Multiplex communications inventions 09/06

20060209666 - Method for distributing data on an ofdm time-frequency grid, a base transceiver station, a base station controller and a mobile network therefor: The invention concerns a method for distributing data on an OFDM time-frequency grid for data transmission from and to mobile terminals in a mobile network accommodating the use of pilot subgrids suitable for channel estimation, whereby said OFDM time-frequency grid comprises different frequency patterns, subcarrier frequencies of said different frequency...

20060209667 - Ofdm-mimo communication system using smart spatial symbol mapping and associated methods: A transmitter in an OFDM-MIMO wireless communication system uses multiple antennas to transmit each data stream. Before the coded binary bits are mapped into channel symbols, they are divided into two groups. One group is mapped to a channel symbol as in a conventional system. Another group of binary bits...

20060209668 - Integrated dvb receiver-decoder: An integrated receiver-decoder device for in-home use demodulates and decodes QPSK modulated MPEG-DVB formatted signals received via satellite transmission. The receiver-decoder is capable of simultaneously providing both IP data output and analog audio output for direct connection to a user's home entertainment equipment and/or PC. The receiver-decoder housing includes a...

20060209672 - Efficient ofdm communications with interference immunity: The present invention relates to employing OFDM modulation in combination with spatial diversity and space-time block coding to provide high data rates and exceptional interference immunity. For transmission, quadrature modulated data is encoded in space and time to create individual series of encoded symbols. Each of these series of encoded...

20060209673 - Orthogonal frequency division multiplex modem circuit: To provide an orthogonal frequency division multiplex modem circuit which can multiplex signals, whose bit rates and QoS are different from one another, and can transmit the signals via one OFDM line. A serial/parallel converter converts input signals into a complex parallel signal respectively, and a sub carrier and a...

20060209670 - Pilot signal transmission for an orthogonal frequency division wireless communication system: Transmission patterns for pilot symbols transmitted from a mobile station or base station are provided. The pattern allows for improved receipt of the pilot symbols transmitted. In addition, schemes for improving the ability to multiplex pilot symbols without interference and/or biasing from different mobile stations over the same frequencies and...

20060209669 - Radio communication apparatus and subcarrier assignment method: Wireless communication apparatus capable of increasing transmission efficiency by selecting data for scheduling according to data type, and capable of achieving low power consumption and high-speed signal processing is disclosed. With this apparatus, a control section (108) allocates transmission data sequence 1 to subcarriers of superior quality by carrying out...

20060209671 - System and method for subcarrier allocation in a wireless multihop relay network: The present disclosure relates generally to a system and method for use in a communications network. In one example, the method includes dividing a total available frequency band of a first node into a multiple subcarriers using orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM). A first portion of subcarriers is allocated to...

20060209674 - Shared channel structure, arq systems and methods: A forward link design is provided employing CDMA (code division multiple access) technologies in which time division multiplexing is employed between data and control information on the forward link to service multiple users per slot. Another forward link design employing CDMA (code division multiple access) technologies is provided in which...

20060209675 - Indicating availabiliy status of services provided by a mobile communication network: The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for estimating down link wide-band interference power and noise power in a mobile communications system. By using filters that are matched to the multipath channels of a number of base stations the received powers from the base stations may be differentiated...

20060209676 - Network link backup system: A network link backup system aims to provide network link backup function for electronic equipment (such as a server system, home computer, intelligent home appliance) to maintain normal network operation. The system includes more than one network link module, each including at least one network port, a detection module, a...

20060209678 - Replication of static and dynamic databases in network devices: Methods, apparatuses, and systems are presented for replicating data from a first network device to a second network device involving selecting a plurality of data sections containing data accessed by the first network device, systematically assigning at least one replication attribute to each of the plurality of selected data sections,...

20060209677 - Systems and methods of priority failover determination: Systems and methods for implementing priority failover determination are disclosed. An exemplary method includes prioritizing ranking criteria for a plurality of network adapter ports based at least in part on user input. The method also includes determining a ranking value for each of the plurality of network adapter ports based...

20060209679 - Transceiver, optical transmitter, port-based switching method, program, and storage medium: In a transceiver having a plurality of ports, switching is determined on a port basis. A transceiver that is redundantly configured, has a plurality of interface ports, and implements serial communications of switching-control information for each interface port is characterized by including a switching-control circuit for creating the switching-control information...

20060209680 - Network link backup system: A network link backup system includes at least one network port to be selectively connected to a server system for linking the server system to a network; a baseboard management control unit to generate a selection switch signal according to a switch command entered by a manager; and a selection...

20060209681 - Communication system, communication card, and communication method: A communication system is provided for simply protecting a fault-caused spot and enhancing efficiency of network operation. A plurality of physical links are installed in a local span of the network. A load distribution unit virtually forms those physical links as one link aggregation and distributes load to the physical...

20060209682 - Algorithm for backup pe selection: A fast reroute (FRR) technique is implemented at the edge of a computer network. If an edge device detects a node or link failure that prevents it from communicating with a neighboring routing domain, the edge device reroutes at least some data packets addressed to that domain to a backup...

20060209683 - Packet transmission method and station in packet ring telecommunications network: A station forming part of a packet ring telecommunications network designed to share available bandwidth of packets transmitted in a first direction through a 0-side transmission line based on information indicated in control frames transmitted in a second direction in an opposite direction to the first direction through a 1-side...

20060209685 - Bfd rate-limiting and automatic session activation: A system and method for bidirectional forwarding detection (BFD) rate-limiting and automatic BFD session activation includes tracking a total bidirectional forwarding detection (BFD) packet rate for a line card (LC) of the node, and rejecting operations associated with creation of a new BFD session that would cause the total BFD...

20060209687 - Communication rate control method and device: A method of controlling the communication rate between a user terminal and an edge switch of a network is provided. This method includes the step of matching the transmission rate at which data is transmitted from the user terminal to the edge switch, with the communication rate of the edge...

20060209684 - Data rate controller, and method of control thereof: A data rate controller and a method of control thereof. The invention presents a data rate controller to control data transmission between a host and a function device via a buffer by providing an interrupt device to provide feedback of a buffer status of the buffer to the host to...

20060209686 - Flow control with dynamic priority allocation for handover calls: The present invention relates to a flow control method and apparatus for scheduling data packets in a high-speed time-shared channel, wherein a scheduling priority is dynamically increased for a predetermined time period for users in a handover state. Thereby, transmission gaps caused by empty buffers in the handover target device...

20060209688 - Packet forwarding apparatus: A BAS/load balancer which combines the functions of a BAS (Broadband Access Server) providing a dynamic network connection to a user network, and a load balancing relaying the communications traffic of the user network to one of plural load balancing target apparatuses, and which can apply an arbitrary load balancing...

20060209689 - Information processing device and method, recording medium and program: An information processing apparatus allowing proper communication with a communication partner in accordance with a communication time of the communication partner. A reception control unit receives a random challenge (RC) from a transmission terminal and supplies it to a generation unit. The reception control unit transmits an RC reception message...

20060209691 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for data processing control: Exemplary embodiments include a method for implementing standardized enterprise warehouse system processes, including: extracting content from one or more source systems that provide a feed for the content; and loading extracted content into one or more standardized data layout tables of a data control structure and based upon the meta-data...

20060209690 - System and method for generating a dynamic prioritized contact list: A system and method for generating a dynamic prioritized contact list for a communication device. The dynamic prioritized contact list may vary over the course of the day to provide an optimized contact list for a time interval. A prioritized contact list generator determines a current time interval. The prioritized...

20060209693 - Feedback priority modulation rate controller: Methods and devices for controlling and managing data flow and data transmission rates. A feedback mechanism is used in conjunction with measuring output transmission rates to control the input transmission rates, changing conditions can be accounted for an excess output transmission capacity can be shared among numerous input ports. Similarly,...

20060209692 - Transmission rate control method, mobile station, and radio network controller: A transmission rate control method of this invention includes: notifying, at a radio base station Node B, a mobile station UE of a maximum allowable transmission rate of uplink user data, using an absolute rate grant channel (E-AGCH); instructing, at a radio network controller RNC, the mobile station UE to...

20060209695 - Load balancing in a distributed telecommunications platform: Processing is allocated within a distributed telecommunications at two levels—the component level and the process level. At the component level, a virtual switch is employed to route service requests to one of a group of components that are configured to process the service request. The decision can be made autonomously...

20060209694 - Methods and apparatus for creation and transport of multimedia content flows: System for creation and transport of multimedia content flows. The system includes a method for transporting a content flow to a wireless access network for broadcast to devices coupled to the wireless access network. The method includes transmitting a request message to add the content flow to the wireless access...

20060209696 - Traffic monitor using leaky bucket with variable fill: An integrated circuit monitors the most active traffic flow rates on a communications network by using a leaky bucket model having a variable fill rate. As a switch receives packets, the packet identifications are sampled. A sampled packet identification is compared to record identifications in a table of identifications. If...

20060209697 - Mobile communication control method, mobile communication system, router, and program: When transmitting or receiving packets of mobile terminals for which movement information is managed by control devices, path costs that result from data-related factors for transmitting and receiving packets are calculated for each of paths that pass by way of the control devices and paths that do not pass by...

20060209698 - Broadband telecommunication test system and test method used therein: A method for testing the physical layer of a broadband installation at subscriber's house by means of a broadband test device or network analyzer (NA) coupled to the subscriber's house through a broadband connection (BB). The broadband connection is preferably a DSL connection through which the network analyzer performs measurements...

20060209699 - Device and method for network monitoring: A network monitoring device that monitors a network state, includes a receiving unit that receives a packet passing through the network; a processing unit that performs analysis of the network state with respect to the packet received; and a determining unit that determines whether a failure has occurred in the...

20060209700 - Tracing an access point in a wireless network: An access point in a wireless network is traced by sending an internet protocol (IP) packet from a detector to the access point through the wireless network. The detector and the access point are connected through a private wired network. The IP packet is sent with the source IP address...

20060209701 - Peer-to-peer method of quality of service (qos) probing and analysis and infrastructure employing same: A peer-to-peer (P2P) probing/network quality of service (QoS) analysis system utilizes a UDP-based probing tool for determining latency, bandwidth, and packet loss ratio between peers in a network. The probing tool enables network QoS probing between peers that connect through a network address translator. The list of peers to probe...

20060209711 - Capacity management system for passive optical networks: The invention is a tool that accurately predicts the performance of each different priority or service level on a PON with multiple different service types and multiple users. Delays and bit rates are computed accounting for all packet, protocol, propagation, and scheduling overhead. The performance and delays of all services...

20060209708 - Communication apparatus, method for controlling communication apparatus, communication system, program and medium: In a communication apparatus capable of switching states in response to a request from an external device, the communication apparatus switches states between said second state where the communication apparatus replies a valid response under limited circumstance and the third state where the communication apparatus does not reply a valid...

20060209703 - Communication system: In a communication system subject to variations in channel quality, transmit power control is used to reduce the variations in received signal quality. If the channel quality degrades to such an extent that a high transmit power would be required to ensure good received signal quality, the transmit power is...

20060209706 - Intercepting mobile telephone communications: Monitoring mobile telephone signaling carried by an ATM network to determine channels of interest. ATM cells of the ATM network are intercepted to monitor a UMTS terrestrial radio access network (UTRAN). The intercepted ATM cells are automatically analyzed to obtain a correspondence between a static Node B channel and a...

20060209709 - Method and system for generating transport stream packets: In accordance with a specific aspect of the present invention, a compressed video stream, such as an MPEG-2 video stream, is received by a transport demultiplexor, synchronized, parsed into separate packet types, and written to buffer locations external the demultiplexor. Adaptation field is handled by a separate parser. In addition,...

20060209705 - Method and system for removing authentication of a supplicant: According to one embodiment, a method for removing authentication of a supplicant includes monitoring communication between the supplicant and an authenticator. The method also includes determining, based on the monitored communication, the MAC address for the supplicant and an attachment port of the supplicant to the intermediate network device disposed...

20060209702 - Method for evaluating the bandwith of a digital link: The invention relates to a method for evaluating the bandwidth between a first point and a second point liable to exchange digital data packets in a telecommunications network including a plurality of sub-networks. The method according to the invention includes the following steps: for each transmission direction through at least...

20060209713 - Robustness improvement for bandwidth limited communication system: A method and apparatus for the transmission of multiple control characters of the same type to a receiver to improve the retention of transmitter to receiver synchronization in a noisy environment having receiver code that is less complex and does not require an increase in the bandwidth of the system...

20060209707 - Storage system and information processing system: Prior to alteration of the communication route connecting the enterprise servers 51 to 53, ports a, b and c of the enterprise server 51 are each connected with port 1 of the storage system 7 through the communication route. When enterprise server 54 is connected with the storage system 7...

20060209704 - System and method for implementing pnrp locality: A method is provided for a host node in a computer network to determine its coordinates in a d-dimensional network space, comprising discovering an address of a peer node in the network, measuring network latency between the host node and the peer node, determining whether network latency has been measured...

20060209710 - Testing method, communication device, and testing system: A testing method of a communication device according to the present invention comprises: a step for transmitting and receiving a test signal generated based on a reference clock; a step for generating an anticipated value of the test signal based on the reference clock; a step for delaying the test...

20060209712 - Wireless communication system, wireless communication apparatus, wireless communication method, and computer program: Disclosed is a wireless communication system with communication stations that make information transmission therebetween by selecting a proper transmission rate under a communication environment where plural transmission rates coexist. In order for a transmission station for transmitting a packet to determine a transmission rate for transmission of subsequent packets, the...

20060209715 - Apparatus, system and method capable of node adaptive sleep scheduling in wireless adhoc networks: An embodiment of the present invention provides an apparatus, comprising a transceiver capable of dynamic cluster-based node sleep/wake scheduling by integrating application information such as scheduled data transfers with the sleep/wake scheduling, wherein the nodes may sleep immediately after a scheduled data transmission. Further, the nodes may intelligently and automatically...

20060209722 - Data transferring system and electronic apparatus: A data transferring system, in which processes to match settings between devices mutually communicating are simplified, software for the processes is also simplified, and the amount of data to be processed is reduced, is disclosed. In a data transferring system of the PCI Express standard, when settings between facing ports...

20060209717 - Distributed storing of network position information for nodes: Network position information for a node in a network is determined. An infrastructure node in the network is identified for storing the network position information for the node based on a network distance to the infrastructure node....

20060209716 - Dynamic retrieval of routing information for inter-as te-lsps: A technique dynamically triggers an exchange of reachability information between a tail-end (remote) domain target node (e.g., a tail-end node) of a traffic engineering (TE) label switched path (LSP) and a local domain head-end node of the TE-LSP in a computer network. The inter-domain information retrieval technique is illustratively based...

20060209718 - Enhanced network system through the combination of network objects: A system and method for reducing the cost of framing network packets in a virtual machine environment combines certain network objects to eliminate the cost of fully framing packets between the combined objects. In a virtual environment, for example, this allows a virtual NIC in one partition to send only...

20060209721 - Interference control in a wireless communication system: For interference control, a sector m estimates interference observed from terminals in neighbor sectors and obtains an interference estimate. Sector m may generate an over-the-air (OTA) other-sector interference (OSI) report and/or an inter-sector (IS) OSI report based on the interference estimate. Sector m may broadcast the OTA OSI report to...

20060209714 - Method for the automatic configuration of a communications device: The invention relates to a method for the automatic configuration of a communications device using a reserved identification number, at least one network node device, which administers an associated subnetwork of a network, at least one virtual network, with which the communications device is associated, whereby data packets exchanged within...

20060209723 - Network device and management technique of the same: When a network device, such as an ADSL modem to be connected to a communication network through an ADSL line facility, is physically connected to a port of a line facility, it is checked whether or not this connection is the first connection (or access). If this connection is the...

20060209720 - System and method for collecting routing information in a mesh network: A method includes receiving a request to identify any communication paths visible to a first router in a mesh network and broadcasting the request. The method also includes identifying one or more second routers that broadcast information received by the first router, where the one or more identified second routers...

20060209719 - System and method for routing isis traffic through unidirectional links of a computer network: A system and method routes data traffic over a unidirectional link of a computer network configured to implement a routing protocol, such as the ISIS routing protocol. To that end, the invention extends the ISIS routing protocol to allow dynamic discovery of neighboring routers (i.e., neighbors) that are connected via...

20060209725 - Information retrieval architecture for packet classification: An information retrieval architecture is herein disclosed which can handle multi-dimensional search problems such as packet classification....

20060209724 - Method and system for fully trusted adapter validation of addresses referenced in a virtual host transfer request: A method, computer program product, and distributed data processing system that allows a single physical I/O adapter, such as a PCI, PCI-X, or PCI-E adapter, to validate that a direct memory access address referenced by an incoming I/O transaction that was initiated through a memory mapped I/O operation are associated...

20060209726 - Information network control method and telecommunication node: The present invention is to provide a control method for an information network connecting a plurality of telecommunication nodes by a ring transmission path and giving a plurality of priorities to frames which are exchanged among the telecommunication nodes, comprising the processes of: recognizing a bandwidth assurance value set up...

20060209728 - Method and apparatus for establishing a distributed conference bridge: The invention comprises a method and apparatus for establishing a conference bridge. Specifically, the method comprises obtaining at least one request for establishing the conference bridge where the conference bridge is operable for enabling communications between a plurality of user devices, and determining a configuration for establishing the conference bridge,...

20060209727 - Peer-to-peer instant messaging and chat system: Disclosed is a method for controlling access to a chat room using a peer-to-peer (“P2P”) network. The method includes the steps of sending a search request to a first set of nodes in the P2P network, the first set of nodes neighboring a node requesting the search and including at...

20060209729 - Technique for providing on a program channel composite programming content attributed to different sources: In providing composite programming content from different sources on a program channel, a host processor joins IP multicast groups for which “live” contents from multiple sources are provided. Specifically, the host processor collects packets containing the live contents based on their destination addresses associated with the IP multicast groups. Segments...

20060209730 - Bi-directional audio bridge: Two half duplex communicators from separate networks each have an audio input port, an audio output port, and a terminal for receiving an external keying signal. Audio signal paths link respective audio output ports with respective audio input ports. Voice actuated circuits produce appropriate keying signals at the keying terminals...

20060209731 - Method and apparatus for in-kernel application-specific processing of content streams: Transferring content between one or more input streams and one or more output streams via an application running on a host system. A kernel-level service is provided which is adapted to perform application-specific processing and which attends to transfer of content from at least one input stream to at least...

20060209732 - Pilot signal transmission for an orthogonal frequency division wireless communication system: Transmission patterns for pilot symbols transmitted from a mobile station or base station are provided. The pattern allows for improved receipt of the pilot symbols transmitted for frequency selective channels and users. In addition, schemes for improving the ability to multiplex pilot symbols without interference and/or biasing from different mobile...

20060209733 - Information providing method: A server receives a call sign from a client terminal CT to identify a currently received radio station RS. There is provided state information which indicates states of an information provision service associated with the radio station RS corresponding to the call sign. At least when the information provision service...

20060209734 - System and method for allocating and indicating ranging region in a broadband wireless access communication system: Disclosed is a system and method for allocating and indicating a ranging region in which a base station (BS) allocates and indicates a ranging region in a broadband wireless access (BWA) communication system. The method includes: ranging region allocation and change indication information in a first region of every downlink...

20060209735 - Auto realignment of multiple serial byte-lanes: Described is a data communication arrangement (100) with a transmit module adapted to convert parallel data words (102) into a plurality of serial data streams (122, 124, 126, 128), the transmit module arranged in a plurality of groups, with each group including a data-carrying line (122, 124, 126, 128). A...

20060209736 - Data handling in a distributed communication network: In one embodiment, a system for data handling in a distributed communication network includes one or more data-handling nodes (DHNs) each residing at one of one or more centrals that are each operable to receive a stream of first data units from a routing system. The stream of first data...

20060209737 - Data handling in a distributed communication network: In one embodiment, a system for data handling in a distributed communication network includes a data-handling node (DHN) residing at a mission management center (MMC). The MMC manages operations of one or more remote units. The DHN receives a stream of data units from a routing system. The stream of...

20060209738 - Digital satellite broadcast system, transmission station, and receiver: A signal for each of channels to be sent to a receiver is provided with a time zone in which nothing needs to be received, so that if an instruction is given by a user to simultaneously receive a plurality of channels assigned to different frequencies, program information of the...

20060209739 - Code cycle modulation in optical code division multiple access systems: An optical code division multiple access (OCDMA) system includes an optical transmitter system configured to transmit data from a plurality of users through a shared optical channel by encoding the data from each user with a spreading code assigned to that user. Each spreading code includes a unique sequence of...

20060209746 - Controller and transmission and reception method for radio communications in a transceiver for radio communications: A controller in a transceiver for radio communications in which the same frequency is shared between multiple communications systems is disclosed that includes: a cyclic autocorrelation value calculation part configured to calculate the cyclic autocorrelation value of a first one of the communications systems from a received signal; and a...

20060209749 - Dynamic space-time coding for a communication system: Techniques for transmitting data with dynamic space-time coding are described. Dynamic space-time coding refers to the mapping of data across both space and time dimensions based on a mapping scheme that changes in a dynamic manner, e.g., a time-variant manner. A transmitter generates at least one data stream and performs...

20060209741 - Hysteresis reset for an always-on mobile station: A system and method of packet zone hysteresis for a mobile station is presented. A packet zone hysteresis reset timer is started whenever the mobile station sends or receives packet data and packet data exchange is determined to be incomplete. The packet zone hysteresis reset timer gives a time duration...

