Multiplex communications inventions 08/06

20060193244 - Backward compatible multi-carrier transmission system: The transmission system is backward compatible with a former transmission system (DVB-T), enabling a receiver of the former system to receive signals transmitted by a transmitter of the new transmission system. A new modulation is used to transmit additional information bits corresponding to a new service. The new modulation is...

20060193245 - Diversity transmitter and method: e

20060193247 - Disaster recovery for active-standby data center using route health and bgp: The present invention provides an active/standby data center that avoids the delay associated with a cached DNS entry to switch from the active data center to the standby data center. When the active data center becomes unavailable, the standby data center advertises the same address as the primary data center...

20060193246 - High service availability ethernet/ip network architecture: The architecture according to the invention is a high service availability Ethernet/IP network architecture, that allows data flows to be conveyed without interruption to service, these flows coexisting with other flows that tolerate interruption to service, and the architecture is characterized in that the network consists of two fault tolerant...

20060193248 - Loop prevention technique for mpls using service labels: A local fast reroute (FRR) technique is implemented at the edge of a computer 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...

20060193249 - Preservation of a ppp session in a redundant system: Methods, apparatuses, and systems are presented for conducting a point-to-point (PPP) session relating to establishing a PPP session involving at least a local node and a remote node, wherein the local node comprises a data plane for handling transfer of data for the PPP session at the local node, and...

20060193250 - Methods, systems and computer program products for thermal management of a processor associated with a network interface: Methods, systems, and computer program products for thermal management of a processor associated with a network interface are disclosed. According to one method, message traffic is sent and received using a first processor associated with a first network interface. A temperature associated with the first processor is determined. Message traffic...

20060193251 - Online reservation processing system and method: An online reservation processing system comprises a receiving module and a translating module. The receiving module receives a reservation application datum, which comprises an initial time and a final time. In addition, the translating module separates a period from the initial time to the final time into a plurality of...

20060193252 - Active-active data center using rhi, bgp, and igp anycast for disaster recovery and load distribution: A distributed data center topology having at least a pair of active data centers that can recover from a disaster at one of the data centers and achieves load balancing using IGP (Interior Gateway Protocol) between data centers. The distributed data centers use virtual IP addresses, route health injection and...

20060193254 - Data output method, data output apparatus, communication system and computer program product: A data output apparatus judges whether or not sound data that has not yet been outputted has been accumulated. When a judgment is made that there is no accumulation of sound data that has not yet been outputted, the data output apparatus reads already-outputted sound data that was outputted previously...

20060193253 - Radio base station: To improve accuracy for verifying reception in the data transmission utilizing the common channel. A radio communication apparatus for transmitting the data to the transmitting destination apparatus selected from a plurality of transmitting destination apparatuses using the shared channel, comprises a control unit for controlling data transmission and a path...

20060193255 - Call control: Described herein is a method of controlling calls for packet switched networks, each network including at least two local area networks (50, 60) and a connecting network (70). The method comprises the steps of determining an acceptable packet loss rate for a call to be established between two of the...

20060193257 - Method and system for providing failure protection in a ring network that utilizes label switching: A working label switched path (LSP) between neighbor label switched routers (LSRs) in a ring network that utilizes label switching is protected by an LSP that connects the neighbor LSRs of the working LSP in an opposite direction to the working LSP. If the working LSP fails, then packets are...

20060193256 - Method and system for shaping traffic in a parallel queuing hierarchy: A method and system for shaping traffic in a multi-level queuing hierarchy are disclosed. The hierarchy includes a high priority channel and a low priority channel, wherein traffic on the low priority channel is fragmented and interleaved with traffic from the high priority channel and traffic combined from the high...

20060193258 - System and method for detection of a rouge wireless access point in a wireless communication network: Described are a system and method for detecting an unauthorized access point accessing a communication network. An authorized access point and/or an authorized mobile unit detects a beacon generated by a transmitting access point. The beacon includes identification information of the transmitting access point. A computing arrangement verifies the identification...

20060193259 - Method and system for controlling traffic load between media gateway controllers and proxies: The invention refers a method of regulating the traffic that may be used between a SIP User Agent (SIP-UA) and a SIP Proxy in high traffic load situations, like in a telephony-SIP inter-working senario where the MGC in the inter-working gateway is acting as a SIP-UA. Thus, a method to...

20060193260 - Preemptive packet flow controller: Described is a system to control a flow of packets to and from an electronic processor which includes a packet processor engine programmed to interpret the packets from a packet memory, and to perform switching between packet chains in response to events, a working chain pointer register of the packet...

20060193261 - Unified congestion notification mechanism for reliable and unreliable protocols by augmenting ecn: A unified congestion notification mechanism can detect congestion at a recipient device either directly, such as via an explicit indicator, or indirectly, such as via dropped packets. Such congestion can then be indicated to the sending device either by leveraging an existing congestion notification mechanism, including by spoofing expected communications,...

20060193262 - Collecting and managing data at a construction site: Data is collected at one or more construction sites using an array of wireless sensory devices distributed throughout each site. Data collected from the array of wireless sensory devices can be transmitted to a central gateway at the site, where it is forwarded to a remote server accessible over the...

20060193263 - Method and system to simulate delays in geographically distributed computing environments: Systems and methods are described for implementing a delay driver within a cluster service storage stack, which delay driver simulates the latency experienced between two nodes in geographically distant locations. The delay driver determines whether I/O request packets should be delayed, selects the number and types of I/O requests packets...

20060193264 - Method for extending business systems to a mobile workforce: Systems, software, and methods for reliable wireless communication are provided. In one aspect, a computer program control device, called a node, is configured to be transmitted from a first device for receipt and processing on a second, disparate device. The node comprises a collection of managed objects or managed object...

20060193266 - Hardware abstraction layer: Switching and routing functions may be provided in a data plane of a network switch by having all functions and algorithms needed to handle all related interface, logical and physical, under one interface manager to keep track of bindings between virtual interfaces and logical interfaces, as well as maintain the...

20060193265 - Peer-to-peer name resolution protocol with lightweight traffic: A system, method, and computer product for a host node to participate in a peer network through a proxy, wherein the peer network includes a plurality of nodes, each node having a peer identifier (ID) and a cache of peer IDs for one or more known nodes, is provided. The...

20060193268 - Diversity transmission modes for mimo ofdm communication systems: Techniques for transmitting data using a number of diversity transmission modes to improve reliability. At a transmitter, for each of one or more data streams, a particular diversity transmission mode is selected for use from among a number of possible transmission modes. These transmission modes may include a frequency diversity...

20060193267 - Method and system for transporting multiple signal types using variable size frames: An input detector detects the bit rate and signal type of multiple signals at corresponding multiple interface ports. A master controller coupled to the detector sends control signals to different types of framers such that signals received at one of the multiple interface ports is operated on by a framer...

20060193269 - Communication of conversation between terminasl over a radio link: A package device has one integrated circuit in a cavity in a package substrate and electrically coupled to one side of the package substrate. A second integrated circuit is mounted on another side of the package device and electrically coupled to that side as well. A third integrated circuit or...

20060193270 - Method and system for acoustic communication: An acoustic transducer arrangement and system and method utilizing the same are presented. The acoustic transducer arrangement includes: an acoustic transmitter assembly including an array of transmitter elements operable to generate together a multi-frequency acoustic signal; and a control unit preprogrammed to operate the acoustic transmitter assembly in accordance with...

20060193271 - Physical layer repeater configuration for increasing mimo performance: A wireless network includes at least one Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) wireless network station and two or more physical layer repeaters. Each of the physical layer repeaters is for receiving a wireless signal to or from the at least one MIMO wireless network station and re-transmitting the wireless signal...

20060193277 - Early detection of false start-of-packet triggers in a wireless network node: An apparatus, a carrier medium storing instructions to implement a method, and a method in a node of a wireless network able to receive packets that exactly or substantially conform to a wireless network standard according to which each packet includes a header having bits that have respective correct values...

20060193273 - High quality, low power, wireless audio system: The invention relates to the field of wireless communications and more specifically to an high quality, low power wireless audio system. More specifically, the invention comprises an audio source for receiving audio signals (e.g. music) and audio status information (e.g. song title) from a first external device (e.g. an MP3...

20060193272 - Method and system for improved handoff of a mobile device between wireless subnetworks: Under the present invention, a method and system for improved handoff of a mobile device between wireless subnetworks is provided. Specifically, under the present invention, a mobile device will directly associate with a new access point of a new wireless subnetwork (layer 2 handoff) before associating with a agent of...

20060193275 - Mobile communication system, radio base station, mobile station and mobile communication method: A mobile communication system is configured to control a transmission rate of user data to be transmitted from a mobile station to a radio base station via an uplink transmission rate allocation shared physical control channel, and to transmit user data from the radio base station to the mobile station...

20060193278 - Mobile telephone for internet applications: A control unit for a mobile telephone includes a Web server adapted to connect to a Web browser in the mobile telephone, wherein the Web server receives information and provides the information to the Web browser when connected to the Web browser....

20060193276 - Radio communication system, base station control equipment, radio terminal, and radio communication method: A radio communication system which automatically selects a communication path having a higher speed is provided when a plurality of communication paths having a different speed from each other are available for data transmission between the radio terminal and the base station control equipment. The radio terminal receives a data...

20060193274 - Wireless communication apparatus, wireless communication method, and program: A wireless communication apparatus includes a random number range holding unit configured to hold a random number range, a random time setting unit configured to set a random time based on the random number range, a random time counting unit configured to count the random time starting from a particular...

20060193279 - Method and system for accessing a channel in a wireless communications network using multi-polling: A method and system accesses a wireless channel in a communications network including multiple stations and an access point connected by the wireless channel. The access point periodically broadcasts polling information indicating when a station can transmit. A next station is polled in an acknowledgement message broadcast by the access...

20060193280 - Relay communication method for an ofdma-based cellular communication system: A relay communication method in an orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) communication system including at least one base station for providing a multiple access service to a plurality of mobile stations frame by frame. The relay communication method includes dividing a cell defined by transmission power of the base...

20060193281 - Method and system for improved wireless communications payload: A system and method for improved data transmission in a WDCT frame structure. A transmission slot in a WDCT frame of conventional size is configured for transmission of data bits having substantially smaller data bit width than used in conventional WDCT frames. A user data field is configured to transmit...

20060193282 - Between-load-and-vehicle communication system: A roadside-to-vehicle communication system for providing a mobile station with application service by utilizing roadside-to-vehicle communication implemented between the mobile station that travels on a road and a base station system installed along the road provides non-network-type communication protocols that can implement diverse application services, even when the mobile station...

20060193286 - Communications system: A communications network for transferring communication frames between a base station and a plurality of subscriber stations. Each frame having sets of information and control messages, wherein at least some of the control messages allocate which set of information corresponds to which subscriber station. The overhead of the control messages...

20060193283 - Data distribution by proxy: A communication device communicates with an originating device during an originating session and receives originating data from the originating device over a wireless communication link and then communicates with a receiving device during a receiving session and sends the originating data to the receiving device over a wireless communication link,...

20060193288 - Determining the context of surroundings: “Context” of an environment or area is considered to be one or more characteristics of the environment or area, manifested by the presence of various types of equipment or devices. Detection of various types of devices and equipment in a localized area is by way of short-range wireless signals over...

20060193284 - Dynamically measuring and re-classifying access points in a wireless network: A method, an apparatus, and a carrier medium carrying computer readable code segments to instruct a processor to execute the method. The method is in a wireless network that includes at least one access point. The method includes, from time-to-time, measuring a first set of at least one property of...

20060193287 - Wireless communication apparatus, communication system, communication method, and program: A wireless communication apparatus able to shorten a connection time between wireless communication apparatuses, including a wireless module activated after the end of download of firmware and becoming able to communicate with another apparatus for communication and a system control unit able to download the firmware after activation, wherein the...

20060193285 - Wireless communication method and system for routing packets via intra-mesh and extra-mesh routes: A wireless communication system including a mesh network having a plurality of mesh points (MPs), a plurality of wireless transmit/receive units (WTRUs), extra-mesh local area network (LAN) resources, and an external network is disclosed. When one of the MPs receives a packet, a determination is made as to whether the...

20060193290 - Baseband demodulation architecture for adaptive modulation method: A wireless communication device for a communication system including data channels and control channels is disclosed. This device includes a receive section for receiving signals including data signals sent over the data channels, and control signals sent over control channels, the control signal corresponding to the data signals, a control...

20060193289 - Method for transferring a mobile terminal in e.g. an umts-network from one server node in a pool to another server node in the same pool: The present invention relates to an arrangement comprising a packet data support node comprising a functional server node forming part of a conglomerate, or pool, of functional server nodes in a number of radio network control means, each functional server node being able to control any, or a number of,...

20060193291 - Mobile communication system and packet data transfer control method: A mobile communication system in which packets are transferred between network nodes for handing-over is disclosed. The mobile communication system comprises a packet data classifying unit that classifies packets based on a required transferring period; and a transfer controlling unit that transfers the classified packets, classification by classification, from an...

20060193293 - Communication system with cross-compatibility and associated communication frame: A telecommunications frame used for remote control in home automation systems provides for protocol extension while retaining the organization and the content of the data of an old frame used in earlier generation remote control transmitters/receivers while adding additional information able to be exploited by later-generation receivers. The frame comprises...

20060193292 - Measurement based mechanism to enable two wireless devices to directly communicate with each other to support traffic prioritization: A wireless device communications mode selector dynamically establishes an optimal communication mode between wireless devices and/or access point, such that stations communicate directly with each other or indirectly through an existing AP depending upon which mode would yield higher throughput under present network conditions and configuration. In an embodiment of...

20060193294 - Mimo signal processing method involving a rank-adaptive matching of the transmission rate: A bidirectional signal processing method uses parallel transmission of digital transmitted data streams in a multiple input-multiple output system. Related art methods generate high bit error rates mostly in singular transmission channels. For this reason, the rank-adaptive signal processing method provides that the number nd of active subchannels are varied...

20060193295 - Multi-access terminal with capability for simultaneous connectivity to multiple communication channels: An apparatus is disclosed for permitting a mobile terminal having multiple, heterogeneous network connections (e.g., multiple wired or wireless transceivers of various types) to set up and maintain virtual connections over multiple networks to either the same or to multiple destinations. The mobile terminal can “load-share” traffic, i.e., it can...

20060193296 - Apparatus and method to optimize power management in an independent basis service set of a wireless local area network: An apparatus and method are provided by the present invention for power management in an Independent Basic Service Set Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN). The present invention uses explicit booking by wireless stations and implicit booking by overhearing booking and data frame transmission conversations by the wireless stations to achieve...

20060193301 - Graphic display cordless telephone interfacing with soft-phone ui: A physical interface to a soft-phone application makes use of a cordless telephone handset with a display to allow a user to browse a contact list, initiate calls and receive Voice over Internet Protocol calls over a familiar interface without being tied to a stationary computer....

20060193302 - Information processing apparatus: According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus capable of executing wireless communication, includes a wireless communication unit which includes a transmitter and a receiver, and which executes the wireless communication using a predetermined frequency band wireless signal, a power control unit which supplies an operating power to the receiver...

20060193299 - Location-based enhancements for wireless intrusion detection: In a wireless local area network, a method for detecting the presence of an unauthorized device comprises: detecting the presence of neighboring devices from which management frames can be sent; saving a representation of each neighboring device present; receiving a management frame purporting to be from one of the detected...

20060193300 - Method and apparatus for monitoring multiple network segments in local area networks for compliance with wireless security policy: Method and system for monitoring a plurality of network segments in a local area network within a selected geographic region is provided. The monitoring is performed to check compliance with one or more wireless security policies. The method comprises providing a network monitoring device and coupling the network monitoring device...

20060193298 - Radio communication apparatus and radio communication method: A radio communication apparatus capable of alleviating a burden in setting a transmission format and suppressing increases in the scale of the apparatus. In this apparatus, space multiplexing adaptability detection section (108) detects space multiplexing transmission adaptability for divided bands (DB-1 to DB-Nd) obtained by dividing a communication band to...

20060193303 - Radio network controller: A radio network controller disposed on a network, for implementing effective use of bands in use considering the characteristics of the use form of the users, not by physical expansion, the radio network controller having a user resource management section for managing information for characterizing a user connected to the...

20060193297 - Secure roaming between wireless access points: A system, method, and computer readable medium for enabling roaming of wireless client stations among wireless access points are disclosed. A gateway programmed to receive session data requests is provided in a network, which comprises access points which are programmed to send session data requests to the gateway. The gateway...

20060193304 - Method for assigning and method for scheduling codes for data transmissions, between a radio station and at least one subscriber station, over an air interface of a radiocommunication system, together with network-side equipment and radio station: Codes are assigned and scheduled for data transmissions, between a radio station and at least one subscriber station, over a wireless interface of a radio communication system, in such a way that both for transmissions in the upward direction (uplink), from subscriber stations to the radio station, and also for...

20060193305 - Frame synchronization in a universal mobile telephone system receiver: A Universal Mobile Telephone System (UMTS) receiver performs slot synchronization using a received primary synchronization channel (PSCH). Subsequent to completion of slot synchronization, the UMTS receiver performs frame synchronization using a received secondary synchronization channel (SSCH) in such a way that the UMTS receiver uses the received primary synchronization channel...

20060193307 - Recorded information reproduction device: An apparatus includes an amplitude adjustment section which adjusts the amplitude of a reading sample value sequence in accordance with a gain adjustment signal; a Viterbi decoder which performs Viterbi decoding processing to the amplitude-adjusted reading sample value sequence based on a plurality of estimated values; and an error detection...

20060193306 - System and method for synchronization between base stations: An inter-base station synchronization system is constructed without using any receiver for detecting a frame period error at a zone boundary between leaky coaxial cables, and without using any exclusive line or dedicated radio waves for use in transmitting the frame period error information from this receiver to base stations....

20060193309 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for providing time division multiplexed (tdm) terminating service in a packet network: The subject matter described herein includes methods, systems, and computer program products for providing TDM terminating services in a packet network. According to one method, a combined set including a plurality of TDM channels is received over a packet network. The combined set of TDM channels is terminated in the...

20060193308 - Providing packet communication service: A system and method of providing a packet communication service, in which when a voice call is established between IP terminals connected to the same private network, each IP terminal can exchange a packet through private IP address information and private port information assigned to the private network connected to...

20060193310 - Local area network above telephony methods and devices: A method and apparatus for modifying a telephone network to create a local area network over telephony (LAN/T) communication system network is disclosed. By employing special coupler/filter arrangements that allow broadband communication signals to pass but preclude telephony signals from passing, a network of multiple telephony lines carrying separate telephony...

20060193311 - Network system and method for link failure recovery: A network system for recovering from a link failure in a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) service comprises: a first media gateway having a current link setting and transmitting a corresponding packet upwardly for the VoIP service; a second media gateway which is link-connected to the same remote terminal as...

20060193312 - Switching method and apparatus: The present invention relates to a switching method and apparatus for performing a switching operation in a telecommunication network, wherein a side information and a service information generated based on a received call is converted into a switching technology independent identification information for identifying a start point and an end...

20060193313 - Local area network above telephony infrastructure: A method and apparatus for modifying a telephone network to create a local area network over telephony (LAN/T) communication system network is disclosed. By coupling a broadband communication gateway and one or more client access devices to a wired telephone network, the telephone network can act as a LAN without...

20060193314 - Broadcast router optimized for asymmetrical confirguration: There is provided a broadcast router. The broadcast router includes at least one input chassis and at least one output chassis. Each of the input chassis has a plurality of input cards and an expansion card. The plurality of input cards is for initially receiving data into the broadcast router....

20060193316 - Autonomous network topology and method of operating same: An autonomous network topology for transient network devices. In a network comprising a plurality of autonomous, transient nodes, each node maintains a list of other nodes that are currently within its “line-of-sight,” i.e., other nodes with which a node can exchange packets of information directly. Each node also maintains a...

20060193315 - Beacon transmission in short-range wireless communication systems: The invention relates to a method for broadcasting beacon frames in a short-range wireless ad-hoc network including a plurality of wireless terminals. In order to improve the efficiency of the ad-hoc network in terms of power consumption, the terminal that defines the beacon interval for the network starts as a...

20060193320 - Data transmission method having improved network address translation method in home gateway and a system thereof: A data transmission method and a data transmission system using an improved network address translation method. The data transmission method includes requesting a real-time service from a multimedia device to a home gateway within a home network; inputting a binary code corresponding to the multimedia device to a service type...

20060193322 - Label switched packet transfer base station: A cellular network base station configured to operate in a cellular network having a service area divided into a multitude of cells through which mobile terminals can move through. The base station is configured to forwarding packets to and from the mobile terminals. The base station forwards packets to at...

20060193317 - Method and apparatus for direct reception of inbound data: A method and apparatus for receiving inbound data on an I/O device wherein a request to receive inbound data is received. A direct-data-placement request-tag is generated and associated with a pre-allocated buffer when the request requires direct data placement. A non-direct-data-placement request-tag is generated when the request does not require...

20060193318 - Method and apparatus for processing inbound and outbound quanta of data: A method for processing inbound and/or outbound data wherein a processing policy is determined for a quantum of data. A quantum of inbound data is received and a data notification for the received data is prepared. The notification for the quantum of received inbound data is delivered to a processor...

20060193321 - System and method for continuously provisioning a mobile device: Described is a provisioning system for receiving configuration changes to and queries of settings on a mobile device. One implementation includes a router component and a configuration manager component. The router component is responsible for receiving messages delivered to the mobile device and parsing the messages into requests for information....

20060193319 - System and method for providing packet communication service: In a system and method for providing a packet communication service in a network system, a plurality of private networks are connected to one another through a public network. When a voice call is established between Internet protocol (IP) terminals included in respectively different private networks, packets can be directly...

20060193323 - Apparatus and method for providing session initiation protocol (sip) service in private network: An apparatus for providing a session initiation protocol (SIP) service comprises: a gateway installed in a boundary between a private network and a public network, the gateway detecting identifier information and address information of SIP terminals located in the private network using an SIP message transmitted between the private network...

20060193324 - Arbitration method for output cells of atm and arbiter circuit: The invention provides an arbitration method and an arbiter circuit by which equal arbitration of output cells can be achieved with a comparatively simple configuration even where a very great number of queues are involved. The arbiter circuit includes a plurality of queues for storing output cells, and a plurality...

20060193327 - System and method for providing quality of service in a virtual adapter: A method, computer program product, and distributed data processing system for associating a quality of service level to one or more virtual I/O adapters or virtual resources that reside within a physical adapter and are associated with a virtual host is provided. Specifically, a mechanism by which a single physical...

