Multiplex communications inventions 07/06

20060164968 - Method and apparatus for transmitting data in a diversity communication system employing constellation rearrangement with qpsk modulation: A method of transmitting data from a transmitter to a receiver of a diversity (e.g. ARQ or reptetition coding) communication system comprising the step of encoding data received from a signal source to generate a Galois field (GF) symbols (101). The method further comprises the steps of modifying redundant GF...

20060164969 - Method and system for controlling medium access in a wireless network: A method and system are disclosed that can be applied to achieve high-throughput in a WLAN. Central to the present invention is the use of an SDMA compatible multi-beam antenna system by a WLAN access point. A system based on two types of antennas-dynamic beam forming and fixed beam antennas—is...

20060164972 - Apparatus and method for downlink scheduling in a sdma-enabled ofdma wireless network: A scheduler for scheduling downlink transmissions of orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) signals using spatially directed beams to a plurality of subscriber stations in a wireless network. The scheduler schedules the downlink transmissions as a function of frequency, time, and space. The scheduler further schedules downlink transmissions to a...

20060164973 - Interleaving method in ofdm system: Provided is an interleaving method that can reduce error occurring during transmission at a receiving end in an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) system. According to the interleaving method, transmitted data bits are recorded in an interleaving memory; and the stored data bits are read based on a predetermined sequence...

20060164971 - Pilot symbol transmission for multiple-transmit communication system: A network device for transmitting a set of known pilot symbols in a communications system utilizing a plurality of transmit sources. The network device includes generating means for generating the set of known pilot symbols to be transmitted for each of the plurality of transmit sources and inserting means for...

20060164970 - Transmitter and receiver in dblast system: A transmitter of a Diagonal Bell Laboratories Layered Space-Time (DBLAST) system includes an interleaver for performing interleaving for all sub-streams in a stream of a transmission signal, thereby generating an interleaved signal, a symbol repeater for generating a reverse-arranged signal rearranged in a reverse order to the interleaved signal, and...

20060164974 - Method of moving a transport connection among network hosts: A method is disclosed for providing fault tolerance of an application over a Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) connection. A method for moving a transport connection from a first host to a second host on a network is also described. After establishing a transport connection between the first host and...

20060164975 - Loop prevention technique for mpls using two labels: A fast reroute (FRR) technique is implemented at the edge of a network. In accordance with the technique, if an edge device detects a node or link failure that prevents it from communicating with a neighboring routing domain, the edge device reroutes at least some data packets addressed to that...

20060164976 - Failure independent path protection with p-cycles: A telecommunications network, comprising plural nodes connected by plural spans and arranged to form a mesh network. There is at least one pre-configured cycle of spare capacity established in the mesh network, the pre-configured cycle including plural nodes of the mesh network. The plural nodes of the pre-configured cycle are...

20060164979 - Communication traffic management monitoring systems and methods: Systems and methods of monitoring a communication traffic transfer rate control mechanism are provided. The traffic transfer rate control mechanism may control a rate of transfer of communication traffic from a first communication traffic management device to a second communication traffic management device, for example. A communication traffic storage history,...

20060164980 - Method and system for classification of packets based on meta-rules: A method and apparatus for classification of packets is provided. The method includes classifying the packets based on the structured part of at least one packet classification rule, and classifying the packets based on the unstructured part of the at least one packet classification rule, the classification being done based...

20060164981 - Method for processing traffic data in a wireless communications system: The present invention concerns a method of processing traffic data in Layer 2 of a wireless communications system, whereby the MAC layer is arranged, after receipt of a traffic data volume report from the RLC layer, to process said data volume report and to then issue an acknowledgement message to...

20060164978 - Methods, systems, and devices for determining cos level: Certain exemplary embodiments comprise a method comprising a plurality of activities, comprising: based on an analysis of historical information regarding packet traffic conveyed on a local area network associated with a customer, the packet traffic also conveyed on a wide area network managed by a service provider and coupled to...

20060164977 - Provision of network elements in a communication system: According to the invention, at least partly loaded network elements are determined for the provision of network elements in a communication system by means of providing a service. Load thresholds are also determined for network elements. On a service provision request an exceeding of the fixed load threshold values, related...

20060164982 - Systems, methods and media for detecting nagling on a tcp network connection: Systems, methods and media for detecting Nagling on a TCP network connection are disclosed. Embodiments may generally include a system with a Nagle detection threshold determiner for determining a Nagle detection threshold based on the network connection. The system may also generally include a Nagle detection module in communication with...

20060164983 - Access control for packet-oriented networks: The invention relates to a method for access control to a packet-oriented network. An admissibility check for a group of packets is carried out by means of a threshold value for the traffic volume between the network input node and the network output node for the flow. The transmission of...

20060164985 - Apparatus and method for enhanced flow control in a wireless network: An apparatus and a related method for controlling the flow of data packets to a base station of wireless network, including a flow control mechanism between the transmission buffer located in the base station and the packet data buffer, which may be located in the radio access network (e.g., in...

20060164984 - Limiting unauthorized sources in a multicast distribution tree: Disclosed are, inter alia, methods, apparatus, data structures, computer-readable media, and mechanisms for limiting unauthorized multicast sources. One or more access control lists are typically configured in a switching device to a state that denies forwarding of multicast packets with a particular host as its source. In response to a...

20060164986 - Context profile for data communications: The invention discloses a method, transport layer protocol entity, device and system of transmitting data in a communications network. The method comprises opening and configuring a port of a transport layer protocol and determining a context profile for the port. The transport layer protocol entity sends data packets e.g. to...

20060164987 - Adaptive dropping of prioritized transmission packets: A series of information portions are provided to a transmitter, the information portions have critical times when they need to be available to a receiver. The transmitter estimates whether the information portions can be transmitted by the transmitter in time to be made available to the receiver before the critical...

20060164989 - Communication traffic management systems and methods: Communication traffic management systems and methods are disclosed. A threshold status of a communication traffic queue of a second communication traffic management device which is capable of receiving communication traffic from a first communication traffic management device is determined, by comparing a depth of the queue to a corresponding threshold...

20060164992 - Electronic message delivery system including a network device: In a computer network system based on an open system interconnection model, where the computer network system includes at least a network layer (Layer 3) and an application layer (Layer 7), a system and a method for managing electronic message traffic into and out of the computer network system including...

20060164988 - Method and system for controlling bandwidth allocation: A Ethernet switch 1 includes a monitoring unit 9 for policing the amount of traffic on each of a plurality of flows or groups of flows. The monitoring unit has a memory, implemented in hardware as a RAM memory, having a section of each of the flows or groups of...

20060164993 - Method of providing a gap indication during a sticky assignment: A method and apparatus are provided to manage the assignment transmission resource of forward and reserve link that is assigned to transmitting entity for a period of time. An indication of a gap is provided whenever the transmitting entity is not transmitting actual data packets (e.g. whole or part of...

20060164990 - Systems and methods for optimizing the allocation of resources to serve different types of data flows in a wireless communication system: Systems and methods for optimizing the allocation of resources to serve different types of data flows in a wireless communication system are disclosed. An exemplary method involves calculating data metrics for data in a plurality of queues. Each queue corresponds to a different data flow in the wireless communication system....