20060209743 - Media device and method of enhancing use of media device: A media device, a network element and a method of enhancing use of a media device are provided. The media device is configured to receive a broadcast media stream transmitted by a broadcast system at a given frequency and a service transmission over a radio interface of a cellular telecommunication...

20060209752 - Method and apparatus for cellular communication over data networks: Cellular signals or other wireless signals/messages are introduced into a building or to an outside location by transmitting packets corresponding to those signals over a data network and low cost cables to designated locations within the data network. Once the designated packets containing the signals reach the destination, they are...

20060209751 - Method and apparatus for requesting point-to-point protocol (ppp) instances from a packet data services network: A method and apparatus for requesting PPP instances from a packet data services network includes a mobile station configured to send an origination message to a packet data service node (PDSN) at which it has arrived upon leaving the vicinity of another PDSN. The message informs the new PDSN of...

20060209750 - Method and system for communicating content on a broadcast services communication system: An outer decoder and an inner decoder encode a block of information to be transmitted, to improve protection by adding redundancy. The redundancy permits decoding of the information from less than a complete encoded block of information. Time re-alignment of two transmissions of the same content from two base stations...

20060209740 - Method and system for detecting the presence of a moblie terminal: A method, system, and computer program product for informing an application server whether or not a mobile subscriber is present on a mobile telecommunication network includes a first step for sending a first distinctive signal from the mobile subscriber to the mobile telecommunication network, intended for the mobile subscriber. A...

20060209747 - Method for providing harmonized public security and safety services and corresponding service platform: The present invention relates to a method for providing harmonized public security and safety services to a plurality of public security and safety control centers, said public security and safety control centers being adapted to control terminals over at least one access communication network. According to the present invention, the...

20060209742 - Method of fast data transmission: In the method of packet transmission, data packet fragments received from a first mobile station are sent to a second mobile station without assembling and re-fragmenting the received data packet fragments if the first and second mobile stations are in a same cell....

20060209748 - Method of transmitting broadcast message in a mobile wireless communication system: A method of transmitting a broadcast message using a Forward Common Control Channel (F-CCCH) in a wireless communication system is disclosed. More specifically, a base station determines whether a periodic enhanced broadcast page is enabled or disabled, and then transmits at least one broadcast message via a first slot of...

20060209744 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for implementing a virtual posting service: Methods, systems, and computer program products for implementing virtual posting services. Methods include receiving content from a communications device located in a geographic proximity that is serviced by an access node, storing the content in a storage device that is in communication with the access node, and tracking an amount...

20060209745 - System, method and apparatus for wireless delivery of content from a generalized content source to a generalized content sink: A system, method and apparatus for implementing a wireless point-to-point interface that securely and robustly delivers digital content from a generalized content source to a generalized content sink. The system, method and apparatus performs in a manner that is sufficiently secure and robust to serve as a replacement for the...

20060209754 - Channel structures for a quasi-orthogonal multiple-access communication system: A channel structure has at least two channel sets. Each channel set contains multiple channels and is associated with a specific mapping of the channels to the system resources available for data transmission. Each channel set may be defined based on a channel tree having a hierarchical structure. To achieve...

20060209756 - Combined simulcasting and dedicated services in a wireless communication system: An efficient method for providing both dedicated and simulcast services over a common wireless infrastructure is described. The services can be available to a single terminal as well as to a multiplicity of terminals simultaneously. The method uses time division multiplexing and orthogonal frequency division multiple access for simulcasting information...

20060209755 - Method and system for dynamically allocating sub-carriers in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing network: A method of dynamically allocating sub-carriers for communication in an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex network is provided. The method includes monitoring network conditions and allocating sub-carriers for the base station to a set of downlink sub-carriers or to a set of uplink sub-carriers based on the network conditions....

20060209753 - Method of encoded channel acquisition: A method of scanning for an encoded signal, such as a GSM encoded signal, in a frequency band is disclosed herein. The disclosed method provides either more rapid acquisition of a signal, or increased battery life for mobile devices in regions without service. A corresponding mobile device that performs the...

20060209760 - Communication processing system, communication processing method, communication terminal, data transfer controller, and program: A virtual network prefix is provided as a dedicated prefix for a mobile node in a domain having a plurality of subnets. The domain includes a layered network that has a quasi-micro mobility network (QMMN) and a pure-micro mobility network (PMMN). The quasi-micro mobility network (QMMN) performs prefix-based routing, and...

20060209759 - Local mobility management in mobile internet protocol network: The invention relates to mobility management in a mobile Internet protocol network. The network comprises a local mobility domain access router and a wireless access point operationally connected to the local mobility domain router, where the wireless access point is proxying a mobile node. Data packets destined to the mobile...

20060209757 - Method and apparatus for providing fast handoff in a radio communication system: An approach is provided for executing a fast handoff in a radio communication system. An active hard handoff condition associated with a communication session supported by a radio link protocol (RLP) flow and a signaling link protocol (SLP) flow is detected. Transfer of state information and data of the RLP...

20060209758 - Methods and systems for roaming in 802.11 wireless networks: The present invention discloses a system and method for fast and smooth roaming in a wireless network with plural access points. In order to keep better communication quality, the client device may have dual-transceiver. One transceiver is applied for transmitting and receiving data packets to and from a current associated...

20060209761 - Novel receiver architecture for cdma receiver downlink: A receiver includes a searcher to identify pilot signals within a received signal and a pilot tracking unit to continuously track pilot signals identified by the searcher. The pilot signals tracked by the pilot tracking unit may include pilot signals associated with an affiliated base station as well as pilot...

20060209763 - Multi-mode link adaptation: Multi-mode link adaptation in a wireless communication network where a station calculates a current link quality, a minimum link quality, and an excess link quality based upon the current link quality and the minimum link quality to determine an operating mode that is related to the success or failure of...

20060209762 - System and method for wireless communications: Systems and methods applicable, for instance, in wireless communications. For example, a wireless node and/or other computer may act to create a candidate signal list and/or may act to measure strength for one or more candidate list signals. As another example, the wireless node and/or other computer may act to...

20060209765 - Mimo ofdm system: A MIMO OFDM system includes a plurality of space-time encoders for encoding respective data blocks with independent space-time codes. The transformed data block signals are transmitted by a plurality of transmit antennas and received by a plurality of receive antennas. The received data is pre-whitened prior to maximum likelihood detection....

20060209764 - User scheduling method for multiuser mimo communication system: In multiuser Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) systems in which a base station performs scheduling on the basis of channel information fed back from a plurality of terminals, the user scheduling method of the present invention includes calculating a metric for scheduling the users using the channel information, selecting one of at...

20060209766 - Secure open-air communication system utilizing multi-channel decoyed transmission: A secure, open-air communication system utilizes a plurality of “decoy” data signals to hide one or more true data signals. The true data signal(s) are channel hopped with the plurality of decoy data signals to form a multi-channel “scrambled” output signal that is thereafter transmitted in an open-air communication system....

20060209767 - System and method for controlling uplink traffic load in a cellular wireless mobile communication system: A method is provided for controlling an uplink traffic load in a wireless mobile communication system. In the method, a mobile station (MS) receives a reference signal from each of a base station (BS) of its home cell and a BS of a neighbor cell; calculates a power difference between...

20060209772 - Coordinated directional medium access control in a wireless network: A method of simultaneously transmitting and receiving multiple data packets over wireless channels among the nodes of a wireless network is provided. The method includes automatically selecting a master sending node and corresponding master receiving node in response to an omni-directionally transmitted request to send during a contention period. The...

20060209776 - In-vehicle wireless communications device: An in-vehicle wireless communications device receives an incoming signal via a wireless communications unit from the wireless communications network. When the in-vehicle battery is being discharged, the type of the incoming signal is determined. When the incoming signal is for a voice call, a packet communications, or a TV phone,...

20060209769 - Jitter correcting apparatus capable of ensuring synchronism between transmitter apparatus and receiver apparatus: When a beacon (n−1) that is transmitted from a piconet coordinator (PNC) is detected in a MAC layer of the PNC and a MAC layer of a device (DEV), a detection signal is immediately transmitted to a LINK layer. In the LINK layer, a count is made from the detection...

20060209770 - Method and apparatus for prevention of unauthorized wireless data communications: A method and apparatus for preventing unwanted wireless networking data communications includes: a) generating at least one protocol data unit in an apparatus; b) ignoring one or more wireless data transmission signals in the predefined area; and c) transmitting the protocol data unit from the apparatus to the predefined area,...

20060209773 - Method and system for enhanced wireless communications: A system and method for enhancing communications between a WiFi terminal and other devices coupled to a wireless network. A wireless Access Point is configured to receive data from a data network through a wired link and to transmit and receive data over an 802.11 wireless link to one or...

20060209778 - Methods and apparatus for implementing nat traversal in mobile ip: Methods and apparatus for establishing communication between a Mobile Node and a Home Agent are disclosed. The Home Agent receives a registration request packet from the Mobile Node, the registration request packet including an IP source address and a Home Agent address. The Home Agent then detects from the registration...

20060209768 - Service in wlan inter-working, address management system, and method: The present invention provides a solution to the mobile terminal address management in the WLAN inter-working. By using the access control framework, the mobile terminal could obtain the address, and setup the tunnel together with the granting of service access. The management process would be shielded by the inherent encryption...

20060209775 - Sip message and processing method thereof in mobile communication system: A method of defining and processing an SIP message of a binary format so as to shorten the call setting time between a server and a terminal which has not acquired a traffic channel and to thus reduce the amount of traffic. The method may comprise a step in which...

20060209774 - Wireless base station, wireless mobile device, and wireless access network: An object of the present invention is to alleviate delays of distribution of membership request that are needed in distribution of multicast data. In order that distribution of membership reports, which has been executed via a multicast router, can be executed by a wireless base station, a wireless mobile device...

20060209771 - Wireless lan with contention avoidance: A method for communication includes associating a plurality of stations with an access point in a wireless local area network (WLAN), and selecting a station among the associated stations to transmit an uplink signal. The access point transmits an unsolicited Clear-To-Send (CTS) message to the stations specifying a time interval...

20060209777 - Wireless personal local area network: A transceiver apparatus for creating a wireless personal local area network between a computer terminal and one or more peripheral devices. A separate transceiver is connected to the computer terminal and to each peripheral device. The transceivers can be connected to the terminal or peripheral device either internally or externally....

20060209779 - Performance of a receiver in interfering conditions: A device 22 includes a communication system transceiver 40 for exchanging signals in a first frequency band and a receiver 30 for receiving signals in a second frequency band. In order to improve the performance of the receiver. A processing portion 34 of the devices detects the presence of signals...

20060209780 - Data transfer in tdma system: A solution for the transmission of data in a time division multiple access (TDMA) based communication system is provided. A plurality of time slots in a TDMA frame is allocated to a subscriber unit for the transmission of speech data. The extra capacity provided to the subscriber unit is used...

20060209781 - Method of addressing messages and communications system: A method of establishing wireless communications between an interrogator and individual ones of multiple wireless identification devices, the method comprising combining tree search and Aloha methods to establish communications between the interrogator and individual ones of the multiple wireless identification devices without collision. A system comprising an interrogator, and a...

20060209782 - Bandwidth optimization system: An interface between the BTS and BSC optimizes data transmitted over, for example, T1 lines to effectively increase the transmission bandwidth. The method comprises determined whether a frame of data is available for optimization. If available, the frame type is identified, the payload is extracted, and a header compiled. The...

20060209783 - Method and apparatus for improving data transmission reliability in a wireless communications system: Techniques for performing duplicate detection and re-ordering for a HARQ transmission are described. For duplicate detection, a receiver determines whether a decoded packet x for an ARQ channel y is a duplicate packet based on packet x and a prior decoded packet for ARQ channel y. For re-ordering, the receiver...

20060209784 - Methods and apparatus for controlling ethernet packet transfers between clock domains: A transport circuit is described for generating enable signals in different independent clock domains enabling data transfers across the clock domains. The transport circuit is used, for example, in an Ethernet receive interface where data is to be transferred from a receive clock domain to a system core clock domain...

20060209786 - Communication setup methods for gsm, umts and isdn protocols to enable personalized telephony and communication device incorporating the same: A method for setting up a connection between a first communication device and a second communication device, which are connectable by means of a communication network. In one embodiment, the method includes: (1) providing party-defined data, (2) generating a setup message containing the party-defined data, (3) transmitting the setup message...

20060209785 - Dynamic routing in packet-switching multi-layer communications networks: A method is provided for routing data packets across a multi-layer network which includes a plurality of nodes, a logical level provided with a plurality of logical links and a physical level provided with a plurality of physical links, each of the logical links corresponding to at least one of...

20060209787 - Load distributing apparatus and load distributing method: A load distributing apparatus is connected to a plurality of routers carrying out a transfer process of multicast data. The load distributing apparatus includes a network interface unit that receives a packet via a network, a packet identifying unit that identifies the packet received as a join message or a...

20060209801 - Apparatus and method for allowing page monitoring of a communication system during traffic/broadcast channel operation without reducing traffic performance: A system and method of conducting wireless communications between a wireless communication device (WCD) and both a first network (e.g., IS-2000) supporting voice and data services and a second network (e.g., IS-856) supporting packet data services. The method comprises providing the WCD with a primary transceiver and a secondary receiver...

20060209807 - Apparatus and method for enabling voice over ip support for a network switch: An apparatus and method for switching VOIP packets in a data network, wherein the method includes the steps of receiving a first packet in a network switch and determining if the first packet is a VOIP packet. Further, method includes determining a dynamically negotiated VOIP port for a VOIP session...

20060209795 - Broadband network with enterprise wireless communication system for residential and business environment: The present invention sets forth a network-centric service distribution architecture that integrates a wireless access system in the residence, SOHO, business or public environment through the use of a local broadband network, such as a Residential-Business Broadband Network (RBN), to the service provider's broadband transport network and to a service...

20060209798 - Call-re-establishment via alternative access network: A terminal device and method of re-establishes a circuit switched call or a packet switched connection in a data network having at least a first access network and a second access network. A failure of the circuit switched call or the packet switched connection established via the first access network...

20060209805 - Circuit-switched and multimedia subsystem voice continuity: The present invention moves service control, including call control, for a user element from a cellular network to a multimedia subsystem (MS), such as the Internet Protocol (IP) Multimedia Subsystem (IMS). Call control is provided by the MS irrespective of whether the user element is using cellular or WLAN access...

20060209804 - Connection adapter for communication device: A connection adapter converts in accordance with prescribed rules into a form suitable for a second communication device, transmits or discards data transmitted by high-level equipment for use by a first communication device, and also converts in accordance with prescribed rules into a form suitable for the high-level equipment, transmits...

20060209806 - Data transmission in packet-switched radio system implementing user equipment location service: The invention relates to method and system for transmitting data between user equipment and serving mobile location center in packet-switched radio system implementing user equipment location service. Data to be transmitted is placed in a message of a third-layer radio resource protocol; the radio resource protocol message is transmitted to...

20060209789 - Method and apparatus for reducing bandwidth usage in secure transactions: A secure end to end connection is established between a remote device having a wireless link and a control/monitoring location for the remote device through a gateway. During the establishing of the secure connection, a compressed message representation is used to communicate between the gateway and the remote device over...

20060209794 - Method and system for providing interdomain traversal in support of packetized voice transmissions: An approach provides interdomain traversal to support packetized voice transmissions. A request for establishing a voice call is received from a source endpoint behind a first network address translator of a first domain, wherein the request specifies a directory number of a destination endpoint within a second domain. A network...

20060209797 - Method for implementing and executing communication center routing strategies represented in extensible markup language: A method is provided for supplementing existing interaction routines in a contact center with added capability including acts for (a) creating at least one rule having at least one rule attribute; (b) creating one or more processes, the processes integral to the rule; (c) defining the at least one rule...

20060209802 - Method for transmitting image data in real-time: Disclosed is a method for transmitting image data in real-time between mobile communication terminals in a mobile communication system, the mobile communication system including a host mobile communication terminal, at least one client mobile communication terminal, an SMS server, and a PDSN assigning IP addresses. The method includes when an...

20060209791 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for providing telecommunications services between a session initiation protocol (sip) network and a signaling system 7 (ss7) network: Methods, systems, and computer program products for providing telecommunication services between a SIP network and an SS7 network are disclosed. In one method, SIP/SS7 gateway receives an INVITE message from a SIP proxy server. The SIP/SS7 gateway extracts a called party number from the INVITE message and determines whether a...

20060209800 - Network system for interworking w-lan and 3g mobile communication network through rof link and authentication method according to interworking in the network system: A network system for interworking a Wireless Local Area Network (W-LAN) and a 3rd-Generation (3G) mobile communication network through a Radio-over-Fiber(RoF) link and an authentication method in interworking in the network system are provided. The network system includes a 3G mobile communication network and a W-LAN system. The 3G mobile...

20060209803 - Output power weighting: A communication station for communicating with another communication station via at least two communications connections, the communication station being arranged to allocate transmit power to each of the at least two connections in dependence on connection quality, the communication station being arranged to: transmit data over a connection of a...

20060209790 - Packet traffic management apparatus, systems, and methods: Apparatus and systems, as well as methods and articles, may operate to receive a packet on a circuit-switched channel in a wireless network, detect that a transmission window associated with the circuit-switched channel is closed, and divert the packet from the circuit-switched channel to a packet-switched channel....

20060209793 - Relay device and method: The present invention relates to a relay device enabling efficient management of a voice message and a caller to wait for transmission of the voice message in a short time. The relay device is located at a boundary between an existing telephone network and an IP network, converts and relays...

20060209788 - System and method for processing a call: A signaling processor receives signaling for a user communication and processes the signaling to select a first packet communication path and a second packet communication path. The signaling processor transfers messages indicating a TDM communication path, the first packet communication path, and the second packet communication path. An interworking unit...

20060209796 - System, method and computer program product for point-to-point bandwidth conservation in an ip network: A method, system and computer program product are provided that reduce voice and data over IP (VoIP) packet overhead in an Internet telephony system, and regenerate missing or damaged data in a data packet. A media framer aggregates packets from multiple concurrent calls from several channels into a larger data...

20060209799 - Unlicensed mobile access network (uman) system and method: Some embodiments provide a system for handling communications between an unlicensed mobile access (UMA) network controller (UNC) and a licensed wireless communication system. The systems of these embodiments include a serving general packet radio service support node (SGSN) or a mobile switching center (MSC) that is communicatively coupled to the...

20060209792 - Voip to wireless gateway: A VoIP to wireless gateway, comprising an internet protocol interface, adapted to be connected to a standard data line. Additionally, a data processing unit is connected to the internet protocol interface, includes an audio port assembly and is adapted to sort streams of internet protocol packets from the internet protocol...

20060209808 - Method and apparatus for providing orthogonal spot beams, sectors, and picocells: A method and apparatus for providing orthogonal spot beams (14a, 14b), sectors (16a, 16b), and picocells (18), by using orthogonal auxiliary pilots and different Walsh traffic channels in adjacent areas. According to the IS-95 standard, the pilot signal is covered with the 64-chip Walsh sequence zero. Designating the 64-chip all...

20060209809 - Monitoring mobile phone communications: The specification describes systems, and operation of systems, that allows a parent or other responsible party to monitor the mobile device activities of a child. In addition, it optionally allows the parent to dynamically control the mobile device activities of the child. It relies on software, or a network adjunct,...

20060209810 - Network-extensible and controllable telephone: A system that includes a telephone adapted for connection to a data communications network. The telephone is capable of discovering other devices connected to the data communications network and using those devices to extend its own functionality. The telephone is also accessible and controllable by other devices on the data...

20060209811 - Computer telephony using a circuit-switched network: Apparatus for placing a plurality of computer-assisted compressed-voice subscriber calls using a circuit-switched signal path in a distributed telecommunications network. A plurality of vocoders receive voice data from respective subscriber voice devices and output substantially continuous compressed-voice data signals which are arranged by a plurality of packetizers into compressed-voice data...

20060209812 - Parallel channel architecture: A high data rate switch is disclosed. The switch may include fiber optic channels where a plurality of switching elements necessarily operate at a significantly lower data rate providing routing of variable or fixed size data packets from a plurality of source ports to a plurality of destination ports via...

20060209813 - Mimo multiple transmission device and method: A MIMO multiple transmission device, comprising a packet data block generator (111) for generating a packet data block as a resent unit for hybrid ARQ; a CRC adder (112) for adding an error detection code; a channel encoder (113) for performing channel encoding, the packet data block generator, the CRC...

20060209814 - Radio transmission apparatus and method, radio reception apparatus and method, transmitting and receiving method, and recording medium: Provided are a radio transmission apparatus and method, a radio receiving apparatus and method, a transmitting and receiving method, and a recording medium for use in a mobile communication system according to an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing-Code Division Multiplexing (OFDM-CDM)-based transmission diversity method. The radio transmitter codes transmission data into...

20060209815 - Modular interlocking expandable construction system: A system for modular construction which is comprised of a plurality of related structural units, each of which is slotted and interlocked to form an assembly requiring no tools or fasteners. The system provides infinite scalability employing a systematized gridlike formation. The units may be assembled, disassembled, and reassembled in...

20060209817 - Method and apparatus for a remote signaling and call processing in a telecommunications network: Telecommunications switching systems that require real-time computer control can be controlled using remotely located computers coupled to the switching systems via data links. By coupling several switching systems to one or more centrally located control computers, maintenance staffing can be reduced while increasing overall system reliability by providing back up...

20060209816 - Method and equipment for implementing synchronous switching of clos cross connection matrix: The present invention discloses a method for implementing synchronous switching of cross connections of a CLOS cross connection matrix, comprising: the configuration controller calculating a new CLOS cross connection matrix according to the cross request, sending this new CLOS cross connection matrix to the cross nodes requiring synchronous switching, and...

