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20060140109 - Method and system for joint mode and guard interval detection: A method and system for guard interval size and mode detection of a DVB signal. The detection system comprises guard interval detection systems (GIDS), each corresponding to a mode and performing parallel search for the guard interval size based on the OFDM symbol period of the mode. A correlation calculator...

20060140110 - Method and system for joint mode and guard interval detection: An exemplary embodiment provides a system for detecting guard interval size and mode of a broadcasting signal comprising m potential guard interval size varieties and n potential mode varieties, in which each potential mode defines an OFDM symbol period. A detection method implemented by the system is also provided. The...

20060140111 - Method and apparatus to compute local repair paths taking into account link resources and attributes: A technique for calculating local repair paths through a computer network using one or more dynamically measured parameters in place of, or in addition to, statically assigned cost metrics. The dynamically measured parameters include various statistical measures of resources and attributes associated with data links and/or network nodes in the...

20060140114 - Link throughput enhancer: A communication method comprises communicating information on a standardized link compliant with a published standard and communicating information on a private link capable of operation at a throughput higher than maximum throughput of the published standard. The method further comprises monitoring private link performance and increasing information throughput on the...

20060140112 - Method and apparatus to provide quality of service to wireless local area networks: Briefly, a method and apparatus to classify a data unit according to a type of service of the data unit. The apparatus includes a transmitter controller to control transmission of the classified data unit according to a transmission mechanism suitable for a class of the data unit....

20060140113 - Method for efficiently transmitting communications in a system supporting dedicated and shared communication channels: A wireless communication system (20) includes a wireless network (30) that selects between a dedicated communication channel and a shared communication channel for transmitting a real-time communication such as a voice over internet protocol (VoIP) communication. In one example, a radio network controller (40) portion of the wireless network (30)...

20060140116 - Delay distributed virtually-concatenated data traffic: Network design techniques and techniques for routing virtually-concatenated data traffic in a network in a manner which distributes delay to intermediate nodes of the network are disclosed. For example, in one aspect of the invention, a technique for routing virtually-concatenated data traffic in a network comprising a plurality of nodes...

20060140115 - Resource allocation management: The invention relates to resource allocation in communications systems (1). In such a system (1), the pool of resources that can be provided to connected user equipment (400, 410) for usage in conducting communications services are divided into multiple resources classes. This class division is based on a characteristic allocation...

20060140117 - Apparatus and method for cell selection: A method and apparatus for cell selection. A wireless communication device (110) can operate on a first cell (120). An expected data rate of a second cell (130) can be determined. The wireless communication device (110) can switch from the first cell (120) to the second cell (130) based on...

20060140120 - Communication system and communication method: According to one embodiment, a communication method comprises delivering streaming data from a server to a first communication terminal, receiving a request for the streaming data from a second communication terminal while delivering the streaming data to the first communication terminal, detecting congestion to be caused by the delivery of...

20060140121 - Optimization of a tcp connection: In the preferred embodiments, it is first determined whether or not a TCP connection from a sending device to a receiving device in the wireless communications network is in a slow start phase. If the TCP connection is in a slow start phase, then the data to be sent in...

20060140119 - Predictive congestion management in a data communications switch using traffic and system statistics: An apparatus and method for performing congestion management in a switch or router is disclosed. The apparatus acquires and or generates performance metrics for a plurality of switching module coupled via a switching fabric, generates a performance index based on the attributes from the switching modules, and allocates switching fabric...

20060140118 - Single-failure protection in a load-balanced network architecture: Techniques for single-failure protection in load-balanced network architectures are disclosed. For example, in one aspect of the invention, a technique for processing a traffic flow in a communication network comprising a plurality of nodes, the traffic flow being deliverable from a source node to at least one destination node via...

20060140122 - Link retry per virtual channel: Methods and apparatus that allow lost packets on one virtual channel to be retried without requiring all subsequently issued packets, sent over other virtual channels, to be retried. In other words, packet retries may be performed on a “per virtual channel” basis. As a result, other virtual channels, not experiencing...

20060140124 - Method for searching services, resources and/or functionalities in a network: Method for searching services, resources and/or functionalities in a network wherein the network comprises a multitude of nodes to which routable network addresses are assigned, and wherein the services, resources and/or functionalities which are to be searched, are specified by a source node (Q) that is characterized in that a...

20060140123 - Methods and apparatus for distributing link-state information associated with a wireless mesh network: Embodiments of methods and apparatus for distributing link-state information associated with a wireless mesh network are generally described herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed....

20060140127 - Apparatus for displaying network status: An apparatus for displaying network status includes a network traffic collection unit, a network status display unit and a first attack type determination unit. The network traffic collection unit analyzes packets collected from an external communication network, and outputs connection information including a source Internet Protocol (IP) address, a destination...

20060140126 - Arbitrating virtual channel transmit queues in a switched fabric network: A device in an AS fabric may include an event dispatch unit for generating event packets to be sent over the fabric to event handling agents. The AS device may arbitrate between different packets for the resources of a particular VC. The AS device may arbitrate between packets from different...

20060140125 - Hybrid test bed: A hybrid test bed mixes simulated and actual wireless communication network entities in a real-time packet data simulation. In at least one embodiment, the test bed supports end-to-end simulation for a packet data application running on a mobile station simulator. The test bed provides a realistic assessment of that application's...

20060140129 - Method for increasing amount of a data packet: A method of configuring at least a switch for duplicating a data packet and enabling the switch to output a plural duplicated data packets at a speed and volume qualifying for testing a device-under-test (DUT) is disclosed. The method comprising the steps of: dividing the switch into a first segment...

20060140131 - Methods for optimizing and evaluating network access techniques: Methods of evaluating access to Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) from alternate access connections and for improving access to VPNs from alternate access connections such as ISPs. The methods include downloading a set of tests through a network backbone to simulate access to the VPN from the alternate access connection and...

20060140130 - Mirroring in a network device: A network device for implementing mirroring on packets. The network device includes a plurality of ports, each of which is at least one of an ingress port, an egress port and a mirror-to port. The network device also includes processing means for supporting a plurality of mirroring types. Each of...

20060140128 - Traffic generator and monitor: A switch in a data communications network for performing traffic generation in addition to standard switching and routing operations is disclosed. The switch uses a fixed number of test packets retained in a conventional switch buffer to produce one or more infinite packet streams transmitted to a router under test...

20060140132 - Apparatus and method for performance management in mpls network: In an apparatus for a performance management of a label switching path (LSP) set in a multi protocol label switching (MPLS) network and a method thereof, a determination is made as to whether the LSP satisfies a required performance criterion in the network, and protection of the LSP or replacement...

20060140134 - Advertising business method and system for secure and high speed transmission of media files across an internet, intranet or cable network, and method to avoid digital file sharing or copying: The present invention provides a computer system and software that implements and supports a method to permit a digital media peer-to-peer or peer to server exchange while providing a secure and high speed transmission of media files across an internet, intranet or cable network in such a manner as to...

20060140133 - Connection reservation in a communication interface: A method distributes transport bearer capacity in a communication system. The method comprises defining a total need for transport capacity for a set of transport bearers sharing a physical channel. The method also comprises reserving transport bearer capacity from the physical channel based on total need. The method also comprises...

20060140135 - Ad hoc cluster idle node coordination: Nodes (103a-d, 105, 107, 109a-c, 111a-c) in an ad hoc communication network are coordinated. The network includes the node (111b) and one or more neighbor nodes (103a-d, 105, 107, 109a-c, 111a,c). The node (111b) can sleep in a low duty cycle. Further, the node (111b) can awaken, responsive to a...

20060140136 - Automatic route tagging of bgp next-hop routes in igp: A technique configures an intermediate network node to automatically determine whether a route advertised by a routing protocol is important for fast convergence in a computer network. As used herein, an important route needed for fast convergence is a route advertised by the routing protocol, such as an exterior gateway...

20060140137 - Conferencing system for exchanging conferencing information between subscriber devices via a network unit: Conferencing systems for exchanging conferencing information between subscriber devices (1-3) via network units (7) according to mode dependent manners get a more dynamic behavior by introducing controllers (6) for controlling the conferencing system for switching the subscriber devices (1-3) and the network unit (7) between different modes. This improves the...

20060140138 - Method for simlutaneous communications management: A method for presenting multiple communications in a wireless communication device (100) comprising presenting (308) a plurality of communications concurrently with at least one output device of a wireless communication device. The method further comprises formatting the plurality of communications on the at least one output device as a function...

20060140139 - Medical device communications network: A medical device communications network comprises a plurality of medical devices including either or both of a first number of surgical instruments and a second number of implants configured for subcutaneous implantation in a biological body. A corresponding plurality of wireless communication circuits are each mounted to a different one...

20060140140 - System and method for power management in mobile units: Described is a method which includes receiving a selection of an application type, selecting a power management class as a function of the application type and adjusting resources of a mobile unit as a function the power management class....

20060140141 - Method and an apparatus for providing multimedia services in mobile terminal: A method and an apparatus provide a service of multimedia data in a mobile terminal. In the method and the apparatus, a package data is generated and stored at a multimedia data providing device. The package data includes an execution condition and a multimedia file corresponding to the execution condition,...

20060140142 - Interleaving for mobile communications: A method for processing a bit sequence in a digital communication system, includes the steps of (a) storing the bits of said bit sequence at locations of a memory means indicated by a first interleaving scheme, (b) converting output bit positions into input bit positions according to an inverse of...

20060140143 - Managing mobility of wireless devices in distributed communication networks: The present invention provides a method and an apparatus for managing mobility of a wireless communication device across a first and a second access node in a common administrational area of a network. The method comprises using the first access node to assign a temporary identification to the wireless communication...

20060140144 - Method and system for providing an open gateway initiative bundle over the air: A method and apparatus provides an open services gateway initiative (OSGi) bundle over the air to a wireless mobile device by obtaining data representing an OSGi bundle in the form of a JAVA archive (JAR) file (802), such as from a trusted authority, or any other suitable source, and generates,...

20060140145 - Radio transmitter and transmission power adjustment method, and recording medium stored with program for implementing method: Disclosed is a radio transmitter outputting transmission signals changing transmission modes. The transmitter includes a detection unit and a processing unit. The processing unit includes a three power adjustment modes. A first adjustment mode stores a detection result when the transmission power is so adjusted that, in any one of...

20060140147 - Bandwidth allocation protocol for shared wireless networks: The present invention provides a method and an apparatus for allocating bandwidth for transmission to a first client device on a wireless network shared with a second client device. The method comprises sending a request-to-send indication to a transceiver node for transmitting data and in response to the request-to-send indication,...

20060140148 - Method and apparatus for providing multimedia broadcast/multicast service according to mobility of user equipment: A method and apparatus for notifying a UE of the PFLs of MBMS services in a new cell when the UE moves from an old cell to a new cell in a CELL_DCH state in the case of FLC are provided. An SRNC informs the UE of the PFLs of...

20060140146 - Method for controlling data circuits: A method for controlling data circuits in order to transmit data via data circuits that are allocated to different applications in a local area network. The network includes at least two stations which are configured for transmitting data. At least one first transmission protocol is assigned to a data packet...

20060140152 - Method and apparatus for performing idle handoff in a multiple access communication system: In a mobile communication system having a first communication device for communicating with a plurality of second communication devices, a method for performing handoff within the mobile communication system includes transmitting from at least one of the second communication devices to the first communication device a handoff list of second...

20060140151 - Method and system for providing wireless-specific services for a wireless access network: A method and system for providing wireless-specific services for a wireless access network includes receiving at a call agent of a wireless access network a call origination for a mobile device. Whether the device is registered on the wireless access network is determined. If the mobile device is not registered,...

20060140149 - Method of processing call to unregistered user in wlan-gprs network using sip: A method of processing a call to an unregistered user in a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN)-General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) using a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) is provided. The method of connecting a call to a mobile node present in a GPRS area includes registering location information of the...

20060140150 - Wireless communication method and system for implementing media independent handover between technologically diversified access networks: A wireless communication system including at least one IEEE 802 multi-stack wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) and a plurality of technologically diversified access networks, such as IEEE 802.X networks and Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) networks, that are concurrently deployed. Both the multi-stack WTRU and the technologically-diversified networks include a media...

20060140153 - Transmission data collection method and apparatus: A mobile station (16) operating under any cell reselection mode in a General Packet Radio Service (“GPRS”) standard generates (21) packet measurement data, receives (22) a request for the packet measurement data, and automatically sends (23) the packet measurement data to a base station (12) in response to receiving the...

20060140155 - Method and apparatus for acquiring code group in asynchronous wideband code division multiple access system using receiver diversity: Disclosed herein are a method and apparatus for acquiring a code group in an asynchronous Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (WCDMA) system. A primary synchronization channel search unit achieves primary synchronization channel slot timing synchronization. Then, the 1-1 search unit and 1-2 search unit of a secondary synchronization channel receive...

20060140154 - Method and apparatus for signaling user equipment status information for uplink data transmission in a mobile communication system: A method and apparatus for increasing the scheduling performance of a system supporting an uplink data service and total system stability by effectively UE status information to a Node B in a mobile communication system supporting the uplink data service are provided. UE status information including buffer occupancy information and...

20060140157 - Method for allowing multi-user orthogonal and non-orthogonal interoperability of code channels: A technique for allowing a first and second group of users to share access to a communication channel such as a radio channel. A first group of users is typically a legacy group of users such as those using digital CDMA cellular telephone equipment. The second group of users are...

20060140156 - Radio communication apparatus and radio communication method: A base station apparatus in a CDMA/TDD mobile communication system is provided. A signal is formed employing a frame configuration with a plurality of time slots and spreading processing utilizes a long spreading code for identifying a cell and a short spreading code for acquiring frame synchronization. The base station...

20060140158 - Wireless communication system with selectively sized data transport blocks: A wireless transmit receive unit (WTRU) for a code division multiple access (CDMA) telecommunication system utilizes a plurality of protocol layers including a physical layer and a medium access control (MAC) layer such that the MAC layer provides data to the physical layer via plurality of transport channels (TrCHs). Each...

20060140159 - Method for multimedia broadcast/multicast service signaling bearer connection on iu interface: A method of signaling bearer connection on Iu interface for MBMS service, includes the following steps: (a) RNC receives a MBMS Notification message for a certain MBMS service from SGSN; (b) RNC constructs a MBMS Service Request message according to the contents of the notification; (c) RNC sends a SCCP...

20060140160 - Method for detecting multi-user behavior of an aerial interface in gprs and egprs mobile radio system: Method and apparatus for detecting multiuser behavior on the aerial interface in GPRS and EGPRS mobile radio systems, wherein during a transmission of subscriber data on the aerial interface, additional information contained in the subscriber data are acquired and evaluated by a device on the network side and/or the subscriber...

20060140162 - Alternate-location content delivery apparatus, methods and computer program products: A radio signal including a plurality of audio segments is transmitted. Responsive to a user selection of at least one of the audio segments at a first location that receives the radio signal, such as a mobile terminal or other radio receiver, information related to the at least one of...

20060140165 - Device connectivity: There is disclosed a personal area network comprising a plurality of wireless piconets, each piconet including one or more wireless devices, each device being provided with an Internet protocol, IP, address such that the devices of the plurality of piconets form a wireless subnetwork. There is also disclosed a device...

20060140163 - Method and apparatus to facilitate the closure of mobility tunnels: According to one embodiment, a method involves receiving an incoming media access control (MAC) frame that includes a header, a frame body and an error detection field. Thereafter, an information element within the frame body is analyzed to determine whether to alter a mobility tunnel between a plurality of networking...

20060140164 - Methods and apparatus for using dhcp for home address management of nodes attached to an edge device and for performing mobility and address management as a proxy home agent: Methods and apparatus for supporting the management of mobility and addresses by a Customer Premises Edge (CPE) router in a Mobile IP environment are disclosed. When a network prefix is allocated by a DHCP router to the CPE router, the CPE router divides the network prefix among its interfaces, and...

20060140161 - Network access points using multiple devices: A system and method for providing access to a communication network includes providing a radio node comprising a first set of access point components including a radio component, and providing a physically separated controller node in communication with the radio node. The access point controller comprises a second set of...

20060140166 - Reducing power consumption of a wireless device: The present invention provides a system and method for conserving power consumption of a wireless device such as a BLUETOOTH slave device. A master device polls a slave device in a polling period. The slave responds by transmitting a data packet. If there is an error in transmission of the...

20060140168 - Electric power-generating apparatus and method: An apparatus and method for generating electric power by using magnetic fields are provided. A sensor node has a coil unit having a spiral structure in a plane that generates an induced electromotive force by using magnetic fields; a conversion unit configured to convert the induced electromotive force into DC...

20060140167 - Relay device: A relay device includes a plurality of physical ports physically connected to a plurality of other relay devices on a network to form physical links; a setting unit for setting one or more logical links for each of the physical links; an evaluation unit for automatically adding an evaluated value...

20060140169 - Inter set top box personal messaging without using internet: A communication method which allows users to send and received text messages between their respective set top boxes. The method which includes transmitting text messages from multiple source set top boxes to an exchange. The exchange, in turn, packetizes the text messages into data packets and forwards the data packets...

20060140171 - Method and apparatus for enabling the network to disconnect unintentionally idle off-hook endpoints: The present invention enables a packet-switched network service provider, e.g., a VoIP network service provider, to periodically check the status of all registered endpoints and keep state information about them for a specified period of time. Phones that are off-hook and have been idle for some specified period of time...

20060140173 - Sustained voip call logs using poc contact lists: A method for logging Voice Over IP (VOIP) calls from a caller client device to a recipient client device. The method includes the steps of generating a VOIP call from the caller client device directed to the recipient client device; storing identification information associated with the caller client device in...

20060140175 - System and method for controlling coupling between communication terminals for audio-video communication: Provided are a system and method for controlling coupling between communication terminals for audio-video communication capable of performing the audio-video communication with a third external communication terminal by interworking a phone screen of a first communication terminal with a WiFi phone of a second communication terminal. The method includes the...

20060140176 - Telephony communication via varied redundant networks: A switched telephone network is arranged in a manner to enable packet voice communication between telephone terminals via multiple redundant packet switched networks. The packet switched networks may utilize different protocols, be operated by different entities, and have primary functions other than voice communication. One example of such a network...

20060140172 - Transmitting and protecting long frames in a wireless local area network: Methods and systems for communicating in a wireless network may use long frames each including an aggregation of medium access control (MAC) protocol data units (MPDUs). In certain embodiments, the first MPDU of a frame may be composed in a format compatible with legacy wireless local area network devices designed...

20060140174 - Voip (voice over internet protocol) call processing: In a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) call processing system and method, a first unit is adapted to setup address information, for a terminal requesting a call connection during VoIP call signaling, as Quality of Service (QoS) guarantee information for a VoIP service, and to delete the QoS guarantee information...

20060140170 - Wireless lan remote control: A remote-controlled media system is described in which a remote control communicates over a conventional wireless local area network (WLAN) with a remote server. The remote control and remote server configure a network connection over the WLAN for communicating with one another. The remote server receives a remote command from...

20060140177 - Method and device for setting a route for communication connection: A method and a device set a route for a communication connection of a communication unit in a mobile network environment. When a communication unit connects to a routing network element it is determined by the routing network element whether the communication unit belongs to the same home network as...

20060140178 - Method for connecting routing device in existing wiring: A method for utilizing a household's existing telephone line wiring and existing analog telephone sets to make VoIP calls and PSTN calls are provided. The method allows the installation of a simple VoIP routing device in the existing wiring without restructuring of the existing wiring or a deployment of a...

20060140179 - Method and apparatus to couple a module to a management controller on an interconnect: Embodiments are generally directed to a method and apparatus to couple a module to a management controller on an interconnect. In one embodiment, a method includes detecting that a module has coupled to an interconnect, the interconnect coupled to a modular platform backplane. The method further includes logically coupling the...

20060140180 - Device, system and method for pre-caching media content for home entertainment devices and gateways: A device, system and method which enables prompt playback/presentation of remotely located content on a target network content device, regardless of the actual location of the content data in the network or Internet is disclosed. The present invention pre-caches of portion of the remotely located content in a target network...

20060140181 - Method for packet encapsulation and redirection of data packets: A method to redirect data packets by a network controller to a network node. A network interface routes a data packet from the network node. Another network interface redirects the data packet from the network node. A switch selects between the two network interfaces based upon the state of the...

20060140184 - Method for void-filling and transmitting burst data over optical burst switching network: A method for enhancing transmission efficiency of burst data by estimating a void between burst data and filling the void with new burst data in an optical burst switching (OBS) network. To this end, a node in the OBS network receives burst data (BD) aggregated from data packets, and a...

20060140185 - Methods and apparatus for storage and processing of routing information: Methods and apparatus for processing a plurality of sets of routing information received from corresponding ones of a plurality of neighbor nodes connectable to a router, the router having a plurality of memory units accessible via separate paths. The method comprises creating a respective plurality of non-identical routing information subsets...

20060140183 - Signal processing apparatus and stream processing method: A signal processing apparatus includes, a receiving unit which receives a stream includes compression-encoded data via a network, the stream being formed by packets to which time stamps are respectively added, a generating unit which generates a first stream from the stream received by the receiving unit, based on the...