20060193328 - Network address filter including random access memory: A network address filter that includes a random access memory configured to store network address data, a processor, and a comparator. The processor is configured to execute a hash function on input data to obtain a random access memory address that is applied to the random access memory to obtain...

20060193325 - Method and system for transmission and reception of asynchronously multiplexed signals: A storage circuit defines a first field for storing first header bits of a first payload signal of a first data unit, a second field, and a third field for storing the first payload signal. The first header bits are equal in number to second header bits of a second...

20060193330 - Communication apparatus, router apparatus, communication method and computer program product: A communication apparatus includes a Virtual Private Network protocol dependent processing unit that processes a protocol related to a Virtual Private Network and acquires an identification information message related to determination of Virtual Private Network identification information being network identification information for use in communication by the Virtual Private Network...

20060193329 - Method and apparatus for limiting vpnv4 prefixes per vpn in an inter-autonomous system environment: A method, apparatus and computer program product for limiting Virtual Private Network (VPNv4) prefixes per VPN in an inter-autonomous system environment are presented. A limit on the number of VPNv4 routes per VPN for a Route Distributor (RD) or a group of RDs associated with a VPN is defined, at...

20060193326 - Dual aal1 device and synchronization method used therewith: Upon receipt of a synchronization request from the CPU, the AAL1 device of the act system causes its cell forming section to extract the allocation position information for the SAR-PDU payload about a particular time slot in the current frame and, via the synchronization information send/receive section, transfers the information...

20060193331 - Method for the statistical estimation of the traffic dispersion in telecommunication network: A method for evaluating traffic dispersion at an exchange in a communications network, the exchange being arranged for applying a set of routing rules in allotting to a plurality of links (i.e., circuit groups) incoming traffic directed toward a given destination. The method includes the steps of incrementally generating traffic...

20060193332 - Forwarding state sharing between multiple traffic paths in a communication network: The sharing of forwarding states between multiple traffic paths is described. There is a described a method for establishing a data traffic path in a communication network from a first node towards a second node. The method includes searching a set of pre-existing forwarding states for a pre-existing forwarding state...

20060193334 - Apparatus, system and method capable of recovering from disjoint clusters in an mesh network: An embodiment of the present invention provides an apparatus, comprising a transceiver capable of recovering from disjoint clusters in a mesh network by adding an additional Extended Service Set number (ESS Number) information element (IE) in the Beacon and Probe Response frames in at least one access point (AP) in...

20060193333 - Topology aggregation for hierarchical routing: A method of generating routing tables for a data communication network. With the method the network is defined in terms of a plurality of nodes (N0.1-N0.10) interconnected by links across which data travels. The method then simplifies the network into a deterministic structure through a series of recursive abstractions identifying...

20060193335 - Tunneling ethernet: A machine readable medium for tunneling Ethernet is described. A machine readable medium comprises receiving an Ethernet frame and transmitting the Ethernet frame over a non-homogenous tunnel, the tunnel distinguishing subscriber traffic....

20060193336 - Local area network above cable television methods and devices: A method and apparatus for modifying a cable network to create a local area network is disclosed. By employing a communications modem configured to transmit first communication signals over one or more coaxial cables using a first allocated spectrum designed to avoid contention with ongoing upstream television control signals, an...

20060193337 - Device management broadcast operation: An indication of a device management broadcast is received. This device management broadcast is in the form of a file delivery session, such as a FLUTE session. Further, a transport object of the device management broadcast is received. This transport object may include one or more device management messages in...

20060193338 - Method and apparatus for providing dynamic selection of carriers: An approach is provided for communicating in a multi-carrier system. A carrier selector selects one or more carriers among a plurality of carriers for transport of data over the multi-carrier system, wherein the data is transmitted using the selected carriers....

20060193341 - Data conversion apparatus, signal, data conversion method, dce, gateway and communication apparatus: A communication method in a third communication apparatus of a first node located between a first communication apparatus of the first node and a second communication apparatus of a second node, the first communication apparatus and the second communication apparatus performing data communication based on PPP....

20060193339 - Wireless communications system: A wireless communications system comprising: first and second network entities in communication over a wireless channel, the first network entity comprising means for monitoring signal quality and means for transmitting information relating to signal quality over the wireless channel and the second network entity including a transmitter comprising a basic...

20060193340 - Wireless messaging preambles allowing for beamforming and legacy device coexistence: A modified preamble is used by extended devices that operate in mixed mode environments and green field environments, to accommodate beamforming of transmissions. In one process, an extended wireless device processes data for transmission of that data as a packet, wherein the extended wireless device is a device configured to...

20060193343 - Apparatus and method for recognizing frame check sequence in generic framing procedure encapsulation mode: The present invention is directed to a method for recognizing a Frame Check Sequence (FCS) in a Generic Framing Procedure (GFP) encapsulation mode. The method includes removing the Core Header field of a GFP frame in a received GFP data stream; generating the delimiting signals in connection with the removed...

20060193344 - Apparatus for collecting charging information of a data service and charging method thereof: The present invention discloses an apparatus for collecting charging information of data service and charging method thereof. The apparatus comprises: a protocol distribution processing module, for classifying service data received from a gateway service node in the wireless network by the protocol type, and sending the classified service data to...

20060193342 - System and method for testing a protocol using targeted variant input: The value of one or more selected nodes in a data format definition may be substituted with a variant placeholder. At runtime, when an input token stream is generated from the data format definition, each variant placeholder will be replaced with a random value, thereby providing targeted variant input....

20060193345 - Communication service unit and connection sequence executing method: A terminal 2 starts a communication procedure that is necessary to establish a communication path to a communication service unit 1, in order to execute communication with a multimedia terminal 3; when a communication protocol conversion unit 7 receives communication start request from the terminal 2, the communication service unit...

20060193346 - Platform architecture and method for making same: The present invention provides an architecture for a platform, which includes (1) gates located in a central area of a die for supporting an application layer; (2) a SerDes region located at one side of the die for holding at least one SerDes device; (3) a Link Layer Controller region,...

20060193347 - Serializer for generating serial clock based on independent clock source and method for serial data transmission: A method for serially transmitting data from a system including a serializer for converting a parallel data signal into a serial data signal and a parallelizer for converting the serial data signal into the parallel data signal includes storing a value of the parallel data signal in a register in...

20060193348 - Multiplexing device and multiplexed data transmission and reception system: A multiplexing device wherein a packet including a one-bit audio signal obtained by subjecting an analog audio signal to a delta sigma modulation process is multiplexed between a plurality of packets including a video signal having a variable bit rate by changing packet interval time information between the plurality of...

20060193349 - Automatically configuring a distributed network analyzer to monitor identified inverse multiplex groups of an asynchronous transfer mode network: A method and apparatus of automatically identifying IMA links of an asynchronous transfer mode network and automatically configuring a distributed network analyzer to monitor the identified IMA links. Information is selectively extracted from streams of cell data exchanged across an asynchronous transfer mode network to automatically identify IMA links of...

20060193350 - Method and system for dynamically allocating video multiplexing buffer based on queuing theory: An embodiment of the invention may provide a method for predicting buffer size in a system, where multiple encoded bit streams may be multiplexed into a single bit stream. The multiple encoded bit streams may comprise either a constant or a variable rate. Notwithstanding, predicting the buffer size required for...

20060193351 - Method for transmitting and receiving data: In a mobile communications system, a method of transmitting data corresponding to the same logical channel through two or more base stations, comprising: transmitting a first sub-packet generated by a first base station and a second base station based upon an encoded packet; and at a time point after the...

20060187815 - Parser for multiple data streams in a communication system: Techniques to parse data into multiple (M) streams with selectable data rates are described. The modulation scheme and code rate for each stream are determined based on the data rate selected for that stream. The modulation schemes and code rates for all M streams are used to determine a parse...

20060187816 - Method for compensating sampling frequency offset and ofdm signal receiving apparatus thereof: An OFDM signal receiving apparatus and method compensates for a sampling frequency offset. Such an apparatus includes an offset estimating unit for estimating an offset for a sampling frequency that is applied to an FFT of an OFDM signal in a tracking mode, a channel estimating unit for estimating a...

20060187817 - Access control for a packet-oriented network, taking into account resilience requirements: The invention relates to a method for providing resources for adapting the routing process in response to the failure of a network element in a packet-oriented network. Barring checks that use thresholds are provided to control the volume of traffic in the network. Data packets are barred if their routing...

20060187818 - Method and apparatus for automatic recovery from a failed node concurrent maintenance operation: A method, apparatus, and computer instructions are provided by the present invention to automatically recover from a failed node concurrent maintenance operation. A control logic is provided to send a first test command to processors of a new node. If the first test command is successful, a second test command...

20060187819 - Method and apparatus for constructing a repair path around a non-available component in a data communications network: A method of constructing a repair path around a non-available component in a data communications network having, as components, nodes having a network address and links there between comprises the step, performed at a participating node, of receiving from a notifying node in the network, a notification identifying the notifying...

20060187820 - Vector routing-revised: A device used to combine two or more diverse network paths to increase the amount of bandwidth available both to and from external networks and a local network by dividing traffic between the network paths and provide for redundancy in the event of a network path failure by determining overall...

20060187830 - Adaptive queue mechanism for efficient realtime packet transfer and adaptive queue establishment system thereof: Disclosed are an adaptive queue mechanism for an efficient realtime packet transfer and an adaptive queue establishment system thereof. The adaptive queue establishment system adds or deletes classes and/or filters using a system call from a user mode to a kernel mode. The adaptive queue mechanism includes a default priority...

20060187829 - Distributed connection admission-control: A method distributes connection admission control. Traffic flows are distributed locally at network nodes based on determined path weights and dynamic link costs. A traffic source node is sent a back-off signal if a distributing node becomes congested. A received request to admit a new traffic flow to the communications...

20060187825 - Dynamic color threshold in a queue: A network device for dynamically allocating memory locations to plurality of queues. The network device includes means for determining an amount of memory buffers that is associated with a port, for assigning a fixed allocation of memory buffers to each of a plurality of queues associated with the port and...

20060187826 - Dynamic sharing of a transaction queue: A network device for dynamically allocating memory locations to plurality of queues. The network device includes means for determining an amount of memory buffers that is associated with a port and means for assigning a fixed allocation of memory buffers to each of a plurality of queues associated with the...

20060187832 - Filter based range check in a network device: A network device for processing data on a data network including a port interface, in communication with a plurality of ports, configured to receive a data packet from a data network, determine a filter index value for the data packet and to send a processed data packet to an egress...

20060187824 - Method and apparatus for measuring data transport quality over an internet protocol: An IP (Internet Protocol) diagnostic system is provided for troubleshooting data transport quality over an Internet Protocol operating in a communication system (100). The IP diagnostic system includes one or more processors (106) each placed at different segments (108) in the communication system. Each processor is programmed to receive (206)...

20060187822 - Method and apparatus for partitioning allocation and management of jitter buffer memory for tdm circuit emulation applications: A method for partitioning allocation and management of a jitter buffer memory for TDM circuit emulation applications comprises the steps of obtaining a channel hierarchy for a plurality of packet carrying channels having different channel rates, obtaining a packet sequential number, and using the channel hierarchy and the packet sequential...

20060187821 - Network terminal apparatus, communication overload avoiding method and program: A network terminal apparatus of the present invention includes an overload condition detecting unit detecting communication overload condition and an overload condition completion detecting unit detecting recovery from an overload condition, invalidates data received by LAN chip when an overload condition is detected, and releases said invalidation when recovery from...

20060187828 - Packet identifier for use in a network device: A network device for processing data on a data network includes a port interface, connected to a plurality of ports configured to receive data packets from a data network and to send processed data packets to the data network, a memory management unit, in communication with and controlling memory external...

20060187827 - Programmable metering behavior based on table lookup: A network device for processing data on a data network including a plurality of ports, configured to receive data from a data network and to send processed data to the data network via an egress port, a controller interface, configured to communicate with an external controller, a memory management unit,...

20060187831 - Remote monitoring and remote control arrangement for an independent target location: An arrangement is provided for facilitating remote monitoring and control of an independent target location. Physical level devices (106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 211) are adapted to at least acquire information at the target location. A transceiver (511) is adapted to exchange information with a remote central system....

20060187823 - Retransmit timeout suppression in large scale networks: A method, apparatus, and network communication node for suppressing transmission of a request packet, in the context of a request-response network protocol, if a packet in response to a currently pending request packet is present in an input process queue in a network communication node are presented. One embodiment of...

20060187835 - Apparatus and method for adjusting adaptive service bandwidth in quality of service guaranteed network: An apparatus and method adjust an adaptive service bandwidth in a mobile communication system in which differentiated services for guaranteeing QoS are provided. Services are provided by using a bandwidth greater than an accepted reference value when resources of the network have a margin, and by using a weighted value...

20060187834 - Reassembly engines for multilink applications: Methods, systems, and apparatus for processing packet fragments for reassembly into packets. Datastreams containing packet fragments are received and data corresponding to different channels are segregated. For each channel, data is then aggregated to recreate packet fragments. Once the fragments are recreated, they are, if required, resequenced using a two-tier...

20060187833 - Systems and methods for upload bandwidth management: Systems and methods are disclosed to control an aggregate load from users to a service to improve overall transmission throughput over a network by measuring and monitoring resource utilization for the service, and maintaining additional resource utilization below a predetermined threshold....

20060187836 - Communication device and method of prioritizing transference of time-critical data: A communication device according to the present invention enhances transfer of time-critical data between one or more LANs and a device (e.g., edge router, etc.) coupled to a backbone network. A virtual bottleneck in the form of a queue is introduced by the communication device at the customer premises or...

20060187840 - Method and apparatus for controlling wireless medium congestion by adjusting contention window size and disassociating selected mobile stations: A method and apparatus for alleviating congestion of a wireless medium used by an access point (AP) and a plurality of wireless transmit/receive units (WTRUs) is disclosed. If congestion is determined to exist on the wireless medium, a determination is then made as to whether there are any low priority...

20060187838 - Method and system for load balancing in a network platform: A method for load balancing communication session processing in a data network platform. The method includes maintaining a first table that associates a plurality of valid communication sessions being processed by the platform with respective application processing cards of a plurality of application processing cards included in a network platform....

20060187837 - Prevention of head of line blocking in a multi-rate switched fibre channel loop attached system: A method is disclosed for maintaining a table of recent accesses for each port for use in predicting whether a request for data from a source device is likely to be sent to a high speed or low speed destination device. The table of recent accesses lists every source device...

20060187839 - Timestamp metering and rollover protection in a network device: A network device for processing data on a data network includes a plurality of ports, configured to receive data from a data network and to send processed data to the data network, a memory management unit configured store data on and retrieve data from the memory and a metering unit...

20060187841 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for suppressing congestion control at a signaling system 7 network node: Methods, systems, and computer program products for suppressing congestion control at an SS7 network node include determining whether a transfer controlled message triggering condition exists for at least one signaling link in a telecommunications network. In response to determining that a transfer controlled message triggering condition exists, the generation of...

20060187842 - Best path routing: A method used to determine the most optimal network path to a specific remote network and direct traffic over the optimal path to that remote network when two or more diverse network paths are available....

20060187843 - Remote witness testing system: A master testing control system includes at least one remote computer with one or more communications lines for communicating over a communications network and a plurality of remote sensors, a two way real-time digital video system, a two-way real-time digital audio system, a set of instructions on each remote computer...

20060187844 - High speed uplink packet access scheme: Improvements to the High Speed Uplink Packet Access (HSUPA) scheme have been made. Among the three main aspects, providing Optimized Rate Request Reporting, providing Signaling for Lower Delay Delivery, and providing a MAC-e PDU Format for Control Information, the Signaling for Lower Delay Delivery may be considered as the main...

20060187845 - Failure management and propagation in a telecommunication network: A method is described for managing and propagating a failure indication in a telecommunication system. The telecommunication system comprises at least a synchronous transport network and a packet-switched network which is connected to the synchronous transport network by means of a node having a transport side towards the synchronous transport...

20060187849 - Interpreter engine: In one embodiment, an apparatus for permitting interpretation of a protocol in a network, includes: a network device including an interpreter engine configured to receive a script file and interpret a protocol based upon the script file; and a processor configured to execute the interpreter engine. In another embodiment, a...

20060187851 - Method and apparatus for evaluating network usage: A method and system of evaluating network usage among signals experiencing varying enhancements or impairments collects data of network communications signals, which may describe parameters relating to the quality of the signal, such as noise level or echo level. Data is also collected describing the behavior of the callers using...

20060187846 - Method and apparatus for handling out-of-sequence packets in header decompression: Header compression repair techniques are accomplished, in various aspects, modes, embodiments, and implementations, by a remote terminal (40), by a header decompressor (46) for use at a remote terminal (40), and by methods of operating the remote terminal and/or decompressor, and (optionally) in some aspects, modes, embodiments, and implementations by...

20060187852 - Method of determining transmission rate of control response frame for acknowledging data receipt in wireless lan: A method is provided for determining a transmission rate of a control response frame for acknowledging data receipt in a wireless local area network. The method includes obtaining transmission parameters of a transmitting station from a data transmission frame received from the transmitting station, searching a receiving station for transmission...

20060187848 - Systems and methods for testing a network: Devices, systems and methods that generate and test network traffic are disclosed. The exemplary method may include transmitting one or more requests to generate network testing traffic to one or more endpoints, generating network testing traffic from one or more endpoints, and collecting network testing traffic data. Additional aspects of...

20060187847 - Techniques for determining communication state using accelerometer data: Techniques for communicating with a user on a network include receiving acceleration data that indicates acceleration of a mobile network node associated with a user of a network. The user is a living user of the network, such as a human user, or a vehicular user of the network, such...

20060187850 - Voice call coordinator: According to various embodiments of the present invention, systems and methods for collecting, analyzing, and/or displaying signaling information for a call through a network, including: receiving a request for signaling information, wherein the request identifies a particular call handled by at least one network element within a voice over internet...

20060187853 - Configuring virtual lans on layer 2: A method and apparatus are provided for configuring a VLAN on a node of a communication network. A graphical user interface (GUI) is provided at a network management system, through which an operator selects a node and a physical port on the node. The operator identifies which virtual ports associated...

20060187858 - Network discovery mechanisms: In some of the preferred embodiments, a method for network discovery of a mobile device to use at least one of a plurality of access networks within an IP network includes: obtaining specified network information in the vicinity of a given location based on a set of criteria when a...

20060187857 - System and method to provide device control service, and computer product: A device control service providing system includes a service request receiving unit that receives, via a network, a device control service request for controlling a group of electronic devices, and a process execution requesting unit that requests respective device control servers to execute device control processes for controlling an operation...

20060187855 - Techniques for customer self-provisioning of edge nodes for a virtual private network: Techniques for configuring a particular network interface on a particular node at an edge of a provider network to support a particular virtual private network include receiving customer input data. The provider network is a packet-switched network and the particular virtual private network is a link layer virtual private network....

20060187856 - Techniques for using first sign of life at edge nodes for a virtual private network: A method and apparatus for processing a signal on an intermediate network node at an edge of a provider packet-switched network to support a link-layer virtual private network includes receiving a signal on a particular interface. The particular interface is for a direct communication link to a customer network node...

20060187854 - Techniques for zero touch provisioning of edge nodes for a virtual private network by pushing configuration from a server: A method and apparatus for configuring a network interface to support a virtual private network includes storing configuration data at a server on a host computer on the provider network. It is determined without human intervention whether conditions are satisfied for sending the configuration data to a particular node at...

20060187859 - Method and system for reserving resources of a multipoint conference: A method for reserving conference resources includes communicating a conference notification to each of a plurality of conference invitees. The conference notification is associated with a multipoint conference. The method includes receiving, from each of a first number of the plurality of conference invitees, a response to the conference notification...

20060187861 - Methods and apparatus for providing high speed connectivity to a hotel environment: Methods and apparatus are described for providing access to a network via a first one of a plurality of network access nodes in the network. The network access nodes each have a network address associated therewith which is unique on the network, the first network access node having a first...

20060187860 - Serverless peer-to-peer multi-party real-time audio communication system and method: A serverless peer-to-peer (P2P) multi-party real-time audio communication system and method in which each of the peers takes a turn mixing and compressing the audio and redelivering the compressed audio. An input audio stream is divided or split into frames. At each frame, one peer node is selected to mix...

20060187862 - Time division duplexing transmission/reception apparatus and method using polarized duplexer: A time division duplexing (TDD) transmission/reception apparatus and method are provided. The TDD transmission/reception apparatus includes: a transmitter which generates a transmitted signal; an antenna which transmits the transmitted signal to an external device and receives a received signal from an external device; a receiver which restores source data by...

20060187863 - System and method for operating a wideband return channel in a bi-directional optical communication system: An inventive system capable of being utilized in environments where laser transceiver nodes may be subject to extreme temperatures. Temperature changes in the laser transceiver nodes may be compensated for by utilizing a wide wavelength channel allocation for data sent upstream from the laser transceiver nodes to the data service...

20060187864 - Apparatus and methods for delivery traffic indication message (dtim) periods in a wireless network: An access point is to transmit delivery traffic indication messages at different periods of beacon frames for different wireless client devices associated with the access point. A client device may store an indication of a preferred period of beacon frames at which to listen to delivery traffic indication messages when...

20060187866 - Method for reporting and accumulating data in a wireless communication network: A method and apparatus for coordinating communication in a wireless sensor network may include a plurality of nodes, such as routers, edge nodes, data accumulators and/or gateways. Time management functions, such as determining an elapsed time, may be controlled based on a detected temperature, e.g., a temperature detected at a...

20060187865 - Reduced power auto-configuration: An auto-configuration algorithm for establishing a wireless connection between an access point (AP) and a wireless station includes reducing the power that the AP transmits or broadcasts configuration setting information, resulting in possible reception of the configuration setting only within a small area of the network....

20060187868 - Method and apparatus for profiling characteristic of mobile devices: A method for profiling characteristics of a mobile device comprises transmitting test data to the mobile device over a mobile telecommunications network for output by the mobile device; providing query data to a user interface defining queries for display by the user interface, which queries concern the expected output of...

20060187867 - Method of obtaining and linking positional information to position specific multimedia content: The present invention relates to a method of obtaining positional information of a mobile phone carrier and linking the positional information to position specific multimedia content, such as photos or audio. The method is performed by detecting the position information of the mobile phone and linking the position information to...

20060187869 - Method and apparatus for initiating a reverse link intergenerational handoff in a cdma communication system: A novel method and apparatus for initiating a reverse link intergenerational handoff in a CDMA communication system is disclosed. The inventive reverse link intergenerational handoff initialization method and apparatus measures and compares parameters between a serving base station of one generation and a target base station of another generation to...