20060209821 - Apparatus and method for selecting network interface in mobile terminal supporting multiple wireless access scheme: An apparatus and method are provided for selecting a network interface in a mobile terminal supporting a multiple wireless access scheme. Upon receiving a connection request to a particular network interface from an application layer, an interface manager maps the application layer to its associated network interface. Upon detecting handoff...

20060209822 - Communication apparatus, communication system and communication method: The NAT type of a router can be examined by communicating with one server having one IP address, and a P2P communication path is established efficiently using the NAT type obtained by the examination. A terminal 100 transmits a plurality of port number examination request packets having a plurality of...

20060209820 - Cross bar apparatus, and method and program for controlling the same: The frequency of the internal clock is set at ½ of the frequency of an external clock as well as the width of the internal bus is configured to be twice as wide as the width of an external bus. A write control unit controls a bypass unit and a...

20060209823 - Internal substitution bi-level addressing for compatible public networks: A computer readable medium stores a program in an ingress capable network device of a network for routing signals through the network. The computer readable includes a receiving code segment for receiving an original signal, which has an embedded destination service address. The computer readable medium also includes a querying...

20060209819 - Method and apparatus for efficiently expanding a p2p network: One embodiment of the present method and apparatus for efficiently expanding a P2P network includes receiving a search request message from a requesting node and sending a response message to the requesting node on behalf of a node that has the requested data, where the response message originates at an...

20060209818 - Methods and devices for preventing arp cache poisoning: Methods of processing an address resolution protocol (ARP) response in connection with a data control switch are presented including: receiving an ARP response, the ARP response having an ARP response MAC address and a corresponding ARP response IP address; and dropping the ARP response when: the ARP response MAC address...

20060209824 - Method, apparatus, and computer program product for transmitting and receiving broadcast packets: A method, apparatus, and computer program product for propagating broadcast packets among several subnets without configuring routers to forward broadcast packets is provided. The broadcast packets are propagated between subnets as unicast or multicast packets. Further, the broadcast packets are efficiently propagated to only the subnets that desire broadcast propagation....

20060209826 - Multicast routing program, multicast routing method, and multicast router: A multicast routing program for allowing multicast data to be transmitted via a different route from a route for unicast data with higher reliability. A state-determining section determines whether all links on a predetermined transmission line to a multicast-transmission terminal device are connected, upon receiving a multicast reception request. If...

20060209825 - Software-hardware partitioning of a scheduled medium-access protocol: A processing device, configured to implement at least a portion of a scheduled medium-access protocol (SMAP) in a communication system, comprises a processor, a memory coupled to the processor, and one or more additional hardware modules. The functionality of the portion of the SMAP implemented in the processing device is...

20060209833 - Communication apparatus and computer program product for communicating with other communication apparatus: A communication apparatus includes a receiving unit that receives a data signal sent from a network repeater, the data signal including identification information for identifying a network; an identification information extracting unit that extracts identification information from the data signal; a connectivity deciding unit that decides whether a connection to...

20060209836 - Internet security system: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing and using techniques for processing a data packet in a packet forwarding device. A data packet is received. A virtual local area network destination is determined for the received data packet, and a set of rules associated with the virtual local area...

20060209828 - Interoperable communications architecture: A system for facilitating interoperability between a plurality of disjoint radio systems across a digital network includes one or more local gateways communicating with a network operations center. Each of the local gateways is associated with at least one radio system, and includes an interface to the digital network, a...

20060209832 - Method for exchanging packets of user data: In a method for exchanging packets of user data between a terminal (4a, 4b) of a first network (1) and a service provider (5a, 5b) of a second network (2), the first network (1) is connected to the second network (2) by a gateway (3) which has a unique connection...

20060209834 - Method for the routing of ip frames between the users of a variable graph network: Disclosed is a virtual router distributed on a carrier network, said carrier network comprising one or more components, each of the components comprising at least two nodes communicating with one another by means of an artery, a node comprising a FAx access function and server functions (LES/BUS, LECS, MPS). At...

20060209830 - Packet processing system including control device and packet forwarding device: A packet processing system includes a plurality of control devices and a packet forwarding device that operate as a single packet forwarding device, each of the control devices executing at least one application. The packet processing system transmits, when a destination of a packet specified by an application is within...

20060209835 - Packet routing apparatus and method of efficiently routing packets among network equipment: A routing apparatus includes a plurality of routing units and function units. The routing unit receives a packet from each port, and uses header information contained in the packet to judge whether the packet should be transmitted to the function unit. In the case where the packet should be transmitted...

20060209829 - Source specific multicast layer 2 networking device and method: Bridge domain communication methods and devices are presented for efficiently communicating information in a bridge domain based upon group indications and source indications. Packets with a source and destination indication are received. A bridge domain communication process is performed at the bridge level wherein a packet is selected for forwarding...

20060209827 - Systems and methods for implementing counters in a network processor with cost effective memory: Systems and methods for implementing counters in a network processor with cost effective memory are disclosed. Embodiments include systems and methods for implementing counters in a network processor using less expensive memory such as DRAM. A network processor receives packets and implements accounting functions including counting packets in each of...

20060209831 - Vpn services using address translation over an ipv6 network: A method and system for translation of virtual private network (VPN) addresses over a provider network are disclosed. The method includes creating a multipoint tunnel extending between customer edge routers in a VPN network and over the provider network. The multipoint tunnel is identified with a multicast address and multicast...

20060209837 - Method and apparatus for dynamically managing a retransmission persistence: In order to solve a problem of an existing ARQ scheme using a fixed retransmission persistence, the present invention provides a method of dynamically managing a retransmission persistence of an ARQ according to an amount of data stored in a buffer of the ARQ, or according to time (transmission delay...

20060209838 - Method and system for estimating average bandwidth in a communication network based on transmission control protocol: A method and system for estimating an average bandwidth in a wired/wireless communication network with a time-varying rate are provided. In a TCP network, differences between inter-arrival times and sequence numbers of current and previous Acks are calculated. The estimated bandwidth of the previous Ack and a sample bandwidth of...

20060209839 - Reducing overhead when setting up multiple virtual circuits using signaling protocols: Setting up a group of virtual circuits using a single set up message request. In an embodiment, fewer than all of the virtual circuits in the group are immediately provisioned, and the remaining virtual circuits are placed in an inactive status by appropriate configuration of all the devices in the...

20060209841 - Network usage optimization: A network usage optimization method for minimizing the total network usage fee. The method includes the steps of (a) providing a network and a data processing apparatus, wherein the data processing apparatus communicates via a PVC of the network; (b) obtaining past network traffic data for traffic over the PVC;...

20060209842 - Using mobile traffic history to minimize transmission time: A method of reducing the time needed for sending data over a communication network. The method can include analyzing bandwidth usage of a user over a communication network and receiving data associated with the user to be sent over the communication network. The method further can include determining, from the...

20060209843 - Secure spontaneous associations between networkable devices: In a first aspect, the present invention provides a protocol for communications across a securable communication channel between a first device and a second device. The protocol includes the transmission of a plurality of uniquely identifiable messages which each include security-related data, from the first device to the second device....

20060209844 - Network-enabled, extensible metering system: To allow meter data users to have access to needed information and at the same time address the rapidly shifting requirements of the deregulated marketplace, a new business model, apparatus and system are provided. A common metering device measures raw data and a system composed of independent services or applications...

20060209840 - System and method for providing transformation of multi-protocol packets in a data stream: A system and method for facilitating packet transformation of multi-protocol, multi-flow, streaming data. Packet portions subject to change are temporarily stored, and acted upon through processing of protocol-dependent instructions, resulting in a protocol-dependent modification of the temporarily stored packet information. Validity tags are associated with different segments of the temporarily-stored...

20060209846 - Globally asynchronous communication architecture for system on chip: This invention relates to the domain of Networks on Chips (NoC) and relates to a method of transferring data in a network on chip, particularly using an asynchronous “send/accept” type protocol. The invention also relates to a network on chip used to implement this method....

20060209847 - Local area network for distributing data communication, sensing and control signals: A network for carrying out control, sensing and data communications, comprising a plurality of nodes. Each node may be connected to a payload, which comprises sensors, actuators and DTE's. The network is formed using a plurality of independent communication links, each based on electrically-conducting communication media comprising at least two...

20060209845 - Systems and methods of using pseudo-routes for data transmissions: In some embodiments of the present invention, method of routing data packets using a pseudo-route are presented including: receiving a data packet, the data packet having a destination; calculating the pseudo-route, if the destination corresponds with at least one of a plurality of software routing table routes, the pseudo-route having...

20060209852 - Automated host discovery and path tracing by network management server: One embodiment described relates to an automated method of host discovery and path tracing by a network management server. The method includes discovery of a location in the network of a source host, discovery of a location in the network of a destination host, and discovery of a path from...

20060209857 - Broadband home applications gateway/residential gateway systems, methods and computer program products: A home applications gateway includes a residential gateway interface that is configured to connect to a residential gateway, and a Java Virtual Machine (JVM) that includes an Open Services Gateway initiative (OSGi) framework configured to execute OSGi Java applications that are downloaded and life cycle managed from a Web server...

20060209856 - Communication relay device, communication relay method and computer program product for communication relay: There is provided a relay device which enables improved communication quality and cost-reduction, wherein the device carries out both real-time communications and non-real-time communications. A first communicator carries out packet communications with a first real-time communication device and a first non-real-time communication device, which are connected through an external network....

20060209851 - Method and apparatus for border gateway protocol route management and routing policy modeling: A method and apparatus is described for Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) route management and routing policy modeling. In one aspect, the performance of one or more actions associated with one or more routes is disallowed. One or more routing policies associated with the one or more routes are configured. The...

20060209849 - Method for and apparatus for aggregating incoming packets into optical for an optical burst switched network: Incoming packets are aggregated into optical bursts in an edge node of an Optical Burst Switched Network by the following. Storing the incoming packets to generate an optical burst. Associating each incoming packets with a generated random binary digit with a probability for a first and a second value of...

20060209848 - Method for the tranmission of buss ieee 1394 reinitialization messages and device for carrying out said method: The invention relates to a method of transmitting messages for resetting an IEEE 1394 bus and associated topology information, across a transparent bridge, a bridge head connected on the one hand to the 1394 bus and to the network affording the said transparent bridge, characterized in that, during a series...

20060209850 - Method, system, and apparatus for a virtual host gateway in a modem device: A system, method, and apparatus for providing an embedded controller in a modem device for enabling data communication between different networks. Management and control capabilities for a gateway function are embedded into a communication controller of the modem device so as to enable direct connection between wired and wireless devices...

20060209854 - Node device for transfering supervisory control information in photonic network: A node device receives supervisory control information on a dedicated wavelength different from a wavelength of signal light, which is input from an input port together with the signal light, and extracts, from signal light to be output from an output port, information superposed on an optical main signal of...

20060209853 - Packet transfer device and transfer control method thereof: A first issue is to provide a packet transfer device for identifying a connection such as a TCP connection linked to a bandwidth control means, and provide a proxy acknowledgment for each identified connection such as TCP. A second issue is to provide a packet transfer device for providing a...

20060209855 - Relay unit, terminal device, communication system, and communication control method: A relay unit capable of inquiring of a DNS comprises: an inquiry section which transfers an acquisition request of a transmission destination terminal address, sent from a transmission source terminal, to the DNS, and acquires the transmission destination terminal address and a transmission destination label corresponding to the transmission destination...

20060209858 - Subnet independent transparent bridge: A method and apparatus for intelligently bridging a first network and a second network are disclosed. In one embodiment, a protocol independent bridge device driver is bound to a first and a second network interface card device driver in order to access the first and the second network. Then the...

20060209859 - Inter-ring connection method and device: In an inter-ring connection method and device interconnecting a plurality of RPR rings, an inter-ring connecting device (interconnecting station) determines whether or not an RPR frame received from one ring is a broadcast frame; and resets, when the RPR frame determined to be the broadcast frame is relayed to another...

20060209860 - Method and apparatus for allocating label to path in ring network: A transmission device, which carries out a route control of a frame based on a label included in the frame in a ring network, includes: a generating unit that generates a message for collecting information on first/second labels allocatable to working/standby routes; a transmitting unit that transmits the message in...

20060209861 - Adm device and signal transmission method: An ADM device which is capable of performing LCAS functions, configures a first communication network, and is connected to another ADM device which is connected to a second communication network, comprising an SDH interface for connecting to the other ADM device by SDH connection, an H4 byte monitoring means for...

20060209862 - Virtual address storage which may be of partcular use in generating fragmented packets: A virtual address storage system, which may be of particular used in generating fragmented packets, is implemented using a linked list of data segments. Multiple storage segments linked together in a linked list data structure are maintained to represent a virtual contiguous block of storage to be accessed based on...

20060209863 - Virtualized fibre channel adapter for a multi-processor data processing system: An enhanced fibre channel adapter with multiple queues for use by different server processors or partitions. For a non-partitioned server, the OS owns the adapter, controls the adapter queues, and updates the queue table(s). An OS operator can obtain information from the fibre channel network about the fibre channel storage...

20060209866 - Device and method for programmable wideband network emulation: An emulator for emulating a wireless network comprised of a plurality of RF nodes is comprised of a programmable controller for emulating the movements of the plurality of RF nodes within an emulated space. The controller provides both information and control signals based on the emulated movements. A programmable logic...

20060209865 - Multi-part parsing 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 multi-part parser...

20060209864 - Separate control line for maintenance of repeaters of a digital subscriber line: Digital subscriber line (DSL) system comprising a digital subscriber line access multiplexer (DSLAM, 20) having a line trunk unit (LTU, 13), a repeater container (23) containing a repeater (16) and a customer premises equipment (CPE, 11) having a network terminating unit (NTU, 15) in which the repeater (16) connects a...

20060209867 - Method for transmitting messages in an mms-based communication system: The present disclosure relates to a method for transmitting messages, a transmission message containing one or more useful data objects is first transmitted to a switching component in order to be routed to a second telecommunications device, wherein the transmission is made by a transmitting telecommunications device. A plurality of...

20060209868 - Reliable messaging instruction: The subject invention provides reliable messaging with and within a control environment. The systems and methods utilize a message broker that facilitates message exchange. The message broker can be located within an industrial controller, as a dedicated entity within a control environment and/or an entity external to the control environment....

20060209869 - Determining data amounts for scheduled and autonomous transmission with a user equipment: A method includes (1) receiving with a user equipment (UE) information related to an allowed power for autonomous transmission on at least one logical channel mapped to an uplink channel, the uplink channel being set up with a base station and dedicated for packet data transmission, (2) determining, with the...

20060209870 - Apparatus and method of transmitting/receiving mbms: An apparatus and method of transmiting/receiving a multimedia broadcats/multicats service (MBMS) is disclosed. The present invention enables ARQ and HARQ to be aplied to the MBMS transmision, thereby enabling more efficient data transmision at a greater rate....

20060209872 - Ip telephone apparatus and ip adapter apparatus: An IP telephone apparatus is provided. Before a status that transmission data can be transmitted to/received from the counter party of communication is established, a communication status measuring unit measures the communication status with the counter party of communication. A transmission rate setting unit sets a transmission rate of transmission...

20060209871 - Method of switching packets in a transmission medium comprising multiple stations which are connected using different links: Thanks to this it is possible to send frames from one set of equipment (2) connected to a transmission medium (1) to any other connected to that same medium (4, 5, 6 and 7), even though there is no direct link between them, with all the processing being carried out...

20060209873 - Characterisation of service quality for an information transmission in a communication network: The invention relates to a communication network, comprising a call control level (CCL), a resource control level (RCL) and at least one endpoint (A), associated with an information transfer, whereby a request (RQ) for a quality of service (QoS), determined for an information transfer is only exhaustively verified at the...

20060209876 - Access point using directional antennas for uplink transmission in a wlan: An access point receives uplink transmissions from client stations using directional antenna beams. The directional antenna beams are generated by an antenna array. The different directional antenna beams are assigned beam identification numbers, and a preferred antenna beam is selected for each client station. The client stations in the different...

20060209875 - Method and apparatus for current sharing ethernet power across four conductor pairs: Methods and apparatus for delivering power down all conductors of an Ethernet connection are disclosed. Embodiments include control circuitry coupled to both conductor of an Ethernet cable. The control circuitry is configured to sense the current flowing through power switches coupled inline with the respective conductors and control the switch...

20060209874 - Wireless packet communication method and wireless packet communication apparatus: Data packets are transmitted between two STAs capable of using plural radio channels and MIMO together, by using idle channels and MIMO. When at least one idle channel has been detected, plural data packets are generated in the same number as the sum of MIMO numbers of the respective idle...

20060209877 - Communication system, communication card, and communication method: A communication system that enhances the efficiency of network operations in response to a request for a transfer bandwidth increased locally. A plurality of physical links is installed at a span where a transfer bandwidth is locally increased in a network, and the plurality of physical links can cover the...

20060209878 - System and method for synchronizing components in a mesh network: A method includes receiving a first message at a router in a mesh network and synchronizing the router to a plurality of time slots using the first message. The method also includes repeatedly incrementing a network reference value at each time slot up to a maximum value and then decrementing...

20060209879 - Switch system and loop transfer method: In a switch system including a plurality of switch mechanisms that form a ring topology, each of the switch mechanisms includes an input and output unit that inputs and outputs a packet to and from an outside of a loop; and a gate unit that transmits transmission information including whether...

20060209880 - Method of audio data transmission and system thereof: In an embodiment, a transmitter generates a self-generated video signal when retrieving only audio input signal from an audio source to replace an video input signal expected by the HDMI system. In another embodiment, a transmitter sets a flag when retrieving only an audio input signal, wherein the flag configures...

20060209885 - Method and system for automatically interconnecting ipv4 networks across an ipv6 network: A method and system for automatically interconnecting IPv4 networks across an IPv6 network are disclosed. The method includes receiving an IPv4 packet at an ingress router in the IPv6 network and finding the longest match IPv4 routing entry for IPv4 addresses in the received packet to identify an egress router...

20060209882 - Method for vertical handoff in a hierarchical network: The present invention provides a method for wireless telecommunication using a wireless telecommunications network that includes a mobile unit and first and second wireless connection points. The first and second wireless connection points are communicatively coupled. The method includes forming a first wireless communication link between the mobile unit and...

20060209883 - Mobile station and weighting control method: In a first state in which the same voice data is being received from a plurality of base stations on a first channel (DPCH) and a packet is not being received on a second channel (HS-PDSCH), weight is decided in such a manner that first weighting is applied to signals...

20060209881 - Pre-equalisation for umts base station: An arrangement (100) and method for RF filtering in a Node B of a UMTS TDD system by providing: a DAC converter (130) converting digital signals to analog signals; providing a narrow band analogue channel filter (150) filtering the analog signals; and providing a digital pre-equaliser FIR filter (120) coupled...

20060209884 - System, method and apparatus for automatic detection and automatic connection between a generalized content source and a generalized content sink: A system, method and apparatus for implementing a wireless point-to-point interface that securely and robustly delivers media content from a generalized content source to a generalized content sink. The system, method and apparatus performs in a manner that is sufficiently secure and robust to serve as a replacement for the...

20060209888 - Packet type retransmission system for dmb service and retransmission device of dmb terminal: A packet type retransmission system for DMB services includes a DMB device for receiving multimedia data from a content provider, for converting the multimedia data to DMB data for DMB transmission, and for transmitting the DMB data. A broadcasting transfer medium transfers the DMB data transmitted through the DMB device....

20060209887 - Shielded gate trench (sgt) mosfet cells implemented with a schottky source contact: This invention discloses a semiconductor power device that includes a plurality of power transistor cells surrounded by a trench opened in a semiconductor substrate. At least one active cell further includes a trenched source contact opened between the trenches wherein the trenched source contact opened through a source region into...

20060209886 - Small form-factor device implementing protocol conversion: A small form-factor transceiver module performs protocol translation, in addition to the conventional electrical and/or optical transmission media conversion. Such protocol conversion may enable transport of traffic from limited-range primary networks over long-range secondary networks, such as extension of Ethernet networks over low-rate TDM links. Additionally, such protocol conversion may...

20060209894 - Adaptive allocation for variable bandwidth multicarrier communication: Data is distributed among the channels of an asynchronous data subscriber loop (ADSL) communications system in accordance with an adaptive algorithm which from time to time measures the signal to noise ratio of the various channels and finds a margin for each channel dependent on achievement (where possible) of a...

20060209889 - Bandwidth control device and method: In a bandwidth control device and method in a case where a physical line is used as a plurality of virtual leased lines, a packet length correction value table associates flow identifying information of a packet with a packet length correction value for correcting a length of the packet measured...

20060209893 - Communication relay apparatus, information management system, and control method and program therefor: A communication relay apparatus, information management system, and control method and program therefor. The communication relay apparatus includes several communication ports, and that includes a communication relay section, a buffer, a control signal transmitting section, a bandwidth information acquiring section, and a transmission interval control section....

20060209891 - Network qos control system and method: When receiving a streaming service from a service provision server, a user terminal wants QoS assurance and issues a QoS request to a QoS control server together with a communicate request to a network. In this case, by including information about a plurality of access networks that the user terminal...

20060209890 - System, method and apparatus for placing training information within a digital media frame for wireless transmission: A system, method and apparatus for implementing a wireless point-to-point interface that securely and robustly delivers digital content from a generalized content source to a generalized content sink. The system, method and apparatus performs in a manner that is sufficiently secure and robust to serve as a replacement for the...