20060140182 - Systems and methods for monitoring and controlling communication traffic: Communication traffic monitoring and controlling systems and methods are disclosed that allow for controlling communication traffic over the Internet based on the identity of particular users using potentially volatile information, such as a dynamically assigned IP Addresses. The system and method allow a controller to personalize services for users without...

20060140186 - Methods for delivery in a wireless communications network: Methods for delivery of multicast packets in a wireless communication system are disclosed. The methods comprise transmitting a contention free period initiation signal from an access point to the station, transmitting broadcast packets from the access point to the station, transmitting multicast packets from the access point to the station...

20060140187 - Wireless communication system for multicast communications: A wireless LAN system uses an address that is used by another device than terminals connected to a wireless LAN, as a multicast destination address. An access point sets an address that is used by another device than terminals connected to a wireless LAN of its own, as a multicast...

20060140188 - Self-healing link sequence counts within a circular buffer: Methods and apparatus that allow recovery in the event that sequence counts used on receive and transmit sides of a communications link become out of sync are provided. In response to receiving a packet with an expected sequence count from a receiving device, a transmitting device may adjust pointers into...

20060140189 - Presence system and method for providing a multi-functional communications log: A multi-functional communications log maintains communication session information pertaining to attempted communication sessions with a user. The multi-functional communications log interfaces with a communications manager to detect a user-initiated communications log event and automatically and temporarily subscribe the user to receive presence information of presentities associated with the attempted communication...

20060140190 - Method and apparatus for configuring a communication path: A method and apparatus for configuring a communication path which traverses different network domains are provided. A set-up signal for configuring the communication path is generated and includes both an identifier for identifying one or more network resources in one network domain and a domain identifier associated with the resource...

20060140192 - Flexible mesh structure for hierarchical scheduling: Systems and methods employing a flexible mesh structure for hierarchical scheduling are disclosed. The method generally includes reading a packet grouping configured in a two dimensional mesh structure of N columns, each containing M packets, selecting and promoting a column best packet from each column to a final row containing...

20060140191 - Multi-level scheduling using single bit vector: In general, in one aspect, the disclosure describes an apparatus that includes a multi-level queue structure to store data. The multi-level queue structure includes a plurality of queues segregated into more than one priority level. The apparatus further includes a scheduler to schedule transmission of the data from said multi-level...

20060140193 - Optimization of a tcp connection: In the preferred embodiments, it is first determined whether or not a TCP connection from a sending device to a receiving device in the wireless communications network is in a slow start phase. If the TCP connection is in a slow start phase, then the data to be sent in...

20060140194 - Adaptive router architecture using logical internal addressing: A method and a related router comprising a network interface, a logical addressing module and a forwarding element card. The logical addressing module is capable of maintaining at least one local table associating at least one card of the router with at least a portion of at least one service...

20060140195 - Signal interconnect incorporating multiple modular units: An interconnect element incorporates a plurality of smaller, substantially identical, interconnect modules. Multiple identical elements can in turn be combined to form larger interconnect networks. Signal paths in the elements can be implemented with optical fibers or electrical conductors....

20060140197 - Data transfer procedure for transferring data of a data sequence between a transmitting entity and a receiving entity: A data transfer procedure enables data of a data sequence to be transferred between a transmitting entity (13) and a receiving entity (19). The entities each comprise a higher data handling layer (11, 17) and a lower data handling layer (12, 18). The procedure comprises transferring down from the higher...

20060140198 - Method and system for determining media gateway loading: A method for load balancing call traffic in a telecommunication gateway is disclosed. The communication gateway comprises a plurality of media gateway controllers and a plurality of media gateways. The media gateway controllers and the media gateways are coupled in a many-to-many relationship. In a first step of the method,...

20060140196 - Radio communication management method and radio communication management server: An object is to smoothly perform handover at the time when a mobile terminal changes link connection, and shorten a time required for changing the link connection. When a mobile terminal 21 changes a connection link utilizing HMIPv6, the terminal transmits authentication information together with information (binding update) for changing...

20060140199 - Sip/upnp bridging middleware architecture for a service gateway framework: A bridging architecture is provided for a network gateway environment which provides service registration in accordance with a gateway framework, such as OSGi. The bridging architecture includes: a SIP service registered with the gateway framework and operable to import and export SIP capabilities into the network gateway environment; a UPnP...

20060140200 - User-controlled telecommunications system: Disclosed are systems and methods that enable an end user to control the parameters, behavior, and identity of network communications regardless of the limitations placed upon these controls by the end user's communications device or communications service provider. An intermediate media proxy resides on a telecommunications network and accepts inbound...

20060140201 - Hierarchical packet scheduler using hole-filling and multiple packet buffering: A hierarchical packet scheduler using hole-filling and multiple packet buffering. Packet references are enqueued into a hierarchical packet scheduler, wherein the hierarchical packet scheduler includes one or more levels, each level including one or more schedulers being served by one or more threads, wherein the number of threads serving a...

20060140205 - Intelligent management apparatus and method of digital home network system: Provided is an intelligent management apparatus and method of a digital home network system. The intelligent management apparatus includes: a context aware portion for extracting context aware information from sensing data, generating context information, history information and object information based on the context aware information, and generating context priority information...

20060140202 - Retrieving data using an asynchronous buffer: A mechanism for retrieving data over a network using an asynchronous buffer is described herein. According to one embodiment, an exemplary process includes, in response to a request for first data from a client via a first thread, determining whether a local circular buffer contains the requested first data, the...

20060140204 - Ring-buffer based buffering apparatus and method of using memory apparatus: In a buffering apparatus for digital data for temporarily storing input data and then outputting, a memory apparatus is provided with a plurality of storage areas assigned consecutive identification numbers. A partition designation unit generates an instruction for partitioning the plurality of storage areas. An area partitioning unit partitions the...

20060140203 - System and method for packet queuing: Data is enqueued and dequeued using a block-based queuing structure....

20060140206 - Method and apparatus for adaptive bandwidth utilization in a digital network: An integrated circuit device for use in a line card of a network node of a digital networking system is provided. The integrated circuit device is capable of intercepting one or more control messages from at least one CPE device. The one or more control messages correspond to at least...

20060140207 - Selectively receiving data in a multicast environment: A controller (105) registers (205) a first number of channels; registers (210) a first number of clients (125); determines (215) a set of client groups a set of client groups and categorizing the registered clients into the client groups; and for each client group in the set, assigns (220) a...

20060140208 - Wireless communication synchronization: A method of communicating among wireless devices includes providing a frequency hopping schedule to a target device. The frequency hopping schedule includes a sequence of frequencies. The method also includes, at the target device, alternately sleeping and listening on a frequency in the sequence of frequencies according to the frequency...

20060140210 - Apparatus and method for manipulating automotive data packets: Embodiments of the invention enable the transmission and receipt of information packets to and from at least one automotive data bus that enables connectivity between automotive devices on at least one automotive data bus and external devices not originally coupled with an automotive data bus or between an automotive device...

20060140211 - Blade server system with a management bus and method for managing the same: A blade server system with a management bus and method for managing the same. The blade server system includes a connection board and a management module. The connection board is used for modular interconnection, including communication paths for conducting signals including a management bus signal group and a first bus...

20060140209 - Field device, system and process for multi-protocol field device emulator: An apparatus and method for allowing at least one second device configured to use a second communication protocol to communicate with at least one first field device configured to use a first communication protocol. The apparatus including a first network communication arrangement configured to communicate with the at least one...

20060140212 - System and method for gigabit media independence interface (gmii)-to-system packet interface level 3 (spi-3) interface translation: A system and method for interface translation between a system packet interface level 3 (SPI-3) defines an interface between a physical device (PHY device) and a link layer device, and a gigabit media independence interface (GMII) which defines an interface between a media access control (MAC) portion of a gigabit...

20060140213 - Tunneling method and apparatus for multicasting between ipv4 network and ipv6 network: In a tunneling method and apparatus for multicasting between an IPv4 network and an IPv6 network, a multicast table containing information about receive and transmit interfaces in a multicast delivery tree structure for each of the IPv4 network and the IPv6 network is set, a multicast address area is assigned...

20060140217 - Method for adaptively allocating frequency resource in communication system using orthogonal frequency division multiple access scheme: Disclosed is a method for adaptively allocating frequency resources in a communication system using an orthogonal frequency division multiple access scheme. The method for allocating frequency resources in the communication system that includes a plurality of cells using an identical frequency band includes the steps of dividing a frequency band...

20060140214 - Method for adjusting the transmission outputs of two channels of a link station and communication system: The transmission output of two channels of a first link is adjusted so that data from the first link is simultaneously transmitted by two channels. The transmission outputs of the two channels are adjusted to a common value which is dependent upon the value of a quality parameter of the...

20060140216 - Techniques for efficient control of aggregating wireless voice communications: A wireless communication system (20) includes a wireless network (30) that selectively modifies an aggregation of voice over internet protocol wireless transmissions. In one example, a mobile station geometry provides an indication whether modification of the aggregation is desirable. For example, a mobile station with a better geometry allows for...

20060140215 - Using the dynamic beacon to enhance power saving capabilities for low power uwb devices: A wireless device dynamically adjusts its beacon period as devices join and disconnect from a network. The number of open beacon slots is programmable and maintained as devices join the piconet....

20060140218 - Apparatus and method for adjusting a duty cycle to save power in a computing system: A method and system for adjusting a duty cycle to save power in a computing system is described. The system includes a network interface card (NIC) that has an active mode and a sleep mode. The NIC is coupled to an adjusting element that adjusts a duty cycle of the...

20060140219 - Recording/reproduction device and method: When a digital broadcast is decoded and then re-encoded and digitally recorded, detailed program information contained in the original digital broadcast and information such as age-based viewer control information or parental control information may be lost. This problem is solved by providing a digital tuner to demodulate the digital broadcast...

20060140221 - Reproduction apparatus and decoding control method: A reproduction apparatus includes a unit which receives a stream that is transferred from a server, a buffer which stores the received stream, a decoder which executes a decoding process for reading out the received stream from the buffer and decoding the received stream, a clock generator which generates a...

20060140220 - Synchronization at multiframe level of a mobile terminal of a radiocommunications system: To allow the synchronization at multiframe level of a mobile terminal on a traffic down path which exhibits a multiframe structure with a determined number L of useful data frames, the base stations send signalling frames respectively associated with each useful data frame of the traffic down path and each...

20060140222 - Digital clock filter: A clock filter circuit (20), which serves for filtering the clock of non-isochronous data signals having a selected one of at least two nominal data rates, has an auxiliary clock source (21) that generates an auxiliary clock signal (27) with a pulse repetition rate which is in the range between...

20060140223 - Method and apparatus for establishing environment of digital device using portable memory: Embodiments of method and apparatus according to the invention can set an environment of a digital DVD device using a portable memory. A portable memory can store a plurality of environment setup information, for example, lock information, favorite channel information, logo screen image information, and screen saver information, etc. The...

20060140224 - Generating a half rate/quarter rate flag stream for enhanced vsb decoder: A system and method are provided for generating a flag stream that is used to mark the half rate and quarter rate bytes in an enhanced vestigial sideband (eVSB) data stream. The flag generator includes a buffer, a counter, and an interleaver. The buffer receives map data from a map...

20060140225 - Reduction of the transport capacity of a virtual concatenation group: The transport capacity of a Virtual Concatenation Group (VCG) can be reduced under control of a Link Capacity Adjustment Scheme (LCAS). The VCG comprises link members, in which payload data are transmitted. A first control message comprising a fail message (RFAIL) for a link member is transmitted from sink to...

20060140226 - Techniques for processing traffic transmitted over advanced switching compatible switch fabrics: Techniques for processing traffic for transmission over an Advanced Switching compatible switch fabric....

20060133259 - Interference rejection in wireless receivers: The effects of interference are mitigated in a wireless system through updating noise variance estimates. Noise variance estimates may be updated after the reception of a preamble in an OFDM receiver....

20060133261 - Method for spectral side lobe suppression in ofdm-based communication systems: The subcarriers in an OFDM communication system or OFDM-based multicarrier communication system are multiplied with weighting factors, determined so that in accordance with an optimization criterion the side lobes are minimized in a determined frequency domain. In determining the weighting factors constraints can be taken into account to further boost...

20060133260 - Mobile termile capable of efficiently measuring cnir and cnir measuring method thereof: The present invention relates to a mobile terminal for efficiently measuring a carrier to noise and interference ratio (CNIR) in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) mobile communication system and a CNIR method thereof. The mobile terminal includes a frequency offset and frame detector for detecting frame timing information and...

20060133262 - Control channel assignment in a wireless communication network: The disclosed embodiments provide for methods and systems for allocating a plurality of users on a control channel in a wireless communication network. In one aspect, a method for allocating a plurality of users on a control channel includes assigning a first number of modulation symbols to a hop region...

20060133263 - Real-time rf/if signature trigger: An RF/IF signature trigger for acquiring received RF signal data is generated by correlating the received RF signal data in the form of a time domain RF/IF signal, a detected RF/IF signal and/or a frequency domain RF/IF signal with a reference signal defined by a signal signature record representing desired/undesired...

20060133264 - Trunk network system for multipoint-to-multipoint relay: In a trunk network, each node, when notified from another node of a change in the state of a group to which external connection ports belong, changes the states of the external connection ports to cause external devices to detect the failure of the transmission route. A port state monitor...

20060133266 - Method of constituting and protecting control channel in ip-based network and status transition method therefor: Provided is a method of constituting a highly reliable control network in an IP-based network environment and, more particularly, a protocol technology for automatic control channel constitution and protection. The method includes functions of protection group (PG)-1/3 control channel identification, detour control channel identification, an automatic switchover, a forced switchover,...

20060133265 - Virtual private networking methods and systems: Virtual private networking methods and systems are disclosed. A label switched path (LSP) is established between network elements which provide access to different autonomous systems (ASs). A record of resources which are used for the LSP is maintained, and a backup LSP is established between the network elements. The backup...

20060133270 - Method and apparatus for providing ingress traffic shaping: A traffic shaping and bandwidth management in a communications network is provided. More particularly, a method for shaping the ingress traffic received at a first device is provided. A novel apparatus comprising a first network device, wherein the first network device receives ingress traffic to be traffic shaped is provided....

20060133268 - Method and appartatus to improve communication performance in arq networks: A wireless communication network improves reverse link communication performance by changing one or more Automatic Repeat Request (ARQ) control settings as a function of measured or estimated reverse link loading. Control settings can be changed on a per-sector basis, allowing consideration of different loading conditions in different radio sectors of...

20060133269 - Methods and apparatus for efficient paging in a wireless communication system: The disclosed embodiments provide for methods and systems for monitoring a paging channel. In one aspect, a method for monitoring a paging channel includes monitoring a paging channel for a page message at scheduled paging slots, determining that an error has occurred at a given paging slot, and monitoring the...

20060133271 - Node position measuring system: A node position measuring system according to this invention includes a node, a reference station, base stations, a server that calculates a position of the node, and a network. The reference station includes a positioning signal reception module and a reference signal generation module that transmits a reference signal after...

20060133267 - Processing platform selection method for data packet filter installation: In a data packet system (100) comprised of a plurality of processing platforms that are each at least potentially in-line with respect to a flow of data packets, upon receiving (401) an installation of a data packet filter, automatically selecting (402) where, from amongst that plurality of process platforms, to...

20060133274 - Aggregation switch apparatus for broadband subscribers: An aggregation switch apparatus for broadband subscribers is disclosed. The apparatus includes: an upstream input buffering unit for buffering packets from more than one subscriber link; a scheduling unit for aggregating the packets to more than one upstream link and scheduling a transfer order; a rate match buffering unit for...

20060133273 - Apparatus and method for efficient transmission of acknowledgments: Method and apparatus for transmission of information in multiple access communication system is described. Information from a plurality of access terminals is received. Alternatively, an access terminal determines what information needs to be sent to the access point. A determination is made as to whether sufficient resources, such as time,...

20060133275 - Architecture and run-time environment for network filter drivers: Filtering data packets in a manner that promotes efficient flow of data through a communication path. A filter stack includes one or more filter instances that may filter data packets that pass through the filter stack. The filter stack is associated with one or more protocol stacks that function in...

20060133272 - Methods and apparatus for providing an admission control system in a wireless mesh network: Embodiments of methods and apparatus for providing an admission control system in a wireless mesh network are generally described herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed....

20060133278 - Efficient transfer of messages using reliable messaging protocols for web services: The present invention provides for flow and congestion control mechanisms in accordance with a Reliable Message protocol for Web Services (RM-WS). For flow control, one endpoint informs another endpoint of its available buffer size by including buffer size information in response messages. The response messages, typically RM-WS infrastructure messages, are...

20060133279 - Hierarchical multi-rate multi-precedence policer: A hierarchical multi-rate multi-precedence policer is disclosed. The policer discards packets based on assigned precedence levels. When traffic exceeds an available service rate, the policer drops packets of lower precedence levels to make room for packets of higher precedence levels. In certain implementations, the policer also guarantees bandwidth to each...

20060133280 - Mechanism for identifying and penalizing misbehaving flows in a network: A mechanism is disclosed for identifying and penalizing misbehaving flows in a network. In one implementation, a set of behavioral statistics are maintained for each flow. These behavioral statistics are updated as information packets belonging to a flow are processed. Based upon these behavioral statistics, a determination is made as...

20060133277 - Method and apparatus for managing item sequence numbers in an item processing system: Method and apparatus for managing item sequence numbers in an item processing system. The invention provides for overrun prevention and management of item sequence numbers, which form a part of an image key. In example embodiments, a buffer is provided to determine how close a current item sequence number (ISN)...

20060133276 - System and method for enhancing audio quality for ip based systems using an amr payload format: A method of enhancing audio quality for Internet protocol (IP) based systems using an adaptive multi-rate (AMR) payload format is presented. If a network buffer indicative of network congestion exceeds its threshold a determination is made whether to place a NO DATA frame into the current RTP packet instead of...

20060133281 - System for managing round trip time of a transmission control protocol and supporting method and apparatus: In the present technique of round trip time management, an acknowledgment packet received (204) on a wireless network is first buffered (210) to a memory buffer. A time delay is then added (214) to an assigned departure time of the acknowledgment packet, which at least substantially stabilizes the round trip...

20060133282 - Systems and methods for multipath routing: A method and system for directing data packets from an origin node to a destination node in a multipath communication network having a plurality of nodes, where each node is connected to at least one other node by links. The apparatus includes a processor for obtaining cost information relating to...

20060133283 - Remote monitoring and diagnostics system with automated problem notification: A technique is disclosed for servicing complex systems. Upon detection of a serviceable condition, a system snapshot is made and stored. The snapshot may include a range of data then available on the system, particularly hardware configuration data, such as components then installed, peripherals installed, their states, and so forth....

20060133284 - Autoconfiguration of ethernet oam points: A system and method for configuring Maintenance Intermediate Point (MIP) nodes of an Ethernet OAM network based on absolute level indicia as well as relative level indicia encoded in OAM frames generated by Maintenance End Point (MEP) nodes. A first OAM level field in a payload portion of an Ethernet...

20060133285 - Method and system for performing circuit upgrade: A system and method for performing an upgrade in a communication network comprising network elements coupled together to form one or more circuits are disclosed. In one embodiment, the upgrade is generated at a node in communication with the circuits and the method generally comprises providing a list of circuits...

20060133286 - System and method for detecting loops in a customer-provider bridge domain: A loop detection system and method operable in an Ethernet network having a provider network and a customer network. In one embodiment, a provider edge (PE) entity is operable to generate a test frame with at least one of a destination address (DA) and source address (SA) that is unknown...

20060133287 - Frame forwarding device and method for staying loop of frame: A frame forwarding device for forwarding a frame in a network of a datalink layer includes: an acquisition unit for acquiring a status of an adjacent port from an adjacent device having the adjacent port accommodating a link accommodated in a port of a self-device; a determination unit for determining...

20060133290 - Ack/nack detection in wireless communication: Improved ACK/NACK detection in a mobile terminal of a wireless communication system is disclosed. The ACK/NACK detection uses knowledge about the power of the acknowledgment/negative acknowledgment signal along with the probability that a DTX will occur to increase the probability that the ACK signal will be correctly detected. The probability...

20060133294 - Apparatus and method for measuring capacity of server: An apparatus and a method for measuring a capacity of a server are provided. A plurality of virtual clients matched to a small number of threads are generated to minimize a context switching overhead and a traffic similar to an actual network traffic is generated and transmitted to the server....

20060133295 - Communication apparatus and control method thereof: The claimed invention is directed to a communication apparatus connectable to a plurality of networks, which comprises a setting unit that adjusts and setting, in accordance with a communication condition of each of the plurality of networks, a communication hold period in which the communication apparatus does not communicate with...

20060133288 - Ip address parameter setting method of remote network apparatus: The present invention is to provide an IP address parameter setting method to prevent from setting incorrect parameter and interrupting the operation of a remote network apparatus when setting up the IP address parameter of the remote network apparatus again, which comprises the steps of activating a timer for time...

20060133289 - Method and apparatus for detecting and correcting malicious data in an ad-hoc network: One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that detects malicious data in an ad-hoc network. During operation, the system receives data at a node in the ad-hoc network, wherein the data was sensed and redundantly communicated to the node by other nodes in the ad-hoc network. Note that...

