S3) has an associated enable line (E1, E2, E3). A control circuit (15) activates one or more selected signal...

20060109842 - Reconfigurable compute engine interconnect fabric: A reconfigurable compute engine interconnect fabric includes a reconfigurable interconnect layer (24, FIG. 2) between an application layer (22) and a physical layer (26) which identifies the input and output pins for the engine and their functions....

20060109843 - Method for information transfer and associated information transfer system: For an efficient exchange of information particularly required for coordination of workflows in a medical or clinical environment, a method for information transmission as well as an associated information transfer system are specified. It is accordingly provided that a message sent from a transmission unit to a reception unit is...

20060109844 - Arbitrated loop address management apparatus method and system: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for automatically and transparently managing addresses in an arbitrated loop network. An arbitrated loop network switch is programmed with an address map and configured with the necessary modules to monitor an address assignment process and associate soft assigned addresses claimed during the address...

20060109846 - Method and apparatus for mitigating the impact of receiving unsolicited ip packets at a wireless device: To initiate dormancy early, a wireless device receives an IP packet from a wireless network and determines whether the received IP packet is an unsolicited IP packet. An unsolicited IP packet may be declared if the received IP packet causes the wireless device to reactivate from dormancy or is not...

20060109845 - Method of transporting a rapidio packet over an ip packet network: A method of transporting a RapidIO packet (135) from an initiator RapidIO domain (102) over an IP packet network (110) to a receiver RapidIO domain (104) can include the initiator RapidIO domain creating the RapidIO packet and reading a destination domain ID (483) of the RapidIO packet, where the destination...

20060109847 - 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 acquires address information of each communication terminal connected to the subscriber line terminated by the subscriber line termination unit. When the IP address of a communication terminal is...

20060109848 - Method of releasing transmitted data by means of reception or transmission recognition: Where the data sent to different users is stored and where each communication has an acknowledgement in transmission configured in which a release signal for the data sent is generated at the end of the transmission, or in reception in which confirmation is awaited of acknowledgement of the receiver prior...

20060109849 - System for supporting communications among atm devices, device for supporting data transmission, method for sending data, and computer program product: A first communication device receives an ATM cell bound for a second ATM device from a first ATM device via an ATM interface, and then the first communication device sends a data frame including the ATM cell to the second ATM device via wide area Ethernet. In addition, the first...

20060109850 - Ip-san network access control list generating method and access control list setup method: It is an object of the present invention to realize filter setting peculiar to iSCSI communication on an IP network. In a management server, discovery domain information is acquired, in which the connection relationship between a TCP port number and an IP address allocated to an iSCSI node, whether the...

20060109851 - Auto configuration for asynchronous transfer mode based access device: A method for obtaining virtual path identifier, virtual channel identifier, and encapsulation values in an asynchronous transfer mode access device for a network using either non-static or static internet protocol address assignments and asynchronous transfer mode adaptation layer 5. In the non-static environment, a plurality of discovery packets are generated,...

20060109852 - Auto configuration for asynchronous transfer mode based access device: A method for obtaining virtual path identifier, virtual channel identifier, and encapsulation values in an asynchronous transfer mode access device for a network using either non-static or static internet protocol address assignments and asynchronous transfer mode adaptation layer 5. In the non-static environment, a plurality of discovery packets are generated,...

20060109853 - Router device and cut-through path control method for realizing load balancing at intermediate routers: A router device and a cut-through path control method capable of carrying out the load balancing at an intermediate router device which actually has a multi-path information, without requiring a special processing at the edge router are disclosed. At a router device at which multi-path exists, one router among a...

20060109854 - Systems and methods to share information between digital video recorders: According to some embodiments, information may be shared between digital video recorders. In some embodiments, systems or methods may include, for example, identifying first information associated with a first user of a first digital video recorder, and providing the first information to a second digital video recorder. Some embodiments may...

20060109855 - Ring network for a burst switching network with centralized management: A ring network that transmits bursts and data packets is provided. In one embodiment, setup message is sent from a node i to a central node to set up communication between the node i and a node j. The central node stops a current transmission on a path between the...

20060109856 - Method and apparatus for adaptive buffering: An adaptive buffering scheme allows more effective media transport and buffering. In one aspect of the adaptive buffering scheme, buffering parameters are adapted to different media characteristics, such as media play commands or the amount of encoding/transcoding required for the particular media stream. In another aspect of the adaptive buffering...

20060109857 - System, method and computer program product for dynamically changing message priority or message sequence number in a message queuing system based on processing conditions: A message sequence number or message priority level stored in a queue maintained by a message queuing system may be dynamically changed based on processing conditions by the use of a message sequence regulator (MSR) system. The MSR system includes a message parser, a message extraction repository, a rules repository,...

20060109858 - 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...

20060109860 - Asynchronous network system, information processing apparatus, data-transmission managing method, data-reception managing method, and program: An asynchronous network system includes a transmitting apparatus which transmits time-synchronization-information data through an asynchronous network, and information processing apparatuses which share identical time information by receiving the time-synchronization-information data. At least one data item whose transmission and reception within a predetermined reaching time are requested to be guaranteed is...

20060109859 - Method and system for efficient and reliable mac-layer multicast wireless transmissions: A method and system for reliable multicasting on a communication network includes sending Request-to-Send (RTS) signals from a sender node of the network to the receiver nodes, the RTS signals include a set of identifiers corresponding to the receiver nodes. The Clear-to-Send (CTS) signals and Acknowledgment (ACK) signals are sent...

20060109861 - Apparatus with and a method for a dynamic interface protocol: An apparatus with a dynamic interface protocol and a method for a dynamic interface protocol are provided. The apparatus is capable of consolidating multiple interface protocols to a single output terminal to reduce the number of output pins and the complexity and the cost of the apparatus. The apparatus is...

20060109862 - Apparatus and method for converting megaco protocol: An apparatus and a method for megaco protocol conversion is provided. The apparatus includes: a plurality of first protocol execution means for receiving a plurality of different protocol packets, executing operations according to the received protocols, analyzing the received protocols, and generating protocol execution parameters; a megaco protocol execution means...

20060109863 - Digital message transmission protocol: The invention concerns a method for transmitting digital messages including each at least one data packet, comprising the following steps: a) dividing each data packet into successive segments of predetermined size, each segment being classified in accordance with one or the other among five types depending on whether it contains...

20060109864 - Pre-emption mechanism for packet transport: Protocols or methods are presented for encapsulating data from packets of different priorities and pre-emption techniques therefor using (N+M) byte frames for transmission in a communications system. The methods involve selectively suspending encapsulation of low-priority data packets to encapsulate a higher priority pre-empting data packet, and resuming encapsulation all or...

20060109865 - Method for allocating resources in a multicarrier system and transmission apparatus using the same: In an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) mobile communication system, an apparatus and method allocates resources for data transmission and transmits/receives user data using the allocated resources. A full subcarrier band allocable for one cell is divided into a plurality of subcarrier regions. Subcarriers selected from subcarriers existing in one...

20060109867 - Method and apparatus for routing voice traffic over a residential gateway: A system and method for managing voice communication between devices located within a local network and other devices. The present invention permits the managing and selective routing of voice communications over VoIP systems, circuit-based cellular systems and public switched telephone network systems based upon predefined criteria such as Quality of...

20060109866 - Methods, interface unit and nodes for using in parallel a communication network for real-time applications and for non-real-time applications: The invention concerns a data transmission technique for real-time applications and non real-time applications in a communication network comprising several nodes connected by communication channels. The invention is characterized in that the data are cyclically and deterministically transmitted, the data for the real-time applications being processed in priority, such that,...

20060109868 - Method and system for time synchronisation in a distributed communications network: Method, system and node for providing time synchronisation between local clocks located in nodes within a network and a central clock. The central clock and the nodes exchange messages. The messages transmitted contain a time stamp indicating the time of transmission. When messages are received, the time of reception is...

20060109869 - Method and circuit arrangements for adjusting signal propagation times in a memory system: The invention describes a method for adjusting signal propagation times in a memory system in which a controller is connected to at least one memory chip via a plurality of connecting lines for the purpose of transmitting control and data signals and at least one time reference signal. In line...

20060109870 - Transmitting device with discard control of specific media data: A transmitting device includes a first buffer for temporarily storing audio data, a second buffer for temporarily storing video data, a multiplexing unit for outputting audio data coming from the first buffer and video data coming from the second buffer onto a single signal channel, and a transmission buffer monitoring...

20060109871 - 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...

20060104195 - Ofdm signal transmission method, and ofdm signal transmitter/receiver: In an OFDM transmission scheme, in order to compensate any frequency response variation in time wise resulted from any distortion in a transmission path, out-of-synchronization with passage of time, frequency drift, and phase shift, and to improve a demodulation characteristic, a PS detector 261 in a receiver receiving an OFDM...

20060104196 - Adaptive time diversity and spatial diversity for ofdm: An adaptable orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing system (OFDM) that uses a multiple input multiple output (MIMO) to having OFDM signals transmitted either in accordance with time diversity to reducing signal fading or in accordance with spatial diversity to increase the data rate. Sub-carriers are classified for spatial diversity transmission or for...

20060104197 - Method and system for economical beam forming in a radio communication system: Individual RF cables span between element/transceiver pairs in traditional beam forming systems, and the number of elements in an array used for beam forming is thus restricted. To reduce the number of RF cables but maintain or increase the number of elements in an antenna array, an embodiment of the...

20060104198 - Ranging system, transmitting terminal, receiving terminal, ranging method, and computer program: A ranging system is disclosed which measures a distance between terminals operating on a multi-carrier transmission system. The ranging system includes a frequency domain data processing device that acquires impulse responses by subjecting data from transmitted and/or received packets to fast discrete Fourier transform for conversion into frequency domain data...

20060104199 - Minimizing single points of failure in paths with mixed protection schemes: Methods and apparatus for substantially minimizing single points of failure for circuit paths in networks with mixed protection schemes are disclosed. According to one aspect of the present invention, a method for routing circuit paths between a source and a destination of a network includes identifying a first available circuit...

20060104200 - Terminal for automatically changing operating mode and wireless network system having the same, and method thereof: A terminal for automatically changing a communication mode, a wireless network system having the same, and a method thereof are disclosed. The terminal comprises a wireless communication module for communicating with a corresponding terminal through an access point connected to a communication infrastructure. The terminal further comprising a first memory...

20060104202 - Rule creation for computer application screening; application error testing: To facilitate the creation of rules for screening application layer requests to a computer application, a sample space of application layer requests is grouped according to one or more grouping criteria. Each grouping criterion may be a feature of application layer requests such that each grouping contains application layer requests...

20060104203 - System and method for method for providing quality-of service in a local loop: Described is a system and method for receiving in a first network operated by a first network provider, a service request from a client for a service application provided by the first service provider, the client accessing the first network via a second network operated by a second network provider,...

20060104201 - Unit and a method for handling a data object: The present invention relates to a unit and a method for handling a data object that is to be transmitted over a link (39, 40, 41, 42), said data object being divided into at one least data unit. According to the invention the data unit that is in turn to...

20060104204 - Power efficient mobile terminal reception mode: A message that comprises encoded bits interleaved over N transmission bursts, wherein N is greater than 1, is received by receiving fewer than N of the transmission bursts, whereby there exist remaining ones of the N transmission bursts that have not been received. All of the received transmission bursts are...

20060104205 - System and method to scout for routes in a wireless network: The present invention provides a system and method for evaluating the performance of a potential route before it is actually established. In a wireless network, when a trigger is received by a source node that suggests the existence of a better route, the source node sends a scouting packet along...

20060104207 - Apparatus and method of remotely enabling a special mode of operation of an endpoint in a voip network: In an apparatus and method for testing a VoIP network, a special mode sequence and a telephone number are transmitted on the VoIP network. In response to the transmission of the special mode sequence and the telephone number, a network connection is established on the VoIP network. Test data is...

20060104206 - Apparatus, system, and method for detecting a fibre channel miscabling event: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for detecting a fibre channel miscabling event. The apparatus includes a detect module, a determine module, and an enable module. The detect module detects a fibre channel cable connection configuration, the determine module determines whether the connection configuration is valid according to preset...

20060104209 - Failure isolation in a communication system: A computer system including a communication fabric initiates a forced diagnostic to isolate and identify genuine error conditions which are discerned from sympathetic error conditions. Error counters are only incremented for each genuine error condition, precluding the need to set error counter threshold artificially high. Recovery events are logged in...

20060104208 - Priority-based network fault analysis: A method and system for reducing fault analysis times in a network having a plurality of pollable objects. Poll responses are received from pollable objects, priorities are assigned to each received poll response in accordance with one or more of a received poll response value, a pollable object status and...

20060104210 - Dynamic network management: A pattern-based network management method and system is used in wireless, mobile networks. An explorer message is successively propagated over a dynamic network and any operating links are verified. This verification is preferably based on that the nodes receiving the explorer message will acknowledge the receipt back to the sending...

20060104217 - Apparatus and method for routing packets in a network: In a packet switched network, network data can be recorded for measurement by transmitting a measurement packet across the network to store path records as it travels from an originating measurement device to a destination device. Some of the network devices located along the path traversed by the measurement packet...

20060104215 - Apparatus and method to set the signaling rate of a network disposed within an information storage and retrieval system: A method is disclosed to set the speed of a network. The method supplies a network interconnected with a system controller and a plurality of switch domains, where each of those plurality of switch domains comprises one or more information storage devices and a switch domain controller, and sets by...

20060104213 - Discrete choice method of reporting and predicting multiple transaction types: The method for and system or apparatus for forecasting future communication transaction traffic from a customer include the steps of or structure for: collecting communication channel data on at least first and second communication channels; performing a numeric transformation to the data; calculating a discrete choice probability for each communication...

20060104211 - Method and apparatus for packet data service discovery: A method and apparatus for packet data service discovery are described. A current blacklist comprising entries for wireless networks not providing packet data services (i.e. either not supporting the services or not having a packet data services roaming agreement) is kept in memory of the mobile device based on previous...

20060104212 - Method of dynamically determining optimum size of buffer: A method of dynamically determining an optimum size of buffer suitable for media access controller (MAC) to access network is provided. First, a test packet is provided. Next, the test packet is transferred between the MAC and the buffer to obtain a transfer rate. Finally, an optimum size of the...

20060104216 - Packet metering in high-speed network units: For each metered flow in a network unit there is a memory entry which defines a time stamp and a rate parameter. When a packet in the respective flow arrives, the time of arrival is compared with the time stamp. If the time of arrival is before the time stamp...

20060104214 - System and method for automated provisioning of wireless access gateways: Provisioning of network wireless access gateways is provided through standard heartbeat communications between device management systems and the controlled devices. Security associations for use by the devices such as PDSNs in communication with other devices such as PCFs associated with the network is downloaded from the management system to the...

20060104218 - System for analyzing quality of communication sections: A system for analyzing quality of communication sections includes a transmission device transmitting a test measurement signal, a reception device receiving the test measurement signal, relay devices each located on a transmission path of the test measurement signal between the transmission device and the reception device, setting a relay time...

20060104220 - Method and apparatus for managing configuration information, and configuration information managing system using the apparatus: A configuration information management server apparatus is provided with a unit collecting configuration information from the device connected to a network, a unit storing the configuration information collected from the device connected to the network, and a unit comparing already stored information with the collected information and reporting in case...

20060104219 - Predictive mobile ad hoc networking including associated systems and methods: The mobile ad hoc network (MANET) includes a plurality of wireless mobile nodes and a plurality of wireless communication links connecting the nodes together. A method for operating a MANET includes predicting future-needed network services, network resources and network configurations in the MANET. A network response is predicted, based upon...

20060104221 - System and method for voice over internet protocol audio conferencing: An embodiment of a conference bridge adapted for voice-over-IP applications has a modular, scalable architecture and establishes and internally relocates conference calls using SIP protocol commands for efficient processing. Further embodiments of the conference bridge support a plurality of conference access numbers. Dialed Number Identification Service groups may be programmed...