20060187870 - Multi-carrier radio link protocol supervision in a radio communication system: A method is provided for facilitating efficient usage of radio capacity in a radio communication system including a communication station operable to receive, over a plurality of subchannels of the radio communication system. In this regard, the packet-formatted data has an overall sequence, and is divided into a plurality of...

20060187871 - Method and apparatus for enabling access in a wlan environment: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for enabling access in a WLAN environment, and in particular the present invention relates to allowing access to WLAN services in a manner that facilitates easy billing for the WLAN services. In response to a WLAN access request, a charging call...

20060187877 - Method and apparatus for high rate packet data and low delay data transmissions: In a wireless communication system a method for combination transmission of packet data and low delay data. In one embodiment a parallel signaling channel provides a message to receivers indicating a target recipient of packet data. The message also identifies the transmission channels used for packet data transmissions. Each receiver...

20060187874 - Method and apparatus for supporting data flow control in a wireless mesh network: A method and apparatus for supporting data flow control in a wireless mesh network by reporting to a source mesh point (MP) in a particular path the allowed data rate that each MP in the path may support. The source MP sends, over the path, a data packet destined which...

20060187875 - Method and system for managing multimedia messages in a mobile communication system: A system and method for managing multimedia messages, wherein a mobile terminal for sends a multimedia message including multimedia data having a storage directory and a disclosure level set according by a user, a multimedia messaging service center stores the multimedia data included in the multimedia message in a directory...

20060187872 - Multiaccess techniques for mobile and stationary cellular communications: A wireless communications system connecting multiple senders and multiple receivers through multi-access method utilizing orthogonal frequency division multiplexing techniques. A method of expanding the services provided by delivering asymmetrically higher bandwidth per channel and more channels through orthogonal frequency division multiplexed access methods and quadrature amplitude modulation....

20060187873 - Pre-emptive roaming mechanism allowing for enhanced qos in wireless network environments: A preemptive roaming mechanism in wireless network environments. In one implementation, the present invention provides a wireless client that implements a preemptive roaming mode that, when an attribute of the signal (e.g., Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR), etc.) between the access point with which the client is currently associated crosses...

20060187876 - Turbo hsdpa system: A method of power saving for a wireless transceiver (FIGS. 1 and 2) is disclosed. The transceiver has an active power mode (504) and a reduced power mode (510). The transceiver is operated in the reduced power mode (510) and monitors transmissions from a remote wireless transmitter while in the...

20060187881 - Establishing network address of mobile terminal in mobile communication system: The present invention relates to establishing a network address of a mobile terminal in a mobile communication system when the mobile terminal is handed over from one network to another. Preferably, the present invention establishes a unified interface to an upper layer of the mobile terminal for managing messages to...

20060187880 - Method and apparatus for handoff between mobile communication network and wireless local area network: A handoff method and apparatus between a mobile communication network and a WLAN are provided. A router routes data traffic from an Internet network to a terminal to a first node of the mobile communication network. The first node determines whether any call set up exists for a data traffic...

20060187883 - 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....

20060187878 - Methods, apparatuses and systems facilitating client handoffs in wireless network systems: Methods, apparatuses, and systems directed to facilitating roaming and client handoffs in wireless networks. In one implementation, the present invention is directed to a coordination mechanism facilitating handoffs of wireless clients in a wireless network infrastructure. In one implementation, the coordination mechanism minimizes the use of group- or multi-casting to...

20060187879 - Mobile station and communication system selecting method: A mobile station is connectable to a first communication system for managing a service area with a respective first area and to a second communication system for managing a service area with a respective second area. The mobile station includes a first wireless communicator for receiving first notification information capable...

20060187882 - Supporting handover of multi-mode mobile terminal between heterogeneous networks: The present invention relates to supporting media independent handover of a mobile terminal to a heterogeneous network. Preferably, the present invention establishes a unified interface to an upper layer of the mobile terminal for managing messages to and from at least one of a homogeneous network and a neterogeneous network....

20060187885 - Wireless communication method and apparatus for dynamically adapting packet transmission rates: A method and apparatus for use by a first transceiver, (e.g., wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU), access point (AP), node) for adjusting the transmission rate of packets transmitted to a second transceiver based on signals the first transceiver receives from the second transceiver. In one embodiment, a transmission packet error rate...

20060187884 - Wireless link delivery ratio prediction: Packet signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) values and historical delivery ratio information are combined to predict a delivery ratio for a communication link. Since packet SNR may be available with every received packet on the link, link SNR level is both accurate and easy to obtain. In one embodiment, a link quality...

20060187886 - Power-efficient transmission method for forward link control channels of wireless networks: A method for transmitting to a user terminal of a wireless communication network includes the determination of a transmit power for the message to be transmitted. The transmit power includes a margin that is determined adaptively. In specific embodiments of the invention, the margin is adapted in response to a...

20060187888 - Systems and methods for detecting discontinuous transmission (dtx) using cyclic redundancy check results to modify preliminary dtx classification: A received information signal is decoded to obtain the received information and to produce at least one feature of the received information signal. The received information signal is preliminarily classified as containing a normal burst or a truncated burst based upon the at least one feature, to obtain a preliminary...

20060187887 - Wireless multiple access system for suppressing inter-cell interference: An OFDM based multiple access system provides strong persistence against selective frequency fading and further provides suppression of inter-cell interference by using cell differentiating scrambling codes. Thus, the OFDM system maximizes frequency reuse rate. The present invention includes an OFDM modulator frequency-division-multiplexing data to be transmitted, a code division unit...

20060187892 - Interactive method for determining network selection information for a user terminal in a wireless local area network: The present invention discloses an interactive method for determining network selection information of user terminal in wireless local area network (WLAN). In the present invention, a user terminal covered by more than one WLAN inquires each detected WLAN successively in turn using preset initial network selection information. If the current...

20060187890 - Lcd display on wireless router: A device, such as an access point or router, in a wireless network includes a user-readable visual display that displays information about the network, such as the number of users, the identities of the users, the type of WAN connection, the channel, and other network information....

20060187891 - Provision of services in a communication system: A method for requesting a service in a communication system is provided. The method comprises requesting, via a network, information relating to a service provided via the network. The method further comprises receiving said information through a secure connection. The method further comprises storing said information in a local server...

20060187893 - System and method to improve the overall performance of a wireless communication network: A system and method for controlling the dissemination of Routing packets, and decreasing the latency in finding routes between nodes (SD1 through SD5). The system and method provides message exchanges between wireless devices (SD1 though SD5, IAP 130) to determine optimized communication routes with a minimum of overhead messages and...

20060187889 - System to mine information from data generated by location enabled devices: The present invention describes a method and system of extracting useful information from the location data record of a Wireless Device, available at Position Determination System (PDS) in a wireless network such as CDMA, GSM, UMTS, WiFi and other current and future networks. The location data may include Time, Longitude,...

20060187894 - Phase estimation method in a digital and phase locked loop communication system: receiving and storing a block of observations Yk; executing at least one phase locked loop (PLL) on a predetermined sequence of observations extracted from said block. Each PLL provides an intermediate value, combining both intermediate values makes it possible to provide a sharpened phase estimate. The method allows realization of...

20060187895 - Method access point and program product for providing bandwidth and airtime fairness in wireless networks: The present invention provides a method (100), access point (20) and program product (35) for providing airtime and bandwidth fairness in wireless networks. To provide bandwidth fairness, a more fragment bit is set in a set of packets (46C) received by an access point (20) so that the packets of...

20060187897 - Method and apparatus for efficient and deterministic group alerting: A system and method are provided for reliable, wireless group alerting in a system having a database, switch, wireless network, and a plurality of intelligent mobile receivers, and preferably employing a modified two-way paging based on ReFLEX™ protocol information service (IS) messages and a novel ALOHA command for multicast acknowledgement...

20060187896 - Method of registering mobile node in mobile ip environment and mobile ip network system using the same: A method of registering a mobile node on a home agent in a mobile IP environment and a mobile IP network system using the same are provided. The method of registering a mobile node on a home agent in a mobile IP environment includes: collecting care-of-addresses of foreign agents of...

20060187905 - Communication method, communication system, and bridge device: A communication system according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a wireless host performing a master operation; a wired/wireless bridge device communicating with the wireless host via a radio link; and a plurality of devices connected with the wired/wireless bridge device via a wired link and performing a...

20060187901 - Concurrent dual-state proxy server, method of providing a proxy and sip network employing the same: The present invention provides a concurrent dual-state proxy server for use with a session initiation protocol (SIP) network. In one embodiment, the concurrent dual-state proxy server includes a request receiver configured to receive a SIP request. Additionally, the concurrent dual-state proxy server also includes a state-determination controller coupled to the...

20060187906 - Controlling service failover in clustered storage apparatus networks: A controller for use at a node of a clustered computer apparatus comprises an exception detection component for detecting an exception raised by a service component at the node; a quiesce component responsive to the exception detection component for quiescing lease-governed activity by the service component prior to termination of...

20060187902 - Method and apparatus for session initiation protocol application design, development, execution and integration: A method, apparatus, and computer instructions are provided for a session initiation protocol application design, development, execution, and integration. A framework with a framework controller, an application data object, transition handlers, precondition handlers and post condition handlers is provided. When a message is received in a SIP application, the framework...

20060187900 - Method and system for providing private virtual secure voice over internet protocol communications: A method and system for secure Voice over Internet Protocol (IP) (VoIP) communications. The method and system provide secure VoIP voice calls, video, Instant Messaging (IM), Short Message Services (SMS), or Peer-to-Peer (P2P) communications while maintaining privacy over the Internet and other communications networks such as the pubic switched telephone...

20060187899 - System of providing communication service via client representatives and the method of the same: In order to provide communication service across various networks, the method for providing communication service via the client representatives is disclosed. First, the communication service request from a first terminal would be received by a management system through Internet. By accessing the database, the management system then obtains the link...

20060187903 - Video traffic in a communications system: A communications system for conveying traffic of first and second types comprising: a first network entity being arranged to receive a request from a calling party to establish a communication channel for traffic to a called party identified in the request, the first network entity having means for determining a...

20060187904 - Voip gateway apparatus: In order to make an IP telephone service available simply by connecting a PBX, for example, connected to a PSTN interface to IP telephone network without changing the numbering plan of the PBX if a call arrives at a line IF portion 101, an SIP processing portion 104 refers to...

20060187898 - Voip terminal capable of having conversation through both internet and pstn: A VoIP terminal, which supports to make a phone call through both PSTN and Internet is disclosed. A local subscriber may choose to have a conversation through PSTN or Internet on his own. Besides, by reference to a switch such as a relay, the VoIP terminal is able to establish...

20060187907 - Apparatus and method for switching data packets: A method and apparatus (1) is disclosed for switching data packets. A data packet is received from an input interface device (7) at one of a plurality of initial input ports (6). The data packet is divided into plural smaller data fragments. Each data fragment is passed to a respective...

20060187908 - Network system and its switches: A copy management switch is placed in a network that connects a storage device with a computer. This copy management switch is connected to the computer, a first storage device, and a second storage device over the network. The copy management switch copies beforehand data stored in the first storage...

20060187911 - Communication bonding systems and methods: Systems and methods are disclosed herein to provide IP bonding. For example, in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, an IP bonding scheme is disclosed that modifies Generic Routing Encapsulation techniques such that information may be divided and carried through multiple paths (e.g., to improve capacity)....

20060187926 - Communications session switching method and system: A first communications terminal (1) includes a step of detecting a session switching factor and extracting configuration information on a switching target session and a step of transmitting a message including the session configuration information and session switching factor to a session management server. A session management server (4) includes...

20060187913 - Conduit port for network chips: Network devices and methods are provided for device monitoring. One embodiment includes a network device having a processor, a high speed interconnect and a number of network chips. The number of network chips are coupled to one another through the high speed interconnect. The number of network chips have a...

20060187923 - Dynamic filter processor key generation based on packet type: A network device for processing data on a data network includes a port interface, in communication with a plurality of ports, configured to receive a data packet from a data network and to send a processed data packet to an egress port of the plurality of ports and a packet...

20060187920 - Flexible packet modification engine: A packet modification engine includes receiving means for receiving data packets, packet modification means for modifying the received data packets to produce the processed data packets and sending means for sending the processed data packets. The packet modification means is configured to modify the data packets on a cell basis,...

20060187924 - Ingress handling of data in a network device: A network device for processing data on a data network includes a port interface, in communication with a plurality of ports, configured to receive a data packet from a data network and assign an ingress interface number to the data packet and a packet evaluation module, in communication with the...

20060187912 - Method and apparatus for server-side nat detection: A method and system for a server side detection of a Network Address Translation (NAT) device is provided. During the server-side NAT determination process, the client device is not required to have knowledge of the type of NAT device that the client device is behind. The server side NAT determination...

20060187915 - Method and apparatus for updating a wireless telephone: A telecommunications system including a telephony device having telephony network and packet network connectivity and storing telephony device user data; a first personal computer having packet network connectivity and storing first user data; a second personal computer having packet network connectivity and storing second user data. The telephony device is...

20060187914 - Method and device for managing heterogeneous communication networks: A communication system includes in-band networks, out-of-band (OOB) networks, and translating nodes. In-band data is communicated in the in-band networks in a shared channel and routed based on a destination address specified by in-band control information that is also communicated in the same shared channel as the data. OOB data...

20060187910 - Method and device for provision and efficient utilization of resources for generating and outputting information in packet-oriented networks: According to the invention, an information output, e.g. a voice output, video information output, or a simultaneous output of video and audio information, which is to be transmitted via a packet-oriented network, is generation by means of pre-coded information output components. Said pre-coded information output components are present in a...

20060187925 - Method for performing data transport over a serial bus using internet protocol and apparatus for use in the method: Real time streaming over serial buses busing Internet protocol IP is becoming more and more important. With new bus technologies e.g. 10 Gbit Ethernet even streaming in HD cinematography quality and uncompressed form becomes possible. In this case, however, data access management by software means is critical or simply not...

20060187916 - Methods and apparatus based on message transmission times: A data communication device (e.g., a router) originates a network configuration message in response to a network topology change or so as to refresh a configuration message. The data communication device encodes a timestamp in the network configuration message. The timestamp indicates a time of originating the network configuration message....

20060187922 - Packet communication device: To provide a packet communication device to which a function can be added by a functional module and that realizes high throughput and low apparatus cost. According to this invention, there is provided a packet communication device that receives a packet and transfers the packet received in a network, the...

20060187918 - Powerful and expandable pipeline architecture for a network device: A network device for processing data on a data network including a plurality of ports, configured to receive data packets and to send out processed data packets, a modification engine configured to parse, evaluate and modify the data packets to produce the processed data packets and a series of search...

20060187917 - Pre-learning of values with later activation in a network device: A network device for processing data on a data network includes a port interface, in communication with a plurality of ports, configured to receive a data packet from a data network and to send a processed data packet to the data network and a memory access unit, in communication with...

20060187909 - System and method for passing data frames in a wireless network: A method is provided for receiving a data frame in an ultrawide bandwidth network. In this method, a device receives an ultrawide bandwidth signal containing a data frame. The device then performs an acquisition operation during a first preamble in the data frame, and identifies a marker after the first...

20060187927 - System and method for providing rapid rerouting of real-time multi-media flows: A system and method for providing rapid rerouting of real-time transport protocol (RTP) multi-media flows is disclosed. Generally, a first endpoint is connected to a second endpoint, wherein the first endpoint comprises a transceiver, software stored within the first endpoint defining functions to be performed by the first endpoint, and...

20060187919 - Two stage parser for a network: A network device for processing data on a data network, the network device includes a port interface, in communication with a plurality of ports, configured to receive data packets from a data network and to send processed data packets to the data network, a memory management unit, in communication with...

20060187921 - Wireless communication system, data transmitter and wireless communication method: A wireless communication system includes a data transmitter, having an image pickup device, and a plurality of data receivers, for performing interactive wireless data communications between the data transmitter and each of the data receivers. The data transmitter includes a display for displaying an image of a data receiver photographed...

20060187928 - Automated configuration of point-to-point load balancing between teamed network resources of peer devices: A plurality of peer network devices are configured to load-balance data transmitted between them on a point-by-point basis. Each peer device has a team of network resources coupling it to a local area network. A peer device transmitting data to one of the other peer devices load-balances the data over...

20060187929 - Channel information detector, a method of detecting channel information and a communications node incorporating the detector or method: A channel information detector, a method of detecting channel information and a communications node. In one embodiment, the channel information detector includes (1) an information retriever configured to extract data unit parameters from a plurality of data units progressing through a protocol stack and (2) an information analyzer, coupled to...

20060187931 - Communication system and method for providing information on interface connecting network components: A communication system for providing information on an interface connecting network components comprises: a plurality of user agents for collecting the interface information on the respective network components which form the communication system; a terminal for outputting the interface information on the respective network components in response to a user's...

20060187930 - Dynamic table sharing of memory space within a network device: A network device for processing data on a data network includes a port interface configured to receive a data packet from a data network and to send a processed data packet to an egress port of the plurality of ports, a packet evaluation module configured to parse the received data...

20060187932 - Method and system for transmitting telegrams: The invention relates to a system and a method for transmitting telegrams. The system has at least one first communication means provided for sending telegrams and at least one second communication means provided for receiving telegrams, with a telegram having a check value that can be determined from a useful...

20060187933 - Method for terminating attach procedure in mobile terminal: A function by which an unnecessary General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) attach procedure is no longer performed when a service cancellation situation is generated during execution of a GPRS attach procedure according to a data service requested by a user is implemented. To do this, a system is configured to...

20060187936 - Table searching techniques in a network device: A network device for processing data on a data network including a port interface configured to receive a data packet from a data network and to send a processed data packet to an egress port of the plurality of ports, a packet evaluation module configured to parse the received data...

20060187934 - Method and apparatus for monitoring and improving performance of a queuing scheduler: A method and apparatus is provided to monitor and improve the performance of a queuing scheduler, such as one that utilizes a WFQ calendar, by adjusting the structure of the WFQ calendar, preferably automatically. Such apparatus may be implemented using a real time calendar-monitoring (RTCM) engine. A RTCM engine preferably...

20060187937 - Techniques for oversubscribing edge nodes for virtual private networks: Techniques for operating a network interface include automatically determining whether communications are terminated over a particular attachment circuit on a network interface on an intermediate network node at an edge of a provider network, whereby a sign of death (SOD) on the particular attachment circuit is indicated. The attachment circuit...

20060187938 - Dsl terminal-exchange device connecting system and method: A DSL 5 is connected between an exchange device 3 and an IAD1 to which DSL subscriber terminals 2-1 through 2-n are connected, and the exchange device 3 is equipped with a VMG 4 for terminating an ATM cell multiplexed over the DSL 5, a voice packet transmitted as multiplexed...

20060187935 - Bookkeeping memory use in a search engine of a network device: A network device for processing data on a data network includes a port interface, in communication with a plurality of ports, configured to receive data packets from a data network and to send processed data packets to the data network and a bookkeeping memory, in communication with the port interface....

20060187939 - Data processing system, method and interconnect fabric supporting concurrent operations of varying broadcast scope: A data processing system includes a first processing node and a second processing node coupled by an interconnect fabric. The first processing node includes a plurality of first processing units coupled to each other for communication, and the second processing node includes a plurality of second processing units coupled to...

20060187940 - Method and apparatus to facilitate variable-rate call management operations: A network element (20), such as a PDSN or home agent, upon determining (11) a need to effect a call management operation, then determines (12) whether to constrain the facilitation of that call management operation. When determining that the call management operation should be constrained, the network element can facilitate...

20060187941 - Self-correcting memory system: A network device for correcting corrupted memory locations. The network device includes a plurality of free pointers, each of which points to a free memory location. The network device also includes a plurality of cell locations for storing information, each of the plurality of cell locations comprising a field for...

20060187943 - Handoff system and method between different kinds of devices, sip server and operational method of sip server: A handoff system and method between different kinds of devices, an SIP server and an application method of the SIP server applied thereto. The handoff system between different kinds of devices includes a plurality of devices; a SIP server which requests a routing path update when a handoff request signal...

20060187942 - Packet forwarding apparatus and communication bandwidth control method: In a network for forwarding user packets by a tunneling protocol, an egress edge node to which tunnels concentrate from a plurality of ingress edge nodes allocates a bandwidth to each of sessions multiplexed through each of the tunnels and notifies each of the ingress edge nodes of the allocated...

20060187944 - Communication device, data transferring system and electronic apparatus: A data transferring system in which detecting a route from an upper position to a lower position on a tree structure is realized by hardware of communication devices and processes for detecting the above are simplified is disclosed. A root complex broadcasts a search message to a lower node on...

20060187947 - Flexible packet modification engine for a network device: A network device for processing data on a data network includes a port interface, in communication with a plurality of ports, configured to receive data packets from a data network and to send processed data packets to the data network, a memory management unit, in communication with and controlling memory,...

20060187948 - Layer two and layer three virtual private network support in a network device: A network device for processing data on a data network including a port interface configured to receive a data packet from a data network and to send a processed data packet to an egress port of the plurality of ports, a memory management unit controlling a memory and a search...

20060187946 - Layout architecture for expandable network device: According to one embodiment of the invention, a network device for processing data on a data network, includes a plurality of ports, where at least one higher speed port of the plurality of ports is configured to send and receive data between inter-networked devices, a memory management unit, in communication...

20060187949 - Queuing and scheduling architecture for a unified access device supporting wired and wireless clients: Systems and methods applicable to a unified wired/wireless network device are proposed to address quality of service issues and roaming support for wired and wireless clients in a unified wired/wireless network. The proposed solution can include a hierarchical scheduler and shaper mechanism that is able to flexibly support different quality...

20060187945 - Weighted-fair-queuing relative bandwidth sharing: A network device for scheduling packets in a plurality of queues. The network device includes a plurality of configurable mechanisms, each of which is configured to process information in one of a plurality of queues based on a predefined bandwidth. A scheduler services an associated one of the plurality of...

20060187950 - Architecture and provisioning tools for managed multicast virtual private lan trees: Methods, tools, and a multicast connectivity architecture are provided for provisioning bundled high bandwidth multi-channel multimedia broadcast services over a packet switched communications network. Multicast group membership join/prune requests generated by the destination network nodes are processed on edge. Multicast tree connectivity in the core of the communications network is...

20060187951 - Apparatus and method of controlling transmission of response frame: Briefly, a method and apparatus to able to set a back-off slot time value and a contention window back-off slots number of a channel access mechanism to control transmissions of two or more response frames from two or more Responders in respond to receiving a data unit of an aggregated...

20060187952 - Methods and systems for providing priority access to 802.11 endpoints using dcf protocol: A method for providing priority access to 802.11 endpoints. The method includes the steps of sending a Clear To Send (CTS) frame from a designated station, without requiring a Request to Send (RTS) frame from a first station. The CTS frame includes a field identifying the first station for commencing...