20060209892 - System, method and apparatus for wirelessly providing a display data channel between a generalized content source and a generalized content sink: A system, method and apparatus for implementing a wireless point-to-point interface that securely and robustly delivers media content from a generalized content source to a generalized content sink. The system, method and apparatus performs in a manner that is sufficiently secure and robust to serve as a replacement for the...

20060209896 - Data link layer protocol unit, mobile radio device and method for mapping data which are to be transmitted using a mobile radio device from at least one logical channel, and control data which are to be transmitted, onto at least one transport channel: The control data to be transmitted are mapped onto the transport channel on the basis of a prioritization information item (associated with the control data which are to be transmitted) from a plurality of prioritization information items....

20060209895 - Network system, layer 3 communication device, layer 2 communication device, and route selection method: In a layer 2 communication device included in multiple layer 2 networks, an identifying unit identifies a layer 3 control packet from among packets passing through, and an embedding unit embeds routing control information for the layer 2 network in the layer 3 control packet. In a layer 3 communication...

20060209897 - Multi-layered packet processing device: A multi-layered packet processing device using multiple processors for processing a received multi-layered packet at a hardware level. The multi-layered packet processing device includes an interface for transmitting a data packet to a node and receiving the data packet from the node through a public network; and a plurality of...

20060209898 - Network congestion detection and automatic fallback: methods, systems & program products: A codec detects congestion in a packet network and responds via a session control protocol to re-negotiate codec-type and/or parameters with the receiving codec to reduce bit rate for supporting a session. Once the connection and session are established, encoded packets start flowing between the two codecs. A control entity...

20060209899 - Switch for integrated telecommunication networks: It is disclosed a switch for telecommunication networks. It comprises: a time division multiplexing matrix provided with a number of matrix inputs and a number of matrix outputs; source address generators, connected to matrix outputs of the time division multiplexing matrix. It further comprises: input modules, each of said input...

20060209901 - Clock synchronization in a multistage switch structure: A clock synchronizing method in a multistage switch structure comprises providing a first reference clock signal to a first switch via a first clock recovery unit; providing a second reference clock signal to a second switch via a Phase Lock Loop (PLL); and providing a third reference clock signal to...

20060209902 - Method and system for communicating content on a broadcast services communication system: An outer decoder and an inner decoder encode a block of information to be transmitted, to improve protection by adding redundancy. The redundancy permits decoding of the information from less than a complete encoded block of information. Time re-alignment of two transmissions of the same content from two base stations...

20060209900 - Method and system for re-synchronizing end points when an intermediary detects that the end points may be unsynchronized: A synchronization system establishes a session between a client end point and a server end point via an intermediary server of a server pool. When messages sent from the client end point to the server end point are received at the server pool and the intermediary server is unavailable, the...

20060209903 - System for maintaining synchronization between multiple asynchronous communication links: An apparatus for maintaining synchronization with a plurality of asynchronous communication links includes a first counter that generates a first local network clock, and a second counter that generates a second local network clock. The apparatus also includes an offset controller coupled with the first counter and coupled with the...

20060209904 - Reverse acknowledgement method for quickly identifying whether or not the retransmission frame was lost: The present invention is to provide a novel method for quickly identifying whether or not a retransmission request frame is lost, without waiting for whether a waiting time for tie retransmission request frame has elapsed a retransmission time. The present invention employs a reverse acknowledgement (RA) scheme in order to...

20060209905 - Method and apparatus for efficient link redundancy: A method that changes the selection of a 2:1 multiplexer that receives a first output signal from a first framer and a second output signal from a second framer. The first output signal is the same as the second output signal. An apparatus having a framer and a 2:1 multiplexer...

20060209906 - System for processing of television data streams and method for processing of television data streams: In a system for processing of television data streams comprising front-ends receiving at least two streams that are output to a descrambler (104) and then to a demultiplexer (106), a remultiplexer (102) is inserted between the front-ends and the descrambler (104). The remultiplexer (102) is capable of outputting a number...

20060209907 - Device and method for controlling switchover of broadcasting channel in digital multimedia broadcasting receiver: Provided is a device and method for controlling switchover of a broadcasting channel in a digital multimedia broadcasting receiver. The device includes a first demultiplexing unit for firstly buffering transport stream packets, searching the buffered transport stream packets for a PAT (program association table), a PMT (program map table), and...

20060203711 - Apparatus and method for mapping space-time coded data to subcarriers in a broadband wireless communication system: A method of mapping Space-Time Coding (STC) data to subcarriers in a broadband wireless communication system using multiple antennas is provided. Transmission symbols are encoded according to a predetermined space-time coding matrix and the coded data symbols are mapped to time-space-subcarriers according to a mapping rule determined by the space-time...

20060203710 - Channel estimate optimization for multiple transmit modes: Channel estimation in a spectrally shaped wireless communication system in which an initial frequency response estimate is obtained for a first set of P uniformly spaced subbands (1) based on pilot symbols received on a second set of subbands used for pilot transmission and (2) using extrapolation and/or interpolation. A...

20060203707 - Frequency hopping method in orthogonal frequency division multiplexing system: Disclosed is a frequency hopping method in an OFDM system, comprising: (a) detecting a mutual interference degree between different cells, and determining whether to use different frequency hopping patterns between the cells for interference averaging according to the mutual interference degree interference degree; (b) determining a number P of the...

20060203709 - Methods and apparatus for implementing, using, transmitting, and/or receiving signals at least some of which include intentional null tones: Base stations transmit strip signals using strip signal segments and self supporting modulation scheme techniques facilitating rapid channel estimate. A strip segment occupies one OFDM symbol time interval and uses a set of downlink tones; some, e.g., half, of the tones are left unused facilitating SIR measurement. The strip segments...

20060203712 - System and method for performing ranging process in a communication system: Provided is a system and method for performing a ranging process in a communication system. If a Subscriber Station (SS) detects the insufficiency of UpLink (UL) resources for transmission of a Ranging Request (RNG_REQ) message during the ranging process, it transmits a UL resource allocation request message requesting additional allocation...

20060203708 - Systems and methods for beamforming feedback in multi antenna communication systems: Methods and apparatuses are disclosed that determine whether to feedback, and the amount of feedback, with respect to eigenbeam information based upon channel resources. Additionally, methods and apparatuses are disclosed that determine whether to feedback, and the amount of feedback, with respect to eigenbeam information based upon channel information and...

20060203713 - Efficient signal transmission methods and apparatus using a shared transmission resource: A device includes a zero symbol rate (ZSR) coding/modulation module and a second type coding/modulation module. Both modules generate modulation symbols to be conveyed using the same air link resources but with the non-zero ZSR symbols having a higher power level. The ZSR module generates a mixture of zero and...

20060203714 - Communication network: In a communication network comprising plurality of devices, each equipped with device operating circuit, communication interface for receiving command signals, control circuit coupled between the device operating circuit and the communication interface for controlling the operation of the device operating circuit part in dependency of said command signals, a control...

20060203716 - Error detection and recovery of an optical network element: Error detection and recovery of an optical network element are described herein. In one embodiment, an exemplary process includes, but is not limited to, transmitting from a transmitting module of the optical network element a first packet of data to a receiving module of the optical network element, and the...

20060203715 - Method for redirection of virtual lan network traffic: A method and system to quickly redirect traffic from a server blade to different access switches that provide data communication to a network is presented. Each access switch has external ports directed upstream towards the network, and correlated internal ports directed downstream towards the server blade. The server blade has...

20060203717 - System and method transmission of operations, administration and maintenance packets between atm and switching networks upon failures: A system and method of notifying a first communication network of a fault related to a second communication network is provided. The first communication network is connected to the second communication network. The first communication network has a first OAM protocol adapted to monitor integrity of the first communication network...

20060203718 - Method, apparatus and program storage device for providing a triad copy of storage data: A method, apparatus and program storage device for maintaining data is provided that includes receiving primary data at a first node, receiving mirrored data from a second and third node at the first node, and mirroring data received at the first node to a second and third node....

20060203719 - Method and apparatus for protection switching in virtual private networks: Protection switching of a virtual private network is provided whereby working VPN paths and protection VPN paths are defined. The working VPN path is monitored for increased data traffic and failures, and in response, data is switched from the working VPN path to the protection VPN path. The working VPN...

20060203720 - Data relay apparatus and data relay method: A failure-recovery-information storing unit stores failure-recovery information in which a working path is associated with a backup path. A failure-occurrence-notification receiving unit receives a failure-occurrence notification indicating that a failure has occurred in the working path. A backup-path searching unit searches for a backup path corresponding to the working path...

20060203721 - Apparatus and method for packet forwarding with quality of service and rate control: A system and method for forwarding data packets with quality of service and rate control. A plurality of data packets are received from a plurality of sources. The header information of each data packet is extracted and compared against a plurality of tables, and then new header information is assembled...

20060203725 - Fibre channel switch: A Fibre Channel switch is presented that tracks the congestion status of destination ports in an XOFF mask at each input. A mapping is maintained between virtual channels on an ISL and the destination ports to allow changes in the XOFF mask to trigger a primitive to an upstream port...

20060203724 - Multi-carrier, multi-flow, reverse link medium access control for a communication system: The present method and apparatus comprises a communication element comprising a MAC layer that is configured for wireless communication within a sector, wherein said communication element comprises a transmitter, a receiver operably connected to the transmitter, a processor operably connected to the transmitter and the receiver, and memory operably connected...

20060203722 - System and method for managing performance of mobile terminals via remote diagnostics: A system for managing performance of a terminal includes a service level manager capable of identifying one or more QoS management parameters based upon a service level agreement associated with a selected service. Because the QoS management parameters may differ from layer to layer in a multi-layer protocol stack, the...

20060203723 - Wireless resource assigning apparatus and wireless resource assigning method: A wireless resource assigning apparatus for assigning wireless resources to transmission data of a plurality of users is disclosed. The wireless resource assigning apparatus includes a scheduling part configured to start scheduling for all users from a first wireless resource among a plurality of wireless resources prioritized according to a...

20060203726 - Actuator control method: The method comprises the generation of a control to be executed, the sending of a signal repeating a frame including the code of the control to be executed and the reception of this signal for application of the control to the actuator as long as the generation of the control...

20060203729 - Dynamic adaptation of mac-layer retransmission value: The number of audio/visual packets that are sent over a wireless channel of a wireless network and that are effectively lost at a client application is reduced by determining the number of packets that were effectively lost during a measurement period and by selecting at a server application a MAC-layer...

20060203731 - Method and apparatus for forward link rate scheduling: In a communication system capable of variable rate transmission, scheduling of high speed data transmission improves utilization of the forward link and decreases the transmission delay in data communication. Each remote station is assigned one primary code channel for the duration of the communication with a cell. Secondary code channels...

20060203730 - Method and system for reducing end station latency in response to network congestion: Methods and systems for processing network data are disclosed herein and may include receiving from a switching device, a congestion indicator that indicates congestion. In response to the congestion indicator, latency of reaction by a source end point, may be reduced by preventing introduction of queued up new frames to...

20060203728 - Method and system for transmission control protocol (tcp) traffic smoothing: Various aspects of a method and system for transmission control protocol (TCP) traffic smoothing are presented. Traffic smoothing may comprise a method for controlling data transmission in a communications system that further comprises scheduling the timing of transmission of information from a TCP offload engine (TOE) based on a traffic...

20060203727 - Radio transmission device and transmission rate decision method: A base station apparatus (radio transmission apparatus) transmits a radio signal of data to a mobile terminal apparatus (communication apparatus of a transmission destination). The mobile terminal apparatus receiving the radio signal determines (ST1010) information (CQI) on a downlink transmission rate enabling reception in the mobile terminal apparatus based on...

20060203733 - Methods, apparatuses, and articles to remotely test communications networks using digital fingerprints of content: A remote testing system employs digital fingerprinting in order to recognize with a determined degree of certainty, multimedia content transmitted over a target communications network being tested, for example a cellular communications network, without requiring the transmission of a reference copy of the content to the comparison equipment....

20060203732 - System architecture method and computer program product for managing telecommunication networks: A system architecture for managing a telecommunication network includes network equipment and supported network services, wherein the equipment has associated control interfaces. The architecture has a base layer proxying the interfaces and decoupling them from management functions, and a support layer having a community of agents coordinating operation of the...

20060203735 - Bridge apparatus and control packet processing apparatus in a spanning tree protocol network: A bridge apparatus, which enables communications to continue even if a fault or a disability of operation occurs, causing the spanning tree protocol to become inoperable and, furthermore, provides a network capable of keeping track of status changes thereof, are provided by a bridge apparatus constituting a network connected with...

20060203734 - Method and system of evaluating survivability of atm switches over sonet networks: In a particular embodiment, a method of evaluating a network is disclosed. The method identifies potential failure points between a layer two asynchronous transfer mode network and a layer one Synchronous Optical Network (SONET) network. The method includes identifying a first set of circuit identifiers of inter-nodal links of a...

20060203736 - Real-time mobile user network operations center: Methods and apparatus are described for monitoring mobile computing devices configured for operation in a home network. Mobile user data are accumulated which relate to operation of each of the mobile computing devices on at least one remote network which does not include any part of the home network. A...

20060203738 - Apparatus and methods for determining connection quality of a wireless device on a wireless communications network: Apparatus and methods for determining a connection quality of a wireless device with a wireless communications network comprise a user manager operable to receive a plurality of communications messages as recorded by the wireless device, where the plurality of communications messages comprise messages transmitted from and received by the wireless...

20060203742 - Method and apparatus for performing diagnostic tests using an assisting transceiver: A method and system for performing diagnostic tests on a communications system. Diagnostic test signals are generated by a transceiver included within the communications system. Diagnostic data signals generated within the communications system in response to the diagnostic test signals are collected by the transceiver. The communications transceiver may operate...

20060203741 - Method and apparatus for providing dual variable clocks for low-power wireless packet communication: Provided is a wireless packet communication method, and more particularly, a method and apparatus for enabling low-power communication by providing separate driving clocks optimized for a lower part for performing the function of a physical layer part and an upper part for performing the function of an upper layer above...

20060203740 - Method and related apparatus for monitoring system bus: Method and related apparatus for monitoring access modules, like memory or input/output modules, linked with a system bus of a computer system. In the present invention, access modules to be monitored and their corresponding monitoring intervals are preset. When a given access module initiates information exchange via the system bus,...

20060203739 - Profiling wide-area networks using peer cooperation: End hosts share network performance and reliability information with their peers over a peer-to-peer network. The aggregated information from multiple end hosts is shared in the peer-to-peer network in order for each end host to process the aggregated information so as to profile network performance. A set of attributes defines...

20060203737 - Traffic delay processing: A traffic processing system comprising a processing system and a delay buffer. The processing system is configured to determine a first delay metric for first traffic on a first path from the TPS to a first node, and determine a first delay differential based on the first delay metric and...

20060203743 - Apparatus and methods for dynamically configurable wireless network: An information handling system includes a plurality of access points, a radio network manager, and a database. The access points couple to form a wireless network. Each access point communicates with at least one mobile client. The radio network manager couples to the access points. The radio network manager is...

20060203746 - Method and apparatus for automatic configuration of wireless communication networks: Method and apparatus for automatically reconfiguring a wireless communication network provides for receiving information from at least one node indicating a change in the network and automatically reconfiguring the network based on the received information. In another embodiment, a method for automatically reconfiguring a wireless communication network, including at least...

20060203747 - Network topology systems and methods: A method for creating a logical network topology in a communication network having a plurality of network nodes. Within the communication network, one or more logical network paths are identified between nodes of the communication network. Each logical path is assigned one or more identification tags. A network device at...

20060203745 - Spanning tree generation for supporting performance-guaranteed services over circuit-switched network: Techniques are disclosed for generation of spanning trees that support provision of performance-guaranteed services over a circuit-switched network such as, for example, an optical-based network. For example, a technique for generating a spanning tree for use in forwarding Ethernet-based data in a circuit-switched network comprises the following steps/operations. Input information...

20060203744 - Withdrawing multiple advertised routes based on a query defined in a withdraw message which may be of particular use in border gateway protocol: Disclosed are, inter alia, methods, apparatus, data structures, computer-readable media, mechanisms, and means for withdrawing routes based on a query defined in a withdraw message. One or more route update messages identifying multiple routes with associated attributes and Type-Length-Value (TLV) values are received, and a routing database is updated to...

20060203748 - Method and device for the exchange of data between at least two users connected to a bus system: A method for the exchange of data in messages between at least two users which are connected by a bus system, the messages containing the data being transmitted by the users via the bus system, and each user containing a predefinable and/or ascertainable timing mark; a first user, in a...

20060203749 - Multimedia conference system and method which enables communication between private network and internet: The present invention discloses a multimedia conference system and method that enables peer-to-peer communication between private network and the Internet. The multimedia conference system and method that enables direct peer-to-peer communication between private network and the Internet includes: a plurality of user agents (to receive call requests) constituting a local...

20060203750 - System and method for conferencing in a peer-to-peer hybrid communications network: An improved system and method are disclosed for peer-to-peer communications. In one example, the method enables a conference session to be established by an endpoint and then controlled by the endpoint using direct signaling with other endpoints....

20060203753 - Common packet channel assignment method and apparatus: A method and device for initiating uplink data packet communication from a mobile device to a base station on a common packet channel is disclosed. The communication is initiated when the mobile device reads broadcast status of common packet channels, after which the mobile device sends an access preamble to...

20060203752 - Method and apparatus for implementing block acknowledgement in a wireless network: The size of a block acknowledgement (BA) window used during a BA transaction is varied during the transaction based on one or more parameters that are related to a present channel condition between an originator device and a recipient device....

20060203751 - Terminal device for a bi-directional radio relay link: The bandwidth for transmission and reception in a bi-directional radio relay link with two simultaneous broadcasts and receptions is reduced by half. Each terminal device comprises a first broadcaster for broadcasting a first data signal, via a first antenna, in a first used frequency band identical to that in which...

20060203754 - Radio network control device and qos control method used for the same: The block #1 capsules a user IP layer by a UDP/IPv6, as well as detecting a destination IP address and specifying a QoS class from a DSCP embedded in a TOS field of an IP header of the user IP layer to transfer data to the block #2 through a...

20060203755 - Hybrid mobile communication terminal and method of acquiring system for data service in hybrid mobile communication terminal: Disclosed are a hybrid mobile communication terminal and a method of acquiring a system for data service in the hybrid terminal. The hybrid terminal includes a mode setting unit which sets an HDR power save mode and an indicator indicating the HDR power save mode when data service cannot be...

20060203756 - Service transmission method for multimedia broadcast/multicast service: The present invention provides a service transmission method for MBMS, comprising: a core network initiates a MBMS service; having received a session start instruction of the MBMS service, the RNC selects the PTM mode or the PTP mode as a service bearer mode to bear the MBMS service for each...

20060203757 - Adaptive repeater system: A repeater system of a wireless network includes at least one adaptive repeater module and a personality module. The adaptive repeater module includes a hardware signal path for processing an input RF signal to generate a corresponding output RF signal; and a controller unit including a micro-processor for controlling parameters...

20060203758 - Mobile terminal for relaying multimedia data to an external display device: A mobile terminal comprising a local display for displaying multimedia data. The mobile terminal receives multimedia data via a first wireless interface and transmits the received multimedia data to an external display via a second wireless interface. The mobile terminal transmits the received multimedia data to the external display if...

20060203759 - Method for modulating a bit string, modulator, radio transmitter, and radio receiver: A modulator includes a first input configured to input a first bit string; a first modulating device configured to modulate the inputted first bit string at a first bit rate; a second input configured to input a second bit string; a second modulating device configured to modulate the inputted second...

20060203761 - Apparatus and method for switching transmit diversity in a wireless network: A base station for communicating with mobile stations in a coverage area of a wireless network. The base station comprises a first transmit antenna, a second transmit antenna, and an RF transceiver for generating an outgoing RF signal to be transmitted via the first and second transmit antennas to the...

20060203760 - Base station device and transmission method: RLC processing section 106 supplies packet data requested for retransmission from a mobile terminal and new packet data not requested for retransmission to buffer 107 corresponding to data amounts controlled in HS-DSCH/FP processing section 108. Buffer 107 temporarily stores the packet data requested for retransmission and the new packet data...

20060203765 - Data rate methods and apparatus: A wireless terminal receives an uplink traffic channel segment assignment including a maximum uplink rate option indicator. Each uplink rate option corresponds to a number of information bits, coding rate and modulation method. The maximum rate option indicator indicates the highest rate option that the wireless terminal is permitted to...

20060203764 - Delay-based cell portion selection: The present invention relates to a method and network device for identifying a cell portion to be selected from at least two cell portions each served by at least one respective remote head, wherein respective cell-portion specific amounts of delay are allocated to each of said at least two cell...

20060203763 - Hysteresis methods for an always-on mobile station: A system and method of packet zone hysteresis for a mobile station is presented. When a short data burst is to be sent on the control channel, a check is made to see if packet zone hysteresis might have caused the PCF-PSDN interface to be torn down, and if necessary,...

20060203762 - Method and apparatus for transmitting location data within a communication system: To enable wireless applications which require the use of location information, a method and apparatus for transmitting location data within an ad-hoc communication system is provided herein. During operation, a portion of a packet payload is used to transmit location coordinate information along with an identifier of location estimation technique...

20060203767 - Method of transmitting overhead message in a mobile wireless communication system: A method of transmitting an overhead message via a control channel which has at least one slot is disclosed. More specifically, a base station (BS) transmits an overhead slot cycle index for providing the overhead message to a mobile station (MS) and thereafter, receives the overhead slot cycle index and...