20060104222 - Sub-sequentia module and call: This invention is involving the creation of a sub-sequence net (hereafter briefly as Sub SN). The Sub SN is a kind of sequence net encapsulation that includes sub-routine structure of N+1 single machines. Based on the fact that the sequence net call instruction of sequence net call function in the...

20060104223 - System and method to create synchronized environment for audio streams: A system and a process are disclosed for synchronizing asynchronous audio streams for synchronous consumption by an audio module. The system and the process receive a first audio stream and a second audio stream. The first audio stream serves as a baseline and is sent unaltered directly to the audio...

20060104224 - Wireless access point with fingerprint authentication: A wireless local area network access point is provided that authenticates users using fingerprint recognition. Users may register fingerprints with the wireless access point with the assistance of an authorized system administrator. When a registered user attempts to access the network, the user may be prompted to provide a fingerprint...

20060104225 - Multimedia broadcast and multicast service paging: This invention provides a paging method for Multimedia Broadcast/Multicast Service in mobile communication system paging process and radio resource setup process are merged in this method to try to reduce uplink responses. This invention extends existing PCH IubFP frame structure by adding MBMS Indication bit(MI) to PCH IubFP frame. The...

20060104226 - Ipv4-ipv6 transition system and method using dual stack transition mechanism(dtsm): An IPv4-IPv6 transition method using a Dual Stack Transition Mechanism (DTSM) includes: setting a Domain Name System (DNS) between a DSTM client and a DSTM server arranged in an IPv6 network and a TEP/DNSv4 connected to the IPv4 network to perform V4 domain name processing; transmitting a DNS searching request...

20060104239 - Apparatus and method for updating packet data session parameters by pdsn in mobile communications system: Updating packet data session parameters by a PDSN in a mobile communications system. A traffic channel is set between a MS and a BS according to their request, and A8 connection setup between the BS and a PCF and setting of A10 connection or transferring of accounting information are performed....

20060104236 - Broadcasting terminal for updating pilot channel information and method thereof: A satellite multimedia broadcasting terminal and method for updating pilot channel information is provided. By determining whether pilot channel information has changed and updating pilot channel information based on the determination, processing of unchanged pilot channel information can be minimized and the efficiency of a system enhanced....

20060104237 - Channel management for mobile multimedia terminal: A method for managing channels in a mobile multimedia terminal comprises receiving ensemble information associated with a multimedia channel, and identifying the multimedia channel into a plurality of services based on the ensemble information. The method also comprises identifying service components required for reception of the plurality of services. The...

20060104227 - Data communication methods and systems: Data communication methods and systems for a host computer to access communication via a radio device. The current computations are interrupted when the host computer receives an interrupt signal, radio frequency (RF) control signals, and baseband data signals from the radio device. The host computer processes modem tasks and performs...

20060104229 - Method and apparatus for supporting packet data services in service area boundary regions: A method of providing packet data service is based on selectively switching packet data traffic for a mobile station operating in a boundary region between two service areas from a shared packet data channel to a dedicated packet data channel, or vice versa. For example, a source base station can...

20060104228 - Method and apparatus for transitioning between radio link protocols in a packet-based real-time media communication system: A method and apparatus for transitioning between radio link protocols in a packet-based real-time media communication system. A wireless communication device such as a cell phone will operate under one radio link protocol (such as IS-856, also known as 1xEV-DO) to engage in packet-based signaling for setup of a packet-based...

20060104234 - Method for establishment of a service tunnel in a wlan: Disclosed herein is a method for the establishment of a service tunnel in a wireless local area network (WLAN). The method includes a service authentication authorization unit making authentication and authorization to a WLAN user terminal currently requesting a service, and judging whether the authentication and authorization is successful. If...

20060104235 - Mixed mode wireless local area network terminal: A Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) station/terminal operates in normally mutually exclusive infrastructure and independent modes. A mixed mode is added by means of a mixed mode means for running the WLAN terminal in the infrastructure and independent modes simultaneously....

20060104231 - Real-time scalable wireless switching network: A real-time scalable wireless switching network is described herein. In one embodiment, an exemplary network architecture includes, but is not limited to, a first access point coupled to a wired network, where the first access point is capable of communicating with one or more mobile nodes over a wireless network....

20060104238 - Wireless communication device and setup method: There is provided a wireless communication device, which is provided with a radio signal processing unit that transmits and receives radio signals, a data communication interface to which a device can be detachably connected, and a controller that controls the radio signal processing unit and the data communication interface. In...

20060104233 - Wireless local area network access gateway and method for ensuring network security therewith: Disclosed herein is a wireless local area network access gateway (WAG) including a routing enforcement module for enforcing the control of the transmission routing, and a charging module for collecting charging information. The data packets sent via the WAG are outputted to the service authentication and authorization unit or packet...

20060104230 - Wireless network having control plane segregation: A wireless network having control plane segregation is described herein. In one embodiment, an exemplary network architecture includes, but is not limited to, multiple access points coupled to a wired network, where each of the access points is capable of communicating with one or more mobile nodes over a wireless...

20060104232 - Wireless network having real-time channel allocation: A wireless network having a real-time channel allocation is described herein. In one embodiment, an exemplary network architecture includes, but is not limited to, multiple access points coupled to a wired network, where each of the access points is capable of communicating with one or more mobile nodes over a...

20060104241 - Beacon scheduling method in wireless sensor network system: A beacon scheduling method of a router by a coordinator in a network system that includes the coordinator and at least one router, includes receiving an allocation request signal of a time period in which a beacon of the router is transmitted; determining the time period to be allocated to...

20060104242 - Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving downlink control information in a mobile communication system supporting uplink packet data: A method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving downlink control information in a mobile communication system supporting an uplink packet data service are provided. To transmit packet data in an HARQ mobile communication system, a second transceiver receives an RG as rate control information from a first transceiver. The second...

20060104240 - Trigger for sending scheduling information in hsupa: A method and corresponding equipment by which a service access point (SAP) of a radio access network is able to trigger a user equipment (UE) terminal to send scheduling information to the SAP for use by the SAP in scheduling/allocating resources for packet uplink from the UE to the SAP....

20060104244 - Ip terminal apparatus and ip communication method: A card memory stores a home address, a home agent address and the like. When the card memory is attached to an IP terminal apparatus, the IP terminal apparatus retrieves the home address, home agent address and the like stored in the card memory, and automatically transmits to the home...

20060104243 - Method and apparatus for securing media access control (mac) addresses: An apparatus and method for securing media access control (MAC) addresses in a wireless local area network (LAN) environment are provided. In the method of securing MAC addresses, a cryptographically generated address (CGA) is generated using a predetermined cipher algorithm, a ciphered MAC address is extracted from the CGA, and...

20060104245 - Wireless device tracking system: A method of tracking a wireless device comprising a wireless interface, the method comprises locating a first access point providing a threshold signal strength; sending an association request to the first access point; recording a network address for the first access point; suspending normal operation of the wireless device for...

20060104246 - System and method for sequentially conducting independent data contexts using a mobile communications device: A mobile communications device includes logic operable to conduct a data context associated with a first application of the mobile communications device with a data service network. The mobile communications device also includes logic operable to release the data context associated with the first application and establish a data context...

20060104250 - Beacon scheduling method and system in a network system: A beacon scheduling method and system in a network system. The beacon scheduling method of a router in a network system that includes at least one router, includes receiving a beacon signal from a parent node; calculating a difference between an address of the parent node and an address of...

20060104251 - Beacon scheduling method in wireless sensor network system: A beacon scheduling method is provided which can efficiently avoid beacon collisions and prevent power consumption of the router due to the unnecessary beacon transmissions. The beacon scheduling method of a router in a network system including at least one coordinator which sends beacons in a cycle and at least...

20060104252 - Communication method and apparatus using ip address of vpn gateway for mobile node in a vpn: A communication method and apparatus using the IP address of a gateway for an MN in a VPN are provided. When the MN is to access the VPN, the gateway acting an FA in the VPN performs a Mobile IP registration on behalf of the MN and is allocated a...

20060104247 - Infrastructure-less bootstrapping: trustless bootstrapping to enable mobility for mobile devices: Methods and apparatus for supporting a session in Mobile IP are disclosed. A Mobile Node sends a first Mobile IP message identifying the Mobile Node to a Home Agent, wherein the first Mobile IP message indicates to the Home Agent that the Mobile Node is requesting dynamic configuration of a...

20060104253 - Method and apparatus for cell identification in wireless data networks: A method including wirelessly receiving a packet at a wireless station belonging to a cell of a wireless network, the network for communicating according to a wireless network standard, each transmitting station of the cell able to transmit a packet that includes cell identification information; and ascertaining at the physical...

20060104248 - Method of controlling wireless local network medium access using pseudo-time division multiplexing: The present invention provides a method of controlling Wireless LAN (WLAN) medium access using Pseudo-Time Division Multiplexing (PTDM) to improve the Quality of Service (QoS) of the WLAN. The method includes the first step of a Mobile Terminal (MT) acquiring QoS information, which relates to a voice frame to be...

20060104249 - Mobile handheld multi-media gateway and phone: A system and method for providing a mobile handheld multi-media gateway and phone. Various aspects of the present invention may comprise a first communication interface module that is adapted to communicatively couple the mobile telephone to a mobile telephone communication network. A second communication interface module may be adapted to...

20060104254 - Apparatus and method for acquiring synchronization in mobile communication system using ofdm scheme: Disclosed is a method for acquiring synchronization in a mobile communication system using an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) scheme. The method includes modeling a power delay profile in time-varying frequency selective fading channel conditions by a specific function; detecting a log probability distribution function of a timing offset and...

20060104255 - Broadcast data transmission/reception system and broadcast data transmission/reception method: A broadcast data transmission/reception system (100) includes: a transmitter (700) for transmitting broadcast data including time information indicating a reproduction start time; and a receiver (800) for receiving the broadcast data. The transmitter (700) transmits, at least a predetermined amount of time prior to transmitting the broadcast data, substitutive broadcast...

20060104256 - Method of operating a communications network and base station for a communications network: The present invention relates to a method of operating a communications network, wherein resources required for transmitting data within said communications network, in particular for transmitting data from a subscriber station to a first base station, are granted depending on a request for said resources. At least one further base...

20060104257 - Method and apparatus for time and frequency synchronization of ofdm communication systems: A method and apparatus for joint time and frequency synchronization for orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems. A multitone pilot signal is sent in a designated OFDM symbol period. The receiver synchronizes to the pilot signal in a two-stage procedure. The first stage estimates the frequency offset coarsely with a...

20060104262 - Maintaining consistent network connections while moving through wireless networks: A proxy server provides an anchor point for access network changes in a wireless environment. One example embodiment uses the concept of proxy server in order to preserve a uniform connectivity to a gateway service node while roaming across different networks through a handover mechanism. In one embodiment, the client...

20060104260 - Method and apparatus for continuous communication amongst endpoints of a communication system: Method and apparatus for communication amongst a plurality of endpoints is described. In one example, a logical communication channel is established amongst a plurality of endpoints. The logical communication channel is implemented using at least one physical link of at least one communication network. At least one initial media stream...

20060104263 - Method of setting up connections for access by roaming user terminals to data networks: A method is disclosed that is dedicated to setting up connections for access to data networks from communication terminals used by users having subscriptions corresponding to connection profiles with “main” service providers, via private networks of service providers and access networks of different types. The method consists in: i) assigning...

20060104261 - Secure voice signaling gateway: Systems and methods of providing secure signaling for voice communications over a public switched voice network (PSTN) are described. The call signaling is received at a first secure voice signaling gateway (SVSG) in which it is encrypted utilizing a security key. The encrypted payload is tunneled from the first SVSG...

20060104259 - System and method for executing a multi-modal transfer in a session initiation protocol (sip) environment: A method for communicating data in a session initiation protocol (SIP) environment is provided that includes initiating a SIP communication session that involves a first endpoint and a second endpoint. The method also includes identifying a portion of data that resides in a network and communicating the data to the...

20060104258 - System for embodying protocol in gateway gprs supporting node and method thereof: Disclosed is a protocol embodying system and method in the GGSN. An IP layer is provided between the GPRS network and the PDN and performs routing between the two networks, and performs muting between the protocols of the first and second network layers and the transfer layer protocol on the...

20060104264 - Method and apparatus for signaling voip call based on class of service in voip service system: In a method and apparatus for signaling a voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) call based on a class of service in a VoIP service system, a database which includes VoIP signaling information differentiated by the class of VoIP service is built, and the database is retrieved by a service class...

20060104265 - Configuring shared devices over a fabric: Provided are a method, system, and program for configuring shared devices over a fabric. A module in a first processing complex configures a first part of a fabric enabling communication with a set of devices accessible through the first part of the fabric. The module detects a located device accessible...

20060104273 - Frame relay switched data service: A new type of data transport service which uses a frame relay layer 2 data link connection identifier (DLCI) to select among various service types, feature sets, and/or closed user groups (CUGs). A layer 3 address may be extracted from a layer 2 frame, and the layer 3 address information...

20060104268 - Method and apparatus for classifying a network protocol and aligning a network protocol header relative to cache line boundary: Techniques for routing a payload of a first network protocol, which includes header information for a second network protocol, include communicating a packet. In a circuit block, a first type for the first network protocol and a second type for the second network protocol are determined. The circuit block stores...

20060104270 - Method and apparatus for communicating within a segmented network: A method and apparatus for communicating within a segmented network are generally disclosed....

20060104266 - Method and apparatus for header compression with transmission of context information dependent upon media characteristic: A compressor (25) serves to compress headers of media packets and sends context information to a decompressor (60) for use by the decompressor in decompressing compressed headers (26) of the media packets. With regard to a flow (56) of the media packets from the compressor (25) to the decompressor (60),...

20060104269 - Method and system for processing frames in storage controllers: Method and system for transferring data between a computing system and a storage device is provided. The system includes a storage controller including a frame snooper module that detects a TMR and generates a pause signal to a channel that stops the channel from sending any non-data frames to a...

20060104271 - Method and system for switching packets in a communication network: A method for switching packets in a communication network is provided. The method includes dividing a data stream into at least two sub-streams in a first application card received in a first application card slot of a packet switch. A first sub-stream is sent through a first application port associated...

20060104272 - Method for reporting transmission state by internet protocol and network using the same: Disclosed are a method for reporting a transmission state by an Internet protocol (IP) and a network system using the same. The method includes the steps of determining whether discard of any datagrams occurs, and if the discard of any datagram occurs, obtaining an address of a destination by parsing...

20060104267 - Routing procedure and system, corresponding network, such as a network on chip (noc), and computer program product therefor: A network, such as a network on chip, includes a plurality of levels of switches organized in a hierarchy. The connections between the switches are constituted by connections which are able to transport packets of information in opposite directions in such a way that one switch, or one process associated...

20060104274 - Method for distributed multicast routing in connection-oriented networks and network for applying this method: A method for multicast routing for a telecommunications network comprising a plurality of communication nodes interconnected by multiple paths, for the establishment of a multicasting connection between a source node and a plurality of destination nodes, in which the destination nodes are informed that a multicast connection request is arriving...

20060104275 - System and method for improved multicast performance: The present invention provides an improved architecture and method for the processing and transmission of multicast packets within a switching device. Briefly, as multicast packets arrive, a copy of the packet, or preferably a pointer for it, is placed in a multicast FIFO. As each pointer reaches the head of...

20060104278 - Apparatus and method for compressing headers in a broadband wireless communication system: A transmission apparatus and method for compressing headers in a broadband wireless communication system are provided. Upon receiving a packet to which a real-time transport protocol (RTP) header, a user datagram protocol (UDP) header, and an Internet protocol (IP) header are added, from an upper layer, a header compression protocol...