20060187953 - Switching device of networks-on-chip system and scheduling method thereof: A switching device of NoC (Networks on Chip) system and a scheduling method thereof. The switching device has a switching part having a plurality of input ports and a plurality of output ports, and a scheduler for setting a transmission route between the input ports and the output ports, determining...

20060187954 - Expandable modular residential gateway: A modular expandable gateway has at least one base module, including a broad-band data communication device for handling communications with an external broad band data communication network, at least one local network port for the connection to a local communication network, a local network interface device adapted to handle communications...

20060187955 - Radio link protocols for multi-link communication systems: Embodiments disclosed herein relate to a new set of radio link protocols (RLPs) configured to provide for efficient data transmission in a multi-link communication system. In an embodiment, an upper-layer packet is segmented into link-layer packets to be transmitted over a plurality of communication links, each including a first sequence...

20060187956 - Apparatus and method for intelligent routing of data between a remote device and a host system: An apparatus and method is provided for transparent communication between a remote or mobile device and a fixed communication host network. The apparatus and method may include a remote network controller that logically resides between the host network and the existing infrastructure(s) that are used to provide communications network contact...

20060187957 - Communications switching architecture: Presently described is a system and method for switching multimedia data communications, including but not limited to Voice over IP (VoIP) telephony, cable TV, digital audio and video. The system utilizes a single, integrated device to provide all PacketCable-compliant functionality, including enhanced user privacy, compliance with CALEA, E911 and other...

20060187958 - Data processing system, method and interconnect fabric having a flow governor: A data processing system includes a plurality of local hubs each coupled to a remote hub by a respective one a plurality of point-to-point communication links. Each of the plurality of local hubs queues requests for access to memory blocks for transmission on a respective one of the point-to-point communication...

20060187959 - Information converting apparatus: A content delivery method for exporting content from a server to a terminal includes acquiring information on right management capability supported by the terminal, the information being reported from by terminal. The content that is appropriate to the terminal is selected based on the acquired information, and the selected content...

20060187960 - Network interface and computing system including the same: Disclosed is a network interface which enables a storage device to be connected to multiple networks of different specifications. A storage device is connected to a network through which communications are done in accordance with one or more communication protocols, and contains a network interface. This network interface includes a...

20060187961 - Radio integrated circuit and radio communication method: A PHY-equipped radio LSI and a radio communication method capable of transmitting data without fail while maintaining a beacon interval. Using a selector which is switched by a beacon transmission signal output from a beacon register, a data transmission request signal is switched for transmitting data from a RAM to...

20060187965 - Creating an ip checksum in a pipeline architecture with packet modification: A network device for processing data on a data network includes a port interface, connected to a plurality of ports configured to receive a data packet from a data network and to send a processed data packet to the data network and a parser, in communication with the port interface,...

20060187964 - Method and apparatus to perform network medium reservation in a wireless network: Techniques and structures are provided to support a short-NAV type wireless medium reservation scheme in a network that utilizes adaptive modulation techniques....

20060187963 - Method for sharing single data buffer by several packets: Methods, computer readable programs and network processor systems appropriate for IP fragmentation and reassembly on network processors comprising a plurality of buffers and buffer control blocks, the buffer control blocks comprising a buffer usage field, the buffer usage field having a value set responsive to a quantity of frame data...

20060187962 - System and method of sending video and audio data over a network: A system and method of sending video and audio data over a network. At least some of the illustrative embodiments may be a method comprising writing at least a portion of encoded video data and accompanying encoded audio data to a first buffer (the first buffer accumulating payload of a...

20060187967 - Device and mechanism to manage consistent delay across multiple participants in a multimedia experience: A system and method provide for managing presentation delay for presenting media or control information to participants in a multimedia experience. Embodiments provide for determining whether a presentation timing for presenting information to the participants is calculated to correspond with a predetermined presentation timing relationship, and if the presentation timing...

20060187966 - Distributed multiple-channel alignment scheme: A channel-alignment circuit has a controller and a plurality of channel-alignment blocks. Each channel-alignment block synchronizes two or more channels. The controller coordinates the synchronization of channels by the blocks such that (i) channels in each of one or more groups of two or more blocks are synchronized, and (ii)...

20060187968 - Method for data communication: In order to enable high speed, high bandwidth data transfer between two ASIC devices, for example in a backplane, a wide parallel input data word is divided into a smaller number of words, and each smaller word is converted to serial form and then transmitted over a respective sub-link at...

20060187970 - Method and apparatus for handling network jitter in a voice-over ip communications network using a virtual jitter buffer and time scale modification: A method and apparatus for handling network jitter in a Voice-over IP communications network using a virtual jitter buffer and time scale modification. A sequence of voice packets is received, where the sequence of voice packets may comprise a talk spurt, and the packets are stored in a jitter buffer...

20060187969 - Serial communication device, method thereof and communication system using the same: A compact serial communication device is disclosed that is formed from simplified circuits on a master side and a slave side and does not need a synchronous signal and a switching unit for switching transmission and reception operations, and is able to reduce load of the slave side. The master...

20060187972 - Core network system and optical transmission equipment: Disclosed is a core network system which performs bi-directional optical transmission, including: a first transmission path for transmitting an optical signal, which is wavelength division-multiplexed, toward subscriber terminals from the core network; and a second transmission path for transmitting an optical signal, which is wavelength division-multiplexed, from the subscriber terminals...

20060187971 - Method and apparatus for concurrently transmitting a digital control signal and an analog signal from a sending circuit to a receiving circuit: An apparatus and method for simultaneously transmitting a digital control signal and an analog signal from a sending circuit to a receiving circuit are described. An analog signal (e.g., a differential data signal) is received. A digital signal (e.g., a digital logic signal) is also received. The digital signal is...

20060182014 - Apparatus for and method of characterization of ethernet cable impairments: A novel mechanism for performing Ethernet noise source characterization including monitoring and analyzing several Ethernet impairments, including Ethernet 1000Base-T impairments. Time domain and frequency domain analysis techniques are used to characterize cable performance, supportable transmission rate and to determine whether cable performance and specification requirements are being met. Various noise...

20060182015 - Ofdm signal receiving apparatus and method for estimating common phase error of ofdm signals using data subcarriers: An Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) signal receiving apparatus and method of estimating a common phase error (CPE) using data subcarriers (and pilot subcarriers) instead of only pilot subcarriers. In the OFDM signal receiver, a channel measurement unit estimates a channel from a fast-Fourier-transformed signal to generate information about good...

20060182016 - Data transmission over a network having initially undetermined transmission capacity: Data to be transmitted over a network comprise a first part (perhaps audio) which is always to be transmitted and alternative second parts (perhaps video coded at different compression rates) of which one is to be chosen for transmission, depending on the current network capacity. In order to accommodate systems...

20060182017 - Method and system for compromise greenfield preambles for 802.11n: Aspects of the invention described herein may enable a greenfield access mode in IEEE 802.11n WLAN systems in comparison to an alternative approach that may not provide greenfield access. The utilization of greenfield access may reduce the portion of time required to transmit data due to overhead comprising preamble fields...

20060182018 - Multiple access hierarchical cellular network and multiple access mobile communication terminal: Disclosed herein are a multiple access hierarchical cellular network and a multiple access mobile communication terminal using the multiple access hierarchical cellular network. The multiple access hierarchical cellular network includes a macrocell that is served by Frequency Hopping-Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (FH-OFDMA), and microcells that are served by Orthogonal...

20060182019 - Recovery of state information of a first tunnel end-point: A method for recovering state information of a first tunnel endpoint of a point to point connection between the first tunnel endpoint and a second tunnel endpoint, the state information comprising a first state variable comprising a sequence number for sent messages and a second state variable comprising a sequence...

20060182020 - Point-in-time data replication method apparatus and system: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for replicating point-in-time copies of local data to a remote site. The present invention mirrors point-in-time copy directives on the local data store to initiate a point-in-time copy operation on the remote copy of the local data, thereby efficiently providing remote access to...

20060182026 - Adaptive coding and modulation: The present invention provides a unique feedback system in a wireless communication system wherein the transmission channel is always overloaded with data, which is configured and modulated at a select order of modulation. Based on the channel conditions, only a portion of the data can be successfully received. As such,...

20060182024 - Bandwidth allocation for voip traffic in network having interface between frame relay and atm: A frame relay data rate RFR for a VoIP call is determined based on a particular packetization time interval TS and its associated sample data size BS for a particular CODEC, a size BHT of at least one of a frame relay header and a frame relay trailer, and a...

20060182023 - Methods and devices for iteratively determining mobile device-to-access point associations to achieve load balancing: Mobile devices may be associated with access points other than their current access point based on load-balancing objectives of a wireless, local area network during an iterative time period....

20060182021 - Output power control in multislot uplinks: In a TDMA communication system, mobile stations (6a, 6b) are given slot allocations and output power levels by base stations. This can lead to situations where the combination of slot allocation size and output power level demanded exceeds the capability of the mobile station (6a, 6b). To solve this problem,...

20060182025 - Transmission control protocol (tcp) congestion control using multiple tcp acknowledgments (acks): A method of Transport Control Protocol (TCP) congestion control using multiple TCP AKCs in an integrated network including wireless links, the method including: receiving a packet retransmitted from a correspondent upon a mobile node having a packet loss in a received packet; calculating the number of acknowledgment messages to be...

20060182022 - Virtually centralized uplink scheduling: A method of scheduling uplink transmissions from a plurality of source user equipments to a base station is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of determining the amount of data in the data buffer of each of the user equipments, comparing the amount of data in the data buffers of...

20060182029 - Arrangement for managing voice over ip (voip) telephone calls, especially unsolicited or unwanted calls: Trust ratings are embedded in certificates of calling devices in a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) communications system. A method of managing trust ratings involves automatically accumulating complaints concerning VoIP calls initiated from calling devices, and comparing respective quantities of accumulated complaints associated with each calling device. When a quantity...

20060182030 - Method and apparatus for transmitting data in a packet data communication: A wireless communication system transmits data over a first link from a first mobile station (MS) to an infrastructure at a first speaker link power level, and over a second link from the infrastructure to a second MS at a first listener link power level, during a first time period....

20060182027 - Method and server for controlling data flows in telecommunications network: The invention relates to a method for controlling data traffic in a telecommunications network (150), said control being carried out in terms of a statistic modeling of the traffic transmitted by the network (150) by means of a gaussian distribution of the data flow. According to the invention, one such...

20060182028 - Web services transport bootstrapping: A system and methods to facilitate provision of network-based services is provided. The system comprises a signaling module that uses a first communication protocol to send a trigger signal to a potential recipient of a network-based service. The trigger signal indicates to the potential recipient that the network-based service is...

20060182031 - Techniques to provide recovery receive queues for flooded queues: In a receive-side scaling compatible environment, techniques to provide at least one recovery receive queue for any receive queue that is full or transferring traffic at too slow a rate....

20060182032 - Method and apparatus for providing a control frame duration correlated to data frame duration: Methods and apparatus for transmitting a signal having a first frame duration being correlated to a second frame duration are described herein....

20060182033 - Fast multicast path switching: An improved method is provided for switching paths at a network routing device residing in a multicast distribution environment. The method includes: maintaining a plurality of predetermined path sets in a data store associated with the network routing device, where each path set corresponds to a given network condition and...

20060182035 - Technique for efficient load balancing of te-lsps: A technique efficiently load balances traffic engineering (TE) label switched paths (LSPs) from a head-end node to a tail-end node of a computer network. The novel load balancing technique identifies (e.g., at the head-end node or a path computation element, PCE) a set of paths with equal costs from the...

20060182034 - Topology aware route control: The present invention uses proxy points for measuring different routes to a destination address space. Multiple paths to the desired destination address space are identified. Each path begins at a source and terminates at the destination address space. Proxy points are identified for each path and are associated with a...

20060182036 - Fault detection device: A fault detection device capable of detecting network faults by itself with high accuracy in multi-vendor environments, without the need to interoperate with an associated device according to an identical protocol. A monitoring control packet transmitter generates a fault monitoring control packet and transmits the generated packet to the associated...

20060182038 - Adaptive timing of update messages transmitted by routers employing the border gateway protocol: A method for border nodes using the Border Gateway Protocol to advertise path updates to peer nodes in other domains involves calculating the update interval for each advertisement of an update of the same path to the same peer and advertising the update when the interval has expired. The update...

20060182040 - Device and method for diagnosis in multi-channel-can-applications: A CAN-network comprises several CAN-systems each having a CAN-bus and a CAN-interface which are connected to host-CPU by the CAN-bus. At least one CAN-interface is a selector interface which allows selective access to CAN-busses of other CAN-systems. Thereby it is possible to monitor data exchange on a bus by operating...

20060182039 - High-accuracy packet pair for network bottleneck bandwidth measurement: A novel packet filtering and processing mechanism solves bandwidth estimation problems related to cross-traffic, host limitations, and fabric-specific issues in order to accurately estimate bottleneck bandwidth in fluctuating environments such as home networks. In particular, the process controls the number of packet train experiments, the size of trains and packets...

20060182037 - System and method to provision mpls/vpn network: The disclosed method and system provides a new service provision interface that allows operator use without requiring many of the specific technical network details, such as VRF, RT, SOO, route redistribution, etc. Further, the translation from a customer's requirements (including both VPN topology membership requirement and L2, L3 requirement from...

20060182043 - Data transmission in a communication system: A method of configuring a transmitter to transmit information comprises determining a piconet in which the transmitter operates, determining a transmission scheme according to the piconet, and transmitting data according to the transmission scheme. The transmission scheme includes frequency information. A transmission system comprises a transmitter configured to transmit data,...

20060182042 - Managed device, management system, method for controlling a managed device and medium: A managed device obtains an individual certificate with an ID of the managed device when the managed device is in a direct-managed state and determines that the certificate set as the certifying information for communicating with a managing device is a common certificate without an ID of the managed device....

20060182041 - Method and apparatus for automatic verification of a zone configuration of a plurality of network switches: Embodiments of the invention provide a method and an apparatus for automatic verification of a zone configuration of a plurality of network switches. In one method embodiment, the present invention accesses an actual zone configuration comprising a plurality of network switching devices, the actual zone configuration for defining the switching...

20060182044 - Method of managing interruptions in an ethernet ring: A method of dealing with interruptions in a data network with a ring structure, for example an Ethernet ring, in which requisition packets are transmitted by network nodes. adjacent an interrupted ring conductor to transfer the interruption manager function from a previous node to one of the two nodes adjoining...

20060182045 - Group interaction modes for mobile devices: The present invention provides a method and system for automatically providing group interaction modes in a local area network (LAN) for attendees of an event having mobile devices capable of communicating with the local area network. One aspect of the present invention includes providing a shared data pool on the...

20060182047 - It terminal and audio equipment identification method therefor: Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for identifying audio equipment plugs to be connected to a jack interface of an IT terminal including a common jack interface for a headphone, an earphone microphone and a stereo microphone and for automatically providing appropriate setup. An audio CODEC 50 is connected...

20060182046 - Parallel partition-wise aggregation: Techniques are provided for performing a parallel aggregation operation on data that resides in a container, such as a relational table. During generation of the execution plan for the operation, it is determined whether partition-wise aggregation should be performed, based on the grouping keys involved in the aggregation and the...

20060182048 - Wireless communication terminal with a call particulars output function of a scheduler interface and method therefor: A wireless communication terminal with a call particulars output function using a scheduler interface and method therefor are provided to learn a distribution of call particulars in months more easily and also do a schedule management more easily. The invention includes a wireless transceiver for transmitting and receiving a wireless...

20060182049 - Ip multicasting with improved redundancy: A system and method are provided for providing redundancy in PIM-SM Rendezvous Point selection, without requiring the signaling and overhead of a bootstrap messaging system. Each router stores a prioritized list of eligible Rendezvous Points for each group. When selecting an initial RP for a group, each router selects the...

20060182051 - Method and apparatus for providing point-to-multipoint multimedia service in a mobile communications system: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for providing at least one user equipment (UE) with a point-to-multipoint multimedia service through two or more common physical channels in a mobile communications system. A radio network transmits a point-to-multipoint multimedia service through a plurality of physical channels using multiple...

20060182050 - Storage replication system with data tracking: A storage replication method comprises replicating data from a source among a plurality of destinations and tracking data modifications in the destinations. Identification of the modifications is mutually communicated among multiple destination arrays. In a source failover event, a selected destination is established as a new source, reforming the replicated...

20060182052 - System for providing internet protocol broadcast services and a method thereof: Disclosed is an IP-based broadcast service system capable of reducing the channel zapping or changing time and the waste of bandwidths during frequent channel changes such as channel surfing. A broadcast server for providing broadcast services generates both high-quality broadcast data and low-quality broadcast data of each TV channel. The...

20060182053 - Method and apparatus for transmitting terrestrial digital signal: An apparatus for transmitting terrestrial digital data using a synchronous-optical-network system or a synchronous-digital-hierarchy system includes a synchronous-difference calculating unit that calculates a synchronous difference between a standard signal used in the synchronous-optical-network system or the synchronous-digital-hierarchy system and a first synchronous signal that synchronizes with a leading position included...

20060182056 - Device and method for adaptively controlling turn-on time of transceiver: A device and method for adaptively controlling a turn-on time of a transceiver so that power consumption is reduced. The device includes a transceiver for receiving a beacon frame broadcasted by a coordinator which coordinates devices, and a controller for determining whether a period of the beacon frame is changed...

20060182055 - Location aware wireless data gateway: A wireless gateway is provided that connects mobile and remote assets or employees to business enterprise users through multiple wireless networks and the Internet by using web served applications. The central core of the gateway is a location aware business component that sends and receives location based information to and...

20060182054 - System and method for registration and packet data reconnect: Methods, mobile stations and networks are provided that cause a packet data service reconnect to be performed automatically after the occurrence of an event triggering registration, even in some circumstances where such a data service reconnect would not normally occur. This avoids complications that can arise due to the packet...

20060182058 - Method and apparatus for dispersing user equipments to non-preferred frequencies in a multimedia broadcast/multicast service system: A method and apparatus for dispersing user equipments (UEs) to non-preferred frequencies in a multimedia broadcast/multicast service (MEMS) system is provided. Information regarding a time required until a next session of the MBMS service is started is received. A determination is made as to whether to set a layer dispersion...

20060182057 - Receive window updates in communication systems: Keeping track of potential receive window positions in a communication system can prevent the receive window from moving from the proper potential positions, thereby reducing the probability of incorrect positions of the receive window. For example, a receive window can be updated by comparing the block number of a received...

20060182059 - Transport bearer setting control system and method in a mobile communication system, and radio access network for this system: Transport bearers are set in advance before the occurrence of call setting and information necessary for specifying transport bearers is stored in each of the transport bearer management units of a Node B and an RNC. When setting a call, the use of transport bearers that have been set in...

20060182061 - Interworking between wireless wan and other networks: The present invention relates to method, system and access controller device (50) for providing interworking between a wireless wide area network (WiMAX), and a other network, wherein an access control functionality is provided so as to access an authentication server (64) of the other network, and data of the wide...

20060182060 - Method for data transmission manage in ue switch process: The invention provides a method for managing data transmission performed in a radio network controller during UE handover procedure. The method is performed in a RNC having a distributed architecture, and comprises the following steps: acquiring a handover request transmitted by UE from a first ATM interface board, by one...

20060182062 - Method for inter-frequency handover: A method of inter-frequency handover for when a user terminal moves from a first cell to a second cell. Each of the cells comprises an access point to a radio network, and the measurements for the handover are performed by the access point of the first cell....

20060182063 - Soft handoff for ofdm: The present invention relates to soft handoffs in an OFDM system. Each mobile terminal measures pilot signal strengths of transmissions from adjacent base stations. If the pilot signal strength for a base station exceeds the defined threshold, that base station is added to an active set list. Each mobile terminal...

20060182064 - Interference counter-measures for wireless lans: In a wireless network an access point and/or wireless end device is operable in response to interference from another device to capture a sample of the interference, determine whether the interference originates from a known type of device, and prompt remedial actions based on whether the interference originates from a...

20060182065 - Support of guaranteed bit-rate traffic for uplink transmissions: The invention relates to a method for providing measurements on a bit-rate provided to scheduled data having a guaranteed bit-rate and being transmitted on at least one dedicated uplink data channel by at least user equipment via a C-RNC. Further, the invention also relates to a method for initiating congestion...

20060182067 - Communication resource control enhancing time-based frequency reuse: A method performs communication resource control in at least one cell of a cellular communication network. The cell includes a base station communicating using at least one frequency and the cell is operated according to a time-based frequency reuse technique. A communication between a terminal and the base station is...

20060182070 - Data detection method and receiver: A method of recovering data for use in a receiver that simultaneously receives a plurality of code division multiple access data signals, each data signal experiencing a similar channel response. A combined signal over the shared spectrum in a time slot is received and sampled. The combined signal comprises the...

20060182068 - Establishing parameters for transmissions in wireless communications network: In a wireless network comprising at least a first and a second wireless communication devices, a method is provided for determining at least one characteristic for communication between a base station and a subscriber terminal, based on information derived by affecting an exponential effective signal to interference ratio mapping (EESM)...

20060182066 - Receiver and receiving method: A reception apparatus and reception method for converting symbol data to a reception bit string efficiently with a small amount of calculation. A despreading section (110) despreads a received signal. A coherent detection section (120) carries out coherent detection of a despread signal obtained by despreading the received signal using...

20060182069 - System, network, mobile terminal, computer program product and method for cross-paging a mobile terminal via a data burst message: Systems and methods are provided to permit a network, such as a data only network (e.g., cdma2000 1X-EVDO), with which a mobile terminal is not currently communicating to notify the mobile terminal that the network desires to establish communication with the mobile terminal, even in instances in which the mobile...

20060182074 - Configurable premises based wireless network and operating protocol: A premises based wireless network includes a plurality of interconnected wireless access points. Each of the plurality of wireless access points provides wireless communications within a corresponding cell of a plurality of cells and is spaced to provide wireless coverage throughout the premises. The size of at least one cell...

20060182071 - Frame synchronization with acknowledgment timeout in wireless networks: A wireless local area network (WLAN) includes a first device and a second device. The first device sends a first frame including a first transmission indicator, which indicates that a service interval is to begin at a certain time. The second device sends an acknowledgement from the second device to...

20060182073 - Method and apparatus for processing packets originating from local and neighboring basic service sets: A method and apparatus for efficiently processing packets from neighboring basic service sets (BSSs) to characterize the traffic within a wireless local area network (WLAN), mesh network, or similar wireless communication system is disclosed. The apparatus may be an access point (AP) in a BSS which includes a measurement period...