20060203766 - Notification of channel descriptor transmission for a mobile station in idle or sleep mode in a wireless access system: A method for controlling an idle mode in a mobile station comprises transmitting an idle mode request to a serving base station to enter the idle mode, and receiving a decode information transmission frame value and a decode information change status from at least one base station. The method also...

20060203770 - Broadcast system for cellular networks: An example system comprises one or more base stations, each base station associated with a cell, a Channel-to-Subscriber Management Entity operable to register a channel and a plurality of subscribers to that channel, wherein each subscriber is located in at least one of the cells, and a router operable to...

20060203771 - Channel estimation method operable to cancel a dominant disturber signal from a received signal: The present invention provides a processing module operable to produce an improved channel impulse response. This process involves initially estimating the channel impulse response. This result is based on and combined with a known sequences such as that provided by training sequences of the midamble within RF bursts. From this...

20060203769 - Intravascular filter with centering member: Devices and methods for centering an intravascular filter within a blood vessel are disclosed. A filter system in accordance with an exemplary embodiment of the present invention may include an intravascular filter, a filter sheath adapted to contain the intravascular filter, and a centering member adapted to assume a preset...

20060203773 - Method and mechanism for managing packet data links in a packet data switched network: A method for establishing a packet data session for a Mobile Terminal (MT) in packet data network. The method uses a Bandwidth Broker (BB) node for receiving from an aggregation node Quality-of-Service (QoS) measurements for a path assigned to the MT for transmission of packet data for the MT. The...

20060203772 - Methods and apparatus for implementing and using a maximum rate option indicator: A base station selects a maximum rate option indicator value for an uplink communications segment, e.g., uplink traffic channel segment, and transmits the selected indicator value, e.g., as part of the assignment message. The maximum rate option indicator value indicates to the wireless terminal a maximum allowed data rate option...

20060203768 - Systems and methods for allocating resources by a network device: Systems and techniques to set a new service rate for one or more queues of a router and a new power consumption level for a router is disclosed. The queues are configured to store data packets awaiting transmission from the router. The setting of the new service rate or rates...

20060203776 - Handoff solution for converging cellular networks based on multi-protocol label switching: A network device for enabling handoff of a mobile device from a first point of attachment to a second point of attachment. The network device includes a component for implementing a protocol wherein incoming packets are forwarded based on predefined label switched paths. When a mobile station moves from a...

20060203775 - Method and apparatus for optimizing label switched paths (lsps) setup in a packet data network: A method and a Core Network Gateway node for performing a handoff operation for a Mobile Terminal (MT) that receives and sends encapsulated packet data in a packet data network. The Core network Gateway comprises a service logic for receiving at the Core Network Gateway node a Routing Area (RA)...

20060203774 - System, method and apparatus for selecting a remote tunnel endpoint for accessing packet data services: A system, method, apparatus, mobile station, server and computer program product for enabling a mobile station and/or network operator to select the remote tunnel endpoint, e.g., Packet Data Interworking Function (PDIF), used for the establishment of a secure tunnel to be used when accessing services, such as Packet Data Services,...

20060203777 - Apparatus and method for allocating user in a multiple antenna mobile communication system supporting multi-user diversity: A user allocating apparatus and method in a multiple antenna mobile communication system supporting multi-user diversity is provided. Each user calculates effective Signal-to-Interference Noise Ratios (SINRs) and bit loading over every possible detection order and selects a detection order maximizing the number of channels with a minimum product of the...

20060203779 - De-coupling forward and reverse link assignment for multi-carrier wireless communication systems: A method and system for de-coupling forward and reverse link assignment for multi-carrier wireless communication systems. A method may assign two or more forward link code division multiple access (CDMA) carriers to transmit data from a base station to an access terminal; assign one or more reverse link CDMA carriers...

20060203782 - Dpch multiplexing apparatus and method for outer loop power control in a w-cdma communication system: Disclosed is a method for transmitting a dedicated physical data channel signal over a dedicated physical data channel in the absence of transmission data to be transmitted over the dedicated physical data channel in order to properly maintain a target SIR (Signal-to-Interference Ratio) when there exists new transmission data after...

20060203780 - Method and system for recognizing radio link failures associated with hsupa and hsdpa channels: A method and system for detecting radio link (RL) failures between a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) and a Node-B are disclosed. When signaling radio bearers (SRBs) are supported by high speed uplink packet access (HSUPA), an RL failure is recognized based on detection of improper operation of at least one...

20060203778 - Method for scheduling users in a hierarchical network: The present invention provides a method for scheduling mobile units in a wireless telecommunications network including first and second wireless connection points having a wireless communication link therebetween. The method includes determining a first number of mobile units having a wireless communication link with the first wireless connection point, determining...

20060203781 - Spread spectrum communication device and spread spectrum communication method: In a compressed mode, a spread spectrum communication device interleaves bit units across multiple frames using an interleaver, reduces the spreading factor using a framing/spreading unit, outputs the compressed mode frames at a predetermined compressed mode frame timing, and increases the average transmission power in the compressed mode at a...

20060203789 - Beam selection apparatus and method in voice over internet protocol over switched beam wireless local area network: An apparatus and a method for improving packet transmission and reducing latency in VoIP over WLAN using switched beam antennas having multiple directional antenna beams are disclosed. In an access point having a switched beam antenna, or other smart antenna system, the present invention extends the coverage area of an...

20060203786 - Cable-tv-based wireless network: A computer network based on cable-TV distribution network employs a hybrid cable-modem termination service plus wireless-network switch to manage wireless clients that access the switch through wireless access points coupled to cable modems. The switch includes a network manager that associates wireless clients with cable modems so that services associated...

20060203783 - Device for delivering an aromatic substance or fragrance: Wireless communication using a telemetric device (4 . . . 7) is carried out by a control device (1), in particular in a motor vehicle (2). The control device has an interface (8) for activating and/or extending and/or modifying software modules or components of a software module by an external...

20060203788 - Method and apparatus for routing between mobile networks: A method and apparatus for routing between mobile networks without the aid of a home agent by acquiring the internal network prefix of a neighbor mobile network are provided. A routing path is established between the mobile networks using a Route Request (RREQ) message or a Neighbor Discovery message, or...

20060203785 - Method and system for adaptive modulations and signal field for closed loop multiple input multiple output (mimo) wireless local area network (wlan) system: Aspects of a method and system for an optional closed loop mechanism with adaptive modulations for a multiple input multiple output (MIMO) WLAN system are provided. One aspect of the system may utilize properties of Eigenvalue analysis of MIMO systems to reduce the number of bits of binary information required...

20060203790 - Method of allocating channel time period for peer-to-peer communication between devices in wireless universal serial bus communication and peer-to-peer communication method using the same: A method of allocating a channel time period for peer-to-peer communication in wireless universal serial bus (WUSB) communication is provided. The method includes: receiving a peer-to-peer request message requesting peer-to-peer communication from a first device during a device notification time slot (DNTS); and allocating a channel time period for peer-to-peer...

20060203787 - Method of configuring a communication device: A method for configuring a device for communication is disclosed. In the method the device accesses a communication network where after it may be detected at a network element that the device needs to be provided with at least one configuration parameter. Information regarding the at least one configuration parameter...

20060203791 - Method, mobile station, system, network entity and computer program product for discovery and selection of a home agent: A method, mobile station, system, network entity and computer program product are provided for enabling a mobile station (MS) to select which home agent (HA) in a visited network the mobile station will use when accessing packet data services, such as CDMA2000 Packet Data Services. In particular, one or more...

20060203784 - Smart roaming to avoid time-outs during wlan association: A method and system for wirelessly connecting a client device to a wireless network's access point. When a first client device detects a Wireless Broadcast Storm During Active Scan Association (WBSDAASA) caused by a large block of other client devices attempting to simultaneously wirelessly connect to the access point using...

20060203792 - Distributed multiple antenna scheduling for wireless packet data communication system using ofdm: A wireless communication system (20) includes using multiple antennas (30, 32) for simultaneous transmissions to multiple mobile stations (24, 26). A distributed multiple antenna scheduling (DMAS) technique includes selecting a plurality of mobile stations for at least receiving simultaneous transmissions on at least one selected subcarrier from within a carrier...

20060203793 - Method for increasing capacity in a wireless communications system: A method is provided for controlling communications between a base station and a mobile device. The method comprises transmitting information between the base station and the mobile device over a plurality of sub-channels where each sub-channel has a different carrier frequency. A first portion of the sub-channels are used for...

20060203794 - Systems and methods for beamforming in multi-input multi-output communication systems: Methods and apparatuses are disclosed that utilize information from less than all transmission paths from a transmitter to form beamforming weights for transmission. In addition, methods and apparatuses are disclosed that utilize channel information, such as CQI, eigenbeam weights, and/or channel estimates, to form beamforming weights....

20060203795 - Method for sharing bandwidth using reduced duty cycle signals and media access control: A method is provided for transmitting data. A first device (121) generates a first signal (320) having a first duty cycle, comprising a first gated-on portion (323) and a first gated-off portion (363) in a time slot (260); and a second device (125) generates a second signal (330) having second...

20060203796 - Efficient time-division multiplexed addressing protocol: A method and apparatus for communicating within a system including a master unit and one or more slave units is disclosed herein. A member address, corresponding to a selected time slot of a plurality of time slots defined by a system clock configured to repeat in cycles, is assigned to...

20060203797 - Hdlc hardware accelerator: An HDLC accelerator includes a deframer and framer to respectively accelerate the deframing and framing processes for PPP packets. The deframer includes an input interface unit, a detection unit, a conversion unit, and an output interface unit. The input interface unit receives a packet of data to be deframed. The...

20060203809 - Internet routing system: A routing system receives a first message indicating a telephone number for a voice communication from a caller. The routing system processes the telephone number with the call processing software to select an internet address. The routing system transfers a second message indicating the internet address, wherein the voice communication...

20060203808 - Method and apparatus for measuring latency of a computer network: A method for operating a computer network has a source router transmit a first message to be received by an intermediate router of the computer network, the first message to activate the intermediate router to listen for a designated time period for the intermediate router to receive a second message....

20060203804 - Method and apparatus for routing data over multiple wireless networks: A mobile routing device communicates over multiple wireless networks with a Host Network Server residing on a Local Area Network. The mobile routing device also communicates with at least one client device. The mobile routing device includes multiple router network adapters, each interfacing with one of the wireless networks to...

20060203807 - Method and apparatus for voice-over-ip call recording: A method of obtaining information associated with a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) communication session includes tapping the computer network passively to obtain signaling information and media information in a first format, separating the signaling information from the media information, transcoding the media information to a second format, and storing...

20060203799 - Method and circuit for reading data from a data carrier: The invention provides a circuit for reading data from a data carrier, the circuit comprising a reading unit for reading data from the data carrier; and a controller for controlling the circuit. The circuit further comprises a detection unit for detecting a format of the data carrier; and the controller...

20060203802 - Method and system for dynamically specifying and instantly transmitting and representing/displaying call data: The present invention discloses a method and system for dynamically specifying and instantly transmitting and representing/displaying call data, wherein a data, which is specified by the caller or the callee dynamically, can be instantly transmitted, and represented/displayed as soon as the data has been transmitted and before the callee answers...

20060203805 - Quality-of-service assurance for ip telephony: A method that seeks to provide a satisfactory quality of service for a stream of packets through a network. The illustrative embodiment of the present invention seeks to provide a satisfactory quality of service for a stream of packets by periodically or sporadically evaluating one or more alternative paths through...

20060203801 - System and method for determining network quality for volp calls: A method of measuring network quality for VoIP calls comprises setting up a test call from a local IP endpoint to a remote IP endpoint reachable by a logical trunk group associated with the local IP endpoint, receiving statistical data regarding the test call, tearing down the test call, processing...

20060203803 - System and method for routing voip calls: A method of routing a voice call from a local media gateway to a terminating media gateway comprises determining IP network connectivity between the local media gateway and terminating media gateway and generating monitoring results, updating network resource status according to the monitoring results, generating a plurality of routes between...

20060203798 - Telephone set, multimedia terminal and server: The invention concerns a telephone set associated with a multimedia terminal. Said set comprises means for ordering transmission, to a server comprising a database wherein are stored identifiers of telephone sets and identifiers of the multimedia terminals associated with said telephone sets, of a request in the form of a...

20060203806 - Update method and system of a network device: The update method and the system of the network devices are disclosed herein. The Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) is used in the network device to update the system. The user doesn't need to input the username and password when the user is going to sign in the SIP server. By...

20060203800 - Voice-over-ip device using dial-up modem: A network telephone device includes a subscriber line/loop interface circuit (SLIC) for coupling to an analog telephone, a telephony processor coupled to the SLIC, and a dial-up modem coupled to the telephony processor. The telephony processor converts outgoing telephone signals from the SLIC into outgoing data packets, and incoming data...

20060203810 - System and method for remotely communicating with a broadband modem: A method for remotely communicating with a Broadband modem is provided. Once a communication error is detected on a Broadband modem, a Plain Old Telephone System (POTS) connection is established between the Broadband modem and a remote server. Communication then occurs with the remote server via the POTS connection using...

20060203811 - Apparatus and method to provide current location information services in a network: An apparatus and method that provides current location information services in a network are described. In one preferred embodiment, a location identifier and a user identifier are received from a user. A user profile associated with the user identifier is retrieved from a database of user profiles. The user profile...

20060203812 - Method for effecting changes in a software system landscape and computer system: A method for effecting changes in a software system landscape with a plurality of logical software systems that are interconnected by logical transport paths, comprises: providing system role types, each system role being associated with one of a plurality of system role types; providing low level operational tasks associated to...

20060203813 - System and method for managing a main memory of a network server: A computerized method for managing a main memory of a network server includes the steps of: (a) constructing a plurality of data structures according to data received by the server (1) from the client computers (2); (b) setting the data structures into a queue; (c) determining whether a function in...

20060203814 - System and method for adaptive switching frequency control: System and method for providing frequency control to a power converter. The system includes a controller configured to receive a load signal and generate a first control signal. The load signal indicates an output load for a power converter. Additionally, the system includes a signal generator configured to receive the...

20060203815 - Compliance verification and osi layer 2 connection of device using said compliance verification: The method comprises installing an agent software on the device; detecting a boot-up of the device; providing the device with a temporary IP address upon boot-up, the temporary IP address being within a compliancy network, logically separate from the corporate network; providing a list of compliance rules to be verified...

20060203817 - 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...

20060203816 - Packet diversion in switching fabrics and multiple forwarding instructions for packets: A cascade system of network units includes forwarding units which have external ports, a communication fabric connecting the units and at least one processing unit which needs no forwarding database. The processing unit may perform a security operation such as intrusion prevention or encryption. Each forwarding unit on receipt of...

20060203818 - Method for multicast packet forwarding in a switch: A method for multicast packet forwarding in a switch. The switch includes a look-up table and a plurality of ports. The switch transfers a multicast packet according to the look-up table. The method includes receiving the multicast packet from a port; if the multicast packet conforms to a specific transmission...

20060203819 - Small group multicast in a computer network: A data structure is stored in a memory of a router, the router located along a path between a source end station and a plurality of destination end stations in a multicast distribution tree. In response to receipt of trace packets containing a listing of network devices in the multicast...

20060203820 - Method and system for communicating and isolating packetized data through a plurality of last-mile carriers to form a multi-node intranet: The invention provides a system and method for transporting packetized data between remote geographic locations in a multi facilities-based carrier and multi-last mile access environment to form a multi-node intranet. The purpose of the invention is to implement a secure, private data service using disparate facilities-based carriers for last-mile connectivity...

20060203821 - Receive method and receiver: A receiver receives information necessary for receive processing of a data channel via a corresponding control channel and executes the receive processing of the data channel based on the information received via the control channel. In the receiver, whether the control channel of a receive frame F1 has an error...

20060203822 - Method and apparatus for routing voice packets in a voice-over ip communications network based on a relative packet location within a sequence: A method and apparatus for routing voice packets through a communications network wherein the routing priority of the packets is based on a location of a packet within a sequence of transmitted voice packets, relative to one or more identified voice packets in the transmitted sequence. In one embodiment of...

20060203823 - Method of crc residue error detection and handling: The present invention provides a method of cyclic redundancy check (CRC) residue error detection and handling, which includes storing a plurality of protocol data units sequentially, checking sequence numbers of the plurality of protocol data units sequentially, discarding a protocol data unit when a sequence number of the protocol data...

20060203824 - Passing values through a memory management unit of a network device: A network device 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 memory management unit and a search engine configured to perform searches of lookup tables and to...

20060203825 - Communication node architecture in a globally asynchronous network on chip system: The invention relates to the domain of networks on chip (NoC) and concerns a network and a data transmission method between elements in such a network using an asynchronous communication protocol of the “send/accept” type. At least one node in the network operates without an internal clock, this node determining...

20060203826 - Method for ensuring qos for isochronous data in residential ethernet system including legacy ethernet device: Disclosed is a method, apparatus and computer product for ensuring QoS (Quality of Service) of isochronous data in a Residential Ethernet system including a legacy Ethernet device and a first Residential Ethernet switch, in which the first Residential Ethernet switch transmits data packets to the legacy Ethernet device, the method...

20060203827 - Method for facilitating application server functionality and access node comprising same: An access node comprises an application server, a logical access port coupled to the application server and a redirection filter module coupled to the logical access port. The redirection filter module includes a data redirection filter and an Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) redirection filter. The data redirection filter facilitates a...

20060203828 - Router selecting method and router apparatus: A router includes a multicast packet transmitting unit that multicasts the identifier of the router periodically, a relay determining unit that determines whether a received data packet should be relayed to a router in another segment, an order determining unit that determines, on the basis of information included in multicast...

20060203833 - Communication apparatus and method: A terminal determined to be a communication partner in advance is subjected to transmission power control, and another terminal receives data with the maximum transmission power. Data to be transmitted to a plurality of terminals is also transmitted with the maximum transmission power....

20060203829 - Network support for hand-off between fixed and wireless networks for high-speed data applications: An apparatus in one example has: a home fixed wireless data access service having a coverage area and at least one mobile wireless data service having a coverage area; a mobile terminal associated with the home fixed wireless data access service; an active wireless data connection for a data application...

20060203832 - Packet communication apparatus with function enhancement module: A packet communication apparatus comprising a node management processor for controlling the whole apparatus, network interfaces for transmitting and receiving packets to and from external networks, function enhancement modules for performing predetermined processes on the packets, and a switch for transferring the packets within the apparatus. The network interface includes...

20060203830 - Semiconductor integrated circuit and test method for the same: In order to enable its testing in the form of including the influence of transmission path, a semiconductor integrated circuit comprising a transmission and a receiving circuit comprises an inserted circuit for receiving an output signal of the transmission circuit and providing the output signal to the receiving circuit; and...

20060203831 - Signaling gateway for multihop-relaying a signaling message: If interaction between signaling gateways frequently occurs, it is possible that extended processings are executed redundantly on a path of signaling messages. To avoid such a redundancy, a consistent method is necessary for deciding a signaling gateway to execute an extended processing from among the signaling gateways. The signaling gateways,...

20060203834 - Communications system and method: Aspects of the invention are directed to communications systems and methods for communicating among a plurality of devices or modules. In one aspect a communications module for a communications system includes a first I/O to couple to a prior communications module in the communications system, a second I/O to couple...

20060203836 - Method and system for parsing bits in an interleaver for adaptive modulations in a multiple input multiple output (mimo) wireless local area network (wlan) system: Aspects of a method and system for parsing bits in an interleaver for adaptive modulations in a multiple input multiple output (MIMO) wireless local area network (WLAN) system are provided. The interleaver may assign at least one binary bit of information, among a plurality of binary bits of information to...

20060203835 - Using channel concepts to control computer networking: Described is a system and method that use the concept of channels by which computer users select an appropriate set of network settings maintained in the computer system for a particular network. Upon selection, the corresponding settings are automatically applied by the system. A channel manager manages sets of network...

20060203837 - Method of communicating with a network device: A method is provided for operating a network device (340) in a wireless network (100). This method includes: joining the wireless network; transmitting a probe command (600) after joining the wireless network, the probe command being addressed to a reserved device identifier; listening for an acknowledgement to the probe command...

20060203838 - Eas tag polling system: An EAS tag polling system includes a plurality of EAS tags and a base station, wherein each of the tags transmits an acknowledgement to the base station. The base acknowledgments may be sent passively or actively in response to a request from the base station. The base station discriminates between...

20060203839 - Image forming apparatus and method of controlling the same: A MAC address required for data transmission and reception via a communication network is generated from a manufacturer's serial number of an image forming apparatus....

20060203840 - Method and system for filling 'advertised' vacancies: This invention concerns filling vacancies. It may, for example, be applied to finding replacements during staff shortages. Firstly, vacancy data and candidate data is stored (5). Requests from a candidate are received to view the vacancy data using a website. The processor (1) automatically sends vacancy information to the candidate...

20060203841 - Coordination of multiple protocols using a shared communication medium: The present invention provides a method and apparatus for coordinating multiple protocols using a shared communication medium. Such a method and apparatus includes processing that begins by determining, by a first protocol module, that a second protocol module desires access to the shared communication medium, wherein the second protocol module...

20060203842 - Dongle-type network access module: A network access module having a dongle-type housing is provided. The dongle-type housing is coupleable to a computer port and when coupled to a communications network, the dongle-type network access module provides an efficient plug-and-play network connection. The network access module can be powered by a USB-port on a subscriber's...

20060203843 - Xdsl function asic processor & method of operation: An improved type of application-specific integrated circuit block (ASIC) is disclosed that is optimized for use in a communications system, and is somewhat programmble through the use of particular data objects that can specify an instruction and operand for the ASIC. The ASIC can be multi-tasking to perform multiple receive...