20060133293 - Method and apparatus for evaluating performance of wireless lan system: A method for evaluating the performance of a wireless LAN (local area network) system having a single access point and a plurality of transmission terminals, which share the same radio channel, comprises the steps of dividing the plurality of transmission terminals into groups in accordance with radio conditions, calculating a...

20060133291 - Method and system for determining a signal quality metric in event of a crc false positive: Certain aspects of determining a signal quality metric in event of a CRC false positive may comprise measuring an amplitude and/or phase of at least a portion of a phase shift keyed section of a frame. The measured amplitude and/or phase may be checked to determine if it lies within...

20060133296 - Qualifying means in method and system for managing service levels provided by service providers: A method and system for managing a service level of a service provided by a service provider to a customer under a service level agreement. The measurement data is transformed into operational data. The operational data is evaluated through use of a formula represented as a tree, resulting in the...

20060133292 - System and method for measuring performance of internet phone protocol: Provided are a system and a method for measuring the performance of an Internet phone protocol, which are easy to be realized and are highly efficient in terms of managing system resources because they measure the performance of an Internet phone protocol projected by removing unnecessary, complex paths and the...

20060133300 - Centralized control of multi protocol label switching (mpls) network: A centralized control apparatus and a method thereof manages an Multi Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) network, in which the centralized control apparatus performs Label Switched Path (LSP) setting of the MPLS network and management for set LSP, to reduce a load of the MPLS network generated upon setting LSP and...

20060133299 - Method for discovering topology in ethernet network: Provided is a topology discovery method for an Ethernet network that can effectively discover a physical topology with respect to the Ethernet network of a mesh structure without developing and using a separate control protocol. The topology discovery method in an Ethernet network includes the steps of: acquiring an interface...

20060133297 - Network topology mapper: A method enables the topology of an acyclic fully propagated network to be discovered. A list of switches that comprise the network is formed and the MAC address cache for each one of the switches is determined. For each pair of switches, from the MAC address caches the remaining switches...

20060133298 - Selectively sending link state messages in a network link state protocol based on interest of network nodes: In a link state protocol such as an interior gateway protocol (IGP), link state advertisements or link state packets (LSA/LSPs) are sent only to network nodes that have expressed interest in them, rather than always flooding them....

20060133302 - Apparatus and method for controlling traffic between wireless lan device and access point in a wireless lan system: In an apparatus and a method for controlling traffic for real time service between a wireless local area network (LAN) terminal and an access point in a wireless LAN system, a transceiver transmits and receives a packet to and from the access point, a signal-determination unit determines whether the packet...

20060133301 - Method and apparatus to facilitate provision of an ipv6 prefix: A mobile station indicates a need for at least one specific type of Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) prefix in a message (73) transmitted to a serving network element. The latter processes this message to determine (74) the indicated IPv6 prefix type and responds with a reply message (75) comprising,...

20060133303 - Canceller device and data transmission system: Disclosed is a canceller device comprising a subcanceller for compensating the sampling phase shift of a plurality of analog-to-digital convert circuits for receiving a common input analog signal, converting the analog signal into digital signals responsive to respective sampling clock signals with different phases to each other, and for outputting...

20060133304 - Idle state management: Apparatus and systems, as well as methods and articles, may operate to enter an idle state of a wireless device for a selected amount of time responsive to a combined clear channel assessment indication....

20060133305 - Rate adaptive data broadcast technique: This invention describes a novel digital broadcast modulation scheme to provide wide area coverage at a high bit rate from a single transmitter. The scheme creates an additional dimension within which to create transmission channels besides those of time, code, direction and frequency. Advantages of scheme include lower power to...

20060133306 - Method for selecting resources in communication networks: In order to select resources in inventive communication networks comprising communication components that use said network resources, in a first step, the functions and data regarding the performance of several or all resources are determined and stored by a communication component. Additionally, resource-specific information regarding the use of said resource...

20060133308 - Active set management for packet data services in a mixed capability wireless communication network: A wireless communication network includes radio base stations of a first type that support dedicated channel packet data service and radio base stations of a second type that additionally support shared channel packet data service. A base station controller evaluates pilot signal strength reports to determine whether to serve a...

20060133310 - Information server in a communication system: A method provides handling a request to access a mobile information server. The method comprises receiving a request to access a mobile information server. The method further comprises determining whether informing of the request is required. The method further comprises informing of the request when the step of determining shows...

20060133311 - Method of improving the management of mobility in a cellular mobile communications system: on receiving said request, said network entity (CN) transmits (2) to the mobile terminal (MT) a reply including at least one radio access technology (RAT) indication relating to at least one radio access technology that is authorized and/or to at least one radio access technology that is not authorized for...

20060133309 - Methods for synchronization of communications between a circuit switched network and a packet data network: Methods for synchronization in a RF communication system are disclosed. At a mobile device, frames are received from a circuit switched network wherein at least one frame has a first timestamp wherein the first timestamp is related to a time base for a source of communications. Packets are also received...

20060133307 - Middleware platform: The present invention relates to the provision of a middleware platform apparatus and related method operating on top of the heterogeneous wireless network. In other words, there is provided at least one bearer service in a heterogeneous wireless network for at least one application running at a mobile endpoint roaming...

20060133314 - Apparatus for allocating resources in dama satellite communication system and method thereof: Provided are an apparatus for estimating an increment in the number of packets arriving at a transmission queue of each terminal and allocating resources to terminals based on the increment in a Demand Assignment Multiple Access (DAMA) satellite communication system, and a method thereof. The method, includes the steps of:...

20060133313 - Method for fast resource scheduling in base station and the base station: The present invention discloses methods and apparatuses for fast resource scheduling at the base station and fast transport format combination selection at the UE by using different pointers in base station and user equipment of wireless network. The TFCS in base station and UE are divided into TFCsbs each of...

20060133312 - Method of implicit deassignment of resources: Accordingly, a method and apparatus are provided that use implicit de-assignment, instead of explicit deassignment, of resources, such that a mobile terminal can interpret the assignment of the resources to other channel terminals as an implied deassignment of the resources. Thus, reducing the number of assignment or the assignment between...

20060133315 - Data preservation: A method ensures that data is not lost during an inter-Routing Area or inter-Network Service Entity cell change in a GPRS network. When a mobile station passes from one cell into another, a command is sent from the SGSN to the BSS serving the first cell, causing that BSS to...

20060133317 - Default subscription profile for a roaming terminal device in a packet data based mobile communication network: The invention concerns providing a default subscription profile for controlling a roaming terminal device in a packet data based mobile communication network. A roaming terminal device requesting to use a gateway is detected. A request for a subscription profile for the roaming terminal device is sent from the gateway. A...

20060133321 - Method and apparatus for cell search in wireless communication system: Disclosed is an apparatus and a method for performing a cell search in a wireless communication system. A subscriber station calculates the power of subcarriers according to their positions in a preamble signal of a frequency domain and identifies a segment of a cell to which the subscriber station belongs....

20060133316 - Method of reestablishing communication by a mobile node upon recovery from an abrupt shut down: When a mobile node suffers an abrupt shut down while operating in a foreign network and recovers in its home network, the present invention enables the mobile node to reestablish communication capability, without time delay, with the nodes that had established one or more communication sessions with the mobile node...

20060133319 - Service authorization in a wi-fi network interworked with 3g/gsm network: An authorization system and method for accessing networks. In one example class of embodiments, the APN (access point name) mechanism of GPRS/UMTS networks is extended to provide service authorization in an interworked WLAN. Example implementations include an external mapping function, and population of an existing authorization database of user profiles...

20060133318 - System and method for monitoring quality of service in a broadband wireless network: A system and a method for monitoring Quality of Service (QoS) in a broadband wireless network use previously designated QoS to continuously provide stable QoS to a wireless terminal in the broadband wireless network when the wireless terminal is handed off from one base station to another. In the system...

20060133320 - Transferring context during hand-over of mobile node in a wireless network: In transferring a service context during hand-over of a mobile node located in a wireless mesh network, transfer boundaries are set according to positions spaced from an initial Access Point (AP) to which the mobile node is initially connected to, AP types being determined based upon the set transfer boundaries....

20060133322 - Method and apparatus for controlling rate selection for mobile stations in a communication network: A base station monitors mobile station response to rate grants by the base station to determine rate control violations by the mobile station. A rate control violation occurs when the mobile station fails to transmit at an expected rate after indicating a need to increase its transmit rate, or when...

20060133324 - Method for data transmission and communication between telephone lines and a net: A method for data communication and transmission between telephone lines and a net including the steps of: dialing an operator using a telephone line; displaying an options menu; selecting a mode of input from the group consisting of voice and electronic; selecting a desirable option of said option menu using...

20060133323 - Wireless base station and mobile station: An mobile station implements data transport which allows for handover. The mobile station transmits a second datum in response to a first datum received from a wireless base station, the mobile station being characterized in that it comprises: a detection unit which detects that handover is to be performed; and...

20060133325 - Method and apparatus for determing when to begin communication resource acquisition: Various embodiments are described to address the need for an apparatus and method for communication resource acquisition that reduces the delay in acquiring resources without unduly wasting resources. In general, the described embodiments attempt to obtain desired resources in a just-in-time manner by using reasonably available information to characterize future...

20060133326 - Packet communication method, controller and mobile station: A packet communication method of the present invention includes establishing a radio layer 2 connection based on a radio layer 2 protocol between a mobile station and a controller device, determining a transmission timing of a received data packet based on a quality of service set in the data packet,...

20060133334 - Apparatus and method capable of improved coexistence of multiple wireless communication techniques: An embodiment of the present invention provides an apparatus, comprising a first transceiver capable of wireless communication using a first technique, the first technique including the use of control packets; a second transceiver capable of wireless communication using a second technique, the second technique capable of establishing a transmission priority...

20060133329 - Bypass routing to a mobile device: A bypass server is placed in an outgoing link between a mobile device server and a relay used to distribute data from the mobile device server to remote mobile devices to which the data is addressed. Where a direct connection is established between a suitably configured network node (such as...

20060133341 - Client roaming from a first access node to a second access node within a wireless network: A method that includes a client roaming from the first access node to a second access node is disclosed. The second wireless access node detects the client seeking access to the system. The second wireless access node is able to connect to the backbone network. Client information is obtained. The...

20060133335 - Establishing a push session in a communication system: A method establishes a push session in a communication system. The method includes receiving a session invitation having a description of a push protocol over a transport protocol for establishing a push session. The method also includes setting up a transport bearer in accordance with the transport protocol. The method...

20060133340 - Handling attachment content on a mobile device: Embodiments described herein provide a user with the ability to download a selected attachment document that is associated with a message received on a mobile device. Attachment data corresponding to the selected attachment document can be downloaded according to at least one of a native application attachment content handling option...

20060133328 - Internet-oriented ad-hoc network: A hierarchical directional internet-oriented ad-hoc network, defined by a software infrastructure, is composed of fixed gateway nodes and a plurality of wireless nodes, which may be fixed or mobile, and which may act as subscribers, routers, or both. The infrastructure hierarchy is defined by the hop count of each node...

20060133331 - Method and apparatus for predictively providing an uplink communication resource: Various embodiments are described to address the need for an apparatus and method for providing uplink communication resources that reduce some of the existing delays in acquiring these resources. In general, they may involve a RAN (121) transmitting data to a remote unit (101) via a downlink communication resource. After...

20060133332 - Method and apparatus for providing radio configuration parameters to mobile access points: Method and apparatus for automatically configuring access points are disclosed. A wired interface is configured to detect the presence of a wireless access point on a network. The wired interface then embeds radio configuration parameters in a message and sends said message to the access point. The message may be...

20060133333 - Method and apparatus to increase session capacity: A network element (10), such as a Packet Data Serving Node, detects (31) a change in operational status of a mobile station during a communication session and, in response to detecting such a change, automatically increases (32) memory capacity as is available to support additional communication sessions while simultaneously persisting...

20060133330 - Method and apparatus to provide a continuous useable wireless network connection: A useable wireless network connection is continuously maintained for a client device....

20060133327 - Method and communication device for expanding the range of data transmission rates in wireless local area networks: A communication device and a method for transmitting data in wireless local area networks is provided. The device and method are deployed in networks in which the data information elements include an element identification part, a length statement part and an information part. The device and method enable a broad...

20060133338 - Method and system for securing wireless communications: A method and system for securing wireless communications is disclosed. In one embodiment, different security policies are used based on the distance between a receiver and a transmitter, whereby data in the wireless communications can only be demodulated if received in particular trust zones. In another embodiment, a plurality of...

20060133337 - Route optimization method for network mobile service in ipv6 networks: A route optimization method for a mobile network service in IPv6 is disclosed. The route optimization method includes a) generating a binding update (BA) message at a home agent by using an address of a correspondent node and data information included in a home agent binding cache and transmitting the...

20060133339 - System for collecting, storing, and selectively distributing data: The present invention includes a system and mobile device for storing, accessing and sharing information across a network. The system includes a wide area network and a local area network formed on an ad hoc basis by at least two mobile devices. The mobile devices are connectable to the wide-area...

20060133336 - System for mediating convergence services of communication and broadcasting using non-communicative appliance: Provided is an access mediator system for mediating convergence services of communication and broadcasting using a non-communicative appliance. The access mediator system includes: a non-communicative appliance access interface unit performing an interface function so as to converge a non-communicative appliance comprising an interface supporting image and voice multimedia data but...

20060133342 - System and method for communicating within a wireless communication network: A system and method for providing a polling scheme to improve medium access control (MAC) in a multihop wireless communication network (100) comprising nodes (102) and access points (106). When an access point (106) is the source of data packets being transmitted to a neighbor node (102), a collision-avoidance protocol...

20060133344 - Method for reproducing amr message in mobile telecommunication terminal: A method for reproducing an AMR message in a mobile telecommunication terminal, the method including the steps of receiving an adaptive multi-rate message decoded by an adaptive multi-rate codec and measuring an overall size of the adaptive multi-rate message, creating plural division adaptive multi-rate message files, each of which is...

20060133343 - Multi homing transport protocol on a multi-processor arrangement: The invention proposes a processing arrangement (to be used in a communication device, for example), wherein the processing arrangement comprises at least one data processing unit (1), and a communication unit (2) connected to the data processing unit (1). The data processing unit (1) is configured to perform data processing,...

20060133348 - Apparatus and method for a voice portal: A voice portal and a method for operating a voice portal are disclosed. In one embodiment of the present invention, voice a voice portal is connected to multiple telephones of various protocols by both a voice signal interface and a data signal interface. The voice portal is also connected to...

20060133354 - Apparatus and method for automatically updating address book in an sip-based voip terminal: In an apparatus and a method for automatically updating an IP address of VoIP terminals, s VoIP terminal determines whether or not its IP address is changed by a Network Address Translation (NAT) server. If its IP address is changed, it transmits an IP update message to all other VoIP...

20060133349 - Apparatus, and associated method, for a cti-enabled sip-phone: A CTI-enabled SIP-Phone, and an associated method, is provided for a telephonic call center. Responsive to a call operation indication, such as delivery to the phone of a SIP invite message, or of a CTI-formatted call instruction, the embedded functionality of the SIP-Phone provides interfacing operations, such as CTI-to-SIP or...

20060133351 - Integrated access device: This invention regards an integrated access device (10) and a method therefore, comprising seamless PSTN to voice over Internet telephony. The access device (10) thus comprises a splitter (12, 32) having a filter filtering out data traffic from a digital subscriber line to the access device (10), allowing PSTN signals...

20060133347 - Integrating mobility agents for short messaging services: A method of providing messaging services for GSM or 3G mobile stations is provided. A gateway detects a mobile network registration from a mobile station, and performs a location area update procedure with previous support nodes from its home public land mobile network. The gateway then receives data for the...

20060133345 - Method and apparatus for providing multiple simultaneous voip call sessions for a single directory number: A system and method for providing a plurality of separate Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP) call sessions for a single Directory Number (DN). The method includes associating a plurality of IP addresses with a single DN, communicating the association to a Switching Center responsible for routing calls between the DN...

20060133357 - Method for positioning information service, internet protocol network system for providing the same, and mobile communication terminal and method for receiving the same: Disclosed is a mobile communication terminal and method for receiving a positioning information service, and an Internet protocol network system and method for providing the same. The Internet protocol network system for providing mobility service includes a router for periodically broadcasting an advertisement message which includes positioning information and a...

20060133353 - Method for soft switch call control and soft switch device using the same: A method for soft switch call control and a soft switch device therefore are provided. The soft switch device acquires an initial address message (IAM) at a calling side, analyzes information of the calling party and the called party based on the acquired initial address message (IAM), and informs the...

20060133355 - Methods, systems and computer program products for error correction by retransmitting errored packets over a data link: Methods, systems and computer program products are provided for providing error correction in a communication network. A frame including a retransmission class of service indication in associated network layer forwarding information is received. It is determined if the received frame has been corrupted. Retransmission of the received frame is requested...

20060133352 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for caching and re-using bearer channels for voice-over-packet (vop) sessions involving wireless entities: Methods, systems, and computer program products for caching and reusing bearer channels for voice over packet sessions involving wireless entities are disclosed. According to one method, a setup request message is received for a voice over packet session involving a wireless entity. In response to the setup request message, a...

20060133359 - Multiprotocol convergence switch (mpcs) and method for use thereof: A switch enables a telephone to use one virtual circuit to connect through a packet switched network to any number of other telephones. The switch supports multiple network types, permitting, for example, the conversion of UDP and AAL5 data to AAL2 data. Multiple switches, each connected to several other switches...

20060133356 - Network telephone system: An SIP server continuously monitors the registration information of each of SIP terminals in a terminal registration state table. When the registration state of the SIP terminal is changed to “unregistered” as the Expires date is exceeded or a failure occurs in the SIP server, the SIP server transmits a...

20060133360 - Private dialing plan for voice on a packet-based network: A private dialing plan for the communication of packetized voice on a packet-based network using a signaling protocol such as Q.931 to establish, maintain and release switched connections over the network. The dialing plan uses a “telephone number” based on a conventional 10-digit telephone number, such as the user's regular...

20060133350 - System and method for inter-working centrex with a managed voip provider: A system for telephone service includes a Centrex served location and a voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) provider served location electrically coupled to the Centrex served location using an IP network. The Centrex served location has an end point from the VoIP provider served location, and users of the system...

20060133358 - Voice and data exchange over a packet based network: A signal processing system which discriminates between voice signals and data signals modulated by a voiceband carrier. The signal processing system includes a voice exchange, a data exchange and a call discriminator. The voice exchange is capable of exchanging voice signals between a switched circuit network and a packet based...

20060133346 - Voice over internet protocol (voip) call admission and call regulation in a wireless network: A method and apparatus for providing wireless data packet call regulation and call access for wireless Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) communications in a wireless network. A first and second time stamp is generated upon the reception and successful transmission of a data packet. A packet delay is determined based...

20060133361 - External digital communication routing module: An external digital communication routing module with a cordless host interface and at least a cordless handset is disclosed. The cordless host interface is used to connect a computer system. The computer system connects at least one communication network. The cordless host interface communicates with the communication network via the...

20060133362 - Fast initialization of medical device system having multiple operating systems: A system including a communication circuit and a microprocessor operable to execute instruction code associated with at least a first operating system and a second operating system. The system also includes a volatile system memory to store executable code, a nonvolatile memory to store executable startup code, and nonvolatile image...

20060133369 - Adaptive threads assignment for receiving packets: Systems and methods for assigning threads in a processor are disclosed. The method generally includes assigning one or more static threads to each port of a plurality of ports and processing incoming packets with the static threads. The port numbers of incoming packets processed by the static threads are stored...

20060133372 - Apparatus and method for multiplexing packet in mobile communication network: A multiplexing apparatus and method for reducing packet overhead in a mobile communication network are provided, which can enhance efficiency of a transmission section by performing multiplexing in an application layer and then reducing header quantity of the packet. The method includes the steps of transmitting, at a sending terminal...

20060133366 - Cascaded connection matrices in a distributed cross-connection system: A method and system for interconnecting multiple distributed components in a communication network is provided. The design includes a multiple order cross connection fabric employed to interconnect multiple orders of data with at least one distributed component in the communication network. The design may further include at least one order...

20060133371 - Communication data relay system and method: The present invention relates to a relay system that is capable of relaying communication data at high speed. There is provided a relay system that is formed by one or more servers having the same application and a client and relays communication data transmitted from the client to one of...

20060133363 - Method for routing data packets, and devices for implementing the method: The present invention is related to a method for routing data packets in a routing device connecting a first network and a second network, and to a corresponding routing device. The method comprises the steps of receiving a frame from a device connected to the first network; forwarding the frame...

20060133365 - Method, system and article for improved network performance by avoiding ip-id wrap-arounds causing data corruption on fast networks: The reassembly timer in a TCP/IP receiver is dynamically set to avoid data corruption on fast networks caused by IP identification wrap-around. A sender generates IP packets with a special option specifying a reassembly time for fragments based on the subnet of the destination or on the calculated round-trip time...

20060133364 - Method, system and article for improved network performance by dynamically setting a reassembly timer based on network interface: The reassembly timer in a TCP/IP receiver is dynamically set to avoid data corruption on fast networks caused by IP identification wrap-around. A receiver independently sets the reassembly timer to a first reassembly time set by the user for fast networks or to a second reassembly timer set by the...