20060182076 - Method and system for mesh network embeded devices: A method and system for managing mesh network devices. A mesh network device with integrated features creates an N-way mesh network with a full mesh network topology or a partial mesh network topology....

20060182072 - Network: A communications network comprises two or more cell sites for communication with wireless terminals. At least one of the cell sites has multiple receive antennas. A central site has one or more interface controllers and a switch system through which the controllers are connected to the cell sites. For each...

20060182075 - Network and method for configuring a network: Network, in particular a wireless network according to IEEE standard 802.11 or the like, wherein the network comprises of an arbitrary number of access points and a multitude of preferably mobile client stations is—regarding a functionally reliable organization process of the network, that in particular scales also for larger networks—designed...

20060182077 - Space-time-power scheduling for wireless networks: A technique is disclosed to schedule frame transmissions in a wireless local area network. The network includes a plurality of stations configured to communicate on the same frequency channel with a plurality of access points. A central controller examines the transmission characteristics between the various stations and access points and...

20060182078 - 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...

20060182079 - Wireless lan communication method and apparatus: A wireless local area network (WLAN) communication method and apparatus are provided. The WLAN communication method includes allowing a receiving station to receive a multi input multi output (MIMO) frame, allowing the receiving station to determine whether the MIMO frame is erroneous and whether the MIMO frame is destined for...

20060182080 - Wireless lan communication method and apparatus: A wireless local area network (WLAN) communication method and apparatus are provided. The WLAN communication method includes allowing a receiving station to receive a multi input multi output (MIMO) frame, allowing the receiving station to determine whether the MIMO frame is erroneous and whether the MIMO frame is destined for...

20060182081 - Symbol timing synchronization system for orthogonal frequency division multiplexing systems: The invention relates to a symbol timing synchronization system for orthogonal frequency division multiplexing system. According to the invention, the symbol timing synchronization system utilizes a shift register and a comparing device to determine whether the symbol of the orthogonal frequency division multiplexing system has the inter-symbol interference. When the...

20060182082 - Switching mesh with user-configurable paths: One embodiment disclosed relates to a method of configuring a traffic-associated path through a switching mesh. A source switch receives a request to associate a type of traffic to a specified path. The source switch is located at the beginning of the path. A path tag is allocated to the...

20060182091 - Apparatus and method for forwarding voice packet in a digital communication system: A voice packet forwarding apparatus and method is provided in a digital communication system including a switched vocoder module to directly pass a voice packet received from a packet terminal to a digital communication network or a PCM signal decoded from the voice packet to the digital communication network. The...

20060182096 - Configuration of wireless control systems for broadband wireless communications: A broadband wireless communication system configures a wireless control system that is located in a geographic region with a custom parameter file that is customized for the geographic region. The broadband wireless communication system transfers a control message from the wireless control system to a user system based on the...

20060182088 - Gateway unit: A gateway unit for mutually connecting subscriber network, public switched telephone network (PSTN) and packet communication network, comprising subscriber network interface connected to subscriber network, PSTN interface connected to line exchange network, exchange unit exchange-connecting communication path among subscriber network, PSTN and packet communication network, control unit controlling connecting state...

20060182092 - Ip telecommunication system, method for controlling communication in ip network, client terminal and client server: To provide a thin client (TC) system at least capable of using a thin client terminal as a telephone terminal in a thin client system. In a personal TC (PTC) system consisting of a PTC server with a server side telephone control section consisting of a call control section, and...

20060182086 - Memory optimization packet loss concealment in a voice over packet network: A method to reduce memory requirements for a packet loss concealment algorithm in the event of packet loss in a receiver of pulse code modulated voice signals. A voice playout unit in the receiver shares its nominal delay buffer with a history buffer of a packet loss concealment algorithm up...

20060182084 - Method and system for placing restrictions on sessions: A method and system for initiating a communications session with a restriction is provided. A communications system allows a user to place a restriction on a session to be conducted with another user. If the other user does not agree to the restriction or if the other user's system does...

20060182083 - Secured virtual private network with mobile nodes: A security gateway connects an external portion of a virtual private network to an internal secured portion of the network. The gateway is arranged to identify automatically when a communication session exists between two mobile workstations both of which are connected in the external portion of the network. The mobile...

20060182087 - Systems and methods for obtaining the metadata for an internet radio station in a bandwidth-efficient manner: A client connects to an Internet radio server to receive a data stream corresponding to an Internet radio station. Metadata is received on the Internet radio station data stream. In some cases some media data is also received on the Internet radio station data stream. Once the metadata is received,...

20060182094 - Telephone communication system over a single telephone line: A gateway device and a network for coupling at least one telephone service signal to at least one telephone device over a wiring. The network includes: a wiring having at least two conductors for carrying multiple time-domain multiplexed digitized voice channels; an exchange side device coupled to the wiring and...

20060182095 - Telephone communication system over a single telephone line: A module and kit for coupling at least one telephone service signal to at least one telephone device over a wiring. The network includes: a wiring having at least two conductors for carrying multiple time-domain multiplexed digitized voice channels; an exchange side device coupled to the wiring and operative to...

20060182090 - Telephone system: A telephone system comprising a plurality of phone devices and a plurality of information terminals for mutually communicating via a communication network, comprising position managing means for managing mutual position relations between the plurality of phone devices and the plurality of information terminals, and correlating means for mutually correlating at...

20060182085 - Voice directed system and method configured for assured messaging to multiple recipients: A communications system transmits messages via a wireless network to multiple users nearly simultaneously in real-time. Each user has a terminal that receives a message and plays the message for the user. The terminal may also wait for the user to verbally acknowledge the arrival of the message before continuing...

20060182089 - Voip gateway apparatus: To allow a call received from an accommodated device to arrive at the other party by diverting the call from an IP network to a detour network even with different numbering systems between communications over the IP network and over the detour network. A VoIP gateway apparatus 1 includes an...

20060182093 - Voip gateway network: A method of connecting a telephone call to a first telephone having a first telephone number that begins with automatically placing the telephone call to a VOIP gateway PABX having a second telephone number. The first telephone number is forwarded to the VOIP gateway PABX and the call is forwarded...

20060182097 - Hybrid type telephony system: A hybrid type telephony system capable of establishing a connection between conventional type telephone sets contained in an exchange unit and LAN type telephone sets contained in an IP network, the system comprising: a gateway circuit connected between the exchange unit and the IP network and performing voice data format...

20060182105 - Apparatus and method for transmitting multi protocol label switching (mpls) multicast packets over ethernet: An apparatus and method for transmitting multi-protocol label switching (MPLS) multicast packets over Ethernet are provided. The apparatus and method determine whether a received packet is an MPLS multicast packet; determine whether an address of the received packet exists in a database storing address information for MPLS multicast packet transmission;...

20060182100 - Automated nat traversal for peer-to-peer networks: The subject invention relates to systems and methods that facilitate direct network communications between peers that operate behind Network Address Translators. In one aspect, a network communications system is provided. The system includes one or more Network Address Translators (NAT) to communicate data across a network between peers. A protocol...

20060182107 - Electrical devices with improved communication: Cameras, radios, televisions, set top boxes, telephones, kitchen appliances, and other electrical devices have their own IP address, and communicate using an internetworking protocol. Of particular interest are those devices that utilize some form of mass storage. Communication of the packets between or among elements can occur using any suitable...

20060182106 - Image input/output control apparatus, image processing apparatus, image processing method, data communication apparatus, and data communication method: An image input/output control apparatus includes a control device for controlling input/output of image data with an external apparatus, plural image processing devices for performing predetermined image processes to the image data, and plural data transfer devices for connecting each of the plural image processing devices and the control device...

20060182102 - Intelligent mpeg media storage, execution, and presentation system using network storage system: A resource manager transforms the MPEG7 descriptors into an active and composite storage, processing, and presentation component in a storage area network (e.g. iSCSI). The active component can enable fast search and retrival operation directly on the logical disk blocks which maps well with the multimedia video stream and images...

20060182104 - Method and apparatus for registering mobile node in a wireless local area network (lan) environment: An apparatus and method for supporting mobility of a mobile terminal in a wireless local area network (LAN) environment deploying mobile IP are provided. The method for registering a mobile node using a virtual mobile node comprises: detecting whether or not a mobile node traveling among a plurality of networks...

20060182101 - Method for distributing transport sessions over multiple network interfaces: The present invention provides a method for distributing transport sessions over multiple network interfaces. The method includes establishing a plurality of network connections using a first plurality of network interfaces and providing a virtual network interface to an application layer, the virtual network interface being configured to provide access to...

20060182108 - Methods and systems using pld-based network communication protocols: Methods and systems for a PLD-based network update transport (PNUT) protocol that utilizes UDP and other protocols for transmitting update or other commands or information over a packet-based or IP network. PNUT is a hardware-based network communication protocol that does not require the full TCP/IP stack and may be utilized...

20060182099 - Processing of signalling messages according to one of a plurality of protocol stacks: According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method of processing a signaling message received from a service application and intended for delivery to a network element having a point code, comprising retrieving, from a data store, an indication of the network type associated with...

20060182098 - System and method for providing differentiated services: The present invention relates to a method and arrangements for updating the mapping of traffic in the form of a set of service level aggregate flows (SLS1, SLSM) to a set of partial resources (B1, BN) for forwarding the traffic in a communications network (21). Each service level aggregate flow...

20060182103 - System and method for routing network messages: A network routing system is provided that may establish a communication session between a local device and a remote destination. To establish a communication session, the local device generates a message directed to the remote destination. A traffic processor intercepts the message and redirects the message to a predefined network...

20060182109 - Optimized multicast distribution within a hybrid pppoe/ipoe broadband access network: An access node (e.g., DSLAM) and method for optimizing the distribution of a multicast stream within a hybrid PPPoE/IPoE broadband assess network are described herein. In the preferred embodiment, the DSLAM snoops upstream IGMP messages encapsulated within PPPoE frames, and forwards them transparently towards a BRAS (located in an Ethernet...

20060182110 - Apparatus, system, and method for fibre channel device addressing: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for fibre channel device addressing. The apparatus includes a mapping module, a receiving module, and an assigning module configured to execute the necessary steps of defining an address assignment map to associate a single logical address with a physical device, receive a request...

20060182111 - Method to establish a peer-to-peer connection between two user agents located behind symmetric nats: A method to establish an Internet connection between a first (1) and a second (2) user agent is described, wherein a NAT-table entry in a controllable NAT (7) located in the Internet (3) is generated, wherein said NAT-table entry comprises public IP-address:Port pairs that are communicated to the user agents...

20060182112 - Switch fabric with memory management unit for improved flow control: A method for controlling a flow of packet data in a memory management unit of a network switch fabric is disclosed. A first portion of a data packet is received at a port on an ingress bus ring of the network switch fabric. A class of service for the data...

20060182113 - Automatic discovery of pseudo-wire peer addresses in ethernet-based networks: Methods provide Pseudo-Wire (PW) peer address discovery in a network environment. More particularly, methods are provided for PW peers to exchange information in order to support PW service over Ethernet-based networks. When a PW peer recognizes that no MAC addresses associated with the far end of the PW are known,...

20060182114 - Routing of health information files: A system of directing or routing millions of electronic files per unit time each of which comprises health information on a patient to specific sites within computers and servers in a network of computers and servers. The basic units for tagging or labeling each file for routing are patient, physician...

20060182115 - System for scheduling scans of interior nodes of a network domain for reachability events: An arrangement for scheduling scans of internal network nodes for reachability events by a border node of a network domain, schedules the scans according to the rate at which reachability notifications are received by the node. As the rate at which notifications are received increases, the interval between scans also...

20060182118 - System and method for efficient traffic processing: Disclosed herein is a method for traffic processing to improve the overall performance of data traffic network. The method comprises receiving a traffic having data width narrower than or equal to a predetermined data width; reformatting the received traffic into bus traffic of said predetermined data width; recognizing a specific...

20060182116 - Home-network and method for allocating channel thereof: A home-network and a method for allocating channels are provided. The home-network includes a buffer having queues and temporarily storing a data to be transmitted to each device, a priority sense part determining if the data of a packet unit transmitted from an outer server has a high priority for...

20060182117 - Resource reservation protocol based guaranteed quality of service internet protocol (ip) connections over a switched network using newly assigned ip addresses: Internet protocol communications are established between an originating host and a destination host through at least one bridge that interfaces with a switched transport network and an internet protocol network. An initiating message is received from the originating host through the internet protocol network via one of the at least...

20060182119 - System and method for realizing the resource distribution in the communication network: The present invention relates to a system for implementing resource allocation in network communication and a method thereof. It effectively solves the end-to-end QOS problem through dividing a communication network into a plurality of QOS domains and managing them. In the present invention, only end-to-end path information is maintained at...

20060182122 - Inter-autonomous-system virtual private network with autodiscovery and connection signaling: A layer-2 virtual-private-network (L2-VPN) service with automatic discovery and connection establishment is provided within a wide-area, multiple-autonomous-system (AS) network according to one of two approaches. In the first approach, inter-AS tunnels are used to connect pairs of provider edge (PE) routers of different ASes, and the PE routers then establish...

20060182120 - Ip to vpls interworking: Systems and methods for using VPLS to provide communications between IP devices connected to a provider service network (PSN) by a non-Ethernet access link and IP devices connected to a PSN by an Ethernet access link are described. In accordance with the systems and methods standard IP devices connected to...

20060182123 - Method for aggregating data traffic over an access domain and nodes therefor: The present invention relates to a method and nodes for aggregating data traffic over an access domain carrying data traffic between a plurality of service providers and user domains. For doing so, an access edge node is introduced in the access domain between the plurality of service providers, and the...

20060182121 - System and method for regulating data traffic in a network: A method and system for regulating the flow of data packets in a data switching network environment is provided. The network comprises at least one virtual local area network (VLAN), at least one provider edge (PE), and a data switching system. The method comprises the steps of configuring flow policy...

20060182124 - Cipher key exchange methodology: Methods are provided relating to the exchange of a cipher key between devices on a network segment to enable encrypted transmissions between the devices. In preferred embodiments the cipher key is a random key which is commonly used by the devices for synchronous encryption/decryption of data....

20060182125 - Converter and communication control method: A converter for connecting its ATM network with other ATM networks through a LAN, which is provided with an address translation table storing external VPIs, internal VPIs uniquely assigned to the LAN, and opposing MAC addresses for opposing converters in correspondence and a processing unit for performing control for transmitting,...

20060182127 - Apparatus and method for processing multiple protocol label switching packet: In an apparatus and method for processing multiple protocol label switching (MPLS) packets in MPLS networks, inclusion of a variety of information in a LABEL field is enabled by performing multiple division encoding of a LABEL field, including label information of the MPLS packets from headers of the MPLS packets....

20060182126 - Hybrid approach in design of networking strategies employing multi-hop and mobile infostation networks: Mobile nodes communicate with each other to transfer packets between a source and a destination using a multi-hop network strategy for communicating packets in the forward direction and using a mobile infostation network strategy, alone or in combination with a multi-hop network strategy, for communicating packets in the reverse direction,...

20060182128 - Data communication system, communication device and communication program thereof: The present invention provides a data communication technology which is capable of securing flexibly a bandwidth for a traffic that is generated and which enables effective use of access lines or wireless resource. A mobile router uses a plurality of communication means, retains a plurality of narrow band communication routes...

20060182133 - Data transmission device: A multiple spanning tree protocol network which does not influence at all MSTI to which VLAN-ID is not added/deleted and does not reconstruct the topology of this MSTI. In the multiple spanning tree protocol network, a plurality of devices are connected via transmission paths, forming a plurality of topologies, and...

20060182129 - Distributed markup and processing apparatus and method: An apparatus for performing XML processing distributed across one or more network entities and a terminal comprised of a mobile device entity. A memory stores a transformed representation of XML information. The network entity and terminal communications are mediated by a proxy tasked with offloading XML processing other operations from...

20060182131 - Gateway interface control: An IP/ISDN/PSTN gateway provides an IP secure telephone with the capability of interfacing to either an ISDN-configured SCIP secure telephone or a PSTN-configured SCIP secure telephone. A translation function is performed between multiple protocols that allows IP secure telephones to communicate with SCIP secure telephones on ISDN and/or PSTN network(s)....

20060182132 - Local switching method using logical link id in ethernet passive optical network system: A local switching method using a logical link ID (LLID) in an Ethernet passive optical network (EPON) system is disclosed. The local switching method includes a first step of an optical network unit (ONU) receiving and separating data inputted through a user port into a wide area network (WAN) traffic...

20060182130 - Method and system for establishing an audio/video communication session across zones: The present disclosure provides methods of establishing communication between endpoints located in different gatekeeper zones. An electronic message comprising (i) an alias for a first endpoint and (ii) an address of a first gatekeeper associated with the first endpoint is delivered from a first computer associated with the first endpoint...

20060182134 - System and method for dissimilar handoffs in a sonet system: A system and method are disclosed for transporting data including a first add drop multiplexer (ADM) configured to receive non Time Division Multiplexing (non-TDM) traffic and to encapsulate the non-TDM traffic as an embedded payload within a SONET synchronous transport signal (STS) frame. A first synchronous optical network (SONET) ring...

20060182135 - System and method for executing loops in a processor: A loop control system comprises at least one loop flag in an instruction word, at least one loop counter associated with the at least one loop flag operable to store and compute a number of times a program loop is to be executed, at least one start address register associated...

20060182136 - Delay variation buffer control technique: A delay variation buffer controller allowing proper cell delay variation control reflecting an actual network operation status is disclosed. A detector detects an empty status of the data buffer when data is read out from the data buffer at intervals of a controllable time period. A counter counts the number...

20060182137 - Fast and memory protected asynchronous message scheme in a multi-process and multi-thread environment: An asynchronous message passing mechanism that allows for multiple messages to be batched for delivery between processes, while allowing for full memory protection during data transfers and a lockless mechanism for speeding up queue operation and queuing and delivering messages simultaneously....

20060182138 - Method and system for reducing delimiters: A method for encoding data documents includes reading at least a portion of a data node from a markup-language document and determining a node type of the data node. The method further includes determining a start delimiter for the data node based on the node type and determining, based on...

20060182139 - Method and system for transforming video streams using a multi-channel flow-bonded traffic stream: 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 service flow may include video and data streams that are provided to the CMTS...

20060182141 - Apparatus and method for autonomic adjustment of connection keep-alives: A server computer system includes a keep-alive autonomic adjustment mechanism that monitors current operating conditions and dynamically adjusts the keep-alive specification to optimize the keep-alives for the current operating conditions. The keep-alive autonomic adjustment mechanism monitors the total number of clients, and the average number of requests per client. The...

20060182142 - Channel interference reduction: A method for data transmission over first and second media that overlaps in frequency includes computing one or more time division multiple access (TDMA) time-slot channels to be shared between the first and second media for data transmission; allocating one or more time-slot channels to the first medium for data...

20060182140 - Method and apparatus to facilitate forwarding of single frame and multi-frame data packets: An apparatus (50), such as a transaction gateway, receives (11) a communication that corresponds to one or more transactions. This communication comprises at least one data packet that may comprise either a single data frame or a plurality of data frames as correspond to such a transaction. When the data...

20060182143 - System and method for filtering communications packets on electronic devices: A system and method for filtering communications packets on electronic devices. The system and method operable to receive a communications packet in a link layer protocol embedded in a data frame in a data frame protocol on the electronic device, to filter based on the first protocol header corresponds to...

20060182144 - Backplane bus: A method of creating a signal encoded with a message for transmission from a line unit to a switch unit in a network element of a communication network includes arranging in the message a plurality of contiguous bytes of traffic and arranging in the message a plurality of contiguous nibbles...

20060182145 - Apparatus and method for transmitting or receiving data through a plurality of wireless links in a wireless network interface: A method and a network device for communicating data through a plurality of wireless links are provided. A network device includes a virtual MAC information packet (VIP) management unit for transmitting or receiving information on the plurality of wireless links; a transmitted frame processing unit for allocating frames to be...

20060182146 - Method and nodes for aggregating data traffic through unicast messages over an access domain using service bindings: The present invention relates to a method and nodes for performing data traffic aggregation over an access domain using service bindings. Upon receipt of a service request related message at an access edge node for a first device of a user domain, the service request related message identifying the first...

20060182148 - Method and apparatus for the synchronization of multiple cable modern termination system devices: A plurality of CMTS devices are linked together and synchronized to facilitate communication between the respective CMTS devices and respective downstream cable modems. According to one embodiment of the invention, one of the CMTS devices is designated as a master device, and the other CMTS devices are designated as slave...

20060182147 - Method of time and frequency synchronization of multimode terminal: A method of time-synchronizing at least two radio access modules of a multi mode communication terminal capable to function according to at least two distinct radio access techniques in a cellular telecommunication network in which one of the radio access modules is active in the current cell and the other...

20060182149 - Method and system for mobile multimedia processor supporting rate adaptation and mode selection: Aspects for a method and system for a mobile multimedia processor supporting rate adaptation and mode selection are provided. A method for a mobile multimedia processor supporting rate adaptation and mode selection may comprise latching a received address signal at a received clock rate via a received write enable signal....

20060182150 - Method and system for deglitching in a mobile multimedia processor: In a multimedia system, a method and system for deglitching in a mobile multimedia processor are provided. A deglitching operation may be provided to reduce noise and compensate for strobe signal delays that may result in false bus cycles and other operating errors. A circuit comprising a plurality of delay...

20060182151 - Method and system for input/output pads in a mobile multimedia processor: In a multimedia system, a method and system for input/output pads in a mobile multimedia processor are provided. Input, output, and/or bidirectional pads in a host bus interface and/or a slave bus interface may be configured to provide bypass capabilities when a mobile multimedia processor is powered down or hibernating....

20060182152 - Combining multiple physical traffic channels in a wireless communication system: A wireless communication system (20) allows communications between a mobile station (22) and a wireless network (24) over combined physical traffic channels (44, 46). In a disclosed example, a mobile station (22) has multiple wireless access terminals (40, 42) for transmitting different portions of a communication over multiple physical traffic...

20060176802 - Apparatus and method for compensating for frequency offset in wireless communication system: Disclosed is an apparatus and method for compensating for frequency offset in a wireless communication system using an OFDM system which can compensate for phase change due to carrier frequency offset and sampling frequency offset of data carried on subcarriers. The apparatus includes an FFT window adjustment unit for receiving...

20060176803 - Apparatus and method for transmitting fast feedback information in a wireless communication system: An apparatus is provided for transmitting uplink fast feedback information in a wireless communication system. In the apparatus, a channel encoder generates uplink fast feedback information to transmit, and outputs 3-bit codewords being set according to the fast feedback information. A noncoherent modulator modulates transmission symbols corresponding to the codewords...

