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Multiplex communications July category listing 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....

20060159036 - Multifunction terminal, operating information estimation apparatus, and operating information estimation method: A multifunction terminal 1 that transmits predetermined information to an operating information estimation apparatus that estimates operating information relating to an execution state of functions provided in the multifunction terminal 1 based on information received from the multifunction terminal 1 comprises: a requested information acquisition section 102c that acquires requested...

20060159037 - Fast session setup extensions to h.324: A method of initiating a set up process for a call between users with reduced set up times using one or more 3G telecommunication networks. The method includes establishing a bearer channel between a first terminal and a second terminal after a call signaling process and determining, at the first...

20060159038 - System and method for using per-packet receive signal strength indication and transmit power levels to compute path loss for a link for use in layer ii routing in a wireless communication network: A system and method for evaluating at least one communication link between a transmitting node (102, 106, 107) and a receiving node in a communications network (100), such as a wireless ad-hoc communications network (100) in accordance with the 802.11 standard. The system and method perform the operation of assigning...

20060159039 - Method and system for providing private voice call service to mobile subscriber and wireless soft switch apparatus therefor: A method and system for providing a private voice call service to a mobile subscriber are provided. A soft switch in a mobile communication system, upon receipt of an origination message including a private voice request information from a calling MS, transmits to a VPN server a private circuit service...

20060159040 - Station side communication device: An allocation determining unit determines a bandwidth allocation for each of a plurality of subscriber devices in each data-collection cycle. A history managing unit takes a history of a request increment from a bandwidth request amount acquired from more than one time of data collections and an allocation amount allocated...

20060159043 - Integrated building control and information system with wireless networking: This invention relates to an integrated building control and information system with wireless networking, including the controlling and/or monitoring of various building devices or appliances such as air conditioning, lighting, temperature, humidity, etc., including practically any environmental condition-or-mechanical operation. Also, the invention relates to a system which includes a vendor...

20060159042 - Method and apparatus to facilitate foreign agent actions with respect to home agent nonresponsiveness: A foreign agent (10) having a substantially static list (13) of one or more home agents determines (22) when a given home agent has become sufficiently nonresponsive with respect to an ability to support mobile Internet Protocol calls. Upon making such a determination, the foreign agent can optionally take (24)...

20060159041 - Method to achieve fast active scan in 802.11 wlan: A method for fast active scanning and an Access Point apparatus that reduces the delay in convention active scanning. The method includes the step of giving an AP higher priority to transmit a probe response than is currently known. This priority comes at the delay of transmission of the probe...

20060159044 - Wireless communication system, base station, packet control function apparatus, node apparatus and accounting server: A communications system which performs accounting according to the actual provided communication quality in a QoS authentication service. A radio system has mobile stations, a radio base station, a packet function control apparatus, a node apparatus and an accounting server, performs user accounting according to an actual communication quality. At...

20060159045 - Reverse link rate and stability control: In a radio access network, the reverse link rate of an access terminal is controlled and stabilized by determining a number of connections in one or more sectors in which the access terminal has a connection and setting a rate limit based on at least one of the determined number...

20060159049 - Method and apparatus for minimizing hand-off time using mobile node information: A method and apparatus for minimizing hand-off time using mobile node information. In the method of minimizing hand-off time using mobile node information, identification information is received that includes information about a router and unique information about an access point. Information about a mobile node connected to a network, which...

20060159046 - Method and apparatus for sharing spectrum for voice over internet protocol application: The present invention provides for simultaneous transmission, without interference, for a plurality of wireless devices operating in the same frequency spectrum. In particular, the present invention provides for simultaneous operation of devices using 802.11 communication protocols and devices using Bluetooth communication protocols within the same frequency spectrum. A first information...

20060159048 - Method and software for controlling seamless vertical roaming: A method and program for controlling seamless vertical roaming between a wireless local area network and a wireless wide area network in a personal communication unit are disclosed. The method includes assigning an Internet Protocol (IP) address by a Foreign Agent (FA); transmitting a Mobile IP (MIP) request message to...

20060159047 - Method and system for context transfer across heterogeneous networks: A method and apparatus for triggering procedures to handover an ongoing communication session between a mobile station (MS) and a correspondent node (CoN) from via a first network of a first type to via a second network of a different type. Communication session continuity is maintained by transferring communication session...

20060159050 - System and method for handover in a wireless communication system: A method is provided for transmitting data during handover of a mobile node in a wireless communication system. Upon receiving a handover request from a particular mobile node, a multicast router creates a multicast tree depending on a multicast address of the mobile node, and transmits data to the mobile...

20060159051 - Communication system employing multiple handoff criteria: Disclosed herein is a communication system which manages guarantee of service (GOS) requirements for various users while efficiently managing backhaul network traffic and optimizing overall system capacity. In one aspect, armed handoff is used to transmit forward link data from a single base station to a particular mobile station as...

20060159052 - Space division multiplex wireless communication system, device and method for the same: A wireless communication system comprises a base station (4) and terminals (1)-(3). The base station (4) and the terminals (1)-(3) perform a space division multiplex wireless transmission. Each of the base station (4) and the terminals (1)-(3) comprises a multi-beam antenna for a space division multiplex. A beam pattern formed...

20060159054 - Controller apparatus, mobile terminal, and communication control method: A controller apparatus of this invention controls transmission of a packet from a source mobile terminal to a destination mobile terminal through one or more relay mobile terminals in an ad hoc network formed by a plurality of mobile terminals. The controller apparatus includes a packet location information managing unit...

20060159053 - Wlan tdm protocal: A wireless network device comprises an RF transceiver that transmits and receives data packets and that periodically transmits or receives a beacon. A control module communicates with the RF transceiver, determines a default interframe space (IFS) time based on the beacon, and selects one of the default IFS time and...

20060159055 - Transmission systems: A receiver comprising a processor having an input to receive a sequence of transmission frames conforming to a transmission protocol to represent payload data, a memory arranged to store and to provide to the processor a transmission protocol, a code provider arranged to provide to the processor one or more...

20060159056 - Method and apparatus for managing a supplemental channel in a mobile communication system: Provided is a method and apparatus for managing an SCH in an MS in a mobile communication system are provided. The MS receives an SCH assignment message notifying assignment of the SCH from a BS. If the duration of the SCH expires, the MS receives at least one more frame...

20060159057 - Base station apparatus and transmission method thereof: A base station apparatus that limits the influx of speech data into a packet channel and that enables the service quality of the packet channel to be prevented from degrading. In this apparatus, a protocol detecting section (301) detects a protocol contained in an IP header of a packet. Based...

20060159058 - Dual stage automatic gain control in an ultra wideband receiver: A method (500) and an apparatus (300) are presented for processing a signal in a receiver in accordance with Ultra Wideband (UWB) protocol. The received signal is acquired during a first preamble portion (411) of a data frame associated with the UWB protocol. During acquisition a first Automatic Gain Control...

20060159059 - Mobile device, system and method for enhanced channel allocation when radio resource connection is released while in dual transfer mode: A mobile device, system, and method are disclosed for use in a wireless communication system during the mobile device's 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 transferred. When the circuit switched...

20060159060 - System and method for control of communications connections and notifications: A method of implementing call compliance at a central facility through account specific access, the method involving: receiving a call from a caller on an incoming connection; obtaining and verifying account information; enabling the caller on the incoming connection to initiate an outgoing call on an outgoing connection depending on...

20060159063 - A system and method for businesses to advertise to receive and measure incoming prospect leads through a unique, empowered independent agent framework: The present invention provides techniques for managing, supporting and empowering Independent Agents to offer a method for providing Clients with Phone Call Leads from Prospects generated via enabled Internet-based Advertisements, for monitoring and recording the precise details of these Phone Call Leads, and for charging those Clients for such successful...

20060159064 - Apparatus and method for communications control: An apparatus and method for controlling telecommunications is provided. The apparatus, which in one embodiment is a switch, may be connected between a computer-telephony integrated (CTI) workstation and multiple communication lines to elements such as Central Offices. The switch may be manipulated either manually or by the CTI workstation to...

20060159073 - Call processing apparatus and method in wifi network: A call processing apparatus and a related method in a Wireless Fidelity (WiFi) network system construct an Internet protocol (IP) table for enabling intercommunication between WiFi terminals. Upon receiving a destination terminal telephone number from a user, the apparatus and method determine whether a destination terminal corresponding to the input...

20060159075 - Computer-implemented voice markup language-based server: A computer-implemented method and system for a telephony server to provide services based upon a call from a user. A user communicates with the telephony server over a telephone communication device. The telephony server retrieves a voice application over a computer network from a remote web site and uses it...

20060159062 - Method for establishing a telephone communication with a web phone: A method includes receiving a phone number of a destination by the dialing module, reading a record corresponding to the destination from the phone book system according to the phone number by the control module, calling the destination through Internet for requesting an Internet connection according to the record of...

20060159072 - Method for exchanging media description information between user agents using session initiation protocol: A method for exchanging media description information between user agents using a session initiation protocol (SIP) comprises the steps of: providing information on an OS and sound module of a first user agent so that the first user agent generates, in a media description field of a session description protocol...

20060159071 - Method of starting an ip station, system, server and station implementing same and method of setting up a telephone call: The administration server stores a respective location information for each subnet. A station emits a lease request (301), destined for the administration server. Then, the station receives from the administration server, in response to the lease request, a lease (302) containing the location information of the subnet of the station....

20060159069 - Methods and apparatus for creation and transport of multimedia content flows to a distribution network: Methods and apparatus for creation and transport of multimedia content flows to a distribution network. The system includes a method for transporting a content flow to an access network for distribution to devices coupled to the access network. The method includes transmitting a request message to add the content flow...

20060159074 - Patient device: The invention relates to a patient's device having an at least unidirectional, wireless interface for receiving a data signal. The wireless interface is adapted to receive medical or operational data from a medical device, in particular an implantable medical device like a cardiac pacemaker or a cardioverter/defibrillator, a data communication...

20060159067 - Single point of contact personal communication system: A computer/telephony integrated single-point-of-contact system (CISS) enabling a user to contact another using multiple devices with a single contact attempt is disclosed. A plurality of computer programs residing in a computer use a subscriber database, authorization database, priority list database, and device attributes database to determine how to respond to...

20060159068 - Supporting service requests during media data transfer: For supporting a service request during a media data transfer session between a media data transfer server and a media player, a media data transfer server generates a service parameter. The service parameter indicates a service type and a location of this service type. The media data transfer server further...

20060159061 - System and method for mobile communication: A mobile communication system according to the present invention is provided with a base station and a mobile station that communicates with the base station. In a communication protocol between the base station and the mobile station, a plurality of state update frames are defined in a time domain. The...

20060159065 - System and method for routing information packets: A system and method allowing control of VoIP communications by configuring a Network Address Translator (NAT) is provided. In a first NAT configuration, such a port-restricted NAT, peer-to-peer Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) communications are permitted between a VoIP originator and a receiver. In a second NAT configuration, such as...

20060159066 - Voice-over-internet protocol gateway: A VOIP gateway that includes a web server. The gateway is configured to accept configuration data over the Internet by way of the web server. In one embodiment, the VOIP gateway includes a telephone line connection interface, able to connect to a telephone line that may carry a plurality of...

20060159070 - Wireless network base stations capable of receiving video signals: Wireless network base stations capable of receiving video signals are provided. A wireless network base station includes a video signal receiver, a video decoding unit, a first Ethernet port, and a processor. The video signal receiver receives a video signal. The video decoding unit connected to the video signal receiver...

20060159076 - Rapid response method for the failure of links between different routing domains: The invention relates to a rapid response method for the failure of a link between two routing domains in a packet-oriented network. Once the failure of a link has been identified, substitute routes are provided for the interrupted routes by the local selection of alternative routes and by the propagation...

20060159077 - Service-oriented middleware for managing interoperability of heterogeneous elements of integrated systems: A method and system for creating integrated systems from diverse computer-based elements is provided. The integration system provides a service-oriented methodology based on a notion of services as operational abstractions to required middleware that encapsulate an element's built-in capabilities, establish a communication context with other services and client applications, and...

20060159078 - Strictly nonblocking multicast linear-time multi-stage networks: m

20060159081 - Address translation in fibre channel switches: A fibre channel switch element and method for processing frames in a fibre channel network is provided. The switch element includes an address mapping cache that receives an incoming fibre channel frame in a receive and/or transmit segment, wherein the address mapping cache compares a D_ID of an incoming frame...

20060159086 - Device of dynamically assigning variable length prefixes for ip network equipments: A device is dedicated to assigning prefixes for network equipments of an Internet Protocol communication network. It comprises processing means which, in the event of a request to assign a prefix of length L(Rk) for a network equipment Rk, determine a node Nj associated with an unallocated prefix Pj of...

20060159083 - Method for dissemination of non-routing information using the is-is protocol: A method and apparatus for the dissemination of non-routing information to nodes of a network is provided. A new type of IS-IS packet (called a NRI IS-IS packet) is described that exclusively carries non-routing information. When the NRI IS-IS packet is received by a router, the router may send the...

20060159087 - Method for identifying personal information on a network: The present invention provides a method by which to obtain a MAC address of a communication party remotely across a router. In a network where an originating host and a destination host belong to different local areas, the originating host (10) transmits a request packet by which the originating host...

20060159080 - Methods and systems for generating playback instructions for rendering of a recorded computer session: A type of input stored by a packet in a recorded session is identified, said recorded session comprising a plurality of packets representing display data generated by an application program. The packet is marked responsive to the type of input. A destination for rendering the contents of the packet is...

20060159088 - Network mobility: A method of routing data packet flows from a mobile router in a mobile network, which mobile network comprises one or more network node attached to said mobile router, said mobile router for providing transparency at the network layer for said one or more network node to movement of said...

20060159085 - Network relay apparatus and network relay method: A network relay apparatus and method are provided. The network relay includes a sub-network interface for communication with a sub-network, a plurality of backbone network interfaces for communication with a plurality of backbone networks, and a control unit for outputting data, which is received from a device included in the...

20060159089 - Pointer processing and path bip-8 computation for large concatenated payloads: A system for performing Bit Interleaved Parity-8 (BIP-8) computation on large concatenated payloads, in a processing node of an optical communications networks. The BIP-8 computation system comprises storage means associated with each processing strip for allowing the comparison between calculated and transmitted frame error check values to be delayed....

20060159084 - Routing control technique in mpls: This invention is to provide a technique enabling efficient routing in the entire network by totally viewing a state of the entire network from a specific server. An information processing method for managing paths between arbitrary nodes in a specific network according to the invention, includes: obtaining data concerning a...

20060159082 - Techniques for reducing adjacencies in a link-state network routing protocol: A method and apparatus are presented supporting shortest path first (SPF) routing of data packets over a network by establishing link-state data at an router. Link-state data indicates direct links between the router and a different router and establishes an adjacency relationship with the different node. Initial link-state data is...

20060159079 - Transmission control method in an arq system: A method of controlling the transmission of a sequence of data symbols over a connection provided by a predetermined communication layer, which method comprises modifying the transmission by identifying (S41) a reference data symbol in the sequence of data symbols, dividing (S42) the data symbol following the reference data symbol...

20060159091 - Active multicast information protocol: In the disclosed active multicast information protocol, a first edge router of a network receives a data packet from a source, wherein the data packet comprises data to be sent to receivers of a multicast group. The first edge router may rout the data packet to a first core router...

20060159092 - Active multicast information protocol: In the disclosed active multicast information protocol, a first edge router of a network receives a data packet from a source, wherein the data packet comprises data to be sent to receivers of a multicast group. The first edge router may rout the data packet to a first core router...

20060159093 - Broadcast splitter enabling selective transmission in real time: Disclosed is a broadcast splitter enabling a selective transmission in real time. The broadcast splitter divides one multi-program transport stream (MPTS), which is obtained by multiplexing motion picture expert group-2 transport streams (MPEG-2TSs), into several single program transport streams (SPTSs). In particular, the broadcast splitter for MPEG-2TSs has a function...

20060159090 - Data distribution apparatus and method: Embodiments of the invention are concerned with data distribution apparatus, for use on each of a plurality of machines in distributing a set of data over a network amongst said machines. The apparatus comprises: i) multicast apparatus for use in multicasting said set of data over the network for receipt...

20060159094 - Point-to multipoint network interface: A point-to-multipoint network interface is provided that is simpler and less costly to implement than conventional Ethernet switches. The interface includes a plurality of downstream transmitters for transmitting data packets to a plurality of end user devices, a plurality of downstream receivers for receiving data packets from the plurality of...

20060159097 - Control and recruitment of client peripherals from server-side software: A client-server arrangement permits recruitment and control of client peripherals to be effected from the server side is described. A client server system has a server device, a client device, and a peripheral device. The client device is in communication with the server device. The peripheral device is in communication...

20060159096 - Message filtering and demultiplexing system: A publish/subscribe system includes a publisher and multiple subscribers. The published includes a packet generator to generate a packet with at least one of: a fixed length flow label labeling a message or a message bundle and a fixed length node label labeling at least one message bundle and indicating...

20060159095 - Techniques for determining network nodes to represent, multiple subnetworks for a routing protocol: A method and apparatus are presented for determining network nodes for aggregating addresses in routing information used for routing data packets over a network. Link data and reachability data are received. Link data indicates direct links between each of multiple candidate routers of a network and a different router or...