20060164991 - World wide port name embedding method and interface for network transmission control chip: A world wide port name embedding method and interface is proposed, which is designed for use in conjunction with a network transmission control chip for the purpose of embedding a world wide port name (WWPN) to the network transmission control chip, and which is characterized by that the world wide...

20060164994 - Method and system for transmitting data packets: A method is provided for transmitting data packets, which includes sending a data packet from a sender (S) to a recipient (E), and; sending a confirmation message from recipient (E) to sender (S) in order to confirm the receipt of the data packet. When sending the data packet, a timer...

20060164995 - Method and apparatus for context-based prefix updates in border gateway protocol: A method is disclosed for providing context-based routing table updates in Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) hosts. One or more contexts representing distinct routing tables are defined in a BGP host. As part of establishing a BGP session, a particular context of the one or more contexts is advertised to the...

20060164997 - Dependency structure from temporal data: Based on the time series data from multiple components, the systems administrator or other managing entity may desire to find the temporal dependencies between the different time series data over time. For example, based on actions indicated in time series data from two or more servers in a server network,...

20060164999 - Network monitoring program, network system and network monitoring method: A network system capable of easily, if a communication abnormality occurs at an application level, troubleshooting a cause of the abnormality, includes a plurality of monitoring target computers, a network monitoring device and a plurality of network devices for relaying TCP communications, wherein each monitoring target computer sends, if the...

20060164996 - Protection switch logging methods and systems: Methods and systems of logging detected protection system related events affecting a protection system are disclosed. A determination is made as to whether a detected event itself or in combination with a previous detected event provides information relating to both a protection switching operation and a cause of the protection...

20060164998 - System and method for detecting added network connections including wiretaps: A TDR (Time Domain Reflectometry) circuit associated with a computer network device monitors a network connection to identify changes in that connection. The disclosed system and method may provide notification when a possible attempt to intercept signals in the network has been detected, and may be automatically controlled to perform...

20060165000 - Multiplicity adjustment system and method: A multiplicity adjustment agent collects request information database from a sub-system including an element of a system to be monitored. An individual sub-system's multiplicity adjustment server sorts and merges request information collected from each sub-system for each element/request path. An integrated multiplicity analysis server calculates a necessary multiplicity on the...

20060165001 - Fault isolation system and method: A fault isolation system and method. A hierarchical numbering system is applied to devices within a cable network. Each subscriber is associated with a “last active device” or “LAD” providing service to that subscriber. The numbering system provides “genealogical” information about the subscriber's LAD so that the LAD can be...

20060165003 - Method and apparatus for monitoring data routing over a network: Systems and methods, inter alia, verify traffic flow consistency and audit compliance and adherence to routing protocols employed for carrying data over a computer network. To this end, the systems and methods include, in certain embodiments, devices and methods that monitor data flow across a network and select a data...

20060165002 - Port re-enabling by monitoring link status: The present invention features embodiments of automatically re-enabling a disabled port or physical media interface by monitoring the link status of the physical layer interface. Any change in the link status automatically re-enables a previously disabled port, thereby permitting data coming in through the previously disabled port to be admitted...

20060165005 - Business method for pay-as-you-go computer and dynamic differential pricing: A system for supplying computers with little or no upfront payment has a service provider, a computer, and an optional funding account. The computer is adapted to render itself substantially useless unless provisioned by the service provider. The service provider has a capability to collect funds from the user and...

20060165004 - Method and system to analyze digital cross-connect system equipment and software: Methods and systems in a communications network to look at all of the DACS II output and determine whether a fault exists. If a fault is determined to exist, then an email is sent to the appropriate users notifying them that a problem has occurred. Three computer program commands, for...

20060165006 - Method for adapting wap-based transmissions: The invention relates to a method which makes decisions, which can be applied an various WAP protocol, based on calculations which determine the future quality of a link. Short-term forecasting involving fundamental decisions such as the structure of a link or the transmission or reception of data occurs. Short-term forecasting...

20060165010 - Method, system and program product for determining bandwidth consumption across a multi-tiered computer environment: Under the present invention, communication flows between applications in the multi-tiered environment are identified. For each communication flow identified, bandwidth consumption is determined. In general, the bandwidth consumption for a communication flow is determined based on a set of variables that includes one or more of the following: whether the...

20060165007 - Presence system and method for computing media status: A presence server determines a presentity's media status and availability for engaging in real-time communication sessions in a presence system by receiving, from the presentity, a maximum number of real-time interactions per real-time media types supported by the presentity, and collecting presence information identifying real-time communication sessions currently engaged in...

20060165011 - System and method of managing digital data transmission: A method of managing data transmission is provided and includes measuring a first number of payload bits communicated over a bearer during a first time period. The first number of measured payload bits is divided by a length of the first time period to yield a short term average bit...

20060165009 - Systems and methods for traffic management between autonomous systems in the internet: Systems and methods are disclosed for managing the traffic between autonomous systems in the Internet. Data on links on border routers between autonomous systems is collected and analyzed at certain traffic times. Once determined, traffic on various customer facing interfaces at that time is associated with an Internet Prefix. Then,...

20060165008 - Techniques to manage channel prediction: A system, apparatus, method and article to manage channel prediction for a wireless communication system are described. The apparatus may include a media access control processor to perform channel prediction, and a transceiver to communicate information using the channel prediction. Other embodiments are described and claimed....

20060165013 - Method and apparatus for identifying an egress point to a network location: A method of identifying an egress point to a network location in a data communications network comprising a plurality of nodes and links there between comprises the step, performed at the identifying node, of receiving a notification through the network advertising an adjacency to a network location. The method further...

20060165012 - Method for organizing the topology of a network with a multiplicity of stations grouped in clusters: A method for organizing the topology of a network with a multiplicity of stations grouped in clusters, with the following steps: provision of a system of rules that define the arrangement of stations in clusters; classification of the stations into one or more categories in accordance with the rules and...

20060165015 - Method for routing data packets using an ip address based on geo position: Method of routing data over a network in which contact is made with a home network to determine the reported geo-position, using this geo-position to transmit data to the device over a path through a node in which the node reads the geo-position, accesses a list of possible recipients and...

20060165014 - Peer-to-peer content distribution system: A system of the present invention includes a center network CE, a cache network CA, and a plurality of realm networks RL1 to RL3. Dynamic peers DP are distributed among the realm networks RL1 to RL3. The center network CE includes a main center server MC and a sub-center server...

20060165016 - Method and system for determining the topology of a modular analysis system: The invention relates to the field of modular analytical systems. The invention enables the topology of a modular analytical system to be determined without requiring additional complicated measures such as a system reset. The method/system is also adapted to industry standards such that CAN-busses can be used....

20060165017 - Method of controlling osi (iso) layer-two loops for telecommunication networks: It is characterized by the use of disabled links by a conventional protocol which avoids the existence of loops, for the sending of messages to a single user (unicast) of known destination. It permits the optimization of the efficiency of the network in terms of the traffic addressed to a...