20060176804 - Data transfer apparatus and multicast system: By transmitting/receiving a multicast receiving terminal management message, a router to be a starting point upon creation of a multicast route is determined based on a multicast routing protocol, and switched according to a state of a multicast transmitting terminal side network. Accordingly, when a trouble occurs in the transmitting...

20060176805 - Method of providing fault tolerance in a sip based contact handling environment: A method and apparatus are provided for processing a contact with a client within a contact distributor. The method includes the steps of providing a primary SIP back-to-back user agent and an associated secondary SIP back-to-back user agent for each resource of a plurality of resources of the contact distributor...

20060176810 - Congestion notification in 3g radio access: A method, apparatus and system of network congestion notification is disclosed. A source node sends a destination node a data packet. Upon receipt of the data packet if network congestion is detected, the destination node introduces a congestion indication into a data packet. The data packet, including the congestion indication,...

20060176808 - Data transfer apparatus: A data transfer apparatus is provided for monitoring the bandwidth of a first and a second flow, comprises flow detecting means for comparing information in a header field of a packet with the first and second detection conditions to detect a flow to which the packet belongs, compliance/violation determining means...

20060176812 - Data-driven-type information processor outputting data packet to be processed at prescribed interval and method of controlling the same: When a data packet branch unit determines that a data packet is included in a data packet group of which output at a prescribed interval is demanded, a data packet status acquiring unit acquires historical information of another data packet included in the data packet group by referring to a...

20060176806 - Dynamic band allocation circuit, dynamic band allocation method, dynamic band allocation program, and recording medium: In a P2MP system in which upstream bandwidth is shared by a plurality of ONUs, a dynamic bandwidth allocation circuit is provided which reduces the consumption of memory capacity, and avoids the divergence of parameters. A dynamic bandwidth allocation circuit provided in an optical line terminal (OLT) calculates, for each...

20060176811 - Method and system for scheduling of base station for hsupa: Method and system for scheduling of a base station for HSUPA is provided. The method for scheduling of base station includes a method for scheduling of serving base station and a method for scheduling of non-serving base station, in which the method for scheduling of the serving base station comprises...

20060176809 - Non-blocking internet backbone network: A method and system for computing the maximum amount of admissible ingress and egress traffic of each edge router of the MPLS core network is presented. As long as the ingress and egress traffic amounts are below the admissible amount limit, traffic routes through any link in the network will...

20060176807 - Preemptive weighted round robin scheduler: The present invention is to disclose a scheduler which comprising a priority tagging module for receiving a plurality of information chucks, a plurality of output lines, and a WRR (weighted round robin) module. In this regards, each information chucks are tagged with a priority tag by said priority tagging module...

20060176813 - Methods and system for admission control and scheduling in ad hoc wireless networks: Methods and system for admission control and scheduling in ad hoc wireless networks are provided. The method for admission control and scheduling in ad hoc wireless networks for different class of flows C1, C2 and C3 is provided where said admission control mechanism evaluate the probability of QoS violation and...

20060176814 - Service admission control algorithm for hsupa and apparatus thereof: A service admission control algorithm for HSUPA and apparatus thereof, and the algorithm describes the access control process for a new service or switching service, i.e. SRNC determines whether the service can be carried using E-DCH based on service property information; the SRNtC first checks whether a base station of...

20060176816 - Method and apparatus for centralized monitoring and analysis of virtual private networks: In one embodiment, the present invention is a method and apparatus for monitoring virtual private networks (VPNs) supported on a multiprotocol label switching (MPLS) backbone network. In one embodiment, a method for remote monitoring of a VPN supported on an MPLS backbone network includes capturing traffic to and/or from the...

20060176817 - Method and apparatus for estimating real-time travel times over a transportation network based on limited real-time data: The present invention is a method and an apparatus for estimating real-time travel times or traffic loads (e.g., traffic flows or densities) over a transportation network based on limited real-time data. In one embodiment, a method for estimating a travel time over a transportation network comprising at least a first...

20060176815 - Method for reverse link overload control in a wireless communication system: In the method, an overload control threshold is adjusted based on at least one outage metric and an overload control history. Overload control is performed based on the overload control threshold....

20060176818 - Methods and apparatus for allowing promotion in color-based policers: Methods and apparatus are provided for applying color based policing at a network node. Committed information rate (CIR) and peak information rate (PIR) buckets used to monitor transmission rates are augmented using CIR overflow and PIR overflow buckets. The CIR and PIR overflow buckets hold tokens provided to CIR and...

20060176819 - Method for operating a network node of a communication network and network node of a communication network: A method for operating a network node of a communication network is provided, the network node having a routing method. Before any configuration of the network node by a control device, a minimum waiting time of the network node for the calculation of routing paths is increased after a configuration...

20060176820 - Inter-domain optimization trigger in pce-based environment: A technique triggers optimization of a traffic engineering (TE) label switched path (LSP) that spans multiple domains of a computer network from a head-end node of a local domain to a tail-end node of a remote domain. The technique is based on the detection of an event in the remote...

20060176822 - Method, system, service, and computer program product for identifying incorrect domain name to internet protocol (ip) address mappings: The present invention provides a method, system, service, and computer program product for identifying incorrect domain name to IP address mappings. The method comprises: providing a domain name and a valid IP address for the domain name to a plurality of nodes; and at each node: performing a local domain...

20060176824 - Methods and apparatus for identifying chronic performance problems on data networks: A system for identifying chronic performance problems on data networks includes network monitoring devices that provide measurements of performance metrics such as latency, jitter, and throughput, and a processing system for analyzing measurement data to identify the onset of chronic performance problems. Network behavior is analyzed to develop a baseline...

20060176821 - Network bandwidth utilization verification method and apparatus through reciprocating and multiplicative message distribution: In order to generate high bandwidth traffic in a digital communication network that uses direct addressing message distribution, the present message traffic generation system uses existing external signaling drivers to initiate stimulus message traffic over low speed links. In the present message traffic generation system, a low bandwidth message generator...

20060176823 - Smart actuator topology: A smart actuator apparatus provides controlled connection between a source and a load and includes a redundant switching network and sensors adapted for diagnosing smart actuator conditions and conditions external to the smart actuator. Switching network states are preferably establishable in accordance with multiple alternative network configurations. Network diagnostics enable...

20060176825 - Subscriber line testing system, broadband line card and broadband/narrowband telecommunication system: The present invention provides two subscriber line testing systems, three broadband/narrowband telecommunication systems and a broadband line card. In the subscriber line testing systems of the present invention, a test module is configured in the CO broadband device, reducing the complexity and the cost of the subscriber line testing systems....

20060176826 - All-to-all sequenced fault detection system: An apparatus, program product and method enable nodal fault detection by sequencing communications between all system nodes. A master node may coordinate communications between two slave nodes before sequencing to and initiating communications between a new pair of slave nodes. The communications may be analyzed to determine the nodal fault....

20060176829 - Mobile ad-hoc network: where B is the raw channel bandwidth, the summation is the overall consumed bandwidth from node I's two-hop neighborhood nodes, JεN(I) and φ is a factor to account for protocol overhead, which may include handshaking, packet collision, re-transmission and/or back-off scheme traffic. An estimated transmission time for each of a...

20060176827 - Network performance tuner: Described herein are techniques to facilitate the improvement of network throughput. An implementation described herein measures throughput over a data-communications network and between at least two endpoints on the network. This implementation also displays a graphical representation depicting the present throughput of the network as it is measured. The graphical...

20060176828 - Trigger for packing path computation requests: A technique triggers packing of path computation requests (PCRs) for traffic engineering (TE) label switched paths (LSPs) that are sent from one or more label-switched routers (LSRs) to a path computation element (PCE) of a computer network. According to the novel technique, incoming PCRs are packed into sets in response...

20060176830 - Communication system, communication circuit and communication method: A communication system according to an embodiment of the invention includes: a plurality of communication nodes; and a common bus connected with the plurality of communication nodes, wherein the plurality of communication nodes individually checks a use state of the bus to allow/disallow transmission, and at least one of the...

20060176832 - Adaptive bit-rate adjustment of multimedia communications channels using transport control protocol: A videoconferencing apparatus having a corresponding method and instruction program comprises a video codec to generate video data; a video packetizer to produce TCP packets of the video data; an audio codec to generate audio data; an audio packetizer to produce packets of the audio data; a transmit circuit to...

20060176833 - Handling unsolicited content at a telecommunications terminal: A method and apparatus are disclosed that enable a telecommunications terminal to securely receive unsolicited content from applications that are external to the terminal. In particular, the present invention enables the terminal to control the interaction with external applications by using a secure, two-task process. In the two-task process of...

20060176831 - Methods and apparatuses for selecting users to join a dynamic network conversation: The embodiments of the invention include a method of selecting users to join a network conversation comprising determining a subject of a network conversation and correlating the subject with subject matter criteria to determine at least one selected user who is or would be interested in the conversation....

20060176834 - Video node for wireless mesh network: Provided are mesh video nodes for wireless mesh networks and methods thereof. A mesh video node includes a wireless interface unit, a multimedia processing unit, an input/output unit, and a control panel interface unit. The mesh video node is configured via a user interface with a communications channel selector and...

20060176835 - System and method for providing internet protocol based broadcast services: A solution for allowing conditional access to IP-based broadcast services in a passive optical network is disclosed. When a subscriber requests broadcast services by selecting a broadcast channel, an IP set-top converts the request into an IGMP join message and forwards the message to an ONU/ONT, a unit on the...

20060176836 - Method and apparatus for reducing leeches on a p2p network: One embodiment of the present method and apparatus for reducing leeches on a P2P network includes receiving a data request message and at least one reference from a requesting node, where the reference pertains to at least one previous data transfer in which the requesting node has engaged. The reference...

20060176837 - Terminal for performing wake-up with consumption of low power and wake-up method thereof: Provided are a terminal performing a wake-up with consumption of low power and a wake-up method performed by the terminal. The terminal includes: a passive filter outputting a correlation signal between a received signal and a reference signal; and a wake-up controller controlling whether to wake up a communication module,...

20060176839 - Communication structure with channels configured responsive to reception quality: A communication structure and method which allows connection-like and connectionless communications to be provided on a multiplexed link is provided. The structure and method can make efficient use of available transmission capacity and/or network resources while providing for both types of communication. Connection-like communications can be provided by a channel...

20060176838 - Transmission of control information according to grouping of services in a mobile communication system: A method of communicating a point-to-multipoint service in a wireless communication system comprises receiving through a control channel a first message comprising a first point-to-multipoint service group identifier associated with a first plurality of point-to-multipoint service for a predetermined area. The method also comprises receiving a second message through the...

20060176840 - Local soft switch and method for connecting to and provide access to a tdm network: A remote switch for connecting to and providing access to a TDM network. A switch resident of a non-TDM network implements control of various components in order to effectuate telecommunications in the non-TDM network. An access gateway at a remote location connects to the TDM network. The switch accesses the...

20060176842 - Network system, radio communication device, radio communication method, and computer program for the same: A network system, radio communication device, radio communication method, and computer program for same are provided. The present invention enables formation of a network topology with sensor nodes each having a traveling function and operating in the self-directive and dispersive state without using positional information. Each sensor nodes periodically transmits...

20060176841 - Test device for data services: A device for testing a data carrying service operating over a telecommunications line. The device comprises a plurality of test circuits, each test circuit arranged to determine and test one or more characteristics of a data carrying service and providing means to emulate a termination of said telecommunication line, processing...

20060176843 - Method and apparatus for providing low bit rate satellite television to moving vehicles: A method and apparatus for providing satellite television and other data services to moving vehicles. In the method of the invention, substantially the full power of the transponder of a satellite, normally associated with bit rates of more than 30-40 Mbps, is reduced to a lower bit rate, for example,...

20060176846 - Communications apparatus, communications method, program, and computer-readable storage medium storing program: A communications apparatus includes: a timer for updating time information at a cycle longer than a cycle of a clock signal by a factor of n1 (n1>1 is a constant natural number); a frame generation section for generating frames each of which includes the time information; a transmission section; and...

20060176849 - Geographical localisation service: The invention concerns a method of providing a geographical localisation service within a wireless local area network having two or more wireless network access points. The terminal of a user is located at a location of a plurality of locations. The terminal measures at least two times the strength of...

20060176847 - Method to establish and organize an ad-hoc wireless peer to peer network: A method for organizing and maintaining an ad-hoc network for communication between a plurality of moving devices is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of grouping the plurality of moving devices into at least one local peer group (LPG), ordering the plurality of devices within each LPG based upon a...

20060176844 - Radio communication system and its mobile communication terminal: When deterioration in throughput is detected, it is determined whether a factor of the deterioration is deterioration in channel quality or concentration of traffic. If the factor of the deterioration in the throughput is the concentration of the traffic, it is determined whether or not a base station to become...

20060176848 - Time difference information supply system, terminal unit, control method for terminal unit, control program for terminal unit, and recording medium for computer-reading on which control program for terminal unit is recorded: A time difference information supply system includes: a terminal unit for receiving satellite signals as signals from positioning satellites; and a plurality of communication base stations asynchronous with one another, which can communicate with the terminal unit and include base station time measuring means for measuring time of the communication...

20060176845 - User equipment-based resource management method and system: A controller in a network manages resources to user equipment during data transmission. An uplink and a downlink are formed between the controller and the user equipment. The controller sends a last packet data unit to the user equipment that signals the end of transmission. Upon receipt, the user equipment...

20060176850 - Approach for managing the use of communications channels based on performance: An approach for selecting sets of communications channels involves determining the performance of communications channels. A set of channels is selected based on the results of performance testing and specified criteria. The participant generates data that identifies the selected set of channels and provides that data to other participants of...

20060176851 - Computer chip set having on board wireless interfaces to support test operations: A method and apparatus are provided for an embedded wireless interface that is embedded in, for example, one of an input and output controller device for controlling input and output communications with off-board devices, within a memory controller device and a processor motherboard. The embedded wireless interface may be utilized...

20060176854 - Handoff method in fmipv6 for seamless tcp packet transmissions: A handoff apparatus and method in FMIPv6 for seamless TCP packet transmissions. The handoff method includes steps of intercepting by a previous access router certain TCP packets sent from a correspondent node to a previous temporary address of a mobile node; and creating a TCP ACK by the previous access...

20060176855 - Handoff system and method among heterogeneous networks and mobile terminal employing the same: Disclosed are a handoff system and a method among heterogeneous networks. The handoff system among heterogeneous networks has plural access nodes which supports wireless communication with a mobile terminal; and a crossover node which selects resources of an access node to which a handoff is made without repetitive communications between...

20060176853 - Handover management apparatus and method for heterogeneous wireless networks: A handover management apparatus and method for heterogeneous networks is provided. The handover management method includes receiving a handover request notification from a serving access node (AN) that is located in a first wireless network and connected to a mobile node (MN) and extracting information from the received handover request...

20060176856 - Method and apparatus for operation of a terminal based on relative grant of a non-serving base station: The present invention relates to method and apparatus for operation of a terminal based on Relative Grant of a non-serving based station, the method comprising the terminal performing corresponding processes based on the received relative scheduling grant RGN from the non-serving base station and according to associated parameters configured by...

20060176852 - System and method for connection handover in a virtual private network: A method and system of connection handover from a first wireless server to a second wireless server in a connection between a mobile device and an intranet. The method comprises employing a SIM-based pre-authentication with a mobile agent of the mobile device prior to handing over the connection to the...

20060176858 - Mobile station apparatus and control method for the mobile station apparatus: A mobile station apparatus communicates with a wireless base station apparatus to which closed-loop transmission diversity control is applied, the closed-loop transmission diversity control controlling phases of signals transmitted from two antennas based upon feedback information notified by the mobile station apparatus and transmitting the signals. The mobile station apparatus...

20060176857 - Signal transmission system and signal transmission method: A signal transmission system including an antenna that is used for transmitting and receiving and that is connected, via a transmission cable, to a radio base station of a radio communication system operating under a TDD scheme is disclosed. The signal transmission system includes: a detection part for detecting a...

20060176859 - Method and apparatus for transmitting/receiving data in a cellular communication system: Disclosed is a method and apparatus for transmitting data in a cellular communication system including at least one base station that communicates with a plurality of mobile stations through a given frequency band. The method and apparatus divides the frequency band into at least two subcarrier groups each including a...

20060176861 - Cellular channel bonding for improved data transmission bandwidth: Systems and methods wirelessly communicate data over a plurality of cellular channels by requesting an allocation of cellular frequency channels from a mobile station to a base station; allocating available frequency channels in response to the request from the mobile station; and bonding the available frequency channels to communicate data....

20060176860 - Techniques for stream handling in wireless communications networks: In a wireless communications network, data of a first data stream is transmitted during a first portion of a repeating time period, the first data stream with at least one remote device. Also control information is transmitted during a second portion of the repeating time period, the control information including...

20060176863 - Hierarchical routing in ad-hoc networks: A number of data collection devices (10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80) are free to move relative to each other through their environment, collecting data from their environment. They form an ad hoc wireless network (19, 29, 39, 49, etc) in which data collected by a device (20)...

20060176864 - Method of establishing links between stations which are connected to a telecommunication network: It is characterized by the assignment of a local transmission identifier to each link and a decoding of the information based on the local identifier of the assigned link and on the unequivocal identifier sent by the transmitter in its transmission period. It permits multiple links to be established between...

20060176862 - Packet communication apparatus: Mobile terminal 100 has: operator 251 that calculates the generation interval of ACK packets based on the size of the ACK packet that is to be transmitted and the channel rate of the transmitting channel, held in controller 250; delay ACK timer 223 that repeats counting the calculated ACK packet...

20060176865 - Wireless communication method and system for differentially controlling power according to distance: A wireless communication method for differentially controlling power according to a distance, includes: generating a packet for measuring a distance between the access point and the client; transmitting the packet to measure the distance; receiving a response of the client for the packet transmitted; and transmitting data to the client...

20060176868 - Cellular cdma notch filter: A notch filtering apparatus comprises an input configured to receive at least one cellular code division multiple access (CDMA) signal. Each received cellular CDMA signal has an associated spread bandwidth. A notch filter device is configured to attenuate a bandwidth at a plurality of frequencies within the associated spread bandwidth...

20060176866 - Communication terminal and communication system: A communication system including a base station and a communication terminal transmitting/receiving data to/from this base station, in which the base station transmits downlink packet data to the communication terminal and receives an information signal related to the downlink packet data from the communication terminal that has received the downlink...

20060176867 - Method and apparatus for setting gain factors for dedicated physical channels in a mobile telecommunications system: A system and method are provided for setting gain factors for dedicated physical channels in a mobile communication system supporting E-DCH service. If the E-DCH is established without the legacy DCH, the UE sets a gain factor for a DPCCH related to the DCH to a predetermined constant and calculates...

20060176871 - Apparatus and method for providing broadcast parameter message in a mobile communication system: A method and apparatus provide a broadcast parameter message in a mobile communication system providing a broadcast service. If the provided broadcast service is time domain multiplex (TDM)-multiplexed, a message generator generates the broadcast parameter message by setting a field indicating the TDM multiplexing, setting a field indicating a position...

20060176869 - Dynamic switching of a transmission time interval in a wireless system: A method is provided for controlling a wireless communications system. The method comprises dynamically selecting one of a first and second transmission time interval for communications over a channel between a first and second device based on at least one operating characteristic of the channel....

20060176870 - Techniques for accessing a wireless communication system with tune-away capability: To access a first communication system, a terminal determines a transmission time for an access probe, an expected response time from the system, and a protected time interval based on the transmission time and/or expected response time. The terminal determines a starting time for sending the access probe such that...

20060176872 - Routing method and network structure: The present invention relates to a method and network system for changing a routing path between a first data network and a mobile station attached to a second data network. The said first data network comprises at least one first network node. The second data network comprises at least a...

20060176875 - Ip telephone exchange and ip telephone terminal: An IP telephone exchange connects an IP telephone terminal and a non-IP telephone terminal to enable conversation between therebetween. The IP telephone exchange includes a communication control section, a voice channel, a control channel and a voice channel management section. The communication control section conducts data communications with the IP...

20060176873 - Method and system for supporting shared local trunking: An approach is described for providing shared trunking between a telephony gateway and an end office switch. The telephony gateway processes a packetized voice call, and interfaces a shared trunk to an end office switch (e.g., Class 5 switch) configured to switch calls over a circuit-switched telephone network. The trunk...

20060176877 - Methods and system for fast session establishment between equipment using h.324 and related telecommunications protocols: Methods of establishing multimedia telecommunication (a multimedia “call”) between equipment (“terminals”). More particularly, the invention provides methods for reducing the time required to establish calls between terminals that implement the ITU-T H.324 Recommendation and other Standards and Recommendations derived from or related to this such as the 3G-324M recommendation developed...

20060176876 - Telephone system: A communication system includes a subsystem that provides an interface between an IP based telephone control network and a public data network, the subsystem is used for registration of a subscriber's devices on the public data network with the telephone network and enables receiving and/or originating communication sessions from the...

20060176874 - Ubiquitous transfer of a phone number to another phone: A method for effecting handoff of a communication session between a cellular telephone and a desktop telephone includes anchoring a communication session involving a remote device and a cellular telephone in an enterprise network such that signaling for the communication session passes through an element of the enterprise network; receiving...

20060176878 - Method and system for transmitting a multimedia message: A method and system for transmitting a large multimedia message. The method for transmitting a multimedia message includes dividing the large multimedia data to be transmitted into a plurality of divided multimedia data according to a transmission capacity of the mobile station, and forming plurality divided multimedia messages corresponding to...

20060176879 - Method of constructing a unique transmission address by a server and server using this method: The method can be used to provide a solution to the allocation of multicast addresses within a local area network by stream servers, particularly audio/video. This solution does not involve configuration or particular servers. The invention relies on the use of identifiers of the transmitted stream to construct the multicast...

20060176880 - Mesh mirroring with path tags: One embodiment disclosed relates to a method of mirroring select traffic in a switching mesh. A packet is received at an edge switch of the switching mesh, and a determination is made as to whether the packet is to be mirrored based on mirroring criteria. A path tag associated with...

20060176881 - Method and apparatus to support multi-user packets in a wireless communication system: Described is a method of constructing multi-user packets in a communication network utilizing packet-switching, wherein a plurality of user request service from the communication network. According to this method, priorities are allocated to each of the plurality of user. Of the plurality of user, those user are selected who indicate...

20060176882 - Method and system of early indication for multi-user wireless communication systems: The present invention relates to a method of providing an early indication of at least one burst allocation made for at least one subscriber station by allocating a predetermined number of bits representing the early indication. The invention also provides a method for generating the predetermined number of bits for...