20060203845 - High-rate wireless communication mehod for packet data: A hybrid approach is provided to the formatting of signals for transmission in a high-data-rate wireless system. We retain the format and timing of an HRPD frame, but the data portions of selected slots within the frame are given over to OFDMA transmission instead of CDMA transmission. Because OFDMA is...

20060203846 - Lan emulation over infiniband fabric apparatus, systems, and methods: A method and device for local area network (LAN) emulation over an Infiniband (IB) fabric. An IB LAN driver at a first node on an IB fabric receives the port and associated local identifier (LID) of one or more remote peer nodes on the IB fabric. An IEEE 802.3 Ethernet...

20060203844 - Method and apparatus for downstream ethernet overlay in optical communications: In optical telecommunications networks using passive optical networks (PON), an optical wavelength band called the enhancement band (1539 to 1565 nm) is typically used to carry broadcast video signals in either analog television or QAM Digital Video form. This enhancement band is used here to carry a unidirectional baseband Ethernet...

20060203847 - Variable communication capacity data transmission device and data transmission device: Disclosed is a data transmission device of variable communication capacity that can set bands and set line communication capacities according to users' requests, and can automatically determine usable lines. The data transmission device includes: a transmission device having a transmission unit connected to N (N>1) transmission lines; a reception device...

20060203848 - Virtual endpoints: Disclosed is an architecture for automating testing tasks, which would otherwise have to be done manually using actual hardware, by providing the capability to dynamically create many types of networked computing devices with different network configurations, eliminating the need to have actual test machines physically networked. Virtual endpoints are virtual...

20060203849 - Computer program code device 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...

20060203853 - Apparatus and methods for video synchronization by parsing time stamps from buffered packets: A plurality of packets of the coded stream, e.g., an MPEG Packetized Elementary Stream (PES) is stored in a buffer. A stored packet is retrieved from the buffer and parsed to recover a time stamp. The recovered time stamp is compared to a time reference, such as a system time...

20060203851 - Applications of multiple time synchronization domains: Applications for multiple synchronization domains of a clock synchronization protocol include using multiple synchronization domains to handle the asymmetric delay in message transfer in a dual ring network topology, using multiple synchronization domains to provide a standby synchronization domain, and using multiple synchronization domains to gather information pertaining to the...

20060203850 - Method and apparatus for distributing timing information in an asynchronous wireless communication system: An Access Point (AP) receives a first set of timing information comprising timing information for at least one neighboring AP and conveys, to a user equipment (UE), a second set of timing information comprising timing information for the at least one neighboring AP, wherein the second set of timing information...

20060203854 - Mobile communication terminal: Improve efficiency of sampling of an A/D converter while suppressing power consumption. A packet receiving section receives six packets included in one frame transmitted from a base station, a sample timing control section shifts sample timing of the A/D converter by a half clock between former three packets and latter...

20060203852 - Signal processing apparatus and signal processing method: According to one embodiment, a signal processing apparatus includes a comparing unit which determines matching between a value of circulating counter described in a TS packet and a comparative value stored in a storing unit and which updates the comparative value of the storing unit to the value of the...

20060203855 - Communication control system and communication control method: In a communication control system a reception-side terminal sends back transmission time information included in a transmission packet as an acknowledgment to a transmission-side terminal. The transmission-side terminal determines whether a response time, obtained from the transmission time information, is shorter than a threshold. When the response time is shorter,...

20060203856 - Methods and apparatus for signaling data rate option information: A wireless terminal includes an uplink rate option indicator in the same uplink channel segment with data, the rate option indicator providing transmission rate information about the data transmitted in the segment. The indicator value is represented by an energy pattern within the segment. Different energy patterns correspond to different...

20060203857 - System and method for data multiplexing: To reduce the load on a host for controlling a data doubling. Between a host and two disk subsystems, there is connected a data doubling device. This data doubling device behaves as if it were a unit disk subsystem for the host. The data doubling device doubles a data I/O...

20060198295 - Method for distributing data on an ofdm time-frequency grid allowing for coordination of interferences and adaptive subcarrier frequency allocation, a base transceiver station, a base station controller and a mobile network therefor: The invention concerns a method for distributing data on an OFDM time-frequency grid for data transmission from and to mobile terminals in a mobile network allowing for coordination of interferences between different cells of the mobile network and adaptive subcarrier frequency allocation to mobile terminals, whereby subcarrier frequencies of the...

20060198294 - Method for ofdm data transmission in a single-frequency multi-cell mobile network with channel estimation by means of pilots subgrid, a base transceiver station, a base station controller, a mobile terminal and a mobile network therefor: The invention concerns a method for OFDM data transmission in a single-frequency multi-cell mobile network from and to mobile terminals (MT) with channel estimation by means of pilots (PILOT) of a pilot subgrid in an OFDM time-frequency grid, whereby the positions of the pilot subgrids of different cells of the...

20060198292 - Ofdm reception device and ofdm reception method: An interference power calculation section 208 calculates an interference power value of each symbol according to a calculation expression (interference power=average power of parts unaffected by interference+average power of parts affected by interference) and notifies a turbo decoding section 209 of the calculated interference power value. The turbo decoding section...

20060198293 - Radio communication device and radio communication method:

20060198296 - Method and apparatus for replicating a transport layer protocol stream: Network connection switchover is accomplished through a method comprising receiving information defining a first connection between a first network device and a computer; establishing a replication channel between the first network device and a backup device; storing backup control information at the backup device; communicating a message flow between the...

20060198297 - Efficient muxing scheme to allow for bypass and array access: A method and apparatus for using a 2:1 MUX to control read access, data bypass, and page size bypass in a memory array. The mechanism of the present invention reduces the 3:1 MUX normally required to manage these three functions to a 2:1 MUX....

20060198299 - Flow control and congestion management for random scheduling in time-domain wavelength interleaved networks: Flow control techniques are disclosed for use in data communications networks such as those implementing a time-domain wavelength interleaved network (TWIN) architecture or other suitable architectures. Such techniques may provide for congestion management and scheduling for asynchronous traffic. For example, in one aspect, a technique comprises collecting information at a...

20060198300 - Multi-channel tcp connections with congestion feedback for video/audio data transmission: A method of transmitting data over a communication network has congestion feedback. The method includes a sending application such as a video conferencing program opening a plurality of TCP connections. The sending application provides data packets to an encapsulation module, which appends a TCP header to each data packet. For...

20060198301 - Packet-level service differentiation for quality of service provisioning over wireless local area networks: The present invention provides a packet prioritizer for use with a wireless local area network (WLAN) access point. In one embodiment, the packet prioritizer includes a priority tagger configured to provide a packet priority for a WLAN packet. Additionally, the packet prioritizer also includes a priority scheduler coupled to the...

20060198303 - Scheduling data transmission by medium access control (mac) layer in a mobile network: A method for use by a MAC common channel of an RNC to select a transport format combination (TFC) whereby a candidate set of TFCs is selected, and a TFC is chosen from the set of TFCs according to selection criteria....

20060198298 - System and method for achieving path symmetry in an internet protocol (ip) based network: A system and method for improving network performance when communicating between a first site network and a second site network via an IP-based transport network. The site networks include a LAN, a plurality of host/media gateways (MGWs) connected to the LAN, and pairs of first and second Site Edge Routers...

20060198302 - Traffic dimensioning in a metro area with iptv architecture: A system, method, and computer readable medium for traffic dimensioning in a metro area with Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) architecture that comprises calculating video on demand traffic, calculating instant channel change traffic, calculating broadband television traffic, calculating picture-in-picture traffic, calculating voice over internet protocol (VoIP) traffic, calculating high speed Internet...

20060198304 - Call admission control system and method for interpreting signaling messages and controlling traffic load in internet protocol differentiated services networks: A call admission control system and method for Internet Protocol (IP) Differentiated Services (DiffServ) network having at least one node for interpreting signaling messages and controlling traffic load in the network. The method consists of an initialization (601) and a real-time phase (602). In initialization phase (601), coefficients of the...

20060198305 - Wireless lan data rate adaptation: A WLAN communication system and algorithm that adaptively changes the data transmission rate of a communication channel based on changing channel conditions. The WLAN communication system or algorithm has two modes being a searching mode and a transmission mode. Furthermore, the WLAN communication system or algorithm incorporates an additive increase,...

20060198306 - System and method for controlling a service to use a resource: A system for controlling a service to use a resource is disclosed. The system includes: an active bitmap obtaining module (21) for obtaining an active bitmap of the resource; an blacklist bitmap obtaining module (22) for obtaining a blacklist bitmap of the service; a checking module (23) for determining whether...

20060198307 - System and method for controlling a service to use a resource: A system for controlling a service to use a resource is disclosed. The system includes: an active bitmap (130) for recording a plurality of bits, each of which corresponds to a resource and has a certain value; an obtaining module (131) for obtaining the active bitmap to check a value...

20060198308 - Technique for selecting a path computation element based on response time delay: A technique efficiently selects a path computation element (PCE) to compute a path between nodes of a computer network. The PCE selection technique is illustratively based on dynamic advertisements of the PCE's available path computation resources, namely a predictive response time (PRT). To that end, the novel technique enables one...

20060198311 - Detection of multiple users of a network access node: Techniques are described for detecting use of a network access node by multiple users to gain access to a network. Packets are received from a network device in communication with the network access node. The packets are evaluated with reference to a plurality of metrics. Each of the metrics is...

20060198313 - Method and device for detecting and blocking unauthorized access: A method for detecting an unauthorized or illicit traffic through a network comprises the steps of storing the expected values of a behavior for each type of the traffic in advance, separating individual traffics when performing communications through the network, measuring the behavior of the individually separated traffic, comparing the...

20060198312 - Network diagnostic systems and methods for altering the format and bandwidth of network messages: A networking system is provided. The networking system may include a diagnostic module. The diagnostic module may perform any of a variety of network diagnostic functions. The diagnostic module may include an analysis module, which may receive messages and perform any of a variety of network diagnostic functions using the...

20060198309 - Resource-sensitive parser, method of parsing and session initiation protocol (sip) network employing the same: The present invention provides a resource-sensitive parser for use with a session initiation protocol (SIP) network. In one embodiment, the resource-sensitive parser includes a resource condition indicator configured to provide an overload indication for a network element in the SIP network. Additionally, the resource-sensitive parser also includes a parsing engine...

20060198310 - User semantic overlay for troubleshooting convergent network problems: A convergent network comprising voice over Internet protocol (VOIP) and voice over wireless local area networks (VoWLAN) telephones provides users the means for notifying a network administrator of a quality problem in real time together with an indication of the nature problem. Upon receipt of the notification, the system takes...

20060198314 - Processing device, failure recovery method therefor, and failure restoration method: A processing device includes a processor which executes first and second pieces of control software in a memory to perform processing, and a device 1 having a plurality of SLOTs 1 to 8 to electrically connect the processor to a plurality of device. The device 1 switches a SLOT which...

20060198315 - Communication apparatus: A communication apparatus that detects a network failure by itself, without using any particular protocol to interact with other apparatuses in a multivendor virtual LAN (VLAN) environment. The communication apparatus has a group of physical link ports, including first and second ports, to provide physical link connections to an opposite...

20060198317 - Method for controlling a service to use a resource: A method for controlling a service to use a resource is disclosed. The method includes the steps of: starting the service; obtaining a license of using the resource; determining whether a report of running the service is received at regular intervals; and withdrawing the license if no such report is...

20060198319 - Network diagnostic systems and methods for aggregated links: A networking system is provided. The networking system may include a diagnostic module. The diagnostic module may perform any of a variety of network diagnostic functions. The diagnostic module may include an analysis module, which may receive messages and perform any of a variety of network diagnostic functions using the...

20060198318 - Network diagnostic systems and methods for statistical triggering: A networking system is provided. The networking system may include a diagnostic module. The diagnostic module may perform any of a variety of network diagnostic functions. The diagnostic module may include an analysis module, which may receive messages and perform any of a variety of network diagnostic functions using the...

20060198316 - System for remote configuration of qos parameters: The system for remote configuration of QoS parameters enables a service provider to remotely configure the Quality of Service parameters for each application or service offered by networked devices connected to a LAN. This is accomplished by a service provider creating and maintaining a reference repository of the Quality of...

20060198322 - Method and apparatus for bgp peer prefix limits exchange with multi-level control: Method and apparatus for exchanging route prefix limit parameters and performing route processing based on multi-level, e.g., three levels of prefix limit parameters between BGP peers in a network running BGP protocol. Further, a route refresh BGP message and/or a soft-notify BGP message may be used to exchange prefix limit...

20060198320 - Prime numbering address allocation method and unique numbering address allocation method using the same in wireless multi-hop network: A prime numbering address allocation method in wireless multi-hop network, in which address 1 is assigned to a root host which is the first host joining the wireless multi-hop network, the root host allocates all prime numbers sequentially to new hosts attached to it, and a non-root host allocates addresses...

20060198321 - System and methods for network reachability detection: A mechanism for ASBRs to identify the originating node, or router, in an LSP conversant autonomous system (AS), such as an MPLS VPN environment, maintains the identity of the originating node and successive nodes in subsequent autonomous systems along the path to the node to be pinged. The identity of...

20060198323 - Methods and devices for improving the multiple spanning tree protocol: The present invention provides improved unicast routing, multicast routing and unicast load sharing as compared with conventional methods. Preferred implementations of the invention provide improvements to IEEE 802.1Q. According to preferred aspects of the invention, each bridge is the root of its own multiple spanning tree instance (“MSTI”). Preferred implementations...

20060198324 - Method and apparatus for multipoint voice operation in a wireless, ad-hoc environment: The present invention protocol offers guaranteed Quality of Service (QoS) for concurrent calls in a highly dynamic, scalable network. The invention employs a TDMA reservation technique to transmit voice traffic to multiple destinations and a CSMA/CA contention scheme to support data traffic. The present invention operates over a link-state based...

20060198326 - Ip multicast streaming data error correction: A method for multicasting Internet Protocol (IP) streaming data to a mobile platform passenger is provided. The method includes receiving data content at a base station network from a content provider. The received data is formatted at the base station into an IP multicast data stream and communicated to a...

20060198325 - Method for supporting scalable and reliable multicast in tdma/tdd systems using feedback suppression techniques: A method supports scalable and reliable multicast in a wireless network with a large bandwidth-delay product. In this method, acknowledgement packets from different receivers experiencing the same number of data packets lost are assigned the same time slots. This method can be combined with other loss recovery techniques, such as...

20060198327 - Selection method for data communication between base station and transponders: A selection method for selecting at least one transponder located in the response area of a base station, which are linked to one another by a wireless bidirectional data communication path, in which method the base station transmits an electromagnetic carrier signal, which has at least one arbitration symbol, wherein...

20060198328 - Verifying packets received over a physical link: A solution is provided wherein physical link parameters may be negotiated after a link is brought up by having the two devices involved in the link exchange identifiers when the link is initially brought up. These identifiers may be saved in the devices and then utilized upon receipt of subsequent...

20060198329 - Method of measuring distortion and determining residue-echo threshold in loop start trunk circuits: A method of determining residue-echo threshold for the trans-hybrid echo path of a loop start (LS) trunk line, comprising the steps of estimating the impulse response of the trans-hybrid echo path, passing a speech-like signal through the LS trunk circuit and collecting the echo signal. The collected echo signal is...

20060198330 - Detection of supported network frequency to enable successful connection to wireless networks: An evaluation of supported rates of available wireless networks is performed and these supported rates are matched against supported rates of wireless connection hardware (e.g., a wireless network interface card) of a computer trying to connect to one of the wireless networks. If the wireless connection hardware of the computer...

20060198331 - Dynamic communication and method of use: A communication system and method for enhancing the effectiveness of wireless and wired systems. The communication system comprising a combination of (A) a communication device with two separate transceivers and a unique access number (B) said transceivers with a short-range wireless or wired transceiver and long-range wireless transceiver, (C) a...

20060198336 - Deployment of different physical layer protocols in a radio access network: This invention relates to a method, a system, a base station, a base station hub (41) and software applications for data transmission between at least one base station (42-1, 42-2) and a radio network controller (40) in a radio access network, said method comprising operating a first-type physical layer protocol...

20060198335 - Embedding secondary transmissions in an existing wireless communications network: A first device participates in a wireless communications network having a transmission medium designated for exchanging wireless signals in a first format that is associated with the wireless communications network. A portion of the transmission medium is reserved for the transmission of signals in a second format, which may be...

20060198333 - Home system and method of determining if a fob is in range or out of range of wireless communication with a server: A home system includes a server having a first wireless communication port and a first non-wireless communication port. One or more fobs include a second wireless communication port adapted to communicate with the first wireless communication port of the server. One or more sensor nodes or device nodes different than...

20060198332 - Radio access system: A wireless access system is provided which prevents the occurrence of a hidden terminal problem and minimizes the reduction in throughput. In the wireless access system, an access point (12) divides terminals into groups such that terminals in one group cannot recognize radio waves sent from terminals in another group,...

20060198334 - Sip2 mobile gateway: A system and method for using an IP client attached to the Public Internet, acting as a virtual mobile terminal such as a cell phone, to have full access to mobile telephony services offered by a mobile operator using a SIP2 Mobile gateway. The services include a mobile telephone number,...

20060198337 - Method and apparatus for operating a node in an ad-hoc communication system: A method and apparatus (500) for operating a node within an ad-hoc communication system (100) is provided herein. A single-radio relay node (500) is used to link overlapping piconets operating on different radio channels. All nodes (203-208) within the ad-hoc communication system (100) operate on multiple channels, which differ for...

20060198338 - Packet transmission control device and packet transmission control method: A packet transmission control device and a packet transmission control method for reducing degradation of system throughput due to a wireless mobile station in an abnormal state, in controlling transmission of packets to each of a plurality of wireless terminals. A channel is assigned based on an evaluated value from...

20060198339 - Wireless communication method and system for minimizing interference by determining mobile station zone locations and potential conflicts between cell zones: A wireless communication method and system for minimizing severe interference to one or more wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRUs). A plurality of non-overlapping zones (e.g., an inner zone and an outer zone) is defined for each cell of a wireless multi-cell communication system, such as a time division duplex (TDD) system....

20060198341 - Method and apparatus for improved link layer handoff: Various embodiments are described to address the need for an apparatus and method that improves link layer handoff by addressing the packet-loss problem existing today. An intermediate buffer management layer (IBML) (201, 211) is introduced below layer 3 of an OSI-based communications interface. The IBML buffers copies of OSI layer...

20060198340 - Radio base station, mobile station: To realize smooth adaptive modulation control after handover even when the transmission frequency of parameters is lowered with transmission of the parameters used for the adaptive modulation control with timing satisfying predetermined conditions. As the mobile station for transmitting the parameters used for the adaptive modulation control in the timing...

20060198343 - Pattern diversity to support a mimo receiver and associated methods: A MIMO communications system includes a transmitter, and a transmit antenna array connected to the transmitter and having M antenna elements for transmitting M source signals. A receive antenna array is connected to a receiver and has N antenna elements for receiving at least M different summations of the M...

20060198342 - Spread code generation method, cdma transmission device, and cdma reception device: ej(2nn/N) calculating section 101 generates a bth chip C(a,b) of an ath spreading code based on C(a,b)=ej(2nn/N) where e is a base of natural logarithm and N is a length of the spreading code (i.e. spreading code length). It is assumed in the above equation that n=a×b, a=0˜N−1, and b=0˜N−1....

20060198344 - Multiple paging channels for efficient region paging: Systems and methods are described that mitigating coverage gaps near region boundaries using a plurality of multi-sector broadcast (MSBC) paging channels in wireless networking environments. One or more MSBC paging channels can be assigned unique time slots, such that although the channels can be identical, they are disjointed in time....

20060198347 - Accessing a communication system: A method provides control of access in a communication system. The method includes providing an access route via at least one unlicensed radio spectrum access network and via at least one licensed radio spectrum access network. The method further includes receiving an access request from a cell belonging to one...

20060198349 - Clientless mobile subscribers with seamlesss roaming over scalable wide area wireless networks: System and method for seamless roaming over scalable wide area Wireless LAN networks (WAWLAN) with clientless mobile subscribers. A preferred embodiment comprises a wireless gateway (WG) coupled to one or more access points in a wireless network to form a wireless cluster (WC), a network access gateway (NAG) coupled to...

20060198348 - Comunication apparatus capable of performing a load balancing and method thereof: A load balancing method applied in a communication apparatus is disclosed. The method includes assigning an identification code to a first and a second wireless transceivers; establishing a first link between a first transceiver and a station through a first channel according to the identification code; and establishing a second...

20060198345 - Distributed mobile agent: A system for forwarding data packets towards a mobile node roaming in a foreign packet-switched data network, the data packets having been addressed to a home address of the mobile node, the mobile node being provided with a care of address for use in the foreign network, the system comprising:...

20060198346 - Method and apparatus for dynamic neighbor discovery within wireless networks using time division multiple access (tdma): An Ad-Hoc wireless network according to the present invention employs a TDMA based neighbor discovery protocol, where each network node is assigned a unique time slot to broadcast neighbor discovery packets or messages. A primary controller node is dynamically designated to perform the time slot assignments. A dynamic selection of...

20060198351 - Method for allocating ip address in a mobile communication system: Disclosed is a method for allocating an IP address. The interface ID value of an IP address allocated to a mobile terminal upon IP communication in a mobile communication system is set by using country information, mobile network information and a telephone number stored in the mobile terminal. The mobile...