20060165018 - Apparatus and method for notification of a party in a telephone conference: Systems, methods, and machine-readable articles of manufacture enable private notification of a participant in a telephone conference. In representative embodiments, a system receives a telephone call intended for a first conference participant, generates an informative announcement containing information regarding the call, mixes the informative announcement with the conference audio, and...

20060165020 - Audio conference system: An audio conference system is provided that allows at least one non-standard telephone to be connected to an audio conference environment. The audio conference system includes a telecommunication device and an interface between the telecommunication device and the audio conference room. The interface includes a side tone canceller. The side...

20060165019 - Echo-suppression with short delay: An efficient reduction for the time delay during echo correction in a telecommunications network is made possible by a method for reducing an echo in uplink data (19 to 22) that are issued from a terminal (2, 3) of a telecommunications network (6, 8). A copy (25) of downlink data...

20060165022 - Circuit arrangement for operating transceivers on an antenna: The invention concerns a circuit arrangement for the operation of transmitting and receiving devices (T/R devices) at an antenna. A plurality of T/R devices can be operated for the most part without loss relative to the transmission and receiving powers and almost without mutual influencing of the signal branches of...

20060165021 - Effective point coordination function in wireless lan: This invention provides a system and method for enhancing point coordination function in wireless LANs. A contention procedure is introduced into PCF in this invention. When the point coordinator (PC) polls the mobile terminal who has no frame to send, the terminal does not respond to the CF-Poll from PC,...

20060165023 - Wireless gateway and controller for network protector relays: A power distribution monitoring system includes a wireless gateway/controller, a network protector subnetwork including a plurality of network protectors and a portable electronic device having wireless communication functionality. Each of the network protectors is in electronic communication with the wireless gateway/controller. The wireless gateway/controller receives data from one or more...

20060165025 - Ad-hoc network for routing in consideration of mobility and routing method thereof: An ad-hoc network and routing method that takes account of mobility are provided. The ad-hoc network includes at least one node, which calculates a probability that a neighbor node is present in a transmission range of the node, generates a message containing the calculated probability, and transmits the message to...

20060165024 - Radio communication system, radio communication apparatus, radio communication method, and computer program: Each communication station, at least, periodically transmits/receives a beacon at regular intervals and manages the transmission/reception using a neighboring-station list (neighbor list), thereby managing the network of the communications station in a distributed manner. In addition, a save area is provided in which n beacons transmitted/received at regular time intervals...

20060165026 - Method for operating a system comprising a plurality of nodes and a base station according to tdma, and associated system: A method is proposed for operating a system according to TDMA (Time Division Multiple Access) with a multiplicity of wireless sensors and/or actuators as nodes (S.1 . . . S.n) and a base station (BS), said system being installed in a machine or installation, such as industrial robots or an...

20060165031 - Apparatus and methods for delivery handling broadcast and multicast traffic as unicast traffic in a wireless network: An access point is to handle received broadcast or multicast traffic as multiple instances of unicast traffic, where each instance is destined for a corresponding wireless client device associated with the access point. A client device may adjust its listen interval parameter according to predefined considerations, for example a charge...

20060165027 - Considering mobile station capability in negotiating quality of service for packet switched services: Mobile station capabilities are made available to a radio access network note. The radio access network node determines whether the requested quality of service can be supported by the mobile station in its current cell. These capabilities are take into account in negotiating a quality of service for a packet...

20060165033 - Enhancement of dual transfer mode when circuit switched resources are released: A method and mobile terminal are disclosed for use in a wireless communication system in order for the mobile terminal to be able to transition from a dual mode, in which a packet switched connection and circuit switched connection are used together, to a single mode in which packets are...

20060165030 - Method of and system for transmitting a mobile agent for instruction execution: A method of executing programmable instructions includes receiving at a device a mobile agent from a mobile agent dispatching device. The mobile agent includes a state of a virtual machine. The method also includes executing at the device one or more instructions identified by the mobile agent, thereby changing the...

20060165032 - Method of reducing interference in indoor cell in wireless cellular communication network: The invention relates to reducing interference in indoor cells in a wireless cellular communication network. Outdoor and indoor base stations operate at a common uplink carrier frequency. The indoor base station monitors an uplink inter-cell interference level, and, responsive to the uplink inter-cell interference level reaching a predetermined threshold level,...

20060165028 - Mobile station apparatus and receiving method: A mobile station apparatus is provided that performs receive processing efficiently and reduces unnecessary power consumption. In this mobile station apparatus, a signaling detector (71) detects a compressed mode gap period in an uplink channel, that is, a period in which no uplink signal is transmitted to a base station,...

20060165029 - Protecting real-time data in wireless networks: The invention provides a traffic shaper module allocates more bandwidth to real-time data in wireless TCP/IP networks where accessible bandwidth is limited. This is particular relevant for IEEE 802.11b networks. For downstream data, the traffic shaper module can be set to control the transmission to all clients and thereby give...

20060165034 - Cover resource adapter: A method, device and computer code product for enabling communication between electronic devices. A covered resource adapter receives information describing each association of a covered resource adapter message driven bean with a corresponding resource adapter. Each covered resource adapter message driven bean is decoupled from its corresponding resource adapter, and...

20060165036 - Method and system for eliminating interference caused by hidden nodes: A method and system for eliminating interference caused by hidden nodes is disclosed. An initiator control message is defined for an initiator, (typically a wireless station (STA)), in order to begin an aggregate frame exchange with at least one responder. The initiator control message includes information on the queue sizes...

20060165035 - Peer-to-peer wireless communication system: A peer-to-peer communication system using a direct link setup (DLS) is disclosed. A mobile station (STA) establishes a direct communication link with another STA by sending a message requesting a DLS to an access point (AP), (i.e., a centralized controller). The AP may accept or reject the DLS request based...

20060165038 - Method and apparatus for handoff of a wireless packet data services connection: A novel method and apparatus is disclosed for performing seamless handoff of a mobile station (MS) between Radio Access Networks (RANs) that use different types of wireless interfaces. The described embodiments enable an MS to handoff between different RANs without causing routing ambiguity, and without substantial loss of network data....

20060165037 - Wireless networking device and communication method using the same: A wireless networking device and a communication method using the same. The wireless networking device includes an address generator to generate an address to be used in a predetermined wireless network, a router information setter to set router information of the wireless network, and a controller to control operation of...

20060165039 - Rfid reader device having closely packed antennas: A reader device for locating and tracking multiple tags includes a plurality of closely packed antenna circuits and at least one controller configured to control the plurality of closely packed antenna circuits. The at least one controller is configured to activate one or more of the antenna circuits to generate...

20060165041 - Apparatus and method for acquiring pilot synchronization in a code division multiple access system: An apparatus and method for acquiring a pilot channel in a code division multiple access (CDMA) system. A signal strength detector detects signal strength values for all pseudo-random noise (PN) hypotheses from a despread received signal. A PN hypothesis selector selects PN hypotheses whose detected signal strength values are greater...

20060165040 - System, method, computer program products, standards, soa infrastructure, search algorithm and a business method thereof for ai enabled information communication and computation (icc) framework (netalter) operated by netalter operating system (nos) in ter: A communication system, method and standards for convergence solution to prevailing communication technologies & concepts includes rich client enabled, service oriented distributed information computation and communication (ICC) framework. The distributed network comprises of plurality of clients at specified level of operation in the framework architecture essentially following TFHL networking standards...