20060159098 - Bulk data transfer: This disclosure relates to network data communication. Some embodiments include initiating a network connection between an original source and an ultimate destination, transmitting a block of data from the original source to the ultimate destination on the network, requesting retransmission of lost blocks from the ultimate destination to the source...

20060159099 - Videoconferencing device and system: The invention comprises a bridgeless multi-way videoconferencing system with a number of high quality advanced features. It is connected at the customer's conference room or video site to a high-resolution pan, zoom and tilt video camera; wireless mouse; video monitor or a standard TV; stereo speakers and a microphone. It...

20060159101 - System and method for traffic routing: The present invention provides a system and method for traffic routing. An embodiment includes an engine for identifying groupings of subscriber stations within a particular ISP. The engine can also obtain a block of contiguous addresses for assignment to the subscriber stations. The addresses are assigned from the block to...

20060159100 - Use of ipv6 in access networks: An embodiment method may comprise establishing a link layer connection to an access server, obtaining a management address, wherein the management address is at least one of an IPv6 and an IPv4 address, obtaining a TFTP server address, wherein the server address is either IPv6 or IPv4, downloading a configuration...

20060159105 - Method for improving the qos mechanisms in the bandwidth allocation in cdma mobile communication systems: The invention relates to a method for improving QoS mechanisms during bandwidth allocation in CDMA mobile communication systems, characterized in that the user terminal signals the minimal bandwidth (bit rate) which is required to the mobile communication system and a bandwith within said range is allocated to the radio interface...

20060159106 - System and method for managing broadband services: A system and method are described for selecting a service state using a configurable abstraction layer. A comparison is made between network parameters of a Network Performance Layer and network services of a Service Layer. Once network parameters are within a threshold for providing a given service, a state change...

20060159102 - Interworking between cell and packet based networks: A method and apparatus of communicating data between a cell based network and a packet based network. Received segments of data units are formed into new data segments which are transmitted irrespective of whether a complete data unit has been received....

20060159103 - Providing access to data shared by packet processing threads: In general, in one aspect, the disclosure describes a method that includes at a first packet processing thread executing at a first core, performing a memory read to data shared between packet processing threads including the first thread. The method also includes at the first packet processing thread, determining whether...

20060159104 - Queueing system for processors in packet routing operations: In a data-packet processor, a configurable queueing system for packet accounting during processing has a plurality of queues arranged in one or more clusters, an identification mechanism for creating a packet identifier for arriving packets, insertion logic for inserting packet identifiers into queues and for determining into which queue to...

20060159108 - Management session initiation with a customer premises device: A communication method for execution at a customer premises device, comprising detecting receipt of a command indicative of an intent of a management entity to initiate a management session, the command being a management session initiation command. Responsive to detecting receipt of the management session initiation command, an identifier for...

20060159107 - Method and apparatus for managing remote ip network elements through sonet network elements: A method and apparatus for transmitting an IP packet between first and second remotely located IP end devices via a network operating under OSI. An IP interface is overlaid over OSI in the routers that are directly connected to the IP devices. These routers act as gateways, communicating with each...

20060159109 - Methods and systems for use in network management of content: The present embodiments provide methods, systems and apparatuses for use in managing content on at least a local network. Some embodiments provide a method for use in managing content that detects there is a change to content on a local network, determines whether the change is additional content on a...

20060159110 - Open service gateway initiative-based home gateway apparatus and device registration method thereof: An OSGi-based home gateway apparatus and a device register method includes a device detecting unit which detects at least one legacy device which does not load acontrollable middleware from a plurality of home devices connected to the home network; an outside network interface which receives drive information of the detected...

20060159111 - Scaleable controlled interconnect with optical and wireless applications: An interconnect structure comprises a plurality of network-connected devices and a logic adapted to control a first subset of the network-connected devices to transmit data and simultaneously control a second subset of the network-connected devices to prepare for data transmission at a future time. The logic can execute an operation...

20060159112 - Dynamic and intelligent buffer management for san extension: In a network system for transporting GFP-encapsulated Fibre Channel/FICON data across a SONET/SDH transport network between two Fibre Channel/FICON ports, a transport interface for one Fibre Channel/FICON port intelligently allocates the amount of buffers for receiving Fibre Channel/FICON data from the other Fibre Channel/FICON port by determining the latency of...

20060159113 - Periodic interface calibration for high speed communication: A high-speed communication interface manages a parallel bus having N bus lines. N+1 communication lines are established. A maintenance operation is performed on one of the N+1 communication lines, while N of the N+1 communication lines is available for data from the N line bus. The communication line on which...

20060159114 - Dispersed high level devices in a network environment: A system and method for locating Open System Interconnection (OSI) Layer 3 or higher devices at strategic locations throughout the network. The Layer 3 devices may have additional capabilities, such as wireless connections or other functionality that may benefit both the consumer and network provider. Layer 2 traffic is confined...

20060159115 - Method of controlling information processing system, information processing system, direct memory access control device and program: In a method of controlling an information processing system in which an information processing device is connected to each of a plurality of input/output ports provided in a routing device and having a first property or a second property, for conducting data transmission among the information processing devices via the...

20060159116 - Facility management platform for a hybrid coaxial/twisted pair local loop network service architecture: The present invention provides a facility management platform to monitor and view the status of a plurality of individually addressable downstream devices including, but not limited to, addressable terminals, IRG's, settops, cable modems, taps, nodes, and/or hubs at a network control center. The FMP may display problems at these downstream...

20060159117 - Multicast distribution of streaming multimedia content: For offering entertainment services by video streaming content to users, a video encoder creates the required .nsc file for each broadcast channel. This .nsc file is retrieved and stored on a server which notifies each set-top box in the field, via a multicast notifier of the availability of the new...

20060159118 - Method for polling in a medium access control protocol: A method is provided for a master device (601) to allocate channel time. The master device sends a polling frame (240) to a current destination slave device (602) and a current polled slave device (603). The polling frame includes a current destination slave device address (350), a current polled slave...

20060159119 - Dsl detector: A DSL sync detector indicates whether or not DSL sync is present on a telephone line. The detector facilitates DSL self-installation by indicating to a subscriber that the subscriber may proceed with the self-installation of DSL because DSL sync has been detected on the subscriber's telephone line. Specific embodiments provide...

20060159120 - Method and system for rate selection algorithm to maximize throughput in closed loop multiple input multiple output (mimo) wireless local area network (wlan) system: Aspects of a method and system for rate selection algorithm to maximize throughput in closed loop multiple input multiple output (MIMO) wireless local area network (WLAN) system are provided and may comprise computing a maximum number of binary bits to be simultaneously transmitted via an RF channel based on signal...

20060159121 - Protocol conversion device and method: An IWF device (3) is divided into an IWF-c (31) as a C plane device controlling signaling and an IWF-u (32, 33) as a U Plane device controlling user data. Thus, it is possible to constitute configuration having flexible scalability....

20060159122 - Providing tdm channels to locations connected by networks implemented on broadcast medium: Providing TDM channels to locations connected by networks implemented on broadcast medium. An (sender) interface equipment receives data bits of frames from a TDM node, forms data packets from the data bits, and sends the data packets on a broadcast network to a receiver interface equipment. The receiver interface equipment...

20060159124 - Access control of a multimedia session according to network resources availability: A method of access control of a multimedia session between a terminal A and a terminal B connected to a telecommunication network wherein, prior to session set-up, the terminal A transmits to the terminal B a message containing a list of codecs to be used to encode the information to...

20060159127 - Method and system of controlling software distribution or file transfer: An example of a solution provided here comprises automatically measuring bandwidth of a network connection; comparing results of the measuring, with bandwidth parameters; preventing a transfer of a file via the network connection, if measured bandwidth is less than a minimum acceptable value; providing to an end user an option...

20060159123 - Method for reserving bandwidth in an ethernet type network: The inventive method for reserving at least one node of a communication network like the Ethernet bus in the form of a predetermined fraction of the Ethernet bus bandwidth consists in circulating a token between the network nodes in such a way that they are enabled to successively transfer an...

20060159126 - Real time optimization over a shared communication channel: There is provided a method and apparatus for sending an encoded signal between a host station and a client station in which the host station encodes data, encodes the error data resulting from that encoding process and generates user data. Thus, the host station generates three types of data and...

20060159125 - System and method for providing central office equipment for high bandwidth communications: A method, apparatus, and a machine-readable medium for providing high-quality voice through central office equipment are provided. A signal indicative of a desired amount of bandwidth for a call may be received at the central office equipment. A determination may be made as to whether a desired amount of bandwidth...

20060159128 - Channel switching subscription service according to predefined content patterns: A monitor service which monitors the content of a plurality of broadcast channels, and characterizes the content of the broadcast programs, operatively coupled to an evaluator which considers the content of broadcast programs over time compared to a personal channel control schema, and further cooperating with a channel change commander...

20060159129 - Method of providing multi-media communications over a dsl access network: The invention concerns a method of providing voice and/or multi-media communication over a DSL access network as well as a DSL access multiplexer (21) and at least one integrated access device (32). The DSL access multiplexer (21) and the integrated access device (32) are connected via a subscriber line (42)....

20060159130 - Method and apparatus for constant bit rate data transmission in an optical burst switching network: A method, core node, ingress edge node, and egress edge node for matching a bit rate of data input into an optical burst switching network with that of data output from the optical burst switching network are provided. The method includes calculating a difference between a frequency of optical data...

20060153059 - Signal separation: A signal separation method for separation of source signals from a composite signal expresses the composite signal as a series of values of signal amplitude. The source signals have periodicities similar or equal to p. The composite signal is portioned into sections which provide respective rows of a matrix X,...

20060153060 - Method of reducing feedback channel state information within adaptive ofdma system and adaptive ofdma system using the same: A method of reducing channel state information fed back in an adaptive orthogonal frequency division multiple access system when transmitting and receiving data packets between a base station and a mobile station using an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing method comprising adaptive modulation and coding. The method includes: transmitting a data...

20060153061 - Multi-carrier communication device and feedback information communication method: A multicarrier communication apparatus that is capable of suppressing interference of feedback information with other channels and alleviating a reduction in an uplink capacity. In PL signal reception section (260) of this apparatus, PL signal extraction section (261) extracts pilot signals and reception quality measuring section (262) measures reception quality...

20060153062 - Radio communication apparatus and radio communication method: Radio communication apparatus includes unit dividing transmit data into first-and-second streams, unit subjecting first-and-second streams to serial-to-parallel conversion to obtain data signals, unit modulating data signals into OFDM-modulation signals corresponding to first and second streams using subcarriers, unit acquiring channel responses between communication and receiving apparatuses, unit computing singular values...

20060153063 - Mobile ip registration process for always-on device: A system and method for an automatic retry method during initial registration and re-registration of a mobile device on a mobile Internet Protocol (MIP) network is provided. The mobile device is adapted to categorise a registration response (RRP) code and accordingly determine a course of action. By reacting intelligently to...

20060153065 - Point-of-sales terminal, failure information display method and failure information display program: According to the present invention, information is provided about the result of determination of whether or not a detected failure is a failure which can be responded to, based on comparison between the failure level of the detected failure and a failure response level which has been arbitrarily set. This...

20060153064 - System and method for storing and restoring communication dialog: Storing and restoring a communication session includes establishing a communication session by exchanging dialog. Dialog from the communication session is stored to a persistent storage. Endpoints participate in the communication session to assert functionality to a monitoring module. If a failure occurs during the communication session, an endpoint receives the...

20060153066 - Virtual path restoration scheme using fast dynamic mesh restoration in an optical network: A method for restoring a virtual path, provisioned between a source and a target node, in a mesh zoned optical network is described. The method, in one embodiment, broadcasts or floods restore path requests in the network to expedite the identification of an alternate route and minimize the service disruption...

20060153067 - Border router protection with backup tunnel stitching in a computer network: A technique protects against the failure of a border router between two domains in a computer network using Fast Reroute and backup tunnels. According to the technique, the protected border router advertises a list of all its adjacent next-hop routers (i.e., its “neighbors”). A neighbor in the first domain that...

20060153068 - Systems and methods providing high availability for distributed systems: Disclosed are systems and methods which provide high availability with respect to equipment deployed in a distributed system architecture. The distributed system architecture may comprise one or more equipment clusters of a plurality of processor-based systems cooperating to host one or more application servers. Redundancy is provided with respect to...

20060153069 - Method and apparatus for line and path selection within sonet/sdh based networks: A line level selection unit is described that selects signals from a backplane. The line level selection unit has a clock that times egress time slots associated with an egress network line coupled to the egress channel. The egress channel has a primary protection group table that correlates the egress...

20060153071 - Jitter controlled wfq algorithm on network processors and latency constrained hardware: Systems and methods of reducing service jitter in WFQ scheduling schemes used in packet traffic management are described. Service jitter is the variance in time between when a queue should have been selected for servicing and when it was actually serviced. The service jitter is generally not a problem in...

20060153070 - System and method for monitoring, controlling and provisioning a telecommunications access network: An access device includes a first port configured to communicatively couple to a network node via a communications link, with the communications link having a plurality of information flows. At least one of the flows is configured as a maintenance and control flow and at least one of the flows...

20060153076 - Admissions control in a connectionless communications network: A method of providing call admission control which does not require using MIDCOM protocol methods, Packetcable protocols or COPS-RSVP s approaches is described which is simple to implement, cost-effective and which is able to deal with particular situations such as conference calls. Each link in a communications network over which...

20060153072 - Extending universal plug and play messaging beyond a local area network: A method architecture for extending universal plug and play (UPnP) beyond a local area network is presented. This method includes a mobile device proxying agents. The mobile device proxying agents translate messages between UPnP and session initiation protocol (SIP) formats and sessions....

20060153074 - Method for providing charging attributes: The invention relates to communication networks, specifically to service provisioning and authorisation of service usage in different networks. The invention provides a method and a system for authorizing services for visiting subscribers and for obtaining the necessary charging profile information from the subscribers' home networks on a per-service basis....

20060153073 - Service access request authorization: Embodiments of methods for handling a service authorization request (SAR) from a mobile subscriber are disclosed. The SAR represents a request for access to a given prepaid mobile service. The method includes ascertaining, using suspect subscriber list, whether the SAR is associated a suspect subscriber in the suspect subscriber list....

20060153075 - System and method for determining physical location of a node in a wireless network during an authentication check of the node: A system and method for providing security to a wireless network by using a mobile node's location as a parameter for deciding if access is to be given to the node. The system and method employ access points, wireless routers and mobile nodes, each including at least one transceiver adapted...

20060153077 - Adaptive router architecture providing a rate limiting mechanism: A router, a switching element card and a related method for providing a rate limiting mechanism in the router comprising a network interface, a forwarding element card connected to the network interface and the switching element card. The switching element card is capable of receiving the network traffic from the...

20060153079 - Apparatus and method for setting up qos in a mobile communication system: Provided is an apparatus and method for setting up aquality-of-service (QoS) in a mobile communication system. A mobile terminal (MT) generates a resource reservation message including requested QoS information and packet filtering information for a predetermined service. A packet data service node (PDSN) stores the QoS information and the packet...

20060153078 - Receiver, transceiver, receiving method and transceiving method: A receiver including: a receive buffer; a first buffer controller for deciding an initial value of capacity allocated to the receive buffer in accordance with each data type and updating the initial value of the allocated capacity in accordance with opening of the receive buffer; and a second buffer controller...

20060153080 - Network rotameter station and service: Methods and systems for controlling network traffic in a network are disclosed herein and may include monitoring network traffic characteristics for a plurality of communication channels in a home network, by at least one processor within the home network. The at least one processor may re-route network traffic for at...

20060153081 - Interference-based routing in a wireless mesh network: Route selection through a wireless mesh network between a source node and a destination node is based on minimizing generated interference in order to increase the capacity of the network. An interference energy associated with transmitting a packet over each hop in multiple routes from the source node to the...

20060153082 - Method of downloading data in peer-to-peer service of wired and wireless integrated network and node therefor: A method of downloading data in a peer-to-peer service on a wired and wireless integrated network and a node therefore includes downloading the data to a requester node only through wired nodes among a plurality of nodes located in a download path between the requester node which requests the data...

20060153084 - Apparatus and method for data communication: The present invention relates to a data communication method and apparatus comprising a noise information memory for storing noise information to indicate a degree of noise on a current communication line and capable of performing communications in a plurality of communication modes. The method and apparatus further comprising a mode...

20060153083 - Binary class based analysis and monitoring: The invention concerns binary class based analyzing and monitoring. Data relating to indicators relating to at least one of: a communications network resource, a communications network service, and a service provided over a communications network, is collected. Value ranges of the indicators are divided into value range classes, and a...

20060153085 - Method and system for recovery from access point infrastructure link failures: Described is a method for detecting a link fault between a first access point and an infrastructure, the first access point providing a wireless connection for a station to the infrastructure and suspending communication between the station and the first access point. A wireless connection is then established between the...

20060153086 - Operation interruption control system for a communication network router: A system is dedicated to controlling interruption of the operation of a router of an Internet protocol communication network. The system comprises observation means which, in the event of reception of an instruction to observe IP datagrams in transit received by the router, deliver an alert signal in case of...

20060153087 - Apparatus and method for checking performance of wireless data network: An apparatus for checking performance of a wireless data network includes an FTP (File Transport Protocol) module coupled to a test server based on predetermined user information and transmitting and receiving data to and from the coupled test server; a controller for analyzing a test result obtained from transmission and...