20060133373 - Network system and method for assigning dynamic address and performing routing based upon dynamic address: In a network system using dynamic addresses, an address management server assigns dynamic addresses to hosts attempting to use the dynamic addresses in response to dynamic address requests from the hosts, and a router manages packet exchange between hosts connected to the network system based upon authenticated dynamic address information....

20060133374 - Packet exchange device and packet exchange method: Registered in a table are an output port number and a MAC address so as to correlate with transmission source and transmission destination IP addresses of a packet. When no information of a flow to which a received packet belongs is registered at the table, a first path unit transfers...

20060133368 - Power prioritization in power source equipment: A system and method for automatically suspending power from an IEEE 802.3af PDE switch to one or more PDs in accordance with user defined power allocation policies is disclosed. The PSE switch includes a classifier to associate each switch port with a power allocation policy and assign the applicable power...

20060133370 - Routing of messages: A method to provide transfer of data without the use of a network from an application program to an embedded device. A routing service establishes a communication channel without the use of a local area network. The routing service then manages the control of this communication channel for the transfer...

20060133367 - Selecting a routing mode for a call session: Routing a call includes receiving a request to initiate a call session for a call from a caller endpoint to a callee endpoint, where the caller endpoint belongs to an internal network. Whether the call is internal or external is determined. A routing mode is selected in accordance with the...

20060133375 - Method and apparatus for scalable virtual private network multicasting: In one embodiment, the present invention is a method and apparatus for scalable virtual private network multicasting. In one embodiment a service network builds a new data multicast distribution tree for each high-bandwidth multicast data flow (e.g., multicast data flows that require an amount bandwidth meeting or exceeding a predefined...

20060133376 - Multicast transmission protocol for fabric services: The use of multicast transmission for all the data that has to be sent directly from one switch to every switch in the fabric, such as Fabric Service commands. This does not include data flooded through the fabric (as opposed to being sent to each switch individually) like ELPs or...

20060133377 - System and method for integrated header, state, rate and content anomaly prevention with policy enforcement: The present invention provides an integrated prevention of header, state, rate and content anomalies along with network policy enforcement. A hardware based apparatus classifies layers 2, 3, 4 and 7 network data and maintains rate-thresholds through continuous and adaptive learning. In the process of classifying the packets, the apparatus can...

20060133382 - Apparatus and method for preserving frame sequence and distributing traffic in multi-channel link and multi-channel transmitter using the same: The present invention provides an apparatus and method for preserving a frame sequence and distributing traffic in a multi-channel link, which efficiently distributes frame traffic while preserving the transmission sequence of frames in a link composed of multiple channels, and to a multi-channel transmitter using the apparatus and method. The...

20060133380 - Data error detection and mitigation systems and supporting method and apparatus: A data error detection and mitigation system has been provided with a tiered approach. A set of received (104) data frames, which are ordered, are divided (106) into multiple groups, wherein at least one of the groups includes at least two nonconsecutive data frames. With these multiple groups, a data...

20060133381 - Initial pilot frequency selection: The subject invention selects a starting sub-carrier frequency group for a pilot staggering sequence to facilitate in mitigating the possibility of pilot signal collisions. In one embodiment, a randomized starting sub-carrier frequency group of the pilot is utilized in a first orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol of a frame....

20060133378 - Method and apparatus for handling potentially corrupt frames: The present invention provides a method for handling potentially corrupted frames. The method includes receiving a frame having a first sequence number, determining, based on the first sequence number, whether the frame is potentially corrupted, and determining a number of received potentially corrupted frames in response to determining that the...

20060133379 - Method, system and article for improved tcp performance during retransmission in response to selective acknowledgement: A TCP/IP retransmission frame contains multiple TCP segments containing non-contiguous missing packets from a data communication. A TCP option in the first segment in the frame indicates the presence of multiple TCP payloads in the frame. Each TCP payload has a corresponding prepended TCP header. An offset address specified in...

20060133383 - Communications system with scan table identification: A communications system, comprising a first device including a first scan table and a second device including a second scan table. The first device is configured to select the first scan table and transmit scan table identification. The second device is configured to receive the scan table identification from the...

20060133384 - Arbiter circuit and method of carrying out arbitration: Arbitration is performed in a packet exchanger. In one implementation, a device for performing the arbitration may include input ports configured to each receive sequences that define a packet and output ports. A packet switch concurrently process multiple ones of the received sequences to select an output port for each...

20060133386 - Multiprotocol convergence switch (mpcs) and method for use thereof: A switch enables a telephone to use one virtual circuit to connect through a packet switched network to any number of other telephones. The switch supports multiple network types, permitting, for example, the conversion of UDP and AAL5 data to AAL2 data. Multiple switches, each connected to several other switches...

20060133385 - Systems and methods for providing asynchronous request-response services: A system for invoking a service includes an invoking entity and a network entity such as a service provider. The invoking entity can send a service invocation request to effectuate invocation of a service. The service invocation request is formatted and sent in accordance with a given messaging architecture (e.g.,...

20060133387 - Route tracing in wireless networks: A method traces a route in a wireless network including nodes. A trace packet is generated in a tracer node. The trace packet includes addresses of a source node and a destination node in a route. The trace packet is sent from the tracer node to the source node, and...

20060133388 - Wide area and local network id transmission for communication systems: The embodiments utilize OFDM symbols to communicate network IDs. The IDs are encoded into symbols utilizing the network IDs as seeds to scramble respective pilots that are then transmitted by utilizing the symbols. The pilots can be structured into a single OFDM symbol and/or multiple OFDM symbols. The single symbol...

20060133393 - Aging processing apparatus and method in communications system: An aging processing apparatus and method of a Gateway GPRS Support Node (GGSN) in a Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS), wherein the GGSN determines an appropriate aging policy on the basis of aging environmental information set by a manager, and checks whether a traffic is generated in every session or...

20060133389 - Apparatus and method for sharing variables and resources in a multiprocessor routing node: A router for transferring data packets between external devices. The router comprises: 1) a switch fabric; and 2) R routing nodes coupled to the switch fabric. Each routing node exchanges data packets with the external devices and with other routing nodes via the switch fabric. A first routing node comprises:...

20060133392 - Gateway device, network system, communication program, and communication method: A communication method includes; generating identification information for identifying each of detected appliances on a second network; classifying the generated identification information; publishing for a terminal device on a first network a list of the identification information; upon receipt of a request for call connection with identification information on the...

20060133390 - Method and apparatus providing prioritized convergence in border gateway protocol: A method is disclosed for providing prioritized routing table convergence in Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) hosts, as part of a BGP process that is executed by a route processor in a network, wherein the processor hosts a plurality of BGP routing tables each associated with a specified sub-address family (SAFI)....

20060133391 - Multimedia service apparatus and method for multimedia service providers outside home to upnp devices inside home using home gateway and service gateway platform: A multimedia service apparatus and method for multimedia service providers outside home to UPnP devices inside home using a home gateway and a service gateway platform is provided. In the multimedia service apparatus and method, the home gateway and the service gateway platform such as an open service gateway initiative...

20060133394 - Methods of wireless backhaul in a multi-tier wlan: Methods for managing wireless backhaul in a multi-tier wireless local area network are disclosed. The methods comprise maintaining a polling list wherein the polling list specifies the children to be serviced, transmitting a communication in the downstream direction to a child in the polling list, receiving exception communications from the...

20060133398 - Apparatus for transmitting/receiving communication and broadcasting data using multiplexing at transmission convergence layer: Provided is an apparatus for transmitting/receiving communication and broadcasting data. The transmitting apparatus includes: a mapper for mapping inputted broadcasting data into a transport stream according to a predetermined standard; a broadcasting buffer for temporarily storing the mapped transport stream for multiplexing; a communication buffer for temporarily storing a communication...

20060133396 - Managing system memory resident device management queues: In one embodiment, a method is provided. The method of this embodiment provides determining if a management queue can be created, and if a management queue can be created, allocating virtually contiguous memory to a management queue associated with a device, registering the management queue, and creating a management queue...

20060133397 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for operating a communication network by performing forward error correction and/or interleaving based on network layer forwarding information: A communication network is operated by performing forward error correction (FEC) and/or interleaving of frames associated with a plurality of different network forwarding classes based on forwarding information associated with a network layer of an Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) protocol model. The frames are forwarded on a common data link...

20060133395 - Pretreatment device for a unitized detergent dose: The present invention discloses a device consisting of an implement configured with a piercing mechanism that allows the user to make a uniform opening in the package through which the fluid inside can dispense. In one embodiment, the implement is configured with an affixing mechanism for affixing the implement to...

20060133399 - System and method for automatically managing a network port based on a calendar function: Embodiments of the invention provide a system and method for automatically managing a network port based on a calendar function. In one embodiment, a discovery protocol is provided for automatically discovering at least one port of at least one switch in a network. Furthermore, a management protocol is provided. The...

20060133400 - Apparatus and method for data transfer: There is provided an apparatus and method for transferring data packets from a peripheral module to a memory via a memory-controller. When a given peripheral module requests that it send a data packet to the memory via the memory-controller, the memory-controller sends an acknowledgement indicating that the peripheral module can...

20060133401 - Communication apparatus, wireless communication terminal, wireless communication system, and wireless communication method: Disclosed is a communication apparatus including: an estimating unit which estimates a first wireless channel state from a first frame wirelessly received and a second wireless channel state from a second frame wirelessly received after the first frame; a storing unit capable of storing the first wireless channel state as...

20060133402 - Data transmission method: The invention relates to a method for transmitting data between a transmitter and a receiver via a wireless data channel of a communication network (CN). The transmitter transmits data to the receiver, where the transmission includes at least one transmission parameter which is selected based on a first channel quality...

20060133403 - Radio resource allocation system for packet data service and allocation method thereof: A system connected to a mobile station through a network and allocating a radio source to the mobile station for packet data service, the system including a base station connected to the mobile station through a wireless network, and having a physical layer connected to the mobile station through a...

20060133404 - Method and apparatus for managing wireless communication network radio resources: A method and apparatus for managing radio resources in one or more wireless communication networks. At least one radio resource manager (RRM) is provided within a network node, or as an independent entity. The RRM monitors performance on wireless communication links of the network(s) and interacts with nodes associated with...

20060133405 - System and method for providing service-agnostic network resources: System and method for providing service-agnostic network resources is provided. An embodiment receives an indication that a user is requesting services at a new location, retrieves an access profile, which includes service parameters for services to which the user subscribes, and causes the access network and the programmable network to...

20060133406 - Communications system with first and second scan tables: A communications system comprising a first stage including a first scan table and a second stage including a second scan table. The first stage is configured to select a first channel identification from the first scan table and provide data from a channel identified by the first channel identification. The...

20060133408 - Beaconless communication system: The present invention relates to an energy efficient mechanism for establishing and maintaining a communication between nodes (A . . . F) in a wireless communication system. In particular, it relates to a distributed low power medium access control (MAC) mechanism for sharing the communication means in a wireless communication...

20060133407 - Content sharing in a communication system: A method provides control of access to shared content in a communication system. The method comprises obtaining presence information with at least one access criterion associated with an access to shared content. The method further comprises receiving an access request requesting an access to at least one part of the...

20060133409 - Connection setup using flexible protocol configuration: A user terminal establishes a session with a first access point (AP0) and obtains a token associated with modem configuration information used for radio communication. The user terminal thereafter establishes a connection with a second access point (AP1) by sending the token. AP1 receives the token, obtains the modem configuration...

20060133410 - Fault tolerant duplex computer system and its control method: There is disclosed a fault tolerant duplex computer system capable of increasing accuracy of processing to be continued by collecting trouble information without stopping duplex running. CPU's (112, 122), memories (113, 123), and IO processors (114, 124) of systems (110, 120) announce a reparable trouble to fault diagnosis processors (116,...

20060133411 - Multi-protocol networking processor with data traffic support spanning local, regional and wide area networks: A networking processor is formed with selected ones of one or more system interfaces, one or more network/intermediate interfaces, a plurality of data link sub-layer control/processing blocks, and a plurality of physical sub-layer coders/decoders and processing units. The elements are provisioned in a combinatorially selectable manner, enabling the single networking...

20060133412 - Integration of control and business applications using integration servers: The subject invention relates to a framework for integrating control and business systems and/or applications without middleware. The systems and methods include an integration component that provides for cross-platform connectivity with integration servers, databases, computers, etc. associated with the business systems and/or applications. Such connectivity can include TCP/IP based communication...

20060133416 - Method and apparatus for providing common intelligent value-added service protocols for accessing value-added services by all multimedia application protocols: A novel method of and system for providing common value-added services for two-way point-to-point, multi-point-to-multi-point, point-to-multi-point, and/or multi-point-to-point real-time communications using various communication protocols. The present invention provides common value-added service protocols for receiving a request from a first of a multiple of communication protocol sources for a first value-added...

20060133413 - Retaining capability of handling original type messages in an upgraded computer system: The present invention relates to a method, a gateway (10), an internal network, a computer program product and a computer program element, where the gateway includes a first port (30) connected to an external network for transmission of messages according to a first protocol and having a first address according...

20060133414 - Wireless gateway for enabling wireless devices to discover and interact with various short-range services/devices: A portable gateway apparatus communicates with devices coupled to a first network and devices coupled to at least a second network. The gateway provides an interface to a mobile phone to discover services/devices within both the first and the at least second networks and interacts with them. The mobile phone...

20060133415 - Wireless internetwork transfer apparatus, systems, and methods: Apparatus and systems, as well as methods and articles, may operate to communicate a data packet between at least two wireless networks across a peer-to-peer link....

20060133417 - Method and system for providing interoperability of different version protocols without access to protocol specific code: The present invention is directed to a method and system to preserve interoperability among processes in a distributed system through transformation of in-memory representation of different versions of the same data. When an upgraded process receives data from an un-upgraded process, the old protocol for desterilizing the data is used...

20060133418 - System and method for connection capacity reassignment in a multi-tier data processing system network: A method, computer program product, and a data processing system for data prioritization in a multi-tier network system is provided. A server having a plurality of processors receives data from a client. A priority of the client is then identified. Responsive to identifying the priority, the data is queued in...

20060133419 - Indication of an error in receive offload packets: A receive segmentation offload method according to one embodiment for operating a network controller coupled to a host networked device running a protocol stack. The method may include the network controller receiving an inbound packet, the network controller detecting an error in the inbound packet, and the network controller notifying...

20060133420 - System and method for interworking scfs and protocols in open service gateway: Provided are a system and method for interworking Service Capability Features (SCFs) and protocols in an open service gateway. The system includes service capability features that generate and process various protocol messages, and a protocol stack that enables an interwork with a communications network. The protocol stack includes: one or...

20060133424 - Apparatus and method for transmitting data in a communication system: An apparatus and method transmits data in a communication system. A buffer descriptor (BD) generator generates a BD making reference to constituent elements constituting a MAC protocol data unit (PDU), if there is a medium access control (MAC) service data unit (SDU) to be transmitted. A direct memory access (DMA)...

20060133421 - Communications system with segmenting and framing of segments: A communications system comprising a segmenting mechanism configured to receive a plurality of payloads and divide each of the received payloads into segments, a framing mechanism configured to insert at least one of the segments from each of the plurality of payloads into a packet, a first interface configured to...

20060133423 - Data output apparatus, decoding apparatus, and recording medium: A data output apparatus generates and transmits a data stream in which content data coded by a default coding method and a decoding program for content data coded by a changeable coding method are multiplexed together. The decoding program is multiplexed on the data stream plural times repeatedly at predetermined...

20060133422 - Maintaining message boundaries for communication protocols: In an embodiment, a method is provided. The method of this embodiment provides creating a segmentable message based, at least in part, on a transmit PDU (protocol data unit) instruction, the segmentable message having one or more PDUs, creating an MSB (message segmentation block) corresponding to the segmentable message, and...

20060133425 - Smuggling and recovery of non-packet information: One embodiment disclosed relates to a networking apparatus. The networking apparatus includes a plurality of blade subsystems and a master system communicatively coupled to the blade subsystems. A particular blade subsystem is configured to provide an additional feature in relation to processing network packets. The remaining blade subsystems are configured...

20060133426 - System, method, and article of manufacture for synchronizing time of day clocks on first and second computers: A system, method, and article of manufacture for synchronizing first and second time-of-day clocks on first and second computers, respectively, are provided. The first and second computers have first and second network interface cards with third and fourth clocks, respectively, thereon. The system utilizes time stamp values generated by the...

20060133427 - Mechanism for binding a structured data protocol to a protocol offering up byte streams: A mechanism for sending structured data using a corresponding byte stream. Upon accessing structured data such as a Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) envelope, a byte stream is generated. The byte stream includes bytes that represent the structured data, as well as a collection of bytes that represents properties about...

20060133428 - Method and system for throttling network transmissions using per-receiver bandwidth control at the application layer of the transmitting server: A method is presented for throttling data transmissions within a data processing system. Information about a data transfer from a server to a client is received within the application layer of a server, which stores the information about the data transfer along with information about a number of recent data...

20060133429 - Device and method for demultiplexing received transport stream in digital broadcasting receiver: A device and method for demultiplexing in a digital broadcasting receiver for processing packet data configured by a packet header and a payload. A buffer buffers input packet data. Processors are parallel connected to the buffer. A packet header processor checks a packet header, identifies presence of adaptation information, and...

20060133430 - Packet reorder resolution in a load-balanced network architecture: A load-balanced network architecture is disclosed in which a traffic flow deliverable from a source node to a destination node via intermediate nodes is split into parts, and the parts are distributed to respective ones of the intermediate nodes. Path delay differences for the parts are substantially equalized by delay...

20060126488 - Broadcast receiving apparatus and method for controlling video switch thereof: A broadcast receiving apparatus and a method for controlling a video switch of the broadcast receiving apparatus. Upon receiving a channel select signal instructing to change from a first broadcast channel currently viewed to a second broadcast channel, an entire pre-stored video stream of the first broadcast channel is decoded...

20060126491 - Cell search apparatus and method in a mobile communication system using multiple access scheme: A cell search apparatus and method in an OFDM mobile communication system are provided. In the cell search apparatus, a symbol synchronization acquirer acquires OFDM symbol synchronization by performing CP correlation for a plurality of OFDM symbol intervals. A frame cell synchronization acquirer sorts received OFDM symbols according to the...

20060126490 - Double difference phase detection: A method that allows a digital communications system to detect the presence of transmitted messages in noisy environments. The system includes an OFDM transmitter and an OFDM receiver. The OFDM transmitter converts a digital signal to be transmitted to a plurality of sub-signals, each corresponding to a respective sub-carrier frequency....

20060126493 - Dynamic sub-carrier assignment in ofdm systems: A method and apparatus are provided for selecting and signalling the identity of sub-carriers to be used for transmission of data in a radio communication system, and for using other sub-carriers. A remote unit determines which sub-carriers are acceptable for use in data transmission by comparing the signal to interference...

20060126492 - Method and apparatus for transmitting data based on ofdm: Provided is a method and apparatus for transmitting data based on OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing). The method includes: forming a plurality of packets suitable for a selected transmission mode from data input to a transmitter; determining a transfer rate of the data; when the data transfer rate is determined...

20060126489 - Transmitter diversity method for ofdm system: A transmitter (20) of an OFDM system (10) splits a data input signal into a pair of OFDM subcarrier streams (S0, S1). The transmitter further implements a cross subcarrier transmitter diversity encoding of the OFDM subcarrier streams (S0, S1). The result is a pair of encoded OFDM subcarrier stream (ES0,...

20060126494 - Method and system for scheduled streaming of best effort data: A system is provided for controlling the transmission of best-effort filed data or programs on channels from one of plural controllers to one or more client nodes. A program is a group of files and has program information indicating to a client node how to use the files of the...

20060126496 - Fast reroute (frr) protection at the edge of a rfc 2547 network: A fast reroute (FRR) technique that may be deployed at the edge of a network having first and second edge devices coupled to a neighboring routing domain. If the first edge device detects a node or link failure that prevents it from communicating with the neighboring domain, the first edge...

20060126498 - Method for operating a network having a ring topology: A method for operating a network having a ring topology, in which a faulty connection between two stations of the network is detected by monitoring carrier signals. This method enables a faulty connection to be quickly detected in a network. Data may be advantageously rerouted in response to the detection....

20060126497 - Re-transmitting packet of polling-based wireless local area network (wlan): A method of re-transmitting a packet of an access point (AP) in a polling-based Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) includes: scheduling a super frame to form a first period of providing a polling message to arbitrary stations at the AP and allowing only stations receiving the polling message to get...

20060126495 - System and methods for detecting network failure: A path verification protocol (PVP) which enumerates a series of messages sent to a set of nodes, or routers, along a suspected path identifies forwarding plane problems for effecting changes at the control plane level. The messages include a command requesting interrogation of a further remote node for obtaining information...

20060126499 - Services convergence among heterogeneous wired and wireless networks: A system and method for heterogeneous network communication including wired, and wireless communication mediums for seamless data, voice, as well as multimedia applications independent of the actual communication medium, type of device, and protocols running over such communication channels. The devices are structured to operate over both wired and wireless...

20060126500 - Packet routing apparatus and a method of communicating a packet: When any communication port receives a packet from a network, it transmits the packet to a relay processing section. The relay processing section identifies a relay processing section of a transfer destination according to destination information included in the packet to transmit the packet to a packet switch section. When...