20060165042 - System for immediate retransmission over wlan and method therefor: Provided is a system for immediate retransmission over WLAN and a method therefor. The system includes a first mobile station, a second mobile station, and an AP or LN. The first mobile station intends to transmit data to the second mobile station. The method comprises in a data transmission stage...

20060165043 - Method and system for call set-up between mobile communication terminals: Disclosed are method and system for a call set-up in a mobile communication terminal. According to the invention, it is provided a structure capable of performing a call set-up using a binary Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) message of short data burst, instead of using a general traffic channel, when a...

20060165044 - Method, system, apparatus, and computer program product for communications relay: A method, system, apparatus, and computer program product for relaying packet information from an Out of Range Device (ORD) to a communications tower. The method includes transmitting a message from the ORD. The message is recognizable by a transceiver device as a message to be repeated. The message is stored...

20060165045 - Method and apparatus for signaling control information of uplink packet data service in mobile communication system: A method and apparatus for transmitting control information relating to an uplink packet data service from a user equipment (UE) to a Node B in a mobile communication system are provided. MAC-es protocol data units (PDUS) including data of an upper layer and a control service data unit (SDU) including...

20060165047 - Communication apparatus and communication method: A communication system includes a synchronizing signal generator that generates a synchronizing signal based on a timing of an alternating waveform in a power line, a data communicating circuit that performs the data communication, and a communication controller that controls to acquire a transmitting right utilizing a timing of the...

20060165046 - Maintaining synchronization between a qos access point and qos stations in an ieee 802.11e wlan: Disclosed is a method and system for maintaining synchronization of the Service Period between a quality of service capable access point (QAP) and a non-AP quality of service capable station (QSTA) in a parameterized quality of service (QoS) IEEE 802.11e wireless local area network (WLAN). A problem with loss of...

20060165052 - Approach for determining the real time availability of a group of network elements: The real time availability of a group of network elements is determined based upon both a real time availability value for each of the network elements and cooperation relationships between the network elements. The cooperation relationships reflect both the topological relationships between the network elements, i.e., how the network elements...

20060165053 - Content based data packet routing using labels: Disclosed is a content based router, system and method of operation. Upon receipt of a data packet at in ingress router, the ingress router matches the content of the data packet against stored user subscriptions. In one embodiment, the content is described using XML data and the user subscriptions are...

20060165050 - Content delivery to a telecommunications terminal that is associated with a call in progress: A method is disclosed that enables the delivery of relevant content to a telecommunications user engaged in a call. In particular, in the illustrative embodiments a telecommunications terminal that is to receive content is selected based on (i) a telecommunications terminal involved in a call and (ii) the mode of...

20060165051 - Determining availability of a destination for computer network communications: Determining availability of a destination for computer network communications that include providing on a caching device a destination availability cache comprising at least one cache entry representing availability of a destination and providing, from the caching device to a source, through computer network communications, information indicating the availability of the...

20060165049 - Intelligent selective flow-based datapath architecture: A selective, flow-based datapath architecture is described. A Flow Control Block Manager (FCBM) is located in a flow-based datapath for selectively and intelligently processing packets in the Flow Path. If, according to the FCBM, efficiency gains can be achieved by creating a flow control block and employing flow-based processing on...

20060165055 - Method and apparatus for managing the flow of data within a switching device: A method and apparatus for managing the flow of data within a switching device is provided. The switching device includes network interface cards connected to a common backplane. Each interface card is configured to support the maximum transfer rate of the backplane by maintaining a “pending” queue to track data...

20060165048 - Method of realizing communicating between modules of system devices: The invention discloses a communication method for modules within device. The method sets a centralized exchanging and controlling unit in the device, and every module is connected with the centralized exchanging and controlling unit through its own communication control interface. When a message is sending from one module to another...

20060165054 - Power line network bridge: A power line communication (PLC) bridge circuit consistent with certain embodiments has a first coupler that couples data signals to and from the first power line circuit and a second coupler that couples data signals to and from the second power line circuit. The first and second power line circuits...

20060165065 - Communications address provisioning system and method therefor: A system and method for provisioning a communication address. A query server comprises a record of a sought party that associates a communications address with at least one other communications address. The record optionally comprises a set of permissions that establishes conditions under which a communications address may be disclosed...

20060165066 - Customer communication service system: A system and method is disclosed for servicing multi media customer communications to geographically distributed agents from multiple call center sites via the telephone network and a global data communications network. The system provides separate interface ports to the telephone network and a global data communications network, eliminating a potential...

20060165061 - Global internet voice communication system: A global communication internet telephone system is a new software Web Call structure, wherein the system user only requires a computer with Windows 98 or above, a duplex sound card, a display interface and internet access, and logging directly into a GTD Web 800 wed page thereafter, receiving a automatic...

20060165063 - Home network audio client with detachable remote commander: An audio client in a home entertainment system has a detachable remote commander with a display screen. A menu of music available at the server is downloaded to the remote commander from the server over the network and through the client device. The user can easily select a tune he/she...

20060165064 - Method and apparatus for a network element to track the availability of other network elements: A method and apparatus for enabling a network element to use network resources efficiently by tracking the availability of other network elements are disclosed. In one embodiment, the present method utilizes one or more SIP method OPTIONS messages to determine the availability of a target network element....

20060165060 - Method and apparatus for managing credentials through a wireless network: A novel system and methodology for conducting financial and other transactions using a wireless device. Credentials may be selectively issued by issuers such as credit card companies, banks, and merchants to consumers permitting the specific consumer to conduct a transaction according to the authorization given as reflected by the credential...

20060165059 - Method and apparatus for providing multimedia ringback services to user devices in ims networks: The invention comprises a method and apparatus for providing multimedia content to a calling party device. Specifically, the method comprises receiving a connection establishment request from a calling party device where the connection establishment request is operable for establishing a connection between the calling party device and a called party...

20060165068 - Method and system for securely authorized voip interconnections between anonymous peers of voip networks: A peering authority or settlement clearinghouse can be used to control access, collect session accounting information, and provide financial settlement of interconnect or session fees among anonymous Internet Protocol (IP) peers or networks. The addition of peering policy criteria, such as price and quality of service, to peer to peer...

20060165069 - Method of managing personal data about users of voice services and an application server for executing the method: The application server includes means for commanding a voice resource server to set up a dialogue with a user for the user to agree or refuse to supply personal data, for example location data, to a service provider....

20060165067 - Network telephone system and main apparatus and telephone terminals used in the network telephone system: A main equipment is used in a network telephone system including telephone terminals and the main equipment. The telephone terminals are connected to a communication network to transmit voice packets. The main equipment connects the telephone terminals to one another through the communication network to cause the telephone terminals to...

20060165056 - Network terminal device, address management server, communication system, and network communication method using mac addresses to determine the ip target addresses: The present invention is intended to offer network terminal devices and an address management server which can communicate with a remote terminal without manually managing the IP address of the remote terminal. A network communication method therefor is also offered. The MAC address of a local terminal, the MAC address...