20060153092 - Active response communications network tap: An active response network tap for use in monitoring a network comprises a first device interface terminal, a second device interface terminal, a first monitor interface terminal, and a second monitor interface terminal. A tap structure is coupled to the first device interface terminal, second device interface terminal, first monitor...

20060153094 - Integrated self-optimizing multi-parameter and multi-variable point to multipoint communication system: The invention provides a method and system for adaptive point to multipoint wireless communication. The wireless physical layer and the wireless media-access-control (MAC) layer collectively include a set of parameters, which are adaptively modified by a base station controller for communication with a plurality of customer premises equipment. The base...

20060153088 - Method and system of insuring that a user receives a multicast television signal when changing channels during a control mode switch over: In a communications network, an end user (set top box) can leave a first group, join a second group (change television channels), and receive data from the second group (new television channel) while a control module of the communications network is unavailable. The network detects when the control module is...

20060153093 - Method for completing registration of a bonded-flow cable modem: A flow bonder at a CMTS and another at a cable modem distribute packets of a service flow over multiple channels and collect them in the downstream direction respectively; vice versa in the upstream direction. The collector uses a service flow identifier and a sequence number identifier inserted by the...

20060153090 - Method for supporting on-demand performance: A method is disclosed for managing the performance of shared computing resources in furtherance of delivering on-demand IT services to multiple customers. The inventive method comprises predicting the performance of resources allocated among the customers to minimize performance related problems; preventing performance related problems by evaluating the impact of changes...

20060153089 - System and method for analysis of communications networks: A system and method is provided for using network asset management data including attributes such as device type, location, and link speed for modeling network performance and identifying performance issues. The invention provides measured and observed performance data for one or more segments of a network (e.g., one or more...

20060153095 - System and method for auto-configuration of a dsl modem: The method for the automatic configuration of a DSL modem, comprises connecting a DSL modem to an analog telephone line, automatically determining available communication resources on the analog telephone line, and thereafter automatically configuring the DSL modem based on the available communication resources. Automatic configuration of the DSL modem is...

20060153091 - System and method for measuring end-to-end network delay and user-perspective delay: A system and method for measuring user-perceived delay in an IP network, comprising detecting request and corresponding response messages at a monitoring point in the network, calculating an uplink delay based upon the time elapsed between the request and corresponding response messages, detecting response and corresponding transport acknowledgement messages at...

20060153096 - Telecommunications apparatus and method, storage medium, and program: The present invention relates to a telecommunications apparatus and a method, a storage medium, and a program for determining whether or not the other side communicating content data is located on a LAN or across a WAN. In step S13, the difference between a counter value in a received check...

20060153099 - Ad hoc communication system and method for routing speech packets therein: A method for organizing a plurality of communication devices of an ad hoc communication system into a communication network. The devices are organized into one or more communication graphs where at least one of the graphs is a rooted tree. The invention also provides an ad hoc communication system wherein...

20060153097 - System and methods for inline property editing in tree view based editors: A system and method directed to inline property editing for tree view based editors is provided. A user selects a desired node within a tree view and then hover the mouse cursor over the node causing a smart tag anchor to appear. When the use clicks on the smart tag...

20060153098 - Wireless communication system and transmission device: The present invention relates to a wireless communication system to properly switch over a transmission method of radio signals corresponding to a configuration of a receiver. The wireless communication system according to the present invention includes a transmitting device having a plurality of antennas and capable of transmitting radio signals...

20060153100 - On-demand group communication services with quality of service (qos) guarantees: The present invention broadly contemplates addressing QoS concerns in overlay design to account for the last mile problem. In accordance with the present invention, a simple queuing network model for bandwidth usage in the last-mile bottlenecks is used to capture the effects of the asymmetry, the contention for bandwidth on...

20060153101 - Data transmission method in communication system, controller and communication terminal: The invention is related to a controller of a communication system, comprising: storing means for storing information on a data conveyance group; uplink and downlink connection means for data conveyance; first activating means for activating the downlink connection means to data conveyance group members; identifying means for identifying a data...

20060153102 - Multi-party sessions in a communication system: A controller for controlling a multiparty session in a communication system and a method for is disclosed. The controller comprises a control function configured to host a multiparty session. The control function controls joining of parties to the multiparty session and also selects at least one communication parameter based on...

20060153103 - Content reception device and content distribution method: A music reproduction apparatus (200) receives, from a tuning server (400), radio station information making up genres of music distributed from respective radio servers (300) and URLs of the respective radio servers (300). When a genre and a keyword representing characteristics of music are input to the music reproduction apparatus...

20060153104 - Method of searching for broadcasting channel of specific program in a dmb receiving terminal: A method of searching for a broadcasting channel of a specific program in a digital multimedia broadcasting (DMB) receiving terminal. The method includes detecting a program number input by a user, determining whether particular bits in a header of a received transport stream (TS) packet are identical to fixed values...

20060153105 - Maintaining uplink control via the interception of signals for mobile terminals in direct mode peer-to-peer communication: The present invention provides a wireless communication network system that maintains uplink control for the mobile terminal in peer-to-peer communication. According to one embodiment of the invention, after determining a reliable direct communication link can be set up between the mobile terminals, the network system transmits information including control commands...

20060153106 - Power control of digital subscriber line: This invention relates to power control arrangements of digital subscriber lines. The invention controls parallel subscriber lines simultaneously in an organized way, based on the measurements of crosstalk conditions of the sub-scriber lines. Different crosstalk conditions are measured. The organized way to control the transmission power levels ensures that the...

20060153107 - Power control of digital subscriber line: The present disclosure relates generally to a system and method for asynchronous busy-tone multiple access with acknowledgement for ad hoc wireless networks. In one example, a method for use in an ad hoc network using a tone emitted by a receiving node includes receiving a first portion of a packet...

20060153108 - Voip terminal capable of facsimile communication and communication method thereof: A simple VoIP terminal and a communication method thereof which allow facsimile communication by a VoIP terminal unequipped with H.323D facilities. Whether or not a call request from a facsimile/telephone terminal is followed by a CNG signal is determined. If the CNG signal is detected, G.711 CODEC alone is selected...

20060153111 - Ad-hoc network for routing extension to support internet protocol version 6 (ipv6) and method thereof: An ad-hoc network for routing extension by supporting the IPv6 protocol and a method for routing extension. The ad-hoc network comprises a gateway for appending an address configuration message to an ad-hoc Routing REPly (RREP) message and transmitting an extended ad-hoc RREP message; and a node for separating the address...

20060153109 - Electric-field communication system, electric-field communication device, and electrode disposing method: An electric field generated by another electric field communications apparatus reaches electric field sensor ES. Electric field sensor ES outputs an electric signal in response to the changes in the electric field. The electric field that reaches electric field sensor ES enters a return path of the electric field communications...

20060153112 - Method and system for indicating data burst allocation in a wireless communication system: A method is provided for transmitting a MAP message in a wireless communication system. A base station transmits the MAP message including operation mode information indicating a data burst allocation scheme, to a mobile station. The mobile station identifies a data burst according to the operation mode information included in...

20060153113 - Radio communication terminal apparatus and radio communication base station apparatus: A CDMA radio receiving apparatus which receives a slot which has a long code group identification short code at a point where a long code is masked. The apparatus includes a detector that detects a phase of the long code in association with a pattern that appears over successive slots...

20060153110 - Simplex reverse link in a communication network: A controller (101, 103) provides forward links (109) and reverse links (111a, 111b, 111c) for use in communication with communication devices (107). The controller (101, 103) has receivers including a first receiver and a second receiver, and transmitters. A processor of the controller (101) assigns one of transmitters as a...

20060153114 - Communication system, communication terminal, and communication method: A communication terminal, in case that transmission/reception of a frame is carried out between a management terminal and another communication terminal, reads out its frame content, and on the basis of a content of the frame which was readout, sets up power off time for turning off power of the...

20060153115 - Method and apparatus to facilitate broadcast packet handling: A first network element determines (11) that a given mobile node using mobile Internet Protocol should receive subsequent broadcast packets as may be sourced by a corresponding Home Agent. This first network element can then determine (12) whether to support such subsequent broadcast packets using a first broadcast packet handling...

20060153116 - Error correction of balanced codeword sequence: A method for recoding an input sequence of words, including assigning a respective bit-grade such as a reliability valve depending on sampling phases to at least one of the bits in a first word in the input sequence, deriving candidate words (161, W1, W2) from the first word in response...

20060153117 - Method and apparatus for bandwidth provisioning in a wlan: The invention provides for a receiver transmitter comprising: a plurality of logical access points; for downloading a duration into a mobile terminal in accordance with an access point determination of the maximum amount of time information linked with a downlink broadcast traffic to deliver all the broadcast/multicast information in a...

20060153126 - Apparatus and method for transmitting/receiving multiuser packet in a mobile communication system: An apparatus and method is provided for generating one packet with transmission data and transmitting the packet from an access network transceiver system (ANTS) to a plurality of access terminals (ATs) in a mobile communication system including the ATs and the ANTS which are capable of performing packet data communication...

20060153122 - Controlling wireless access to a network: Various methods and apparatus are described in for a wireless access point. The wireless access point allows access to a wireless LAN that has two or more service set identifiers (SSIDs). At least one of the SSIDs is associated with a public wireless LAN. The wireless access point implements a...

20060153121 - Effortless registration with content providers and methods thereof: A communication system (100) has a portal (110), a subscriber (108), a plurality of content providers (112), and a communication network for providing communication between the portal, the subscriber and the plurality of content providers. The components of the communication system are programmed to transmit to the subscriber from the...

20060153124 - Maintaining consistent network connections using a secondary pdp context: A system and method using the concept of secondary PDP context defined in the 3GPP specification in order to preserve a uniform connectivity to a GGSN while roaming from different networks through a handover mechanism. The handover mechanism involved is efficient, with minimal messaging overhead, and preserves the IP address...

20060153123 - Method and device for data transmission: A method for transmitting data between a base station and at least one remote unit is provided. Conventional approaches to communication based on a predefined uniform transmission protocol do not function especially in open RFID systems with at least one base station and tags of a different (and variable) type...

20060153120 - Method, apparatus, and system for implementing proxy accounting for a home agent: Proxy accounting for a home agent is implemented. Packets are monitored on a home network. A registration request sent from a mobile node connected to a foreign network to a home agent residing on the home network is detected among the packets, corresponding to a registration sought by the mobile...

20060153125 - Roaming method for maintaining connectivity through heterogeneous wireless networks, and system for realizing the same: A roaming method for maintaining connectivity between a client and a server through heterogeneous wireless networks includes the steps of establishing an initial connection between the client and the server through a first selected one of the heterogeneous wireless networks, detecting disconnection of the initial connection, and establishing a current...

20060153119 - System and method for controlling packet data bandwidth: A system and method of managing the bandwidth of transmitted communications in a wireless network where a data packet (108) is received. The data packet (108) comprises a protocol identifier (110). At least one primary pattern identifier (110) is stored in a memory (103). The protocol identifier (110) is compared...

20060153118 - System and method for wireless ip address capacity optimization: A system, method and program storage device for providing wireless connectivity to a user on a communications network including a plurality of users, each user having wireless connection capability and wired connection capability to a network server, including determining if a valid wired address is assigned to a first user;...

20060153127 - Method and system of bandwidth management: The present invention discloses a method of bandwidth management, which is used in network transmission, including two main steps of setting a user-level bandwidth and setting an application-level bandwidth. At the first step of setting a user-level bandwidth, firstly, the method provides a IP address for the master user, and...

20060153132 - Method of medium access control for a wireless system and a relay station used in a wireless system: The present invention relates to an method of medium access control for a wireless system that makes possible a subscriber station located out of coverage area of a base station communicate with the base station with the help of a relay station. The method includes broadcasting a polling packet by...

20060153130 - Method of scheduling regular signal transmission in a cellular wireless system: Scheduling of regular signal transmissions, e.g., between a plurality of wireless terminals and a base station in a cellular network in a manner designed to reduce or minimize recurring periodic interference encountered by individual wireless terminals from transmission in neighboring cells is described. Signal transmissions of wireless terminals in each...

20060153131 - System and method for allocating ranging slots in a broadband wireless access communication system: A method for determining a number of ranging slots by a base station (BS) in a broadband wireless access (BWA) communication system. The method includes counting the number of mobile stations (MSs) that succeeded in ranging in a current frame, determining a ranging slot occupation ratio in the current frame,...

20060153129 - System and method for efficient selection of a packet data servicing node: A data communication system 10 is provided that allow for the efficient management of data communication sessions requested from a plurality of packet data servicing nodes (22-28) which are organized in a cluster 32, each member of the cluster 32 manages a cluster session table which contains data identifying mobile...

20060153128 - Transmitting information using multiple carriers: A communication network has a network element adapted to transmit data to a mobile station using at least two carriers. The network element transmits a first set of channels on a first main carrier, and a second set of channels on a second dependent carrier. The first and second set...

20060153137 - High speed downlink shared control channel cell change: A high speed-downlink shared channel (HS-DSCH) cell change is initialized. A status report is autonomously generated for at least one radio link control (RLC) instance mapped to the HS-DSCH by a user equipment (UE) in response to the initiation of the HS-DSCH cell change. The status report indicates missing HS-DSCH...

20060153136 - Method and apparatus for providing and obtaining information regarding local agent in wireless network: A method and apparatus for providing and obtaining information includes detecting information regarding a local agent, representative of a mobile node in a predetermined area, from a message from an access router; requesting the information from a node other than the access router, dependent upon whether the information is detected...

20060153134 - Method and system for recognizing call switch-over from 1x ev-do system to 1x system: The system in accordance with the present invention recognizes in real time that a call connection of a hybrid access terminal be switched over to a 1X system, by sending an inquiry message inquiring the hybrid access terminal of whether the hybrid access terminal has received voice signal or a...

20060153135 - Method for network selection in communication networks, related network and computer program product therefor: At least one user is given access to a respective home operator over a communication network such as an IP network, via an access network and through any of a plurality of supported visited networks. The user is communicated a list of the supported visited networks and is thus given...

20060153133 - System and method for performing a fast handoff in a wireless local area network: Disclosed is a system and method for performing a fast channel scan so as to minimize the communication disruption period (10) which occurs during a handoff of a mobile station (STA) (20-23) in a wireless local area network (WLAN) (100). Each mobile station (STA) includes an associated nearest-neighbor table identifying...

20060153138 - Wireless station: A wireless station that includes an access point apparatus detection section which detects a usable access point apparatus from among a plurality of access point apparatuses; an allowance area calculation section which calculates an allowance area according to received signal strength indicator, frequency, and frequency bandwidth of a radio wave...

20060153141 - Method and apparatus for acquiring a carrier frequency in a cdma communication system: A wideband CDMA handset has a receiver that simplifies initial sequence acquisition. The receiver searches and assigns a base station carrier frequency located within a predetermined frequency band by scanning at predetermined intervals within the frequency band (38), such as every 5 MHz in a 60 MHz band. The receiver...

20060153142 - Method and apparatus for multi-user code channel activation detection in wireless communication system: The present invention provides a method for detecting active code channels of multiple users in a wireless communications system. The method comprises the steps of: receiving the radio signals that contain the signals of at least two of said multiple users; separating the data and training sequences of said received...

20060153139 - Method and system for preventing call drop by limiting search time of 1x system during 1x ev-do system traffic state: Disclosed is a method and a system for preventing a call drop by limiting a search time for a 1X system during a 1xEV-DO system traffic state. The system comprises a hybrid access terminal, supporting both a 1xEV-DO system and a 1X system, for periodically switching over to the 1X...

20060153145 - Mobile radio communication system, communication apparatus applied in mobile radio communication system, and mobile radio communication method: In the mobile radio communication system where the UMTS and an another system coexist an idle slot for observing the frequency component of another system is inserted in one superframe of UMTS. The duration of this idle slot is at most half of the duration of one frame that form...

20060153144 - Pilot-based channel estimation method for mc-cdma system: Disclosed is a method for estimating a channel using a pilot signal in a wireless communication system based on multi-carrier multiple access. A transmission side generates a pilot symbol correlated with spread data symbols which is included in a spread symbol generated through a band spreading, inserts the pilot symbol...

20060153140 - System and method for managing cdma communication system capacity using power-based metrics: A CDMA system according to an embodiment of the invention employs a technique for power optimized user loading that obtains a desired allocation of different radio configuration calls. The technique takes advantage of the relatively low power requirements of RC3 calls for low load conditions, while increasing the number of...

20060153143 - System for receiving access request signal in a wireless communication system: A system includes a first base station (BS) adapted to generate, upon detecting an access request signal for a second BS and transmitted from a mobile terminal (MT), an access detection message indicating the detection, and a network element coupled between the first and second BS and adapted to receive...

20060153146 - Scheduling of transmissions using multiple carriers: A communications system has a network element and a mobile station. The network element is adapted to transmit data to the mobile station on a shared downlink channel on multiple carriers and the mobile station is adapted to receive the data. A transmission scheduler schedules the data transmissions from the...

20060153147 - Fast macrodiversity switching with timing management in wireless networks: A communication system for communication using wireless signals in a fast macrodiversity switching environment. The wireless signals include downlink signals to and uplink signals from mobile stations where the wireless signals have bursts in time slots. In the communication system, a plurality of transceiver stations have broadcast channels (non-switched) and...