20060126502 - Efficient mechanism for fast recovery in case of border router node failure in a computer network: A technique protects traffic (IP) against the failure of a border router between two domains in a computer network using Fast Reroute and backup tunnels. The border router (i.e., the “protected border router”) announces/advertises a list of all its adjacent next-hop routers (i.e., its “neighbors”) residing in first and second...

20060126501 - Fault tolerance in a wireless network: A wireless network comprises a plurality of nodes that communicate over wireless communication links. A virtual site is established at a primary node included in the plurality of nodes. A backup node is selected for the virtual site from the plurality of nodes. When the primary node is able to...

20060126503 - Failure localization in a transmission network: Failures are localized through the use of a Tandem Connection along a segment of a transmission path (P) to be monitored, non-intrusive intermediate Tandem Connection monitors (M), and temporary Tandem Connection sources created along the path segment in the case of a failure (F) in order to forward information about...

20060126504 - Network centric quality of service using active network technology: Systems and methods for improving network centric quality of service using active network technology are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes controlling how a packet is passed over at least one of the interfaces using a differentiated services portion of a network management architecture, monitoring a request for a...

20060126505 - Upstream channel bonding in a cable communications system: A method for increasing upstream bandwidth per cable modem user in a cable communications system that includes a cable modem termination system (CMTS) and a plurality of cable modems is provided. The method permits a cable modem to transmit data to the CMTS on multiple upstream channels simultaneously using a...

20060126506 - Upstream channel bonding in a cable communications system: A method for increasing upstream bandwidth per cable modem user in a cable communications system that includes a cable modem termination system (CMTS) and a plurality of cable modems is provided. The method permits a cable modem to transmit data to the CMTS on multiple upstream channels simultaneously using a...

20060126507 - Wireless base station device and rate control method thereof: A wireless base station device, connected to a higher-level station device via a wired line, comprises baseband processors 11, one for each virtual link 21 to which user data flows belong. In the baseband processor 11, a congestion monitor 51 monitors the reception bandwidth usage rate of a virtual link...

20060126508 - Data transmission ports with data-integrity transaction controlling unit and method for performing the same: The present invention discloses re-configurable data transmission ports with data-integrity transaction controlling unit in a computerized computer and the method for performing the same. The controlling unit further includes a port-configuration detecting mechanism and a buffer-configuration subunit. The port-configuration detecting mechanism can inspect configuration status of all of the first...

20060126511 - Ethernet packet transmission apparatus and method: Provided is an Ethernet packet transmission apparatus and method. The Ethernet packet transmission apparatus includes: a packet transceiving unit for transceiving an Ethernet packet through a plurality of Ethernet ports; a MAC header processing unit for receiving the Ethernet packet and reading header information; a packet processing unit for receiving...

20060126510 - Segmenting data packets for over-network transmission at adjustable fragment boundary: A data packet to be transmitted over a network is segmented at an adjustable fragment boundary. The fragment boundary is the maximum amount of data of the data packet to be sent, segmented, or divided into a given packet fragment for over-network transmission. The data packet has an n-bit identifier,...

20060126509 - Traffic management in a wireless data network: In a radio access network (e.g., a cellular network), a radio node is configured to monitor one or more characteristics of a stream of data packets destined for an access terminal (e.g., a cellular telephone, laptop computer, etc.) to determine whether there is congestion in a network supplying the stream...

20060126512 - Techniques to manage flow control: Method and apparatus to manage flow control for a network device are described....

20060126513 - Techniques to manage retransmissions in a wireless network: Method and apparatus to manage retransmissions in a wireless network are described....

20060126514 - Method for managing neighbor nodes and setting a routing path in a mobile ad-hoc network environment and network apparatus using the same: A method and network apparatus for setting a routing path and managing a neighbor node in mobile ad hoc, network environment are provided. The method for setting a routing path in mobile ad hoc network environment includes receiving a packet periodically broadcast from a neighbor node, measuring the quality of...

20060126515 - Filtering wireless network packets: A universal mobile telephony system (UMTS) network monitoring system for capturing intercepted UMTS data. ATM cells from a UTRAN interface may be intercepted. The UTRAN interface may be an lu interface, an lur interface, or an lub interface, which are, respectively, interfaces between a core network (CN) of the UTRAN...

20060126517 - Loop detection method and device: For providing a loop detection method and device which enables a general L2 switch to be applied and complicated condition equations or the like for determining a loop generation, a terminal moving state in which packets of a same transmitting source address are inputted to different ports is detected; a...

20060126516 - Network device signaling characteristic adjustment based on presence of an attachment: According to some embodiments, a first measurement of a network device signaling characteristic is performed. The network device includes a first communication port and a second communication port, the second port being associated with a detachable attachment. The first measurement is performed when the attachment is not attached to the...

20060126518 - Apparatus and method for securing internet server: Provided are an apparatus and a method for securing internet server, including: a conformance determiner which determines whether or not packets received from a network are normal, and outputs a determination result; a rate limiter which classifies packets according to predetermined rates, and limits bandwidth; and a server global information...

20060126519 - Method and apparatus for adapting downlink wireless transmission between beamforming and transmit diversity on a per mobile station basis: A transmitting apparatus is provided for a base station capable of communicating with a plurality of mobile stations in a wireless network. The transmitting apparatus includes a beamforming traffic path for use in beamforming transmission to one of the mobile stations, and a diversity traffic path for use in diversity...

20060126521 - Method and apparatus for provisioning optical services on an optical network: An optical provisioning system includes a connection tree table that allows a path to be traced through the network using connection ID, rate, and other information at the nodes on the network. As connections are built, a connection graphics panel is provided to display a representation of the network elements...

20060126520 - Tape acceleration: According to the present invention, methods and apparatus are provided improving data transfers between a host and a tape device on fibre channel fabrics connected through an IP fabric. A fibre channel switch preemptively responds to write requests and data transfers from a host even before acknowledgments are received from...

20060126522 - Detecting malicious codes: A malicious code detection method includes: registering information on an incoming TCP connection setup packet to an internal network and storing contents of a TCP data packet for the registered connection; storing data for the corresponding TCP connection upon a connection determined to request a traffic connection of the same...

20060126523 - Monitoring control system and method: Disclosed is a monitoring control system and method that can minimize network delay between a local side PC and a phone side PC when monitoring a mobile communication device in real time. By consecutively sending a plurality of monitoring requests for monitoring the moble communication device via the Internet, monitoring...

20060126524 - Ad hoc communications system: A number of data collection devices (10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80), are free to move relative to each other through their environment, collecting data from their environment. They form an ad hoc wireless network (19, 29, 39, 49), etc in which data collected by a device (20)...

20060126526 - Apparatus and method for low cost, multi-port protocol analysis and monitoring: A concentrator multiplexes network data from different links in a network and carried on a plurality of lower speed lines into multiplexed network data carried on a higher speed line. A line interface module demultiplexes the multiplexed network data carried on the higher speed line, assembles the demultiplexed network data...

20060126531 - Communication apparatus and communication control method: The claimed invention is directed to a communication apparatus which comprises a monitor unit that monitors communication conditions with a plurality of networks; a setting unit that performs adjusting and setting a communication timing to communicate with each of the plurality of networks in accordance with the communication condition of...

20060126529 - Determining the effects of new types of impairments on perceived quality of a voice service: Empirically derived models are used to relate user perception to objectively measurable characteristics, under a criterion of nearly perfect co-variance between predicted MOS values and the variations in the values of the objectively measurable characteristics. In the example context of evaluating packet switched telephony service, the present invention eliminates the...

20060126530 - Indicating a configuring status: This invention relates to a method for indicating a status of a configuring of a network element, said method includes checking (300, 301) if all configurations of a pre-defined set of configurations for said network element (3, 3a) have been conducted. The pre-defined set of configurations is smaller than a...

20060126528 - Method and apparatus for discovering the incoming media path for an internet protocol media session: A system and technique for analyzing incoming packets. The path taken by incoming packets can be analyzed from a near end without having access to the far end. This can be done even though packets sent to the far end from the near end, take a different path than that...

20060126527 - Methods and systems for controlling the number of computations involved in computing the allocation of resources given resource constraints: Methods and systems for controlling the number of computations involved in computing the allocation of resources given resource constraints. According to one embodiment, a set of existing constraints for providing the resources is received. An adjustable parameter for reducing the number of computations is received. A complexity-scalable resource-allocator is executed...

20060126525 - Telecommunication system statistical counting method: The present invention relates to a telecommunication system automatic statistical counting method, in which the host sends out the invitation letter, applying to the telecommunication company for reserved number paid by the host as so to allow the guest end to make a dial or use computer network for free....

20060126533 - Apparatus and methods for two or more delivery traffic indication message (dtim) periods in wireless networks: A single access point may manage two or more wireless networks, each having a network name. The access point may be configured to store delivery traffic indication message (DTIM) period values on a per network name basis. A processor of the access point may manage, on a per network name...

20060126532 - Managing network resources for wireless communication: Access to wireless communication is disclosed, wherein a network control unit identifies availability of different communication networks for a communication device. The communication device is notified of a recommendation of identified communication networks. In response to this notification, the communication device initiates access to the recommended communication network for establishing...

20060126534 - Method and mechanism for identifying an unmanaged switch in a network: An exemplary method for managing a network includes accessing information associated with a managed switch in the network, querying an external data source, and identifying an unmanaged switch connected to the managed switch based on a reply to the query and the accessed information....

20060126536 - Method and system for configuring wireless routers and networks: A method and system for configuring a wireless router and a wireless communications network includes establishing connectivity between a wireless router and at least one wireline router. Connectivity between the wireless router and a plurality of neighboring wireless routers is established through the wireline router. The wireless router is configured...

20060126535 - Mobile ad-hoc network providing expedited conglomerated broadcast message reply features and related methods: A MANET may include a plurality of mobile nodes and wireless communications links therebetween. A given mobile node along a route in the MANET may be for receiving a broadcast message inviting replies from mobile nodes along the route, forwarding the broadcast message to at least one downstream mobile node...

20060126537 - System and method to connect devices to a network via a network learning and programming remote control: A method and system for connecting devices to a network via a network learning and programming remote control have been described. The method includes requesting network information via a remote control from an access point for a network, where the network information is required for a device to access the...

20060126539 - Apparatus and method for setting up a conference call: A method of provisioning a conference call in order to preserve bandwidth on a network, and thereby allowing a larger number of participants to actively take part in a conference call. The method includes providing all participants in a conference call with a simplex connection to the conference call so...

20060126538 - Enhanced ip-voice conferencing: A system and method are provided for providing users of voice conferencing with indications of the quality perceived by other users of the voice conferencing system. A voice conferencing bridge measures the quality of the each user's channel, and provides real-time feedback to users whose channel quality is inadequate and...

20060126540 - Apparatus for, and method of, reducing noise in a communications system: A communication line having a plurality of twisted wire pairs connects a plurality of transmitters, one transmitter at each end of each twisted wire pair, with a plurality of receivers, one receiver at each end of each twisted wire pair. Each receiver receives a combination signal including a direct signal...

20060126541 - Method for detecting error of system information in mobile communication system: A method for detecting an error of system information in a mobile communication system is disclosed. A radio resource control (RRC) packet data unit (PDU) is created to transmit system information and the length of the RRC PDU is checked to determine if an error exists, with the RRC PDU...

20060126549 - Adaptive call admission control for use in a wireless communication system: The invention relates to communication systems and to systems and methods for implementing adaptive call admission control (CAC) in such systems. Adaptive call admission control can determine what CPE to base station calls (connections) are allowed at any given time. CAC, coupled with precedence, can further determine what connections are...

20060126542 - Communication system and method: A system and method for establishing communication with any one of a variety of different wireless communication devices including through the provision of a short range transceiver assembly so as to provide data communication from a sender to the wireless communication device either over the Internet, utilizing an Internet access...

20060126545 - Detecting legacy spoofing in reduced functionality user terminals: Backward compatibility may require the use of fields or other indicators that are interpreted by new nodes or stations in a system in a manner different from the way legacy nodes interpret those same fields. In some circumstances, these indicators may be used to “spoof” legacy nodes to behave in...

20060126546 - Enhanced hybrid duplexing technology-based wireless communication system: A wireless communication system in an overlay network where systems using different frequency bands coexist. The wireless communication system includes at least one first duplexing system utilizing a first duplexing technique through a first frequency band, and at least one second duplexing system utilizing a second frequency band and a...

20060126548 - Method and apparatus for providing fast detection of a high speed shared control channel: A method and apparatus for providing fast detection of a high speed shared control channel (HS-SCCH). The HS-SCCH carries information necessary for receiving data via a high speed downlink shared channel (HS-DSCH). The apparatus receives messages transmitted via a plurality of HS-SCCHs. The apparatus measures a channel quality for the...

20060126543 - Mobile audiovisual device: A mobile audiovisual device includes a central processing unit for operating information, a signal-processing unit connected to the central processing unit for receiving and processing external audio/video signals, a storage control unit connected to the central processing unit for receiving data from the signal-processing unit, and a transmission unit connected...

20060126544 - Mobile communication device and system supporting media flow control: A system and method for presenting information to a user of a mobile communication device. Various aspects of the present invention may comprise receiving a first portion of media information from a remote media information source and presenting the first portion to a user. While presenting the first portion to...

20060126547 - Transporting qos mapping information in a packet radio network: A method and a GGSN support node for sending data packets to a mobile station in a mobile communications system from an external communication system. The GGSN receives data packets from the external communication system in a first plurality of data flows which it maps to a second plurality of...

20060126550 - Data switch and a method for broadcast packet queue estimation: A data switch includes ingress ports associated with ingress queues (3) and egress ports associated with egress queues (9). The length of the ingress queues (3) is measured, and the level of broadcast packets arriving at the ingress ports is thereby estimated. Based on this estimate it is determined whether...

20060126551 - Device and method for distributing broadcast services on a local network: The invention allows a user, wanting to receive, on the one hand, a digital television offer broadcast in a conventional manner, and, on the other hand, an offer of video services on an IP network, to have a conventional receiving device capable of redistributing on the local network the services...

20060126552 - Apparatus and method for resource allocation in mf-tdma broadband satellite system: Provided is a resource allocation apparatus and method in a multi frequency-time division multiple access (MF-TDMA) broadband satellite system, which can employ timeslots in a return link with a maximum throughput promptly, by dividing a timeslot assignment problem minimizing a weighted sum in response to a resource allocation request from...

20060126553 - Method and system for allocating data bursts in a wireless communication system: A method and system for allocating data bursts in a wireless communication system. The system has a frame set by a symbol interval axis and a frequency band axis. The frame includes a first region in which a MAP message is transmitted and a second region to which the data...

20060126557 - Method and system for terminating ppp session in dormant state of mobile communication terminal: Disclosed is a PPP session termination system and method in a dormant state of a mobile communication terminal. The PPP session termination system in the dormant state of the mobile communication terminal includes a mobile communication terminal processing module. When the mobile communication terminal enters into the dormant state, the...

20060126554 - Mobile communication system, line concentrator, radio base station, mobile station, and communication method: A mobile-communications system is disclosed. The system includes a mobile station, a wireless-base station enabled to communicate with the mobile station, and a location-information management apparatus for managing a state of the mobile station in a network layer upper to a link layer for managing wireless-communications resources. The mobile station...

20060126555 - System for load balance on access points over wlan and method therefor: Provided is a system for load balance on APs over a WLAN and method therefor. The system comprises a WLAN switch in an ESS; a plurality of APs in the ESS, each AP having a BSS wherein at least two BSSs overlap; and a plurality of mobile stations in the...

20060126556 - Territory mapping for efficient content distribution in wireless networks using broadcast/multicast: A technique for content delivery in wireless networks which associates a desired broadcast/multicast (BCMC) territory with the content, estimates cell sector coverage area from a subscriber location data set, and then identifies a set of cell sectors to be sent the content using a BCMC protocol. The method involves first...

20060126559 - Scheduling method in a wireless network: A method for performing scheduling on tasks formed for communication between a plurality of nodes in a wireless network having the nodes and a coordinator for coordinating communication between the nodes. Each of the nodes calculates an affinity for at least one task in which the corresponding node participates, and...

20060126558 - System and method for mode switching and frequency band switching in a cellular system: A method for switching a current duplexing mode of a mobile station in a cellular system in which a base station supports multiple duplexing modes. The method includes determining if it is necessary to switch the current duplexing mode of the mobile station in a predetermined scheduling period, and switching...

20060126560 - Voice over ip portable transreceiver: A portable transreceiver system transmitting voice communications over a data network is described. The system has a portable transreceiver (WT) mode where multiple users are connected using semi duplex communications, and a private mode in which pairs of users are connected using full duplex communications. Wireless voice enabled terminals are...

20060126561 - System and method for communicating over a wireless time-division duplex channel: According to the present invention, the bandwidth of a TDD channel is increased where multiple slave devices communicate with a master device over the channel. According to an aspect of the present invention, the master device can increase channel bandwidth by utilizing available transmit slots that occur during receipt of...

20060126567 - High speed downlink shared control channel cell change: A reordering buffer of a medium access controller—high speed (MAC-hs) is flushed, in response to a high speed—downlink shared channel (HS-DSCH) cell change. A status report is generated of at least one radio link control (RLC) instance mapped to the HS-DSCH. The status report indicates missing HS-DSCH packet data units...

20060126564 - 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...

20060126565 - Method and system for interworking of cellular networks and wireless local area networks: A method and system for interworking between cellular networks and wireless local area networks (WLANs) are disclosed. At least one cellular network, at least one WLAN and an IP network are deployed. A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) first establishes a connection to a WLAN and a tunnel between an access...

20060126562 - Method and system for seamless service availability for multi-mode terminals in different access networks: Systems, methods and devices provide seamless communication service for a wireless multi-mode communication terminal. A multi-mode communication terminal with an intelligent call forwarding module automatically forwards calls in a multi-mode network environment. A backbone communication network links at least two modes of the multi-mode environment....

20060126566 - Phase shifted time slice transmission to improve handover: The present invention provides methods and apparatus for a wireless system broadcasting a plurality of data packets to at least one wireless terminal. The wireless system comprises a plurality of base stations that interfaces to a backbone network in order to receive the plurality of data packets from a service...

20060126563 - System and method of processing hand-off of mobile terminal: Provided are a system and method of facilitating broadband data transmission by easily and quickly processing a hand-off of a mobile terminal using a high-altitude aeronautical platform above base stations. The system includes a hand-off related information transmitting/receiving unit informed by one of a plurality of base stations in a...

20060126575 - Adaptive uplink/downlink timeslot assignment in a hybrid wireless time division multiple access/code division multiple access communication system: A hybrid time division duplex/code division multiple access communication system comprises a radio network controller coupled to a plurality of Node-Bs. The radio network controller comprises a resource allocation device for providing each Node-B with a list of timeslots that the Node-B can use to assign uplink timeslots and downlink...

20060126574 - Code tracking loop with automatic power normalization: The present invention is for a receiver incorporated into User Equipment (UE) or base stations of a code division multiple access (CDMA) communication system. The UE and base station are in communication with one of the plurality of base stations and receives a communication signal through the receiver. The communication...

20060126568 - Method and apparatus for performing chip level equalization using joint processing: A method and apparatus for performing chip level equalization (CLE) using joint processing to enhance performance and system throughput using a transmitter having a plurality of transmit antennas and a receiver having a plurality of receive antennas. A channel response matrix is formed between the transmit antennas and the receive...

20060126570 - Random access apparatus and method: A random access apparatus for supporting a variety of access service classes includes a radio frequency (RF) transmitting/receiving unit for receiving a preamble introduction broadcasting signal from a base station and transmitting a random access preamble to the base station, an introduction broadcasting signal processing unit for extracting a random...

20060126573 - Random access channel preamble: One out of sixteen preamble signatures is selected. A code is produced based on the selected preamble signature. The produced code is phase rotated to produce a processed preamble signature signal. The processed preamble signature signal is used in processing the CDMA RACH signal and the CDMA RACH signal is...

20060126571 - Smart antenna device with increased operation speed and complex smart antenna device using smart antenna device: A smart antenna device includes: first and second weighting units provided to correspond to two antennas disposed apart from each other so as to weight received signals inputted from the antennas, respectively; an operating unit that obtains a ratio of a weight of the second weighting unit to a weight...

20060126569 - Terminal platform board for multi-band and multi-carrier and apparatus thereof: The present invention relates to a terminal board applied to a multi-band and multi-carrier wireless system and an apparatus thereof. The terminal platform apparatus according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes a multi-band multi-carrier terminal platform board, a monitoring device, an RF unit for a multi-band multi-carrier...

20060126572 - Transmission timing control of uplink channel signal of a mobile station: A base station in a CDMA radio communication system selects the path having the highest level from among paths that occur when uplink channel signals are being received from a mobile station at a plurality of sectors, compares the position of the selected path with the position of a reference...

20060126576 - Partial mesh communication in hub based system: A partial mesh link channel is established within a satellite communication system by allocating return link channel resources to the partial mesh link channel....