20060104277 - Circuit and a method for forwarding data packets in a network: In a method for forwarding data packets in a network a circuit comprises a data storage and a control device. Each data packet has a destination address and the data storage comprises T data sub-storages for storing all network addresses which are coded by a particular coding method on the...

20060104276 - Dynamic hover text for html table cells: A method, apparatus, and computer instructions for displaying header information in a table. Responsive to a movement of a pointer over a table displayed in a window, a cell in the table over which the pointer is located is identified. A determination of whether a header associated with the cell...

20060104279 - Low-latency automatic repeat request packet recovery mechanism for media streams: An Automatic Repeat reQuest (ARQ) error correction method optimized for protecting real-time audio-video streams for transmission over packet-switched networks. Embodiments of this invention provide bandwidth-efficient and low-latency ARQ for both variable and constant bit-rate audio and video streams. Embodiments of this invention use timing constraints to limit ARQ latency and...

20060104280 - Method and apparatus for coordinating a change in service provider between a client and a server with identity based service access management: A method of configuring a network access device connected to an access network connected to a plurality of service networks, the network device having a first network address allocated to a subscriber of services of a first service provider provided by a first service network, with a new network address...

20060104281 - Packet routing: A packet router has an input stage (1), an output stage (15) and a coupling stage (10) for coupling the input and output stages. The input stage has plural input devices, the output stage has plural output devices and the coupling stage provides paths for signals between output elements of...

20060104283 - Information processing apparatus and method, recording medium, and program: Disclosed herein is an information processing system having a first information processing apparatus and a second information processing apparatus for controlling communication with the first apparatus via a network, the first apparatus including, an attaching unit for attaching free space information of a send buffer in which data to be...

20060104282 - Mobile node (mn) discovery using the protocol for carrying authentication for network access (pana) in a telecommunications network: Methods and corresponding telecommunications nodes are provided for exchanging PANA Authentication Agent (PAA) information during the phase of the link layer establishment between a packet data switching node (e.g. a CDMA2000 Packet Data Serving Node—PDSN) and a Mobile Node (MN). An Air Interface Origination message is sent from the MN...

20060104284 - Filtering data packets at a network gateway working as a service-based policy (sblp) enforcement point: The invention concerning a method of filtering data packets being transmitted from a source code node to a destination node via a network gateway during a packet data communication session. Filtering is carried out at said network gateway (GGSN). The destination node or the source node having a first network...

20060104286 - Using ternary and binary content addressable memory stages to classify information such as packets: Methods and apparatus are disclosed herein for classifying packets using ternary and binary content-addressable memory stages to classify packets. One such system uses a stage of one or more TCAMS followed by a second stage one or more CAMS (or alternatively some other binary associative memories such as hash tables...

20060104285 - Two-dimensional pipelined scheduling technique: A scheduler allowing high-speed scheduling scalable with the number of input and output ports of a crosspoint switch and suppressed unfairness among inputs is disclosed. The scheduler includes an M×M matrix of scheduling modules, each of which schedules packet forwarding connections from a corresponding input group of input ports to...

20060104287 - Method, communication arrangement, and communication device for transmitting message cells via a packet-oriented communication network: Message cells, cell comprising partially different priorities are transmitted via a first communication network. According to the invention, at least one of the message cells to be transmitted and comprising the same priority is added to a user data field of at least one data packet of a second packet-oriented...

20060104288 - Method and apparatus for tunneling data using a single simulated stateful tcp connection: Methods and systems for tunneling data associated with a packet based multimedia communication standard are provided. The method includes intercepting a library call associated with the multimedia communication standard in a modified TCP/IP stack and registering identification data associated with the library call. A modified Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)...

20060104289 - Multiplexed computer peripheral connection switching interface: A multiplexed computer peripheral connection switching interface is proposed, which is designed for use in conjunction with a clustered computer system that is equipped with a number of independent data processing units, such as a blade server with multiple server modules, for the multiple server modules in the blade server...

20060104290 - Data transport between a media gateway and server: A system and method for reducing latency includes receiving at a gateway time division multiplexed data from multiple sender devices, the time division multiplexed data including payloads. The method also includes a generated packet that includes the payloads from the received time division multiplexed data from the multiple sender devices....

20060104293 - Method of performing a communication service: The present invention relates to a push-to-talk server (6) and a method of performing a push-to-talk based communication service for registered users (21, 25 to 28) of a push-to-talk service. A push-to-talk call request is transmitted from a calling terminal (31) to the push-to-talk server (6), the push-to-talk call request...

20060104291 - Network bridge device and methods for programming and using the same: A network bridge device that links a wireless network and a wired network to one another. The bridge includes a wireless signal transceiver adapted to receive and send signals in a wireless format, and a wired signal transceiver adapted to receive and send signals in a wired format. A bridge...

20060104295 - Queued, asynchronous communication architecture interface: Methods and techniques are provided for implementing a queued, asynchronous application programming interface (API) for network communications. According to one embodiment, the API provides (i) a system abstraction representing a connection between a local machine and a remote machine, and (ii) multiple routines accessible to applications for operating on connections....

20060104294 - Router and method of managing packet queue using the same: A router for performing queue management for packet transmission is provided, which includes a first storage unit for storing and outputting packets input to request transmission from a source device to a destination device; a second storage unit for storing information on the packets stored in the first storage unit;...

20060104292 - System and methods for supporting multiple communications interfaces with single client interface: Systems and methods for providing network connectivity to a host through multiple communication interfaces. Other embodiments include systems and methods for selecting on of a plurality of communication interfaces through which to perform network operations....

20060104296 - Ring network for a burst switching network with distributed management: Transmitting data in a ring network that transmits bursts and data packets. A path setup message is sent to request a data transmission between a source node and a destination node j through intermediate nodes connecting the source node and the destination node j. Each intermediate node determines that a...

20060104297 - Integrating switching and facility networks: A method and apparatus is provided for setting up an IP session from a first node, across a network that uses direct virtual path routing, to a second node. The first node receives a request to set up the session. The second node is identified as the destination of the...

20060104298 - Congestion control in a network: A source node receives related frames of data to be transmitted from the source node to a destination node and places the frames in a queue. The queue is associated with a communication path over which the related frames are to be transmitted to the destination node. An interface that...

20060104299 - Method and a device for scheduling and sending data packets from a common sender to a plurality of users sharing a common transmission channel: The invention, which applies to satellite digital communications systems in particular, relates to a device and a method of scheduling and sending data packets with a required level of protection from a common sender to a plurality of users sharing a common transmission channel. The method comprises the steps of:...

20060104300 - System and method for transmission and acknowledgment of blocks of data frames in distributed wireless networks: The present application describes a system and method for transmitting and acknowledging a block of frames in a wireless network. According to an embodiment, a source device sends multiple frames in a block to a recipient device and requests the recipient device to send a single block acknowledgement frame. After...

20060104301 - Adaptive communication protocol for wireless networks: A communication protocol that provides link-level and media access control (MAC) level functions for wireless (e.g., ad-hoc) networks and is robust to mobility or other dynamics, and for scaling to dense networks. In a mobile or otherwise dynamic network, any control-packet collisions will be only temporary and fair. In a...

20060104302 - Method of configuring system layers for synchronous ethernet: A method of configuring system layers for a synchronous Ethernet is provided. In the method, a physical layer takes charge of input and output of an Ethernet frame in direct relation to hardware, an xMII (x Media Independent Interface) layer connects the physical layer to a data link layer. The...

20060104303 - Packet coalescing: In general, in one aspect, the disclosures describes a method that includes receiving multiple ingress Internet Protocol packets, each of the multiple ingress Internet Protocol packets having an Internet Protocol header and a Transmission Control Protocol segment having a Transmission Control Protocol header and a Transmission Control Protocol payload, where...

20060104304 - Transmission system including media converter for concentrated vdsi apparatus: A transmission system comprising a relaying apparatus and concentrated subscriber line transmission apparatuses, the relaying apparatus including a first buffer memory for buffering a control request to be transmitted to one of the concentrated subscriber line transmission apparatuses, a second buffer memory for buffering data to be downloaded to specific...

20060104306 - Application services infrastructure for next generation networks: Support of a plurality of different applications utilizing a next generation network having a network layer is provided by an application services middle layer between the applications and the network layer that includes a plurality of common infrastructure elements usable by the different applications. The common infrastructure elements provide services...

20060104305 - Audio/video streaming system: A system for using a low-level packet protocol to accelerate content delivery in a non-routable network is provided. The system includes a transport stream processor for receiving a multiple program transport stream (e.g., in MPEG-2 format) and extracting a data program stream from the transport stream. The data program stream...

20060104307 - Method and system for channel management in a voice response system: A method and system for managing channels in a voice response system is provided. The method comprises periodically monitoring utilisation of a system resource and determining a number, N, of voice channels required to be quiesced based on the utilisation level of the system resource. This number is compared with...

20060104308 - Method and apparatus for secure internet protocol (ipsec) offloading with integrated host protocol stack management: The invention provides mechanisms for transferring processor control of secure Internet Protocol (IPSec) security association (SA) functions between a host and a target processing devices of a computerized system, such as processors in a host CPU and a NIC. In one aspect of the invention, the computation associated with authentication...

20060104309 - Method and apparatus for transporting a client layer signal over an optical transport network (otn): In order to facilitate the transport of 1 Gbit/s Ethernet signals over an Optical Transport Network using the Optical Transport Hierarchy as specified by ITU-T G.709, a new OTH entity referred to as Optical Channel Data Unit-0 (ODU0, 101) with a capacity of approximately 1.22 Gbit/s is defined. This new...

20060104310 - Method and device for video data transmission for implementing special modes: The invention concerns a method comprising a step which consists in comparing a label to a value counted from a transfer clock to define the transfer time on the bus of a packet read on a recording medium. The invention is characterized in that for implementing a special mode or...

20060104311 - Data transmission terminal apparatus and data transmission method: A data transmission terminal apparatus and a data transmission method for maintaining a data transmission between the terminals irrespective of the state of a clock signal associated with a transmission data packet. The data transmission terminal apparatus multiplexes an image data signal and an other data signal to generate a...

20060104312 - System and method for monitoring security at a premises: Digital audio sensors receive and digitize audio signals and transmit the digitized signals to a central monitoring station for monitoring by an operator. The system can allow load balancing and other improvements....

20060104313 - Method and apparatus for timeout reduction and improved wireless network performance by delay injection: A technique for avoiding spurious TCP timeouts through delay injection which requires no modification of, or access to, the TCP protocol itself. More particularly, injection of additional random delay or jitter at some point in a packet's roundtrip path across a wireless communications network is employed so as to increase...

20060104314 - Audio playback apparatus for controlling pause and resume of audio: An audio playback apparatus includes a playback section for playing audio back, a buffer section (13) for temporarily storing voice data to be played back, a switch (14) for on/off switching transmission of the voice data from the buffer section (13) to the playback section, at least one threshold judgment...

20060104315 - Atm bonding: There is provided an apparatus and method for ATM bonding. The apparatus comprises a first unit having a first xDSL line connected thereto, a second unit having a second xDSL line connected thereto and a connection between the first unit and the second unit. The first unit is arranged to...

20060104318 - Mapping of block-encoded data formats onto a byte/bit synchronous transport medium: A fibre channel (FC) signal representing block encoded data is applied to a block decoder, which removes the block encoding from the data. The data is then applied to a simplified data link (SDL) protocol encoder, which maps the data into an SDL protocol packet for transmission over a SONET...

20060104317 - Multi-protocol signals processing apparatus and method for ng-sdh transponder: Provided are a multi-protocol signal processing apparatus for a next-generation Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (NG-SDH) transponder, and a method thereof. The multi-protocol signal processing apparatus for an NG-SDH transponder, which includes: a sub-signal processing unit for classifying and processing multi-protocol sub-signals based on kinds; an interfacing unit for making interface between...

20060104316 - Transmission device: In a state where although the setting of a line between a transmitting station and a receiving station is completed, no signal is transmitted, a test signal in a prescribed format is transmitted from the transmitting station. By transmitting the test signal, no signal disconnection is detected by each alarm...

20060098568 - Method for supporting various multi-antenna schemes in bwa system using multiple antennas: Disclosed is a method for using various multiple antenna schemes in a baseband wireless access system is provided. According to the method, a downlink MAP message is constructed in order to support various multiple antenna schemes based on a multiple-input multiple output (MIMO), which is one of the multiple antenna...

20060098567 - Time multiplexing of unicast and multicast signals on a downlink carrier frequency in a wireless communication system: A remote station, for a wireless communication system, includes a receiver configured to receive on a first downlink a synchronization control channel on a first carrier frequency and on a second downlink a shared physical channel on a second carrier frequency different than the first carrier frequency. The shared physical...

20060098569 - Method and apparatus for arranging pilot tones in a mobile communication system: An apparatus and method are provided for arranging tones to isolate signals between base stations (BSs) in a high rate packet data (HRPD) system. Packet data is received from a higher layer and the received packet data is channel-coded and modulated. Guard tones are inserted into symbols of the modulated...

20060098570 - Ofdma system and method: A cellular wireless system using a single frequency OFDMA channel. Base stations include means for synchronization in frequency and time for control purposes. The synchronization means include same Frame numbers and slot index and same reference clock. In a cellular wireless system using a single frequency OFDMA channel, wherein base...

20060098571 - Systems and methods for accelerated learning in ring networks: Systems, methods, devices and techniques can be used in networks including resilient packet ring networks and other types of ring topology networks to accelerate the learning of bridge/client mapping information. Once certain bridge/client mapping information is learned, and indicator can be set to cause subsequent transmissions to particular clients to...

20060098572 - Storage switch traffic bandwidth control: A switch including a processor and method for monitoring bandwidth in the storage switch. The switch includes at least one physical port coupling at least one target and at least one initiator via the physical port. The monitoring method may include the steps of determining whether congestion occurs on the...

20060098573 - System and method for the virtual aggregation of network links: A system and method for virtual link aggregation for combining network links of various types and speeds to increase throughput and reliability for packetized transport. In contrast with physical port trunking, the system does not require direct control over ports or network interfaces. Instead, the system rewrites packet addresses and...

20060098574 - Method for transmitting data from rlc layer in radio communication system: Disclosed is a method for transmitting data from an RLC layer in a radio communication system. The method includes the steps of storing RLC SDUs transferred from an upper layer in a transmission buffer, transmitting RLC PDUs on which the RLC SDUs stored in the transmission buffer are loaded to...

20060098575 - Route selecting method and apparatus using return routability procedure: Provided is a communication method and apparatus in an Internet protocol version 6 environment. A route selecting method includes transmitting messages, which are used to test communications between a mobile node and a correspondent node and into which options fields for measuring values changed according to routes between the mobile...

20060098577 - System and method for assisting in controlling real-time transport protocol flow through multiple networks: A system for assisting in controlling real-time transport protocol flow through multiple networks is disclosed The system utilizes at least a first computer and a second computer that is connected to the first computer, wherein the second computer comprises a second transceiver, a second memory having logic stored therein defining...

20060098576 - Wireless network system and method for providing same: A wireless network, which includes a wireless router client operable to broadcast data packets to at least one wireless server and one additional wireless client. Each client and server includes programs for determining optimum routes between them. The client also includes a program for determining if a received data packet...

20060098579 - Apparatus and method for detecting and visualizing anomalies in network traffic: Provided is an apparatus for detecting and visualizing anomalies in network traffic which includes a traffic information storing portion storing information on network traffic, a traffic state display portion presenting a status of the network traffic generated for a predetermined threshold time based on the information on network traffic on...

20060098578 - System and method for converting autonomous pm data into periodic pm data: A system for converting autonomous performance monitoring (PM) data into periodic PM data in a network includes a server, a data collector electrically coupled to the server, a plurality of network elements (NEs) electrically coupled to the data collector, and a user database electrically coupled to the server. When connectivity...