20060165057 - Presenting dialup access numbers status information using an automated voice response system: A method for an automated voice response system to present access numbers status information to dial-up Internet users. The automated voice response system can perform the step of establishing a telephony communication with a party responsive to a received telephone call from the party. An access number can be received...

20060165062 - Server and communication control method: A server by which time taken to establish a session can be shortened by reducing the number of messages exchanged between a destination terminal and the server and by which the manufacturing costs of terminals can be reduced. An IP version storage section included in the server stores an IP...

20060165058 - System and method for providing an ecamp feature in a session initiation protocol (sip) environment: A method for facilitating a data session in a session protocol environment is provided that includes identifying a first endpoint and receiving a status indicator as to whether the first endpoint is available to participate in a communication session that involves the first endpoint and a second endpoint. In a...

20060165070 - Packet switching: A packet switch having plural input sectors and output sectors, each input sector being arranged to hold at least one queue per output sector, each output sector having plural output ports and being arranged to hold at least one queue per output port wherein the input sectors are connected to...

20060165071 - Weight adaption in packet switches: The invention relates to a method, a packet switched and a use of a packet switch for configuring a cross-connection matrix within switching means based on status information provided by port controllers of input/output means. By providing generic functions within an arbiter to change weight-values provided by the port controller...

20060165074 - Aggregation of network resources providing offloaded connections between applications over a network: A computer system aggregates a plurality of network resources of a computer system. The plurality of network resources forms a bypass stack operable to provide offloaded connections to one or more applications available on the computer system. Each of the applications is associated with a first port number. The computer...

20060165077 - Apparatus and method for architecturally redundant ethernet: A routing apparatus comprising: 1) a first router coupled to a first plurality of Ethernet links; and 2) a second router coupled to a second plurality of Ethernet links, wherein selected ones of the first plurality of Ethernet links are coupled to selected ones of the second plurality of Ethernet...

20060165076 - Data communication optimization: Data communication optimization is disclosed. In a method, when data transmission is requested, an outgoing data unit is prepared with dummy payload data. In a method, when data reception is requested, the header and validation information from an incoming data unit is provided while the payload of the data unit...

20060165072 - Device comprising an array of microsystems which can be individually addressed by means of electromagnetic transmission, and method of addressing one such device: The microsystems communicate by electromagnetic transmission, preferably by radio frequency, with a control circuit. An initialization phase of the method of addressing successively comprises addressing, by the control circuit, of each microsystem by an identification code that is proper to the latter and storing, in a register of the microsystem,...

20060165073 - Method and a system for regulating, disrupting and preventing access to the wireless medium: A method for restricting one or more wireless devices from engaging in wireless communication within a selected local geographic region. The method includes receiving an indication comprising at least identity information. Preferably, the indication is associated with a selected wireless device, which is associated with an undesirable wireless communication within...

20060165079 - Method and apparatus for transmitting an optical signal in an optical burst switching network using arrival time: A method and a system for entering data in a data processing system is provided. In this case, the data is entered in a number of steps, with a view being displayed at a step in a display region of a display means, with the entering and/or display taking place...

20060165078 - Method and system for allowing and preventing wireless devices to transmit wireless signals: A method for arbitrating use of wireless medium for transmission of wireless signals within a selected local geographic region. The selected local geographic region comprises a first set of a plurality of devices to be allowed to transmit wireless signals and a second set of one or more devices to...

20060165075 - Out-of-band state machine: In one embodiment, a method is provided. The method of this embodiment provides if an OOB (out-of-band) state machine has not received a confirmation from an operating system that the operating system is functional, the operating system using a primary IP (internet protocol) address, then if the OOB state machine...

20060165081 - Deflection-routing and scheduling in a crossbar switch: An apparatus, method, and system may be provided for contention resolution in data transfer in a crossbar switch. The method may comprise sending data through a crossbar switch; routing deflected data to a deflection port wherein deflected data is data which unsuccessfully contends for a requested port; and sending the...

20060165080 - Replicated distributed responseless crossbar switch scheduling: An apparatus, method, and system are provided for distributed crossbar switch scheduling. This may comprise sending data transfer control information from a plurality of line cards to a control broadcast network; sending the data transfer control information from the control broadcast network to a plurality of partial schedulers; and scheduling...

20060165083 - Multimedia access system: A multimedia access system includes: a database including user equipment spec information; an application server for transcoding multimedia data to be transmitted in accordance with user equipment spec information of a receiver side in the database; and an addressing unit for addressing a transmission packet so that that the multimedia...

20060165082 - System and method for facilitating communication between a cmts and an application server in a cable network: A system and method for facilitating communication between a CMTS and an application sever in a cable network. Customer premises equipment (CPE) generates packets that are sent through a cable modem (CM) to a cable modem termination system (CMTS). A packet is parsed by CMTS and the destination IP address...

20060165084 - Rnic-based offload of iscsi data movement function by target: A method and system including implementing an iSCSI (Internet Small Computer System Interface) offload target function with RNIC (Remote-direct-memory-access-enabled Network Interface Controller) mechanisms used for RDMA (Remote Direct Memory Access) functions....

20060165085 - Rearrangeably nonblocking multicast multi-stage networks: A rearrangeably nonblocking multicast network includes an input stage having r1 switches and n1 inlet links for each of r1 switches, an output stage having r2 switches and n2 outlet links for each of r2 switches. The network also has a middle stage of m switches, and each middle switch...

20060165086 - System and method for provisioning virtual circuits in broadband access multiplexing elements: A system for provisioning virtual circuits in broadband access multiplexing elements is disclosed. The system manages an algorithm that selects a unique virtual path identifier and virtual circuit identifier for each new multiplexor input from a pool. The system sends commands to connect each new input to the multiplexor output...

20060165091 - Base station device and adaptive modulation method: A UE/queue selected by a scheduler is input to an offset table (111) and a corresponding offset value is output to a CQI conversion section (112). Using this offset value, the CQI conversion section (112) converts a CQI output from a demodulation/decoding section and outputs the converted CQI to an...

20060165090 - Method and apparatus for implementing qos in data transmissions: A method and apparatus for implementing QoS levels in data transmissions in a communication network. The apparatus is a terminal, e.g. a WAP phone, or a server apparatus comprising a HTTP server and a WAP gateway, for example. The method is based on certain modifications in a communication protocol stack....

20060165092 - Out-of-band signaling system, method and computer program product: A system, method and computer program product for providing a user a way to change communications presence information is disclosed. A point of presence (PPD) device may produce presentity (a source of presence information about a user) which may be transmitted out-of-band to a watcher or watchers of an intelligent...

20060165087 - Interconnect system for supply chain management of virtual private network services: An interconnect system for the supply chain management of network services, preferably virtual private network services, provides a networking architecture and interface usable in delivering substantially measurable virtual private network services involving multiple carriers....

20060165088 - Method and apparatus for time-multiplexed processing of multiple digital video programs: The present invention relates generally to the processing of multiple data streams with common resources. More particularly, this invention relates to a technique for time-multiplexed processing o, for example, multiple digital video programs. In one embodiment, an exemplary method provides for time-multiplexed processing of a set of digital streams includes...