20060153157 - Ad-hoc network for transmitting packets to plural target regions and packet transmission method thereof: A wireless ad-hoc network for transmitting packets to target regions, and a packet transmission method thereof, are provided. The ad-hoc network includes at least one relay node for receiving a packet containing location information of at least two target regions each including at least one node, separating the received packet...

20060153154 - Data forwarding method for reliable service in sensor networks: A method for relaying received data by a relay node in a sensor network that includes a sink node, a source node for collecting and transmitting data requested by the sink node, and the relay node for relaying the data transmitted from the source node to the sink node. The...

20060153151 - Maintaining uninterrupted service in a wireless access point and client stations thereof: A method, an apparatus, and code in a carrier medium to operate in a first access point of a wireless network in communication with at least one associated client station. The method includes wirelessly broadcasting a management frame including an indication that the first access point will stop being active,...

20060153152 - Method and system for a bandwidth efficient medium access control (mac) protocol: A method and system for a bandwidth efficient medium access control (MAC) protocol is provided, which may comprise communicating a request to transmit (RTS) signal to a receiving station to determine if a channel is available for transmission. A clear to send (CTS) acknowledgement signal may be received from the...

20060153149 - Method and system for handoff to a destination base station by measuring signal strength of carrier signals during at least one csma-backoff time: A wireless packet communication system that enables a wireless terminal to move from one wireless LAN to another while maintaining packet communication. The wireless terminal detects the electric field strength of a carrier signal from each base station during at least one back-off period, creates move destination information based on...

20060153153 - Method and system for monitoring a selected region of an airspace associated with local area networks of computing devices: A method for monitoring a selected region of an airspace associated with local area networks of computing devices is provided. The method includes providing one or more segments of a legacy local area network to be protected in a selected geographic region. The legacy local area network is characterized by...

20060153150 - Method for improving channel transmission efficiency in wireless network: The present invention discloses a method for improving channel transmission efficiency in a wireless network. In the course of data transmission, a length of a data frame split from a Media Access Control (MAC) layer service data packet is changed in real-time according to a channel state of the wireless...

20060153148 - Method for wlan exclusive downlink channel: A wireless local area network (WLAN) adheres to ANSI/IEEE 802.11 standards and communicates with user terminals (UTs) in a coverage region. The WLAN communicates video and audio to the mobile terminals over a downlink channel. In order to maximize quality of service, the system provides for a method of inhibiting...

20060153155 - Multi-channel digital wireless audio system: In a multi-channel digital wireless audio system with at least one transmit node and at least one receive node, each node can both receive and transmit digital audio signals. Signals sent from a receive node to a transmit node may acknowledge satisfactory signal receipt, or may requesting retransmission of data...

20060153156 - Systems and methods for the connection and remote configuration of wireless clients: Systems and methods for connection and remote configuration of wireless nodes communicating on a shared-communications channel. A master node includes a processor configured to generate a frame including configuration information designating network configuration parameters for configuring a remote wireless node for network communications. The master node transmits the frame over...

20060153158 - Mobile radio communication system, communication apparatus applied in a mobile radio communication system, and mobile radio communication method: In the mobile radio communication system where the UMTS and an another system coexist an idle slot for observing the frequency component of another system is inserted in one superframe of UMTS. The duration of this idle slot is at most half of the duration of one frame that form...

20060153159 - Mobile radio communication system, communication apparatus applied in a mobile radio communication system, and mobile radio communication method: In the mobile radio communication system where the UMTS and an another system coexist an idle slot for observing the frequency component of another system is inserted in one superframe of UMTS. The duration of this idle slot is at most half of the duration of one frame that form...

20060153160 - Method, means and computer program product for controlling and/or restricting use of telecommunications connection: This publication discloses a method for monitoring and/or limiting the use of a data communications connection subject to payment between IP clients in a packet-switched connection network (15), in which method the operator terminal (13), such as a SIP system, of the signalling channel of the connection station of the...

20060153167 - Computer tracking and locking: A method and system are provided for locating a device connected to a network. The method comprises querying the network to determine an address of the device connected to the network; accessing network address information to determine a switch IP address and a switch port associated with the address of...

20060153169 - Customer premises network with pstn and packet telephony functions: A method for telephony includes modulating output audio signals produced by first and second telephones in a voice band so as to generate respective first and second upstream passband signals in a passband at a frequency higher than the voice band. The first and second upstream passband signals are transmitted...

20060153172 - Emergency call system and emergency call method: An emergency call system includes a position information management device and a position information notification device, wherein the position information management device includes a first management section which manages first terminal information and first position information of a terminal and a first processing section which receives the first terminal information...

20060153168 - Executing, at local nodes, centrally provisioned telephony services: Described are methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products for executing, at local nodes, centrally provisioned telephony services. A telephony service can be provisioned at a central node. The telephony service is transmitted to a first local node. The telephony service is executed at the first local node....

20060153171 - Ip telephone system: An IP telephone system having a plurality of terminals, comprising storage means storing relationships between terminal ID and user ID for each of the plurality of terminals, server performing call processing control related to each terminal logged in and registered, storage means storing upper limit numbers of the respective terminals...

20060153166 - Ip telephone system, ip telephone apparatus and calling method: An IP telephone system includes IP telephone apparatuses and an ENUM server. The IP telephone apparatuses, connected to an IP network, perform a voice communication. The ENUM server stores NAPTR resource records containing file transfer protocols supported by the IP telephone apparatuses and returns the NAPTR resource records, responding to...

20060153170 - Lan-based small office/home telephone network utilizing intelligent terminals: A LAN-based communication arrangement particularly well-suited for small office/home office arrangements includes a plurality of “intelligent terminals” that each include a CPU that stores information regarding the IP address of each terminal on the LAN, as well as POTS line(s) associated with that location. The terminals are able to communicate...

20060153162 - Method and apparatus for enabling phone number dialing using email addresses: The invention comprises a method and apparatus for enabling a subscriber to establish a call to at least one destination phone number using an email address. Specifically, the method comprises receiving an incoming communication request from the subscriber for establishing the call (where the incoming communication request comprises an email...

20060153173 - Method for routing transactions between internal and external partners in a communication center: In a multimedia call center (MMCC) operating through an operating system, a client-specific self-help wizard is provided for active clients and updated periodically with information related to client transaction history with the MMCC. A connected client is presented by the wizard with a selective media function through which the client...

20060153161 - Satellite digital broadcast receiving device: A satellite digital broadcasting receiver apparatus is provided which includes a communication circuit that transmits and receives apparatus management information and apparatus control information required for viewing a satellite digital broadcasting program to and from a management center apparatus for managing the apparatus management information and the apparatus control information...

20060153163 - System and method for modifying speech playout to compensate for transmission delay jitter in a voice over internet protocol (voip) network: A system and method for reducing delay introduced by de-jitter buffers in a VoIP network is presented. The method aspect for receiving and presenting speech data received from a VoIP network comprises monitoring speech-related packets received from a packet network and based on the monitoring, either maintaining a normal speech...

20060153164 - System and method for voice modulating in telephone: A telephone for voice modulating includes a receiver, a voice modulating unit, a communication unit, and a control unit. The receiver receives a voice signal. The voice modulating unit generates a modulated voice signal by modulating the voice signal. The communication unit outputs the voice signal or the modulated voice...

20060153165 - Volumetric control apparatus for fluid dispensing: The present invention provides an apparatus for dispensing fluid in preselected volumetric quantities. The apparatus comprises a valve positioned inline with a conduit holding fluid under pressure, a flow meter positioned inline with the conduit, a control unit communicatively coupled to the valve and flow meter, the control unit adapted...

20060153176 - Computer-based multifunctional personal communication system with caller id: An interface for personal communications systems is described which provides rapid identification of a caller and limited access based on a variety of parameters obtained from caller identification information encoded by the telephone company. The incoming telephone call information is compared to a preprogrammed access matrix to determine if the...

20060153174 - Quality determination for packetized information: A method for near real time quality analysis consistent with certain embodiments passively samples packets (616) from a stream of Internet Protocol (IP) packets that represent a communication session between a pair of end points carrying signals being transmitted over a transmission path in an IP network, and determines (620)...

20060153175 - Wireless handset for voip: The present invention provides a wireless handset for voice over Internet protocol (VoIP). The VoIP wireless handset can be inserted into a PC card socket of a computer for convenient storage and charging of the wireless handset. The VoIP wireless handset comprises a speaker, a microphone, a printed circuit board,...

20060153177 - Network monitor and method: A network monitor that taps data from a network link has first and second interfaces that allow the network monitor to be connected in-line in the network link between two network devices. The monitor has first and second programmable logic devices. The programmable logic devices are arranged to receive parallel...

20060153178 - Power spectrum control method for communication channels limited by disturbers and apparatus for performing such a method: A method for determining at least one operational transmit power Snk over a communication channel (Ln) coupled to a disturbance causing transceiver (n) for at least one tone (k), comprises the steps of provision of at least one reference victim communication channel (Lref) for representing at least one reference victim...

20060153180 - Fanning route generation technique for multi-path networks: A fanning route generation technique is provided for multi-path networks having a shared communications fabric. The technique includes selecting a source node-destination node (S-D) group having common starting and ending sets of links from the network of interconnected nodes. Within this group, selecting the shortest routes between the S-D nodes...

20060153179 - Techniques for transmitting and receiving traffic over advanced switching compatible switch fabrics: Techniques for transmitting SONET/SDH traffic over an Advanced Switching compatible switch fabric. In one implementation, SONET/SDH traffic may be aggregated and encapsulated into Advanced Switching compatible packets. In one implementation, the contents of the Advanced Switching compatible packets may be configurable and directions on how to unpack the Advanced Switching...

20060153189 - Ad hoc communication system, mobile terminal, center, ad hoc communication method and ad hoc communication program: An ad-hoc communication system, a mobile terminal, a center, an ad-hoc communication method and an ad-hoc communication program, in which information is directly communicated each other among mobile terminals mounted on vehicles to raise information accuracy while ensuring privacy. The center issues an ad-hoc ID with an expiration date for...

20060153187 - Fibre channel forwarding information base: According to the present invention, methods and apparatus are provided to improve the techniques and mechanisms for forwarding packets at a fibre channel switch. A combined area table/domain table (ATDT) is accessed using destination information associated with a fibre channel packet. Area/port or domain information can be used to address...

20060153186 - In-order fibre channel packet delivery: Methods and apparatus are provided for improving fibre channel packet delivery. Techniques are provided for the in-order delivery of packets by blocking incoming packets associated with a port channel change at a fibre channel switch and sending flush messages onto links associated with a port channel change. Upon receiving acknowledgments...

20060153181 - Incremental redundancy memory: IR memory for an EGPRS receiver of a mobile station which receives data from a base station, by means of a data transmission channel, whereby the IR memory comprises a first memory region, for the buffering of a Particular number of data blocks with a given first data resolution and...

20060153185 - Method and apparatus for dynamically changing ring size in network processing: Systems and methods for dynamically changing ring size in network processing are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method generally includes requesting a free memory block from a free block pool manager by a ring manager for a corresponding ring when a first memory block is filled, receiving an address of...

20060153182 - Method and system for remote tuning and clock synchronization: The disclosed embodiments relate to a system for providing remote tuning and clock synchronization in a network. The system includes a device that receives a signal that includes a plurality of channels, a device that receives a user request indicative of a desire to view at least one of the...

20060153188 - Migration program, information processing apparatus, computer system, and computer-readable recording medium having stored migration program: A migration program which reduces a service suspension time, ensures access transparency and position transparency, and enables normal operation without degrading the performance. When processing is migrated from a source computer, an operating reception block receives an operating system program through a network. An execution information reception block receives execution...

20060153183 - Modified ethernet switch: There is provided a modified Ethernet switch for directing data packets to and from a plurality of Ethernet ports. The switch is arranged to forward each data packet outgoing to one of the ports to the correct port as determined by an address lookup table. The switch is operable in...

20060153184 - Reducing memory access bandwidth consumption in a hierarchical packet scheduler: Reducing memory access bandwidth consumption in a hierarchical packet scheduler. A hierarchical packet scheduler is maintained, wherein the hierarchical packet scheduler includes one or more levels, each level including one or more schedulers, wherein one or more threads serve each level. Scheduling operations are performed at each scheduler of the...

20060153190 - System-on-a-chip using cdma bus and data transmission method therefor: System-on-a-chip using a CDMA bus and data transmission method therefor. The system-on-a-chip has plural IP-cores dividing into at least one group according to a predetermined reference; and at least one arbiter connected to the IP-cores belonging to the at least one group, receiving a unique ID of a reception-side IP-core...

20060153194 - Mobile communication terminal and multimedia message processing method using the same: Example embodiments disclose a mobile communication terminal by which a user can recognize a reception-completed message among a plurality of transmission messages in a manner of searching a transmitted message by reading received transmission state data in the case of transmitting a plurality of multimedia messages sequentially from one terminal...

20060153192 - Network host isolation tool: The present invention provides a method, system, and computer program product for quickly and automatically blocking a plurality of computer systems in response to detection of a widespread vulnerability or software infection. The method comprises: providing a list of Internet Protocol (IP) addresses corresponding to a plurality of devices to...

20060153193 - Network routing control method and apparatus: A network routing control method includes: setting best and secondary route information while receiving/transmitting a routing protocol control message with adjacent routers; setting a table having best and secondary next hop entries using the best and secondary route information; extracting a destination IP address from the best and secondary route...

20060153191 - System and method for identifying pre-computed paths in a policy-based routing network: The invention provides a system and method for identifying a pre-computed path for an incoming connection at a node in a policy-based routing network. The method comprises: examining requirements of the incoming connection; examining policies associated with routes available from the node; identifying at least one policy of the policies...

20060153195 - Sequencer and method for sequencing: A method and apparatus for sequencing determines possible next states for respective possible previous states based upon resources, selects one of the possible next states as an actual next state based upon an actual previous state, and communicates the actual next state as the actual previous state....

20060153197 - Queueing system for processors in packet routing operations: In a data-packet processor, a configurable queueing system for packet accounting during processing has a plurality of queues arranged in one or more clusters, an identification mechanism for creating a packet identifier for arriving packets, insertion logic for inserting packet identifiers into queues and for determining into which queue to...

20060153196 - Systems and methods for achieving improved adsl data rates over usb 1.1 channel: A system for achieving improved isochronous downstream data throughput rates between a DSL modem and a destination device, such as a PC, over a USB 1.1 data channel. An asynchronous transfer mode signal is received by a DSL modem. After normal signal processing, a controller in the modem executes a...

20060153198 - Systems and methods for uninterrupted communication sessions: In some embodiments, systems and methods for uninterrupted communication sessions include automatically detecting, at a first device associated with a first user, a second device associated with the first user, and creating, at the first device associated with the first user, a network connection between the first and second devices...

20060153200 - Automatic prioritization of bgp next-hop 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...

20060153199 - Apparatus and method for guaranteeing fairness among a plurality of subscribers in subscriber network: An apparatus and method for guaranteeing fairness among a plurality of subscribers in a subscriber network are provided. The apparatus includes: a packet classification unit which classifies a plurality of packets received via at least one physical port by the subscribers; and a packet processing unit which performs a scheduling...

20060153201 - Method for assigning a priority to a data transfer in a network, and network node using the method: A data transfer in a network comprises a first node sending out a request for a particular data unit, a second node receiving and analysing the request, detecting that it may provide the requested data unit and sending to the first node a message indicating that it may provide the...

20060153202 - System and method for transporting in/ain signaling over an internet protocol (ip) network: A system and method for transporting IN/AIN signaling (e.g., SS7 signaling) over an IP-based network using Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP), wherein a peer-to-peer protocol adaptation (PPA) structure is provided at a signaling node. The PPA structure includes an interworking functionality between an MTP3 layer and the SCTP messaging, and...

20060153203 - Concatenated frame structure for data transmission: A method of transmitting data frames over a data network with a MAC protocol, such as a wireless network using IEEE 802.11 protocol, in which a plural number of MAC (Media Access Control) data frames are transmitted with only a single PLCP (Physical Layer Control Procedure) overhead including PLCP preamble...

20060153204 - Limiting traffic in communications systems: Limiting traffic in a communications system is based on monitoring data packets traversing a first network node and determining whether at least one first data packet originating from a source node fulfills a predefined criterion. When the predefined criterion is fulfilled, a second network node is instructed to change processing...

20060153205 - Avoidance of an invalid functioning of a media gateway controller or a media gateway: An efficient change to the coding of terminations at a media gateway is made possible by means of a method for carrying out an instruction (2), signalled by a media gateway controller (MGC) to a media gateway (MGW) for changing the coding of at least one live load connection section...

20060153208 - Discovery, deployment, and security systems and methods: A system and method for discovering devices connected to a communications network, such as the Internet, includes an agent and installation of the agent on a communications device of the network. The agent is installed on a delegate device, which may, but need not necessarily, be an administration device for...

20060153213 - Ethernet wide area network and method: An ethernet wide area network (10) has a number of interconnected network ethernet switches (12). A first local area network (18) has a first local area ethernet switch (16) and is connected to one (14) of the interconnected network ethernet switches (12). A second local area network (24) has a...

20060153214 - Home networking gateway: A home networking gateway provides an interface between an HFC network and an in-home network. Full voice and data connection between the HFC network and each device in the in-home network is provided through the interface. A translator included in the home networking gateway is utilized to provide a mapping...

20060153212 - Information converting apparatus: An information export method for exporting content and right information of the content to a repository includes referring to the right information when the content is exported to the repository and checking whether the repository is allowed to have the content based on a description of the right information. When...