20060098580 - Apparatus and method capable of beam forming adjustments: An embodiment of the present invention provides a wireless communication system capable of beamforming adjustments, comprising a transmitter capable of transmitting beamformed data packets and a receiver capable of receiving the beamformed packets and detecting any failed beamforming packets addressed to the receiver and determining a reason for the failure,...

20060098585 - Detecting malicious attacks using network behavior and header analysis: A method and apparatus for detecting malicious attacks is described. The method may comprise obtaining routing information from a packet communicated via a network and maintaining a count of packets associated with a device associated with the routing information. For example, the routing information may a source or destination IP...

20060098582 - Dynamic wireless link adaptation: A system that adapts wireless link parameters for a wireless communication link. A measure is determined of errors occurring in communication over a wireless link. In a case that the measure of errors corresponds to more errors than a first predetermined threshold, communication changes from a first set of wireless...

20060098583 - Integrated customer web station for web based call management: A Web-based call routing management workstation application which allows authorized customers to control toll free routing and monitor call center status. An architecture including one or more web servers located in a firewalled demilitarized zone (DMZ) as communications medium between the customer workstations at the customer sites and the enterprise...

20060098581 - Method and apparatus for conveying link state information in a network: Methods and apparatus are disclosed for conveying link state information between ports of a network switch. A switch may be configured to detect whether a link associated with a port of the switch has changed state. If the link has been found to have changed state, such as when the...

20060098584 - Transmission device and method, recording medium, program, and control device: A transmission device includes a determining unit operable to determine whether a number of packets stored in a buffer is equal to or smaller than a second threshold value smaller than a first threshold value when transmission of a selected packet is requested by a requesting unit; a storing controller...

20060098586 - Method and apparatus for application route discovery: A method and system for determining a route of an application in a network. The network includes a number of interconnected nodes, between a source node and a destination node. A sequence of application packets, being transmitted over an application port, are configured to expire at each one of a...

20060098587 - System and method for retrieving computed paths from a path computation element using encrypted objects: A technique retrieves computed path segments across one or more domains of a computer network in accordance with a stateless Path Computation Element (PCE) model. The stateless PCE model includes one or more PCEs configured to compute one or more path segments through the domains in response to a path...

20060098588 - Peer-to-peer network and user information discovery and sharing for mobile users and devices: Systems and methods for mobile peer-to-peer information sharing are disclosed. With the preferred systems and methods, mobile users and devices collect information about networks that they visit, and carry that information as they move to new networks. Mobile users and/or devices then share such information directly with each other....

20060098589 - Forwarding table reduction and multipath network forwarding: Increased usage of network links is provided and smaller forwarding tables are required. A combination of STP and Multipath methods may be implemented in a network. Frames may be forwarded between switches not only according to MAC addresses, but also according to switch IDs and local IDs. Switch IDs do...

20060098590 - Communication system: A conference communication system which has a conference media mixing device which is set up to use media rules to mix together communication data sent during a conference and to use evaluation rules to evaluate response communication data sent during a survey which is performed during the conference....

20060098591 - Multi-spot call system, sound volume adjustment device, portable terminal device, and sound volume adjustment method used therefor and program thereof: Stored in an each speaker's sound volume coefficient table 13 are a speaker identification ID and information of a voice coefficient so as to be correlated with each other. A speaker identification unit 11 extracts an each speaker's ID from a received packet based on floor control information or outputs...

20060098592 - Wireless network repeater: A frequency translating repeater (250) for use in a time division duplex radio protocol communications system includes a processor (260), a bus (261), a memory (262), an RF section (264), and an integrated station device (264). An access point (210) is detected based on information transmitted frequency channels using a...

20060098594 - Machine architecture for event management in a wireless sensor network: A wireless sensor node comprises a wireless transceiver to communicate over a wireless communication link with at least one other node in a wireless sensor network, a sensor interface to receive sensor data from a sensor, and a programmable processor coupled to the sensor interface and the wireless transceiver. The...

20060098593 - Open access network architecture: The invention provides a method and network architecture providing a public, wireless broadband mobile service. The fixed, broadband access network is upgraded by installing home network means at subscriber premises of said fixed network. The home network means comprising at least a wireless local area network (wireless LAN) and a...

20060098595 - Multiparty calling method and corresponding mobile communication terminal: A multiparty calling method, which includes initiating a multiparty call between at least a first, second and third terminal, and setting a flag in the first terminal to inform a processor of the first terminal to skip a process of closing an existing communication path between the first terminal and...

20060098596 - Providing digital broadcasting data using wireless local area network (wlan): An apparatus to provide digital broadcasting data using a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) includes: a digital broadcasting processor adapted to receive, demodulate, decode, and output multi-channel digital broadcasting data; a transcoder adapted to receive the demodulated digital broadcasting data from the digital broadcasting processor, to convert the digital broadcasting...

20060098599 - Communication system: A mobile radio communication system, which has a communication network and at least one user terminal, which communication system has a memory apparatus which is set up to store, upon clear-down of a radio link using at least one physical channel between the user terminal and the communication network, values...

20060098597 - Method for carrying out a transfer procedure in a radio communication system for a packet-switching connection and radio communication system suitable for the same: A packet-switching connection is set up from a mobile station through a first transceiver unit, whereby the mobile station is assigned to a first cell and a first residence zone. As the mobile station moves to a second cell and a second residence zone, the connection is assigned a residence...

20060098598 - Seamless transitions of active calls between enterprise telecommunications networks and licensed public telecommunications networks: Seamless transitions between an enterprise telephony system and a licensed public telecommunications system are described. In one embodiment, the invention includes receiving through a private telephony switch a request from a mobile station to handover an active call, the active call being between the private telephony switch and the mobile...

20060098600 - Decreasing computational complexity of td-scdma measurement process: The embodiments of the present invention relate to the general area of wireless communication systems and, in particular, to fast and efficient measurement techniques for TD-SCDMA technology. The measurement subsystem is one of the main subsystems of a TD-SCDMA system and comprises measurement of several radio network quantities, each of...

20060098601 - Information transmission method, mobile communication system, base station, and mobile station: In an information transmission method, a radio communications system, a base station and a mobile station, a TBS size, a modulation scheme and the number of codes in a multicode are converted into identification data having a relatively smaller data size before being transmitted to a destination of communication. The...

20060098602 - Information transmission method, mobile communications system, base station and mobile station: In an information transmission method, a radio communications system, a base station and a mobile station, a TBS size, a modulation scheme and the number of codes in a multicode are converted into identification data having a relatively smaller data size before being transmitted to a destination of communication. The...

20060098603 - System and method for determining air interface information for radio resource management in wireless communications: An air interface information unit including a measurement setup unit for implementing measurement setup procedures and configuration; a measurement reception and storing unit for storing actual, predicted and default air interface values and corresponding timestamps; a measurement processing unit for filtering, verifying, processing and combining air interface values; and a...

20060098604 - Method and apparatus for contention management in a radio-based packet network: In a mesh communication network, a poll request protocol (PRP) is provided in which a special packet is broadcast by the congested node when it is ready to provide services. The controlling node (usually the more congested node) broadcasts a packet to request poll signals from nodes desiring resources of...

20060098614 - Apparatus and method for providing indoor and outdoor wireless access in broadband wireless access communication system: Disclosed is a method and apparatus for providing wireless access in a broadband wireless access system. The apparatus authenticates an access terminal when an access of the access terminal located in a first network employing a first predetermined access scheme is detected, allocates a private Internet Protocol (IP) address to...

20060098615 - Controlling a use of automated content: Control of the use of automated content at a wireless communication terminal 10 able to access a wireless communication network 20 is shown. In order to enable a flexible control of the use of automated content, the network detects a terminal 10 accessing the network 20 and transmitting an indication...

20060098606 - Method for propagating beacons in a multi-tier wlan: A method for transmitting beacons by nodes in a multi-tier wireless local area network is disclosed. First, a first beacon by a tier 1 node in the multi-tier wireless local area network is transmitted. Then, a second beacon by a tier 2 node is transmitted where the second beacon is...

20060098610 - Method for providing a mobile station with seamless coverage in a 2g/3g communication network and a wlan: A method is described herein that enables data traffic to be routed seamlessly to a mobile station which is located in a Second Generation/Third Generation (2G/3G) network and a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN). In one embodiment of the present invention, the mobile station (MS) receives a signal (e.g., System...

20060098605 - Method of secure communications in a wireless distribution system: A system and method for maintaining timing compatibility for high rate wireless transceivers employs a cycle stealing technique so that latencies introduced by multi-antenna signal processors in an access point can be masked. A speculative pre-stored, predetermined preamble is issued in response to a data transmission initiation from another access...

20060098612 - System and method for associating different types of nodes with access point nodes in a wireless network to route data in the wireless network: A method and system for routing data in a wireless network (400) that enables all nodes (106, 402, 404, 406, 408) to find routes to each other even if the nodes (106, 402, 404, 406, 408) are non-meshed which are incapable of operating as a router to route packets received...

20060098611 - System and method for routing data between different types of nodes in a wireless network: A method and system for routing data in a wireless network (400) that enables all nodes (106, 402, 404, 406, 408) to find routes to each other even if the nodes are incapable of operating as a router to route packets received from other nodes (106, 402, 404, 406, 408)....

20060098608 - System and method to decrease the route convergence time and find optimal routes in a wireless communication network: A system and method for decreasing the route convergence time in a wireless communication network, such as a wireless ad-hoc peer-to-peer network, by finding an alternate route if the nodes anticipate weakening or breakage of a route currently in use. The system and method which enables reactive routing protocols to...

20060098607 - System and method to support multicast routing in large scale wireless mesh networks: Provided is a system and method for a multicast routing algorithm to work in infrastructure based mesh networks. It chooses access points, fixed infrastructure gateway nodes connected to each other and/or the global internet via a wired/wireless backbone, as a group of local multicast group leaders to form a multicast...

20060098613 - Systems and methods for improved data throughput in communications networks: An access point of a communications network is disclosed configured to receive a multicast or broadcast packet from a source. The access point converts the multicast or broadcast packet into a unicast packet addressed to a station associated with the access point. The access point then transmits the unicast packet...

20060098616 - Throughput enhancement by acknowledgement suppression: Systems and methods for improving data transmission rates in communication networks are disclosed. In an 802.11 wireless communication network, where a source node of the wireless network transmits TCP data to a destination node of the wireless network, the destination node does not transmit TCP acknowledgments (ACKs) for the TCP...

20060098609 - Wireless communication network: A wireless communication network is provided that includes a plurality of access points. A plurality of the access points are configured as local access points that are each configured to operate at one of a set of frequencies and within a communication range. The local access points may communicate with...

20060098617 - Dual mode multi-slot egprs transmitter: A method is disclosed to operate a dual mode multi-timeslot RF transmitter, as is an RF transmitter that include a control unit that operates in accordance with the method. The method includes, prior to a first timeslot, setting a plurality of control signals for the RF transmitter in accordance with...

20060098618 - Method and bridging device for priortizing transfer of data streams: The invention relates to a method, bridging device (10), network of devices as well as a computer program product and computer program element for prioritizing transportation of isochronous data streams from a first bus (16) having a first band-width to a second bus (18) using a medium (13) having a...

20060098622 - Architecture for a multi-media session controlled network: A method and system for a communication network architecture for passing multi-media data streams between two heterogeneous IP (Internet Protocol) networks, where the networks include a plurality of firewalls and NAT (Network Address Translation) devices. The architecture can include: (a) a session control server (b) a logger service to capture...

20060098631 - Center-side terminal of optical network capable of carrying out processing depending on subscriber number: In a center-side terminal of an optical network, said center-side terminal connectable to a plurality of subscriber-side terminals via a passive optical splitter, a subscriber processing storing section is adapted to store a relationship between subscriber numbers regarding the subscriber-side terminals and processing contents allocated thereto, and a processing section...

20060098634 - Communications apparatus: In communication with another communications apparatus, the apparatus of the present invention switches communication from one-way mode into two-way mode without any communication break. The apparatus further includes a one-way communication response-permitted apparatus information storage for storing one or more one-way communication response-permitted apparatus information; and a verifying portion for...

20060098629 - Data transmitter, data transmission method, data receiver, and data reception processing method: A data receiver according to an embodiment of this invention includes a reception unit configured to receive time-limited video data for which a storage time limit is set, and voice data corresponding to this time-limited video data, a storage unit configured to store the time-limited video data and the voice...

20060098627 - Enhanced wide area network support via a broadband access gateway: A wireless broadband access gateway having a wireless interface compatible with any of a number of commercial wireless wide area network standards provides enhanced wire area network coverage via a broadband network. The gateway may function as a wireless wide area network base station having a small coverage area, and...

20060098626 - Media access control device guaranteeing communication quality in wireless lan for voip: A MAC device guarantees QoS in a VoIP wireless LAN by giving higher priority to voice data than to non-voice data. Transmission data generated by an application program is provided to a modem according to the priority assigned to the data. A kernel classifies the transmission data into voice and...

20060098630 - Method and system for communicating an information packet through multiple router devices: According to one embodiment, a first computing device receives a first information packet from a second computing device. The second computing device receives the first information packet from a global computer network through a first router device. The first computing device outputs a second information packet to the global computer...

20060098625 - Method for managing the quality of encrypted voice over ip to teleagents: A voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) system and more particularly, an improved VoIP system serving a distributed group of teleagents. Network parameters that affect voice quality over broadband connections are rapidly detected by generating both detected and subjective alerts when problems with the quality of a IP telephone connection are...

20060098621 - Method for routing a service request in a telecommunication system, using e.164 numbers and a dns: A method for routing a service request in a telecommunication system in cases where the identifier received for the destination of the service is not (or can not be) suitable for routing the service, such as when a E.164 number is received in IP based multimedia telecommunication systems. Upon reception...

20060098628 - Methods and apparatus for controlling signaling gateways: One embodiment of a method for operating a signaling gateway process determines routing information enabling an application server process to discriminate a signaling message and makes the routing information available to the application server process together with the signaling message payload....

20060098620 - Mobile wireless base station: A mobile wireless bridge (MWB) (110) is able to bridge traffic in either direction between a wireless LAN (140) and a wireless WAN (130), and support roaming of LAN clients (141-143, 151-153) and of the MW (110) itself. Through the MWB (110), wired (150) and wireless LAN (140) clients (141-143,...

20060098635 - Multi-mode endpoint in a communication network system and methods thereof: A method, apparatus, and communication network system that allows an endpoint to be simultaneously registered with more than one communications server is described. In one embodiment, the communication network system includes a network, a plurality of communications servers that are coupled to the network, and a plurality of endpoints coupled...

20060098619 - Packet-switched telephony call server: A system and method for providing packet-switched telephony service. The system provides call control, signaling, and/or delivery of voice, video, and other media in substantially real time. One embodiment of the system includes a call client application on a user device, and a call server located at a packet-switched telephony...

20060098633 - Switching apparatus for providing mms in pstn and method thereof: A switching method and apparatus provides MMS service in a PSTN. The apparatus includes a first interface board for checking signals received from an analog exterior line for connection to an SMS server and an MMS server, and a second interface board for receiving and storing SMS data and MMS...

20060098632 - System and method for integrated distribution of broadband services: A system and method for establishing a virtual point-to-point communication connection is described. One embodiment of the system includes a communication interface configured to receive communications data originated from a customer premise device, wherein the communication interface is connectable to the customer premise device through a first virtual path; a...

20060098624 - Using session initiation protocol: A web services user agent is automatically downloaded to a user's network device in response to a user's request for a login web page associated with a web site (e.g., a web site of a company associated with a customer service center). When the user presents his or her login...

20060098636 - Voice communication system and voice communication method: A voice communication system, which is connected to LAN to which communication terminals are connected and to a public network to which telephones are connected, is provided with a communication server between the LAN and public network having different protocols from each other. The communication server enables a voice communication...