20060198350 - Method for transmitting messages in mobile communications system and mobile communications terminal: A mobile terminal, system and method for transmitting and/or receiving a message are discussed. According to an embodiment, the mobile terminal includes a transmitting/receiving unit to perform a signal transmission; an input unit to receive a message and transmission information; a storage unit to store message data; and a controller...

20060198352 - Data transmission system and method: A method of transmitting data packets, where randomness is added to the schedule. Universal broadcast schedules using encoding and randomization techniques are also discussed, together with optimal randomized schedules and an approximation algorithm for finding near-optimal schedules....

20060198353 - Method for media access controlling and system and method for channel time reservation in distributed wireless personal area network: Disclosed are a method for media access controlling and channel time reservation system and method in distributed wireless personal area networks. A method of media access controlling for a distributed wireless network including at least one device, includes a device of the distributed wireless network, generating a data slot reservation...

20060198354 - Method for synchronizing a radio communication system divided into radio cells: Data is transmitted via time division multiple access methods and every radio cell includes one base station each for the radio coverage of a plurality of mobile stations assigned to the radio cell. The base station receives, in addition to mobile station signals of its own radio cell, mobile station...

20060198355 - Time division multiplexing synchronization apparatus, radio communication apparatus, and synchronization method in time division multiplex communication: A time division multiplexing synchronization apparatus, radio communication apparatus, and synchronization method in time division multiplex communication that enable power savings to be achieved and synchronization to be performed dependably with a signal from the intended station. From the start of communication until a slot containing frame information can be...

20060198359 - Apparatus and methods for determining voice and/or data processing performance of a wireless device: Apparatus, methods, processors and computer readable media for determining the voice and/or data processing performance or capability of a wireless device. Embodiments include a wireless device having a computer platform with a processing engine operable to generate a plurality of performance data during voice and/or data processing activities on the...

20060198356 - Method and apparatus for router port configuration: A method and apparatus for selectively configuring, in a router, physical ports to either a Wide Area Network (WAN) or a Local Area Network (LAN). Method steps include receiving a message to configure a physical port for use with either the LAN or WAN; associating, in response to receiving the...

20060198358 - Partitioning communication system: A system and method for communicating data between two nodes defines a plurality of separate partitions on each node and assigns one or more subjects to at least one of the plurality of the separate partitions. The subjects in each node communicate data with each other over one or more...

20060198357 - Signaling agency implementing method: A method for realizing signaling agent in a network system, the network system comprises media gateways and a media gateway controller in different networks, and at least one agent equipment on a boundary of different networks; each media gateway under the same media gateway controller has a unique message identifier...

20060198362 - Adaptive interference cancellation algorithm using speech mode dependent thresholds: The present invention provides a method of processing radio frequency (RF) bursts dependent on a speech mode associated with data contained within the RF burst. Different voice modes, full rate, half rate, and adaptive multi-channel rates each may require different signal to noise ratio (SNR) conditions in order to be...

20060198363 - Apparatus and method for computer telephony integration: An agent at a contact center uses a soft phone embedded in the agent's desktop to converse with a customer, to set the agent's Automatic Call Distribution (“ACD”) state, and to control the phone's call control state. Computer Telephony Integration (“CTI”) technology is used in many ways at the contact...

20060198364 - Communication system, communication device, wired communication device, and communication method: A communication system includes a wired communication device and a communication device that can communicate with a wireless communication device and the wired communication device. The communication device includes a clock output unit and a modulator. The wired communication device includes a clock extracting unit, a signal extracting unit, and...

20060198361 - Method and system for providing mobile wireless access points: A mobile access point is disclosed. The mobile access point includes a terminal module configured to provide one or more terminal functions for use by a user, the one or more terminal functions including a voice or data communications application, and a gateway module configured to provide one or more...

20060198365 - Method and system for voice calls in a wireless local area network (wlan): A method and system for providing voice calls in a macro wireless network includes providing at a router of the micro wireless network an interface for communication with a service node of a macro wireless network coupled to the micro wireless network. The interface is of a same type as...

20060198360 - Voice over internet protocol call continuity: An apparatus and a method for providing call continuity to a VoIP terminal user responsive to degrading call quality. The quality of a VoIP call is assesses by monitoring the quality of the corresponding IP packet traffic using conventional IP packet quality measures such as, for example, jitter, packet loss...

20060198366 - Crossbar switching circuit and operating method thereof: A crossbar switching circuit and operating method thereof for coupling a plurality of source providers to a plurality of source consumers based on the request of the source consumer are provided. The crossbar switching circuit includes a plurality of source consumer terminals coupled to the source consumers respectively, a plurality...

20060198367 - Content based secure rendezvous chaotic routing system for ultra high speed mobile communications in ad hoc network environment: The originator requests information from a target by launching a receptor agent that propagates across the mobile ad hoc network to the target. Along the way, intermediate nodes retain copies of the receptor. The target adds reply information to the receptor and launches it onto the network. When the reply-bearing...

20060198369 - Lookup table circuit structure for network switch device: A circuit structure for implementing the lookup table of a network switching device is provided. With the circuit structure, the memory space of the lookup table could be fully utilized, and the time spent in searching the table is guaranteed to be within a specific time interval. The circuit structure...

20060198371 - Method and apparatus for analyzing reliability of a flag value: A method for analyzing the reliability of a flag value carried by a current block is disclosed. The method includes: determining whether the current block is a dummy block, and determining the flag value as invalid if the current block is determined as a dummy block. The step of determining...

20060198370 - Micro mobility management: A MN, a method and a VMAP for increasing efficiency of handover of the MN from a AR1 to a AR2. The VMAP is hierarchically below a MAP and above the AR1. The MN has a RCoA valid under the MAP and a LCoA valid under the AR1. The VMAP...

20060198368 - Secure multipoint internet protocol virtual private networks: A method, apparatus and computer program product for providing secure multipoint Internet Protocol Virtual Private Networks (IPVPNs) is presented. A packet lookup is performed in order to determine a next hop. A VPN label is pushed on the packet, as is an IP tunnel header. Group encryption through the use...

20060198372 - Traffic exchanging method for mobile node in mobile internet protocol version 6 (mipv6) network: A traffic exchanging method for a mobile node in a mobile network reduces packet loss during hand-over latency, and defines new messages in order to prevent packet disorder. By defining a message indicating that earlier received packets have all been delivered, it is possible to prevent packet disorder. This has...

20060198373 - Communication system: A communication system includes: a probe transmission server which transmits packets of a probe multicast at certain intervals on a same path as that of a main multicast; an aggregation server which converts multiple main cast and the probe multi cast into an aggregative multicast; and a communication control apparatus...

20060198375 - Method and apparatus for pattern matching based on packet reassembly: A method and apparatus for pattern matching using packet reassembly are provided. The pattern matching method using packet reassembly includes: extracting serial information in relation to a current input packet; determining whether or not pattern matching result information in relation to one or more previous packets and/or subsequent packets on...

20060198374 - Special format computer network address for use with a computer network: A computer network address for use in connection with a computer network is disclosed. The computer network address comprises an application name field, a private network address to identify a destination node within a remote network for which the application identified by the application name field is to be executed,...

20060198376 - Communication device for ip network: A communication device includes: a packet type identifying circuit for generating a traffic type T(k) indicating whether a user traffic sequence received is UDP traffic or TCP traffic; a loss rate calculation circuit for calculating the loss rate L(k) in a wireless link section of the user traffic sequence at...

20060198377 - Mobile communication system, mobile terminal, base station, radio network controller, retransmission control method used therein, and recording medium having program for carrying out the method recorded thereon: Disclosed is the retransmission control method used in a mobile communication system including mobile terminals (MTs), base stations (BSs) and the radio network controller (RNC) which controls the BSs. When an MT detects data error, it sends the 1st negative acknowledgement (NACK) to the BS. This first NACK includes a...

20060198379 - Prefix optimizations for a network search engine: A network router comprising at least one index table operable to store encoded values of a function associated with an input source address in at least two locations. The encoded values are obtained by hashing the input source address such that all the encoded values must be used to recover...

20060198378 - Scheduling technique for mobile uplink transmission: An uplink scheduling technique for accessing a priority service from a mobile device (14) via a network access point (13). The access point (13) sends a request for scheduling information (2-2) to the mobile device. The mobile device (14) returns the requested scheduling information (2-4). The access point uses the...

20060198380 - Apparatus and method for providing fiber to the home: A local community is provided access to a network served by strands of fiber that are routed in a common ribbon or cable sheath. The strands are cut, however, so that there is not a continuous optical path along a fiber strand from the beginning to the end of the...

20060198382 - Communication node, communication network and method for updating database: Authentication databases are exchanged by using a movement signal of a terminal as a trigger. Newly registered data is stored in an authentication database as differential data. As a result, at a time point when at least one terminal out of terminals to which new information has been registered moves...

20060198381 - Method and apparatus for efficient load distribution on link aggregations: A system for providing a substantially balanced distribution of traffic over an aggregation of output lines carrying digital information makes use of m random or pseudo-random bits substantially greater in number than the number of bits (n) used for selection of individual lines. The m bits address a table populated...

20060198383 - Wireless adaptor and method for transmitting and receiving message: A method for transmitting and receiving a message is provided. The method includes steps of providing a bridge device having a bridge hardware address and a first end, receiving a first message including a first hardware address, a first protocol address and a second protocol address from the first end,...

20060198384 - Data memory extension for use in double buffered tdm switches: A time division multiplex switch supporting multi-rate input and output serial data streams has a double-buffered data memory with buffer extensions associated respectively with each portion of the memory. The extensions store residual data for a delay period after the main portion of the double-buffered data memory has switched....

20060198385 - Method and apparatus to prioritize network traffic: A processor prioritizes data traffic by limiting a number of data buffers that can be retrieved. By limiting the number of data buffers that can be retrieved, some packets are dropped on a receive side to save processing cycles that would be spent processing packets that may be dropped on...

20060198386 - System and method for distributed information handling system cluster active-active master node: Computing nodes, such as plural information handling systems configured as a High Performance Computing Cluster (HPCC), are managed with plural master nodes configured to have active-active interaction. A resource manager of each of the plural master nodes is operable to simultaneously assign computing node resources to job requests. Reservations are...

20060198387 - Reserving time periods for communication on power line networks: Methods of operating in a network in which a plurality of stations communicate over a shared medium and contend for access during a priority resolution period. At least some of the stations use a first CSMA network protocol having certain characteristics (e.g., some transmissions have a format that includes a...

20060198388 - Scalable bus structure: A processing system is disclosed with a sending component and a receiving component connected by a bus. The bus may be configured with transmit and receive channels. The transmit channel may have a plurality of sub-channels. The sending component may be configured to broadcast on each of the sub-channels information...

20060198390 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program: A purpose of this invention is to allow proper communication between two or more local networks. An information processing apparatus (101) which is connected to a first local network (105) and second local network (104) generates the first IP address for the first local network (105) and the second IP...

20060198391 - Method for forming synchronous data in residential ethernet system: Disclosed is a method for forming a synchronous frame to be transmitted in a Residential Ethernet System, which is capable of discretely transmitting synchronous data and asynchronous data, wherein the synchronous frame includes synchronous packets which are formed according to destinations of synchronous data. The method includes the steps of:...

20060198389 - Multi-drop ethernet: Systems, methodologies, media, computing devices, network adapters, and other embodiments associated with network communications are described. One exemplary system embodiment includes a multi-drop Ethernet network....

20060198392 - Transcoding apparatus and method for seamless multimedia content transmission: An apparatus and method is disclosed for seamlessly transmitting video content to a terminal in a communication system which supports a multimedia service. The apparatus generally comprises a transcoding information generation unit for generating transcoding information for performing a transcoding operation in consideration of the bandwidth of a network, a...

20060198393 - Method for transmitting additional information by compression of the header: Method for exchanging data between two layers of a network stack in a data transmission system comprising a header compression and decompression mechanism, comprising at least the following steps: transmitting the initial packets to a packet header compression/reconstruction step, and simultaneously transmitting additional information to a shaping step so as...

20060198394 - Network system and gateway device: Disclosed is a network system capable of transferring data at a high speed between multicast-supported networks via a L2 network. The network system includes a multicast-unsupported L2 network, two multicast-supported network, two gateway devices for connecting one of the multicast-supported networs to the multicast-unsupported L2 network, and each of witch...

20060198395 - See what you see (swys): This invention relates to a transmission of a media from a sending terminal to a receiving terminal. In a method for sending media from a sending terminal to a receiving terminal, at least part of the media is transmitted to the receiving terminal as a sequence of data packets and...

20060198396 - Method and system for multiplexing and transmitting signaling message and supplementary data in a mobile communication system: Disclosed is a method and system for multiplexing and transmitting a signaling message and supplementary data in a mobile communication system including a media gateway using packet-based transmission and a base station controller. Using Dim-and-Burst (DB) and Blank-and-Burst (BB) newly proposed as the media gateway includes a vocoder, the base...

20060198295 - Method for distributing data on an ofdm time-frequency grid allowing for coordination of interferences and adaptive subcarrier frequency allocation, a base transceiver station, a base station controller and a mobile network therefor: The invention concerns a method for distributing data on an OFDM time-frequency grid for data transmission from and to mobile terminals in a mobile network allowing for coordination of interferences between different cells of the mobile network and adaptive subcarrier frequency allocation to mobile terminals, whereby subcarrier frequencies of the...

20060198294 - Method for ofdm data transmission in a single-frequency multi-cell mobile network with channel estimation by means of pilots subgrid, a base transceiver station, a base station controller, a mobile terminal and a mobile network therefor: The invention concerns a method for OFDM data transmission in a single-frequency multi-cell mobile network from and to mobile terminals (MT) with channel estimation by means of pilots (PILOT) of a pilot subgrid in an OFDM time-frequency grid, whereby the positions of the pilot subgrids of different cells of the...

20060198292 - Ofdm reception device and ofdm reception method: An interference power calculation section 208 calculates an interference power value of each symbol according to a calculation expression (interference power=average power of parts unaffected by interference+average power of parts affected by interference) and notifies a turbo decoding section 209 of the calculated interference power value. The turbo decoding section...

20060198293 - Radio communication device and radio communication method:

20060198296 - Method and apparatus for replicating a transport layer protocol stream: Network connection switchover is accomplished through a method comprising receiving information defining a first connection between a first network device and a computer; establishing a replication channel between the first network device and a backup device; storing backup control information at the backup device; communicating a message flow between the...

20060198297 - Efficient muxing scheme to allow for bypass and array access: A method and apparatus for using a 2:1 MUX to control read access, data bypass, and page size bypass in a memory array. The mechanism of the present invention reduces the 3:1 MUX normally required to manage these three functions to a 2:1 MUX....

20060198299 - Flow control and congestion management for random scheduling in time-domain wavelength interleaved networks: Flow control techniques are disclosed for use in data communications networks such as those implementing a time-domain wavelength interleaved network (TWIN) architecture or other suitable architectures. Such techniques may provide for congestion management and scheduling for asynchronous traffic. For example, in one aspect, a technique comprises collecting information at a...

20060198300 - Multi-channel tcp connections with congestion feedback for video/audio data transmission: A method of transmitting data over a communication network has congestion feedback. The method includes a sending application such as a video conferencing program opening a plurality of TCP connections. The sending application provides data packets to an encapsulation module, which appends a TCP header to each data packet. For...

20060198301 - Packet-level service differentiation for quality of service provisioning over wireless local area networks: The present invention provides a packet prioritizer for use with a wireless local area network (WLAN) access point. In one embodiment, the packet prioritizer includes a priority tagger configured to provide a packet priority for a WLAN packet. Additionally, the packet prioritizer also includes a priority scheduler coupled to the...

20060198303 - Scheduling data transmission by medium access control (mac) layer in a mobile network: A method for use by a MAC common channel of an RNC to select a transport format combination (TFC) whereby a candidate set of TFCs is selected, and a TFC is chosen from the set of TFCs according to selection criteria....

20060198298 - System and method for achieving path symmetry in an internet protocol (ip) based network: A system and method for improving network performance when communicating between a first site network and a second site network via an IP-based transport network. The site networks include a LAN, a plurality of host/media gateways (MGWs) connected to the LAN, and pairs of first and second Site Edge Routers...

20060198302 - Traffic dimensioning in a metro area with iptv architecture: A system, method, and computer readable medium for traffic dimensioning in a metro area with Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) architecture that comprises calculating video on demand traffic, calculating instant channel change traffic, calculating broadband television traffic, calculating picture-in-picture traffic, calculating voice over internet protocol (VoIP) traffic, calculating high speed Internet...

20060198304 - Call admission control system and method for interpreting signaling messages and controlling traffic load in internet protocol differentiated services networks: A call admission control system and method for Internet Protocol (IP) Differentiated Services (DiffServ) network having at least one node for interpreting signaling messages and controlling traffic load in the network. The method consists of an initialization (601) and a real-time phase (602). In initialization phase (601), coefficients of the...

20060198305 - Wireless lan data rate adaptation: A WLAN communication system and algorithm that adaptively changes the data transmission rate of a communication channel based on changing channel conditions. The WLAN communication system or algorithm has two modes being a searching mode and a transmission mode. Furthermore, the WLAN communication system or algorithm incorporates an additive increase,...

20060198306 - System and method for controlling a service to use a resource: A system for controlling a service to use a resource is disclosed. The system includes: an active bitmap obtaining module (21) for obtaining an active bitmap of the resource; an blacklist bitmap obtaining module (22) for obtaining a blacklist bitmap of the service; a checking module (23) for determining whether...

20060198307 - System and method for controlling a service to use a resource: A system for controlling a service to use a resource is disclosed. The system includes: an active bitmap (130) for recording a plurality of bits, each of which corresponds to a resource and has a certain value; an obtaining module (131) for obtaining the active bitmap to check a value...

20060198308 - Technique for selecting a path computation element based on response time delay: A technique efficiently selects a path computation element (PCE) to compute a path between nodes of a computer network. The PCE selection technique is illustratively based on dynamic advertisements of the PCE's available path computation resources, namely a predictive response time (PRT). To that end, the novel technique enables one...

20060198311 - Detection of multiple users of a network access node: Techniques are described for detecting use of a network access node by multiple users to gain access to a network. Packets are received from a network device in communication with the network access node. The packets are evaluated with reference to a plurality of metrics. Each of the metrics is...

20060198313 - Method and device for detecting and blocking unauthorized access: A method for detecting an unauthorized or illicit traffic through a network comprises the steps of storing the expected values of a behavior for each type of the traffic in advance, separating individual traffics when performing communications through the network, measuring the behavior of the individually separated traffic, comparing the...

20060198312 - Network diagnostic systems and methods for altering the format and bandwidth of network messages: A networking system is provided. The networking system may include a diagnostic module. The diagnostic module may perform any of a variety of network diagnostic functions. The diagnostic module may include an analysis module, which may receive messages and perform any of a variety of network diagnostic functions using the...

20060198309 - Resource-sensitive parser, method of parsing and session initiation protocol (sip) network employing the same: The present invention provides a resource-sensitive parser for use with a session initiation protocol (SIP) network. In one embodiment, the resource-sensitive parser includes a resource condition indicator configured to provide an overload indication for a network element in the SIP network. Additionally, the resource-sensitive parser also includes a parsing engine...

20060198310 - User semantic overlay for troubleshooting convergent network problems: A convergent network comprising voice over Internet protocol (VOIP) and voice over wireless local area networks (VoWLAN) telephones provides users the means for notifying a network administrator of a quality problem in real time together with an indication of the nature problem. Upon receipt of the notification, the system takes...

20060198314 - Processing device, failure recovery method therefor, and failure restoration method: A processing device includes a processor which executes first and second pieces of control software in a memory to perform processing, and a device 1 having a plurality of SLOTs 1 to 8 to electrically connect the processor to a plurality of device. The device 1 switches a SLOT which...

20060198315 - Communication apparatus: A communication apparatus that detects a network failure by itself, without using any particular protocol to interact with other apparatuses in a multivendor virtual LAN (VLAN) environment. The communication apparatus has a group of physical link ports, including first and second ports, to provide physical link connections to an opposite...

20060198317 - Method for controlling a service to use a resource: A method for controlling a service to use a resource is disclosed. The method includes the steps of: starting the service; obtaining a license of using the resource; determining whether a report of running the service is received at regular intervals; and withdrawing the license if no such report is...

20060198319 - Network diagnostic systems and methods for aggregated links: A networking system is provided. The networking system may include a diagnostic module. The diagnostic module may perform any of a variety of network diagnostic functions. The diagnostic module may include an analysis module, which may receive messages and perform any of a variety of network diagnostic functions using the...

20060198318 - Network diagnostic systems and methods for statistical triggering: A networking system is provided. The networking system may include a diagnostic module. The diagnostic module may perform any of a variety of network diagnostic functions. The diagnostic module may include an analysis module, which may receive messages and perform any of a variety of network diagnostic functions using the...

20060198316 - System for remote configuration of qos parameters: The system for remote configuration of QoS parameters enables a service provider to remotely configure the Quality of Service parameters for each application or service offered by networked devices connected to a LAN. This is accomplished by a service provider creating and maintaining a reference repository of the Quality of...

20060198322 - Method and apparatus for bgp peer prefix limits exchange with multi-level control: Method and apparatus for exchanging route prefix limit parameters and performing route processing based on multi-level, e.g., three levels of prefix limit parameters between BGP peers in a network running BGP protocol. Further, a route refresh BGP message and/or a soft-notify BGP message may be used to exchange prefix limit...

20060198320 - Prime numbering address allocation method and unique numbering address allocation method using the same in wireless multi-hop network: A prime numbering address allocation method in wireless multi-hop network, in which address 1 is assigned to a root host which is the first host joining the wireless multi-hop network, the root host allocates all prime numbers sequentially to new hosts attached to it, and a non-root host allocates addresses...