20060153211 - Local network connecting system local network connecting method and mobile terminal: A local network connecting system includes a first local network, a second local network, a mobile terminal. The first local network is connected with a gateway and a first server assigned with a first local address. The second local network is connected with a second server. The mobile terminal VPN...

20060153210 - Method of message distribution between mgc and mgw in ngn: The present invention discloses a method of message distribution between Media Gateway Controller and Media GateWay, wherein each Call Control Unit in the Media Gateway Controller having corresponding ID; when the Media Gateway Controller sending request message to the Media Gateway or requesting the Media Gateway to detect an event,...

20060153209 - Mobile terminal and network unit for multi-wireless technologies: Mobile terminals (2) for transmitting first signaling signals (11) according to first wireless technologies to first networks (3) and for transmitting second signaling signals (12) according to second wireless technologies to second networks (4), which first signaling signals (11) comprise first information for informing the first networks (3), which second...

20060153207 - Physical address based routing for internet protocol based devices: In a computer network comprising a Central System, Internet Protocol (IP) based network, one or more parallel Application Systems and one or more End Devices wherein the End Device receives an IP address and device configuration information from IP Address Server associated with the Central System, a central computer based...

20060153206 - System and method for dynamic egress routing through a single default gateway in a mesh network: A system and method for dynamic egress routing through a default gateway in a network is disclosed. One aspect of the present invention includes providing a default gateway that manages routes to Internet egress points for a client. The default gateway includes a list of Internet egress points that correspond...

20060153215 - Connection context prefetch: In an embodiment, a method is provided. The method of this embodiment provides associating a receive packet with a selected one of a plurality of buckets in a table using a generated value based, at least in part, on the receive packet, and obtaining a connection context from the selected...

20060153217 - Intelligent buffering process for network conference video: In order to minimize the delay of the video images viewed by a network conference attendee, an intelligent buffering process (IB process) selectively discards video frames from at least one point, and in an embodiment, many network points, such as at “in” and/or “out” buffers of clients, servers, routers, etc....

20060153216 - Scheduling method for wireless packet data channel: A scheduler at a base station may schedule packet data traffic based on a ranking metric that varies directly with the mobile station's scheduling downlink transmission rate and a delay factor indicative of the staleness of the corresponding queued data. The ranking metric may advantageously vary in a direct non-linear...

20060153218 - Channel assignment method for optical burst switching (obs) network: A method for efficiently allocating incoming burst data to output channels over an optical burst switching network when the number of incoming channels is greater than the number of outgoing channels. To this end, BD transferred on at least two incoming channels are grouped to BDs that do not block...

20060153220 - System and method for reducing oam frame leakage in an ethernet oam domain: A system and method for reducing frame leakage in a VLAN defined in an Ethernet OAM network. Upon receiving a unicast OAM frame at a Maintenance Intermediate Point (MIP) entity, a first database is queried to verify it the frame's destination address (DA) is provided therein. If not, a second...

20060153219 - System and method of protecting an igmp proxy: An Internet Group Multicast Protocol (IGMP) proxy provides network redundancy to prevent a severed or damaged line, or a malfunctioning router interface from denying services to the IGMP proxy by outputting the multicast group addresses that are received by the IGMP proxy to a first multicast interface that is electrically...

20060153221 - Methods for ip configuration negotiation and related devices: Methods for IP configuration negotiation. Before terminal equipment (TE) enters a PPP mode, the TE directs a mobile terminal (MT) to perform a PDP Context Activation procedure. Then, the MT transmits a response to the TE, enabling the TE to enter PPP mode. A PPP link is then established between...

20060153222 - Protocol configuration method: t

20060153223 - Telecommunications system for determining the probability of and avoiding collision between data transmissions: In a transmission timing control apparatus, a state variable signal affected by a phase representing the data transmission timing of a neighboring node is used to determine the data transmission timing of the own node. A node information transmitter/receiver transmits source identification information particular to the own node and source...

20060153224 - Apparatus and method for transforming cable channel: Provided is apparatus and method for transforming cable channel. The apparatus includes a data mixing unit for receiving and mixing a band data and a first broadband data, to thereby generate a second broadband data of a broadband cable channel, and a channel adapting unit for dividing a band data...

20060153225 - Packet relay device and packet method, and program: A relay device (1) includes a plurality of network processing units (200-1˜200-N) having the same function and structure. A session management unit (202-1) in a certain network processing unit (e.g. 200-1), when receiving a packet from an external network through an IF unit (e.g. 204-1-1) in the same processing unit,...

20060153226 - Systems and methods for a unified computer system fabric: Disclosed are systems and methods providing a unified system fabric in a computer. The systems and methods of embodiments including first interface disposed between a first component of the computer system and a second component of the computer system, the first interface implementing an interface protocol, and a second interface...

20060153227 - Apparatus and method for transmitting information data in a wireless communication system: A system and method for transmitting control information and data to a mobile station in a communication system using adaptive antenna technology defined in a broadband wireless communication system. In a method for transmitting and receiving information data in the wireless communication system, a base station separates information data to...

20060153230 - Ipv6 / ipv4 translator: The objective of the present invention is to realize a structure which enables a client to utilize a translator without changing the DNS server specification, when a service targeted at general clients is provided. Therefore, the present invention is characterized by having an IPv6/IPv4 translator in which packets are translated...

20060153228 - Method and apparatus for mapping prioritized qos packets to parameterized qos channels and vice versa: An apparatus and method are disclosed for adapting prioritized QoS data packets such as those used by Ethernet devices with IEEE802.1q priorities to parameterized data packets that can be transmitted over the Isochronous Channel of an IEEE1394, HiperLAN2 or similar network or serial bus with Isochronous Services. An adapter device...

20060153229 - System and method for extended distance digital subscriber line based services: A system and method is disclosed to provide data services to subscribers who are remotely located from a central office (e.g. greater than about 16,000 ft). A remote service area interface (“SAI”) is placed proximate to the remote subscribers and the SAI facilitates long distance communications. The SAI has a...

20060153234 - Atm communication apparatus and bandwidth control method of the same: An ATM communication apparatus and a bandwidth control method guarantee the minimum cell rate and limit the upper-limit for each of subscriber terminals, dynamically and fairly distribute the shared bandwidth based on the register status, and are easily applied to the system this is already operating the actual service. A...

20060153233 - Automated backhaul network control for supporting multiplexed control traffic and bearer traffic in a wireless communication system: A wireless communication system (20) includes a wireless network (22) that communicates with a plurality of base stations (24) over a backhaul network (26). A disclosed example includes monitoring an amount of control traffic on the backhaul network (26) and dynamically and automatically adjusting an allocation of the backhaul resource...

20060153232 - Method and system for dynamic aggregation in a wireless network: A method is provided for dynamically controlling aggregation in an ultrawide bandwidth wireless device. In this method, a device receives a plurality of intermediate service data units at an intermediate layer, aggregates at least two of the plurality off intermediate service data units to form an intermediate protocol data unit,...

20060153231 - Method for transmitting data signals by means of virtually linked partial signals via synchronous data networks: The inventive method serves to transmit data signals by means of virtually linked partial signals via synchronous data networks. To this end, the transmission capacity formed by the number of virtually linked partial signals is greater than the minimally required transmission capacity for transmitting the data signal....

20060153236 - Apparatus and method for diagnosing problems of a mobile communication terminal: A mobile communication terminal that can be used to diagnose problems experienced by the mobile communication terminal is described. The mobile communication terminal includes a converter that converts at least one protocol data unit (PDU) into a format for display, and a display unit that displays the at least one...

20060153237 - Communication system with improved medium access control sub-layer: A communication system which has a plurality of mobile terminals and a base station, each of the mobile terminals and/or base station comprising a medium access control sub-layer, upper layers of the medium access control sub-layer, and a lower layer of the medium access control sub-layer, wherein the medium access...

20060153235 - Wireless metropolitan area network architecture for managing network resources and mobility: The present invention proposes an infrastructure to enable seamless mobility for wireless metropolitan area networks (WMANs) and to provide for management of spectrum and network resources. An WMAN reference model is introduced where the radio resource management (RRM) and handover (HO) sub-layer is introduced into the protocol stack. The WMAN...

20060153238 - Transfer of control data between network components: A method and apparatus for transfer of power state data between network components. An embodiment of a method includes determining a command for a computer system, the computer system including a first network component and a second network component. The first network component and the second network component are linked...

20060153239 - Method of using a share resources in a communication system: An apparatus and method of delivering data in a wireless communication system, the apparatus and method comprising of determining, based on first criteria, if a shared channel can utilized to transmit an actual data packet; converting said actual data packet into one or more first data packets, wherein each said...

20060153240 - Radio packet signal transmission system, radio packet signal transmission terminal and radio packet signal transmission method used in these: A radio packet signal transmission terminal is provided that can enhance transmission efficiency of existing radio packet transmission systems by incorporating therein, without any obstruction thereto, a terminal that can improve system throughput even though processing delays exceed an SIFS, without changing the SIFS. When a MAC data structure modification...

20060153241 - Facilitating digital subscriber line services via a subscriber premise network interface device: Various aspects of apparatuses and methods for enabling a subscriber premise network interface device (NID) to facilitate communication services including digitally derived voice services to be facilitated between a central office and a subscriber premise are disclosed herein. In accordance with one embodiment of the disclosures herein, such a method...

20060153242 - Method and apparatus for providing integrated voice and data services over a common interface device: An approach is provided for supporting integrated voice and data services over a common Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)-based Customer Premise Equipment (CPE) device. The device includes a network interface that receives a call from a calling party device to a called party device. Also, the device has signaling conversion logic...

20060153245 - Method for time synchronization in a cyclically operating communication system: In a method for time synchronization of subscribers connected via a cyclically operating communication system, an item of time information is transmitted to the subscribers to be synchronized. It is provided to transmit an item of absolute time information simultaneously to all subscribers to be synchronized, for initialization, and to...

20060153243 - Scheduling eligible entries using an approximated finish delay identified for an entry based on an associated speed group: Eligible entries are scheduled using an approximated finish delay identified for an entry based on an associated speed group. One implementation maintains schedule entries, each respectively associated with a start time and a speed group. Each speed group is associated with an approximated finish delay. An approximated earliest finishing entry...

20060153244 - System and method for multiplexing pdh and packet data: A method of efficiently combining data from at least a plurality of a first type of data source and a second type of data source. The method comprises synchronizing the plural first type of data sources to thereby generate a synchronized data rate, providing a frame having plural bit positions,...

20060153246 - Apparatus, method, and program for creating network configuration information: An apparatus for creating network configuration information from data including packet transmission time between one or more relay devices and a terminal, the relay devices relaying a signal which runs through a network and is measured by the terminal connected to the network, to another network, information about the relay...

20060153247 - System and method for avoiding clipping in a communications system: In a communication system, a buffer is provided at or between a transmitting device and a receiving device. When the transmitting device is unable to send a stream of media packets or the receiving device is unable to render the stream of media packets, the buffer stores the media packets,...

20060153248 - Counter proxy: A method and apparatus for sequencing generates a counter proxy from a counter, processes the counter proxy through multiple sequencing elements, and restores coherency of the counter from said counter proxy after processing the counter proxy and before another processing step....

20060153250 - Coding of data stream: Coding a data stream is provided, wherein the data stream comprises at least one packet having a given packet length and respective partitions of the at least one packet are coded with different error protection rates, the respective lengths of the respective partitions being determined by respective predetermined percentages of...

20060153249 - Multiplexing device and data processing method thereof: The multiplexing device includes a data conversion unit which receives input of at least one of a plurality of pieces of data and executes segmentation or concatenation processing with respect to the data as required to output data which fails to exceed a predetermined limited size and which is delimited...

20060146688 - Capacitor microphone: In a capacitor microphone, a microphone circuit is selectively operated by a phantom power supply receiving power from an external source and a built-in power supply. The capacitor microphone includes: a phantom power supply circuit provided between the phantom power supply and the microphone circuit; a built-in power supply circuit...

20060146689 - Method for data transmission by means of a field bus of an automation device: A method for transferring data via a field bus FB of an automation system, to which field bus multiple field devices D1, D2, D3, . . . ,Dn, V1, V2, V3, . . . ,Vn are connected. The field bus FB has multiple data channels, to which the field devices...

20060146690 - Methods, circuits and computer program products for estimating frequency domain channel in a dvb-t receiver using transform domain complex filtering: A method for performing channel estimation in a receiver of a digital terrestrial television system can be provided by interpolating a complex signal in a frequency domain using a complex filter. The interpolation can be provided, for example, by interpolating, in the time domain, a fast fourier transformed orthogonal frequency...

20060146691 - Amplitude controller: An amplitude controller for adjusting the amplitude of a radio-frequency signal, the amplitude controller includes elements for splitting (302A) an amplitude adjustment input signal into one or more signal pairs, each signal pair having two partial signals, elements for generating (302B) an inverse-phase-sized phase difference between the partial signals of...

20060146692 - Methods and apparatus for mitigating multi-antenna correlation effect in communication systems: The disclosed embodiments provide for methods and systems for transmitting a number of streams of modulation symbols by a multi-antenna transmitter. In one aspect, a method for transmitting a number of streams of modulation symbols by a multi-antenna transmitter includes the acts of transforming a first number of streams of...

20060146693 - Ofdm signal receiving apparatus: Disclosed is an OFDM signal receiving apparatus for diversity reception, with a plurality of antennas, of an OFDM signal containing Y sub-carriers, where 2X−1<Y<2X and X>1. The OFDM signal receiving apparatus includes a plurality of receiving systems, and a diversity processing unit connected to the receiving systems and fed with...

20060146694 - Program and method for verifying reliability of network: A reliability verification program that enables network administrators to verify the redundancy of a system that they operate. With reference to network configuration data describing physical connections of a network system, the program selects a source device and a destination device as a start point and an end point of...

20060146695 - Terminal based packet loss due to mobility detection: The invention proposes a method for controlling a packet transmission between a sender and a receiver sent via a packet transport protocol, the receiver being a mobile network element, comprising the steps of detecting whether a mobility event has occurred, detecting whether a downlink packet loss has occurred, and providing,...

20060146696 - Bandwidth management for mpls fast rerouting: Certain exemplary embodiments provide a method comprising: in a network at a node located on a label switched path: selecting a backup path to respond to a failure; and for each link along the backup path, reserving a backup bandwidth, wherein the backup bandwidth is sufficient to reroute traffic around...

20060146697 - Retention of a stack address during primary master failover: The present invention features embodiments of alleviating the impact to a system of stack switches, as well as to neighboring nodes communicating with such a system, when a primary master switch to secondary master switch failover occurs. The features of the present invention, generally enables a system of stack switches...

20060146699 - Communication system, in particular for making announcements and providing communication between two voice terminals in a multi-car train set: A communication system for providing communication between terminals in a train, for example a passenger train with several railcars, includes a communication bus extending along the length of the train and including a flame-retardant cable. One or more communication devices, in particular communication terminals, such as voice terminals, are arranged...

20060146698 - Monitoring detection and removal of malfunctioning devices from an arbitrated loop: The detection, removal and reinsertion of possibly malfunctioning devices from an arbitrated loop is disclosed. When a new device is first connected to a storage switch and a loop is formed and begins initialization, a LOOP_DOWN event is sent to a processor and a loop down timer is started for...

20060146700 - Method and system for automatically renaming logical circuit identifiers for rerouted logical circuits in a data network: A method and system are provided for automatically renaming logical circuit identifiers for rerouted logical circuits in a data network. A failure is determined in a first logical circuit in the data network and a second logical failover circuit is utilized to reroute data from the failed logical circuit. A...

20060146703 - Dynamic quality-of-service mapping apparatus and method through hybrid monitoring in digital home service: A media server coupled to a service network by means of a media gateway provides network-adaptive media streams through hybrid monitoring for the digital home service. Clients coupled to the service network measures a network state of the service network and system states of the clients through the hybrid monitoring....

20060146701 - Phone line supervisory controls: Controlling use of a telephone line includes receiving a specification from a first entity that defines one or more supervisory controls on use of a controlled telephone line by a second entity. The supervisory controls specify people with whom the second entity may or may not communicate over the controlled...

20060146702 - System and method for automatic rerouting of information when a target is busy: A system and method transmits a data packet to a target mobile station (202) when the target mobile station is busy. The data packet is received at a packet function (PCF) (206). It is determined whether the target mobile station (202) is actively engaged in a session other than a...

20060146704 - System and method for controlling congestion in multihopping wireless networks: A system and method to control congestion in a multihopping wireless communication network (100). The system and method distribute the congestion information back to the ingress points (106) and traffic source nodes (102, 106, 107) in the network (100) through the actual route of the data flow that contributes to...

20060146707 - Device for processing traffic data to optimize control of quality of service in a communications network: A device (D) is dedicated to processing traffic data for a system (OO) for optimizing a communications network including network elements (Ci) through which passes traffic defined locally by parameter values. The device (D) comprises processor means (MT) arranged: firstly to determine for selected elements of said network a traffic...

20060146706 - Method and apparatus for scheduling packets and/or cells: A system and method of scheduling packets or cells for a switch device that includes a plurality of input ports each having at least one input queue, a plurality of switch units, and a plurality of output ports. There is generated, by each input port having a packet or cell...

20060146705 - Techniques to manage communication rates in a wireless network: System, apparatus, and method to manage data communication rates in a wireless network are described....