20060176883 - Scheduling items using mini-quantum values: Disclosed are, inter alia, methods, apparatus, data structures, computer-readable media, and mechanisms, for scheduling items in a system, such as, but not limited to a computer or communications system. For example, in one implementation, each of the items in a set of items has an associated deficit and mini-deficit. A...

20060176884 - Sytems, methods and devices for remotely administering a target device: The present invention relates to the manipulation or monitoring of one communications device from another via a network. More particularly, the invention relates to remote control or administration of a target computer from a launch computer via predetermined relay routes therebetween. To this end, systems, devices and methodologies are provided....

20060176885 - Data processing system, method and interconnect fabric having an address-based launch governor: A data processing system includes an interconnect fabric, a protected resource having a plurality of banks each associated with a respective one of a plurality of address sets, a snooper that controls access to the resource, one or more masters that initiate requests, and interconnect logic coupled to the one...

20060176886 - Data processing system, method and interconnect fabric supporting a node-only broadcast: A data processing system includes a first processing node and a second processing node coupled by an interconnect fabric. The first processing node includes a plurality of first processing units coupled to each other for communication, and the second processing node includes a plurality of second processing units coupled to...

20060176888 - High density network topology: A network is disclosed that includes a first subnetwork including a first plurality of nodes interconnected by a first plurality of links, with nodes in the first plurality having a first capacity. A second subnetwork includes a second plurality of nodes interconnected by a second plurality of links, with nodes...

20060176887 - Systems, methods and devices for relaying communications between network devices: Provided are systems, devices and methods pertaining to the relaying of communications between a launch computer and a target computer in a manner which obscures at least the launch computer as a participant in the communications. Outbound traffic from the launch follows an outbound relay route which includes at least...

20060176889 - Methods and apparatus for fibre channel interconnection of private loop devices: Methods and apparatus for Fibre Channel interconnection is provided between a plurality of private loop devices through a Fibre Channel private loop device interconnect system. In the preferred embodiments, the Fibre Channel private loop device interconnect system is a fabric or an intelligent bridging hub. In one aspect of this...

20060176890 - Data processing system, method and interconnect fabric for improved communication in a data processing system: A data processing system includes a plurality of processing units each having a respective point-to-point communication link with each of multiple others of the plurality of processing units but fewer than all of the plurality of processing units. Each of the plurality of processing units includes interconnect logic, coupled to...

20060176891 - Method for controlling data interchange: A method for exchanging data between a communications unit and a data source of a control system, during which a runtime system comprised of hardware components and software components transfers data between the data source and a communications unit, and a processing chain controls and/or monitors the exchange of data....

20060176893 - Method of dynamic queue management for stable packet forwarding and network processor element therefor: In a method of dynamic queue management for stable packet forwarding and a network processor element therefor, a network processor of a switch/router can stably assign a packet descriptor for packet forwarding of a local area network/wide are network (LAN/WAN) interface. The method comprises the steps of: determining whether there...

20060176892 - Serial protocol controller that supports subroutine calls: Described is a protocol controller that supports calls to a packet subroutine which includes a packet processing engine programmed to retrieve packets from a packet memory and to interpret the packets, a working chain pointer module of the packet processing engine programmed to generate a packet memory address for each...

20060176894 - Routing method and apparatus for reducing loss of ip packets: A network routing method for preventing packet drop or loss comprises the steps of presetting best and second routes for the same destination, determining a route for an inputted packet with reference to the preset best and second routes, selectively queuing the inputted packet to respective output queues of the...

20060176895 - Data delivery pipeline optimized by cell-based data cascade technology: A data delivery pipeline in accordance with the invention combines client-server and peer-to-peer solutions together. All data displaying entities are separated into cells. Each cell consists of retransmitting entities and servent entities. Servent entities receive data only from in-cell retransmitting entities or other in-cell entities. In one embodiment data is...

20060176896 - Method and apparatus for transmitting data within a communication system: A node (101) using a contention-based access scheme will monitor a channel for a predetermined condition. If the predetermined condition is detected, the node will defect from the contention-based access scheme, where any generated messages will be immediately transmitted. Should a second condition be met, the node will again follow...

20060176897 - Method for indirect access to a support interface for memory-mapped resources to reduce system connectivity from out-of-band support processor: A method and apparatus are provided for a support interface for memory-mapped resources. A support processor sends a sequence of commands over and FSI interface to a memory-mapped support interface on a processor chip. The memory-mapped support interface updates memory, memory-mapped registers or memory-mapped resources. The interface uses fabric packet...

20060176898 - Powerline communication system and method using coupler design for additional users: A powerline network system. The system includes a power transformer device at a public utility facility. The system has a powerline box coupled to the transformer device. In a preferred embodiment, the powerline box comprises at least three lines including a first phase, a second phase, and a third phase....

20060176900 - Communication link bonding apparatus and methods: Communication link bonding apparatus and methods are disclosed. Multiple communication links are configured, at a communication link termination module which transfers communication traffic between a further communication link and the multiple communication links, as a group for providing an aggregate group communication traffic rate. The aggregate group communication traffic rate...

20060176901 - Method and apparatus for data processing, and computer product: A data processing apparatus includes a receiving unit that receives a plurality of pieces of data, each of which having a different destination specified; a classifying unit that classifies the plurality of pieces of data into a predetermined number of groups; a sorting unit that extracts data from the groups...

20060176899 - Support chip for handling network chips on a network device: Network devices and methods are provided involving a support chip in association with network chips. One embodiment includes a network device having a processor, a high speed interconnect, and a number of network chips coupled to one another through the high speed interconnect. The number of network chips include a...

20060176903 - Conveying protocol units for portable electronic objects via a protocol for microcomputer peripherals: Application protocol data units are conveyed in a universal serial bus so that a portable electronic object such as a smart card can be recognized by a terminal, such as a micro-computer, as being a peripheral. The header and the data field, when such a data field exists, of each...

20060176902 - Method of processing a multimedia message, a storage medium, and an associated processing system: The invention relates to a method of processing a multimedia message sent by a telecommunications terminal of one party to a telecommunications terminal of a recipient, said message containing at least one identification element for the terminal and at least one audio or video multimedia object. The method comprises the...

20060176904 - Method for sharing a transport connection across a multi-processor platform with limited inter-processor communications: A method is disclosed for sharing a transport connection in a host having two or more processors that exchange limited inter-processor communications. Ranges of transport sequence numbers are assigned to the processors of the host, and a range assigned to a particular processor does not overlap with any other range...

20060176907 - Communication equipment, communication control equipment, and communication system: Mobile IPv6 guarantees reachability of a MN by giving the home address (HoA) to the MN. A Mobile-IPv6-compliant application of the MN performs communication without using a Care of Address (CoA), and therefore does not notify the CoA to other communication equipment. For this reason, a PDSN can provide QoS...

20060176906 - Data processing system, method and interconnect fabric for selective link information allocation in a data processing system: A data processing system includes a plurality of processing units coupled for communication by a communication link and a configuration register. The configuration register has a plurality of different settings each corresponding to a respective one of a plurality of different link information allocations. Information is communicated over the communication...

20060176905 - Device and method for implenting dynamic adjustmenting bandwidth of data in a transmission device: A method and a device for realizing dynamic adjustment of data bandwidth of the invention are disclosed. The method comprises adding a control channel in a PCM trunk link to describe occupancy condition of time slots for current services. The device comprises a control word process circuit, a time slot...

20060176908 - Method and apparatus for determining ack frame to acknowledge receipt of transmission frame on a wlan: A method and apparatus for determining an ACK frame appropriate for a wireless local area network (LAN) environment where high throughput stations and legacy stations with different data transmission capabilities coexist to acknowledge the receipt of a transmission frame. The method and apparatus enable each station to access a medium...

20060176909 - Processing digital television programs at a receiver so as to prevent interception of unscrambled programs: When a stream of packets (e.g. MPEG-2 transport stream) includes certain packets representing unscrambled digital television program content and certain other packets representing the content of a scrambled digital television program that is currently tuned by a receiver, interception of the unscrambled digital television program at an output of the...

20060176910 - Method and system for producing and transmitting multi-media: This invention is related to a method and a system for producing and transmitting the multi-media. Some main characteristics are the step of integrating both the image and the sound, which corresponds to numerous received signals, into a multi-media file (the step of simultaneously producing) and the step of sending...

20060171295 - Communicating non-coherent detectable signal in broadband wireless access system: The present invention relates to allocating a radio resource in a wireless communication system utilizing orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM). Preferably, the present invention comprises receiving in a mobile station data associated with a radio resource allocation map from a base station, wherein the radio allocation map comprises control parameters...

20060171294 - Method for generating two-dimensional orthogonal variable spreading code and mimo system using the same: Provided are a method for generating a two-dimensional orthogonal variable spreading code and a Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) system using the same. The MIMO system can increase a communication capacity in an asynchronous multiple user system as well as a synchronous system in a wideband-Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA)....

20060171296 - Apparatus and method for selecting serving sector in a mobile communication system: An apparatus and method is provided for determining a serving sector using a signal received from a base station. A received signal strength measurer measures a strength of a pilot signal received from the serving sector and a strength of a pilot signal received from a sector in an active...

20060171297 - Delay restricted channel estimation for multi-carrier systems: A transmitted symbol matrix and a received symbol vector are transformed based on a non-identity transformation. The non-identity transformation is based on a finite spread of a channel impulse response in a time domain and is usable to improve accuracy of channel estimation in a frequency domain. A transformed channel...

20060171298 - Methods and systems for dynamic load balancing between call processors: Methods and systems for dynamic load balancing between call processors are disclosed. The call processing load of each of the call processors is monitored in order to determine whether a call processing load balancing exists. In response to determining that a call processing load imbalance exists, call processing tasks relating...

20060171299 - Maintaining life line packet-switched telephony services: A customer premise device connects to one or more telephones at the customer's premises and provides the packet-switched telephony services over a communication line. In the event that the customer premise device fails to provide the packet-switched telephony services, a network device connected to the communication line can provide the...

20060171300 - Data transferring system and electronic apparatus: A data transferring system based on the PCI Express standard in which power saving is realized is disclosed. In the data transferring system, a data transferring device transfers image data based on the PCI Express standard by synchronizing with a line synchronizing signal LSYNC. At this time, the data transferring...

20060171302 - Data transmission in a network comprising bridges: A method, system, apparatus, and machine-readable medium for data transmission in a segment of a network through a bridge are provided. The bridge comprises one designated forwarding port and at least one backup port. The method selects a best backup port from amongst the available backup ports. On detection of...

20060171301 - Method, system, and storage medium for preventing duplication and loss of exchanges, sequences, and frames: A sequence identification number is added to a header in each Generic Frame Procedure (GFP) frame. The byte sequence identification number identifies frames, preventing duplication or loss of exchanges, sequences, and frames. When this feature is enabled, a remote wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) node automatically checks the header to ensure...

20060171305 - Access point channel forecasting for seamless station association transition: Seamless migration of an AP/STA link across channels to compensate for a changing RF environment is achieved by forecasting alternate AP communication channels to an STA prior to loss of connectivity on the link. The AP, when identifying a preferred communication channel, also identifies an alternate communication channel, and communicates...

20060171303 - Method, apparatus and program storage device for providing mutual failover and load-balancing between interfaces in a network: A method, apparatus and program storage device for providing mutual failover and load-balancing between interfaces in a network is disclosed. An active virtual interface and a passive virtual interface are provided for each of a first and a second computer interface. The active virtual interface of the first computer interface...

20060171304 - Wlan background scanning: A wireless access point is operable to execute background scans of alternate channels by tuning to the alternate channel for short periods of time, thereby generating sub-windows of data. The sub-windows are calculated to have timing and duration that avoid disruption of communications on the active channel. Multiple background scan...

20060171313 - Communication apparatus and communication method: A communication apparatus for implementing a communication session based upon a congestion window specifying a signal amount that can be sent out continuously to a network employs a signal propagation time in the communication session, thereby to estimate a congestion degree of a bottleneck circuit, and decides an increased-width of...

20060171307 - Method and apparatus for managing packet data resources: An apparatus and a method for managing resources for efficient packet data transmission. More specifically, there is provided a method for allocating transmission resources in a base station comprising determining a largest supportable packet size for a highest priority user, wherein the determination is based at least partially on the...

20060171311 - Method and system for classifying packets: Methods and systems are provided for managing network traffic in a network device, based on matching criteria. The method includes providing a plurality of objects associated with a packet of the network traffic. A set of criteria corresponding to the type of objects and corresponding to the layer-4 protocol is...

20060171308 - Method and system for interactive mapping to provide goal-oriented instructions: Provided is a computer system and methods for directing mobile peer devices. A method includes receiving an itinerary identifying one or more goals for the peer devices; receiving a priority associated with the itinerary, the priority identifying at least one goal of the one or more goals, the priority listing...

20060171310 - Method and system of consolidating mobile ip messages within a network: A method and system of consolidating mobile IP messages within a network is provided. The method and system applies to the transfer of datagrams between home and foreign agents and mobile IP devices. The system provides for a temporary capture and storage of small non-real-time datagrams within a queue by...

20060171312 - Radio communication apparatus: To alleviate processing load of a communication apparatus (mobile station) for data transmission using the shared channels. A radio communication apparatus for receiving data via the shared channels, comprises a receiving unit for intermittent reception to determine whether the data received via the shared channels is transmitted to its own...

20060171306 - Socket management for always-on data connections: A method of automatically keeping sockets open for always-on applications in a GPRS context is provided. Information is maintained by each wireless device identifying each APN (access point name)-port pair associated with a PDP (packet data protocol) context used by an always-on application. Upon the PDP context becoming available after...

20060171309 - System and method for providing rsvp reservations in a shared line environment: An apparatus for communicating data in a shared line environment is provided that includes a first reservation element operable to communicate with a second reservation element. The first reservation element is associated with a first location and the second reservation element is associated with a second location. A call may...

20060171314 - Method and system for evaluting number of additional admissible calls for use in call admission control: A method for evaluating number of additional admissible calls for use in call admission control includes tracking a percentage of channel busy time and transmission time of downlink and uplink voice packets, receiving a call admission request, and calculating the number of admissible calls. The number of admissible calls is...

20060171315 - Resource allocation device for providing a differentiated service and a method thereof: A resource allocation device includes a database of user and service information, a resource allocation management unit for determining whether a service request agrees with a service level agreement and whether it accepts a resource allocation request, a service level agreement unit for negotiating the service level agreement with the...

20060171318 - Active queue management methods and devices: Novel methods and devices are provided for AQM of input-buffered network devices. Preferred implementations of the invention control overall buffer occupancy while protecting uncongested individual VOQs. The probability of setting a “global drop flag” (which is not necessarily used to trigger packet drops, but may also be used to trigger...

20060171317 - Data mapping device, method, and article of manufacture for adjusting a transmission rate of isc words: A data mapping device, a method, and an article of manufacture for adjusting a transmission rate of ISC words are provided. The GFP data mapping device has a FIFO buffer and a transceiver operably coupled to the FIFO buffer. The method includes reading first and second ISC words from the...

20060171316 - Data networking: There is provided a traffic placement method in a communications network, the communications network comprising a plurality of nodes, the nodes being connected to one another by links, the method comprising selecting a (possibly non-strict) subset from a given set of traffic flow demands and calculating a plurality of paths...

20060171319 - Method for the dynamic management of resources in telecommunication systems, based on quality of service and type of service: The method is characterized by the management of traffic and resources in the source node (1) by means of ordered sets of cells, with dynamically adjustable qualities of service and different configurations of insertion and extraction of cells for the distribution of resources. It permits different qualities of service for...

20060171320 - Inter-domain path computation technique: A technique computes a traffic engineering (TE) label switched path (LSP) that spans multiple domains of a computer network from a head-end node of a local domain to a tail-end node of a remote domain. The novel inter-domain TE-LSP computation technique comprises a computation algorithm executed by the head-end node,...

20060171321 - Communication system, method and apparatus for providing mirroring service in the communication system: A mirroring apparatus for providing a mirroring service includes an Internet protocol (IP) address sniffing module for monitoring whether an Internet service provided to a predetermined terminal exists; an IP address converting module for duplicating a packet transmitted to the predetermined terminal according to the Internet service and changing a...

20060171322 - Method and apparatus for receivability and reachability test of explicit multicast: The present invention relates to method and apparatus for receivability test and reachability test of explicit multicast packet. In one embodiment, the xcast receivability test comprises i) at a sender end, sending a receivability probe packet to a receiver end, ii) at the receiver end, receiving the receivability probe packet,...

20060171328 - Frame synchronization circuit: Disclosed is a mobile communication system including a network constituted of at least one switching center and a plurality of base stations, and a mobile station which communicates with the base stations simultaneously. The system permits varying transmission delay between the switching center and the base stations according to the...

20060171325 - Interactive queued mapping method and system: Provided is a computer system and/or method according to an embodiment that includes but is not limited to receiving data concerning the location; processing the received data to determine a queue for the location; and transmitting one or more queue-related data objects to the at least two components, the at...

20060171327 - Interference source recognition for wireless lans: In a wireless network having an access point and/or at least one wireless end device, the access point and/or end device is operable to differentiate between normal communications and interference from another device in order to capture a sample of the interference, determine whether the interference originates from a known...

20060171323 - Mpls cookie label: A method and system for preventing misforwarding of packets from an MPLS network to a virtual private network are disclosed. The method includes receiving a packet at an ingress edge node of the MPLS network, associating a cookie with a label bound to a route by an egress edge node...

20060171326 - Remedial actions for interference in wireless lans: In a wireless network having an access point and at least one wireless end device, the access point is operable to differentiate between normal communications and interference from another device in order to capture a sample of the interference, determine whether the interference originates from a known type of device,...

20060171324 - Using signaling to provide interoperability of adpcm encoded voice communications: Providing interoperability on a voice communication network by detecting incompatible bit packing payload formats of ADPCM encoded voice data signals in an encoder/decoder. A mismatch of bit packing formats between little endian format and big endian format is determined through the use of a media gateway control protocol package called...

20060171330 - Buffering registered state change notifications to reduce traffic during large fabric changes: The buffering of RSCN frames is disclosed so that RSCN traffic can be reduced. At the start of a state change notification period, a timer is started. A state change manager buffers state changes in a register that holds a pending RSCN frame by storing the address of each changed...

20060171329 - Control network with data and power distribution: A control network comprises a plurality of network nodes arranged in a plurality of tiers, with first-tier nodes and lower tier nodes. A master control bus interconnects the first-tier nodes, which are also connected to a power source. Lower-tier buses interconnect groups of the lower tier nodes. The lower-tier buses...

20060171332 - Device discovery and channel selection in a wireless networking environment: A method and apparatus for device discovery and channel selection in a wireless networking environment are described. As part of an automatic network configuration process, a super node sequentially traverses the available channels, broadcasting discovery messages including the channel switching schedule. Wireless nodes that receive those broadcast messages switch channels...

20060171333 - Network configuration management apparatus, network configuration management program and network configuration management method: According to this invention, it is possible to display the overall configuration of a network and, at the same time, an important part of the network in detail according to the objective of monitoring so as to be able to grasp/monitor the important part of the network in detail, while...

20060171334 - Storage network system, managing apparatus managing method and program: A storage network system includes computers, storage systems, connection devices that control connection relations between the computers and the storage system, and a managing device that manages the computers, the storage system and the connection devices. The managing device includes a control section that specifies connection ports of the computers,...

20060171331 - System and methods for network path detection: Customer edge (CE) to CE device verification checks initiate routes from available CEs as a set of path verification messages, destined for remote CE routes serving a remote VPN. An extended community attribute, included among the attributes of the path verification message, stores the identity of the originating CE router....

20060171335 - Backup channel selection in wireless lans: Potential alternate channels in a wireless network are periodically analyzed and ranked in terms of interference. The best ranked alternate channel is selected as the new operating channel if a decision is made to move from the current operating channel to an alternate channel. Because the potential alternate channels are...

20060171336 - Video multi-conference unit (mcu): A multi-conference unit (MCU) (2) is arranged to compress a video stream in the horizontal direction to adjust the aspect ratio prior to onward transmission to an endpoint (6-1 to 6-4). By arranging for an endpoint to de-compress the video stream by a similar amount, widescreen video streams may be...

20060171337 - Method and system for reserving facility resources for a conference: A method for reserving conference resources includes communicating a conference notification to each of a plurality of conference invitees. The conference notification is associated with a multipoint conference. The method includes receiving, from each of a first number of the plurality of conference invitees, a response to the conference notification...

20060171338 - Data loss control in a push to communicate network: An audio data retransmission method in a push to communicate (PTx) terminal for transmitting data by pressing a PTx key is provided. The method comprises transmitting data using a transmitting PTx terminal; storing the data in a buffer; and retransmitting the data when receiver requests retransmission due to a loss...

20060171339 - Method and devices for utilizing data in data formats which cannot be directly processed: Reference dictionaries and data dictionaries are used in order to analyze data in data formats, which cannot be directly processed and which are communicated between geodesic units. These dictionaries are transmitted preferably in conjunction with the transmission of the data and they index analyzable data fields in data formats. When...

20060171340 - Mobile device, content distribution system, and content distribution method: The present invention provides a mobile device that is able to receive content of a server even before a predetermined time interval elapses. The mobile device comprises a first transmission portion, which transmits a content transmission request to a first server, a second transmission portion, which transmits a content transmission...

20060171343 - Content transmission system: In a conventional content transmission system, there has been a problem that it takes a long time from when a user, who tries to start viewing and listening of content, issues a command to a receiver by using a remote controller or the like until when the user can actually...

20060171342 - Mobile wireless communication system and wireless communication apparatus: A mobile wireless communication system including a wireless communication apparatus and a counterpart wireless communication apparatus is provided, the system establishing wireless communication between the wireless communication apparatus and the counterpart wireless communication apparatus by multiplexing plural channels including at least a traffic channel for transmitting a packet, a control...

20060171341 - Power saving frame transmission method: A method that enables the power saving frame transmission comprising an AP informing a plurality of stations within its range in a WLAN about a plurality of scheduled service periods during which the AP has access to a channel in a scheduled service time, receiving the information about the plurality...

20060171344 - Wireless routing implementation: A wireless communications system comprising a number of node devices and a base station, and having a routing calculator, wherein the system is operating with a first routing map, the routing calculator gathers data relating to communications between node devices and determines whether route improvement is indicated and, if so,...

20060171345 - Adaptive control method for operating communications environments: A method for operating a first communications environment and a communications environment wherein first communications resources for communications according to a first communications standard are used for communications according to a second communications standard and wherein the use of the first communications resources for communications according to the first communications...

20060171350 - Data communication restriction method, data communication restriction system and mobile terminal: A data communication restriction method for flat rate users is disclosed. The data communication restriction method comprises the steps of: monitoring data communication status of a flat rate user, and determining whether the number of request or communication quantity during a predetermined period exceeded a predetermined threshold (S9); setting the...