20060098623 - Voice data security method and apparatus: A voice data security method and apparatus of the present invention modifies a subject voice data stream. Modification is by insertion of noise or similar interference effects. The amount of audio distortion is controllable. Audio or voice communications over a data network are thus made secure, and unauthorized use of...

20060098638 - Outlet with analog signal adapter, a method for use thereof and a network using said outlet: An outlet (70, 75, 76, 78, 79) for a Local Area Network (LAN), containing an integrated adapter (21, 25) that converts digital data to and from analog video signal. Such an outlet allows using analog video units in a digital data network (80), eliminating the need for a digital video...

20060098637 - Tcp/ip transport interface for isdn telephone: A method and apparatus are provided for operating a data protocol telephone that is used in a call for exchanging voice information between a first party human user of the data protocol telephone and a second human party to the call at least partially through the Internet. The method includes...

20060098639 - Information processing apparatus and method, recording medium, and program: The present invention provides an information processing apparatus for performing communication through a network. The apparatus includes communication means for performing communication with a plurality of different information processing apparatus which commonly use a predetermined space, characteristic information acquisition means for acquiring characteristic information of the different information processing apparatus...

20060098655 - Dynamic link adaption for time division duplex (tdd): A UE system implements dynamic link adaptation by adding or changing control information to notify a receiver which timeslots and codes are currently active and which timeslots should be avoided. The UE provides synchronization such that the receiver knows which timeslots and codes the UE has used to map the...

20060098646 - Local and remote network based management of an operating system-independent processor: In one embodiment, a method is provided. The method of this embodiment provides receiving one or more packets that are addressed to an alternate IP (Internet Protocol) address and that include a LADLC (local application data link control) address in a system having an operating system-independent processor (“service processor”) associated...

20060098641 - Method and apparatus for detecting format of closed caption data automatically and displaying the caption data: A method and apparatus for detecting a format of closed caption data contained in a broadcast signal automatically and displaying the caption data are provided. The method includes: (a) receiving information including closed caption data extracted from the broadcast signal, (b) detecting information on the format of the closed caption...

20060098651 - Method and system for managing ip address assigned to mobile station: A method and system for managing an IP address assigned to a mobile station which can be executed in a PDSN or an IWF is provided. When the mobile station is not determined to have used an actual IP address in a dormant state for a certain time period, the...

20060098650 - Method and system for message delivery using a secure device and simple output without the use of a personal computer: Communication systems and methods for enhancing communications between users featuring a central service which formats messages into a printer-friendly format. The format of the delivered message is based on preference settings established by the recipient or an authorized agent of the recipient. The messages are delivered to a device, such...

20060098647 - Monitoring and reporting enterprise data using a message-based data exchange: Systems and techniques for monitoring and reporting enterprise data by using a message-based data exchange. In one general aspect, the invention features a computer-implemented method that includes receiving at a message hub one or more messages from one or more sources. A message includes enterprise data. The method includes selecting...

20060098648 - Packet transmission device: A packet transmission device improved in packet transmission efficiency. Each packet input processor generates a pointer and identifies a packet type with respect to a received packet, and generates identification data including the pointer and the packet type identification result. A memory access controller detects a header readout amount of...

20060098652 - Scalably detecting and blocking signatures at high speeds: A method and apparatus is described for identifying content in a packet. The method may obtain data sample from the packet where the data sample is in a predetermined window at an initial offset point in the packet. For each offset point, a first stage of processing on the data...

20060098654 - Source identifier for mac address learning: A header value or label, referred to herein as a source station identification (SSID), is added to an encapsulated packet header, such as by adding the SSID as a label to the bottom of a stack of MPLS labels. The SSID comprises a unique identifier that identifies the PE that...

20060098653 - Stateless accelerator modules and methods: Stateless storage accelerator modules comprise network interfaces and filter functions that enable the accelerated processing of stateless protocols associated with network storage. Filter functions examine packets received over the network interface according to contexts associated with the destination of the packets. Contexts are found quickly through a fast look-up to...

20060098645 - System and method for providing client identifying information to a server: A system for providing client identifying information to a server includes a tagger at an intelligent intermediate device configured to create at least one tagged packet including client identifying information to be sent to the server, and an interceptor configured to derive the client identifying information from the at least...

20060098643 - System and method for providing premium transport in a docsis-compliant cable network: A system and method for providing premium transport in a DOCSIS-compliant cable network. An edge server in a DOCSIS-compliant cable network maintains a list of preferred content providers (PCPs). For each PCP, the PCP list comprises matching criteria. The edge server monitors the header of incoming packets for the matching...

20060098642 - System and method for sonet nsap addressing: A synchronous optical network (SONET) system having multi-hierarchal network service access point (NSAP) addressing includes a plurality of network elements (NEs) electrically linked, and a first level routing area and a second level routing area that each includee at least one NE. The NEs include devices having respective NSAP addresses...

20060098649 - System, apparatuses, methods, and computer-readable media for determining security realm identity before permitting network connection: An embodiment of a system of the invention includes a request node, an enforcement node, and a resource node. A request node generates a packet requesting access to a resource, includes its security realm identifier in the packet header, and transmits the same to the enforcement node via a network...

20060098644 - Translating native medium access control (mac) addresses to hierarchical mac addresses and their use: Different mechanisms are disclosed for translating native Media Access Control (MAC) addresses to and from corresponding hierarchical MAC addresses, and the use of such MAC addresses. A packet switch typically maintains a data structure relating native MAC addresses of certain devices with external MAC addresses, wherein each of the external...

20060098640 - Universal transfer file for dvd: This invention relates to a method for creating a transfer file, the file comprising an information block comprising information on a data block and the data block comprising a navigation field and the navigation field comprising a Relative Logical Block Number of the navigation field, the method comprising the steps...

20060098656 - Access multiplexer system for performing a stateless auto-configuration process: Access multiplexer systems (1) for performing stateless auto-configuration processes for use in networks (10) comprising access multiplexers (2,3) for receiving discovery messages from sources, which discovery messages comprise multicast destination addresses defining numbers of destinations, are, to increase the security of the networks (10), provided with agents (4) for replacing...

20060098658 - Device for use in a communication network router to select routing information: A routing information management device for a router of a communication network comprises a first routing information base fed with routing information contained in routing protocol messages, a second forwarding information base having a maximum number of entries, and management means that compare at selected times the number of entries...

20060098657 - System and method for retrieving computed paths from a path computation element using a path key: A technique retrieves computed path segments across one or more domains of a computer network in accordance with a stateful (“semi-stateful”) path computation element (PCE) model. The stateful PCE model includes a data structure configured to store one or more path segments computed by a PCE in response to a...

20060098659 - Method of data packet transmission in an ip link striping protocol: A method of preparing a data packet for transmission in an IP link striping protocol comprises selecting a packet sequence number. An encapsulation header comprising the packet sequence number is appended to the data packet to create a protocol data unit (PDU). Based on the packet sequence number, one of...

20060098660 - Mechanism for automatic protection switching and apparatus utilizing same: An automatic protection switching circuit for a SONET network element is realized in part by dedicated hardware logic together with a programmed processor. The dedicated hardware logic includes: a first part adapted to extract fault codes carried in predetermined overhead bytes that are part of an ingress signal; a second...

20060098663 - Address tagging for network address translation (nat) traversal: Disclosed are methods and apparatus for generating, as well as processing data that is traversing (or will be traversing) a translation device, such as a Network Address Translation (NAT) device. In one embodiment, a method of sending data from a first node to a second node is disclosed. The method...

20060098670 - Congestion and thru-put visibility and isolation: Offering vertical services to subscribers and service providers is an avenue to immediately improve the competitiveness of digital subscriber line access service, for example of the type offered by a local exchange carrier. To deliver high-quality vertical services, however, the underlying ADSL Data Network (ADN) or the like needs to...

20060098669 - High-speed internet access system: An asymmetric network system manages bandwidth allocation and configuration of remote devices in a broadband network. A modular architecture of the system permits independent scalability of upstream and downstream capacity separately for each of the upstream and downstream physical paths. Allocation of downstream bandwidth to requesting devices is made according...

20060098664 - Intelligent application level multicast module for multimedia transmission: The application level multicast module can determine efficient routing configurations for the host node's transmission and reception of multimedia data from a network. Further, the application level multicast module may aggregate, buffer, process, and multimedia data to and from an application such as a multimedia player. The application level multicast...

20060098668 - Managing membership within a multicast group: Each node on a network comprises an application level multicast module. An application level multicast module can determine efficient routing configurations for a host node's transmission and reception of multimedia data from the network. As two or more nodes receive and/or forward the same multimedia data, a multicast group is...

20060098662 - Memory and processor efficient network communications protocol: System and method for a full featured network communications protocol that is both memory and processor efficient. A preferred embodiment comprises a method for transmitting information between electronic devices, the method comprising creating a connection between a pair of electronic devices, sending a packet between the pair, acknowledging a receipt...

20060098666 - Portable device configuration system: A system for communicating a parameter from a first device to a second device includes an input processor for receiving data indicating a parameter. An interface processor, used by the first device, communicates a first message to the second device including data identifying a communication protocol to be used in...

20060098667 - Session relay equipment and session relay method: A network environment capable of performing a smooth and comfortable TCP session operation is provided to a user. The session relay equipment includes a bridge portion which relays a session by which a sequence of packets are transmitted and received between terminals connected with each other via a network; a...

20060098661 - System, method and device for providing communications using a distributed mobile architecture: A communications system includes one or more distributed mobile architecture servers. Each distributed mobile architecture servers includes a compute readable medium. Moreover, a mobile switching center module and a base station controller module are embedded in the computer readable medium. Each distributed mobile architecture server is in direction physical connection...

20060098665 - Systems and methods for communicating with bi-nodal network elements: Systems and methods for communicating with bi-nodal network elements are provided. A single address is shared between both nodes of a bi-nodal network element. When packets are transmitted from either one of the nodes of the bi-nodal network element, the single address is employed as the source address of the...

20060098671 - Method for determining a master ring for an optical communications network: A method for determining a master ring for an optical communications network having nodes arranged in a plurality of interconnected ring structures. (A master ring is a ring structure which contains every node in the network exactly once, and which also respects the node ordering of every individual ring.) An...

20060098672 - Apparatus for and method of support for committed over excess traffic in a distributed queuing system: An apparatus for and method of enforcing precedence of committed traffic over excess traffic that overcomes the difficulty in supporting committed over excess traffic and has particular application to distributed queuing systems. Queue control messages are generated and transmitted to other line cards to guarantee that committed traffic is not...

20060098674 - Frame transmitting apparatus and frame receiving apparatus: A frame transmitting apparatus that transmits a frame via a synchronous digital hierarch network or a synchronous optical network, includes a data-amount detecting unit that detects an amount of data received from other apparatus; and a frame transmitting unit that transmits, when the amount of data detected by the data-amount...

20060098673 - Input queue packet switch architecture and queue service discipline: A packet switching node architecture is described in accordance with which multiple packets queued in input queues are considered in selecting packets to be forwarded via idle output ports. Considering multiple queued packets reduces the probability that an output port remains idle and increases the probability that each input queue...

20060098675 - Traffic control method for network equipment: A function block containing a process-cache tag for storing process-cache tags in the pre-stage of a process cache and an FIFO queue for each tag entry are installed as a traffic controller. The traffic controller stacks packet groups, identified as being from the same flow, in the same FIFO queue....

20060098676 - Method and apparatus to facilitate macrodiversity reception: Separate Radio Network Controllers (11 and 13) exchange (31) neighboring cell information between one another. This information is used (32), in turn, to facilitate macrodiversity reception of multicast content. By one approach, a receiver node (16) receives this neighboring cell information which facilitates compatible reception of corresponding multicast content. The...

20060098677 - System and method for performing receiver-assisted slot allocation in a multihop communication network: A system and method for providing efficient allocation of slots in a wireless multi-hopping network including a plurality of nodes, the method comprising: providing communications pertaining to the average packet completion rate (PCR) for reception and transmission slots at one or more intermediate nodes from the one or more intermediate...

20060098679 - Method and apparatus for reducing peak power in code multiplexed downlink control channels: A method and apparatus that reduces the likelihood of having a high peak power in any one bit position of code multiplexed downlink control channel symbols is described herein. An exemplary method includes selecting a different bit-level spreading sequence for each mobile terminal from a set of orthogonal bit-level spreading...

20060098678 - Method for authenticating and verifying sms communications: A method for operating a first computational device to facilitate the secure transfer of a message between the first computation device and a second computational device is described. The method comprises operating the first computational device according to the following steps: forming an encrypted message from the message on the...

20060098680 - Gigabit passive optical network strict priority weighted round robin scheduling mechanism: A system, method, and computer readable medium for strict priority weighted round robin scheduling includes selecting a set of bandwidth allocation table filled entries having a common destination address, each filled entry associated with a received data packet and determining a scheduling weight for each bandwidth allocation table entry in...

20060098681 - Fibre channel over ethernet: 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...

20060098682 - High level message priority assignment by a plurality of message-sending nodes sharing a signal bus: A system has a plurality of nodes communicating with each other on a serial data path using dominant and recessive signal levels. A dominant signal level sent on the data path by any of the nodes creates a dominant signal level on the data path irrespective of the number of...

20060098683 - System and method for auto-negotiation in a data communication device: A data communication device configured to communicate with a link partner is provided. The data communication device comprises a port coupled to link partner and an auto-negotiation system configured to generate a first differential Manchester signal that comprises information that identifies at least one mode of operation of the data...

20060098684 - Data communications system, computer, and data communications method for parallelly operating standard-based and proprietary resources: The invention relates to a data communications method, a data communications system, and to a computer for use in a data communications system, whereby the data communications system has several clients. The computer contains a telephone conference and/or video conference data processing device, which supports a first data transmission protocol,...

20060098685 - Setup program, recording medium, and setup method: A setup program, a recording medium, and a setup method are provided that can readily reduce wrong settings. The setup program includes a plurality of setting modules that are provided to realize a plurality of process settings independently of one another, the processing settings being required depending on the contents...

20060098686 - Frame transmitting apparatus and frame receiving apparatus: A frame transmitting apparatus that transmits a frame including data to be transmitted or a frame including control data for a data-transmission control via a network includes a frame generating unit that generates a frame including identification-information-added data to which 1-bit identification information indicating whether a block obtained by dividing...

20060098687 - Method and apparatus to process packets in a network: A method and apparatus is described to process packets in a network. The method may comprise receiving the packet and determining a length K of the packet. If the length of the packet is less than a reference length M then no analysis may be performed on the packet. However,...

20060098689 - Adaptive bandwidth utilization for telemetered data: A method and a system for optimizing bandwidth utilization in a communications network (100) in which a commutated bitstream (115) is transmitted. The present invention can include a commutation format definition generator (405) which processes at least one triage value (425) to automatically generate commutation format definitions (155). The triage...

20060098688 - Method and system of channel adaptation: The present invention relates to transmissions and retransmissions in a communications system. It reveals a method and system for backward compatible detection of an introduced channel sub-frame structure particularly well suited for data transmissions. The invention is well suited for a cellular mobile radio communications system, particularly a Universal Mobile...

20060098690 - Method for providing time information in asynchronous mobile communication system: Disclosed is a method for providing time information in an asynchronous mobile communication system. The method includes the steps of, upon receiving a location registration request from a mobile station, detecting a location shift of the mobile station and performing location registration depending on the detection result; determining whether to...

20060098691 - Data carrier device, data carrier driving device, data communication system using data carrier driving device and data communication method: The present invention has an object enabling stable data communication hard to perform a malfunction in a simple circuit configuration which can miniaturize a system and does not need any strict accuracy by executing data communication in a connection using two terminals or less. The present invention is featured by...

20060098692 - System controlling use of a communication channel: A system controlling use of a communication channel in a communication network. The system comprising a network including service nodes. The service nodes comprising one or more sets having one or more nodes adapted to provide service functions in response to messages in the network. At least one of the...