20060146709 - Device, system and method for limiting data rates supported by a wireless lan: A method, device and system for limiting the minimum data rates that will be supported for an association with an access point to for example data rates that are faster than a rate supported by a wireless communication standard that is used in the association, and for rejecting associations that...

20060146708 - Packet transfer control method and packet transfer control circuit: Band control for every flow is made, and at the same time priority control is realized by a simple hardware configuration. A flow identification section 1 identifies the flow, to which each packet belongs. Flow identification information is notified to a flow setting information storage section 2. Based on such...

20060146711 - Method of controlling packet flow: A method of controlling packet flow through a network node in a packet-switched communication network. At least three measurements of instantaneous queue size are obtaining and utilized to determine a traffic pattern's relative shape, absolute level, and absolute context over a more extended time period. An initial estimate of a...

20060146710 - Method, apparatus and system for granular policing based on multiple arrival curves: A method for granular policing includes a novel policing architecture which evaluates an arriving cell's conformance by comparing the actual arrival characteristic against a family or a set of expected arrival curves. In embodiments of the present invention, expected arrival characteristics based on a connection service level agreement (SLA) are...

20060146712 - Multichannel mesh network, multichannel mesh router and methods for routing using bottleneck channel identifiers: Nodes of a multichannel mesh network generate channel-metric matrices for routing packets to destinations based on a bottleneck channel identified for the source-destination pair. The identification of bottleneck channels increases the diversity among the different communication channels used along a route. This link-state routing approach may allow better paths to...

20060146714 - Apparatus for transmitting data packets and supporting method and data structure: In the present technique of a transmission process, at least one portion of a data packet is sent (608) responsive to a first triggered relating to the data packet being detected (606), which is followed by a second trigger (628) that triggers at least one remaining portion of the data...

20060146713 - Method and apparatus for improving measurement accuracy for voice-over-packet bearer network interface: A system is provided for improving measurement accuracy for voice-over-packet bearer network interfaces. The presently described embodiments address performance measure inaccuracies that occur during the disconnect sequence of an internet protocol bearer network logical connection. This technique accomplishes this task by generating and transmitting a last packet indicator to ensure...

20060146720 - Apparatus and method for routing on a mobile ad-hoc network: An apparatus and method for routing on a mobile ad-hoc network are provided. The apparatus and method allow each node in a network to: measure a packet transmission rate to a neighboring node using a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR); measure variation in the number of nodes due to their insertion or...

20060146721 - Distributed forward link schedulers for multi-carrier communication systems: Embodiments disclosed here relate to scheduling packet transmission in a multi-carrier communication system. In an embodiment, a master scheduler having at least one processor and at least one memory operably connected to the at least one processor is adapted to execute instructions stored in the at least one memory, the...

20060146715 - Method, system and apparatus for multifabric pragmatically truncated progess execution: A process, system and device to generate an ordered list based on latency for an operation having many different fabric types. To execute the operation for a first fabric having least latency of other fabrics while progress is made executing the operation for the first fabric and to execute the...

20060146717 - Methods and apparatus for identifying a distance-vector route associated with a wireless mesh network: Embodiments of methods and apparatus for identifying a distance-vector route associated with a wireless mesh network are generally described herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed....

20060146716 - Minimum-cost routing with network coding: A method and computer program product for performing minimum cost routing with network coding is presented. The method and system model a network as a directed graph. A cost per unit flow is associated with each link of the directed graph. A link capacity is associated with each link of...

20060146718 - Multichannel, mesh router and methods for path selection in a multichannel mesh network: A wireless mesh network router comprises at least one transceiver to receive a packet over a wireless communication channel and path selection circuitry. The packet identifies a source node and a destination node in a multichannel mesh network. The path selection circuitry combines a channel-metric matrix associated with the packet's...

20060146719 - Web-based navigational system for the disabled community: The present invention relates to systems and methods for using a Web-based navigational tool, to assist people of varying physical ability levels in identifying shortest feasible routes through urban environments. One embodiment of the present invention is comprised of an application, which is constructed using Scalar Vector Graphics (created by...

20060146722 - Altering latency for network testing: Systems and methods for altering a latency of network messages. A latency control system is configured to alter the latency of one or more network messages transmitted in a network. The latency of the network messages may simulate a latency associated with a network connection. A message queue is controlled...

20060146723 - Integrated circuit capable of transmitting probe packets across a stack of switches: A method according to one embodiment may include communicating with at least one external device using at least one port, said at least one external device comprises at least one probe port. The method of this embodiment may also include receiving at least one data packet and generating at least...

20060146729 - Application service level mediation and method of using the same: A method and apparatus for using an application layer demarcation point are described. In one embodiment, the method comprises monitoring end-to-end performance of a network application at an application demarcation point in a network, and mediating between provider infrastructure and customer infrastructure based on results of monitoring....

20060146725 - Downlink transmit beamforming: A wireless network access point can operate as a closed loop MIMO device when communicating with a station that is operating as an open loop MIMO device. Transmit/receive chains in the access point are calibrated to support aggregate channel reciprocity....

20060146728 - Method and apparatus for distributed speech applications: A communication unit (105) includes a communication interface, for transmitting and receiving communications when operably connected to a first communication network; and a processor cooperatively operable with the communication interface. Responsive to receipt of an utterance, the communication unit (105) can perform a fetch (109) over the communication interface and...

20060146724 - Method and system for multi-function push-to-activate: A multifunction push-to-activate system (40) can include a push to activate (PTx) button (22) on a communication transceiver (20) for activating one among a plurality of communication functions and an indicator (24) for providing an indication among when a particular function is ready to be activated and which among the...

20060146726 - Multiple protocol decoder: A generic protocol decoder is described for deciphering multiple protocols without requiring unique decoders for each protocol. Object patterns are created for each protocol, each pattern containing state and algorithm objects. These state and algorithm objects perform a portion of the deciphering of each packet and may be reused in...

20060146727 - Tracking of process-related communication: The disclosure relates to tracking process-related communications between at least two members. To allow project planning, the invention provides a method in which communication events between the members are monitored. Communication information is determined from the monitored communication event, and from the communication information selected communication event information is extracted,...

20060146731 - Distributed network discovery: The invention provides a method of sharing the searching burden for discovering available services in a wireless network. Terminals within the network carry out searches of part of the available spectrum and communicate information between each other to establish a database of collective information....

20060146732 - Method to configure a dsl connection in which a home ip plug controller is enabled to initialize a communication with a home ip plug: A method is described to configure a connection between at least one Home Internet Protocol Plug, HIPP, located at a subscriber side and a Home Internet Protocol Plug Controller, HIPP-C, located in an access network, both connected via a Digital Subscriber Line, DSL, a Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer, DSLAM,...

20060146730 - Multicast architecture for wireless mesh networks: The proposed multicast architecture for multi-hop wireless mesh networks addresses a very important but never discussed and studied problem for wireless mesh networks to efficiently support multicast applications. The proposed multicast architecture for multi-hop wireless mesh networks enables the mesh networks to join the global multicast group seamlessly, and extend...

20060146733 - Method and apparatus for provisioning a hop limited protection pathway in a network: Method and apparatus for provisioning a protection pathway of a link joining a first point in a network and a second point in the network. The method includes the step of determining a shortest path between the first point and the second point in a protection graph, computing a length...

20060146734 - Method and system for low-delay video mixing: A method and system for compressed domain video mixing for spatially combining incoming video streams into an outgoing video stream. Using H.264 as an example, each incoming stream is divided into a plurality of slices, each having a plurality of header fields including a first_mb_in_slice header field. Based on the...

20060146735 - Method and system for providing a conference service using speaker selection: A method for providing a conference service using speaker selection includes hosting a conference between a plurality of endpoints and receiving from the plurality of endpoints a plurality of media streams. The plurality of media streams each include a power indicator. The method includes normalizing the power indicators to determine...

20060146736 - System and method for offering personalized office work: A system and method for offering personalized office work which draws patterns of office work that are different for respective users through the analysis of user's way of using services and particulars of terminal change, and which provides services that meet the respective office work patterns. An apparatus for offering...

20060146737 - Conference connections using dynamic topology switching for ip and circuit-switched fabrics: A system for call conferencing a plurality of participants is provided that includes (a) an input operable to receive, from a conference call participant A-E, at least one of (i) a selective listening request and (ii) a request to remove selective listening, wherein the communication devices 416a-e of the conference...

20060146738 - Echo canceller disabler for modulated data signals: A method and system receives a far-end signal and determines whether the far-end signal is representative of a modulated signal. The method and system also receives a near-end signal and determines whether the near-end signal is representative of a modulated signal. Predetermined characteristics of the near and far-end signals are...

20060146739 - Operation control method of two dimensional diffusive signal-transmission devices, signal communication apparatus, and clothing provided with antenna function: An operation control method to be implemented by each of a plurality of communication devices two-dimensionally arranged on a two dimensional diffusive signal-transmission board, each of the plurality of communication devices being configured to communicate by transmitting a transmission signal carrying data to another of the plurality of the communication...

20060146740 - Method and apparatus for delivering user level information: A method (300) of delivering user level information, such as an emergency message, using wireless channels, includes embedding user level information in wireless system control message (309) and broadcasting the control message (311) including the user level information in accordance with a protocol for one or more control messages in...

20060146745 - Method and apparatus for scheduling and synchronizing a multimedia broadcast/multicast service: A communication system provides, via a single, serving Node B, scheduling information required by a user equipment (UE) to determine a start time for each Node B of multiple Node Bs with respect to a multicast, by each Node B of the multiple Node Bs, of soft combinable MBMS data....

20060146746 - Method for assigning internet protocol (ip) address to wireless terminal incapable of accessing mobile communication network, and mobile communication terminal capable of implementing the same: A method and mobile communication terminal for assigning an IP address are discussed. In one embodiment, the mobile communication terminal includes a mobile network interface configured to access a Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) server over the mobile communication network, and to download a DHCP server software program from the...

20060146744 - Methods for managing data transmissions between a mobile station and a serving station: In the present technique of a data transmission management, responsive to a reselection during a data transmission, a determination (314, 514) is made as to whether remaining untransmitted data blocks of the data transmission can be sent within an allowed transmission time. If so, the remaining untransmitted data blocks are...

20060146742 - Mobile router, position management server, mobile network management system, and mobile network management method: When connected to an external network, a mobile router checks an address 0table if a home address is allocated. If it is not allocated, the mobile router derives the address of a position management server from a position-management-server address table and sends an allocation request message to the position management...

20060146747 - Multiplex communication between access points and hub: An access point for use in a wireless local area network (WLAN) includes a plurality of wireless communication units, which are adapted to exchange data with mobile stations by transmitting and receiving signals over the air on different, respective frequency channels of the WLAN. A physical layer interface in the...

20060146741 - Radio base station apparatus and its loopback test method: A control circuit (1) determines transmission power for a test signal in accordance with the number of call connections of a radio terminal call-connected to the apparatus during a loopback test. The determined transmission power (TSTP) is output to channel circuits (21-2n) used for the transmission of a loopback test...

20060146743 - System and method for expedited communications between mobile stations: Communications are established between an originating mobile station (104) and a target mobile station (120) in an expedited manner. An initial short packet is transmitted from an originating mobile station (104) and the initial short packet is translated into an Internet Protocol (IP) packet. The IP packet is transmitted to...

20060146749 - Flow control at cell change for high-speed downlink packet access: A control node (26) of a radio access network participating in a cell change procedure is permitted to begin sending HS-DSCH data frames to a target radio base station (28) even before the control node knows a calculated capacity allocation for the target cell. Such pre-knowledge transmission of HS-DSCH data...

20060146752 - Method for fast handover: Disclosed is a method for fast handover in a wireless security data communication environment. The fast handover method for a mobile node connected to a network via an access point to perform a data communication in a wireless communication environment according to the present invention includes: performing an authentication while...

20060146753 - Method, apparatus and system for controlling arq-related timers in broadband wireless access communication system: A method of controlling automatic retransmission request (ARQ)-related timers in a broadband wireless access communication system is disclosed, by which reliability of a wireless link can be increased and the ARQ-related timers can be properly operated even in a handover situation. A mobile subscriber station temporarily stops an operation of...

20060146750 - Methods for managing data transmission between at least two different data regions: In the present technique of data transmission management provided, a composite status indicator value is assessed (716) based on multiple channel quality indicator reports over a predefined time. The assessed composite status indicator value is compared (718) to a first threshold value. If the assessed composite status indicator value does...

20060146748 - Mobile terminal device and hand-off method thereof: A mobile terminal that ensures smooth, continuous communications sessions even when in transit, regardless of base station capabilities and functionalities, in a packet-switched data communications network. With this terminal, each of a plurality of lower interfaces 101-1 to 101-M, when its associated access mechanism is in an active state, can...

20060146751 - Wireless communication system, wireless base station, and mobile station: Data transport which allows for handover is implemented by a mobile wireless communication system wherein a first datum is transmitted by a wireless base station, in response to the reception of which a mobile station transmits a second datum, in response to the reception of which the wireless base station...

20060146754 - Methods and devices for determining the adjacency of access points in a wireless network: The adjacency of access points in a wireless, local area network is used to determine the existence of common overlapping access point coverage areas and to determine maximum distances between access points....

20060146755 - Mimo communication system and method capable of adaptive user scheduling: A MIMO communication system capable of adaptive user scheduling. The MIMO communication system comprises a transmitting terminal, which sends data frames containing at least channel estimation signal and user data, and at least one receiving terminal, which recovers the user data and generates corresponding feedback information. The feedback information comprises...

20060146762 - Communication control method, wireless communication system, mobile station, base station and base station control unit: A wireless communication, in which mobile and base stations setup uplink and downlink channels, and the mobile station transmits data flows. The base station interrupts transmission via the downlink setup with the mobile station in the predetermined transmission interruption time interval. The mobile station determines, in response to the data...

20060146760 - Constrained hopping in wireless communication systems: Embodiments described provide for resource allocation for a transmission to a wireless device. The frequency band is partitioned into at least two contiguous subbands. A determination is made whether it is desirable to transmit in a single subband or in more than one subband. The transmission is assigned to occur...

20060146756 - Downlink resource allocation for time offset downlink packets: In a network, where a packet is to be transmitted on a channel to a communication device with a time offset between a shared control channel and a shared data channel, the packets can be ordered. A margin (301) can be determined (403) between a power need of a data...

20060146757 - Method and apparatus for decoding data in a wireless communication system: A communication system is provided that utilizes an apriori knowledge of padding when decoding a received frame and when allocating power to a transmitted frame. In one embodiment, a receiver utilizes an apriori knowledge of padding in decoding a received frame. When the frame is likely to include padding bits,...

20060146761 - Method and apparatus for signaling control information of uplink packet data service in mobile telecommunication system: Disclosed is a mobile telecommunication system in which packet data is transmitted over an uplink, and particularly a method and an apparatus for transmitting control information from a UE to a Node B. By multiplexing, several upper layer data units and MAC layer control information are included in a packet...

20060146758 - Method to facilitate dynamic allocation of spreading code resources: A communication system having spreading code resources (11) (such as, for example, Walsh codes), and upon providing (12) an initial quantity of those spreading code resources to support a voice communication by a given mobile station, then determines (13) whether to alter that initial allocation during that voice communication. For...

20060146759 - Mimo kalman equalizer for cdma wireless communication: An apparatus and corresponding method for receiving a MIMO cellular communication signal, the apparatus including: a Kalman filter type of equalizer, responsive to a received signal, for providing a corresponding processed signal indicating information conveyed by the received signal, responsive to a set of values indicating predicted state error correlation...

20060146763 - Optimizing multi-user detection: Multi-user detection (MUD) performance is optimized to eliminate redundant use of power during processing. An overbuilt A-matrix, i.e., a system response matrix, is provided. The overbuilt A-matrix uses all possible codes, e.g., all codes identified in a candidate code list (CCL) provided by blind code detection (BCD). The overbuilt A-matrix...

20060146775 - Access point for ensuring quality of service of broadcasting service in wireless local area network: An access point (AP) for ensuring a Quality of Service (QoS) of a broadcasting service in a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) is provided. A broadcast signal input unit receives a broadcast signal and depacketizes the received broadcast signal into a transport stream. A broadcast signal control unit receives channel...

20060146772 - Digital media interface/player device: The present invention is an easy to use digital personal multimedia interface device or media player device. The device allows users to purchase memory units containing media files and then obtain activation keys which make a given number of these files available for playing. Alternatively, the device allows users to...

20060146770 - Digital media player device: The present invention is an easy to use digital personal multimedia player which does not rely on importing files from an external source for its operation. The device allows users to purchase memory units containing media files and then obtain activation keys which make a given number of these files...

20060146767 - Method and apparatus for providing same session switchover between end-user terminals: Method and apparatus for performing switchover of a session between different user terminals. The method and apparatus includes means for receiving, from a first device, data representing a session, where the session data includes any application and authentication data required to reestablish the session. The method and apparatus facilitates suspending...

20060146777 - Method and device for communicating packets: Communication packets having a same channel identifier, which are exchanged between a pair of Bluetooth devices within a Bluetooth network are passed to a lower level layer through a connection handle in which their requested quality of service. In the lower level layer, the communication packets are distributed to buffers,...