20060126578 - Method for assigning time slots and base station apparatus utilizing the same: A processing unit performs adaptive array signal processing. A modem unit performs modulation and demodulation processing. A derivation unit derives signal strength as radio communication qualities among a plurality of terminal apparatuses of half rate format. A control unit assigns time slots in a plurality of terminal apparatuses of half...

20060126577 - Wireless communications system, base station, and mobile station: A wireless communications system including a mobile station MS and base stations BS1 and BS2, wherein one or both of the mobile station MS and the base stations BS1 and BS2 is provided with a unit for notifying information of a frame position with the possibility of transmission of packets...

20060126579 - Apparatus and method for searching ap of wireless lan based on broadcasting information of base station in mobile communication system: Disclosed is an apparatus and method for searching an access point (AP) of a wireless LAN based on broadcasting information of a base station in a mobile communication network. In case that a dual mode mobile station having a wireless LAN module and a mobile communication module wants to use...

20060126588 - Communication system, communication server and communication method: A communication system comprises a first communication terminal (101) provided with an ID tag (106) and having a communication function for a first medium, a second communication terminal (102) provided with an ID reader (107) and having a communication function for a second medium different from the first medium, and...

20060126582 - Delivering data to a mobile node in idle mode: A method of deliveries data and to a mobile node for receiving data delivered from a packet-switched data network. A first registration of the mobile node is performed to a first network of a first access technology, and an additional second registration of the mobile node is performed to a...

20060126584 - Method for user equipment selection of a packet data gateway in a wireless local network: Disclosed herein is a method for Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) User Equipment (UE) selection of a Packet Data Gateway (PDG). When the WLAN UE fails to access, the PDG returns a message containing the failure cause value to the WLAN UE that has sent the request such that the...

20060126583 - Mobile communication device and system supporting personal media recorder functionality: A system and method for presenting information to a user of a mobile communication device. Various aspects of the present invention comprise receiving and presenting a first portion of media information to a user. While presenting the first portion of the media information to the user, a first signal may...

20060126587 - Network switching system having a connection device management table commonly owned on a wireless network: The network switching system is provided with a communication route management table for managing transmission path information of a wireless network including wireless access devices, and a connection device management table for managing, in common on the wireless network, the information on wireless network devices connected to the wireless access...

20060126589 - Packet data serving node initiated updates for a mobile communication system: A packet data serving node (106) initiates a packet data session update procedure with the RAN by passing a session update message containing packet data session parameters associated with at lease one packet data service) to a packet control function (111) which may be part of a radio access network...

20060126580 - Radio lan communication system: A wireless LAN communication system includes a base stations having terminals respectively associated with the base stations and managed by a network management system. In the wireless LAN communication system, each of the base stations includes an association information transmitting function for transmitting association information for a terminal to the...

20060126581 - Radio lan communication system: A base station includes: a data classification function for classifying data to be transmitted to terminals into audio data and terminal-basis ordinary data and generating downstream communication traffic information; a queuing function for generating an ordinary data transmission queue and an audio data transmission queue from the classified data; a...

20060126585 - System to manage wireless connection state between network printer and access point using wireless connection map and a method thereof: A system and a method to manage a wireless connection state between a network printer and an access point using a wireless connection map. The method includes transmitting wireless connection information inquiry packets to a plurality of network printers to request wireless connection information between the plurality of network printers...

20060126586 - Wireless lan device and method of monitoring status of wireless lan: A wireless LAN device and a method of monitoring the status of a wireless LAN are disclosed. The wireless LAN device according to the present invention can determine the status of a wireless LAN using a variety of information obtained by performing media access control (MAC) without additional packet transmission/reception...

20060126590 - Multicasting data method in a radio communication system: The present invention provides a method for receiving broadcast data in a system where broadcast data is transmitted on a plurality of frequencies. A user device monitors (302) a first frequency (108) for broadcast data to be transmitted on the first frequency. The device receives on the first frequency a...

20060126591 - Transmitting interleaved multiple data flows: Multiple transport channels (405, 406, 407) are multiplexed and transmitted in a single physical channel. A code (TFCI) is added to the transport channel data flows to indicate which processing schemes, from a set of available schemes, are being employed and the resultant blocks are interleaved. The depth of the...

20060126592 - Energy detection receiver for uwb: The receiver portion of a UWB wireless device is altered by replacing analog-to-digital circuitry with a simple energy detection circuit. In embodiments of the invention, the coding methodology of a transmitter is altered to support the simplified receiver configuration. For example, instead of coding the data to be sent in...

20060126597 - Apparatus for providing broadcasting channel information in internet protocol based digital broadcasting system and method thereof: In a digital broadcasting system comprising a server for retransmitting a digital broadcast on the basis of an Internet protocol (IP), a user terminal for receiving the digital broadcast on the basis of the IP, and a router for connecting the server with the user terminal, the server performs a...

20060126593 - Content reception/reproduction device and content reception/reproduction method: A content reception and reproduction apparatus and content reception and reproduction method capable of avoiding the discontinuity of content reproduction and preventing the user from experiencing an unpleasant feeling, such as irritation or anxiety, so that the user can pleasantly enjoy the content, has an auxiliary content acquiring mechanism to...

20060126600 - Data call terminating service system and method for dynamic ip of mobile communication terminal: Disclosed is a data call terminating service system and method for a dynamic IP of a mobile communication terminal. The method includes the steps of: a) transmitting, from a DNS to a call terminating server, access request information about a request of access to a URL designating a specific mobile...

20060126599 - Integrated message system with gateway functions and method for implementing the same: The present invention discloses an integrated message system including gateway functions and a method for implementing the same. In the integrated message system, a user is used as a session initiator. The session initiator builds a session for passing voice and text messages through a network medium. In the session,...

20060126602 - Method and arrangement for providing services between data processing devices: In a method and arrangement for providing services, a first data processing device provides a service for a remote second data processing device, the first service being implemented according to a service configuration and the first service configuration is modularly composed of a plurality of components, with at least one...

20060126595 - Method and system for bypassing a core network in establishing a call between endpoints on different media gateways: A method and system for establishing a call between two endpoints residing on different media gateways in a decomposed voice over packet architecture. Cluster attributes identifying alternate bearer possibilities are exchanged between media gateways as part of capabilities negotiation which occurs during call setup conducted by an external call control...

20060126594 - Method and system for serverless voip service in personal communication network: Method and system for supporting serverless VoIP service are provided. Network information of a first device and a second device is exchanged through a telecommunication network. A VoIP connection between the first and second devices can be established through an internet based network according to the exchanged network information. The...

20060126598 - Method for establishing an internet connection using a handheld device: A method for establishing an Internet connection using a handheld device includes the step of, in response to an incoming call made by a communications server using a dedicated calling number, enabling operation of the handheld device for breaking a call connection with the communications server and for establishing the...

20060126596 - System and method for providing a communication channel: Communication devices and methods are proposed for providing communication channel. In one example, devices and methods are capable of reaching one or more terminals that are not in a public network. In addition, depending on the network or the networks that the terminals are located, some examples may be capable...

20060126601 - System for providing context-aware service and method thereof: A context-aware service providing system according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes a plurality of context-aware service providers and a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) server. The context-aware service provider subscribes an SIP event for user context information based on subscriber information in the context-aware service. The SIP...

20060126604 - Handling real-time transport protocol (rtp) media packets in voice over internet protocol (voip) terminal: Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP) voice packets in a terminal are handled by: checking whether a communication payload generated at an RTP transmitting side is a silence payload; and accumulating the silence payload instead of transmitting it upon the communication payload being the silence payload, and forming the RTP packet upon...

20060126603 - Information terminal remote operation system, remote access terminal, gateway server, information terminal control apparatus, information terminal apparatus, and remote operation method therefor: An information-terminal remote-operation system includes at least one remote access terminal connected to a public network, a local network connected to the public network, at least one information terminal apparatus that is connected to the local network and that is remotely operated by the remote access terminal, an information-terminal control...

20060126605 - Network communication apparatus: A network communication apparatus that includes a function for performing communications via an IP network and that includes an ITU-T standard T.38 communication function but does not include a voice communication function is disclosed. The network communication apparatus includes: a unit configured to generate a call connection signal including T.38...

20060126606 - Crosspoint switch with low reconfiguration latency: A method of operating a circuit for processing a digital signal is disclosed. The circuit includes various circuit stages having respective enabled states. A present signal path is established which includes circuit stages in their respective enabled states. Power is disabled to selected circuit stages not used in the present...

20060126607 - Method and system for operating a field programmable line card using a country coded template: A database correlating a specific set of linecard criteria, out of a plurality of sets of linecard criteria, to a template code is loaded into a linecard during manufacturing. A template code based on country-specific criteria is sent to the linecard at startup, wheneve otherwise desired. The template code may...

20060126608 - Method and apparatus for system monitoring and maintenance: A method and an apparatus provide intelligent monitoring and maintenance of a system. The method according to one embodiment accesses data relating to functional components of the system; extracts parameter information for functional components of the system, the step of extracting parameter information including performing inferential processing and trend recognition...

20060126609 - Switching matrix with two control inputs at each switching element: A switching matrix has a first number of inputs and a second number of outputs as well as a conductor arrangement and controllable switching elements by means of which the inputs can be connected with the outputs. The controllable switching elements are fashioned such that at least two independent control...

20060126610 - Method and apparatus for horizontally slicing a multi-stage switch fabric: A method and apparatus are provided for horizontally slicing a multi-stage switching fabric having transmission inputs and transmission outputs to and from the switch fabric. The switching fabric includes switch elements arranged in at least first and second stages, each switch element having element inputs and outputs with each switch...

20060126619 - Aggregation over multiple processing nodes of network resources each providing offloaded connections between applications over a network: A computer system aggregates a plurality of network resources of a computer system. The computer system has a plurality of processing nodes. Each of the processing nodes includes one or more of the plurality of network resources. The one or more resources of each processing node makes up a bypass...

20060126622 - Apparatus for changing mac address to identify subscriber and method thereof: Provided is an apparatus for changing Media Access Control (MAC) address, which is a conventional subscriber hardware identification address for identifying each subscriber, and a method thereof. The MAC address changing apparatus includes a frame receiving block for determining whether to change a source MAC address; a switch controlling block...

20060126614 - Automatic network configuration: Automatic network configuration of a device including receiving a packet and selecting a network address in dependence upon a network address of the packet. In typical embodiments, receiving a packet also includes determining whether the received packet is an ARP query. If the received packet is an ARP query, selecting...

20060126617 - Mesh network of intelligent devices communicating via powerline and radio frequency: Low-cost intelligent control and communication devices are arranged to communicate with one another over one or more shared physical media, such as a powerline or a radio frequency band. No network controller is needed, because any device can act as a master, slave, or repeater. Adding more devices makes the...

20060126612 - Method of transporting a pci express packet over an ip packet network: In a computer network (100), a method transporting a PCI Express packet (235) from an initiator PCI Express node (202) over an IP packet network (210) to a receiver PCI Express node (204), can include the initiator PCI Express node creating the PCI Express packet and reading a global PCI...

20060126623 - Methods and apparatus for implementing a protocol format capable of handling shared and dedicated radio resources: Methods and apparatus are disclosed that implement a protocol format capable of handling shared and dedicated resources. A combined dedicated/shared protocol is used to enable dedicated data to be transmitted over shared wireless networks. In particular, the protocol is a combined DLC/MAC protocol. Header information for L2 headers are modified...

20060126613 - Multi-homed broadband router: Described is a multi-homed broadband router for use by an internal network to communicate with an external communications network, such as the Internet. The router has a first external-side port for exchanging packets over a first communication link with a first service provider connected to the external communications network, a...

20060126624 - Packet transfer apparatus with the function of flow detection and flow management method: A packet transfer apparatus having: a flow detector 30 identifying a flow to which an input packet belongs from header information of the input packet and outputting a flow bundle identifier peculiar to the identified flow or a flow bundle identifier common to the identified flow and at least another...

20060126611 - System and method for a distributed server for peer-to-peer networks: A logical distributed server is generated for managing (Internet Protocol (IP) address allocation for an ad-hoc, self-forming peer-to-peer (P2P) network. The logical distributed server is generated according to messaging scheme where nodes on the P2P network allocate addresses for themselves and for clients connected to them. Each node implements a...

20060126618 - System and method for front end processing of messages: A system and method of routing messages between at least one server (104, 106, 108) and at least one remote device (114, 116, 118). A message (112) is received from a remote device (116). The remote device has an Internet Protocol (IP) address. The remote IP address is mapped to...

20060126620 - System for extending business systems to a mobile workforce: Systems, software, and methods for reliable wireless communication are provided. In one aspect, a computer program control device, called a node, is configured to be transmitted from a first device for receipt and processing on a second, disparate device. The node comprises a collection of managed objects or managed object...

20060126621 - System, method and computer program for use in a publish/subscribe messaging system: A system for use in a publish/subscribe messaging system, the publish/subscribe messaging system having: a network, wherein the network has associated network data; and a broker having a matching engine for receiving at least one message from a publisher and for sending the at least one received message to a...

20060126616 - Tagging rules for hybrid ports: A VLAN tagging method employed in a data communications switching device is disclosed. VLAN tagging is processed in accordance with one of a plurality of VLAN tagging modes, namely, a fixed port mode, a tagged port mode, a protocol-enforced port mode, a protocol-enforced port mode, and a standards-observant mode. The...

20060126615 - Transferring data among a logical layer, physical layer, and storage device: Provided are a method, system, and program for transferring data among a logical layer, physical layer, and storage device. The logical layer allocates a buffer to use to write data to a storage device. The physical layer manages access to the storage device. The logical layer determines an offset into...

20060126627 - Deriving passive optical network port identifiers: A method in accordance with the present invention comprises identifying a M-bit multicast address and deriving a N-bit PON port identifier from the M-bit multicast address. Identifying the M-bit multicast address and deriving the N-bit PON port identifier are performed at an Optical Line Terminal (OLT) of a Passive Optical...

20060126625 - Method for distributing traffic using hash-codes corresponding to a desired traffic distribution in a packet-oriented network comprising multipath routing: Hash-code value ranges are determined for a traffic distribution among the nodes along a multipath route in a packet-oriented network, according to a predefined traffic distribution in the network. Starting from one or more start nodes, the traffic distribution is determined successively as a function of the hash-codes along the...

20060126626 - System and method of sharing video head ends: An Internet Group Multicast Protocol (IGMP)-based communications system shares the digital television channels output by two different head ends to increase the number of television channels that can be provided to the end users by forwarding multicast data packets that represent the television channels from one access system to another...

20060126628 - Flow assignment: In general, in one aspect, the disclosure describes assigning a flow of network packets to a thread of a multi-threaded processor core in a set of multiple multi-threaded processor cores integrated on a single die. Based on the assigning, a packet in the flow is processed by the assigned processor...

20060126630 - Inter-domain traffic engineering: Methods and router for receiving a request message addressed from a first router to setup an inter-domain QoS reservation toward a second router in a further domain, forwarding the request message to setup the inter-domain QoS reservation, receiving an acknowledgment message to confirm that the inter-domain QoS reservation is setup,...

20060126629 - Internet protocol address management system and method: An Internet Protocol address manager creates data containers for managing Internet Protocol addresses. Each data container can store one or more address blocks of Internet Protocol addresses and includes a container policy for managing the address blocks. Additionally, the Internet Protocol address manager creates links between the data containers to...

20060126631 - Method for transferring messages: The present invention relates to a method and a network server (4) for transferring a message (32, 33, 34) initiated by a message initiator (21) via a communication network (1) to at least one message receiver (24, 26, 28). The network server (4) comprises a sentence builder (43), a service...

20060126632 - Reception system for replacing transport packets: A reception system has a receiving section which receives a transport stream transmitted from a transmission system that produces and transmits the transport stream, the transport stream being produced by multiplexing compression coded contents of a program, and electronic program guide information including program specific information having at least an...

20060126633 - Method and apparatus of providing and receiving video services in digital audio broadcasting (dab) system: There are provided a method and apparatus for providing and receiving a video service in digital audio broadcasting (DAB). The video service providing method includes: storing information related to encoding of a provided video service stream and information related to packetization of the video service stream in a channel different...

20060126634 - Method and apparatus of providing and receiving video services in digital audio broadcasting (dab) system: There are provided a method and apparatus for providing and receiving a video service in digital audio broadcasting (DAB). The video service providing method includes: storing information related to encoding of a provided video service stream and information related to packetization of the video service stream in a channel different...

20060126635 - Push-to-x over cellular coordinated floor and packet scheduling: This coordinated floor and packet scheduling for Push-to-X over Cellular (PoC) services delays a packet data slot assignment until after a PoC floor has been granted (272) by a PoC server (251). By reducing the time period between slot assignment and floor grant, this method reduces the wasting of packet...

20060126639 - Quality of service enforcement: A method in a network of interconnected computer systems includes generating a Quality of Service (QoS) requirements document between a client and a first server for execution of a service in the first server, initiating execution of the service in the first server in response to a client request, and...

20060126636 - Internet protocol address management system and method: An Internet Protocol address manager creates data containers for managing Internet Protocol addresses. Each data container can store an address block of Internet Protocol addresses and includes a container policy for managing the address block. Additionally, the Internet Protocol address manager creates links between the data containers to organize the...

20060126640 - High performance transmission control protocol (tcp) syn queue implementation: In general, in one aspect, the disclosure describes a method that includes accessing a first Internet Protocol datagram comprising a first Transmission Control Protocol segment representing a connection open request, determining a first hash result based, at least in part, on the Internet Protocol source and destination addresses of the...

20060126637 - Combined customer-flow and quality-class-based scheduling method and apparatus for scheduling transmission-link capacity between packet-switched traffic flows: The invention relates to a method and apparatus for scheduling transmission-link capacity between packet-switched telecommunications flows, in such a way that it is possible to guarantee that packets representing delay-critical traffic will be scheduled to the transmission link (S0) before packets representing non-delay-critical traffic and, in addition, that it is...

20060126641 - Mapping system of virtual concatenation group signals: An interface system is capable of transmitting packet data or non-continuous data through a network that is adapted to transmit continuous data. In particular, the interface system is directed to transmitting data from Ethernet, Storage Area Network (SAN), and/or Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB) signals through a SONET fiber optics system....

20060126642 - Optical network, optical edge router, program thereof, cut through method, and edge router: An optical network has: sections for establishing optical paths; a plurality of optical edge routers for connecting external IP networks to the optical network (1001); and a plurality of optical cross connects, for connecting the optical edge routers by the optical paths, having switching sections with respect to an optical...

20060126643 - Subscriber loop remote control apparatus, subscriber loop remote control method, and subscriber loop remote control program: A subscriber loop remote control apparatus that allows communication terminals to transmit VLAN packets without imposing a load on a router. A subscriber loop remote control apparatus is provided with a virtual interface table for associating a subscriber premises terminal identifier individually assigned to a subscriber premises terminal connected through...

20060126644 - Vpn router and vpn identification method by using logical channel identifiers: The present invention provides a VPN edge router with the ability of identifying VPNs by using the identifiers of logical channels multiplexed on a single input line....

20060126638 - Method and apparatus for coalescing acknowledge packets within a server: A method for coalescing acknowledge packets within a server is disclosed. A Read Request queue having multiple queue pair entries is provided. Each of the queue pair entries includes a packet sequence number (PSN) field and an indicator field. In response to a receipt of a Write Request packet, an...

20060126646 - Coordinated multi-network data services: Content and/or services are provided for a session to a user by controlling use of at least two different networks to deliver the content and/or services for the session to the user. The at least two different networks have different data transfer characteristics. Control of use of the at least...

20060126650 - Method and apparatus for bridging devices having interfaces of same layer: A method and apparatus for arbitrating control signals to bridge an SPI-3 interface recommended by the optical internetworking forum (OIF), between devices in an identical layer using the SPI-3 interface are provided. According to the method and apparatus, a bridging apparatus which performs the role of a link layer device...

20060126648 - Method for supporting session mobility: A method for supporting session mobility, more particularly, a method for supporting session mobility that can move various sessions between two or more devices by using session initiation protocol (SIP). Various sessions can be simultaneously moved by utilizing a SIP PUBLISH message. Accordingly, a user can utilize various services as...

20060126645 - Methods and systems for connecting mobile nodes to private networks: When mobile node is connected to an access point outside the private network, a tunnel is formed between the mobile node and a home agent on the private network for the transfer of packets. When, the mobile node roams into a region accessible to the private network, the mobile node...

20060126647 - Network interface device: An apparatus is disclosed that provides a gateway function. The apparatus has an enclosure surrounding a network interface device. The network interface device has a communications network interface to a communications network and a power line network interface to a power line carrier-based network. A communications module stores in a...

20060126649 - Packet distribution system, pan registration device, pan control device, packet transfer device, and packet distribution method: The packet distribution system according to the present invention includes communication terminals that are connected by way of at least one link to a mobile network, a PAN registration device for holding communication link identification addresses that correspond to communication terminals on a PAN, and a PAN control device for...

20060126651 - Transmission apparatus and method of multi-service tributaries over rpr: The present invention relates to technology located in RPR MAC Client presents MSR Based on RPR including RPR Lite. 802.17 lite uses local addresses and the multicast address in providing of tributary services and uses 802.17 frame format that allows Technology to use payload within Technology Ethertype. Fairness A0 provisioned...