20060098693 - Busbar arrangement for coupling waveguide filters in output multiplexers: A busbar arrangement for coupling waveguide filters of output multiplexers wherein the side walls of short-circuited T-shaped or Y-shaped branch regions of the busbar are constructed for coupling the waveguide filters....

20060092825 - Ofdm transmission apparatus and method having minimal transmission delay: An OFDM transmission apparatus having minimal transmission delay comprises a training symbol storage and generation unit, a delay unit and a controller. The training symbol storage and generation unit stores training symbols for the preamble, and outputs the stored training symbols when a training symbol output request signal is received....

20060092829 - Architecture for a hybrid stm/atm add-drop multiplexer: Architecture for a SONET network element. The architecture includes an interconnection system for a network element, including a line unit slot, a switch fabric slot, and service unit slots. The line unit slot is connected as a hub to the switch fabric slot and the service unit slots in a...

20060092826 - Automatic system for power and data redundancy in a wired data telecommunications network: Redundancy of data and/or Inline Power in a wired data telecommunications network from a pair of power sourcing equipment (PSE) devices via an automatic selection device is provided by providing redundant signaling to/from each of the pair of PSE devices, and coupling a port of one PSE device and a...

20060092828 - Information processing system and access method: A plurality of logical units are set in an information processing device and a storage device and connected by logical paths. The information processing device monitors the path state. When a state change of a path has occurred, the information processing device searches for a normal path connected to the...

20060092827 - Multi-interface port management: The present embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods for managing forwarding devices that support hybrid multi-interface ports. This type of device supports a plurality of physical ports, with each port supporting a plurality of interface media. The interface media supported in each port may be of varying media...

20060092830 - Inter-card channel protection method in wavelength division multiplexed system: Disclosed is an inter-card channel protection method in a wave-length division multiplexing system. At the transmitting end, signals from the client side are divided via a coupler into two paths which are delivered to two cards, respectively. The two paths of signal transmitted by the two cards are sent via...

20060092831 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for substitution of card-based telephony bearer channel switch modules in a manner that preserves stable calls: Methods, systems, and computer program products for substitution of card-based telephony bearer channel switch modules in a manner that preserves stable calls are disclosed. According to one method, a first card-based telephony bearer channel switch module of a plurality of card-based telephony bearer channel switch modules is designated as a...

20060092832 - Stack manager protocol with automatic set up mechanism: A stack switch for performing pass-through forwarding operations, assigning stack switch identifiers to a plurality of stack switches, temporarily disabling supervision messages exchanged by stack switches, and electing a primary master stack switch is disclosed. In the pass-through mode, the stack switch automatically forwards packets between stack ports independent of...

20060092837 - Adaptive dynamic thresholding mechanism for link level flow control scheme: A dynamic threshold apparatus and method are provided including a flow control sender and a flow control receiver. The flow control sender includes an ingress port with one or more Class Groups (CG) defined including a shared buffer pool, a shared counter per ingress port per CG tracking an amount...

20060092834 - Application flow control apparatus: An application flow control apparatus receives a first message based on a transmission trigger when receiving the transmission trigger indicating a transmission of the first message containing flow definition information for specifying an execution sequence of a plurality of applications performing a cooperative processing; calls an application to be executed...

20060092833 - Congestion control for improved management of service level agreements in switched networks: When a switch in a switched network detects congestion at one of its inputs, it floods a congestion control message back to the ingress nodes of the network connected to that input, indicating congestion. The ingress nodes of the network restrict access to the network by comparing incoming information rates...

20060092835 - Data transmission system between two separate terminals and method thereof: A data transmission system between two separate terminals is disclosed. The data transmission system includes a first memory for storing data, an encoder for encoding the data and creating an image code, a first terminal having a display unit for displaying the image code, and a second terminal having a...

20060092836 - Intelligent congestion feedback apparatus and method: An intelligent congestion feedback apparatus and method thereof includes a source endpoint transmitting data packets, and a destination endpoint receiving the data packets, and a timer in the destination endpoint set to zero. An intermediate node detects congestion between the source endpoint and the destination endpoint. Upon congestion detection, the...

20060092838 - Tcp flow controlling method in high-speed mobile communications network: Provided is data transmission in a mobile communications network, more particularly, a TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) flow controlling method for data transmissions in a high-speed mobile communications network in which a handoff/handover is performed, which focuses on that a mobile TCP packet can be identified using a mobile option field...

20060092839 - Portable electronic devices including attaching circuits and methods of operating the same: Portable electronic devices including a transmitter configured to request a packet data session are provided. An attaching circuit configured to collect information about the requested packet data session and determine default parameters of the portable electronic device associated with attaching the portable electronic device to the network based on the...

20060092840 - Intelligent fabric congestion detection apparatus and method: An intelligent fabric congestion control apparatus and method are provided to receive data packets from source endpoints and output the data packets to destination endpoints. The apparatus and method include a counter, a timer, and a controller. The counter increments from a preset value when a data packet is received...

20060092841 - Methods and systems for network traffic security: The present invention is directed to methods of and systems for adaptive networking that monitors a network resource of a network. The method monitors an application performance. The method categorizes a first subset of traffic of the network. The categories for the first subset include trusted, known to be bad,...

20060092844 - Apparatus for transmitting wpan mac frames and method thereof: Disclosed is an apparatus for transmitting WPAN (Wireless Personal Area Network) MAC (Medium Access Control) frames and method thereof. The apparatus includes a transport frame management unit for creating MAC transport frames if data is generated from an upper protocol and application layer unit, classifying the created MAC transport frames...

20060092842 - Data flow control method for simultaneous packet reception: Embodiments of the present invention provide methods, a module, and a system for calculating a credit limit for an interface capable of receiving multiple packets simultaneously. Generally, the multiple packets are simultaneously received at an interface on the second device, each packet being one of a plurality of packet types,...

20060092845 - Service aware flow control: A service aware flow control apparatus and method for multiple classes of data packets. A flow control sender includes a buffer of an ingress port per Class Group or Class of Service (COS). A counter per COS tracks an amount of buffer utilization per ingress port per COS, and each...

20060092843 - Storage system and method for connectivity checking: The invention is intended to provide a connectivity checking technology to make it easier to check the connectivity of data communication paths in an IP storage system. The target computer 20 of the storage system 10 transmits an ICMP echo request to an initiator computer 70 through a prescribed IP...

20060092846 - Method and system for a system call profiler: A method of acquiring software profile information of a target software application includes Monitoring an application program for system calls, detecting a system call of interest to the user, acquiring stack information, and processing the call stack information to produce statistical information concerning function calls. The call stack information includes...

20060092847 - Method and apparatus for providing availability metrics for measurement and management of ethernet services: Maintenance entities may be defined between customer and provider flow points to allow performance management to take place on an Ethernet network. The maintenance entities may be defined for access link, intra-domain, and inter-domain, and may be defined on a link or service basis. Performance parameters, including availability metrics, may...

20060092848 - Information processing apparatus and method of controlling the information processing apparatus: An information processing system comprises an information processing apparatus, a switch, and a storage device, wherein the first communication ports and the third communication ports are connected to the second communication ports. When a response from a storage device to a data input/output request is not received within a predetermined...

20060092849 - Stack manager protocol with automatic set up mechanism: A stack switch for performing pass-through forwarding operations, assigning stack switch identifiers to a plurality of stack switches, temporarily disabling supervision messages exchanged by stack switches, and electing a primary master stack switch is disclosed. In the pass-through mode, the stack switch automatically forwards packets between stack ports independent of...

20060092854 - Apparatus and method for calculating a discrete value of a component in a loudspeaker signal: For reducing Doppler artifacts in the wave-field synthesis due to delay changes from one time to a second time, first, the delay for the first time and the delay for the second time are determined. Then, a value of an audio signal delayed by the first delay for the current...

20060092851 - Method and apparatus for communicating predicted future network requirements of a data center to a number of adaptive network interfaces: In one embodiment, machine-readable media has stored thereon sequences of instructions that, when executed by a number of machines, cause the machine(s) to monitor behavior of a data center; acquire network utilization data; correlate the network utilization data with the data center behavior; store results of the correlations as trend...

20060092850 - Remote estimation of round-trip delays in a data network: Disclosed is a technique for data network congestion diagnosis using remote estimation of round-trip delays. A monitoring node transmits test messages between network nodes and measures the transit times between when the test messages are transmitted from, and when they return to, the monitoring node. A path delay between network...

20060092853 - Stack manager protocol with automatic set up mechanism: A stack switch for performing pass-through forwarding operations, assigning stack switch identifiers to a plurality of stack switches, temporarily disabling supervision messages exchanged by stack switches, and electing a primary master stack switch is disclosed. In the pass-through mode, the stack switch automatically forwards packets between stack ports independent of...

20060092852 - System and method for enabling balanced resource utilization: A system and method to enable balanced resource utilization during testing of a wireless communications network. The system and method determines the properties, including the status, for resources, and stores the properties for later comparison. Utilization information is calculated from the properties and provided to the user based on criteria...

20060092858 - Method for transmitting data in a communication system: Transmission of data in a communication system including a central participant and at least one further participant includes transmitting the data via telegrams from the at least one further participant to the center participant, transmitting the telegrams by the central participant to the at least one further participant before being...

20060092859 - Method, apparatus, and medium for automatically configuring network address: An apparatus, method, and medium of automatically configuring a network address are provided. The method of configuring an address of one of a plurality of nodes on a subnet, the method comprising the operations of: obtaining an ID of the subnet from a packet transmitted from a router on the...

20060092856 - Node device: In node devices composing a ring network connected to another network with a redundant node device, a topology table includes redundancy information of the redundant node device, a transmitter transmits topology information and the redundancy information of the node devices themselves, a topology table preparing portion prepares a topology table...

20060092857 - Softrouter dynamic binding protocol: A dynamic binding protocol has three tasks that run in parallel: discovery, association, and operation. During discovery, control elements (CEs) and forwarding elements (FEs) learn about immediate neighbors and CEs in a SoftRouter network that has separate control and data planes. During association, FEs associate with CEs and are configured...

20060092855 - Wireless performance optimization based on network topology and peer responsiveness: When a node (N) enters a new environment, and periodically thereafter, it initiates a network-learning protocol, wherein the node broadcasts a query at a particular power setting, and receives responses from each of the other nodes (A-F) that received the query. The node then adjusts its power setting, resends the...

20060092860 - Mac address learning apparatus: In a network providing a wide-area LAN service which allows communications to be performed between user networks (12, 13) via a carrier network (11), edge switches (14, 15) each comprise: a tentative learning registration means (16) which, when a packet whose source MAC address and receiving port are not yet...

20060092861 - Self configuring network management system: Systems, software, and methods for managing networks of connected electronic devices are described. In one example, network management policy and network management applications are downloaded automatically upon detection and identification of a new device on the network. In another example, information related to at least one aspect of the network...

20060092862 - Stp root guard: A method of managing a computer network switch is disclosed. The method has the steps of: setting a port of the switch to root guard protected status (RG status); selecting by a spanning tree protocol (STP) the port as a designated port; and setting said port into blocked status, in...

20060092863 - Device and method for the computer-aided management of a telecommunication conference: In the event of a request to terminate a telecommunication conference, a conference rule file is used to check whether the participant is authorized to terminate the conference. If authorization exists, the conference is terminated....

20060092864 - Media independent trigger model for multiple network types: A media independent trigger model for multiple network types is disclosed. A change in communication environment trigger is communicated from a media dependent interface to an upper media independent application. The communication environment trigger may be from a local event detected by the interface or may be a remote trigger...

20060092866 - Apparatus and method for processing information using wireless communication terminal: There are provided an information processing apparatus and method using a wireless communication terminal. The information processing apparatus includes: a wireless communication terminal generating displacement corresponding to its spatial movement by a user's manipulation, as pointing information, and wirelessly transmitting the pointing information; and an information processor receiving the pointing...

20060092865 - Supporting wireless communication interoperability compatibility with existing communications infrastructure: The invention can include a base station for use with a land mobile radio network. The base station can include a controller (225) selecting an initial communication protocol and at least one target communication protocol that is different from the initial communication protocol. The base station also can include one...

20060092868 - Point-controlled contention arbitration in multiple access wireless lans: A power management method that divorces multicast frames for power save stations from DTIM beacons. An access point associates power save stations with a multicast group. Each station has an associated power save interval, the station being in a power save state during the interval, otherwise in an active state....

20060092867 - Techniques for utilization of spare bandwidth: A packet encapsulator includes a filter module that identifies one or more carousel packets from a plurality of received packets. These one or more carousel packets are then stored in a packet buffer. The packet encapsulator also includes a channel queue for enqueuing packets for transmission across a broadcast transmission...

20060092869 - Data transmission method and system for multiple harq processes: The invention relates to a method of transmitting data packets between a transmitter and a receiver in predefined numbered slots, wherein the transmitter is provided for sending in one slot data of different streams multiplexed in a data packet to the receiver, wherein a STOP command is provided for at...

20060092870 - Radio communications system and control method therefor: A radio base station which receives a first and a second communication channel from a radio communications device comprises a control circuit for detecting the reception quality of the first communication channel, conducting an inner-loop power control for controlling transmission power of the first communication channel from the radio communications...

20060092872 - Communication method and apparatus using heterogeneous neighbor base station information in a broadband wireless access communication system: A broadband wireless access communication system including a serving BS that periodically broadcasts an MOB_NBR-ADV message to an MS, and different kinds of heterogeneous networks. In order to communicate using the neighbor Base Station (BS) information, the serving BS gathers information about neighbor BSs and determines if heterogeneous communication systems...

20060092871 - Communication method for wireless lans: A physical frame is generated and transmitted to a destination terminal. In this physical frame, one of a data frame, an acknowledgement frame, and an acknowledgement request frame, and a transmission permission frame which is used in place of a normal Ack frame associated with a delayed Block Ack, and...

20060092875 - Apparatus and method for controlling transmit power of preamble sequence for aas in ofdma communication system: A method for controlling transmit power of a preamble sequence by a Subscriber Station in an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access communication system, the system dividing an entire frequency band into a plurality of sub-carrier bands, transmitting an preamble sequence for an Adaptive Antenna System through a predetermined number of...

20060092874 - Establishing user accounts for rfid-based telecommunications routing: Methods, systems, and products are provided for establishing RFID-based telecommunications routing for a user including identifying a plurality of telephony devices available to a user, identifying the location of the plurality of telephony devices available to the user, receiving from a user routing preferences, receiving an identification of an RFID...

20060092876 - Method and apparatus for scheduling uplink data transmission for mobile station in soft handover region in a mobile communication system: A method and apparatus for scheduling uplink data transmission for a UE in a mobile communication system supporting an uplink packet data service are provided. A serving Node B and at least one non-serving Node B are included in an active set of a UE located in a soft handover...

20060092873 - Method for adaptive interleaving in a wireless communication system with feedback: The present invention pertains to a transmitter that can exploit feedback to help it organize information which is subsequently sent to a receiver. More specifically, the transmitter receives a feedback signal from the receiver and then uses data about a channel in the feedback signal to adapt at least one...

20060092877 - Data transport in gsm system: A solution for transporting data in a GSM system is provided. According to the solution a network assigns a number of frequency channels to a subscriber terminal, which may then use multiple frequency channels for simultaneous transport of data. If the subscriber terminal is capable of transporting data using multiple...

20060092878 - Handoff supports for networks having different link establishment protocols: In a communication system in which a roaming node seeking network access among different networks which are implemented with different network interface layer protocols, handoff schemes are instituted whereby the node may freely move from one network to another with reduced levels of interruptions with respect to the network access....

20060092879 - Method of signaling qos information at hand-over between access networks in an ip-based core network: A method of signaling quality of service information in response to a handover from a first access network to a second access network in an Internet Protocol (IP) based mobile network environment, the method comprising: transmitting a resource reservation message from a mobile node to the second access network; transmitting...