20060146773 - Method and system for internet connection of refrigerator: A method and system for Internet connection of a refrigerator, having a function key for Internet connection, a wireless interface for wireless connection to the Internet according to manipulation by the function key, and a display for displaying a web page by a web browser when the refrigerator is connected...

20060146774 - Method for processing voice communication in short range communication: The present invention establishes an SCO link between a CTP gateway and a headset so that voice packets can be transmitted directly to each other. In the present invention, a CTP terminal is connected to the CTP gateway through CTP, and the headset is connected to the CTP terminal through...

20060146769 - Method of operating a wlan mobile station: A wireless local area network (WLAN) mobile station (110, 112, 114) has an application processor core (204) and a WLAN processor (202). So as to conserve energy, when the two processors are not needed, they are both placed in a minimal power consumption mode. The WLAN processor operates a WLAN...

20060146768 - Methods and devices for associating a mobile device to access points within a wlan: Unique identifiers are assigned to sets of adjacent access points in a wireless, local area network (WLAN). Thereafter, a unique identifier may be forwarded to a mobile device which uses the identifier to associate itself with one of the adjacent access points. Associating a mobile device with an adjacent access...

20060146771 - Motor vehicle telephone system: A telephone system for a motor vehicle includes a transmit/receive unit that transmits data over a wireless communication channel, and receives data over the wireless communication channel and provides a received signal. The system also includes a control unit that communicates with the transmit/receive unit; a first memory device; and...

20060146764 - Network relay device, network relay program, and recording medium containing the network relay program: When a wired connection detecting section 27 receives a connection establishment request from a wired network, a band conversion section 28 calculates a bandwidth required for wireless communications on the basis of bandwidth information obtained from communications in the wired network. Then, on the basis of the bandwidth calculated, the...

20060146776 - Network-based robot control system: Disclosed herein is a network-based robot control system. The network-based robot control system includes robot terminals, communication modules, and a service server. The service server receives sensing values from sensors of each of the robot terminals through each of the communication modules, generates downstream packets so that synchronous motion control...

20060146766 - Radio terminal session control and interface set up method: A session control method for radio terminals that implements a Multimedia Integrated network by Radio Access Innovation (MIRAI) such that selection of a radio access network does not impose a burden on each of the radio access networks, and an interface setup method for setting up IP connection quickly during...

20060146765 - System for ad hoc sharing of content items between portable devices and interaction methods therefor: A user interface concept for wireless ad hoc content sharing between portable devices referred to as portable content containers (PCCs). A user-centered design approach is provided enabling users to share content such as music and photos. A variety of physical ways of establishing a secure connections between the PCC devices...

20060146778 - Code division multiplexing communication system: A code division multiplexing communication system which transmits a single signal array in use of band for two channels. A first data generator generates a channel signal array. A data distributor branches the channel signal array into two. A first spread modulator converts one of the branch signal array to...

20060146779 - Communicating data block in wireless communication system: A method of transmitting/receiving a data block is disclosed. In receiving at least one data block multiplexed to one physical channel, the present invention includes the steps of receiving control information for a data block transmission, checking whether there is a necessity for configuring a table having combination information of...

20060146780 - Trickmodes and speed transitions: The disclosed embodiments contemplate techniques for communicating a data stream. The inventive techniques include determining a first timeslot of a first data stream and determining a second timeslot of a second data stream. If the second data stream is greater than the second timeslot, a portion of the second data...

20060146781 - Acess to cellular services from an internet protocol network: Access to 3rd generation cellular services may be provided for a mobile Internet Protocol (IP) client which may be connected via a wireless local area network (WLAN) by maintaining in a home agent a plurality of IP addresses assigned to the MIP client....

20060146782 - Method for synchronising data transmission comprising at least one first radio system and at least one additional radio system: The invention relates to a method and an assembly for synchronising data transmission, comprising at least one first radio system and at least one additional radio system. According to said method, the transmission behaviour of the first radio system or systems is evaluated at one point in time x and...

20060146784 - System and method for monitoring a voice over internet protocol (voip) system: A system and method for sending long distance telephone calls over the Internet utilizes cost and quality of service data to optimize system performance and to minimize the cost of completing the calls. In addition, the system could utilize a problem identification and analysis system to automatically identify potential problems...

20060146783 - System and method of monitoring an internet based telephone call routing system: A system and method of monitoring Voice over the Internet Protocol (VoIP) and facsimile over Internet Protocol (FoIP) calling over the Internet includes compiling information about each call after the call is terminated. By compiling information about each of the calls immediately after they are terminated, the system can quickly...

20060146802 - Alternate routing of media connnections within a single communications system across public or private network facilities: In one configuration, an enterprise network is provided that includes geographically dislocated first and second network regions 202 and 206, the first and second network regions being in communication with one another through first and second networks 252 and 248 and respectively comprising first and second gateways 220 and 224...

20060146785 - Call admission control: Described herein is a method of controlling call admission for packet switched networks, each network including at least two local area networks (50, 60) and a connecting network (70). The method comprises transmitting a burst 5 of trial data of the same size as the packet to be transmitted from...

20060146806 - Call processing system and service control point for handling calls to a call center: A call-handling system and its method of operation are disclosed. The call-handling system comprises a communication system and a call center. The communication system receives a call, and in response, transfers a query. The call center receives and processes the query to select a packet address of a call center...

20060146797 - Distributed voice network: A method and apparatus that receives an IP packet and encapsulates the packet with an IP header. Further, time-domain multiplexed voice data is received and converted into VoIP packets. Still further, Signaling System 7 (SS7) compliant signals are decoded. The decoded SS7 signals are received and encapsulated prior to transmission...

20060146786 - Implementation of the intelligent network in the next generation networks and its interconnection to the pstn: The present invention discloses a Softswitch and system for implementing the intelligent network in the next generation networks and a method for interconnecting the intelligent networks to the PSTN. The Softswitch comprises: a network adaptive device for implementing the communication between the Softswitch and other devices in said network, as...

20060146799 - In-band call association signaling for a single number destination: In one configuration, the present invention is directed to an enterprise network that includes geographically dislocated first and second network regions 202 and 206 communicating with one another through first and second networks 252 and 248 and respectively comprising first and second gateways 220 and 224 and first and second...

20060146789 - Method and apparatus for enabling personalized name identification in the calling name field: The present invention enables registered subscribers to register their preferred identity or name with a VoIP network service. This registered name will then be forwarded in the calling name field of the call setup message when these users signal to the network that they want to place a call to...

20060146796 - Method and apparatus for multiple unicast delivery of media: Unicast delivery of media to multiple recipients is achieved. An originating client issues call setup request. A list of addresses of multiple recipient clients is obtained from the call setup request. A connection is then made with the plurality of recipient clients and the media is delivered from the originating...

20060146801 - Method and system control for the setup of an ip telephony connection: The invention relates to a method and system control for the setup of an IP telephony connection between an original terminal and a destination terminal in an IP network over a gateway of a branch exchange. To increase the availability of the overall system for each EP terminal and to...

20060146788 - Method and system for on-demand delivery of personalized internet-based content to television viewers: A method of delivering personalized content to customers of a subscription television service for display on their televisions, the method comprising: (a) converting Internet-based content from an Internet based format to a format suitable for display on a customer's television through a customer's set top box, and (b) after the...

20060146791 - Network coding approach to rapid information dissemination: A method, apparatus and computer program product for providing rapid information dissemination using network coding is presented. A coded message including a payload and a code vector, is transmitted from a first node of the network to a second node of the network. The information thus stored can also be...

20060146794 - Peer network interaction facilitation method: These teachings facilitate interaction between two or more communication networks (10 and 11) comprising separate and discrete communication system peers. At least one of these networks is functionally partitioned with respect to interrogation and call signaling procedures over a plurality of geographic service areas (14, 15, and 16). Gateways (12...

20060146787 - Real-time recording agent for streaming data from an internet: A personal recorder/playback system (10) includes a recording agent (32) configured to transparently receive multiple audio/visual streams from analog and/or digital sources. The streams are temporarily stored in queues (52,54) for subsequent analysis. The streams, after analysis, are either discarded, stored permanently in an audio/visual collection (48,50), or used to...

20060146793 - System and method for conference calling with voip terminal: A method and apparatus for connecting a plurality of called party terminals in a bridged a call session with a Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP) calling party terminal. The method includes the VOIP terminal sending called party terminal identifiers identifying each called party terminal to a calling party Service Control...

20060146798 - System and method for providing a recovery mode in a session initiation protocol (sip) environment: A method to be executed in a session initiation protocol (SIP) environment is provided that includes detecting, by a first agent, a potential lost connection associated with a signaling path. The signaling path couples a first endpoint and a second endpoint and is operable to exchange signaling data. The potential...

20060146790 - System and method for providing reach me cover me feature in a session initiation protocol (sip) environment: A method for facilitating communication in a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) environment is provided that includes receiving, by a first endpoint, dialog and presence information associated with a second endpoint. The first and second endpoints are operable to conduct a SIP communication system. The method also includes identifying the dialog...

20060146803 - System and method for seamless handoff of wlan-umts interworking: A seamless handoff system and method reduces delay and packet loss during handoff of user equipment (UE) from a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) network to a Universal Mobile Telecommunication System (UMTS) network. The handoff system and method performs pre-registration and pre-authentication processes before the occurrence of a handoff, buffers...

20060146805 - Systems and methods of providing voice communications over packet networks: Aspects of the invention relate to systems and methods of providing voice communications over a packet switched network having one or more client device connected on a low bandwidth connection. One aspect allows VOIP connections to adapt to the various, and potentially changing conditions, caused by different connection types and...

20060146804 - Telephone system, switching system and management method of telephone system: A switching system includes plural communication interfaces, a detection unit, a terminal setting database, a judgment unit, a determination unit and a send-back unit. The communication interfaces accommodate plural terminal devices under accommodation modes each selected for each terminal device from the group consisting of a first mode in which...

20060146795 - Universal port user agent capable of caching route information among sessions and associated method: An initial call is setup by a universal port user agent by sending an invitation to the proxy server. The proxy server performs a directory lookup from a back end server to obtain route information to a destination. The route information is passed to the universal port user agent in...

20060146800 - Use of data object in a distributed communication network: A method and device are provided for conducting a media communication session with at least one user presented by at least one data object, where the data object resides at a plurality of platforms associated with a distributed IP communication network. The media communication session is established following the initiation...

20060146792 - Voice over ip (voip) network infrastructure components and method: A voice over Internet protocol communication system and method provides infrastructure components as intermediaries between networks, the components include multi-protocol session controllers and a multi-protocol signaling switch as well as a management system. The session controllers process calls and participate in the calls that flow through it. The session controllers...

20060146807 - System and method for management of the resources of a broadband mobile network having prolonged fixed accesses by wireless local area network access terminals: A method of the resources of a broadband mobile network including radio access terminals (BAi) and a broadband access server (BAS). Upon transmission of a request for access ra_A (.) for connection by a prospective user mobile terminal (TUc) to a specific access terminal (BAs), discrimination (A) is carried out...

20060146809 - Method and apparatus for accessing for storage system: Exclusive control is exercised on access to a storage apparatus in a cluster system conducting system changeover. If a system fault has occurred in an execution system, a heartbeat message to a stand-by system is interrupted. A cluster program in the stand-by system detects a fault in the execution system....

20060146808 - Reconfigurable interconnect/switch for selectably coupling network devices, media, and switch fabric: A reconfigurable interconnect/switch for selectably coupling network devices, media, and switch fabric. The reconfigurable interconnect/switch enables network devices, such as network processor units (NPUs) to selectively communicate with other NPUS, media (via a media interface), and switch fabric (via a switch fabric interface), thus providing flexibility in the use of...

20060146810 - Multiple subscriber port architecture and methods of operation: The multiple subscriber port architecture includes a first shelf having at least one port, and a controller controlling operation of the first shelf. At least one second shelf has at least one interface connected to one of the ports of the first shelf. The second shelf also has a number...

20060146811 - On-chip network interfacing apparatus and method: An on-chip network interfacing apparatus and method are provided. The apparatus includes a plurality of on-chip network ports; a switch receiving data from a first on-chip network port of the on-chip network ports and transmitting the received data to a second on-chip network port of the on-chip network ports; and...

20060146815 - Clock recovery algorithm for remultiplexing mpeg-2 sptss and/or mptss in the presence of network jitter: A method and apparatus for clock recovery for constant bit rate MPEG-2 compliant single program transport stream and multiple program transport stream delivered over UDP/IP is disclosed. Clock recovery utilizes a dejittering filter to remove arrival time jitter from received packets and a phase lock loop is used to recover...

20060146819 - Data switch, and communication system using the data switch: A preferred embodiment comprising a data switch includes a first processor for routing data packets including a MAC address, using a MAC address table stored in a writable memory. The switch further includes a second processor for routing data packets including an IP address using an IP address look-up table...

20060146817 - File update system and boot management system of mobile communication terminal, method of updating file in mobile communication terminal, and method of booting mobile communication terminal: Disclosed are a file update system of a mobile communication terminal which is capable of recovering Same Owner ID Error caused by damage of a file header in an EFS (Embedded File System) area of the mobile communication terminal, a boot management system of a mobile communication terminal which is...

20060146813 - Mechanisms for detection of non-supporting nat traversal boxes in the path: Disclosed are methods and apparatus for facilitating translation of packet addresses (or ports) by one or more translation devices (e.g., NAT devices) using a specialized protocol to handle an address (or port) that is used to form part of a payload. In one implementation, this specialized protocol is referred to...

20060146812 - Methods and systems for routing data using a destination server: A system for routing data over a network. The system can include a destination device having an address, an origination device, and a destination server. The origination device can be configured to generate a routing application request including a recipient identifier, to transmit the routing application request to a destination...

20060146818 - Packet transfer apparatus: A packet transfer apparatus has a controller for controlling transmission of a PADO packet on the basis of the information that is previously set in the packet transfer apparatus in order that the PADO packet can be transmitted back to the terminals or a PADI can be discarded when the...

20060146814 - Remote direct memory access segment generation by a network controller: A network controller generates a remote direct memory access segment. In one embodiment, the controller generates an RDMA segment including an RDMA header, markers, and message segment data obtained in a direct memory access operation. Other embodiments are described and claimed....

20060146816 - System and method for integrated header, state, rate and content anomaly prevention for domain name service: The present invention provides an integrated prevention of header, state, rate and content anomalies along with network policy enforcement for domain name service (DNS). A hardware-based apparatus helps identifying DNS rate-thresholds through continuous and adaptive learning. The apparatus can determine DNS header and DNS state anomalies and drop packets containing...

20060146820 - Geo-intelligent traffic manager: A traffic manager (30) determines the geographic locations of end points on Internet traffic and routes the traffic in the most efficient manner. A set of analyzers may be disposed to analyze the network, such as the geographic locations of nodes in the network, latency times and speed between nodes,...

20060146824 - Mobile station and content playback method thereof: When a voice incoming call occurs during multicast content playback, a control section interrupts multicast content playback after storing the multicast service execution status at that time point in a storage section. After a voice call is completed, the control section confirms whether or not the multicast content for which...

20060146823 - Multicast switching in a distributed communication system: A technique for multicast switching in a distributed communication system having a plurality of cooperating modules enables a module to forward multicast packets associated with a multicast stream without using a centralized module or control logic by determining all network interfaces and remote modules associated with the multicast stream and...

20060146822 - System, protocol and associated methods for wireless multimedia distribution: A system, protocol and associated methods for wireless multimedia distribution are generally described herein....

20060146821 - Virtual multicast routing for a cluster having state synchronization: A system, apparatus, and method are directed to managing multicast routing using a network cluster. A cluster master actively participates in multicast control protocol communications with the cluster neighbors, while non-master member nodes, do not participate in the protocols' operation outside of the cluster. However, each cluster member maintains virtually...

20060146826 - Communication apparatus: A communication apparatus to be used between first and second communication groups, each including one or more communication terminals, that perform communications by different types of communication protocols capable of embedding address information, comprises a first storage unit storing a destination address, and tunnel identification information for the first communication...

20060146828 - Method for selecting route in routing protocol: A method for selecting a route in a routing protocol includes the steps of: measuring a message reachable time between a plurality of route information managers which manage route information on a network; constructing a reachable time table for managing the massage reachable time; checking hop counts of different neighboring...

20060146825 - Network based quality of service: A quality of service routing method operates within a system including multiple parallel dissimilar wireless networks connecting a client device and a host device. The method includes selecting one of the networks based upon criteria, including priority, of a packet received from a source application. The method also includes routing...

20060146829 - Network system, nodes connected thereto and data communication method using same: A plurality of nodes are connected to a network and share data among them to form a network system. Each node has a communication interface for transmission and reception of data by full duplex transmission through the network and a virtual memory for storing data to be transmitted. Multicast addresses...

20060146827 - Organic electroluminescent device and method of driving the same: The present invention relates to an organic electroluminescent device that can reduce power consumption and is appropriate for low gray scale images. The organic electroluminescent device includes a controller and a data driver. The controller compares first digital video data inputted from the outside with a reference value, and adds...

20060146831 - Method and apparatus for modulating radio link control (rlc) ack/nak persistence to improve performance of data traffic: Methods and apparatus are provided for modulating ACK/NACK persistence to improve data traffic performance. In one implementation, a method for control of automatic repeat requests between a transmitting terminal (102) and a receiving terminal (104) comprises: defining (1404) a buffer window of a buffer, the window to buffer multiple higher...