20060165089 - Method for assisting equivalent circuits in mpls networks: In the English translation document, please add the paragraph at page 22 line 1, after the newly added ABSTRACT section heading, as follows: The invention relates a suggestion how to provide support for equivalent circuit measures in MPLS networks, using simple means. An MPLS OAM functionality is defined, enabling connectivity...

20060165093 - Method and apparatus to support multi-stack hang time usage and multi-stack accounting: A network access element (100) having an ability (11) of support communication sessions for a multi-stack Internet Protocol device is further preferably provided with an ability (12) to use a hang time in conjunction with at least one of the communication sessions. In a preferred approach, a network access element...

20060165094 - Encapsulation of large native operating system functions as enhancements of the instruction set in an emulated central processor system: This invention relates to the art of computer system emulation and, more particularly, to a computer system emulator in which the functions normally performed by the hardware in a legacy central processor unit are emulated by a software program. The invention is to enhance the emulated instruction set beyond that...

20060165097 - Ethernet-to-analog controller: Systems and methods allow communication between an Ethernet network and non-Ethernet devices. An Ethernet-to-analog adapter allows translation of analog signals for Ethernet communication, and further allows translation of Ethernet signals for analog communication with analog devices. Ethernet-to-analog adapters allow for power management and monitoring of attached analog devices and employ...

20060165095 - Method and apparatus for tracking layer-2 (l2) resource of a switch: A method and apparatus for tracking at least one Layer-2 (L2) resource of a network device is provided. The method includes monitoring software operations on the L2 resource. The method further includes monitoring the state of the L2 resource in a corresponding hardware device (e.g., the network device). The L2...

20060165096 - Power sourcing equipment having auto-zero circuit for determining and controlling output current: A novel system and methodology for controlling an output of Power Sourcing Equipment in a Power over Ethernet system based on a current limit threshold. The PSE has an auto-zero circuit for comparing a monitored output current of the PSE with the current limit threshold to control the output of...

20060165099 - Dynamically controlling fair access to a system packet interface attached switch enclosure: A method for maintaining configurable and dynamically adjustable per-channel local port/bypass port access ratios in the multiple SOCs within an SPI-attached frame-based switch enclosure to improve the access fairness of devices upstream from the destination device is disclosed. A frame-based switch enclosure may include multiple SPI-attached SOCs, each SOC containing...

20060165098 - Multi-stage packet switching system: In general, in one aspect, the disclosure describes a multi-stage switch having at least one ingress switch module to receive data and to generate frames that are transmitted as a wavelength division multiplexed signal. The multi-stage switch further includes a core switch module operatively connected to receive the wavelength division...

20060165100 - Wireless location privacy: A method for combating the tracking of a mobile transceiver, the mobile transceiver forming a node in a wireless communication network which has at least one other node, the method comprising the steps for enabling, until a first time, the transmission of a radio packet that depends upon a first...

20060165101 - Communication arrangement for transmitting information messages between a plurality of decentralised communication units and at least one central communication unit: In order to transmit information messages towards a central communication unit, decentralised communication units are respectively connected to a central memory unit connected to at least one central communication unit, by means of a point-to-point connection. Control means associated with the memory unit are used to identify initial information messages...

20060165103 - Configurable quality-of-service support per virtual access point (vap) in a wireless lan (wlan) access device: A wireless network access device includes a radio and support for virtual access points. According to the invention, each virtual access point has an independently configurable quality-of-service profile. The per-VAP QoS support enables multiple services to be delivered from a single physical access point. A plurality of transmit/receive queues are...

20060165106 - Contact information management apparatus and method for managing contact information: To provide a contact information management device that opens contact addresses of community members only to participants of communities. The contact information management device can collect position information from portable terminals provided with position detection means and open contact addresses based on the position information of the portable terminals. A...

20060165104 - Content management interface: A platform is provided to respond to data inquiries from callers or users that are directed to one of a plurality of clients or subscribers. A user is guided to a selected client's area on the platform using voice menus and prompts together with speech recognition and database search techniques....

20060165102 - Individual update or reorganisation of message and dialogue services specific to service providers: The invention permits service providers to self-configure message or dialogue services on an arrangement provided by an independent network operator. Said arrangement comprises a provider device, to which the service provider has access. Components or elements of messages or dialogues, altered or newly generated by service providers, stored in the...

20060165107 - Method of sending a multipoint stream in a local area network and connection device implementing the method: Within the framework of a wireless local area network, the sending of the multipoint transmission streams is not made reliable by an acknowledgment of receipt mechanism. This reliability may be improved by the sending in point-to-point mode of the packets belonging to a multipoint transmission stream. In the case of...

20060165105 - System and method for managing communication for component applications: An application gateway server is provided for managing communication between an application executing in a runtime environment on a device and at least one backend server. The application gateway server comprises a message listener, a connector subsystem, and a messaging subsystem. The message listener receives messages from the component applications....

20060165109 - Data communication device: A data communication device is provided wherein a data storage region and a process request region indicative of whether or not there is a process request of data transmission are secured on a memory. A data transmission section receives a request for data transmission from a transmission module to store...

20060165108 - Method and system for unidirectional packet processing at data link layer: A method and system for data link layer packet processing which unidirectionaly captures, filters, enqueues, processes and forwards packets between multiple network interfaces are introduced. Fast and intelligent data link layer network applications or equipment can implemented by programming the invention. Each direction of packet flow in this system is...

20060165110 - system and method for providing a universal communications port with computer-telephony interface: A computing system is equipped with one or more ports, each of which includes a plurality of coupler lines configured to engage connectors that may be associated with different types of external services and/or devices, including public switched telephone networks, Ethernet networks, ISDN networks, and/or telephone devices. Upon detecting a...

20060165112 - Multi-stage packet switching system with alternate traffic routing: In general, in one aspect, the disclosure describes a multi-stage switch having a plurality of ingress switching modules to receive data and to generate frames that are transmitted as a wavelength division multiplexed signal. The multi-stage switch further includes a core switching module operatively connected to receive the wavelength division...

20060165111 - Replication of multicast data packets in a multi-stage switching system: In general, in one aspect, the disclosure describes a multi-stage switch having at least one ingress switch module to receive data and to generate frames that are transmitted as a wavelength division multiplexed signal. The multi-stage switch further includes a core switch module operatively connected to receive the wavelength division...

20060165113 - Time-division synchronization radio modem apparatus: An object of this invention is to provide a time-division synchronous wireless modem device which is highly efficient in using communication slots. The time-division synchronous wireless modem device according to this invention is provided at each of a plurality of wireless stations in a wireless system which transmits and receives...

20060165114 - Medium reservation with channel selectivity: A medium-reservation mechanism improves transmission efficiency in a multiple-channel network that includes stations with limited-selectivity receivers. The mechanism employs a medium-request signal that conveys channel information. In this network, stations check the channel information in the medium-request signal to decide whether or not to comply with the medium-request signal. If...

20060165115 - Controlling device access fairness in switched fibre channel fabric loop attachment systems: Embodiments of the present invention are directed to controlling device access fairness in frame-based switches by automatically and continuously counting the number of actively communicating devices connected to each port and the type of devices connected to each port, and adjusting fairness accordingly. During a sampling window, the number of...