20060092881 - 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...

20060092880 - Radio communication system: In a radio communication system having narrow-band up- and down-link radio channels and a wide-band down-link radio channel, when a radio terminal is to receive data thrugh the wide-band down-link rado channel, the narrow-band up- and down-link radio channels are assigned to the radio terminal in advance. With this operation,...

20060092883 - Probing method for fast handoff in wlan: Provided is a probing method for handoff including constructing a group of neighbor access points of a current access point with which the station associated, generating subgroups of the neighbor access points by the channel assigned to the access points, probing the access points by subgroup in a subgroup selection...

20060092882 - Simplified decoder for a bit interleaved cofdm-mimo system: Multiple input multiple output (MIMO) systems are candidates for higher data rate wireless communication systems. Currently, for a single input single output (SISO) 1802.11a system can provide a transmission data rate up to 54 Mbps. The present invention is a 2 by 2 Multiple In Multiple Out (MIMO) system having...

20060092887 - Apparatus and methods for determination of gain factors for wireless communication transmission power: Apparatus and methods for wireless communication transmission power control are provided. Determination of gain factors and adjustments for physical channel reconfiguration in the context of transmission power control are addressed. Preferably, implementation is in conjunction with communication systems in which wireless communications are conducted between wireless transmit receive units (WTRUs)...

20060092886 - Cdma communication system and its transmission power control method: An uplink channel transmission power control method is provided for a CDMA mobile communication system performing one way communication. A base station measures the received level of data transmitted from each mobile terminal at each channel, and generates a transmission power control signal of each uplink traffic channel. The generated...

20060092884 - Method for calculating a path profile in a cellular communication system: A method for calculating a path profile in a cellular communication system, whereby the method can be used by a spread spectrum receiver such as a CDMA receiver. Furthermore, the method can be used by the logic of a base station and/or a subscriber station comprising such a spread spectrum...

20060092885 - Transmission protection for communications networks having stations operating with different modulation formats: A technique to allow enhanced stations and legacy stations to work with each other without the inefficiencies of signaling overhead in the prior art is disclosed. An enhanced station transmits an initial, short frame using a modulation compatible with legacy stations. The frame sets the duration for a frame exchange—consisting...

20060092891 - Controlled area signalling: In one embodiment, a signal associated with a service not permitted in the controlled area of a wireless transmit/receive unit is received. An identifier is sent indicating that the WTRU is in a controlled area. In a second embodiment, the transfer of data associated with a controlled area is controlled....

20060092897 - Controlling user equipments: A system and method controls the use of user equipments within an access network configured to allow user equipments to access a communication system in an environment, wherein wireless access to the communication system is restricted. The system includes a detector network configured for receiving requests for wireless access from...

20060092890 - Global network neighborhood: scheme for providing information about available networks in a geographical location: A method and apparatus supporting a discovery technique of multiple available networks is disclosed. A global network neighborhood data depository contains attributes of multiple networks that are available in a geographic region. The attributes aid in network discovery and selection of an optimum network for communication for devices capable of...

20060092898 - Hand-off method using edge nodes in mobile ad-hoc network: A hand-off method including detecting edge nodes located at edges of a mobile ad-hoc network (MANET); retransmitting, at the detected edge nodes, an Internet gateway advertisement message (IGAM) at a new period; and performing a hand-off of a mobile device moving from an infrastructure network to the MANET using the...

20060092889 - High density wlan system: A method for controlling cell size associated with an access point that has a receive sensitivity and an output power. The method includes changing a start of packet threshold and/or a clear channel assessment threshold to vary the cell size of the access point....

20060092899 - Method and apparatus for supporting multiple wireless universal serial bus (usb) hosts in coordinator-based wireless network: Provided are a method and apparatus for supporting multiple wireless universal serial bus (WUSB) hosts in coordinator-based wireless network. The method for supporting a plurality of wireless universal serial bus hosts in a coordinator-based wireless network, includes, receiving a request frame including information to request the role of WUSB host,...

20060092892 - Method and apparatus for wide bandwidth mixed-mode wireless communications: A network device for implementing high-rate greenfield transmission in a mixed mode frame structure. The network device is configured to transmit a mixed mode frame on two adjacent channels. The mixed mode frame comprises at least two backward compatible portions of a first frequency and a greenfield portion of a...

20060092900 - Method and arrangement for reducing the average time needed for a communication unit to connect to a communication network: A method and an arrangement are provided for reducing the time needed for a communication unit (18) to connect to a communication network (11-16; 14-16), wherein the communication unit has to listen for data transmissions on a plurality of communication channels, and to identify one of the communication channels, on...

20060092893 - Method and system for processing wireless digital multimedia: A transmit digital processing system for wireless transmission of HDMI and/or DVI data using an FPGA. The FPGA converts the data into two data streams and includes a front end component multiplexing video data with control data. A complementary receive FPGA is also disclosed....

20060092895 - Method for restricting push-to service: A method for restricting a push-to (PT) service restricts a PT service with reference to network information. A PT client inviting to a PT session restricts an invited PT client by setting a network dependent outgoing session barring flag as ‘ON’. A PT client invited to the PT session restricts...

20060092896 - Method of communication between reduced functionality devices in an ieee 802.15.4 network: In a 802.15.4 network, each reduced functionality device (RFD) is permitted to communicate with only an assigned full function device (FFD). The present invention allows each of the RFDs to communicate with another RFD upon the RFD determining that the local FFD assigned to the RFD is inoperable or unable...

20060092894 - Method of transmitting transparent data: Transparent data transmission service is kept optimal in the quality provided. A transmission quality monitor section, provided in a base-band signal processing circuit of each apparatus, monitors an error in reception data and an response, to the data transmitted, of from an opposite apparatus, thereby measuring an error rate. When...

20060092888 - Proxy active scan for wireless networks: Active scanning method in a wireless network for fast determining available access points (106, 806) using inter-AP (Access Point) communication is described. In the scanning method, a mobile station (102, 802) sends Probe Request for Proxy frame to the current AP (104, 804) serving the mobile station (102, 802). In...

20060092904 - Generation of data session records for mobile data communications networks: Transaction detail records for a mobile data service are assembled by: de-multiplexing signalling sessions carried on a signalling channel and selecting a signalling session related to a mobile data service; using information from the selected signalling session to identify data sessions associated with the mobile data service; using information from...

20060092901 - Method, system and device for routing and controlling packet data flow: A method for routing MBMS (Multicast/Broadcast Multimedia Service) service data from a first network entity to a second network entity is presented. Accordingly, a system comprising a Gb interface between a first and a second network entity arranged to route MBMS service data over the Gb interface is presented. A...

20060092902 - Methods, apparatus and systems for terrestrial wireless broadcast of digital data to stationary receivers: The present invention provides methods, apparatus and systems for delivery of digital data to stationary receivers over a terrestrial wireless link at a low data rate using a new coded orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (COFDM) scheme. Digital data is encoded and modulated using coded orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (COFDM) to...

20060092905 - Signal-to-interference ratio estimation: In a method of estimating a signal-to-interference ratio (SIR), a first average channel power per slot of a first channel that is under a fading environment is estimated. A second average channel power per slot of a second channel that is under a fading environment substantially the same as the...

20060092903 - System and method for power-optimized user loading of a cdma communication system: A CDMA system according to an embodiment of the invention employs a technique for power optimized user loading that obtains a desired allocation of different radio configuration calls. The technique takes advantage of the relatively low power requirements of RC3 calls for low load conditions, while increasing the number of...

20060092906 - Annnouncing information service through broadcasting or multicasting: A receiver (FIG. 2), receives IP session announcement signals from a terrestrial digital video broadcasting system. Each IP session announcement (RM) includes information concerning announcements on an immediately lower level as well as information identifying the quantity of announcement data, such as the number of announcement messages, and a timeout...

20060092908 - Communication apparatus using a transmission medium and method for the same: Provided is communication apparatus and method using a transmission medium, in an environment where at least one transmitter and at least one receiver are connected to at least one human body which is a conductive transmission medium, in which the receiver requiring any information data requests a transmission to the...

20060092907 - Communication method: A radio communication system suitable for a sensor net system is provided. In a TDMA method, one slot is divided into four periods. Even when a majority of sensor nodes simultaneously perform access, they can settle in a steady state in high speed corresponding to the transition response of the...

20060092910 - Method and apparatus for organizing and scheduling multimedia data transfers over a wireless channel: A radio frequency communications system (100) includes wireless terminals (102) and base sites (104). The wireless terminals communicate with the base sites over a radio frequency channel (106). The base sites are interconnected to each other and other network elements via a packet network. The communication system has a radio...

20060092909 - System and method for access and management of beacon periods in distributed wireless networks: The present application describes a system and method of managing beacon periods in a distributed wireless network. According to an embodiment, devices move their beacons to earliest available beacon slots in the beacon period and contract their beacon periods to increase data periods for higher data throughput of the wireless...

20060092911 - Method for formatting signal in mobile communication system: A method for formatting a signal in a mobile communication system by appending a plurality of medium access control headers to a plurality of medium access control-service data units for data transfer between a mobile station and network in the mobile communication system. If the service data units have the...

20060092912 - Application driven router redundancy protocol: In an embodiment of the invention, a method for providing a router redundancy in a network, includes: monitoring a primary router for a failure event; and selecting a fail-over router to assume the role of the primary router if the failure event occurs in the primary router. The fail-over router...

20060092913 - Self-organization of sensor networks using ant colony optimization: A system and a method for organizing optimal paths in a sensor network. Optimal paths are determined based on an objective function that balances the performance and energy consumption of sensor nodes. Each sensor node stores and updates pheromone values and aging factors associated with each of its neighbor nodes....

20060092918 - Audio receiver having adaptive buffer delay: Generally speaking, there are provided systematic techniques for increasing and decreasing jitter buffer delay. The disclosed techniques typically utilize various combinations of: evaluating received data over a specified interval, increasing a recommended buffer delay if the interval delay exceeds a first threshold and decreasing the recommended buffer delay if the...

20060092921 - Configuration for using open programming languages to dynamically configure packet processing rules: A system dynamically configures a packet or data processor to support new data types or processing rules. Initially, a first data in an open programming language is received from a first source. This first data specifies the format in which a second data is structured and specifies a set of...

20060092919 - Inter-enterprise telephony using a central brokerage device: A system for inter-enterprise telephony communications includes a central brokerage device that can receive a packet encoding a dialed telephone identifier generated by a first telephony device located in the first enterprise network, where the dialed telephone identifier is associated with a second telephony device located in a second enterprise...

20060092922 - Ip telephone apparatus, enum server, terminal apparatus and ip telephone system: An IP telephone apparatus is connected to an ENUM server and a Web server via an IP network. The ENUM server has a database that stores an IP telephone URI as terminal information of the IP telephone apparatus and a Web server URI corresponding to the IP telephone apparatus. The...

20060092914 - Method and apparatus for a dual mode telephone: An apparatus and structure for transmitting and receiving an audio signal over a network (25). A dual mode telephone (1) is adapted to switch between a standard telephone mode and an Internet Protocol (IP) telephone mode. The standard telephone mode comprises a standard telephone (11) adapted to transmit and receive...

20060092920 - Method and apparatus for assigning cost metrics to electronic messages: The present invention provides methods and apparatuses for contextualization of electronic messages, for example, by determining at least one cost metric for an electronic mail message based at least in part upon an identified context, automatically generating metadata representing the at least one cost metric, and associating the metadata with...

20060092924 - Method for wireless internet communication in mobile communication terminal: A method for a wireless Internet communication in a mobile communication terminal is provided. In an operation of starting a wireless Internet function, it is determined if a data call is being serviced and, if a data call is not serviced, the wireless Internet function is started by setting the...

20060092915 - Methods and systems for accessing information across a network: Systems and methods are provided for accessing information from a network, including a voice-enabled transceiving device enabling a user to request information from the network, such as the Internet, using simple voice commands. The systems and methods utilize a Key Word Identifier (KWI) application to package the user's request and...

20060092923 - Network switching system with asynchronous and isochronous interface: To provide a switching system with telephone switching function mainly on the basis of hardware processing by using isochronous channel which is a real time communication channel. The switching system comprises a gateway node connected with ISDN (Integrated Services Digital Network) and PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Network), and one or...

20060092925 - Roaming between circuit-switched and all-ip networks: A temporary address assignment server in an IP network assigns a temporary number to use for setting up a mobile terminated call to a mobile station roaming in an IP network. The temporary number is supplied to a switching node, such as a Mobile Switching Center, in a circuit switched...

20060092916 - Routing frames in an ip sonet ring using an ip proxy server: Routing frames in a communication ring includes receiving an invitation at a proxy server of a node of a ring. The invitation indicates that a first endpoint is initiating a call to a second endpoint. An access device operable to communicate the call to the second endpoint is identified. The...

20060092917 - Sip enabled device identification: An object of the invention is to associate a DID/public or non-DID/private telephone number and/or reachable location information with a SIP Enabled Device. More specifically, an embodiment of the invention is directed to providing an additional data parameter comprising alphanumeric data, as a “Display_ID” parameter. The parameter includes information including...

20060092926 - System and method for accomplishing special call treatment in a voice over internet protocol telephone system: A system and method for treating a VoIP call in a special fashion when the call is to be routed from an originating gateway to a destination gateway over the Internet. The system and method make use of a special decline destination gateway which may be configured to return a...

20060092927 - Voice packet switching systems and methods: A switching system includes at least one packet processing circuit interfacing with at least one packet transmission link. The switching system further includes a switch fabric coupled to the at least one packet processing circuit, whereby the switch fabric is operable to switch between channels receiving and transmitting data over...

20060092928 - System and method for providing a shareable input/output device in a pci express environment: The midplane of a modular information handling system includes a sharable PCI Express switch that is serially connect with each associated modular information handling system component and a network communication device. The shareable PCI Express switch acts to receive PCI Express packets from associated information handling system components, with each...

20060092929 - Interwoven clock transmission lines and devices employing the same: An integrated circuit device includes a substrate and a side-by-side grouping of clock signal lines on the substrate. The side-by-side grouping includes at least three multi-segment clock signal lines that are substantially uniformly capacitively coupled to each other over a majority of their lengths. Electrical jumpers and conductive vias are...

20060092933 - Mechanism for delivering messages to competing consumers in a point-to-point system: A method, system, and computer program for delivering messages and data to competing consumers. One aspect of the invention includes a message delivery system including a destination messaging engine, one or more receiver messaging engines, and a message pool. The destination messaging engine is configured to distribute data from one...

20060092936 - Method for allocating blocks of internet protocol (ip) addresses in networks: Methods for allocating blocks of addresses to nodes in an IP communications network determine an optimal set of serving subnets, referred to as resources, for a single node in an IP communications network with given input demands for blocks of addresses. An optimal set of resources is determined at the...

20060092937 - Non-blocking all-optical switching network dynamic data scheduling system and implementation method: A non-blocking optical matrix core switching method that includes maintaining a schedule for routing data through an optical matrix core and receiving and analyzing reports from peripheral devices. The method determines whether the schedule is adequate for the current data traffic patterns and if the schedule is not adequate a...

20060092935 - Softrouter feature server: A network architecture includes one or more feature servers and control servers in a control plane that is logically separate from a data plane that includes forwarding elements. Feature servers facilitate adding network-based functionality in a centralized way that is has better scalability than the traditional router architecture. Some examples...

20060092931 - System and method for managing devices within a private network via a public network: A network management system includes a processor and a memory that is accessible by the processor. A computer program is embedded within the memory. The computer program includes instructions to detect the receipt of one or more modified management messages. Each of the one or more modified management messages includes...

20060092934 - System for protocol processing engine: A protocol processing engine system, which is arranged between a host side and a media access control (MAC) layer to thus speed up data transmission. The system includes a host interface, a network media access control (MAC) interface, a receiving subsystem and a transmitting subsystem. The system uses the host...