20060146830 - Use of frame caching to improve packet loss recovery: Various new and non-obvious apparatus and methods for using frame caching to improve packet loss recovery are disclosed. One of the disclosed embodiments is a method for using periodical and synchronized frame caching within an encoder and its corresponding decoder. When the decoder discovers packet loss, it informs the encoder...

20060146833 - Method and apparatus for selecting a transport format combination: A method and apparatus are provided for selecting a transport format combination utilized in a mechanism of a wireless communication network for multiplexing data units between logical channels and transport channels. Upon receiving a configuration table comprising logical and transport channel information, a logical channel size restriction, a transport format...

20060146832 - Method and system for transporting data using pseudowire circuits over a bridged network: A method for data communication across a layer 2 bridged network having two or more edge nodes configured for receiving and transmitting multiprotocol data packets. The method includes creating a pseudowire circuit across the bridged network, receiving data packets at one of the edge nodes, encapsulating data packets into pseudowire...

20060146834 - Method and apparatus for performing neighbor tracking in a wireless local area network: In the present invention, the subscriber unit (200) obtains a set of access point identifiers and measurement opportunity information for each access point identifier. A first measurement is performed on a first access point identified from the set of access point identifiers. A current timer value is determined after completing...

20060146835 - Platform independent implementation of private vlans: A PVLAN having a primary and secondary VLAN's where the primary and secondary VLAN's have ports and the users connected to those ports. The MAC addresses of those users are learned in the primary or the secondary VLAN's and together with the port designation are stored preferably in tables associated...

20060146836 - Centralized call control: Centralized call control includes establishing a communication channel in a multiple leg architecture by instructing each leg, in the architecture, forming a desired path within the architecture to use a same key for a communication channel....

20060146837 - Server for routing connection to client device: The objective of the present invention is to provide an Internet connection system capable of bi-directional communications between the home network and the Internet by relatively simple means, enabling manufacturers of client-end home network appliances to create added values for users. In order to attain the above objective, there is...

20060146838 - System and method for automatic and direct routing of information in a network: A system and method of automatically routing a message between communication units in a network sends a first message (116) to a first server (106). A redirect message (118) is responsively received from the first server (106). The redirect message (118) comprises identification of a destination server (112) associated with...

20060146843 - Device and method for managing automatic setting up of high data rate connections for access from terminals to data networks: A device is dedicated to managing the setting up of high data rate connections for access from communication terminals to at least one data network via networks of service providers and a high data rate access equipment connected to at least one high data rate access network managed by a...

20060146840 - Intelligent delivery agent for short message distribution center: A message distribution center (MDC) and Intelligent Delivery Agent are implemented in a wireless Internet gateway interposed between content providers and a wireless carrier to subjectively examine and direct messages via SMTP based on desired rules (e.g., non-peak hours, paying subscribers only, etc.) using standard SMTP Gateway and other well-known...

20060146841 - Method and apparatus to facilitate a non-fully meshed communications system gateway interface: One or more gateways (107 and 108) as serve to interconnect the discrete call facilitation platforms (403 and 404) of a given communication network with an external communication network (109) as provided with the routing addresses of such discrete call facilitation platforms. The discrete call facilitation platforms, however, are not...

20060146844 - Method for network-assisted communication, a telecommunication service, a server, a terminal device, and a computer software product therefor: The present invention relates to a network-assisted communication method comprising: establishing a communication in a telecommunication network; capturing an identified communication contribution; and presenting and storing said communication contribution, associating the established communication with the captured communication contribution, and associating references to related communications to the established communication. The invention...

20060146839 - Payment and media management: This invention provides systems and methods that minimize or remove human intervention during the payment media handling process on the shop floor, in the back office and at the cash-in-transit place. By automating processes and providing physical, tamper evident secure means for transporting the payment media, it is possible to...

20060146842 - Programmable transmit wave shaping for 10 base-t ethernet controller: An ethernet controller includes analog circuitry for generating a transmit waveform representing transmitted data. A transmit waveform is generated responsive to a digital control signal provided by digital circuitry. The digital control signal is programmable to enable amplification of the transmit waveform....

20060146845 - Spanning tree protocol with burst avoidance: An apparatus and method for controlling bridge protocol data unit bursts is disclosed. The invention in the preferred embodiment is a switching device with a port enabled with a link management protocol and a burst control state machine. The burst control state machine is adapted to receive BPDUs and, under...

20060146846 - Methods and apparatus for providing a transparent bridge associated with a wireless mesh network: Embodiments of methods and apparatus for providing a transparent data-link bridge associated with a wireless mesh network are generally described herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed....

20060146847 - Information processing apparatus, control method therefor, computer program, and storage medium: An information processing apparatus executes a first module, a second module, and a third module for mediating a call from the first module to a function in the second module and obtaining the log of processing in the second module in response to the call. The apparatus obtains the log...

20060146851 - Efficient switching device and method for fabricating the same using multiple shared memories: An efficient switching device and a method for fabricating the same using multiple shared memories are provided. The switching device includes: an output time determination unit to determine an output time to an output port; an output time administration unit to administer a possible data output time for each output...

20060146850 - Method and apparatus for synchronizing clocks: A system receives multiple data samples and determines time stamp values associated with each of the multiple data samples. The system identifies an earliest time stamp value and uses that time stamp value as an initial system clock value. The system may also subtract a delay factor from the earliest...

20060146849 - Parallel processing data transfer arrangements: A data transfer arrangement may be used in a System on a Chip (SoC). The SoC has a processing element fabric and a logic element fabric. The two fabrics are coupled by a fabric exchange element to transfer data efficiently between the processing element fabric and the logic element fabric...

20060146848 - Server queuing system and method: A queuing server is used for reliable message transport, where one subsystem desires to execute one or more ordered operations asynchronously. Messages are sent to the queue in groups, which may have one or more messages. Messages within a particular group are processed in a predetermined order. Optionally, groups of...

20060146852 - Dataport and methods thereof: A context-free (stateless) dataport may allow multiple processors to perform read and write operations on a shared memory. The operations may include, for example, structured data operations such as image and video operations. The dataport may perform addressing computations associated with block memory operations. Therefore, the dataport may be able,...

20060146854 - Apparatus and method for providing pause function of broadcasting streaming in terminal: An apparatus and method for providing a pause function of a broadcasting streaming in a terminal are disclosed. A player of the terminal includes a temporary storage buffer. When a key for a pause of broadcasting streaming is inputted, reproducing of streaming is suspended and broadcasting streaming packet data is...

20060146853 - System and method for sending related data over a digital broadcast system: A system and method for ensuring that related data packets are transmitted simultaneously in a digital broadcast system are disclosed. Related data packets are provided a common indication, buffered together, and kept together through time-sliced burst formation and digital transmission. The related data packets may include IPv6 packets with common...

20060146855 - Optical wavelength multiplex access system and optical network unit: The present invention provides an optical wavelength-division multiple access system and a corresponding optical network unit. A wavelength band Da (wavelengths λd1 to λdn) for downlink optical signals corresponding to the n ONUs, a wavelength band Ua (wavelengths λu1 to λun) for uplink optical signals corresponding to the n ONUs,...

20060146856 - Adaptive subchannel and bit allocation method using partial channel information feedback in an orthogonal frequency division multiple access communication system: An adaptive subchannel and bit allocation method in a wireless communication system. A mobile station analyzes channel quality information of a subchannel at a predetermined period and determines a feedback band index with a maximum decision criterion. The mobile station feeds back the determined feedback band index with the maximum...

20060146857 - Admission control mechanism for multicast receivers: A method and system for controlling admission of an end user to a multicast channel over a network implementing a source filtering protocol. Incoming packet traffic received by an edge router is snooped and, when a request to join a multicast channel is received, the traffic is analyzed. Any service...

20060146858 - Managing channel configuration information in a wireless communication system: The present invention provides for managing channel configuration information in a wireless communication system. Preferably, the present invention receives transport channel configuration information for configuring at least one transport channel currently not mapping a point-to-multipoint service, wherein the at least one transport channel is capable of mapping at least one...

20060146859 - Alternate routing of media connections within a single communications system across public or private network facilities: In one configuration, an enterprise network is provided that includes geographically dislocated first and second network regions 202 and 206, the first and second network regions being in communication with one another through first and second networks 252 and 248 and respectively comprising first and second gateways 220 and 224...

20060146860 - Combination switch module: A combination switch module includes a steering angle sensor in which a steering angle CPU portion for performing angle calculation according to an output of a sensing circuit portion, a steering multiplex communication portion for performing multiplex communication of steering information with an external system, and a steering angle data...

20060146862 - Method for setting and releasing packet data protocol context of mobile communication terminal: A packet data protocol (pdp) context requesting method for a mobile communication terminal, which includes setting a predetermined waiting response time period for transmitting a request message to request the pdp context based on a number of times a request message has been previously transmitted, and transmitting the request message...

20060146861 - System and method for communication over a network with extended frequency range: A communication system comprising a network having a legacy band and an extendable frequency band, a head end, and a user end, wherein said head end processes and splits source data into multiple signals and transmits said multiple signals over multiple physical channels over said extendable frequency band, and wherein...

20060146863 - Method and system for adapatively obtaining bandwidth allocation requests: A method and apparatus for adaptively obtaining bandwidth requests in a broadband wireless communication system, The method and apparatus includes dynamically varying technique combinations enabling a plurality of users to efficiently request bandwidth from a shared base station. A user may “piggyback” a new bandwidth request upon, or set a...

20060146864 - Flexible use of compute allocation in a multi-threaded compute engines: Techniques for arbitrating and scheduling thread usage in multi-threaded compute engines. Various schemes are disclosed for allocating compute (execution) usage of compute engines supporting multiple hardware contexts. The schemes include non-pre-emptive (cooperative) round-robin, priority-based round-robin with pre-emption, time division, cooperative round-robin with time division, and priority-based round-robin with pre-emption and...

20060146865 - Adaptive clock recovery scheme: A method of preparing packets for injection into a packet network at an ingress interface of the packet network, for transmission over the network. The method comprises, at the ingress interface, receiving at least two parallel, constant bit rate streams of data, and separately packetising the constant bit rate streams...

20060146866 - System and method for data communication over power lines: A system and a method are proposed for broadband communications over power lines comprising the area of the low-voltage transformer to the house connection unit and/or the electricity distribution inside the house. The new method allows for several parallel asynchronous data communications in different sub-channels with individual transmit power in...

20060146867 - Apparatus and method for signal constitution for downlink of ofdma-based cellular system: Disclosed are an adaptive pilot symbol assignment method that flexibly controls the number of transmit antennas according to each user's moving speed, channel status, or user request, and assigns proper pilot symbols in the downlink of an OFDMA (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing Access) based cellular system; and a sub-carrier allocation...

20060146868 - Device, system and method for selective aggregation of transmission streams: Briefly, some embodiments of the invention provide devices, systems and methods for selective aggregation of transmission streams. For example, a method in accordance with an embodiment of the invention may include selectively aggregating a first transmission stream and a second transmission stream into an aggregated stream, based on a data-related...

20060146869 - Dynamic channel bandwidth management: To provide an extra wide bandwidth communication using standard channels, multiple non-overlapping channels can be used. To provide a 40 MHz communication, two non-overlapping 20 MHz channels, i.e. a control channel and an extension channel, can be used to provide an effective 40 MHz channel. Advantageously, a wireless device can...

20060146871 - Optical burst switching system and method using duplicate burst transmission: An optical burst switching (OBS) system and a method using duplicate optical burst transmission is provided. In accordance with the present invention, optical bursts do not have the same priority when the duplicate optical bursts are transmitted in an OBS network so that a burst loss rate due to blocking...

20060146872 - Packet transfer method and apparatus: When a partial rate guaranteed service is applied to a communication line connecting predetermined routers, a TCP tunnel (TCP connection) is established between the routers, a packet whose destination is a router connected to the communication line is passed through the TCP tunnel, and other packets of an application using...

20060146870 - Transparent communication with ipv4 private address spaces using ipv6: The present invention provides for facilitating establishment of communication with Internet protocol version four (IPv4) private addresses of IPv4 nodes of private networks by using Internet protocol version six (IPv6). In one of many possible embodiments, a gateway is configured to connect an IPv4 private address of a private network...

20060146875 - Media access controller and methods for distributed hop-by-hop flow control in wireless mesh networks: A media access control layer of a wireless mesh network router includes a rate monitor to compare a packet transmission rate with a packet reception rate, and a rate adjustment request generator to generate a rate adjustment request message for one or more upstream neighbor nodes after the packet reception...

20060146876 - Method and apparatus for determining reverse data rate in mobile communication system: A reverse data rate determining method in a mobile communication system for high data rate transmission such as an HDR system, wherein an AN (Access Network) within a cell calculates a total load of a reverse link by measuring a total energy of a reverse link from ATs (Access Terminals)...

20060146873 - Method and apparatus for full rate erasure handling in cdma: A method of processing signals received from an electronic device (106, 202) in a cellular network (100, 200) that utilizes variable rate vocoding comprising receiving a first series of low rate frames (318) at the cellular network; receiving a high rate frame (320) that has at least one bit error...

20060146874 - Methods and media access controller for mesh networks with adaptive quality-of-service management: A media access controller (MAC) for wireless mesh networks comprises a quality-of-service (QoS) manager to monitor consumed bandwidth of a current application flow and to compare the consumed bandwidth with a contracted bandwidth for the current application flow. The MAC also comprises a contention manager to coordinate access to a...

20060146878 - Callback interface for multipools: A multipool can do a callback to an application before switching connection pools....

20060146877 - Multipool using automatically maintained active connection pool list: Multipools can keep track of dead connection pools and can avoid selection of the dead connection pools. The multipool can check whether a connection pool has revived in the background....

20060146879 - Interpreting an application message at a network element using sampling and heuristics: A method is disclosed for interpreting an application message at a network element using sampling and heuristics. Using this method, a network element such as a router can determine, based solely on a data packet's packet headers, whether the network element ought to invest the time and processing power required...

20060146880 - Method for transmitting and receiving a message using a mobile communication terminal: A method for enhancing a message service of a mobile communication terminal is described. When combining messages, a method for transmitting a message using a mobile communication terminal includes selecting messages stored in a mobile communication terminal; combining the selected messages into at least one message using a predetermined specifier;...

20060146881 - Apparatus and method for efficiently modifying network data frames: Apparatus and method for storing network frame data which is to be modified. A plurality of buffers stores the network data which is arranged in a data structure identified by a frame control block and buffer control block. A plurality of buffer control blocks associated with each buffer storing the...

20060146882 - Apparatus and method for eliminating noise contained within usable frequency band of a mobile communication terminal: Disclosed are an apparatus and method for removing noise contained within a usable frequency band of a mobile communication terminal. The apparatus includes a multiplier for multiplying a main clock of the mobile communication terminal by a predetermined integer to generate a reference signal; a multiplexer for multiplexing parallel signals,...

20060146883 - Multiuse telecommunications power system: A power system apparatus replaces outdated and presently unobtainable power systems originally deployed in a variety of RT communication cabinets, incorporating a plug-in programmable control module used to generate alarms in response to the detection of specified events and providing direct plug compatibility to those RT cabinet systems through the...

20060146888 - Apparatus for adjusting receiving time point of burst data in optical burst switching network and method thereof: An apparatus and method for adjusting a receiving time point of burst data in an optical burst switching network is provided. The method includes comparing a reference time point of a node with a time slot boundary of the burst data; and adjusting the time slot boundary of the burst...

20060146887 - Communication system, communication control method, communication control apparatus, and communication control program: Each terminal is provided with a time sync unit for performing a process of establishing with a destination terminal, using time sync information for establishing time synchronization relating to an access timing to a communication medium, and a communication monitor unit for monitoring time sync information in communication between other...

20060146885 - Method and apparatus for providing a secure system time: The present invention discloses a system and method for providing a secured system time reference to a subscriber device, e.g., a set top box or a receiver. In one embodiment, the system time reference is provided in a secure system time message that is broadcasted to a plurality of subscriber...

20060146886 - System and method for performing signal synchronization of data streams: A system for performing signal synchronization of data streams having frames associated with source time reference. A system clock generates a local time reference. A decoder processes the data stream. A system controller determines a difference between the source time reference and the local time reference, compares the difference against...

20060146884 - System and method for rate agile adaptive clocking in a packet-based network: A system for transmitting a clock signal through a packet-based network is disclosed. The system comprises a first node configured to measure a clock frequency of the clock signal and calculate an accuracy indicator of the measured clock frequency; a second node configured to receive the clock frequency measurement and...

20060146889 - Use of the fp header to signal the rnc that the node b has not been able to determine or has not been able to accurately determine the number of retransmissions: The FP header is used to signal the RNC that the Node B has not been able to determine or has not been able to accurately determine the number of retransmissions. A first embodiment is to reserve a bit pattern for use in the ‘Number of HARQ retransmissions’ field on...

20060146890 - Apparatus for generating clock signal in mobile communication terminal: Disclosed is an apparatus for generating a stable clock signal having a Long term jitter noise removed therefrom. In a mobile communication terminal having a power management chip for converting a sinusoidal wave oscillated in a crystal into a clock signal of square wave, the sinusoidal wave is converted into...

20060146891 - Semiconductor device: In a semiconductor device of the present invention, a clock is not changed instantaneously but it is changed over maximum N+1/M clocks (N: integer not less than 2) by shifting delay cells stepwisely to make the phase state of a previous reference signal and the phase state of a present...