20060126652 - Point-to point protocol: A Point-to-point protocol configured to provide communication exchange between a first device and a second device. The point-to-point protocol is configured to negotiate an exchange rate and establish a connection for the communication exchange between the first and second device. As system dynamics change, the point-to-point protocol is also configured...

20060126653 - Transferring data between system and storage in a shared buffer: Provided are a method, system, and program for transferring data between system and storage in a shared buffer. An application requests a buffer from a component. The component allocates a buffer and returns to the application a first offset in the buffer for application data and a second offset in...

20060126655 - Mechanism to select the physical media type connector in network devices: A network device comprises first and second transceivers configured to aid communication between a plurality of networked devices; first and second communication medium connections in communication with the first and second transceivers, and capable of receiving first and second communication media, respectively; and a sliding door, said sliding door retained...

20060126654 - Method and system for managing communication in a data network: The present invention provides a method and system for managing communication in a data network. The method and system involves monitoring the communication channels at the host level. The hosts are updated with the monitoring information following which they take a coordinated decision in cases of failure of a channel....

20060126656 - Method, system, and apparatus for system level initialization: Multiple initialization techniques for system and component in a point-to-point architecture are discussed. Consequently, the techniques allow for flexible system/socket layer parameters to be tailored to the needs of the platform, such as, desktop, mobile, small server, large server, etc., as well as the component types such as IA32/IPF processors,...

20060126657 - Generating asynchronous interfaces and methods from synchronous interfaces and methods: Provided are a method, system, and program for generating asynchronous interfaces and methods from synchronous interfaces and methods receiving a synchronous interface to a target component having a synchronous method used by a client component to synchronously invoke the target component. An asynchronous interface is generated for the synchronous interface...

20060126659 - Methods, apparatus and data structures for preserving address and service level information in a virtual private network: Supporting virtual private networks by using a new layer 3 address to encapsulate a network-bound packet so that its context information, from which a layer 2 (e.g., MAC) address can be derived, is preserved. If this encapsulation was not done, the layer 2 address would change over each segment of...

20060126658 - System and method for transmission of information between locations on a computer network with the use of unique packets: System and method for transmission of information between locations on a computer network with the use of unique packets. A method is disclosed for communicating between first and second unlike systems. Information is generated at the first system in a first information format that is native to the first system....

20060126660 - Upstream channel bonding in a cable communications system: A method for increasing upstream bandwidth per cable modem user in a cable communications system that includes a cable modem termination system (CMTS) and a plurality of cable modems is provided. The method permits a cable modem to transmit data to the CMTS on multiple upstream channels simultaneously using a...

20060126663 - Aligning data packets/frames for transmission over a network channel: Data transmission over a network is disclosed. The data transmission includes aligning boundaries of application, transport, network, and data link layer packets. The transmission also includes receiving data transmission channel information, and determining a suitable number of data link layer packets per application/transport/network layer packet. The determination is based on...

20060126661 - Method, network elements, a terminal, a network infrastructure, and a communication system for triggering events: A method, network elements, a terminal, and a system of triggering events in a protocol layer stack of a communication system comprising at least one terminal and a network infrastructure including at least a first network element and a second network element, the method comprising the steps of detecting a...

20060126662 - Methods for sending and receiving network management messages and/or control messages: The present invention provides a method for sending and receiving the network management messages and/or the control messages, that is, using GFP protocol in stead of conventional LAPD protocol, predetermining the mapping relationship between the values of UPI field in GFP protocol and the types of the data including the...

20060126664 - Systems and methods for dynamic modification of a stream of data packets: Systems and methods for a VoIP session controller product that combines high performance packet processing throughput with low cost, based on a design that dynamically moves packet processing between user space and kernel based on individual call parameters....

20060126665 - High speed acquisition system that allows capture from a packet network and streams the data to a storage medium: A packet data capture apparatus, method and a computer readable medium having instructions recorded thereon, stream data packets in real time. The apparatus includes: a buffer, to store a plurality of data packets until transmission; a macro-packet transmitter, to prepare macro-packets from the stored plurality of packets and operate in...

20060126666 - Low level storage protocols, systems and methods: Communication protocols, systems, and methods that facilitate communication between disaggregated elements, and also to devices adapted to function as such disaggregated elements, particularly across peer-to-peer (masterless) and include one or more unique features such as packet atomicity, blind ACKs, NAT bridging, locking, multicast spanning and mirroring, and authentication....

20060126667 - Accelerated channel change in rate-limited environments: Accelerated channel change (ACC) strategies are described for supplying a client module with media information by transitioning between a first delivery of media information provided by first delivery functionality and a second delivery of media information provided by second delivery functionality without exceeding prescribed data rate limitations. The first delivery...

20060126668 - Internet broadcasting system and method thereof: An Internet broadcasting system and a method thereof are provided. The Internet broadcasting system includes: a signal converter for converting a received analog broadcasting signal into a digital broadcasting data; an Internet broadcasting unit for storing and sending the digital broadcasting data; a repeater for relaying the digital broadcasting data...

20060126671 - Cycle time synchronization apparatus and method for wireless 1394 system: A cycle time synchronization apparatus for a wireless 1394 system having one wireless 1394 intermediary and at least one wireless 1394 slave, the apparatus including: a cycle time generator for generating a cycle time by a predetermined clock signal; a cycle time register synchronized to a beacon inputted, and storing...

20060126669 - Data alignment method and system: A system and a machine-implemented method for receiving a real-time data signal from a real-time data source and a time-delayed data signal from a time-delayed data source. The real-time data signal and the time-delayed data signal are each monitored for the occurrence of a synchronization event. A time differential is...

20060126670 - Method for detecting symbol synchronization and apparatus thereof: An apparatus for detecting symbol synchronization in a received signal including a first preamble and a second preamble which is consecutive to the first preamble, the apparatus including a first correlator calculating a first correlation value between the received signal and a first pattern of a first period among iterative...

20060114811 - Multilevel amplitude modulated signaling in fibre channel: In a communication system comprising first and second nodes, a multilevel amplitude modulated signaling technique is utilized. The first and second nodes may communicate over a Fibre Channel link or other medium. The first and second nodes comprise respective transmitter and receiver pairs, with the transmitter of the first node...

20060114812 - Method and apparatus for embodying and synchronizing downlink signal in mobile communication system and method for searching cell using the same: In an OFDMA-based cellular system, a frame of a downlink signal includes a common slot and traffic slots. The common slot includes a synchronization preamble and a cell search preamble. The synchronization preamble has a structure for synchronizing time and frequency, and the cell search preamble has a cell search...

20060114813 - Multiple-input multiple-output transmission system: In a multiple-input multiple-output transmission system (MIMO system), a receive station detects whether or not there is an error in each data stream, estimates the state of the propagation path of each transmit antenna and reports, to the transmitting side, re-transmission necessary/unnecessary information, for every data stream, created based upon...

20060114814 - Orthogonal frequency division demodulator, method and computer program product: An OFDM demodulator that demodulates an OFDM signal includes an antenna that receives a signal including delayed signals, an estimation circuit that estimates the channel response of the received signal, and a control circuit that controls a length of a retention time interval based on the estimated channel response. The...

20060114815 - Pilot multiplexing method and ofdm transceiver apparatus in ofdm system: Disclosed is a pilot multiplexing method in an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) system. Transmit data is transmitted by an OFDM signal through an OFDM scheme, pilot data is directly spread, and a spread-spectrum signal, which has been obtained by spreading, is transmitted in the same frequency band as that...

20060114816 - Multiple antenna multicarrier communication system and method with reduced mobile-station processing: In a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) multicarrier communication system, a mobile station sends a quantized time-domain representation of the channel transfer function to a base station for use by the base station in generating beamforming coefficients for use in subsequent transmissions to the mobile station. In some embodiments, the quantized time-domain...

20060114818 - Restoration in a telecommunication network: A method is described for calculating a backup connection for restoring a nominal connection in a telecommunication network. The method performs the calculation of the backup connection taking into account updated values of parameters indicating at least one dynamic feature of a group of segments of the network. The dynamic...

20060114817 - Server, method for controlling data communication of server, computer product: A server includes a plurality of information processing units that respectively have a central processing unit and a memory, and that perform respective information processings in parallel; a setting-information receiving unit that receives setting information that indicates whether data communication can be performed among the information processing units; and a...

20060114819 - Information processing system, control method of same, supervisory apparatus, signal carrying supervisory program, and signal carrying maintenance management program: In an information processing system comprising a redundantly furnished plurality of second information processing apparatuses being commonly connected with a first information processing apparatus through an information transmission path to supervise the first information processing apparatus, and a third information processing apparatus being connected with the second information processing apparatus...

20060114825 - Congestion avoidance within aggregate channels: Network congestion avoidance within aggregated channels is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method first transmits a packet associated with a first channel of a plurality of related channels from a source protocol layer (e.g., a source IP layer) of a source through a network (e.g., the Internet). Next, the method...

20060114821 - Flow control buffering: A method and system for improved buffering during a flow control event, the system comprising: a mobile station having a mobile timer; a radio network communicating wirelessly with the mobile station and including: a base station; and a packet control function (PCF) capable of interrupting the flow of data to...

20060114824 - Multiple device communications: A communications protocol for a communications bus wherein messages are transmitted to a plurality of devices communicating by means of a bus. Each message includes a unique code indicating the end of the message and that same unique code triggers a transfer of communications control to another device of the...

20060114823 - Shared backoff generation for 802.11e compliant wlan communication devices: A WLAN (Wireless Local Area Network) communication device including a first buffer, a second buffer and a shared backoff generator and corresponding methods and integrated circuit chips provided. The first buffer is for queuing first data packets to be transmitted by the WLAN communication device after a transmission channel has...

20060114822 - Solicitation triggers for opening a network link: A method and a system opens a network connection using solicitation triggers. A terminal device that is connecting to a communication network sends a network connection request to a mobile network communication device and forms a connection between the terminal device and the mobile network communication device. The terminal device...

20060114820 - System and method for caching and fetching data: There is disclosed a data processing system and method for fetching a plurality of data frames for processing in succession at a desired rate. Data frames are fetched into available space in cache. A priority level is then assigned to each data frame by applying a recurring priority level pattern....

20060114826 - Bandwidth-efficient wireless network modem: A modem that provides efficient use of wireless network bandwidth in the presence of multi-user interference and noise comprising a multi-user detection module (115), a data formatting module (120), a control processor (125) and a demultiplexer (135)....

20060114827 - Method to facilitate determination of a data rate: A process (10) to facilitate determination of a particular data rate to use when communicating data with respect to a mobile station comprises providing (11) historical information regarding past radio frequency channel conditions, data quantity information (12) as corresponds to a current data file to be transmitted, and assessing (13)...

20060114828 - Data transmission ports with flow controlling unit and method for performing the same: The present invention discloses reconfigurable data transmission ports with flow controlling unit in a computerized computer and the method for performing the same. When a specific first port is configured on “merge” status, a buffer-configuration subunit of the flow controlling unit can compliantly configure a receiving buffer owned by the...

20060114829 - System and method for reducing switching overhead in a communication network: A system and method for reducing switching overhead in a communication network and a web-based server incorporating the system or the method. In one embodiment, the system includes: (1) an optimization engine configured to receive input data describing trunks, switches and traffic demands in at least a portion of the...

20060114830 - High-throughput communication system, communication terminal, session relay, and communication protocol: In a communication system for transmitting and receiving data between a plurality of terminals via a network through a session relay for relaying communication between the terminals, each of the terminals or the session relay measures a one-way or a round-trip delay time in the network, determines a threshold delay...

20060114831 - Mirroring of data in a network device: A network device for processing packets includes an ingress module for performing switching functions on an incoming packet, a memory management unit for storing packets and performing resource checks on each packet and an egress module for performing packet modification and transmitting a modified packet to an appropriate egress port....

20060114832 - Platform and method for providing data services in a communication network: A communication node and corresponding method for processing data communication passing through the node between a first data network and a second data network is described. The method includes detecting an event associated with data communication arriving at the node from the first data network, and determining whether the data...

20060114833 - Performance indicator for a high-speed communication system: A method and apparatus for generating a performance indicator in a high-speed communication system. A plurality of disparate communication status signals with differing formats from a transceiver are combined in a logic module to create a single link quality indicator signal. The link quality indicator signal is used to encode...

20060114835 - Device, system, and method for automatically determining an appropriate lan ip address range in a multi-router network environment: A device, system and method which provides for automatic selection of an alternative private address space by a gateway-router device which is given a private address on its WAN port is disclosed. The present invention provides for a device, system, and method wherein, in a given network topology, if a...

20060114837 - Method and apparatus for processing requests for statistics in a communication network: A method and apparatus of initiating a plurality of requests for statistics to be sent to an associated plurality of nodes in a segment of a communication network is provided. One or more requests are associated with an individual node. Each node has one or more node attributes. The method...

20060114834 - Method and apparatus of estimating available bandwidth on a packet network: By approximating a packet network, such as the Internet, by an M/M/1 queuing model, the available bandwidth of the network can determined from the variance of the distribution of the sojourn times of packets transmitted through the network. In order to determine the variance of the distribution of sojourn times,...

20060114836 - Method for operating a combined multimedia -telecom system: Presented is a method of managing the operation of a system including a processing subsystem configured to run a multimedia application and a telecommunication subsystem. The method includes determining telecom environment conditions, and selecting a working point from a plurality of predetermined working points. The selecting is based at least...

20060114841 - Communication system with synchronization alliances: In a communication system including nodes laid out in a grid, each node operates on a repetitive internal timing cycle, at certain phases in which the node transmits data and state variable signals. The state variable signals transmitted by a node indicate its internal phase and its position in the...

20060114840 - Communication system with timing cycle simulation: Each node in a communication system operates on a repetitive internal timing cycle, at certain phases in which the node transmits data and state variable signals. The state variable signals indicate the node's data transmission timing. Each node has a virtual node calculator that simulates the timing cycles of neighboring...

20060114839 - Method for securely and automatically configuring access points: The present invention is contemplates an automatic, secure AP configuration protocol. Public/private keys and public key (PK) methods are used to automatically establish a mutual trust relationship and a secure channel between an AP and at least one configuration server. An AP automatically forwards a location identifier to the configuration...

20060114838 - Mpls vpn fault management using igp monitoring system: In an exemplary embodiment, a method for managing a network includes monitoring a network using an interior gateway protocol to detect change in the network, and determining effects of the detected network change on Multi Protocol Label Switching paths in the network. For example, the MPLS paths can be the...

20060114842 - System for dynamic provisioning of secure, scalable, and extensible networked computer environments: A system and method for provisioning a virtual network is provided. Virtual networks can be automatically formed including switches in networks, such as local and private networks. Once the virtual networks are formed, virtual computing devices can be provisioned in place of physical computing devices that are connected to the...

20060114843 - Cluster of terminals and ad-hoc network for cluster-based multi-party conferencing: A cluster of terminals, and an ad-hoc network of two or more such clusters, for carrying a multi-party, cluster-based, conference, wherein each cluster includes a super member comprising a super user agent, and one or more members including a user agent. Communications sessions are established between the super member of...

20060114845 - Method and apparatus for exchange of information in a communication system: A technique for connecting a dialed B-party number to a data object is described. The connecting of a B-party number to a specific data object, hereafter referred to as phonepage, will allow an A-party direct access to information that a B-party wishes to display to a calling party. The phonepage...

20060114844 - System, method, and apparatus for displaying pictures: Presented herein are systems, methods, and apparatus for displaying pictures. In one embodiment, there is presented a decoder system for decoding video data. The decoder system comprises a port and a transport processor. The port receives packets carrying encoded video data from a plurality of video streams. The transport processor...

20060114846 - Methods for cluster-based multi-party conferencing in ad-hoc networks: Methods for establishing a cluster-based multi-party conference and for carrying on the conference as participants join or leave the conference are provided. First, two or more terminals participating to the conference are joined in a cluster, wherein one of them is elected as a super member of the cluster. The...

20060114847 - User agent and super user agent for cluster-based multi-party conferencing in ad-hoc networks: A user agent and a super user agent for use in terminals for cluster-based multi-party conferencing using one or more clusters of terminals. Each cluster includes a super member comprising a super user agent, and one or more members including a user agent. The user agent comprises identity of the...

20060114848 - Reliable multicast using merged acknowledgements: Multiple multicast acknowledgements can be merged into a single multicast acknowledgement, thus reducing traffic and reducing logic complexity. An intermediate node that receives multiple multicast acknowledgements merges the multiple acknowledgements into a single acknowledgement, and then supplies the single merged acknowledgment to the multicast source. Encoding of the single merged...

20060114849 - System and method for achieving continuous connectivity to an access point or gateway in a wireless network following an on-demand routing protocol, and to perform smooth handoff of mobile terminals between fixed terminals in the network: A system and method for enabling an ad-hoc communication network to maintain connectivity with the mobile nodes in the network in an effective and efficient manner with minimal overhead. The system and method enables an ad-hoc communication network to maintain connectivity between intelligent access points of the network and mobile...

20060114850 - System and method for achieving continuous connectivity to an access point or gateway in a wireless network following an on-demand routing protocol, and to perform smooth handoff of mobile terminals between fixed terminals in the network: A system and method for enabling an ad-hoc communication network to maintain connectivity with the mobile nodes in the network in an effective and efficient manner with minimal overhead. The system and method enables an ad-hoc communication network to maintain connectivity between intelligent access points of the network and mobile...

20060114853 - Dual mode, dual band wireless communication network and a method for using the same: A dual mode, dual band wireless communication network (100) and a method for using the same. The wireless communication network (100) includes nodes, such as mobile nodes (102), access points (106) and wireless routers (107), that can communicate wirelessly over two different frequencies, for example, 2.4 GHz and 4.9 GHz,...

20060114852 - Enhancing a transferred call: A communication system includes logic to detect I/O activity of a first communication device, logic to ascertain whether a second communication device having an active call is in proximity to the first communication device, and logic to provide a substantially uninterrupted transfer of the call from the second communication device...

20060114851 - Method and apparatus for multi-channel mac protocol using multi-tone synchronous collision resolution: A multi-tone synchronous collision resolution system permits communication nodes within a MANET to contend simultaneously for a plurality of available channels. The communication nodes contend for access using a synchronous signaling mechanism that utilizes multiple tones in a synchronous manner to resolve contentions. Contentions are arbitrated locally, and a surviving...

20060114854 - Voice over ip portable transreceiver: Described below is a system to provide voice communication over a data network. The system is described as an access point connected to the data network adapted to exchange network messages over the data network and a wireless terminal including a transmitter component and a software module, the transmitter component...

20060114856 - Mobile ip network system and connection switching method: In a mobile IP network system including a plurality of radio access networks for connecting with mobile stations via radio links and an IP network connected with a plurality of packet nodes for transferring IP packets, each of the radio access networks has at least one base station controller and...

20060114855 - Quality of service (qos) signaling for a wireless network: An approach is provided for supporting Quality of Service (QoS) signaling between radio networks. A request message is generated for configuring an air link of a first radio network according to a Quality of Service (QoS) requirement specified in the request message, wherein the request message is transmitted to first...

20060114858 - Closed-loop rate control for a mimo communication system: In a MIMO system, rate control is achieved with an inner loop that selects rates for data streams sent via a MIMO channel and an outer loop that regulates the operation of the inner loop. For the inner loop, SNR estimates are obtained for each data stream based on received...

20060114860 - 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...

20060114861 - 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...

20060114859 - Handoff control method and a mobile station employing the same: There is disclosed a handoff control method for registering a CDMA mobile station in such a way that battery power wastage is prevented if successive attempts to register the station fail. If it is judged that registration fails (step S106), idle handoff is inhibited (step S107). The mobile station shifts...

20060114857 - System and method for digital multimedia broadcasting: A system for sending multimedia information from at least one base station to one or more mobile stations via at least one wireless communication link includes at least one multimedia source for generating the multimedia information. At least one processor is coupled to the multimedia source for generating a number...

20060114862 - Tdma communications apparatus: A CPU of a TDMA communications apparatus examines whether a slot to be allocated for a next transmission is a first slot (S1). If the slot to be allocated is the first slot, the CPU examines whether there are any slots already allocated by other stations within a Selection Interval...

20060114867 - Distributed wireless access method based on network allocation vector table and apparatus of the same: Embodiments of the present invention include a wireless access method based on a NAVT (Network allocation vector table), which is applied to a distributed wireless mobile communication system comprising a plurality of nodes, the NAVT comprises a packet type field and a duration field and is stored in the respective...

20060114875 - Measuring the throughput of transmissions over wireless local area networks: A method and system for measuring the throughput of transmissions over a wireless local area network having a station and an access point. The station can send messages to the access point during a test period, where the messages can be sent as data frames. The access point can receive...

20060114866 - Method and apparatus for sharing channel among coordinator-based wireless networks: A method and apparatus for sharing a channel among coordinator-based wireless networks are provided. The method includes a coordinator of a first wireless network selecting a channel through which data are transmitted and received, selecting a period during which the channel is in a sleep period, setting the selected period...

20060114863 - Method to secure 802.11 traffic against mac address spoofing: A method for protecting a wireless network against spoofed MAC address attacks. A database is used for storing MAC address and user identity bindings. When a new request to access the network is received, the MAC address and user identity of the request is compared to the stored MAC address...