20060171351 - Method and apparatus for including a recording device in a push-to-talk over cellular communication session: A communication system provides for an informing of participants in a Push-to-Talk over Cellular (PoC) communication session that the session is being recorded by a recording device, for a storage, by the recording device, of media that conveyed during the session, and for a subsequent retrieval of the stored media...

20060171352 - Method of assigning address to mobile node in a wireless network: Disclosed is a method of assigning an address to a mobile node in a tree-structure wireless network, the method including sending a registration request to a management node by a mobile node when the mobile node joins with the wireless network, allocating a static address for the mobile node by...

20060171348 - Mobile station, base station, and wireless communication system: An object of the present invention is to provide a wireless communication system that can quickly accomplish the selection and switching of a base station with which a mobile station is to connect, and that can efficiently distribute base station load resulting from the connection with the mobile station. The...

20060171349 - Processing of uplink data in a communications system: A communications system where data blocks from a communications device are received at least in a serving site over a wireless interface. The serving site typically checks whether data blocks have been correctly received and sends acknowledgement information to the communications device accordingly. An assisting site may also receive the...

20060171347 - Superposition coding in a wireless communication system: A system to communicate a superposition coded packet from a base station to a plurality of remote stations. At the base station, from a list of user candidates for superposition coding a most deserving user may be determined. Those user candidates with a requested data rate less than that of...

20060171346 - Wireless routing systems and methods: Wireless communications methods and systems. Metrics for measuring performance of a wireless system are generated and compared to metrics generated with an idealized simulation of the system. If the actual system performance falls below a predetermined level, the system may be reconfigured to improve performance using a centralized or decentralized...

20060171354 - Apparatus and method for a multi-channel orthogonal frequency division multiplexing wireless network: A flexible and scalable deployment of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) technology in a mobile cellular system, including a system that deploys multiple channels within a common base station, in which overlapping subcarriers are accepted and a significant amount of resulting interference is corrected....

20060171356 - Method and apparatus for controlling a transmission data rate based on feedback relating to channel conditions: A network entity includes a processor configured to regulate the data rate of transmissions over a wireless channel from a base station to a subscriber station based on feedback from the subscriber station, the feedback relating to the wireless channel conditions, the processor being further configured to determine a substitute...

20060171355 - Method and system for transmitting/receiving session non-interest indication information of ue in a multimedia broadcast/multicast service system: An apparatus and method are provided for transmitting session non-interest indication information for a Multimedia Broadcast/Multicast Service (MBMS) service of a user equipment (UE) in an MBMS system. A serving radio network controller (SRNC) determines whether the UE desires to receive a current session for an MBMS service joined by...

20060171353 - Radio packet communication method: In retransmission processing due to a failure of transmission of data packets, a plurality of data packets are simultaneously transmitted between two STAs by utilizing multiple wireless channels and MIMO, and the number of idle channels and the number of retransmission packets are compared. Then, when both of the numbers...

20060171357 - Control of a multi-sectored antenna system to improve channel efficiency: A wireless device is coupled to a multi-sector antenna that includes a plurality of different sectors, any of which can be activated to transmit and receive in a desired direction specific to that sector. Optionally, an omnidirectional antenna is included for initially establishing a wireless connection with another wireless device,...

20060171358 - Downlink data optimization for packet switched handover: This invention describes a methodology for improving the performance of downlink data transfer during handovers of packet switched connections by informing the SGSN about a cell change and reducing the service interruption during the cell change. Compared to the existing procedure described in the 3GPP TS 43.129 V6. 1.0 (2004-11),...

20060171359 - Transfer between cells in a communications system: A method for transferring user equipment from a current cell during an ongoing communication is disclosed. The current cell belongs to a first network. In the method capability information for at least one available cell of a second network is determined in a controller of the current cell, where after...

20060171360 - Apparatus and method for displaying data using afterimage effect in mobile communication terminal: An apparatus and method for displaying data using an afterimage effect in a mobile communication terminal are provided where a display unit having an LCD displays data according to an input operation signal, and a control unit outputs the operation signal to the display unit so as to scale the...

20060171361 - Spread spectrum receiver and method for carrier frequency offset compensation in such a spread spectrum receiver: The invention relates to a spread spectrum receiver for receiving and decoding an input signal r(k) consisting of a sequence of chips and a method for carrier frequency offset compensation in such a spread spectrum receiver. The receiver comprises a correlator for processing the input signal r(k) and providing at...

20060171364 - Integrated base stations and a method of transmitting data units in a communications system for mobile devices: Integrated base stations and a method of transmitting data units in a communications system for mobile devices. In one embodiment, an integrated base station includes a communications processor having a protocol stack configured with a media access control layer and a physical layer....

20060171365 - Method and apparatus for l2tp dialout and tunnel switching: Method and apparatus for establishing a tunnel between a mobile node and a routing device. The method includes the steps of utilizing the mobile node to place a call over a cellular network and gaining access to a foreign agent of the cellular network. A Mobile IP link is established...

20060171362 - Method for scheduling service periods in a wireless local area network (wlan): A wireless local area network (WLAN) includes at least one hybrid coordinator (HC) and at least one Quality of Service Station (QSTA). The HC transmits a schedule frame element (SEF). The WLAN also includes a clocking mechanism that sets a substantially absolute start time of a service interval. A method...

20060171366 - Routing method and mobile terminal: A routing method in an ad hoc network formed by a plurality of mobile terminals includes receiving, at a mobile terminal forming part of the ad hoc network, a packet generated by an adjacent terminal, and determining, at the mobile terminal, whether to relay the received packet or not, based...

20060171363 - Wireless transfer of digital video data: Improved methods and apparatuses are provided for wireless transfer of digital video from a Digital Video Recorder (DVR) to a Video Hosting Device (VHD). The wireless transfer can be performed over a plurality of wireless communication links, depending on transceiver used. The DVR may be factory-equipped with a wireless transceiver...

20060171367 - Method and apparatus for guard interval detection in multi-carrier receiver: An apparatus and method for guard interval detection in a multi-carrier receiver has been disclosed. According to the present invention, the apparatus and method are employed for determining a guard interval length of an input signal to be one of a plurality of available guard interval lengths. The apparatus of...

20060171368 - Voice channel control of wireless packet data communications: A data session with a wireless device ordinarily cannot be initiated from the network side because the wireless device has no predetermined IP or other network address. Methods are disclosed for instead causing the wireless unit to initiate a data session with a target destination, thereby obviating the IP addressing...

20060171369 - Resource utilization for multimedia broadcast multicast services (mbms): A multimedia broadcast multicast type service (MBMS) is offered to mobile subscribers. A RAN node communicates with one or more radio base stations that transmit and receive information with mobile subscriber terminals, some of which subscribe to the MBMS. The RAN node communicates with multiple core network packet data nodes...

20060171370 - Home agent, mobile router, and mobile communication method using the same: A mobile communication method includes: a step for transmitting a binding update message for notification of a care-of-address of the network where the mobile network has gone, from a mobile router to a home agent, which can be used after the network has moved; and a step performed upon reception...

20060171377 - Automated remote device meter reading: System meter reads can be sent automatically from a document rendering device to a remote server over a communications system without customer intervention. Network-based systems are enabled to automatically collect and report usage information from equipment to remote servers. Usage information is used for billing and/or maintenance purposes....

20060171374 - Client-side virtual radio station: A system and method are provided for generating client-side virtual radio stations. The method comprises: receiving server-supplied radio stations at an network-connected radio service client; establishing radio filter characteristics; analyzing the server-supplied radio stations using the filter characteristics; generating a client-side virtual radio station service; supplying the virtual radio station...

20060171372 - Interoperability of adpcm encoded voice communications: Providing interoperability on a voice communication network by detecting incompatible bit packing payload formats of ADPCM encoded voice data signals in an encoder/decoder. A mismatch of bit packing formats between little endian format and big endian format is determined by detecting the occurrence of ADPCM code words of interest in...

20060171378 - Ip video telephone: An IP video telephone includes a video display for displaying received video signals and a speaker for playing received audio signals. A gateway processor connects the IP video telephone to an external IP network and receives the received audio and video signals. A video processor processes the received video signals...

20060171380 - Method and system for integrated communications with access control list, automatic notification and telephony services: The present invention relates to a system and method that enable a variety of instant messaging client systems to interact each other either via internet-enabled devices or mobile WAP devices, governed by access control level. All the client systems connected to the instant messaging platform have mobile messaging services capability...

20060171379 - Movement management system, movement management server, and movement management method used for them, and program thereof: There is provided a movement management system which can continue the communication even if a mobile node moves to a network where a device which imposes restrictions on communication exists. The movement management server establishes a session between with a mobile node, manages information on association of a fixed ID...

20060171373 - Packet loss concealment for voice over packet networks: A method to reduce memory requirements for a packet loss concealment algorithm in the event of packet loss in a receiver of pulse code modulated voice signals. Packet losses are concealed by using the spectral analysis filter memory to smooth a signal gap and by using a technique for determining...

20060171376 - Providing services in a communications system: In a method for providing a further service for user equipment provided with a circuit switched service in a first communication system a request for a packet data service is first received in the first communication system. The user equipment is then transferred to a second communication system before establishing...

20060171375 - System and method for high speed distributed cable broadband system: The Hi-SD CBS includes a termination unit and pluralities of distributed customer premise units connected through the cable TV (CATV) network. The radio signals in Hi-SD CBS are propagating inside the co-axial cable. To insure the linking quality between the termination unit and customer premise devices, preamble procedures are required...

20060171371 - Voice calling handling method using dynamic home agency technology at the whole ip framework: The present invention provides a method for Voice Handling via Dynamic Home Agents in a Network employing All-IP Architecture, and a system for handling voice call by using this method. The method comprises the following steps: when a first RCU is about to initiate voice call with a second RCU,...

20060171381 - Method, system, and storage medium for delay optimization for scheduling in bufferless crossbar switches: A control topology for distributed scheduling has a two-dimensional fanout broadcast network, which may include logical partitioning. Logically, a switch is in the center and line cards are in a two-dimensional grid. There are multiple broadcast networks along rows and columns. Each line card broadcasts to all the other line...

20060171388 - Communication apparatus and method having function of transmitting notification signal while hiding group identification information: A communication apparatus is configured to receive a search message from an additional communication apparatus while transmitting beacon information while hiding a group identifier. Then, the communication apparatus is configured to determine whether the additional communication apparatus is already registered. Alternatively, the communication apparatus determines whether predetermined information is included...

20060171385 - Data protection method and relay equipment using the same: Store-and-forward relay equipment in which received data are temporarily stored in a buffer and then transmitted is provided. In the equipment, protection is performed with the limitation of the data part, which is not an object for substitution operation inside the equipment and has an unchanged content. As to the...

20060171383 - Handling incoming data: So-called push technology enables reception of new contents automatically, i.e. without user initiation. In order to enable a connecting party to send data when a receiving application is not even running, and thus cannot receive the data, middleware simulating the application to a connecting party, and an active connection to...

20060171386 - Means and apparatus for a scaleable congestion free switching system with intelligent control iii: A switching system for routing information packets that can simultaneously receive a variety of packet formats. The packet formats include electronic packet transmissions, optical wave division multiplexed data (WDM) with a single frame consisting of a plurality of packets to be sent to a common output line, with each packet...

20060171384 - Method and apparatus for automatic verification of a zone configuration and network access control construct for a plurality of network switches: Embodiments of the invention provide a method and an apparatus for automatic verification of a zone configuration of a plurality of network switches. In one method embodiment, the present invention accesses an actual network access control construct and an actual zone configuration for a plurality of network switching devices. Additionally,...

20060171382 - Method and arrangement for externally controlling and managing at least one wlan subscriber who is assigned to a local radio network: A method for externally controlling and managing a wireless local area network subscriber assigned to at least one wireless local area network includes requesting a service using the subscriber, checking an authorization of the subscriber to access the TCP/IP network, and establishing a connection via the TCP/IP network to the...

20060171387 - Method and system for address assignment in mobile ad-hoc network: A method for assigning a global address to a node in an ad-hoc network is provided. A joining node to the ad-hoc network generates a local address using its MAC address. The joining node inquires of its one-hop nodes about whether they occupy a local address that is the same...

20060171389 - Half-duplex radio communication method, program and system thereof: A half-duplex radio communication method, a program and a system enabling multicasting, for example, in an emergency for radio communication terminals belonging to different carrier systems if they meet designated condition while saving an operator the bother of inputting destinations. After accepting an application for emergency multicasting, a CUG server...

20060171390 - Method and apparatus for network bandwidth conservation: Methods and apparatus for conserving bandwidth within a network based on two or more different service levels. In an exemplary embodiment, programming that is simulcast on two or more program channels is mapped to one physical channel during periods when the programming is scheduled at only one service level (e.g.,...

20060171391 - Revocation information transmission method, reception method, and device thereof: The invention provides a revocation information transmission method, revocation information reception method, revocation information transmitting apparatus, and revocation information receiving apparatus, wherein all the video output apparatuses such as STB may have a revocation list in common, and it is possible to exclude unjust display and to improve the security...

20060171392 - System and method for extracting and routing audio-visual programs from transport stream packets: A system and method for extracting and routing audio-visual programs from transport stream packets includes a program identifier (PID) distributor capable of extracting program specific information (PSI) from the transport stream packets, a plurality of process paths each including an audio video stream encapsulate circuit (AVSEC) capable of encapsulating each...

20060171393 - Using superimposed ask label in an all-optical label swapping system and method thereof: An all-optical label swapping system and method superimposes a low-speed ASK label on top of a high-speed DC-balanced-line-coded ASK payload. An old ASK label is erased by modulating the combined payload and label signal with the inverse of the received ASK label. This ASK labeling technique requires only low speed...

20060171394 - Fault tolerant wireless communication systems and methods: Systems and methods for fault tolerant communication are provided. A base site is coupled to a central office via a channel service unit. The channel service unit is coupled to the central office via primary and secondary communications links. A first and second permanent virtual circuit couple the channel service...

20060171395 - Systems and methods for implementing a metadata station for an internet radio service: Systems and methods for implementing a metadata station for an internet radio service are disclosed. An exemplary method involves exposing a plurality of Internet radio stations and a metadata station. Requests are received for the metadata station. The Internet radio stations that will have metadata information included in the metadata...

20060171396 - Method and apparatus for dynamically changing modes of a reliable transport protocol: A communication device minimizes an opportunity for a queue stall during a communication session employing a reliable transport protocol by setting a current mode of operation for a Radio Link Protocol (RLP) and, based on a quality of an air interface, switching to an RLP mode of operation different from...

20060171397 - Method and apparatus for controlling connections in a communication network: A method and apparatus are provided for controlling connection to a communication path in a communication network. The apparatus receives a bandwidth request and determines a value of bandwidth expansion factor from information relating to transmission of data over the communication path, which may include the type of channel, the...

20060171399 - Detection for high powered devices: A powering source unit comprising: a first powering source; a second powering source; the first powering source being operable to: apply a plurality of voltages towards a powered device via a first path so as to detect a signature impedance, and in the event the signature impedance is detected, to...

20060171398 - Defect area management system and method for optical storage medium: A defect area management system for an optical storage medium including a management part producing a defect area management signal for real-time processing and transmitting the signal along with data to be written; and a write part executing a defect area management of the optical storage media, writing the data,...

20060171400 - Method of handling of atm cells at the vp layer: The invention proposes a method for handling ATM traffic comprising packets of AAL5 type composed of ATM cells, at a network node at VP-layer. The method comprises monitoring each of the cells incoming the node to obtain information at least on its VC-layer and VP-layer parameters, processing information on the...

20060171403 - Gateway for interconnecting ad-hoc network and infrastructure network, and methods for discovering and registering service provider using gateway: A service provider discovery method in a wireless network environment, includes receiving, by the gateway, a service request (SREQ) packet which is broadcast from a first mobile node in the ad-hoc network; updating and transmitting, by the gateway, the SREQ packet to a service repository which stores at least one...

20060171402 - Method and system for providing broadband multimedia services: A services pivot point employable with first and second enterprises adapted to communicate over disparate access networks and a related method of operating the same. In one embodiment, the services pivot point includes a communication subsystem configured to provide a secure connection and data compression/acceleration for a communication between the...

20060171401 - Method for operating a local computer network connected to a remote private network by an ipsec tunnel, software module and ipsec gateway: The invention relates to a method in particular enabling the computer terminal (T_L) of a local network (RES_L), connected to a gateway (PASS_D) of a remote network (RES_D) by an IPsec tunnel in blocking mode, to launch a print job on a printer (E_L) belonging to the local network. To...

20060171404 - Network routing apparatus that performs soft graceful restart: A network data packet routing apparatus with BGP is configured to soft reset an AFI or SAFI, so that forwarding on routes associated with the AFI or SAFI can continue even after an event or error. One approach involves establishing a Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) peering session between a first...

20060171405 - Tentative update and confirm or compensate: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for communications in a distributed software system. An operation request from a remote computer is received, and provisionally executes an operation identified by the operation request. A first message is generated. The first message contains a transaction identifier identifying the operation request, an...

20060171406 - System and method for controlling data traffic in a wireless communication system: A method is provided for controlling uplink data traffic in a wireless communication system. If Internet Protocol (IP) packets are received from a higher layer, one or more medium access control service data units (MAC SDUs) are generated in units of sub-blocks. A modified packing sub-header (PSH) used for distinguishing...

20060171407 - Multicast packet processing apparatus and method: A multicast packet forwarding apparatus and method that can combine an internal processor of a multicast packet processor into a forwarding unit and a packet duplicator in order to minimize delay in the processing time of a forwarder and a packet transmitter. In the apparatus, a packet receiver is adapted...

20060171409 - Communication control apparatus for determining data transmission timing with node type and a state variable: A communication control apparatus, mounted on each node of a telecommunications system, receives node type information selected by a neighboring node, and transmits node type information selected by the own node and node type information of another node. The apparatus receives the state variable signal of the neighboring node reflecting...

20060171408 - System and method for asynchronous wireless collision detection with acknowledgment for ad hoc wireless networks: 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, the method includes emitting a tone after determining that a transmission is incoming from a sending node. An initial portion of a packet comprising the...

20060171410 - Dynamic priority based message transmitting apparatus, priority adjusting apparatus using the same, and dynamic priority message processing method: A dynamic priority based message transmitting apparatus includes a priority storing block for recording priorities in a communication network environment having multitude nodes and recording the lowest priority among the priorities, a communication bus monitoring block for monitoring a communication bus and transmitting its message when the communication bus is...

20060171411 - System, method, and article of manufacture for initializing a communication link using gfp data frames: A system and a method for initializing a communication link for transmitting a data stream from a first computer through a synchronous optical communication network to a second computer are provided. The method includes transmitting a first request message in a first GFP data frame to a second computer. The...

20060171412 - Non-linear reception method and apparatus: A family of Multi-User Detector (MUD) structures is disclosed which allow for approximate linear and non-linear MMSE receivers in the presence of multipath propagation. A combination of linear and non-linear MUD structures provides substantial gains over their conventional linear counterparts. Long time span MUD detectors are disclosed which preserve time...

20060171413 - Data processing system and data interfacing method thereof: A data processing system includes a data processing module and a data interface module. The data processing module may perform a data processing function and interface with other data processing systems using data packets having a first protocol format including actual data and control data. The data interface module may...

20060171414 - Systems and methods for digital data transmission rate control: The present invention provides systems and methods for adaptive digital data transmission rate control. A digital data transmission system for adaptively transferring packets over a transmission link includes a client device having a bandwidth control module and a host device coupled to the client device over the transmission link. The...

20060171415 - Electronic system for vehicles and a method for reducing the electromagnetic interference on electronic systems in vehicles: The invention provides an electronic system for vehicles. The electronic system comprises an electronic control unit 10a, peripheral units 12b, 12c, and a communication line 20. The communication line 20 connects the electronic control unit 10a with the peripheral units 12b or 12c. Discrete successive digital data packets are exchanged...

20060171416 - High rate packet data transmission system: A hybrid ARQ method for packet data transmission in a mobile communication system wherein previously transmitted packets are combined with retransmitted packets. The packets are segmented into a plurality of protocol data units (PDUs), and each PDU is assigned a sequence number for identification purposes. The sequence number is transmitted...

20060171418 - Method of packet mode digital communication over a transmission channel shared by a plurality of users: A first aspect of the invention is a method of transmitting data packets over a transmission channel shared by a plurality of users, based on the time and/or frequency diversity slotted Aloha technique, in which at least two replicas of each packet to be transmitted are sent over said transmission...

20060171417 - Method of transmitting feedback information using an extended subheader: A method of transmitting feedback information is disclosed. More specifically, a mobile station (MS) receives a Protocol Data Unit (PDU) which includes a Medium Access Channel (MAC) header from a base station (BS). Thereafter, the MS determines from the received MAC header whether an extended subheader group appears after the...

20060171419 - Method for discontinuous transmission and accurate reproduction of background noise information: The present invention comprises a method of communicating background noise comprising the steps of transmitting background noise, blanking subsequent background noise data rate frames used to communicate the background noise, receiving the background noise and updating the background noise. In another embodiment, the present invention comprises an apparatus for communicating...

20060171421 - Communication timing control allotting a time slot by a distributed coordination through interaction with neighboring nodes: A transmission timing control apparatus included in a network node constituting a telecommunications system is configured to use the reception timing of a timing signal from another node to determine the transmission timing of a timing signal of the own node and determine a time slot for transmission of a...

20060171420 - Message synchronization in a communications system: Message Synchronization of the present inventions begins with storing messages (e-mail, voice mail, faxes) in more than one (1) message repository allowing users multiple, differentiated access points (e.g.: IP Client, PSTN). From any of these points, messages can be altered to reflect any one or more of a number of...

20060171422 - Method for realizing transmitting quasi-together the voice service and data service: The present invention discloses a method for realizing voice preference over packet data service and voice service in a CDMA system, comprising: when a mobile station is in a data service call, transmitting a message that indicates there is a voice service to the mobile station if a mobile switching...

20060171423 - Apparatus and methods for multi-stage multiplexing in a network: Methods and apparatus for performing multiplexing of video or other content (e.g., programs) within a network using feed-back from a subsequent digital program insertion stage, and/or feed-forward information from a prior multiplexing stage. In one embodiment, the network comprises a hybrid fiber coax (HFC) cable network having headend and hub-based...

20060171424 - Mc-cdma: A method of transmitting a signal formed from data symbols over a wireless communication link in a multi carrier code division multiple access communication system, in which the data symbols are spread over multiple sub-carriers in accordance with a code of predetermined length, comprising the steps of: allocating the bandwidth...