20060165116 - Apparatus, system, and method for adapter port configuration: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for configuring a port in a multi-port communication adapter. The apparatus includes an offline module and an update module. The offline module takes offline a first port of a multi-port communication adapter. The update module updates a port resource of the first port...

20060165117 - Configurable frequency band elimination for powerline network: A communication device for use in adapting an appliance to a computer network consistent with certain embodiments has a data transmitter that receives data to be transmitted and generates output signals at a plurality of frequencies. A user configurable notch filter, receives the output signals from the data transmitter, for...

20060165118 - Method of aligning fluidic mst devices to a support member: A method of attaching MST devices to a support member via an adhesive film, the MST devices each having an attachment face with a first aperture and the support member having a mounting surface with second apertures corresponding to each of the first apertures respectively and a fiducial marker for...

20060165119 - Communicating between communications components having differing protocols absent component modifications: Communication between components having differing protocols is facilitated by a protocol converter coupled between the components that converts communications of one protocol into communications of another protocol. This conversion is performed without requiring code modification to either of the components. The conversion includes translating identifiers of one protocol to identifiers...

20060165121 - Communication protocol interface systems and methods: Communication protocol interface systems and methods are disclosed. A predetermined type of content of communication traffic of a first communication protocol, illustratively control information, is translated into a corresponding type of content of communication traffic of a second communication protocol. The translated communication traffic is transferred to a first component...

20060165120 - Satellite/terrestrial wireless communications systems and methods using disparate channel separation codes: A wireless communications system includes a space-based component (SBC) and an ancillary terrestrial component (ATC) configured to communicate with radioterminals using a common satellite service link frequency band and respective first and second different sets of channel separation codes. The first and second sets of channel separation codes may include,...

20060165122 - Method and apparatus for performing link defragmentation subject to an interface rate constraint: Techniques for defragmenting at least one time division multiplexed link in a communication system, wherein provisioned circuits corresponding to traffic demands are assigned to particular time slots of the link. An optimum layout of free space for the link is computed, subject to an interface rate constraint that may be...

20060165123 - Method, and aggregation component for aggregating application components: A method and system for aggregating two or more templated components using an aggregation component is provided. Each templated component has at least one configurable element. The aggregation component comprises at least one configurable element, and an extraction mechanism operable to identify configurable elements of the components selected for aggregation....

20060165124 - Memory address monitoring device and memory address monitoring method: A memory address monitoring device for monitoring a memory includes an address determining module and an identification determining module. A first process has a first process identification and issues a request address to access the memory. The memory saves data of a second process between a beginning address and an...

20060165125 - Packet transmission device: A packet transmission apparatus includes a voice encoding unit 1 for voice-encoding an incoming voice band signal, a packet generating unit 2 for accepting the encoded voice signal from the voice encoding unit, and for assembling packets from the encoded voice signal and outputting them, a redundant packet generating unit...

20060165126 - Bit rate controlling means in a telecommunication system: The invention relates to a packet switched mobile telecommunication system, a rate controlling means in said system, a method and a computer program product. The system comprising at least a first rate controlling means residing in a Radio Controlling Entity, RCE, arranged for controlling bit rates of a first radio...

20060165127 - System and method for broadband network communication through operational natural gas infrastructures: The present invention generally relates to ultra-wideband communications. More particularly, the invention concerns a method of broadband communication by transceiving ultra-wideband signals through an active local underground natural gas distribution network such as a local or regional piping system....

20060165128 - Pilot symbols in communication systems: This invention relates to signal processing in telecommunications, particularly but not exclusively for use in wireless TDMA systems. In particular, the invention concerns methods for use in communication systems making use of pilot symbols. The invention provides a method of placing pilot symbols in a data stream for telecommunication systems,...

20060165129 - System and method for adapting transmission rate of a multimedia streaming server using a \"virtual clock\": A so-called “Virtual Clock” with varying frequency is provided for used by a multimedia streaming server to adapt its transmission rate dynamically to changing network conditions. The “Virtual Clock” system and method of the present invention compensates for a potential limitation of the Internet Real-time Transmission Protocol (RTP), that stamps...

20060165130 - System and method for communicating a timing signal between backplanes: In one embodiment, an electronic system comprises a first backplane for distributing timing signals, power, and control signals to electronic circuitry coupled to the first backplane, wherein the first backplane comprises a first clock module for generating the timing signals, a second backplane for distributing timing signals, power, and control...

20060165131 - Interleaving of information bits: The present invention relates to a method in a transmitter for interleaving information bits from a data block into transmission bursts. Each of the information bits is assigned with an index. The interleaving includes computing positions of the information bits in the transmission bursts such that the values of the...

20060165132 - Computer peripheral interface: Disclosed is a computer peripheral interface comprising a mainframe end unit for connection with a mainframe of the computer and for receiving/transmitting signals from/to the mainframe; and a user end unit for connection with a plurality of peripherals and for receiving/transmitting signals from/to the respective peripherals. The user end unit...

20060159002 - Method and system for crosstalk cancellation: Signals propagating in one communication channel can generate crosstalk interference in another communication channel. A crosstalk cancellation device can process the signals causing the crosstalk interference and generate a crosstalk cancellation signal that can compensate for the crosstalk when applied to the channel receiving crosstalk interference. The crosstalk cancellation device...

20060159003 - Multiple frequency band operation in wireless networks: Embodiments for bandwidth allocation methods, detecting interference with other systems, and/or redeploying in alternate bandwidth are described. Higher bandwidth channels may be deployed at channel boundaries, which are a subset of those for lower bandwidth channels, and may be restricted from overlapping. Interference may be detected on primary, secondary, or...

20060159006 - Apparatus and method for reducing an error vector magnitude in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing receiver: An apparatus and a method for reducing an error vector magnitude in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) receiver. The method includes the steps of inputting a receiving symbol including a guard interval and an effective symbol interval following the guard interval, in which a front portion of the guard...

20060159005 - Orthogonal signal generation using vector spreading and combining: The present invention provides an approach for quadrature signal generation, which does not require orthogonal reference signals or nearly orthogonal reference signals as an input or given condition. The techniques provided herein can utilize a reference phase shift less than 90° but greater than 0°, along with an inversion to...

20060159004 - Restrictive reuse set management algorithm for equal grade of service on fl transmission: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate restrictive reuse resource set management with equal grade of service on forward link transmission. User throughput over a resource reuse set can be estimated, and an iterative method can be employed to reallocate users with poor spectral efficiency to reuse sets exhibiting high...

20060159009 - Fast rerouting apparatus and method for mpls multicast: Disclosed is a fast rerouting apparatus and method for multiprotocol label switching (MPLS) multicast. The fast rerouting apparatus and method is to rapidly cope with a failure occurring on an MPLS network. The fast rerouting method of redirecting a packet to be transmitted at the nearest location from a location...

20060159010 - Information processing system, information processing device, and information processing method and program therefor: An information processing system operated by an active system and a standby system can reduce the load of a status synchronizing process. In a pair of an active information processing device and a standby information processing device closest to a transmitting terminal in the information processing system, the standby information...