20060092932 - Trunking for fabric ports in fibre channel switches and attached devices: N_Ports and F_Ports are provided with logic allowing designation of multiple virtual interfaces on a single host bus adaptor or other Fibre Channel interface, one virtual interface for each VSAN operating on the node interface. Node ports with this additional functionality are referred to as trunking N_Ports or TN_Ports. These...

20060092930 - Ultrasound beamformer with high speed serial control bus packetized protocol: A method for conveying control information in an ultrasound system is provided. The method provides unique identifiers for the processing components in a beamformer of an ultrasound system. The method formats control information into at least one packet based on a packetized protocol, the control information relating to beamforming operations...

20060092938 - System for broadcasting multimedia content: The invention relates to a telecommunication system for broadcasting multimedia content (MM) to a client device (60). Said system comprises an encoder (20) for encoding said multimedia content in an encoded data stream (EDS). Said encoded data stream is transmitted via a first network connection (30) to a server (40)....

20060092939 - Apparatus and method for extending mobility in a mobile ad hoc network: Mobility in a mobile ad hoc network (MANET) can be extended by using fixed network resources to support MANET-level communication between a traveling MANET node and the remainder of the MANET. The IPv6 protocol is used over the fixed network resources to support the MANET-level communication, and mobility-supporting features of...

20060092941 - Communication path monitoring system and communication network system: Information that is not dependent on how a GMPLS switch or an MPLS router is set up (information independent of the type of GMPLS switch or MPLS router) is used to obtain attribute values of communication paths and manage communication path configurations in a communication network. Provided is a communication...

20060092940 - Softrouter protocol disaggregation: A SoftRouter architecture deconstructs routers by separating the control entities of a router from its forwarding components, enabling dynamic binding between them. In the SoftRouter architecture, control plane functions are aggregated and implemented on a few smart servers which control forwarding elements that are multiple network hops away. A dynamic...

20060092942 - System and method for multi-layered network communications: A multi-layered network for transporting data comprises a first network layer that provides a first session topology, and a second network layer that provides a second session topology. The second network layer uses the first network layer to transport data. In one embodiment of the invention, the data sent by...

20060092943 - Method and apparatus for guaranteed in-order delivery for ficon over sonet/sdh transport: In network systems for transporting GFP-encapsulated FICON frames across a SONET/SDH transport network between FICON ports, the transport interfaces for the FICON ports operate to drop duplicate and out-of-order frames transported across the SONET/SDH network. The transmitting transport interface inserts a sequence number incremented with each FICON frame into said...

20060092944 - Methods and apparatuses to manage bandwidth mismatches between a sending device and a receiving device: Embodiments of apparatuses, systems, and methods are described for communicating information between functional blocks of a system across a communication fabric. Rate logic may couple to the communication fabric. The rate logic is configured to determine a data bandwidth difference between a first data bandwidth capability of the sending device...

20060092945 - Securing telephony communications between remote and enterprise endpoints: A system for securing telephony communications between an enterprise telephony endpoint and a remote telephony endpoint includes an isolated packet-based network, an exposed packet-based network, and an isolation device. The isolated packet-based network has a plurality of enterprise telephony endpoints. The exposed packet-based network is coupled to a public packet-based...

20060092946 - Atm permanent virtual circuit and layer 3 auto-configuration for digital subscriber line customer premises equipment: The present invention pertains to a method and device for automatically configuring the Permanent Virtual Circuit (PVC) of a Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) Customer Premises Equipment (CPE) and link it to a software interface. The method comprises receiving an ATM cell and checking the ATM cell for an OAM Fault...

20060092947 - Rules engine for access control lists in network units: A rules engine for the examination of selected fields in an addressed data packet, has an access control list table of which the entries each define an access control list rule, an action and a chain identifier. The access control list rule is a basic rule which refers to a...

20060092949 - Maintaining secrecy of assigned unique local addresses for ipv6 nodes within a prescribed site during access of a wide area network: A network includes network nodes and a gateway. Each network node has a corresponding unique in-site IPv6 address for communication within a prescribed site, each in-site IPv6 address having a first IPv6 address prefix that is not advertised outside of the prescribed site. Network nodes can obtain from within the...

20060092948 - Securing lightweight directory access protocol traffic: Lightweight directory access protocol (LDAP) management is described. In an implementation, a method includes intercepting data, configured according to a lightweight directory access protocol (LDAP), for communication between a client and a server. One or more polices are applied to the data to determine whether performance of an LDAP action...

20060092950 - Architecture and method having redundancy in active/active stateful devices based on symmetric global load balancing protocol (sglbp): An architecture, arrangement, system, and method for or controlling traffic flow into and out of a server farm having active-active stateful devices. A symmetric Gateway Load Balancing Protocol (sGLBP) eliminates asymmetric traffic flow for out-bound traffic. Load distribution for in-bound traffic is balanced between a redundant pair of aggregation switches...

20060092951 - Information relaying method, apparatus and/or computer program product: An information relaying method, apparatus, and/or computer program product for relaying contact information between individuals. The information relaying method, apparatus, and/or computer program product establishes a communication link between the user of the information relaying apparatus and a user of another information relaying apparatus; selects at least one mode selected...

20060092954 - Information processing system, information processing method, and computer readable medium: An information processing system has a link information input unit, a link information totaling unit and a network similarity calculating unit. The link information input unit inputs link information indicating links among nodes in networks. The link information totaling unit totals the link information in the respective networks to be...

20060092953 - Proxy smart card applications: A system and method for the implementation of a proxy smart card application in a mobile telephone. The mobile telephone receives a smart card related message from a remote terminal. If the smart card related message is related to a function implemented by electronic device software within the mobile telephone,...

20060092952 - System and method for reporting out-of-resources (oor) conditions in a data network: A system and method for advertising out-of-resources (OOR) conditions for entities, such as nodes, line cards and data links, in a manner that does not involve using a maximum cost to indicate the entity is “out-of-resources.” According to the technique, an OOR condition for an entity is advertised in one...

20060092955 - Network-based dedicated backup service: A system and method for providing alternate dedicated connections are described. A primary dedicated connection may be configured to connect a first network and a second network, and a second dedicated network-based connection, which may include a point-to-point protocol (PPP)/layer 2 tunneling protocol (L2TP) tunnel, may be configured to automatically...

20060092956 - Bridging device, communication program, and communication method: There is provided with a bridging device that is connected to a first and a second network, including: a connection detecting unit that detects an appliance on the second network; a state holding unit that holds either a first or a second state; an arbitration unit that determines that the...

20060092957 - Methods and apparatus for supporting multiple configurations in a multi-processor system: Methods and apparatus provide for interconnecting one or more multiprocessors and one or more external devices through one or more configurable interface circuits, which are adapted for operation in: (i) a first mode to provide a coherent symmetric interface; or (ii) a second mode to provide a non-coherent interface....

20060092958 - Distributed intelligence mac protocols for dwdm ring networks: A metropolitan access network (10) uses a variation of a MAC protocol, where each station (14) on a ring (12) is associated with one or more time slot (30). Each slot carries information regarding the associated station, basic connection fields (32), communications fields (34), and quality of service fields (36)....

20060092959 - Method and system for wireless transmission: Multimedia from a source can be wirelessly transmitted in an infrared system to a display. To support rapid reads of data written into a slave at the display by a master at the source in accordance with I2C protocol, a master simulator on the display side continually polls the slave...

20060092960 - System and method for transmitting/receiving hybrid automatic repeat request buffer capability information in broadband wireless access communication system: Disclosed is a system and method for transmitting and receiving hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) buffer capability information in a broadband wireless access communication system. According to the system and method, a mobile station detects its own HARQ buffer capacity, and transmits a message including information about the detected HARQ...

20060092961 - Method and apparatus for powering a ds3 device: Disclosed are a central office module and a remote terminal module for span powering a variety of high speed DS3 and higher-bandwidth communication modules that require sufficiently little power so as to permit their powering over as many as four telephone wires of at least one mile in length. The...

20060092962 - Local area network of serial intelligent cells: A serial intelligent cell (SIC) and a connection topology for local area networks using Electrically-conducting media. A local area network can be configured from a plurality of SIC's interconnected so that all communications between two adjacent SIC's is both point-to-point and bidirectional. Each SIC can be connected to one or...

20060092963 - Architecture and method for efficient application of qos in a wlan: Architecture and method for quality of service (QoS) for multimedia and voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) applications in a wireless network, for example, a wireless local area network (WLAN). A QoS agent may be provided for a WLAN client to provide traffic profiles, parameters, and/or configuration settings to describe how...

20060092964 - Method and system for establishing bidirectional tunnel: A method and system establish a bi-directional tunnel through direct communication between a tunnel end point (TEP) and a user node without user assistance. The method includes: operating the user node in order to establish the bi-directional tunnel, wherein operating the user node includes: requesting network information necessary for establishing...

20060092965 - Information terminal and information terminal system: An information terminal incorporates a network interface and an extension interface, and in the case of outside call, an audio send signal is modulated into an audio signal frequency band, and sent to the exchange through a private telephone line and a subscriber's line by way of the network interface....

20060092966 - Internet portal system and method employing handheld device that connects to broadcast source: A portal system employs a handheld media delivery device (18) adapted to receive broadcast media content having media content information, adapted to formulate a request based on the media content information, adapted to communicate the request for additional media content to the portal system (23), adapted to receive the additional...

20060092967 - Method and apparatus for transmission of digital signals over a coaxial cable: Ethernet packets are transmitted in full duplex mode over a single coaxial cable, such as RG6 and RG59. Symmetrical full duplex operation is achieved by separating the upstream and downstream signals in the frequency domain whereby a 100BaseT signal is transmitted unmodified in one direction while the other is modulated...

20060092968 - Architecture for a hybrid stm/atm add-drop multiplexer: Architecture for a SONET network element. The architecture includes an interconnection system for a network element, including a line unit slot, a switch fabric slot, and service unit slots. The line unit slot is connected as a hub to the switch fabric slot and the service unit slots in a...

20060092969 - Multi-lane receiver de-skewing: A technique for de-skewing a group of serial data signals respectively outputted from a group of data lanes includes simultaneously feeding a test signal to inputs of the group of data lanes and monitoring respective outputs thereof. A predetermined data element of the test signal outputted from each of the...

20060092970 - System and method for voip call transfer using instant message service in an ip multimedia subsystem: The Instant Messaging capability of an IP multimedia subsystem is utilized to support call transfer service for VoIP users. A call transfer request from a first VoIP user to a second VoIP user is sent to the IP multimedia subsystem in a predetermined non-standard SIP communication. The IP multimedia subsystem...

20060092971 - Packet transfer device: A router with a server incorporated to provide services has a problem in that the server's resource cannot be allocated dynamically according to user requests. Service request packets received at a plurality of network interfaces are controlled such that the total bandwidth of the service request packets does not exceed...

20060092977 - Ieee 1394 gateway for fault-tolerant communication: In one embodiment, a node comprises a plurality of IEEE 1394 subnet interfaces for communicating over a plurality of IEEE 1394 buses. Each of the plurality of IEEE 1394 subnet interfaces comprises a respective IEEE 1394 physical layer and IEEE 1394 link layer for communicating over a respective one of...

20060092973 - Method of process configuration for multiple harq processes: A method of HARQ process configuration in a mobile communication system, wherein a plurality of HARQ processes are transmitted from a transmitter to a receiver comprising the step of configuring a plurality of HARQ processes of unrestricted use for data flows having different priorities and the step of pre-configuring at...

20060092972 - Multiple harq processes hangling method: The invention concerns a method of managing a plurality of parallel hybrid ARQ processes including at least one of a reserved and/or additional HARQ process comprising the step of scheduling the available HARQ processes for transmission in accordance with at least one resource allocation parameter. Furthermore, the invention discloses a...

20060092974 - Softrouter: The SoftRouter architecture separates the implementation of control plane functions from packet forwarding functions. In this architecture, all control plane functions are implemented on general purpose servers called the control elements (CEs) that may be multiple hops away from the forwarding elements (FEs). A network element (NE) or a router...

20060092975 - Softrouter protocol failovers: The SoftRouter architecture separates the implementation of control plane functions from packet forwarding functions. In this architecture, all control plane functions are implemented on general purpose servers called the control elements (CEs) that may be multiple hops away from the forwarding elements (FEs). A network element (NE) or a router...

20060092976 - Softrouter separate control network: An embodiment of the exemplary SoftRouter architecture includes two physically separate networks, a control plane network and a data plane network. The data plane network is one physical network for the data traffic, while the control plane network is another physical network for the control traffic. The topology of the...

20060092978 - Method and apparatus for developing a virtual assistant for a communication: Methods and apparatus are provide for developing a virtual assistant for at least one party of a communication. A developer provides one or more virtual assistant software modules that control an execution of the virtual assistant; and also provides a set of proxy methods that are called by the virtual...

20060092980 - Method and apparatus for transmitting data in an integrated circuit: A method and apparatus for transmitting data packets in an integrated circuit according to a data integrity scheme that embeds an integrity value in each data packet. As the data packets are transferred, the data integrity value for a data packet is stored during a stall of the transmission of...

20060092979 - Method and device of processing a generic framing procedure frame: The present invention discloses a method of processing a generic framing procedure (GFP) frame, the method includes the steps of: processing the GFP frame by the compensating process of payload area descrambler error multiplication factor; and processing the GFP frame by the process of tHEC or/and eHEC single-bit error correction....

20060092981 - Automated method and system for selectively updating communications parameters representing subscriber services in telecommunications networks: Methods and systems for updating subscriber service parameters in a communications network wherein a central provisioning unit automatically locates subscriber ports having subscriber service parameters that require updating and which automatically issues commands for updating the subscriber service parameters of the ports requiring updating....

20060092982 - Methods for media file recording, and recovery after power failure, and related devices: A method for providing media files. A video bitstream file, a video meta file, and an audio bitstream file are first runtime generated during recording. After the recording is suspended, an audio header file is generated corresponding to the audio bitstream file, and a video header file is generated corresponding...

20060092983 - Clock generating apparatus: A clock generating apparatus includes a first PLL circuit configured to generate a sync clock in phase with reference time information from a data stream, an oscillator configured to generate a fixed clock, a control unit configured to output a clock switching signal, and a clock switching unit configured to...

20060092984 - Maintaining synchronization of multiple data channels with a common clock signal: Maintaining synchronization when sending/receiving multiple channels of data with a corresponding common reference clock signal. Synchronization signals (e.g., pulses) are generated periodically and the timing of channels is adjusted. In an embodiment, multiple sequences of parallel data elements are received on corresponding parallel data channels using a first common clock...

20060092985 - Method of transmitting time-critical information in a synchronous ethernet system: A method of enabling transmission of a time-critical control signal event in a sync frame period, such as a pause signal that is generated when the receive buffer of an Ethernet switch is filled with packets beyond a threshold due to congestion of uplink asynchronous data, is disclosed. To transmit...

20060092986 - Sdh add-drop multiplexer that can realize both optical and radio networks by the same device: In an ADM device, first and second modulators and first and second demodulators are provided as a mod/demod device for radio communication, first to fourth SDH interface circuits and first and second SDH mapping/demapping circuits are provided for processing SDH signals, and path switching is performed by means of first...

20060092987 - Method for encoding video call data for mobile communication terminal: A mobile communication terminal for supporting video calling, and a method for performing a video call by efficiently encoding data and transmitting the data. The method comprises constructing a multiplex code table having a plurality of multiplex codes for multiplexing data, selecting an optimum multiplex code among the plurality of...

20060092988 - Optical transponder having switching function: Provided is an optical transponder that receives a tributary signal such as a SDH/SONET signal, a GbE (Gigibit Ethernet) signal, and a SAN (Storage Area Network) signal in a WDM (Wavelength Division Multiplexing) transmission system and a SDH (Synchronous Digital Hierarchy)/SONET (Synchronous Optical Network) system, and more particularly, to an...