20060198321 - System and methods for network reachability detection: A mechanism for ASBRs to identify the originating node, or router, in an LSP conversant autonomous system (AS), such as an MPLS VPN environment, maintains the identity of the originating node and successive nodes in subsequent autonomous systems along the path to the node to be pinged. The identity of...

20060198323 - Methods and devices for improving the multiple spanning tree protocol: The present invention provides improved unicast routing, multicast routing and unicast load sharing as compared with conventional methods. Preferred implementations of the invention provide improvements to IEEE 802.1Q. According to preferred aspects of the invention, each bridge is the root of its own multiple spanning tree instance (“MSTI”). Preferred implementations...

20060198324 - Method and apparatus for multipoint voice operation in a wireless, ad-hoc environment: The present invention protocol offers guaranteed Quality of Service (QoS) for concurrent calls in a highly dynamic, scalable network. The invention employs a TDMA reservation technique to transmit voice traffic to multiple destinations and a CSMA/CA contention scheme to support data traffic. The present invention operates over a link-state based...

20060198326 - Ip multicast streaming data error correction: A method for multicasting Internet Protocol (IP) streaming data to a mobile platform passenger is provided. The method includes receiving data content at a base station network from a content provider. The received data is formatted at the base station into an IP multicast data stream and communicated to a...

20060198325 - Method for supporting scalable and reliable multicast in tdma/tdd systems using feedback suppression techniques: A method supports scalable and reliable multicast in a wireless network with a large bandwidth-delay product. In this method, acknowledgement packets from different receivers experiencing the same number of data packets lost are assigned the same time slots. This method can be combined with other loss recovery techniques, such as...

20060198327 - Selection method for data communication between base station and transponders: A selection method for selecting at least one transponder located in the response area of a base station, which are linked to one another by a wireless bidirectional data communication path, in which method the base station transmits an electromagnetic carrier signal, which has at least one arbitration symbol, wherein...

20060198328 - Verifying packets received over a physical link: A solution is provided wherein physical link parameters may be negotiated after a link is brought up by having the two devices involved in the link exchange identifiers when the link is initially brought up. These identifiers may be saved in the devices and then utilized upon receipt of subsequent...

20060198329 - Method of measuring distortion and determining residue-echo threshold in loop start trunk circuits: A method of determining residue-echo threshold for the trans-hybrid echo path of a loop start (LS) trunk line, comprising the steps of estimating the impulse response of the trans-hybrid echo path, passing a speech-like signal through the LS trunk circuit and collecting the echo signal. The collected echo signal is...

20060198330 - Detection of supported network frequency to enable successful connection to wireless networks: An evaluation of supported rates of available wireless networks is performed and these supported rates are matched against supported rates of wireless connection hardware (e.g., a wireless network interface card) of a computer trying to connect to one of the wireless networks. If the wireless connection hardware of the computer...

20060198331 - Dynamic communication and method of use: A communication system and method for enhancing the effectiveness of wireless and wired systems. The communication system comprising a combination of (A) a communication device with two separate transceivers and a unique access number (B) said transceivers with a short-range wireless or wired transceiver and long-range wireless transceiver, (C) a...

20060198336 - Deployment of different physical layer protocols in a radio access network: This invention relates to a method, a system, a base station, a base station hub (41) and software applications for data transmission between at least one base station (42-1, 42-2) and a radio network controller (40) in a radio access network, said method comprising operating a first-type physical layer protocol...

20060198335 - Embedding secondary transmissions in an existing wireless communications network: A first device participates in a wireless communications network having a transmission medium designated for exchanging wireless signals in a first format that is associated with the wireless communications network. A portion of the transmission medium is reserved for the transmission of signals in a second format, which may be...

20060198333 - Home system and method of determining if a fob is in range or out of range of wireless communication with a server: A home system includes a server having a first wireless communication port and a first non-wireless communication port. One or more fobs include a second wireless communication port adapted to communicate with the first wireless communication port of the server. One or more sensor nodes or device nodes different than...

20060198332 - Radio access system: A wireless access system is provided which prevents the occurrence of a hidden terminal problem and minimizes the reduction in throughput. In the wireless access system, an access point (12) divides terminals into groups such that terminals in one group cannot recognize radio waves sent from terminals in another group,...

20060198334 - Sip2 mobile gateway: A system and method for using an IP client attached to the Public Internet, acting as a virtual mobile terminal such as a cell phone, to have full access to mobile telephony services offered by a mobile operator using a SIP2 Mobile gateway. The services include a mobile telephone number,...

20060198337 - Method and apparatus for operating a node in an ad-hoc communication system: A method and apparatus (500) for operating a node within an ad-hoc communication system (100) is provided herein. A single-radio relay node (500) is used to link overlapping piconets operating on different radio channels. All nodes (203-208) within the ad-hoc communication system (100) operate on multiple channels, which differ for...

20060198338 - Packet transmission control device and packet transmission control method: A packet transmission control device and a packet transmission control method for reducing degradation of system throughput due to a wireless mobile station in an abnormal state, in controlling transmission of packets to each of a plurality of wireless terminals. A channel is assigned based on an evaluated value from...

20060198339 - Wireless communication method and system for minimizing interference by determining mobile station zone locations and potential conflicts between cell zones: A wireless communication method and system for minimizing severe interference to one or more wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRUs). A plurality of non-overlapping zones (e.g., an inner zone and an outer zone) is defined for each cell of a wireless multi-cell communication system, such as a time division duplex (TDD) system....

20060198341 - Method and apparatus for improved link layer handoff: Various embodiments are described to address the need for an apparatus and method that improves link layer handoff by addressing the packet-loss problem existing today. An intermediate buffer management layer (IBML) (201, 211) is introduced below layer 3 of an OSI-based communications interface. The IBML buffers copies of OSI layer...

20060198340 - Radio base station, mobile station: To realize smooth adaptive modulation control after handover even when the transmission frequency of parameters is lowered with transmission of the parameters used for the adaptive modulation control with timing satisfying predetermined conditions. As the mobile station for transmitting the parameters used for the adaptive modulation control in the timing...

20060198343 - Pattern diversity to support a mimo receiver and associated methods: A MIMO communications system includes a transmitter, and a transmit antenna array connected to the transmitter and having M antenna elements for transmitting M source signals. A receive antenna array is connected to a receiver and has N antenna elements for receiving at least M different summations of the M...

20060198342 - Spread code generation method, cdma transmission device, and cdma reception device: ej(2nn/N) calculating section 101 generates a bth chip C(a,b) of an ath spreading code based on C(a,b)=ej(2nn/N) where e is a base of natural logarithm and N is a length of the spreading code (i.e. spreading code length). It is assumed in the above equation that n=a×b, a=0˜N−1, and b=0˜N−1....

20060198344 - Multiple paging channels for efficient region paging: Systems and methods are described that mitigating coverage gaps near region boundaries using a plurality of multi-sector broadcast (MSBC) paging channels in wireless networking environments. One or more MSBC paging channels can be assigned unique time slots, such that although the channels can be identical, they are disjointed in time....

20060198347 - Accessing a communication system: A method provides control of access in a communication system. The method includes providing an access route via at least one unlicensed radio spectrum access network and via at least one licensed radio spectrum access network. The method further includes receiving an access request from a cell belonging to one...

20060198349 - Clientless mobile subscribers with seamlesss roaming over scalable wide area wireless networks: System and method for seamless roaming over scalable wide area Wireless LAN networks (WAWLAN) with clientless mobile subscribers. A preferred embodiment comprises a wireless gateway (WG) coupled to one or more access points in a wireless network to form a wireless cluster (WC), a network access gateway (NAG) coupled to...

20060198348 - Comunication apparatus capable of performing a load balancing and method thereof: A load balancing method applied in a communication apparatus is disclosed. The method includes assigning an identification code to a first and a second wireless transceivers; establishing a first link between a first transceiver and a station through a first channel according to the identification code; and establishing a second...

20060198345 - Distributed mobile agent: A system for forwarding data packets towards a mobile node roaming in a foreign packet-switched data network, the data packets having been addressed to a home address of the mobile node, the mobile node being provided with a care of address for use in the foreign network, the system comprising:...

20060198346 - Method and apparatus for dynamic neighbor discovery within wireless networks using time division multiple access (tdma): An Ad-Hoc wireless network according to the present invention employs a TDMA based neighbor discovery protocol, where each network node is assigned a unique time slot to broadcast neighbor discovery packets or messages. A primary controller node is dynamically designated to perform the time slot assignments. A dynamic selection of...

20060198351 - Method for allocating ip address in a mobile communication system: Disclosed is a method for allocating an IP address. The interface ID value of an IP address allocated to a mobile terminal upon IP communication in a mobile communication system is set by using country information, mobile network information and a telephone number stored in the mobile terminal. The mobile...

20060198350 - Method for transmitting messages in mobile communications system and mobile communications terminal: A mobile terminal, system and method for transmitting and/or receiving a message are discussed. According to an embodiment, the mobile terminal includes a transmitting/receiving unit to perform a signal transmission; an input unit to receive a message and transmission information; a storage unit to store message data; and a controller...

20060198352 - Data transmission system and method: A method of transmitting data packets, where randomness is added to the schedule. Universal broadcast schedules using encoding and randomization techniques are also discussed, together with optimal randomized schedules and an approximation algorithm for finding near-optimal schedules....

20060198353 - Method for media access controlling and system and method for channel time reservation in distributed wireless personal area network: Disclosed are a method for media access controlling and channel time reservation system and method in distributed wireless personal area networks. A method of media access controlling for a distributed wireless network including at least one device, includes a device of the distributed wireless network, generating a data slot reservation...

20060198354 - Method for synchronizing a radio communication system divided into radio cells: Data is transmitted via time division multiple access methods and every radio cell includes one base station each for the radio coverage of a plurality of mobile stations assigned to the radio cell. The base station receives, in addition to mobile station signals of its own radio cell, mobile station...

20060198355 - Time division multiplexing synchronization apparatus, radio communication apparatus, and synchronization method in time division multiplex communication: A time division multiplexing synchronization apparatus, radio communication apparatus, and synchronization method in time division multiplex communication that enable power savings to be achieved and synchronization to be performed dependably with a signal from the intended station. From the start of communication until a slot containing frame information can be...

20060198359 - Apparatus and methods for determining voice and/or data processing performance of a wireless device: Apparatus, methods, processors and computer readable media for determining the voice and/or data processing performance or capability of a wireless device. Embodiments include a wireless device having a computer platform with a processing engine operable to generate a plurality of performance data during voice and/or data processing activities on the...

20060198356 - Method and apparatus for router port configuration: A method and apparatus for selectively configuring, in a router, physical ports to either a Wide Area Network (WAN) or a Local Area Network (LAN). Method steps include receiving a message to configure a physical port for use with either the LAN or WAN; associating, in response to receiving the...

20060198358 - Partitioning communication system: A system and method for communicating data between two nodes defines a plurality of separate partitions on each node and assigns one or more subjects to at least one of the plurality of the separate partitions. The subjects in each node communicate data with each other over one or more...

20060198357 - Signaling agency implementing method: A method for realizing signaling agent in a network system, the network system comprises media gateways and a media gateway controller in different networks, and at least one agent equipment on a boundary of different networks; each media gateway under the same media gateway controller has a unique message identifier...

20060198362 - Adaptive interference cancellation algorithm using speech mode dependent thresholds: The present invention provides a method of processing radio frequency (RF) bursts dependent on a speech mode associated with data contained within the RF burst. Different voice modes, full rate, half rate, and adaptive multi-channel rates each may require different signal to noise ratio (SNR) conditions in order to be...

20060198363 - Apparatus and method for computer telephony integration: An agent at a contact center uses a soft phone embedded in the agent's desktop to converse with a customer, to set the agent's Automatic Call Distribution (“ACD”) state, and to control the phone's call control state. Computer Telephony Integration (“CTI”) technology is used in many ways at the contact...

20060198364 - Communication system, communication device, wired communication device, and communication method: A communication system includes a wired communication device and a communication device that can communicate with a wireless communication device and the wired communication device. The communication device includes a clock output unit and a modulator. The wired communication device includes a clock extracting unit, a signal extracting unit, and...

20060198361 - Method and system for providing mobile wireless access points: A mobile access point is disclosed. The mobile access point includes a terminal module configured to provide one or more terminal functions for use by a user, the one or more terminal functions including a voice or data communications application, and a gateway module configured to provide one or more...

20060198365 - Method and system for voice calls in a wireless local area network (wlan): A method and system for providing voice calls in a macro wireless network includes providing at a router of the micro wireless network an interface for communication with a service node of a macro wireless network coupled to the micro wireless network. The interface is of a same type as...

20060198360 - Voice over internet protocol call continuity: An apparatus and a method for providing call continuity to a VoIP terminal user responsive to degrading call quality. The quality of a VoIP call is assesses by monitoring the quality of the corresponding IP packet traffic using conventional IP packet quality measures such as, for example, jitter, packet loss...

20060198366 - Crossbar switching circuit and operating method thereof: A crossbar switching circuit and operating method thereof for coupling a plurality of source providers to a plurality of source consumers based on the request of the source consumer are provided. The crossbar switching circuit includes a plurality of source consumer terminals coupled to the source consumers respectively, a plurality...

20060198367 - Content based secure rendezvous chaotic routing system for ultra high speed mobile communications in ad hoc network environment: The originator requests information from a target by launching a receptor agent that propagates across the mobile ad hoc network to the target. Along the way, intermediate nodes retain copies of the receptor. The target adds reply information to the receptor and launches it onto the network. When the reply-bearing...

20060198369 - Lookup table circuit structure for network switch device: A circuit structure for implementing the lookup table of a network switching device is provided. With the circuit structure, the memory space of the lookup table could be fully utilized, and the time spent in searching the table is guaranteed to be within a specific time interval. The circuit structure...

20060198371 - Method and apparatus for analyzing reliability of a flag value: A method for analyzing the reliability of a flag value carried by a current block is disclosed. The method includes: determining whether the current block is a dummy block, and determining the flag value as invalid if the current block is determined as a dummy block. The step of determining...

20060198370 - Micro mobility management: A MN, a method and a VMAP for increasing efficiency of handover of the MN from a AR1 to a AR2. The VMAP is hierarchically below a MAP and above the AR1. The MN has a RCoA valid under the MAP and a LCoA valid under the AR1. The VMAP...

20060198368 - Secure multipoint internet protocol virtual private networks: A method, apparatus and computer program product for providing secure multipoint Internet Protocol Virtual Private Networks (IPVPNs) is presented. A packet lookup is performed in order to determine a next hop. A VPN label is pushed on the packet, as is an IP tunnel header. Group encryption through the use...

20060198372 - Traffic exchanging method for mobile node in mobile internet protocol version 6 (mipv6) network: A traffic exchanging method for a mobile node in a mobile network reduces packet loss during hand-over latency, and defines new messages in order to prevent packet disorder. By defining a message indicating that earlier received packets have all been delivered, it is possible to prevent packet disorder. This has...

20060198373 - Communication system: A communication system includes: a probe transmission server which transmits packets of a probe multicast at certain intervals on a same path as that of a main multicast; an aggregation server which converts multiple main cast and the probe multi cast into an aggregative multicast; and a communication control apparatus...

20060198375 - Method and apparatus for pattern matching based on packet reassembly: A method and apparatus for pattern matching using packet reassembly are provided. The pattern matching method using packet reassembly includes: extracting serial information in relation to a current input packet; determining whether or not pattern matching result information in relation to one or more previous packets and/or subsequent packets on...

20060198374 - Special format computer network address for use with a computer network: A computer network address for use in connection with a computer network is disclosed. The computer network address comprises an application name field, a private network address to identify a destination node within a remote network for which the application identified by the application name field is to be executed,...

20060198376 - Communication device for ip network: A communication device includes: a packet type identifying circuit for generating a traffic type T(k) indicating whether a user traffic sequence received is UDP traffic or TCP traffic; a loss rate calculation circuit for calculating the loss rate L(k) in a wireless link section of the user traffic sequence at...

20060198377 - Mobile communication system, mobile terminal, base station, radio network controller, retransmission control method used therein, and recording medium having program for carrying out the method recorded thereon: Disclosed is the retransmission control method used in a mobile communication system including mobile terminals (MTs), base stations (BSs) and the radio network controller (RNC) which controls the BSs. When an MT detects data error, it sends the 1st negative acknowledgement (NACK) to the BS. This first NACK includes a...

20060198379 - Prefix optimizations for a network search engine: A network router comprising at least one index table operable to store encoded values of a function associated with an input source address in at least two locations. The encoded values are obtained by hashing the input source address such that all the encoded values must be used to recover...

20060198378 - Scheduling technique for mobile uplink transmission: An uplink scheduling technique for accessing a priority service from a mobile device (14) via a network access point (13). The access point (13) sends a request for scheduling information (2-2) to the mobile device. The mobile device (14) returns the requested scheduling information (2-4). The access point uses the...

20060198380 - Apparatus and method for providing fiber to the home: A local community is provided access to a network served by strands of fiber that are routed in a common ribbon or cable sheath. The strands are cut, however, so that there is not a continuous optical path along a fiber strand from the beginning to the end of the...

20060198382 - Communication node, communication network and method for updating database: Authentication databases are exchanged by using a movement signal of a terminal as a trigger. Newly registered data is stored in an authentication database as differential data. As a result, at a time point when at least one terminal out of terminals to which new information has been registered moves...

20060198381 - Method and apparatus for efficient load distribution on link aggregations: A system for providing a substantially balanced distribution of traffic over an aggregation of output lines carrying digital information makes use of m random or pseudo-random bits substantially greater in number than the number of bits (n) used for selection of individual lines. The m bits address a table populated...

20060198383 - Wireless adaptor and method for transmitting and receiving message: A method for transmitting and receiving a message is provided. The method includes steps of providing a bridge device having a bridge hardware address and a first end, receiving a first message including a first hardware address, a first protocol address and a second protocol address from the first end,...

20060198384 - Data memory extension for use in double buffered tdm switches: A time division multiplex switch supporting multi-rate input and output serial data streams has a double-buffered data memory with buffer extensions associated respectively with each portion of the memory. The extensions store residual data for a delay period after the main portion of the double-buffered data memory has switched....

20060198385 - Method and apparatus to prioritize network traffic: A processor prioritizes data traffic by limiting a number of data buffers that can be retrieved. By limiting the number of data buffers that can be retrieved, some packets are dropped on a receive side to save processing cycles that would be spent processing packets that may be dropped on...

20060198386 - System and method for distributed information handling system cluster active-active master node: Computing nodes, such as plural information handling systems configured as a High Performance Computing Cluster (HPCC), are managed with plural master nodes configured to have active-active interaction. A resource manager of each of the plural master nodes is operable to simultaneously assign computing node resources to job requests. Reservations are...

20060198387 - Reserving time periods for communication on power line networks: Methods of operating in a network in which a plurality of stations communicate over a shared medium and contend for access during a priority resolution period. At least some of the stations use a first CSMA network protocol having certain characteristics (e.g., some transmissions have a format that includes a...

20060198388 - Scalable bus structure: A processing system is disclosed with a sending component and a receiving component connected by a bus. The bus may be configured with transmit and receive channels. The transmit channel may have a plurality of sub-channels. The sending component may be configured to broadcast on each of the sub-channels information...

20060198390 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program: A purpose of this invention is to allow proper communication between two or more local networks. An information processing apparatus (101) which is connected to a first local network (105) and second local network (104) generates the first IP address for the first local network (105) and the second IP...

20060198391 - Method for forming synchronous data in residential ethernet system: Disclosed is a method for forming a synchronous frame to be transmitted in a Residential Ethernet System, which is capable of discretely transmitting synchronous data and asynchronous data, wherein the synchronous frame includes synchronous packets which are formed according to destinations of synchronous data. The method includes the steps of:...

20060198389 - Multi-drop ethernet: Systems, methodologies, media, computing devices, network adapters, and other embodiments associated with network communications are described. One exemplary system embodiment includes a multi-drop Ethernet network....

20060198392 - Transcoding apparatus and method for seamless multimedia content transmission: An apparatus and method is disclosed for seamlessly transmitting video content to a terminal in a communication system which supports a multimedia service. The apparatus generally comprises a transcoding information generation unit for generating transcoding information for performing a transcoding operation in consideration of the bandwidth of a network, a...

20060198393 - Method for transmitting additional information by compression of the header: Method for exchanging data between two layers of a network stack in a data transmission system comprising a header compression and decompression mechanism, comprising at least the following steps: transmitting the initial packets to a packet header compression/reconstruction step, and simultaneously transmitting additional information to a shaping step so as...

20060198394 - Network system and gateway device: Disclosed is a network system capable of transferring data at a high speed between multicast-supported networks via a L2 network. The network system includes a multicast-unsupported L2 network, two multicast-supported network, two gateway devices for connecting one of the multicast-supported networs to the multicast-unsupported L2 network, and each of witch...

20060198395 - See what you see (swys): This invention relates to a transmission of a media from a sending terminal to a receiving terminal. In a method for sending media from a sending terminal to a receiving terminal, at least part of the media is transmitted to the receiving terminal as a sequence of data packets and...

20060198396 - Method and system for multiplexing and transmitting signaling message and supplementary data in a mobile communication system: Disclosed is a method and system for multiplexing and transmitting a signaling message and supplementary data in a mobile communication system including a media gateway using packet-based transmission and a base station controller. Using Dim-and-Burst (DB) and Blank-and-Burst (BB) newly proposed as the media gateway includes a vocoder, the base...