20060159007 - System and method for automatically replacing nodes in a network: A tool is provided for use when replacing devices in an automatically controlled distributed processing system. In one embodiment a network management tool reestablishes all or a portion of the logical connections formerly provided to a bound node where a replacement device is or will be located. The network management...

20060159008 - System and method for monitoring end nodes using ethernet connectivity fault management (cfm) in an access network: A system and method for monitoring end nodes using Ethernet Connectivity Fault Management (CFM) in an access network. In one embodiment, a broadband access server (BRAS) is operable to generate an Ethernet CFM frame that includes a query message with respect to a particular end node. An interworking function (IWF)...

20060159011 - Detecting unavailable network connections: A method for detecting unavailable network connections comprises, at a first data processing node that is hosting a transport protocol connection that uses a plurality of sequence values to identify messages sent to a peer node, wherein the first node is communicatively coupled to a second data processing node serving...

20060159012 - Method and system for managing messages with highly available data processing system: In a clustered message queuing system, when a fault occurs in an active system computer A, a standby system node refers to queue-node correspondence information stored in a disk device. By such processing, the standby system node recognizes the fact that queues having the same name as a queue used...

20060159015 - Apparatus and method for transmitting data in a broadband wireless access communication system: A method and apparatus is provided for transmitting data in a broadband wireless access communication system. If transmission data is generated, a data packet generator sets information corresponding to a service type of the generated data in a predetermined field of the generated data. A data packet parser parses the...

20060159013 - Method of controlling transmission rates: In an embodiment of the method, an estimated use of an uplink resource by prioritized users, if transmission rates for the prioritized users are granted, is determined. The transmission rates are then granted if the estimated use of the uplink resource is less than or equal to an available amount...

20060159014 - System, method and computer program product for provisioning of resources and service environments: The present invention provides a system, method, and computer program product to accelerate provisioning by dynamically creating dynamic free pools (DFPs) of pre-provisioned resources that are provisioned in advance, and are ready and free for use. A DFP construct for a resource, and its associated dynamic free pool manager are...

20060159017 - Dynamic quality of service (qos) management: A dynamic Quality of Service (QoS) management apparatus includes: a management server having a database, the management server storing system performance information data collected from a network element (NE) system and dynamic user core management information generated by a user's selection in a table of the database; and a client...

20060159016 - Uplink congestion detection and control between nodes in a radio access network: Congestion in a radio access network (RAN) associated with transporting uplink information originating from one or more mobile terminals is detected. That detected RAN congestion is reduced using any suitable technique (several examples are described) and may be implemented in one or more nodes in the RAN. One advantageous (but...

20060159018 - Combined base transceiver station and base station controller data call and quality of service: A system, method, and computer readable medium for determining a data call rate comprises determining if a supplemental channel (SCH) should be allocated, if the SCH should be allocated, potentially altering the data rate, requesting an SCH allocation at a current data rate or the altered data rate, and receiving...

20060159020 - Routing method and system: A method for routing data over a telecommunications carrier network including at least two switching devices defining at least one physical link, the method including defining in advance a plurality of traffic flows, each associated with specific routing through at least one of the physical links in the network; configuring...

20060159019 - System and method for policing multiple data flows and multi-protocol data flows: A system and method for policing one or more flows of a data stream of packets associated with differing transmission protocols. The current capacity level for each flow is determined, as is the packet protocol associated with each packet. A packet parameter in the packet that is indicative of the...

20060159021 - Methods and systems for alleviating congestion in a connection-oriented data network: Congestion in connection-oriented data networks is alleviated by simulating the rerouting of circuits to uncongested parts of the network and then rerouting such circuits in a manner that causes little, or no, disruption to other parts of the network....

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20060159023 - Crc error history mechanism: Methods and apparatuses that may be utilized to dynamically train communications links between two or more devices based on an error detection history are provided. The error detection history may be based on error detection value comparisons (e.g., CRCs) for a sequence of received packets. According to some embodiments, packets...

20060159024 - Method and apparatus for responding to node anormalities within an ad-hoc network: A method and apparatus for responding to node failures within an ad-hoc network is provided herein. In particular, an ad-hoc network (300) is provided that analyzes a type of network failure, and operates as either a random network or a scale-free network in response to the node failure. The ad-hoc...

20060159025 - Determination of network performance characteristics: Systems and methods for testing network performance and communicating network device information are disclosed. The preferred embodiments of the present invention enhance the standard ICMP echo or ping protocol, while still maintaining backward compatibility. Furthermore, the network performance testing can be based on different qualities of service or types of...

20060159029 - Automatic lan/wan port detection: A system is disclosed for which a network device with two or more ports determines which of its functions should be performed on which of its ports. A method is disclosed for monitoring the traffic on each port for characteristic traffic that indicates the function that said network device should...

20060159031 - Integrity check in a communication system: A method of communication between a first node and a second node for a system where a plurality of different channels is provided between said first and second node. The method comprises the step of calculating an integrity output. The integrity output is calculated from a plurality of values, some...

20060159026 - Method and apparatus for managing a quality of service for a communication link: A method and apparatus for managing the quality of a communication link is provided. A performance of a communication line (i.e. digital subscriber line), being affected by code violations, typically impulse noise, is estimated. An application characteristic for the communication line is then imputed from Layer 2 and Layer 3...

20060159027 - Method and system for updating real-time data between intervals: A method for updating real-time data between intervals in a communication processing center, having a data source and a data collector, includes receiving, at the data collector, real-time data at intervals from a data source. The real-time data includes information on the availability of aspects of a communication network. The...

20060159028 - Monitoring system, method of sampling datagrams, and apparatus therefor: A monitoring system comprises a first network probe coupled to a first point in a communications link and a second network probe coupled to a second point in the communications link. Each of the first and second network probes is arranged to sample packets from a predetermined flow of packets...

20060159030 - System and method for managing communication links between nodes in a wireless communication network: A system and method for management of communication links between nodes in a wireless communication network (100). The system and method perform the operations of estimating an expected rate of change in the characteristics pertaining to communication over a communication link in the network (100), and assigning a value associated...

20060159033 - Controller apparatus, mobile terminal, and communication control method: A controller apparatus of this invention includes a topology information managing unit configured to manage topology information showing a topology, a location information acquiring unit configured to acquire location information on a plurality of mobile terminals, a link information acquiring unit configured to acquire link information at the mobile terminals,...

20060159032 - Discovery and configuration of devices across an ethernet interface: The discovery and configuration of devices of interest connected to the Ethernet by an Ethernet port is disclosed. To perform discovery, Client software in a management interface transmits packets including the address of the management interface and a port identifier to a known broadcast address, requesting the MAC address for...

20060159034 - Method for providing loop free routing table in a router: A router is described that includes a routing table containing route information and a module to evaluate a route and detect a loop path associated with the route using the routing table. A process is described to detect and eliminate routing loops associated with recursive routes in a routing table,...

20060159035 - Apparatus and method to detect collisions of data packets: Briefly, a method and apparatus to detect a collision of a received signal and a transmission of the unacknowledged data message and performing a retransmission of the unacknowledged data message upon a detection of the collision....