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