20060114868 - Mgw codec information managing method in msc server: A method for managing codec information of Media Gateways (MGWS) in a Mobile Switching Center (MSC) server, comprising receiving a registration request from at least one or more MGWs, registering the request MGW, and transmitting a codec information request message to the registered MGW to thus update MGW codec information...

20060114869 - Multi-hop multi-channel wireless communication system: A multi-hop wireless communication system operates on multiple channels. Each wireless station in the system has at least two transmitting and receiving modules operating on different fixed channels. During transmission and reception of the packets, the transmitting and receiving modules are used selectively on each hop, using a channel supported...

20060114871 - Network selection involving ganc redirection: In one embodiment, a scheme is provided for effectuating generic access network (GAN) selection with respect to a user equipment (UE) device that is operable in wide area cellular network ((WACN) bands as well as in wireless access network bands (e.g., GAN bands and/or UMA bands). A network node (e.g.,...

20060114864 - System and method for cohesive radio operation: Described is a system which includes a first radio transceiver operating in accordance with a first communication protocol and a second radio transceiver operating in accordance with a second communication protocol. The first radio transceiver transmits a first signal to the second transceiver, the first signal including data related to...

20060114874 - System and method for integrating wlan and 3g: A method and system for providing ubiquitous coverage and seamless connectivity for devices which support Internet access via third generation (3G) cellular and IEEE 802.11 wideband local area network (WLAN) technologies, irrespective of which radio access technology is available....

20060114870 - System and method for supporting gan service request capability in a wireless user equipment (ue) device: In one embodiment, a scheme is disclosed for supporting wireless access network service request capability in a user equipment (UE) device that is operable in wide area cellular network (WACN) bands as well as in wireless access network bands (e.g., GAN bands and/or UMA bands). The UE device includes capability...

20060114865 - Wireless communication apparatus and communication method thereof: An AP allows a CTS generator provided within a control unit to generate a self-destined, e.g., IEEE802.11b standard-based CTS signal containing a duration time corresponding to each standard. Then, the AP notifies to each STA operated based on the 11b standard in a basic service set, that it is being...

20060114873 - Wireless communication equipment, wireless communication control method and program: According to this invention, a wireless communication equipment which communicates with a plurality of nodes supplies an access control technique for improving communication efficiency. For this purpose, a wireless communication equipment is connected to a plurality of networks, and includes a communication unit which sequentially communicates, at a predetermined interval,...

20060114872 - Wireless control apparatus, system, control method, and program: A network system is provided which includes an Enterprise-mode authentication server on a host network, a wireless access point (AP) on a wired local network, and wireless terminals on a wireless local network. The AP obtains a result of user authentication performed by the Enterprise-mode authentication server by monitoring an...

20060114876 - High speed trunking in a network device: A network device for selecting a port from a trunk group on which to transmit a multicast packet. The network device includes at least one trunk group including a plurality of physical ports. The network device is connected to at least one other network device by a number of the...

20060114877 - Method and apparatus for scheduling uplink data transmission using ue-id in a mobile communication system supporting uplink packet data service: A method and apparatus for controlling an uplink data rate, without increasing downlink signaling overhead, in a mobile communication system that supports an uplink packet data service. A Node B transmits an Absolute grants (AG) using one of first and second IDs to a User Equipment (UE). Upon receipt of...

20060114878 - Medium access method for contention and non-contention: In a medium access method for contention and non-contention, a poll number for stations, or wireless terminals for communication, is managed by a base station so as to guarantee smooth traffic and improved Quality of Service (QoS). A first group of stations is provided for the non-contention, and a second...

20060114879 - Method for sharing bandwidth using reduced duty cycle signals: A method is provided for transmitting data. A first device (121) generates a first signal (320) having a first duty cycle, comprising a first gated-on portion (323) and a first gated-off portion (363) in a time slot (260); and a second device (125) generates a second signal (330) having second...

20060114880 - Ip communication network routing protocol message validity state signaling device: A device for processing routing protocol messages for a router of an Internet protocol communication network comprises a processor that determines if routing information contained in a routing protocol message to be sent to at least one destination peer router has been checked at least once by at least one...

20060114881 - Mesh network that includes fixed and mobile access nodes: An apparatus and method of selecting a routing path through a mesh network that includes a mobile access node is disclosed. The method includes each access node of the mesh network capable of receiving routing beacons from at least one upstream access node. The routing beacons including information of all...

20060114886 - Broadcasting system and method: Disclosed is a broadcasting system and method for transmitting/receiving a broadcast data in a broadcasting system, which reduces an application download period by efficiently utilizing a data broadcasting stream and a return channel for application download when a reception terminal receives a data broadcast. The broadcasting system and method includes...

20060114888 - Information management system for bed data: A hospital bed, patient/nurse call system, and a hospital network are provided. Communication is provided over a packet based communication network....

20060114884 - Method and apparatus for audio conference bridge initiated remote device muting: Method and apparatus for providing an audio conference bridge initiated remote device muting are disclosed. In a preferred embodiment, a conference bridge is configured to detect a remote mute request from a remote Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) device, such as a VoIP telephone. Responsive to this request, the conference...

20060114890 - Method and apparatus for practicing ip telephony from an internet-capable radio: An Internet radio device is provided, having a dedicated Internet Protocol (IP) telephony mode for practicing telephony and for enabling one-touch initiation and call connection of an IP telephone call to a recipient device. The internet radio comprises, an IP telephony software application for enabling IP telephony, a modem for...

20060114889 - Multiservice use of network connection capability: A system that controls access to a communications network in accordance with a network service includes a service controller and a network connector. The service controller receives a request for the network service from an end system, provides the end system with a unique setup identifier and an enabling certificate,...

20060114885 - Network interworking system and method for providing seamless voice service and short message service between wireless communication networks: A network interworking system is provided for connecting a voice call between a mobile terminal in a wireless packet network and a mobile terminal in a mobile communication network. A home location register (HLR) registers therein location information of terminals and a subscriber profile. An access point controller (APC) converts...

20060114882 - Presence management in packet-switched networks using circuit-switched ussd signaling: A method of managing presence information in a packet-switched wireless communication network such as a General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) network or a Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (WCDMA) network. Instead of using the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) to send presence update messages to a presence server in the packet-switched...

20060114883 - System and method for wireless cellular enabled information handling system router: An information handling system router integrates wireless local area networking components and wireless cellular wide area network components to route information between a wireless cellular wide area network and plural information handling systems interfaced with a wireless local area network supported by the wireless local area network components. The wireless...

20060114887 - Voice communications terminal: To provide a voice communication terminal for executing voice communication via an Internet Protocol network comprises, a presence confirmation request signal transmission unit which transmits a presence confirmation request signal indicating presence of the voice communication terminal to a server connected to the Internet Protocol network, a response time detection...

20060114891 - Terminal apparatus and control method of the terminal apparatus: A terminal apparatus includes: an network interface that is connected to a communication network for transmitting data packets including a voice packet containing voice data; a microphone that receives voice and converts into a voice signal; a converter that converts the voice signal into the voice packet for transmitting through...

20060114895 - Cpu transmission of unmodified packets: A network device for processing packet. The network device includes an ingress module for performing switching functionality on an incoming packet, wherein the network device determines a destination port to which the incoming packet is to be transmitted. The network device also includes a CPU processing module for transmitting information...

20060114900 - Fast filter processor metering and chaining: A network device for processing packets. The network device includes applying specific fields from a packet to an associated memory device and comparing means for comparing input to the memory device with entries in the memory device. The network device also includes enabling means for enabling selection of bits, by...

20060114896 - Flow-aware ethernet digital subscriber line access multiplexer dslam: An access node (1) that is preferably a Flow-Aware Ethernet DSLAM adapted to transmit Ethernet data frames between subscribers (2) and an aggregation network (3). The access node comprises a first memory (4) for storing classification rules and a second memory (6) for storing flow rules. These rules are applied...

20060114892 - Method and apparatus to transmit state information through a communication link: A method and apparatus to transmit state information through a communication link. In an example embodiment, an endpoint on a communication link receives a state packet in a first format from a first device. The state packet is translated into a second format to generate a translated packet. The translated...

20060114898 - Method for providing an internet-layer address to a client device: Methods for providing internet-layer addresses from serving devices (1) via relaying devices (4) to client devices (3) comprise the steps of, at the relaying devices (4), receiving first messages (101a) from the client devices (3) and second messages (102a) from the serving devices and transmitting further first messages (101b) to...

20060114902 - Multicast trunking in a network device: A network device for uniform distribution of non-unicast traffic, such as layer 2 broadcast, layer 2 multicast, unknown unicast and layer 3 multicast on a truch group. The network device includes at least one trunk group including a plurality of physical ports. The network device is connected to at least...

20060114899 - Packet forwarding apparatus: In a packet forwarding apparatus having a plurality of interfaces for connection to external networks, at least one of the interfaces is designated as an extension interface, and an extension apparatus having an additional function is connected to the packet forwarding apparatus via the extension interface. An ingress packet having...

20060114897 - System and method for roaming connectivity: A communication system allows multiple, simultaneous access by a multiplicity of users to a plurality of area networks. Users are granted access to the plurality of area networks by an authentication server coupled to the plurality of area networks. The authentication server retrieves a subscriber's profile information from a database...

20060114894 - Technique for automated mac address cloning: In an arrangement where the device that is known to an ISP is communicating with the ISP through an interposed device that is not known to the ISP, the interposed device captures the known device's MAC address upon startup and clones the captured MAC address in all standard packets that...

20060114901 - Unicast trunking in a network device: A network device for selecting a port from a trunk group to transmit a unicast packet on the selected port. The network device includes at least one trunk group including a plurality of physical ports. The network device also includes a table with a plurality of entries. Each entry is...

20060114893 - Updating associating data in a media device: A media device and a method of updating associating data in a media device are provided. The associating data relates to a service being transmitted over a radio interface of a cellular telecommunication system and associating the service with a broadcast media stream transmitted by a broadcast system. A starting...

20060114904 - Differentiated services multicast system and method using encapsulation and unicast: A DiffServ multicast system and method includes: searching a routing table according to information of a header of a multicast packet to determine the number of routers capable of transmitting the multicast packet upon the multicast packet being received; copying the multicast packet to correspond to the number of routers...

20060114903 - Distributed multicast system and method in a network: The invention provides multicast communication using distributed topologies in a network. The control nodes in the network build a distributed topology of processor nodes for providing multicast packet distribution. Multiple processor nodes in the network participate in the decisions regarding the forwarding of multicast packets as opposed to multicast communications...

20060114907 - Cut-through switching in a network device: A network device for processing packets includes an ingress module for performing switching functions on an incoming packet, a memory management unit for storing packets and an egress module for transmitting the incoming packet to an egress port. The memory management unit is configured to store initial cells of the...

20060114905 - Forced bubble insertion scheme: A network device for processing packets. The network device includes a memory management unit for storing packets and performing resource checks on each packet and an egress module for performing packet modification and transmitting the packet to a destination port. The memory management unit includes a timer for indicating that...

20060114908 - Policy based routing using a fast filter processor: A network device for processing packets. The network device includes applying specific fields from a packet to an associated memory device and comparing means for comparing input to the memory device with entries in the memory device. The network device also includes enabling means for enabling selection of bits, by...

20060114906 - System and method for maintaining a layer 2 modification buffer: A network device for processing packets. The network devices includes a ingress module for performing lookups for layer 2 switching and performing operations for maintaining a layer 2 table. When the ingress module updates the layer 2 table, the ingress module records the operation performed on the layer 2 table...

20060114909 - Apparatus and method for performing cyclic redundancy check (crc) on partial protocol data units (pdus): The present invention discloses an apparatus and method for performing cyclic redundancy check (CRC) on partial protocol data units (PDUs). The disclosed apparatus is designed to off-load the CRC calculation for transmit or receive from a host computer. According to the disclosed method, when generating CRC for partial PDUs, for...

20060114910 - Enhanced channel interleaving for optimized data throughput: In a transmission scheme wherein multi-slot packet transmissions to a remote station can be terminated by an acknowledgment signal from the remote station, code symbols can be efficiently packed over the multi-slot packet so that the remote station can easily decode the data payload of the multi-slot packet by decoding...

20060114911 - Collection and analysis of route data for \"forward and reverse\" routes: One embodiment of the present invention is a method for collecting route data for forward and reverse routes that includes: (a) scheduling route data collection for a forward route; and (b) scheduling route data collection for a reverse route; wherein the scheduling for the forward and reverse routes provides for...

20060114912 - Rate limiting and minimum and maximum shaping in a network device: A network device for scheduling packets in a plurality of queues includes a plurality of leaky bucket modules, each of the plurality of leaky bucket mechanisms being associated with one of a plurality of queues and configured to process information based on a predefined bandwidth, a scheduler configured to schedule...

20060114913 - Call control with converged application server logic and gateway logic in ims networks: IMS call control nodes and methods are disclosed for providing online charging in an IMS network. An IMS call control node receives a call message from a CSCF through a first interface for a call session, and determines whether to execute Application Server (AS) logic or gateway logic responsive to...

20060114914 - Pipeline architecture of a network device: A network device for processing packets. The network device includes an ingress module for performing switching functions on an incoming packet. The network device also includes a memory management unit for storing packets and performing resource checks on each packet and an egress module for performing packet modification and transmitting...

20060114915 - Vlan translation in a network device: A network device for implementing VLAN translation on a packet. The network device includes a user network interface port for receiving and transmitting packets to customers of a network. The network device also includes a network to network interface port for communicating with a second network device in the network....

20060114916 - Inter-domain te-lsp with igp extensions: A technique propagates reachability information for a tail-end node of a traffic engineering (TE) label switched path (LSP) to a head-end node of the TE-LSP in a computer network. The TE-LSP preferably spans multiple domains of the network such that the tail-end node resides in a domain that is different...

20060114917 - Secure system and method for san management in a non-trusted server environment: According to the present invention a method and a system is provided for operating a storage area network (SAN) in a server environment in which multiple servers share one Fibre Channel adapter. A SAN Management Server manages regions in storage systems and security, a Fiber Channel Network provides a connection...

20060114918 - Data transfer system, data transfer method, and image apparatus system: A data transfer system using a high-speed serial interface system that forms a tree structure in which point-to-point communication channels are established for data sending and data receiving independently is provided. The data transfer system includes plural end points each having plural upper ports each of which is connected to...

20060114919 - Reservation/retry media access control: All upstream messages that are desired to be sent from one of a plurality of settop terminals sharing a common upstream channel are segmented into data packets through an adaptation layer before sending into the upstream channel by a settop terminal, using the present invention using a hybrid of contention...

20060114920 - Status indicator for communication systems: A variety of techniques and devices for acquiring user status information at a transmitting device to a receiving device, or vice versa, are provided....

20060114921 - Data processing apparatus and method for handling transactions: A data processing apparatus and method are provided for handling transactions issued to a slave device from a master device. Each transaction involves the transfer of one or more data packets between the master device and the slave device. The data processing apparatus comprises a buffer storage operable to buffer...

20060114922 - Method and apparatus for improved data channel transmission in a digital network: A integrated circuit device for use in a line card of a digital networking system is capable of intercepting one or more control messages corresponding to a requested data channel sent from at least one customer premises equipment (CPE) device. The integrated circuit device is also capable of receiving a...

20060114923 - Disaggregated star platform management bus architecture system: A star topology platform management bus architecture and system that provides disaggregation of the platform control element portion and the routing element portion of a central management controller, which provides for physical design efficiency as well as other advantages....

20060114924 - Packet forwarding apparatus with packet controlling functions: A packet forwarding apparatus which quickly selects a plurality of control information entries to be applied according to header information of an input packet and concurrently performs various the header processing functions. The packet forwarding apparatus comprises a flow retrieval unit which compares header information of the input packet with...

20060114925 - Interference control in a broadband powerline communication system: A broadband powerline communication system is disclosed which makes use of knowledge of the spectrum characteristics of a local radio environment in order to improve the performance of the system. A determination is made of the spectrum characteristics of a radio environment in the vicinity of the broadband powerline communication...

20060114926 - Methods of allocating access across a shared communications medium: A method of providing network access across a shared communications medium between competing users includes the steps of monitoring network access usage by each user for a past time interval and, based on the monitored network access usage, allocating network access for each user during a future time interval. Features...

20060114927 - Hybrid telephone, non-telephone network: A hybrid network includes telephone and non-telephone network media. The communication devices communicate along the hybrid network according to a media access plan. The non-telephone communication devices do not have collision detection although the telephone communication devices do. The non-telephone communication devices have higher power and sensitivity levels than the...

20060114928 - Wireless communication apparatus and wireless communication method: A wireless communication apparatus for performing wireless communication using a first channel having a first frequency bandwidth, and a second channel formed of both the first channel and a second communication channel, the second communication channel having a frequency bandwidth equal to the first frequency bandwidth. A first generation of...

20060114929 - Contention resolution covering all ports of a data switch: A communication network has one or more interconnected data switches having I/O ports and at least one virtual port. The communication network further has means for subjecting the ports to one and the same contention resolution process....

20060114930 - In-band control of indicators to identify devices distributed on the same domain: Systems, methods and a computer program product are provided to permit the identification of all of the devices of a specified domain in a multi-domain environment. All communication among the domain devices is in-band having the advantage that no additional cabling is required. A control center between host devices and...

20060114932 - Ims gateway systems and methods for online charging in ims networks: Systems and methods are disclosed for providing online charging in an IMS network. An IMS gateway system receives a first message from a CSCF through a first interface for a call session, and processes the first message to determine whether to contact an OCS for online charging for the call...

20060114931 - Ipv6/ipv4 packet conversion system: An object of the present invention is to achieve an IPv6/IPv4 packet conversion system capable of TCP-compliant packet size control while executing packet conversion between IPv4 and IPv6 networks. Accordingly, the system of the present invention comprises an IPv6/IPv4 translator installed between IPv6 and IPv4 networks and equipped with a...

20060114933 - Method of transporting an ip packet over a rapidio network: A method of transporting an IP packet (136) from a receiving RapidIO node (102) over a RapidIO network (112) to a destination RapidIO node (104) includes the RapidIO domain receiving the IP packet and reading a destination IP address (273) of the IP packet, where the destination IP address corresponds...

20060114934 - Network operation method in interactive satellite communications system: A network operation method in an interactive satellite communications system interworking with an external network without modifying a network setting is provided. The network operation method in a base station of the interactive satellite communications system includes the steps of: receiving a data request packet from a user; converting a...

20060114935 - Information transmission method, mobile communications system, base station and mobile station in which data size of identification data is reduced: 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...

20060114936 - Enhanced processing methods for wireless base stations: A method for use in a wireless communication system includes performing at least part of physical layer processing in one or more digital signal processors of a selected type, and performing at least part of medium access control processing in the same one or more digital signal processors. The physical...

20060114937 - Method and apparatus for direct memory access based on class-of-service: A switching chip for performing switching and other functions on packets transmitted through the switching chip. The switching chip includes a memory management unit that identifies a class of service to which each packet belongs, wherein upon processing the packet. The memory management unit transmits the packet to a CPU...

20060114939 - Network architecture and methods for transparent on-line cross-sessional encoding and transport of network communications data: A computer implemented method and system for transferring data packets includes intercepting a stream of data packets at the connectionless network layer from a client or server, encoding and encapsulating the data packets, transmitting the encoded data packets, decoding and decapsulating the data packets, and injecting the decoded and decapsulated...

20060114938 - Network for supporting advance features on legacy components: A network device that processes packets and includes at least one legacy component for performing basic processing on packets in the network device. The network device further includes at least one advanced component for performing advanced processing, which can not be performed by the legacy component, on packets in the...

20060114940 - Sensor network for transmitting data and data transmitting method thereof: Disclosed are a sensor network for transmitting data and a data transmitting method thereof. The sensor network includes one or more sensor nodes for collecting target data and transmitting the collected target data at an allocated sub-time slot among sub-time slots constituting each time slot corresponding to the collected target...

20060114942 - Apparatus and method for acquiring code group in asynchronous w-cdma system: Provided are an apparatus and a method for acquiring a code group that is used for a mobile communication terminal to acquire a scrambling code for identification of a base station. The present invention compares a part of slot values in code groups of the secondary synchronization channel transmitted to...

20060114941 - Medium access control for simultaneous channel communications: A method and system for wireless data transmission between at least three stations use multiple frequency bands for simultaneous channel communications. The method includes transmitting a Request To Send (RTS) packet from a first station to an intermediate second station over a first frequency band. Two Clear To Send (CTS)...

20060114943 - Method for synchronization in a redundant communication system: With a method for synchronization in a redundant communication system that includes a central participant and at least one further participant, at least one of the further participants being synchronized with the central participant, and, to this end, at least two telegrams containing synchronization information being transmitted by the central...

20060114944 - Apparatus and method for measuring a delay in the transmission of multimedia data in a multimedia system: Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for quantitatively measuring a delay caused according to communication environments during a transmission of multimedia data, particularly, MPEG (Moving Picture Experts Group)-2 TS (Transport Stream), in a multimedia system. The apparatus includes a transmitter that generates and transmits a counter information packet (CIP),...

20060114945 - Signal output device and signal output method: When it is detected that the amounts of first and second signals processable by first and second signal processing units respectively have been accumulated in first and second input buffers, a control unit requests the first and second signal processing units to start the reproducing processing, and on the basis...